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Obama Smears

Barack Obama

Internet rumors & lies:

Lie	Truth
Obama is a radical Muslim	Obama is now and always has been a Christian
Obama was sworn into office on the Koran (Quran)	Obama was sworn into office on the Holy Bible
Obama doesn't put his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance or the National Anthem.	"My grandfather taught me when I was 2. During the Pledge of Allegiance, you put your hand over your heart. During the national anthem, you sing." What do you do at a sports event?
Obama belong to a racist black church	Obama's church proudly proclaims its African heritage. As the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "If a white church plainly and proudly prounounced its whiteness, [Sean] Hannity, [Tucker] Carlson and company would be right. But if it was the Holy Trinity Polish Church on Chicago's North Side proclaiming its Polishness, who'd care? This is how African Americans find ourselves in a trick bag. We're defined racially even when we're acting like any other of this nation's ethnic groups."
Obama's church does not permit white parishoners	Univ. of Chicago Divinity School Prof. Martin Marty (who is white) told FactCheck, "That kind of e-mail is vicious and lying, and makes my blood boil. ... Many civic officials, public school teachers, etc. are members at Trinity; [Rev. Jeremiah] Wright has been on TV with his services for years, and no one found them racist – it's smear politics."
Our military "fears" Obama	Ret. Air Force Gen. Merrill A. McPeak, who campaigned for Bob Dole in 1996 and George W. Bush in 2000, recently concluded that Obama is “what the joint chiefs want to see — somebody they can rely and depend on.” McPeak told the Times, “I think Obama is going to be an outstanding commander in chief, not just an ordinary commander in chief. He has the potential to be one of the all-time greats. I think the senior military will learn that about him starting from the first minute he occupies the Oval Office.”