let the lies begin

Has anyone else gotten this email? If so, please see my comments below.

Subject: Fw: Obama - know your candidates
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> KNOW your candidates
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> Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to black Muslim Barack Hussein Obama Sr. of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and White atheist, Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas.
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> When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced and his father returned to Kenya. His mother married Lolo Soetoro, a Muslim as well, moving to Jakarta with young Obama, when he was six years old.
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> Within six months he had learned to speak the Indonesian language Obama spent "two years in a Muslim school, then two more in a Catholic school" in Jakarta.
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> Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. Mitigating that information, by saying that for two years, he attended a Catholic school.
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> Obama's father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was a radical Muslim who migrated from Kenya to Jakarta, Indonesia. He met Obama's mother, Ann Dunham—at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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> Obama's spin- meisters are now attempting to make it appear that Obama's introduction to Islam, came from his father and that influence was only temporary, which is true. Obama Sr. returned to Kenya immediately following the divorce and never again had any direct influence over his son's education. But,
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> Lolo Soetoro, Ann Dunham's second husband, educated his stepson Barack Hussein Obama, as a good Muslim by enrolling him in one of Jakarta's Wahabbi schools.
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> Wahabbism is the radical teaching that created the Muslim terrorists, who are now waging Jihad on the industrialized world. Since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when you are seeking political office in the United States, Obama joined the United Church of Christ, to help purge any notion that he is still a Muslim.

Every American who plans on voting in the 2008 election should know that this email is factually incorrect. The folks over at snopes.com have investigated each claim in this email and refuted it line by line here. If you don't consider Snopes an authority, read the CNN story saying the same thing here. What's really interesting is that Obama has already told his life story and made it available to the general public in book form, but that still won't stop his detractors from unloading these lies onto the unsuspecting (and non-reading) public. Is Obama the best choice for President? I'm still not sure. But he at least deserves a shot without being labeled a 'radical Muslim,' which he assuredly is not.