Interesting article on the Nation about the source and tenacity of right-wing smear emails: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071112/hayes/single
The incredible thing is that they do not die. These things get forwarded and forwarded around, even though both the sender and recipient have probably heard on the TeeVee that they are provably untrue.
Bush benefitted greatly from these in 2000 and 2004, of course. We all saw the lies about Kerry, and you may have noticed that some of them were recycled from the 2000 campaign against Gore with the names change to defile the innocent. But did you ever get the positive ones? I got a couple. Apparently he healed a serviceman in Walter Reed with his salute, and got off his campaign bus to fix a young mother's flat tire out in Texas.
SO. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make up stories about how Barack Obama has touched your life, or better yet, the life of an imaginary someone in your town. Here are some ideas to get you started:
Thoughts?
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