Viral e-mails attack Obama's life story

Prefacing a question about the challenges of winning over white, blue-collar voters, the reporter offered this observation: "They think you are un-American," he said.

Such questions, asked by reporters and plainly on the minds of voters in Appalachia and elsewhere, are the fruits of an unprecedented, subterranean e-mail campaign.

What began as a demonstrably false attempt to cast Obama as a Muslim has now metastasized into something far ... Full Story »

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Roland F. Hirsch
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by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 1, 2008

This opinion piece has minmal journalistic value. The author did no research on the topic, or he would realize how mild the attacks on Obama have been. This campaign is one of the mildest on record. He does not know Adams and Jefferson and 1800. He could have read any of hundreds of far left blogs, such as MoveOn, to find real hate speech. Even the Washington Post has had pleas to assassinate President Bush on its blogs just this week.

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