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Fact Checking Obama Misquotes: "Dreams" and "Audacity"

my.barackobama.com — There have been a series of quotes going around recently, allegedly taken from Obama's "Dreams of My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope." The author downloaded an unabridged copy from ebooks.com to assist in searching for each one. What he found will disappoint Obama's detractors, and inform everybody else.

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NoDrama 69 days ago

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Macrophage, on 05/16/2008, -5/+19There is also the smell of DESPERATION...coming out of the GOP.
Can these two events somehow be........Related

PEACE
John
pixel4e, on 05/16/2008, -3/+10The distractions are starting to become annoying. I wish I could time travel to the beginning of November to avoid all of this.
LKnight, on 05/16/2008, -3/+14The GOP has figured the calculus, and as much as they'd love to face Senator Clinton because she's so polarizing they've concluded they are facing a uniter - and that appears to scare them.
motivatedmama, on 05/17/2008, -2/+12Dontcha love how in this great country of ours you can put yourself out there, heart and soul, and gain a knife in the back for your efforts? I hope the Republicans who mean the world and this nation harm, and the racists of every party ARE quaking in fear of an Obama nomination.
It just proves what we've known all along; what they really fear and must silence at all costs, the truth.
DaDrake, on 05/17/2008, -7/+3Honestly I never even heard of any qoutes being taken out of context or simply made up.
- thinkresults, on 05/17/2008, -1/+6DaDrake - following is the original, verbatim email that has been going round through some of the chains. You will also see these quotes occasionally cut/pasted in the comments sections under articles in the various mainstream media sites and usually in combo with claims that Obama is a Muslim, etc...
  
  I'm happy you have not received - however, so you know the reason for the response...
  
  ----------quote:
  In Obama's own words
  
  This guy wants to be our President and control our government. Pay close attention to the last comment!! Below are a few lines from Obama's books ' his words:
  
  From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'
  
  From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.'
  
  From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
  
  From Dreams of My Father: ; 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
  
  From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'
  
  From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'
  
  If you ever forwarded an e-mail, now is the time to do it again.
  ------endquote
p0s3r, on 05/17/2008, -6/+4Have you guys gotten so ridiculous as to hyperventilate over email forwards? What's next, if I don't digg this ten times, something bad is going to happen to me today?
- NoDrama, on 05/22/2008, -0/+2Who's hyperventilating? All I see is debunking a viral smear, or several of them. Is there some problem with the truth, p0s3r?
nova912, on 05/17/2008, -3/+6Never underestimate how completely stupid americans can be... did you see those clips from the West Virginia -- "I've had enough of Hussein", or, "he IS a Muslim, that's a fact!" -- that lady said that with so much confidence, even though Obama has said a billion ***** times he's a Christian.

The sad fact is, if people were actually informed this nomination would be over, misinformation is rampant.
- Diderotten, on 05/17/2008, -1/+2What gets to me is how people can call him out on sitting in Wright's church for twenty years then say they know for a fact he's muslim. One or the other, people.
GhostWithToast, on 05/17/2008, -1/+7There's a reason republicans want Clinton to be the nominee. This is one of the stronger arguments for Obama vs McCain. They have nothing on him.
tzisc, on 05/17/2008, -1/+4so can we hurry up and take this country back from the idiots

thanks
DeviantDragon, on 05/17/2008, -1/+1I don't see why this is clearly the work of Republicans. In my opinion, it could very well be from Democrats that don't want Obama as the nominee...AKA Hillary and some of her more extreme supporters.
- thinkresults, on 05/17/2008, -1/+3I agree - likely this would be spread by anyone driven by fear and ignorance. Perhaps Republicans more-so now and others earlier - who knows. The important thing is to address the ignorance. Shine the light!
- NoDrama, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1Don't think most people attribute it to any one source, but does it MATTER what the source is? Misinformation harms the electorate by distracting from the important dialog about policies. This seems simple enough - a debunking of a viral smear.
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