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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Dwight Rousu
4.2
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The radical right wing is adept at spawning slurs that have plausible deniability by the party. Investigative journalism into the sources of some would be instructive. The bigotry exploiting dark hates related to race, religion, and economic class would each be fertile grounds to explore how many of the people who believe the lies about Barack also harbor those bigoted beliefs. There is a corollary danger that if the reich wing cannot defeat him in the baloting, they will constrain him to act like their image of a republican president, rather than a leader for democracy, peace, and equality.

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