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"The ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed."

The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 "would guarantee Barack Obama will never be held accountable for producing forged birth documents."

Obama used $20 million in federal money "to emmigrate (sic) Hamas Refugees to the USA."

"AIG insures the pension trust of the United States Congress!"

"The Obama Administration wants to have soldiers and officers pledge a loyalty oath directly to the office of the President, and no longer to the Constitution."

"Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income."

Michelle Obama ordered $400 worth of lobster and caviar at a New York hotel.

Says Obama wants to redesign the American flag "to better offer our enemies hope and love."

"The Books Sarah Palin tried to have banned."

From Obama's book: "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."

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."

"Obama ... gave almost a million dollars to the (Kenya) opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga."

"His true name is Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama."

Obama thinks the national anthem should be "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing."

"According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ ... will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent ... is it OBAMA??"

Barack Obama's middle name is Mohammed and he's a "covert" Muslim.

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)."

"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."

An anonymous e-mail says that Hillary Clinton advocates communism.

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