Frameshop: GOP "Smear Gangs" Target Obama

The biggest threat to the American political system is the immoral and often illegal activity of Republican smear gangs. These covert hit squads use private Republican money and sophisticated PR techniques to spread libelous rumors about Americans who threaten the authoritarian status quo in politics. In the 2000 Presidential campaign, John McCain was attacked by these smear gangs when it looked like he was about to beat George W. Bush in the primaries. In 2004, these same smear gangs took down John Kerry when he was ahead in the polls, accusing him of lying about his military service. After speaking out against the Bush White House’s lies on Iraq, Joe Wilson and his wife Valerie Plame were assaulted by these same Republican smear gangs. And there are many more instances where Republican gangs ride into our political system on the backs of millions in shady money to silence dissent with fear and threats.

The more a candidate speaks out against the radical right, the more ferocious these smear gangs campaign against them.

The newest Republican smear gang has already set out to hunt down their next prey: Senator Barack Obama (IL). The basis of the gang attack? Repeat Obama's middle name "Hussein" as a tactic for convincing Americans that Barack Obama is a covert terrorist.

The New Face of Hate: Smearing A Democrat As a Terrorist
No matter what your view on Barack Obama as a presidential candidate (I am only beginning to look at the field of candidates for '08), Americans simply cannot allow these immoral Republican smear gangs to ride roughshod over our electoral system--threatening and intimidating as they go.

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We must shed light on these gangs and drive them out of town in shame.

As of this moment, right now, I declare that Americans will not stand for anymore smear gangs in American politics.

In response to what I thought was just a vicious rumor, I was angered to discover that the smear gangs have already started a whisper campaign against Barack Obama. Consider, for example, the following post I found on e-thepeople.com--and I warn all Frameshop readers: this quoted post below is clearly the work of a Republican lynch gang running a strategy to ruin the political future and life of an American in public service:

Barak Hussein Obama
posted 12/08, by chickmcd (viewed 388 times)

Barak Obama a Muslim apostate headed for the White House?

Move over, Hillary, Barak Obama is here.

Some Dems can trump Material Girl Madonna reinventing themselves. During the last presidential campaign, John Kerry made much of having the same initials as President JFK.

Barak Hussein Obama’s name only rhymes with Saddam Hussein Osama.
As Gateway Pundit aptly points out, "Lincoln was a humble man. He did not compare himself after six months in office to great men from history."

Looking at his day job, the Senator from Illinois is a senior lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago. Make that the Rockefeller-funded U of C, a school that is Rockefeller down to the bone.

Obama’s Dad, a Muslim from Kenya, left home when he was two. His Mom remarried and went with her new husband to Indonesia where Obama lived during his salad years. It is well known that Obama, the teenager lived with his grandparents in Hawaii, where he attended the same school attended by Hawaii royalty. Yet little is known about who Obama’s step father was. But some say that he was an Indonesian national and a Muslim.

Still, Obama must have attended school in Indonesia. Is it possible that as a young Muslim boy he went to a Saudi madrassa?

Yes, that’s a possibility.

The chapters in the Life and Times of Barak Obama always race ahead. It was during one of those chapters when we found him taking up community organizing in the Altgeld Gardens housing project on the south side of Chicago, when he converted to Christianity, formerly being secular. (www.brainsip.com).

As a fledgling Christian, Obama didn’t join just any church. He joined the United Church of Christ.

The United Church of Christ is very anti-Israel and supports divestment. It also sponsors speeches at its many functions by the Arab "Christian" pro-terror religious organization, Sabeel. Sabeel holds some of its biggest meetings in Chicago., (www.scoop.,co, nz/stories/HL05 10/500139.htm).

The Democrats attract the majority of Jewish voters and funding, and this guy is being grooned as their golden boy?

Essentially Obama is a Christian convert--but also then a Muslim apostate.

The "What If" category of "the new face of change and reform for the democratic party" doesn’t get written up by the mainstream media.

What if Obama is engaged in pious fraud? This is a Muslim practice of pretending not to be Muslim to further the cause of Islam or to "defend the faith". He becomes President and then says, "Gee…I think I want to be Muslim again" after he finds the "football" in his hands that carries the launch codes for the USA nuke forces.

Is the "New Face" theory espoused in USA Today, New Face as in the "Portrait of Dorian Grey"?

What if Obama’s into Pious Fraud Islam–Hudaibiyah treaty"kiss the hand of your enemy until you can cut it off"? (www.freerepubl ic.com/focus/ne ws/708295/posts. Not Obama? Remember the pictures of the little kids bobbing their heads up and down at the madrassas? They are all of the age Obama would have been in back in Indonesia.

What if the converted-to-Christianity Barak Obama decides to exercise his right to revert back?
Then what?

Currently, Obama is an apostate as far as Islam is concerned. This is a fact and not a conspiracy theory. They say all babies are born Muslim but then parents of infidel religions brainwash the baby Muslims into other lesser faiths. That is a fact.

What must be done with an apostate of the Muslim faith? Give him a chance to convert back to Islam.
Obama is soft on the handover of the ports to Dubai.

Meanwhile hype notwithstanding, "the new face of change and reform for the democratic party" is no Abe Lincoln, but could be the most upwardly mobile Muslim of the millennium.

And so there we have it: A whisper campaign accusing Barak Obama of being a Muslim who converted to Christianity just to pretend he was an infidel, so he could get his hands on the U.S. nuclear codes and blow up America. Barack Obama, in other words--according to this Republican gang smear campaign--is a terrorist sleeper cell.

News that Republican smear gangs have started hunting down yet another candidate with false accusations of treason--should make every American angry enough to speak out.

The "Hidden Terrorist" Frame
When Republicans accuse a sitting Senator of being a covert terrorist, America is jerked back violently to the days of McCarthyism, and even further than that, some might see, to the days when lynching terrorized small towns in America--intimidating people from speaking out the public sphere.

Americans cannot allow our country to be overrun by this kind of immorality again. We simply cannot.

We must speak back. But how?

For starters, those of us with an interest in protecting our political system from smear gangs must be fearless in the face of this fear and hate. Intimidation is the tactic of these smear gangs. Our silence is their goal. Speaking back is the best way to stop them.

And the best way we can speak back is to frame their actions in no uncertain terms--to call them what they are:

- "Americans will not allow these Republican smear gangs to take over our political system anymore!"

- "These whisper campaigns accusing Democrats of being covert terrorists are the work of Republican gangs."

- "Swiftboated yesterday, accused of terrorism today--these smear gangs must be stopped!"

Those phrases can get us started by drawing attention to the immoral and organized groups behind these tactics.

We must stop them before they damage our political system even more than they already have.

© 2006 Jeffrey Feldman, Frameshop

Comments

[rich deermeat]

This is shameful.
Im suprised Glen Beck is not talking about this, since he believes in 10 years all Muslims will be behind barbed wire fences in the detention camps. The Islamic religion is indeed the new communism. The new Red Scare, or the Cresent Scare.

[Florence Murphy]

So what else is new? These tacky people will have a hayday with Hillary...they will go through every false accusation while she and Bill were in the whitehouse and after. Shouldn't surprise anyone...they play in dirt and peddle dirt. Sen. Obama MUST get on them...can't be nice to nasty dirty people.

[DB]

Keith Olbermann will expose these cockroaches to the light soon. When he and John Stewart present the facts and the motives of these filthy political whores America will come, once again, to her collective senses and consider Senator Obama on his merits and his actual flaws, rather than these imagined ones.

[Bill Short]

The easiest way to deal with these creeps is to marginalize them with humor, Al Franken style or Lewis Black. The sooner the better. Otherwise the Corporate MSM will do its part to make them serious players. The Swift Boaters got too much of a jump on the Dems and Progressives. It forced Kerry to defend himself after initially ignoring them, and that was the foothold they needed for credibilty. By the time their lies were exposed, it was too late. The public's perception was clouded. Imagine trying to Swift Boat Franken. It would only work if you caught him on video with his pants down, or he'd shred you into a late night TV joke that would hang around for years.

[Vic Anderson]

He's Obamanable, it's true, but there's NOTHING to smear.

[mg]

The same scumbags trying to smear Obama now are the very same ones that at one time managed to convince 70% of the American public that Saddam was behind 9-11.

After a six year history of color coded panic alerts, smears and whispers --and Karl Rove, I hope that we have learned better by now. I still have my doubts.

Now Obama faces the prospect of being a rich target for every low-life bigot in Republican clothing, and every screaming head employed by Fox. The true measure of Obama's character will be determined by how well he contrasts the truth against this sleazy backdrop. I wish him all the luck in the world.

[Will]

One of them is "Reporter" MARK LEIBOVICH of the NY TIMES who yesterday, December 12, marginalized Dennis Kucinich.

We need a list of names and titles including where they work.

[Keith Miller]

Making them the brunt of jokes and humiliation is the way to fight the smear merchants. When they say something so outrageous laugh at them and marginalize them by showing how ridiculous these claims are.
For instance;
So Obama is now a terrorist? LOL ! Yea.. and Bush must be the Easter Bunny too huh? Maybe Dick Cheney is Santa Claus? No that cant be right, Santa doesnt shoot people in the face....

[imagine_that]

I've always been told that Obama is actually an atheist...making him a political Christian (i.e., it's politically correct to be a Christian in today's political climate). Who knows.

However, I've met the man and listened to him speak. He's a well-educated man and very articulate. I wouldn't have a problem voting for him IF it were only a matter of his religion, his educational background, and his ability to express himself.

I'm more concerned with this voting record, and as far as I'm concerned, that's the bottom line. He'a a corporatist. A DLCer, right up there with H.R. Clinton. And for THAT reason, I probably wouldn't vote for him. I wouldn't be surprised to see him running on someone else's ticket, though. Maybe Hillary's....although, gee, a woman AND a black man?

Actually, to me that sounds like a pretty progressive ticket, but it's only on the surface. And that's what you gotta look at.

[JF]

LOL "Santa doesnt shoot people in the face...." Shamless!

(but funny...)

[Mary Robinson]

We need names, titles, job locations, and name of their agency, their boss's name, if they write for the boss. Who do they do tis work for, in other words? Who pays them or praises them to do this dirty work?

[Lorie S. Hawkins]

These people have no shame. Every dirty trick they have done they are accusing other of, and it's been proven. How many are is prison now? How many more are under investigation? Apparently to be a republican - the #1 qualification you have to be a moron. These are the most stupid low down dirty dumb people in the entire western hemisphere. But, if you look closely, how many are brilliant enough to obtain a Law Degree. This is the problem. They are a gang of thugs, that want to control on muscle and scare tatics. It doesn't work anymore. The Democrats on the other hand, have law degrees and possess intellect, the repugs are just the opposite. Anyone who would vote for a repug after this horrific administration is insane.

[Debbie]

This is so much more of the same. These mouth breathers don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to actually discussing or debating an issue so they start slinging the mud and hope enough sticks to get their way. They probably don't have two brain cells to rub together to create a thought among them so they start making accusations. I'm sorry but if somebody started writing garbage and lies like this about me, I'd look for a good lawyer. Nobody should have their character assasinated by the likes of these goons. There must be a law against this kind of smear. I'd most definitly find out and if there is, I'd sue their lying asses off.

[Tom]

Who are "they", who are the smear gangs? Wow, this e-mail was opened 388 times. That's real nasty. Glad that Dems have the corner on the market of civility. Take a CP and cool it. You Dems don't want anyone speaking out anything against you. Gee, that sounds familiar, doesn't it?

[JF]

We'll find out soon enough who launched the whisper campaign to smear Barack Obama as a covert Muslim terrorist. But I'll bet dollars for donuts it was the same well-funded gang that launchced the Swiftboat Vet smear campaign against Kerry.

Democrats fight back, alright. But Republicans have a unique brand of smear politics that they wage against anybody showing signs of succcess in an election campaign. Please speak out against the Dems! We welcome Debate. Accusing a sitting senator of being a terrorist sleeper cell is not speaking out. It's straight up slander.

And welcome to Frameshop.

[Jack]

It would be hilarious to see their ball's shrivel into their stomach's ,if one of those lowlife idiots actually grew a temporary set and addressed Mr. Obama to his face with that type of dreck.(while he verbally beat them to the ground with his factual and righteous stances on some of the pertinent issues )
The one thing that can't be done as Democrats have done too much in the recent past is to become too passive. Retort swiftly and quickly with the facts in their face and call em out on that bullshit, you don't have to stoop down to their elementary schoolyard name callin B.S. but, hit em hard, be firm, and let them dig their own political graves(in that same dirt they once were slingin').

[JF]

I agree. We cannot be too passive. This is why I worry a bit about Obama's idea of "common sense" politics being something that is above negative campaigning. It's not about being above it--it's about taking it head on and not being derailed by it. Showing strength and appeal at the same time.

[BC Bud]

I suppose Barak Obama should get used to this kind of treatment and it will play a small part in his failure to become President in 2008. I don't think the time is right in America for a black man to get elected President but I do think that, as Bob Dylan said, "The times they are a changin'".
I believe that if Obama does enter the race it will be for the media exposure necessary for a run in 2012 or 2016. And also to get people used to the idea of voting for a black man, though I don't rule out the idea that Obama may be looking to get the nomination for Vice-President in 2008. When seeking the Presidency, patience is an option. Just ask Richard Nixon (or John McCain).
One can only hope that the likes of Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Ann(Ugh)Coulter will become increasingly marginalized as they become more extreme in their views in an attempt to hang on to their melting ratings.

Liberals will have the opportunity over the next four years to promote progressive policies and points of view and not just to criticize the GOP. If the Dems perform well in the House and Senate and manage to improve the lot of the average American then the average American will be more inclined to give them their ear when debating social issues.

Barak Obama does stand an excellent chance to become the first black President, it's just a question of when.

[Scot A Schieferstein]

I think it is rather one-sided to accuse only Republicans of smear campaigns--both sides (and everyone in between) have uneducated elements that jump on rumors and try to get as much mileage as they can.

It is unfortunate that our great nation has "dumbed-down" to the point of allowing individuals from all over the spectrum to guide their votes--we the people have turned over the day-to-day governing to individuals that may or may not truly represent our values because we are caught up in the culture of superficiality. We allow fluff to win over substance or blindly follow the pack in our respective political affiliations instead of recognizing the importance of the political process to our daily lives and thus thoroughly educate ourselves about our representatives or later holding them accountable.

Again, the "smear" gangs of whatever political stripe prey on those who refuse to exercise their eroding rights as citizens except on election day--if they bother to show up at all.

[JF]

Scot: First off: welcome to Frameshop. Glad to have new people join us (via Netscape, I believe--great site).

What you write is logical, but I'm afraid it is not accurate. We have two political worldviews in this country. One is progressive and advocates for participation in an open society. The other is authoritarian and advocates for the opposite: closed society, exclusion. The idea that all politicians are dirty is, unfortunately, a biprodudct of decades of authoritarian influence on our system. Democrats fight back, but the political strategy of slandering political opponents through well-funded smear campaigns launched months--and now years--in advance of elections is the exclusive tool of Republicans.

[MG]

Who are they? They are you! No. Dems don't have a corner on the market of civility but at this point in our nation's history we have a corner on the market of patriotism because of your festering party of Confederate bigots who cannot stop themselves from committing treason against the Constitution of the United States and from destroying least sixty years of civilized international diplomacy.

You impeached a democratically elected President for getting a blowjob but YOUR moron of a president can murder over a hundred thousand men, women and mostly children, he can use our Constitution to wipe his ass, and you do not even have the grace it takes to blush.

Even worse, the damage you Confederates have done to Christianity. I presume that the right-wing so-called 'Christians' who can condone a President who has betrayed every principle that made this a great nation also lack the intelligence and insight that would allow them to understand that they are not practicing Christianity, but rather a primitive form of ancient Judaism. In short, the religion of contemporary 'evangelicals' is no different than Orthodox Islam. If you saw Jesus on television preaching a genuine message of hope and mercy today you would smear him as you do every other person of good will. Oh let's get real! You would find a reason to have him executed.

What is one to do with traitors who will stoop so low as to use the Bible to justify slavery, as the Confederacy did when it chose to defend its 'right' to treat other men and women as cattle? You were willing to commit treason to keep your slaves and you commit treason now in order to regain the slaves lost to you when you rightly lost the American Civil War. How odd that the Republican Party was the civilizing and ethical party that had produced the greatest President of the 1800s. Now it’s a smarmy and disgusting home to the Wallace Democrats who left the Democratic Party when it took the side of the Civil Right's Movement.

So, why would a political party that is infested with hate-mongers, racists, bullies and faux Christians participate in political debate when it has nothing but hate to offer?

And unfortunately, the only way we on the Left can stop you from returning this country to the nightmare of feudalism is to hate you at least as much as you hate democracy, justice, mercy and fair play.

So, dear, Confederate lady. You are they. And I also think that you should understand that you don't have to have been born to or live in the Old South to be a Confederate.

All it takes is the willingness to support treason and the ability to justify and rationalize not only your support of treason, but also to smear those who see your political party for what it is and who have chosen to oppose it.

[Charles W. Washington]

If you fear it, attack it. Sick people.

[Travis Watson]

The most amusing part of the smear for me is that they take the time to highlight Sen. Obama's father's religious beliefs. As if what your father was, you will automatically be also (like George Bush Sr. was ACTUALLY a duly elected President... not so his son who HIJACKED the White House). We have a Commander in Chafe(Def #4 Oxford Press Dictionary: become impatient because of a restriction or inconvenience.)who failed at all but saying his name, and a group of Keystone Cops currently stroking the ignorance of many to help them remain blind to bulls**t like these campaigns.

[tellitrite]

Obama will show those sick dirt sucking republicans the quality of a Black man. He will rise above the trash and stand on the heads of the garbage who only know how to lay in the scum of their lies. Baraka stand proud because you are president quality for this "land of the free". Show those vultures that a Black man will restore the true dignity to this land. You will be the first Black president in the United States of America.

[Fred]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Somebody called Saint Obama a nasty name!

GROW UP! Running for President is the proverbial 'seat at the grownups table,' the 'big time' IOW. Democrats are just as likely (based on the bumper stickers I've seen, more likely) as Republicans to do whatever is necessary to win the WH or any other political office, "you know it, I know it, the American people know it." The fact that he's black or his name is Muslim sounding makes absolutely no difference; Democrats have used the very same smear tactics to win; this is just politics. If Senator Obama can't take the scrutiny of a Presidential run, then he'd better go back to the children's table, because that's just the way things are and always will be.

[USA IS A RACIST STATE]

I mean
why dont they just say it plain an true
YOU BLACK
AND WE DONT WANT YOU
just keep it real
if I was OB Ill do that in a campain ad just to shut them the fk up.
Itll be something to this

OBAMA- IM BLACK! DEAL WIT IT!

[Montie Guthrie]

Rove pulled EXACTLY the same kind of stunt to get Bush elected Governor of Texas. Started a whisper campaign that Ann Richards was lesbian/alcoholic/drug addict. It worked perfectly. We Texas Dems could not believe anyone would stoop so low deliberately, and we didn't respond: "That is so egregious it deserves no reply." Suicide by silence.

[JF]

Exactly, Montie. Dems must respond--even if we are not sure yet as to which candidate we support.

[Daniel Parkinson]

Good work, but can I make a editing criticism - The 1st sentence has to read "The biggest threat to the American political system IS the Republican, authoritarian smear gangs . . . " The verb goes back to the threat i.e. threat is the subject

[ryan]

Anybody with an ounce of common sense should be able to discern fact from fiction. That article is rediculous. HOwever, what I find more upsetting, apppauling and just downright shameful are now you people crying Shame! We are being smeared! Just what do you think you all have been doing for the last 4 years! "oh you hypocrites, you den of vipers! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

Words of wisdom before you plant your flag...Take a good look inside yourselves before you make with the battle cries and accusations.

Dem's are just as guilty as GOP as is Green Party, etc.

It's a hard concept for most Americans these days, but stop and think beofre you speak and act

[JF]

First off: Welcome to Frameshop, Ryan.

And thanks for the moral smackdown.

Unfortunately, the logic of "they're all guilty" is a product of cynicism, not political reality. Theodore Roosevelt warned Americans that one of the drawbacks to persistent smears and attacks against people in politics was a general mistrust of all politicians by the people.

But the reality is that our politicians are not all the same, but are divided by two different worldviews. Progressives strive for an open system and increased participation, whereas authoritarians strive for a closed system and decreased popular participation. It is well documented, for example, that many prominent Republican political strategists believe that the best way to win elections is to decrease the number of people who actually vote and to discourage people from running for office. Incredible, but true.

Democrats fight back alright. And fight back hard. But to say that Democrats have been smearing the right for the past four years is just baseless. Check up thread for what really happened. Our entire political tone is the product of an ultra-authoritarian movement that waged a constant war of lies and slader against Democrats starting ten years ago. And the massive losses by Republicans in the 2006 elections was a product not of Democratic smears, but of the general public rejecting the policies and tactics of Republicans.

Stop and think before you think and act, indeed. And when we do just that, we inevitably conclude: Americans will not be silenced anymore by Republican smear squads. It's time to ride these immoral gangs off a cliff once and for all.

[MG]

Republicans tell us to think before we act.

My god! I have one word: Iraq!

And please...to the non-Xtian who saw fit to quote Matthew I offer you this:

"11 The greatest among you must be a servant. 12 But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted."

I have not EVER seen a moment of humility from the Party of the Old Confederacy. You were awful as Southern Democrats and you are worse as Southern Republicans. The only thing I've seen from the Republican Party of the old South is arrogance, hatred, racism, smear campaigns, the elevation of greed and exploitation to religious ritual, contempt for the poor, contempt for the people of other nations and the gleeful abuse of power.

This is not really a conflict between political parties. Look at the geography of the last election and it becomes obvious that the Old Confederacy is once again isolated and frustrated in its attempt to promote it's sick political/economic system. If you factor the lost democratic votes in States in which rigged electronic voting machines were used it becomes obvious that you lost by a large margin.

I guess that you didn't expect us to turn out in such huge numbers this year.

Anyway, you're not really Republicans. You're just old fashioned Southern hypocrites and you've lost another civil war. Not even your expertise at stealing elections could save you.

As for shame, I advise the members of the old Confederacy to look at themselves in the mirror to see if they have any shame so that they might use it to sit down, STFU and allow us -- the Union--to return our nation to civilization. You are certainly free to live in your boggy creek of the mind but it is a diseased condition and it must not be allowed to re-infect the rest of our nation.

[Joe McCarthy]

The Republican worldview is constantly divorced from actual reality.

That's why their neo-con fantasy of "being greeted as liberators in Iraq," not to mention their love of some hippie who died in the Middle Eastern desert 2000 years ago, are both so appealing to them.

Unlike Bushie, Obama is at least intelligent, non-divisive, a brilliant forward-thinking, strategist, internationally savvy, and can speak in entire sentences. He understands the climate and mood of the country, and has the intellect to figure a way to take down terrorists and deal with the mess in Iraq.

Plus, unlike the Republicans, he understands reality.

[vern]

You say,"We must speak back. But how?" Your answer is to be fearless and not allow it to happen. Thats emotionalism. If they do not have a point then just prove it by providing good responses to their observations regarding Barrack Obama.

[MG]

Joe M.

You equate 'fearlessness' with 'emotionalism'.

How does fearlessness equal emotionalism?

You also state that 'we' need to 'prove' that the smear brigades on the Right don't have a point about Obama.

Why, precisely, do we need to prove anything, especially to right wing frauds?

Why should we allow right wing to continue to frame the political debate in our country?

Why not make them 'prove' their lies by fearlessly challenging them every time they appear in public?

[MG]

My previous comments were mistakenly directed to Joe M when in fact I was responding to vern.

Please forgive my mistake.

[blue pilgrim]

As for Fred and his 'grow up' attack, this is a common tactic and fallacy. There is nothing mature about smearing someone -- that's a childish thing to do. This is not just politics as usual, but dirty politics -- not unknown, of course, but neither is vote-stealing, lying, and all sorts of corruption, and that doesn't make it right or mature. Further, to suggest that objecting to lies and smears makes one appear childish is ridiculous. Real adults -- people who have actually grown up -- know that the truth matters, that real issues matter, and that schoolyard style taunts or yellow rag smears which appeal the basest side of the ignorant and hateful do not yiled sound policy or a strong nation and political system.

[agss241]

What rock did you (Feldman) crawl out from
under????

[JF]

Apparently, I crawled out from under the rock you were waiting to crawl under--'cuz here you are.

[Norma Everton]

Go Hillary! keep digging up the dirt on Obama destroy his candidacy so you can win. Its great watching the liberals attacking each other.....

[Rick]

The Obama story first appeared on a Canadian website
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover031006.htm

[Brian Hope]

The best way to deal with political character assassins is to support candidates who are relatively bullet-proof in their background. Example: 2004, when the Democrats had the opportunity to nominate Gen. Wesley Clarke, who was a Vietnam War vet without the idiotic antiwar baggage that Sen. Kerry brought with him. Gen. Clarke could have torn Bush's Iraq strategy to shreds, and the Repukes would never have been able to lay a finger on him!