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Obama campaign: Wife never used the word 'Whitey'
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Posted on 06/12/2008 2:32:42 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama campaign: Wife never used the word 'Whitey'
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 21 minutes ago
Democrat Barack Obama's campaign said Thursday that Michelle Obama never used the word "whitey" in a speech from the church pulpit as he launched a Web site to debunk rumors about himself and his wife.
The rumor that Michelle Obama railed against "whitey" in a diatribe at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ has circulated on conservative Republican blogs for weeks and was repeated by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The rumor included claims of a videotape of the speech that would be used to bring down Obama's candidacy this fall.
"No such tape exists," the campaign responds on the site, http://www.fightthesmears.com. "Michelle Obama has not spoken from the pulpit at Trinity and has not used that word."
The site is a response to the realities of a brave new world, where information travels 24 hours a day on blogs and voters are increasingly turning to the Internet for information. It's a particular problem for Obama, a relative newcomer to national politics who is still unknown to many voters and has been the target of persistent misinformation campaigns online.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; bombshell; communist; denial; halfcracker; michelleobama; mobama; obama; whitey
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whatever.........
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
06/12/2008 2:33:51 PM PDT
by
Mike Bates
(Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
To: Sub-Driver
So Michelle Obama has never used the words “whitey”. We shall see.
To: Sub-Driver
Doesn't matter at this point: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Obama, just keep chasing those rumors. It's all your qualified to do.
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posted on
06/12/2008 2:34:41 PM PDT
by
avacado
To: Sub-Driver
Ahhhhh, must have been, “Honkey Cracker Mo Fo”.
5
posted on
06/12/2008 2:35:31 PM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: Sub-Driver
So when the tape, which is real and surfaces, Obama and his wife will be known around the world as the liars we already know they are. Good..... deny, deny, deny. When a video tapes shows otherwise, this election’s landslide for McCain will rival 1984.
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posted on
06/12/2008 2:36:16 PM PDT
by
jrooney
(Obama's mentor says God Da*n America. That explains Obama's refusal to put his hand over his heart.)
To: Sub-Driver
7
posted on
06/12/2008 2:37:30 PM PDT
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: jrooney
“That’s not the same tape I’ve known for the last 5 years”
8
posted on
06/12/2008 2:38:14 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Huma for co-president!)
To: Just another Joe
“Honkey running dog imperialist racists”
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posted on
06/12/2008 2:39:21 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Huma for co-president!)
To: Sub-Driver
When you have to constantly pupu rumors, eventually that’s all people remember.
10
posted on
06/12/2008 2:39:46 PM PDT
by
wolfcreek
(I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
To: Sub-Driver
I forgot I was reading the news and thought it was odumbos press release
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posted on
06/12/2008 2:40:18 PM PDT
by
italianquaker
(Odumbo the buffoon)
To: jrooney
So when the tape, which is real and surfaces, Obama and his wife will be known around the world as the liars we already know they are. Good..... deny, deny, deny. When a video tapes shows otherwise, this election’s landslide for McCain will rival 1984.So when is it going to surface?
To: Sub-Driver
Well this just settles it. He must be telling the truth. sarc
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posted on
06/12/2008 2:41:30 PM PDT
by
Neoliberalnot
((Hallmarks of Liberalism: Ingratitude and Envy))
To: Sub-Driver
No mention that it was started by a flaming liberal Hillary supporter???
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posted on
06/12/2008 2:42:09 PM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: Sub-Driver
Then, when the dvd emerges, he just says: “My bad. I was under the impression she had said “peckerwood”.
15
posted on
06/12/2008 2:42:12 PM PDT
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great (until it happens to YOU)...)
To: Parley Baer
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posted on
06/12/2008 2:42:20 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(The Nation will live to regret what the Court has done today. I dissent. Justice Scalia)
Comment #17 Removed by Moderator
To: Sub-Driver
On the other hand...When Wright said it...she never failed to smile...
To: Sub-Driver
Sure. . .(lol) Anyway; thought rumor had it that she was giving a speech for Rainbow folks or somesuch; so not necessarily in 'pulpit'. . .
So 'whatever'.. .you know, they still talk about GW doing coccaine; and being a 'wife-beater'; and that he is still, an illigitimate President. . . so they can just get over this. Am hoping against hope; that there are some 'just deserts' here. . .
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posted on
06/12/2008 2:48:10 PM PDT
by
cricket
(Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
After the democratic convention and Obama is officially the democrat nominee and locked in.
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posted on
06/12/2008 2:48:50 PM PDT
by
jrooney
(Obama's mentor says God Da*n America. That explains Obama's refusal to put his hand over his heart.)
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