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Happy Halloween News Flash: “Barack Obama’s Secret Past — as a Pirate!”

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Word has it that Obama, at 8 years old, spent a lot of time plundering and pillaging with Bill Ayers. Talk about spreading the wealth around! This recent turn of events suggests that there are things about Obama that we don’t yet know – things that were left off the infomercial. This could be good news for the McCain camp! The bad news for McCain is that he is still a grumpy, pissy old man.

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