Overlooked: Obama's Anti-Smear Site »
Posted By Dakota 3 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsLast week, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign launched a new website solely dedicated to debunking untruths about his life. Called Fight The Smears, the site is laid out in a clean, simple style: it lists each rumor, then neatly debunks it.
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Wolfie20073 months, 3 weeks ago
So when is Obama going to tell the truth? This looks like a campaign donation site to me.
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BB643 months, 3 weeks ago
It does look like a donation site. The other question it doesn't answer is how can someone who thinks he's so very smart, attend a church, that even by the most liberal standards is a center of racism and hate? There are really only three possibilities. The first one, he's too stupid to realize racism unless it's a fat bald white guy. I don't think that's the case, he's a good speech reader. Second option, he wanted their votes and didn't think the media would report Rev. Wright so it wasn't a problem to sit there with his kids and listen to hate. Third, he agrees that white America is the cause of all the world's problems.
For 23 years he sat there and supported Rev. Wright. Why doesn't his site explain that?
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mntnman4443 months, 3 weeks ago
Maybe he's just taking Romney's position...you know,the position you all agreed with...the position that where and why he attends church is nobody's F-ing business.
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Candida3 months, 3 weeks ago
Wolfie and BB,
Thank you for clarifying for me the answer to the last sentence in the article: "Now that Obama's site is up and running--and has debunked this very assertion--is this a case of ignorance or deliberate rumor-mongering?"
Yes, it is deliberate rumor-mongering, or possibly both.
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mesodude3 months, 3 weeks ago
"The other question it doesn't answer is how can someone who thinks he's so very smart, attend a church, that even by the most liberal standards is a center of racism and hate? "
--Are you a liberal? How do you know what "most liberal standards" are and which liberal groups have claimed this is a "center of racism and hate"?
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Leemck023 months, 3 weeks ago
BB64, let me help you out on that question, since you are on this site; save you from looking around. If Obama had gone to your church for the last 20 years, assuming you have one, would he be a Presidential Nominee, worked to save the poor, or a Harvard Grad with Top Honors, and Inspired to pass up all sorts of money making opportunities 'to labor that he might serve' in a higher capacity? If you are typical of what your church produces, then it would be a place that produces bitter people that pretend they don't understand racism; still longing for the days where the law and practice allowed legalized ill gotten gain and hate at the highest levels. Did your church try to liberate anyone? Reverend Wright should have stepped up on your pulpit to say, "you're in this church that tolerate injustice, looking for a Blessing" . . . "No, not God Bless" this church here, God . . . . Performance BB64, vote for change, this may offset your misguided life.
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Goppy3 months, 3 weeks ago
I LIEK Wolfie's question: "When IS Obama gointa tell the truth?"
Our Truth: We say hes a Muslim ... aniokly says this nearly everday! Therefore, thats OUR Rightie truth ... and no amount of RATIONAL truth will push us off this pin head.
Our Truth: We say hes a Socialist ... libsR says this nearly everday! Therefore, thats OUR Rightie truth ... and no amount of ACTUAL truth will let blood flow to the REASONIN part of our brain non that one.
See my point?
We Righties make these grand pronouncements intended to DIVERT America's attention. And, since we are literally CRAAAAZIE, we all jump on board in a BIG WAY - and claim they ARE the truth.
The KILLER part is that ... any tiem Obama (or somebody we dont liek) counters these claims ... we THEN say hes tryin to SPIN it!!!
SEE?
Its pure evil genious!! And it just reels in the poor low IQ suckers by the MILLIONS! And of course ... those become rank n file Republicans.
There you have it! All tied up with a red ribbon!
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libsRfunny3 months, 3 weeks ago
Awwww ... it's so good to see a mental case like Guppy truly being disturbed by several of us pointing out Obama's many flaws.
Such a poor, low-IQ sucker, Guppy. But, I bet your baby mama still loves ya!
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mark-stevens3 months, 3 weeks ago
Carl Rove is back!! Saw a blog telling us that, according to the Bible, that the Anti Christ will be a smooth talking Muslim??
Ya see Obama is a smooth talking Muslim... he is the "anti Christ". Google "anti Christ"... that person was nuts and a neo con!!
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ppiittuu3 months, 3 weeks ago
obama = politician. politician = panderer. politician = tell anyone anything to get elected. obama will tell anyone anything to get elected. QED.
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walden33 months, 3 weeks ago
Republicans get it together -
Last week Obama was a turban, wearing, Islamofascist Muslim extremist with a Muslim middle-name.
This week he discriminates against Muslims.
Republicans, which is it? Is he a Muslim, does he hate Muslims or is he a self-hating bi-polar Muslim?
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libsRfunny3 months, 3 weeks ago
I never called him an "Islamo-fascist Muslim." I just call him "Dumbo" for his many gaffes and penchant for out-right lying -- as he did over a number of years regarding his grandfather/great uncle's military service.
His handlers are reigning him in though.
http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/06/18/...
Obama's campaign tightens control of image and access
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walden33 months, 3 weeks ago
Come on man, the king of gaffes is W by far, even worse than Pres. Ford taking all of his tumbles that Chevy Chase so masterfully parodied.
Remember W trying to get through the locked doors in Japan.
This'll make you laugh.
"President George W Bush tried to make a quick exit from a news conference in Beijing on Sunday - only to find himself thwarted by locked doors."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4454738...
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Leemck023 months, 3 weeks ago
LibsR, his organization is aware of the surroundings. Comments like yours and others really don't represent the pentacle of balance, objectivity or open mindedness, in my opinion. He can't wait for you to define his image, sakes, we can't stay on the issues of energy, security, health or disaster preparedness for trivia. The media and this one too is consumed in tying to select the next president based on personality, ideals that are conservative, that is, throw backs to the past rather than capacity to deal with the future. You are worried about the topic of 'images' while Americans are being flooded because poor infrastructure; that was known about. Where is your concern for the National Guard being here or in Iraq? 'W' wants the Fed Bank to have more power for what his SEC should be doing well. Push for those answers. Vote for change, "Dumbo" the one that worked to graduate from Harvard is better than the one that Dad bought it for him,or his clone McC.
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saintetienne3 months, 3 weeks ago
"Is he a Muslim, does he hate Muslims or is he a self-hating bi-polar Muslim?"
All of the above. With a disjointed, broken-home upbringing like he's had, coupled with a nut for a preacher, a shrew for a wife and all of his shady associates, I don't think he knows which way is up these days.
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BB643 months, 3 weeks ago
Actually, I'm not sure what his father's religion is. If his birth father is Muslim, in that faith, technically he's Muslim. Other religions it follows the mother's choice, technically. That's where I think people get confused.
As to the gaff with the Islamic ladies, that's a joke. The party of inclusion wants the Muslims to get out of camera view for a white guy. I can't imagine McCain's people doing that and getting a pass from most of the media.
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Beau78903 months, 3 weeks ago
Drew Weston is absolutely correct. We've seen what ignoring smears has done for candidates in the past. Obama is right to be aggressive about debunking rumors.
There are two problems that I can see--neither as problematic as ignoring rumors entirely--with this tactic. The first (as Wolfie alluded to above), is that the site is obviously presented by the Obama campaign, which will make doubters suspecious, though of course the info on the site is accurate. (Adding a link on the debunking site to donate to the campaign probably doesn't help with credibility issues.)
The other problem is broader--it appears to me that so many Americans have become much more partisan than they used to be, not only suspecting anything put out by campaigns, but ignoring facts that contradict their pre-formed political opinions. I imagine those who might believe the rumors being propagated may never get to fightthesmears.com, and may never believe anything anyone else says that debunks those rumors.
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TOD3963 months, 3 weeks ago
Are you implying that only those who will not follow up on Obama smears are the only one's?
What of the other side of the aisle? From my viewpoint, Liberals and Conservatives are both containing equal amounts of those who refuse to believe the truth.
Obama has many flaws, and they are trickling out. McCain has flaws also. Our job, as Americans, is to find out who among those two will do the least damage over the next 4 years. Obama supporters, for the most part, are incapable of accepting the fact that Obama is just the same old song, in a new skin, albeit a darker shade, it is still the same...
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sailr3 months, 3 weeks ago
Bush has caused us to be more partisan because of his Rove propaganda campaigns, voter fraud, rigged elections, illegal wars, illegal wiretapping, endless lies, etc.
You want more of the same? McCain? If so, you are truly delusional. It's like your neighbor coming over and beating you senseless every day but you continue to invite him to your parties. You deserve what you get! Well, vote for McCain and the beatings will continue and you will again continue to just lap it up like the poor brainwashed little lapdogs that you are.
FIND A BRAINCELL FORGAWDSAKES!
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Klarissa3 months, 3 weeks ago
sail - and you weren't partisan in the last two elections.
I don't understand why "partisan" is a bad word.
If taken to the extreme, like saying "put a necktie around the president's neck" then yes, a bad word.
But to support, with fervor, someone for public office, is what makes politics work and raises money for the candidates.
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Poulenc3 months, 3 weeks ago
The sad truth is that, for posters like Wolfie, there'll always be something about Barack and Michelle O. to deride.
That is, their--the posters'--racism and/or misogyny, never mind their discomfort with a political position that would portion power more equitably, is bottomless, even as both masquerade as reasonable objection.
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RussianThreats3 months, 3 weeks ago
And don't forget the fact that his initials are B.O.!!
Truly an embarassment to our wonderful county! For shame.
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