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Michelle Obama ordered $400 worth of lobster and caviar at a New York hotel. |
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Says Obama wants to redesign the American flag "to better offer our enemies hope and love." |
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"If Barack Obama would apply for a job with the FBI or with the Secret Service, he would be disqualified because of his past associations with William Ayers." |
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"The Books Sarah Palin tried to have banned." |
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Palin "fired Wasilla’s Police Chief because he 'intimidated' her." |
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"While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed." |
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Palin "inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22-million." |
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Says Obama replaced the American flag on the tail of his plane with his campaign logo. |
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"Obama will charge a 28 percent tax on all home sales." |
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Barack Obama wants to "restore" the estate tax that George W. Bush "repealed." |
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John McCain will keep the estate tax at 0 percent, the same as it is now. |
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Obama "shunned the opportunity to talk to soldiers to thank them for their service." |
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Barack Obama wants to "unilaterally disarm our nation." |
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E-mail quotes Maureen Dowd column that Obama has received suspicious contributions from Saudi Arabia, Iran and China. |
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From Obama's book: "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race." |
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Obama said he would "stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." |
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Obama's wife wrote a paper in college that said America was a nation founded on "crime and hatred" and that whites in America are "ineradicably racist." |
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Obama's wife said her goal in life was to put the black community "first and foremost." |
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"His true name is Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama." |
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"Obama ... gave almost a million dollars to the (Kenya) opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga." |
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise taxes on all income brackets. |
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise capital gains taxes, which apply to home sales. |
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"According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ ... will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent ... is it OBAMA??" |
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Barack Obama has written and co-sponsored more bills in three years than Hillary Clinton has in seven. |
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise taxes on dividends, a move that would crash the stock market. |
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"She flunked the D.C. bar exam." |
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"Hillary interned with Bob Treuhaft, the head of the California Communist Party." |
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"Hillary's main extracurricular activity in law school was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing and killing a federal agent." |
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"While others place their hands over their hearts, Obama turns his back to the flag and slouches." |
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Barack Obama's church gave a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan. |
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Obama "remains silent" and "is never asked how he feels about his church honoring Farrakhan." |
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The church Barack Obama belongs to has a "nonnegotiable commitment to Africa." |
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Barack Obama's middle name is Mohammed and he's a "covert" Muslim. |
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The church Barack Obama belongs to only admits black people. |
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"Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world." |
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When Obama was sworn into office, "he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Kuran (Their equivalency to our Bible, but very different beliefs)." |
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An anonymous e-mail says that Hillary Clinton advocates communism. |
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Obama "refused to not only put his hand on his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance, but refused to say the pledge." |
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Clinton "refused repeated requests to meet with the Gold Star Mothers." |
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"The Clintons now charge the Secret Service $10,000 monthly rent for the use of (a) Secret Service residence and that rent is just about equal to their mortgage payment." |
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