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woodsprite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-19-08 08:08 PM
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Need a quick refutal for a supposed quote in a nastygram
My bp is rising and I'm stuck at work. My MIL sent me the email "You ain't gonna like losing" and at the end is this quote that they say is from Audacity of Hope -- it's "(Remember Obama said in his book 'Audacity of Hope', 'I
will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction'.....what better place for the Muslins to control our country, than in the office of the President of USA . If you ever forwarded an e-mail, now's the time to do it!)"

I figure they took it WAY out of context, if not rearranged the language or just plain made it up.

Anybody have the exact quote? Or know how to reply.
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musette_sf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-19-08 08:10 PM
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1. if Obama doesn't win
the Muslins will control our country.


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roseBudd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-19-08 08:10 PM
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2. here...
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iamjoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-19-08 08:13 PM
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3. Try FactCheck, Snopes, etc
and reply to everyone about how the person who generated this e-mail is spreading smears and can't be bothered to research bogus claims.

Misleading e-mail: From Audacity of Hope: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

Actual quote from "The Audacity of Hope" : Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.


http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_obama_write_that_he_would_stand.html

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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-19-08 08:16 PM
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4. Your MIL? Jesus!
First I would go to the Obama fight the smears website and get the official answer (or Snopes maybe.)
Second I think I would tell her to kiss my Democratic blue ass and stay the fuck out of my life.
My MIL fucked me over @20 years ago. We see each other about once a year.
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Boz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-19-08 08:44 PM
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8. My inlaws,who had a personally signed Reagan portrait,used to introduce me as my wifes First husband
At one point her farther actually called me a communist.

They lost all of their money, both silver spoon family fortunes and a third fortune based on that in the rust belt melt down in ohio of the 90s.

They then suddenly flipped and we actually became friends and while her father passed, her mother is actually voting for Obama, too funny how the class separation exists.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-19-08 08:17 PM
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5. Do Not Be Afraid of REPLY ALL. Turnabout IS fair play.
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guruoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-19-08 08:18 PM
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6. Copy fact checks elsewhere in this thread in email and hit 'reply to all'
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-19-08 08:20 PM
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7. Throw their sloppy lie back in their faces.
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