The emails I get each day from those who read my blog and listen to me on the radio are a great barometer of what people are thinking about when it comes to politics. In the last week, it's become clear that the idea of a Barack Obama victory is freaking some people out.
On Wednesday, I got a series of emails on different subjects that had been forwarded to dozens and dozens of people and then sent on to me, all raising questions about Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.
An email entitled "Oh really???" explores the senior thesis written by Michelle Obama when she was at Princeton.
The thesis became public back in February of this year, when it was dredged up by Politico.com (at the time, Princeton had refused to release it.)
The subject was the racial divide in the United States.
The email is made to look like a web page from Snopes.com, which is a site that debunks internet rumors. The title (with a bad photo of the Obamas looking stern) was "OBAMA'S MILITANT RACISM REVEALED."
Unfortunately, when you go to the Snopes.com link that is cited, you get a page that explored the claim that Michelle Obama's thesis had been put off limits by Princeton until after the November election.
Another story being pushed yesterday was an interview that Michelle Obama supposedly did with a group called "Africa Press International" in which she went on a "tirade" over rumors being spread about her husband.
API (a media group that I've never heard of) claims it has a tape recording of the phone interview with Mrs. Obama. If they do, then maybe we've got ourselves a ballgame.
If not, it seems like yet another internet rumor. The Obama camp claims no interview ever occurred.
Some people have already done a bit of searching and found that "API" doesn't seem to be a real news organization either, and the site is registered to someone in Norway.
I've also been getting a lot of emails on the old issue of Obama's citizenship, and whether he really was born in the U.S. That one has been going around lately with a new twist involving a lawsuit to force disclosure of more paperwork certifying his actual birth.
What's the famous line? Desperate times call for desperate measures.
I think I'm getting a whiff of that right now from those opposed to Obama.
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