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Obama: Smoke and Smears



Is this any way to run for President of The United States of America?

The Obama campaign has been employing an unusual strategy for the last two months or so. Whenever Obam is criticized by anyone, the campaign regurgitates a press release asking McCain to keep to issues, to please not go back on his word to run an honest, positive campaign, and oh, by the way, please destroy, disavow and discredit the person or entity who dared criticize the Messiah.

This laughable strategy works because it has the full and complicit backing of the Mainstream Media and--on 2 or 3 occasions--McCain, who panicked instead if standing up like a man and ridiculing the practice. The ultimate example of this may have occurred in the last few days.



Recently, an author by the name of Jerome Corsi released a book that shot to the top of the Best Seller list. The book, The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, is highly critical of Obama. So naturally, instead of the candidate dealing with the contents, the DNC Rapid Response Team (yep, we are not kidding, )fired off a press realease. As reported by Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs,
(The Corsi Letter), the email stated,

From: DNC Rapid Response Team
Subject: Fight Swift Boating

Friend —

Yesterday, you learned about the right-wing’s latest attack: extremist Jerome Corsi and his book of the same old smears and lies.

This morning, when asked about the book, all John McCain could say about Corsi’s outrageously false attacks was, “Gotta keep your sense of humor.” Despite pledging to run a respectful campaign, McCain is just standing by while Corsi and his publisher, former Dick Cheney aide Mary Matalin, poison this presidential race.

Now we here at DBKP were a bit taken aback, by that statement. It reeks of innuendo and prevarication; it is unclear who asked the question or why. The implication is that a reporter asked it, and indeed, the Wall Street Journal later reported that to be the case. If so the reporter is a dolt who should be fired for incompetence or for planting a question.

Because Corsi is not a Republican.

And even if McCain were the head of the GOP--which he is not--exactly what could he do?

Jerome Corsi is a member of the Constitution Party. In fact, Corsi intensely dislikes Bush and Cheney and has said so on numerous occasions and in no uncertain terms--as any political reporter should know. Corsi even competed for the nomination of President of the Constitution Party. But this Obama lie is all over the media.

As for McCain and Corsi, Corsi accused John McCain for being an Islamic frontman for Hezbohhah because of his support of Kosovo independence.No love lost there. The head of The Constitution is a fellow named Chuck Baldwin (http://www.baldwin08.com/).

Maybe Obama can take it up with him.

As for McCain's reaction, it is entirely appropriate: the "cry-baby-make-it-stop" campaign style of Obama has become obnoxious. Not only should McCain laugh at this incredible gaffe and attempted smear, so should the whole country.



As for Obama, why don't you put away the teleprompter, stop hiding behind the curtain, and answer Mr Corsi's questions. Better still, challenge him to a debate.

Then we can all laugh.

by pat
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Three years after Democrats penciled "Swift Boat" into their little red Ideological Dictionary of Rhetoric, John Kerry is finally ready to erase their doubts. Democrats decried the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's message, but neglected to ever address, refute or otherwise counter their charges.

Three year later, John Kerry is ready to go. More on Kerry coming "Swift Boat"-ing of the Swift Boat Veterans from Fox News:

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, perhaps preparing to get back into the presidential ring one day, claims he's now armed with materials that will make war record critics from his 2004 presidential campaign go running tail between legs.

The 63-year-old Democratic senator told The Patriot-Ledger on Tuesday that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group of Navy servicemen who served with Kerry and criticized his record in Vietnam, will be revealed as liars.

"We have put together a documented portfolio that frankly puts their lies in such a total light of absurdity and indecency, that should they ever rear their ugly heads again, we have every single 't’ crossed and 'i’ dotted, and I welcome that in a sense,'' Kerry said after addressing Boston's South Shore Chamber of Commerce. "It’s a shame we weren’t able to produce all that at the time.''

Kerry, who is up for re-election next year for a fifth term in the U.S. Senate, added that he regrets that he was slow to counter accusations against him during the 2004 presidential campaign, and thinks that Republicans have descended into pure deception to win votes.

It only took three years for Kerry to act. Or claim he's going to act. Or issue a press release saying he's going to act. This was someone who wanted to become commander-in-chief?

At this rate, if Kerry had been president when Pearl Harbor was bombed, World War II might have been lost by the time he would have declared war. Or said he was going to declare war. Or asked the Vichy French if it was okay to declare war.

"I have no doubt at all that some of the people involved on the other side don’t care about the truth, think nothing about distorting it, will not hesitate to say and do whatever they think is necessary to win,'' Kerry told the newspaper. "But I think we are now much more prepared and savvy about those kind of things, and certainly in my own involvement, I will make certain that people don’t get away with that.''

Well, it's certainly easy to see why someone who supposedly spent "Christmas in Cambodia" would care about the truth. As Mark Steyn noted during Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign:

When John Kerry says he supports the Kyoto Treaty even though he voted for a bill that declared the United States would never ever ratify it, that doesn't mean he's a 'liar', it just means that, well, to be honest, I haven't a clue what it means... I wouldn't call Sen. Kerry a liar. But I did get the vague feeling in the following exchange that, if it had gone on a minute or two longer, the candidate's nose would have cracked my TV screen, extended across the coffee table and pinned me to the wall.

--No lie: Kerry's just a wannabe


True to the Official Democrat Established Rules on Dealing with Unpleasant Actions That are Exposed in the Press Handbook, Rule #1 is to deny it. Rule #2 is to sign on all your DonkeyBuddies to deny it along with you. Since a sympathetic press in most big cities will cooperate, metropolitan cab drivers will now be onboard. That helps the 'word on the street'.

Rules 3,4 and 5 involve shouting down, slandering or casting aspersions on the person(s) making the accusation d'jour. Pity Kerry didn't have his own private 'media watchdog', like Hillary's Media Matters. If he'd had David Brock on his payroll, perhaps he'd be issuing his belated release from the Oval Office.

So John Kerry still hasn't done anything other than issue the press release, call someone "liars" and prepare for action. Hopefully, Senator Kerry may roust himself from his Swift Boat somnambulism in the next couple months.

Finally, he'll tell the truth. Finally, he'll face his accusers.

Three years late.

At Christmas.

In Cambodia.

Maybe.

by Mondoreb
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