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Momma said wonk you out

OBAMA RUMORS.

Chris Beam has a fun piece at Slate arguing that the Obama campaign needs to stop whining about rumors spread through e-mail forwards and begin disseminating a couple of their own. he's even got suggestions:

A tape exists of Michelle Obama saying the PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE at a conference on PATRIOTISM.

Barack Obama is a PATRIOTIC AMERICAN. He has one HAND over his HEART at all times. He occasionally switches when one arm gets tired, which is almost never because he is STRONG.

Barack Obama has the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE tattooed on his stomach. It's upside-down, so he can read it while doing sit-ups.

Barack Obama is a DEVOUT CHRISTIAN. His favorite book is the BIBLE, which he has memorized. His name means HE WHO LOVES JESUS in the ancient language of Aramaic. He is PROUD that Jesus was an American.

Barack Obama's new airplane includes a conference room, a kitchen, and a MEGACHURCH.

Barack Obama's skin is the color of AMERICAN SOIL.

Barack Obama buys AMERICAN STUFF. He owns a FORD, a BASEBALL TEAM, and a COMPUTER HE BUILT HIMSELF FROM AMERICAN PARTS. He travels mostly by FORKLIFT.

Barack Obama says that Americans cling to GUNS and RELIGION because they are AWESOME.

Seems sensible.



COMMENTS

Barack Obama is a truth teller of literally biblical proportions. He is aware of all Internet traditions, as is proven here and here.

Sounds like a clarion call to edit the Chuck Norris lists by replacing "Chuck Norris" with "Barak Obama" and then finding a replacement for "roundhouse kick". But a great idea.

I just spammed the list to everyone in my address book.

Oabamas problem isn't the right, its within his own party and his own house.

Most rumors about Obama didn't come from the right, they came from the Hillary campaign operatives, they came from his own relatives, they came from his own books and his and his wifes own statements.

It was Obama that said he attended a MUSLIM school in his own book, long before anyone else repeated it.

From the Obama campaign:
""as a child, Obama had spent time in the neighborhood's Islamic center."""

From the campaign interview with LAT: """His former Muslim teachers, along with two people who were identified by Obama's grade-school teacher as childhood friends, say Obama was registered by his family as a Muslim at both of the schools he attended.

That registration meant that during the third and fourth grades, Obama learned about Islam in religion class."""

Obama childhood friend (Zulfin Adi) identified by the campaign: ""Obama sometimes went to Friday prayers at the local mosque. """

Obama's younger sister, Maya Soetoro, said in a statement released by the campaign: """ the family attended the mosque for big communal events,"""

Obamas own book: In his autobiography, Dreams From My Father, Obama mentions Koranic study and describes his school as "a Muslim school."

"In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies," """"

is Obama fighting the smears of himself and his own family and friends??

I heard somewhere that Barack Obama named his fists 'Abraham Lincoln' and 'George Washington', and he uses them to personally fight terrorists.

Not to worry because as a boy, Obama was a lousy Muslim anyway. Then he became a pretty lousy and heretical Christian. Just like he's a pretty lousy politician.

Ah I attended catholic school for a time when I was young. Doesnt mean I ever was, or ever would become anything like a catholic.


You can post up all the boards you want saying that I sat through morning prayer, and made faces during bible study.. Which of course is meaningless drivel since catholicism has NOTHING to do with my life or my philosophy. I was sent to school there because they were the best schools in the area where my parent lived.

His family lived in Indonesia.. find a school there that isnt muslim based.. its a declared muslim country, albeit one of the most decidedly tolerant of any in the world.

The important things that we need to know are what his views on policy are, what people he will appoint, and his belief in the constitution. ..a line of which states that 'there shall be no religious test' no matter how much ignorant people would like there to be.


@novena
hmm from state senator to democratic nominee for president in a short span of time. You have an odd definition of lousy politician. He may not have sponsored the legislation that you liked, or won the fights you wanted him to win.. but thats about as successful as it gets for a politician. ..until he wins the presidency that is.

Barack Obama is SO TOUGH that he punched Chuck Norris hard enough to erase every videotaped copy of WALKER, TEXAS RANGER on the continent.

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