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Hitting Obama with the race card?

13-Oct-2008
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Last Modified: 13 Oct 2008 By: Felicity Spector Felicity Spector blogs on the accusations likening Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden. The campaign isn't just dirty, now it's getting downright nasty. John McCain was once the kind of man who disassociated himself from stuff like this - but now, his campaign, his supporters, and his vice presidential nominee, are pumping out material that questions Barack Obama's credentials as an American. "Barack Hussein Obama", cried one state official introducing Sarah Palin at a rally - at which she declared the Democratic senator was "not one of us". 'Both have friends who bombed the Pentagon' Jeffrey M Frederick on Obama and Bin Laden Now, on the back of all those GOP ads pushing Obama's alleged links to former Weatherman William Ayers, the chairman of Virginia's Republican party has... [read full story]                    

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