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E-mails from the fraudsters are in black.
E-mails from me (Stu Pidass) are in italicized green.
Red X’s represent characters that have been changed to protect personal info.
Comments from me are in bold black.

The game commences with the scammer’s initial e-mail.
Dear Brethren in Christ
I am pastor Dwayne Mitch Sponsel of the CHRIST EVANGELICAL MINISTRY in London. I’m writing this letter to you all with tear and pain all over my eyes, because it is barely one month now i return from a crusade in Nigeria west Africa , it was my first visit to that part of the world. It was a great miracle crusade and many gave their life’s to Christ to the glory of God, indeed it was a miraculous crusade many healing s from various kinds of diseases and chronic ailment, i have not seen miracle like this in my entire life, I must say god love our brethren in Africa.
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ it hurt me so much to see that the church which i was invited as a guest preacher as be burnt off by some Islamic fundamentalist due to the recent prophet Mohammad cartoon drawing in Denmark and also some members lost their life’s and the pastor was seriously burnt and it need a medical surgery urgently and the doctors report say that it will cost $110,200 and also the cost of rebuilding the church will cost $55,000.
Please brethren in Christ, i ‘m appealing to you all on behalf of the church and pastor Gabriel to come to their aid to enable him undergo a plastic surgery and to see that the church is rebuild again. Dear brethren in Christ, i want you to know that as we Christians we are going through a difficult time in our life, even some of us has lost their life in this process. i want you to know that our father in heaven have not forsaken us, he love us and he want us to be united as one and render assistance to one another in times of need, so brethren in Christ, let us give as much as little we can so that the world will know that we christian are united.
I want you all to give this as a seed offering unto God and the almighty father will bless you all openly and abundantly in Jesus name “Amen”. Please note that i do not received donation here in London, all donation are to be sent to the assistance pastor of the church in Nigeria through western union money transfer or money gram. Please all reply to my yahoo mail box.Thanks

MY BEST REGARDS.GODSWILL JAMES
PASTOR MITCH SPonsel:
CHRIST EVANGELICAL MINISTRY
213,BALHAM HIGH ROAD,
SW177BQ, LONDON.

Then, he threw the entire church under the bus when the words of another racist hate-mongering buddy hit the MSM. A couple years ago, it was a different story: “Father Michael Pfleger is a dear friend, and somebody I interact with closely,” said Obama in a 2004 interview.

I always found it to be very convenient that these rouge pastors claim the USA made AIDS just to get rid of black folks. They never mention the proven scientific fact that AIDS came from Africa, the land of their own ancestry. It makes sense – religious extremists of any kind often deny or ignore facts with the express purpose of exerting control over their flocks through fear and misinformation.

Perhaps those pastors can offer solace to Obama when he loses.

Tell me, do you always use media polls to inform your positions on issues? You know, those famously rigorous, structured polls designed by talented, top-of-the-class statisticians applying accurate (ahem!) sampling methodologies? If you do, I have some exit polls from the 2004 election to sell you.

The broader point holds: Obama’s intimate association with a racist pastor spouting a racist ideology matters. Your link didn’t work, so I couldn’t access the poll to find out when it was presented, but this issue isn’t over. What the poll didn’t capture is that most people have heard of Wright but they haven’t actually seen him in action, or heard audio of his sermons, except in mostly truncated soundbites. You can bet the GOP (and McCain supporters in the general population) are going to remind everybody at every opportunity, when possible, and appropriately so.

Why don’t you find a poll that reflects the views of whites specifically, and how they feel about Wright-Obama when they’ve SEEN Wright’s speeches, not just heard about them. Better yet, why don’t you construct a poll of people who have been read a summary of Black Liberation Theology, then play a Wright sermon, then tell them how close Obama is to Wright, then ask them how they feel aobut Obama, because in essence that exact scenario, in one form or another, will play out for many people before the general election.

So like I said, you go on convincing yourself that it doesn’t matter. That’s exactly what I want you to do.

By the way, since you claim this issue is not an issue, why has Obama tried to distance himself from Wright? According to you there’s no there there, and yet the candidate himself tends to disagree.

What are you going to believe, a poorly designed ’snapshot’ media poll, or a candidate whose behavior reflects his access to properly designed internal polling which professional campaigns use to inform their strategies?

(Speaking of research, whites make up 67% of the population, but 75% of registered voters, and 80+% of people who actually vote. Just a 1% shift in that group from Obama to McCain is massive, and more than makes up for a +10% shift in black votes for Obama. If the shift is 1.5-2% amongst whites the election is over. In case you hadn’t noticed, the dynamics of a general election are radically different from that of a primary. Candidates with “hate whitey” connections cannot win in the general, which is why the Democrat MSM tried so mightily to bury the Wright story.)