Need Help Responding To Pro-McCain E-Mail I Just Got

[Better Believe It]

Here's a right-wing e-mail I just got today in support of McCain. Unfortunately it came from a dear relative and it's circulating all over the web.

I haven't read Obama's book but I'm sure the "quote" from Obama contained in the e-mail is an outright lie.


Any help DU's can provide in responding to this e-mail would be greatly appreciated.

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John McCain's Sons

Talk about putting your moneywhere your mouth is! Apparently this was not 'newsworthy'enough for the media to comment about. Can the other presidential candidates truthfully come close to this? Just a question for each of us to seek an answer, and not a statement.

You see...character is what's shown when the public is not looking. There were no cameras or press invited to what you are about to read about, and the story comes from one person in New Hampshire.

One evening last July, Senator John McCain of Arizona arrived at the New Hampshire home of Erin Flanagan for sandwiches, chocolate-chip cookies and a heartfelt talk about Iraq. They had met at a presidential debate, when she asked the candidates what they would do to bring home American soldiers - - soldiers like her brother, who had been killed in action a few months earlier.

Mr. McCain did not bring cameras or press. Instead, he brought his youngest son, James McCain, 19, then a private first class in the Marine Corps about to leave for Iraq. Father and son sat down to hear more about Ms. Flanagan's brother Michael Cleary, a 24-year-old Army First Lieutenant killed by an ambush with a roadside bomb.

No one mentioned the obvious. In just days, Jimmy McCain could face similar perils. 'I can't imagine what it must have been like for them as they were coming to meet with a family that .......' Ms. Flanagan recalled, choking up. 'We lost a dear one,' she finished.

Mr. McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he almost never says i that one of them is his own son, who spent seven months patrolling Anbar Province and learned of his father's New Hampshire victory in January while he was digging a stuck military vehicle out of the mud.

Two of Jimmy's three older brothers went into the military. Doug McCain, 48, was a Navy pilot. Jack McCain, 21, is to graduate from the Naval Academy next year, raising the chances that his father, if elected, could become the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower with a son at war.

I chose to share this with those who I believe will pass it on to others who will also pass it on. We hear so much inflated trash out there. How about a simple act of kindness ... and dedication to others placed above oneself?

Has anybody heard if Barack Hussein Obama has served in The American Armed Services?

This is for all you Barack voters.

From Barack's book, Audacity of Hope:

'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'

HE DID NOT SAY STAND WITH AMERICANS!!!!!

[YOY]

1. Here's a reply

"If you believe this Obama the Muslim over American and heart felt Iraq talk McCain chocolate cookie eating bullshit then you are truly a waste of humanity and a lost cause.

Go dry hump a Chinese made flag lapel pin."

[ClassWarrior]

2. Yes, vote for the clueless guy with a son in the military and an alien in his cheek!!

Great campaign slogan!!

NGU.

[wryter2000]

3. Send this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=3406603

[Better Believe It]

7. Thank You!

That will help.

[Clark2008]

4. This bit from Snopes clears up ALL the misquotes

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ownwords.asp

The particular one about standing with Muslims is the very last quote, which was very much taken out of context.

[Better Believe It]

9. And Thank You!

That also helps alot.

[wryter2000]

5. What Clark 2008 said

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ownwords.asp

Also, the quote doesn't use the word "Muslims" at all. It says "them," meaning people who've been imprisoned illegally.

[Kukesa]

6. Go to the Obama website. Next,

go to "Know the Facts" and look for your email message.

There are responses posted that you can use as your reply.

Also, if you get any more messages that contain wrong info about Obama, forward them to the website:

[e-mail]

I've forwarded one and it's already been answered. His staff is all over this!

[rurallib]

8. I hear Obama is assembling a team to counteract this BS.

The lies these guys tell are so out there even they can't believe them.

[Kukesa]

14. The team has been assembled and it's up and running.

Just go to the website and look under "Know the Facts."

Impressive, these folks.

[wryter2000]

11. Awesome!

I'll remember that.

[wryter2000]

12. Awesome!

I'll remember that.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Correct this person. Reply with the full quote from Barack's book and point out that he most

certainly did say he would stand by American citizens. Ask if this is the same Erin Flanagan who asked all the GOP candidates how they would get us out of Iraq.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/06/07/does-erin-flanagans-question-go-unanswered-in-gop-debate/

Erin: It is. Unfortunately, my beloved little brother, 1st Lieutenant Michael Joseph Cleary, was killed in action in Taji, Iraq, eight days before he was to return home on December 20th of 2005. He was the best of the best and answered the call to serve our country. My family has been devastated by the loss.

As a member of an American family who has suffered so greatly at the choices made by the current administration, I desperately would like to know what you as commander in chief would do, both in the halls of the American government, to bring the parties together, as well as on the desert sands of the Middle East to bring this conflict to a point in which we can safely bring our troops home.

Amanda posts her NBC spot where Erin says that her question wasn’t answered:

On NBC News this morning, Flanagan said that none of the candidates actually answered her question. “Obviously, I know it’s a tough one, and I knew when I asked it,” Flanagan said. “But I think — I truly believe that’s what the American public wants to know: how we can work together to get out.”

And of course end, by asking if they've heard that President Bush went AWOL during VietNam and that Dick Cheney had 5 deferments. Ask them to name anybody in the current administration that served.

[asjr]

13. I received an e-mail from a very dear

friend about Cindy McCain. It was so syrupy I almost went into diabetic shock. When I receive things like that I just delete it. She and I have never discussed politics before and I will not start now.

[Yavapai]

15. What I have been doing is

reply to the sender (and all recipients) with a link to Snopes.com.

I also mention that since I have retired, I have more time to research these things
and find most of these Obama emails to be just plain old bullshit.