UnTracable Emails Spreads Obama Rumor

When Fox News aired a report in January claiming that Sen. Barack Obama had been educated at a radical Muslim madrassa, his campaign beat the story back — hard — with the candidate himself going on television to call it “ludicrous” and a “smear.”

And his aggressive defense worked, or so it seemed at the time: The notion that Obama has secret Muslim roots faded from the mainstream media, and even from most conservative blogs and magazines.

But rather than vanish, the whispered smear campaign appears to have gone underground, and in its purest form: Obama himself, according to a pair of widely circulated anonymous e-mails, is a Muslim.

“Barack Hussein Obama has joined the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background,” warns an e-mail titled “Who Is Barack Obama,” that was circulating in South Carolina political circles this summer and sent to Politico by a South Carolina Democrat.

“The Muslims have said they plan on destroying the U.S. from the inside out; what better way to start than at the highest level?”

“Please forward to everyone you know,” it ended.

The other widely forwarded e-mail is titled “Can a good Muslim become a good American” and answers that question in the negative, before concluding: “And Barack Hussein Obama, a Muslim, wants to be our president!!!”

The misinformation is buttressed by occasional winks from conservative pundits like Ed Rogers, who referred to the candidate as “Barack Hussein Obama” and radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, who regularly includes the senator's otherwise little-used middle name.

(Shock jock Michael Savage did him one better, according to the liberal media monitor Media Matters, calling the senator “Hussein Barack Obama.”)

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I realize there'sa difference of opinion on "giving credibility to a story" and fighting it righ away, but I'm telling you, this is a-typical RNC tactics, especially in SC! If he hasn't ALREADY responded to this, it's going to hurt him BAD!

Gobama.

that he would never vote for Obama because Muslim's are enemies to us, and threw that Obama hates the flag also. Schultz told the caller to go back and watch psyco racist hannity on fox because that is where he belongs

Incidently, Obama is a Christian, NOT THAT IT MATTERS

I made a document from snopes.com that nukes their lies.

This is seen as another slap at Black Americans and Muslims. Another chance to get people to get Jim Crow working to legislate against "minorities" in the U.S. I have heard so many "Osama Obama" stories and "Osama, Obama, Yo' Mama" stories that I am beginning to believe that the "White is Right" (in more ways that one) is having the worlds greatest return to power... as if Bush, Cheney, Rove, Gonzales, Faux News and friends aren't enough...

Seems as if they can't keep power legitimately they are handed it by the Supreme Court and Fear Mongers...to say nothing of right wing terrorists like the police...

Keep thinking we are working on another Black Genocide...

Didn't Hitler start like this... rumors, innuendos and lies...