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Sep 24, 2008 9:10 am US/Eastern

N.J. Supremacists Spread Anti-Obama Flyers

TRENTON (AP) ― Barack Obama's campaign in New Jersey speaks out about fliers distributed in one northern Jersey town that attack his candidacy on racial grounds.

Roxbury Mayor Tim Smith says the fliers were dropped off at about 25 to 50 of the township's 8,000 homes.

They show unflattering photos of Obama, including a doctored one making him look like Osama Bin Laden, above text that reads:

"Black Ruled Nations most unstable and violent in the world."

The fliers are signed by a white supremacist group called the League of American Patriots, which has a New Jersey address in Butler.

Andrew Poag, state communications director for the Obama campaign, said yesterday that the "divisive and offensive fliers" won't distract the campaign's focus on uniting the country and bringing change to Washington.

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