"Please REPLY to Obama email attack!!! "

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I was asked to post this in this group. Hopefully, it will help people respond to the smear e-mails.

Please REPLY to Obama email attack!!!

by Sue Deaunym
Fri Jan 11, 2008 at 03:49:12 AM PST

Even if you don't intend to vote for him!

If you have received the slandering email about Obama, send the following email (or your own version) back to the sender, and to any addy in the cc: or the text of the email:

You have sent me this email which is offends and frightens me, and which is simply wrong. It states - falsely - that Barack Obama is a radical Muslim who is a threat to America. These and other erroneous allegations were made by some cowardly and hateful scoundrel who has no understanding of, nor respect for, true Christian values or American ideals. If you go to www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp you'll find all of them refuted.

I'm assuming you forwarded this nastiness on to me, and our friends and family, out of ignorance, not with any malevolent intent. I'm also assuming you will make it right by acknowledging your error and sending an apology to me and to everyone else to whom you have passed this poison.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1/11/6335/09564/375/434903

A comment within that thread:

And another way of dealing with Aunt Phoebe (1+ / 0-)
(like the name, btw!), is to send her a reply e-mail alerting her to the possibility that some hacker or political thug must be using her e-mail address to spew hate and lies in her name.

For, surely, Aunt Phoebe, you can't believe something this preposterous and ignorant, can you?

That's the way I've dealt with a few of those ugly chain letters from time to time. Funny how, if you give the sender some wiggle room, they'll sometimes retract and (I hope) be more wary in passing on that kind of crap.

Another comment:

Even better, if you have the time and are annoyed (1+ / 0-)
enough, because reply all only sends to the addresses listed in the last header:

Go through the email chain and extract every single address listed;
Go to yahoo mail and set up a temporary account;
Blast the response back at not just the person from whom you received it (and their friends and family) but every single person in the chain.
Duck, cover, and never, never again open that temporary email account. : ) Hell hath no fury like a winger exposed to fact.

I've done this a couple of times for messages I've received through my wingnut brother.

edit to add another response written by a DU'er:

My Reply to the "Obama is a Muslim" emails going around...
by RoadRage

I think everyone has received this thing 10 times or more by now. My husband sent this email to his DAD the other day... and I encourage all Obama supporters to hit "Reply to All" when they get the next one and send something like this along. We need to start cleaning up these rumors!

Barack Obama is a Muslim?

No, actually he is not. He's Christian, and he's been a Christian for long before he ever considered a Presidential Run. (http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp ) Not that it's important to everyone, but we wanted to clear it up. There are certainly a lot of lies on the Internet about it... and the email just sent proves that.

Click here (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2007/de... /) for who started the rumor that Obama took his oath on the Koran. In actuality, he took his oath using his own personal Christian bible.

Click here (http://www.beliefnet.com/story/206/story_20604_1.html ) for the representative that DID use the Koran. His name is Keith Ellison, and you can call him a Muslim because he is, and he's proud of it! Freedom of Religion - what a novel idea in the United States of America!

Also, note that there is NO requirement in US law to take the oath on the Christian bible or any book for that matter. When the time comes for new Representatives to be sworn in, no Bible, Koran, or other book is involved. The Speaker of the House asks everyone to stand and raise their right hands. All 435 members are sworn in right then, at their desks, at the same time. That's the swearing in ceremony.

Later, a Representative may schedule an "unofficial" ceremony to be photographed for the voters in his/her district. THAT ceremony is set up by the Representative's office and can include anything he/she wants... a judge, a friend certified to give an oath of allegiance, and any book the Representative chooses (Bibles, Koran's and Law Books have all been used). He could even choose to use no book at all. Also, that ceremony has no official standing... it's just for the voters back home.

Something else to consider. The US Constitution states that in Article 6, section 3, that, "...no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States".

Additionally, If you really do want to know more of the TRUTH about the Senator from Illinois, click here (http://www.barackobama.com ). Obama has been more then forthcoming about his past.

I'm sure you did not intend to purposely spread lies about Obama - but by sending out emails like this before checking them for facts you continue to allow others with a political agenda to use you for their candidates gain. I hope that in light of this new information, you'll spread the truth about Barack Obama. You certainly don't have to vote for him or support his policies. But, I'd appreciate it if you also didn't spread false rumors about his past to further someone else's political agenda.

Thanks,

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4032401

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1. Fact check debunking

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_obama.html