When I originally posted, I thought all the embedded links were to debunking articles, like at snopes.com or ThinkProgress or MotherJones, based on actually checking out a few, and also looking at many of the link's addresses in the status bar when I hovered my mouse over them. But on a second look, I see some of them have links to the nut-job article or video before links that debunk them. Just to name a couple I've seen: "wnd.com" is World Net Daily which is a complete whacka-doodle-site. On the other hand, the suspicious-looking obamaConspiracy.org is a debunking site.
I'm happy to say I haven't heard most of these conspiracy theories either. I am blessed many years ago to have told everyone (who had done so in the past) not to forward to me any political chain e-mails because it makes them look to be idiots in the eyes of most people who receive them, and miraculously I haven't seen a single one in my inbox for years. So I'm "out of the loop" on a lot of this. I can't understand anyone (other than someone totally malicious) forwarding a totally un-sourced political email (as the few I've ever seen are all un-sourced) among many other signs that they are a work of fiction meant for low-information low-IQ goobers.
I posted the OP mostly for the serious few topics it had, like the cause of the recession (it goes beyond something Obama allegedly did in 1995), but I see there aren't that many such. Or semi-serious ones, like "Obama spiked the jobs report" -- unfortunately too many think that (I was in a bar and overheard a conversation about this), and its nice to be able to post the motherjones.com links if encountering these claims online.
ON EDIT: I found an interesting resource: snopes.com 's 25 hottest urban legends (debunked): http://www.snopes.com/info/top25uls.asp
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