This stinking pile dropped into my email inbox this morning.

Subject: Barack Hussein Obama - Background Information you won't get in the mainstream media.

This man is running for President.

This is from Google and Wikipedia.com

Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (black muslim) of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas. (white atheist ).

When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced and his father returned to Kenya. His mother married Lolo Soetoro -- a Muslim -- moving to Jakarta with Obama when he was six years old. 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. Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim while admitting that he was onc e a Muslim, mitigating that damning information by saying that, for two years, he also attended a Catholic school.

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—a white atheist from Wichita, Kansas—at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Obama, Sr. and Dunham divorced when Barack, Jr. was two. Obama's spinmeisters are now attempting to make it appear that Obama's introduction to Islam came from his father and that influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya immediately following the divorce and never again had any direct influence over his son's education. Dunham married another Muslim, Lolo Soetoro who educated his stepson as a good Muslim by enrolling him in one of Jakarta's Wahabbi schools. 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.

Usually with crap like this I just click "Reply" and have a quiet word with Atilla the Republican. This time I hit "Reply All" and opened up with both barrels on the entire Winger mailing list:

This is a truly vile pack of lies, and whoever wrote it should be ashamed of himself...as should those who pass it on.

It claims to be taken from Google and Wikipedia. Here's the real Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama It takes only a moment to compare the two to see how this vicious hatemonger altered it. It's a fraud.

For those unwilling to take the time to read the truth, here's the real original first paragraph:

Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., born in Alego, a village in Nyanza Province, Kenya, and Ann Dunham, born in Wichita, Kansas.[3] His parents met while both were attending the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student. When Obama was two years old, his parents separated and later divorced; his father went to Harvard to pursue PhD studies, eventually returning to Kenya.[4] His mother married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian foreign student, and the family moved to Jakarta when Obama was six years old.[5] Four years later, Obama returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents.[6] He was enrolled in the fifth grade at Punahou School, a large, private college preparatory school in Honolulu,[7] which he attended through 12th grade, graduating in 1979.[8] His father died in a car accident in Kenya when Obama was 21 years old.[9] Obama's mother died of cancer a few months after the publication of his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father.[10]

Equally deceptive is the way that this lying sack of [excrement] blended the Wikipedia article seamlessly into his own propaganda, using Wikipedia to give his lies credibility.

Snopes.com, the authoritative Web site that debunks (and sometimes verifies) urban legends has an extensive analysis taking this crap apart point-by-point: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp.

Sorry if I seem a little steamed, but I have absolutely no tolerance for lies and hatemongering.

Funny thing about the "Internet Age": While lies can spread at the speed of light, so can the truth.

Next time a Winger claims to have "information you'll never hear in the mainstream media", understand that this is what it means.