Enigma869 wrote:"8 Nasty Campaign Rumors":
Mainstream news organizations have either debunked or found no evidence to support six nasty rumors about John McCain and Barack Obama that have surfaced during the presidential race. Take, for example, the story that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. His birth certificate proves Obama, shown here as a toddler with mom Ann Dunham, was born in Hawaii.
Another rumor claims that in 1992, Arizona Sen. John McCain directed a particularly nasty slur at his wife, Cindy. The story comes from a book called "The Real McCain," by Cliff Schecter, a Democratic political consultant. He cites as sources three anonymous Arizona reporters who supposedly heard the nasty word. But no other reporter has been able to replicate Schecter's sourcing.
Rumor has it there's a tape featuring Michelle Obama, wife of the Democratic candidate, saying nasty things about white people and referring to them as "whitey." But the former CIA operative who kept pushing this story also kept changing his description of his sources for it. No such tape has ever surfaced. Michelle Obama has directly denied using the term.
Liberal partisans have blamed McCain, as a young Navy pilot, for crashing as many as five planes, including one that supposedly led to the 1967 disaster on the USS Forrestal, where an explosion and fire killed 134 sailors. The claim is that McCain could have sparked the blast by engaging in a risky maneuver. But no contemporary investigations have suggested McCain could have played any role in the tragedy.
Another scurrilous story maintained Obama funneled money to former Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, now the country's prime minister. The two men purportedly are conspiring to institute Muslim law in Kenya -- even though both are Christians. The proof of all this was supposed to be in an e-mail from Obama. The message, however, was clearly not written by a native English speaker.
Yet another rumor maintains McCain insulted fellow vacationers during a trip to Fiji before his first run for president. Among his supposed mean deeds: forcing people to listen to him read aloud from the works of William Faulkner. The source of the story was an e-mail that has been attributed to two different women. The editor of the left-wing newsletter CounterPunch said he concluded "it's a phony."
It's over the top on BOTH sides.
Might be time to throw those welfare checks away, get off your asses and go to work!!!
okay, give me the link to the quote's home.
