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To: Dale Baker who wrote (71902)6/12/2008 5:50:22 PM
From: Dale Baker  Respond to of 542759
 
Smart move - Obama now has fightthesmears.com to counter all the BS floating around. I like the direct language - here is the LIE:

Smear:
Michelle Obama Says “Whitey” On a Tape

LIE: Rush Limbaugh says a tape exists of Michelle Obama using the word “whitey” from the pulpit of Trinity United

LIE: Blogger Larry Johnson writes “New and dramatic developments. This is a heads up. I'll post the news Monday morning by 0900 hours.”

LIE: Proven GOP sleazemeister Roger Stone says he has “credible evidence that some indelible record exists” of a tape of Michelle Obama using the term “whitey.”

LIE: Blogger: “Tape was filmed between June 26th - July 1st 2004 in Chicago, IL at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference at Trinity United Church: specifically the Women's Event.”
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No Such Tape Exists

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Smear:
Barack Obama's birth certificate

LIE: Barack Obama is hiding his birth certificate
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You can see his birth certificate here
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Smear:
Barack Obama is a Muslim

LIE: Barack Obama is a Muslim

LIE: Barack Obama attended a radical madrassa

LIE: Senator Obama was sworn into the US Senate using the Koran
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Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian
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Smear:
Obama's Books Contain Racially Incendiary Remarks

A recent email forward allegedly quotes passages from Senator Obama's books related to race and religion. The majority of these are alterations, deliberate manipulations, and in one case, an outright fabrication of Obama's words.
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Book Quotes are Truncated and Out of Context
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Smear:
Barack Obama Won't Say The Pledge of Allegiance/Won't Put His Hand Over His Heart

LIE: Barack Obama won't say the pledge

LIE: Barack Obama won't put his hand over this heart during the pledge of allegiance
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View video of Barack leading The Pledge of Allegiance in the United States Senate



To: Dale Baker who wrote (71902)6/12/2008 5:53:06 PM
From: biotech_bull  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542759
 
The question is whether Romney and Huckabee are the people to lead a revival, or new personalities have to come to the fore

It might involve a morphing into something dramatically different. I would like to think the days of a major political party controlled by the religious right are over.