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E-mail smear taxes Obama campaign
The Politico ^ | 1/26/2008 | Ben Smith and Carrie Budoff Brown

Posted on 02/29/2008 10:54:25 PM PST by Winged Hussar

COLUMBIA, S.C. –For over a year, largely out of the media glare, Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign has been fighting a determined, low-intensity conflict against the viral e-mail that forwards the myth that Obama is a crypto-Muslim Manchurian candidate.

...The e-mails aren’t a well-funded, faux-grassroots smear like the attacks on John Kerry's war record.

Instead, most observers believe, it's a largely organic expression of a dark place in the American consciousness. And the campaign is aware it is operating in a changed media landscape in which a powerful, false idea can spread deep into the American psyche, almost entirely under the radar of the mainstream media and with no authoritative broadcast voice to put it to rest.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 501c3; antisemitism; barackhusseinobama; barackobama; chebama; christ; church; cultofobama; email; farrakhan; muslim; nobama; obama; odinga; racism; sharpton; united; viral
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If a false idea ("Obama is a Muslim") is causing this much trouble for his campaign, imagine how much damage the truth will do when circulated in a similar manner.

Obama is not a Muslim and, even if he were, it would not disqualify him from office. The TRUTH about him is far more damaging.

(1) Obama is not a Muslim, he is a member of an arguably racist church whose pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said "white America" got a "wake up call" on 9/11, and other things.

(2) Obama misused his own church's 501(c)(3) tax exempt resources by giving a speech with substantial campaign-related content. This is a matter of record in the speech that is hosted at the United Church of Christ's own Web site. Spread the word that Obama abused tax-exempt resources to support his political campaign, and has apparently gotten his church into trouble with the IRS as a result (again per UCC's Web site). http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=343 for details.

(3) Obama refused to "reject" the support of the prominent racist, Catholic-hater, and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan until Tim Russert and Hillary Clinton backed him into a corner.

(4) Obama endorsed and promoted Al Sharpton and his National Action Network, both of which have racist and anti-Semitic records. Just Google on "Freddy's Fashion Mart" and "Sharpton" for but one example.

(5) Obama solicited and obtained the endorsement of MoveOn.org, which also has a record of promoting anti-Semitism, hatred of Catholics, and 9/11 conspiracy theories.

Let's bring this phony smile on top of an empty suit down honorably and fairly, by circulating the truth about him through E-mails as described in the referenced article. When the Elephant crushes him in an electoral landslide, we can tell ourselves that we played a clean game and beat Obama, not with "smears" or "swiftboating," but with truth and honor.

1 posted on 02/29/2008 10:54:26 PM PST by Winged Hussar
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To: Winged Hussar
a dark place in the American consciousness

Oh please. Obama's (and the Democrat Party's) unremitting exploitation of envy and hatred in the electorate comes from a far, far worse place.

2 posted on 02/29/2008 10:58:15 PM PST by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: Winged Hussar

Ha ha ha ha. Was that supposed to be funny?


3 posted on 02/29/2008 10:59:03 PM PST by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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To: Winged Hussar
... orwards the myth that Obama is a crypto-Muslim Manchurian candidate.

If he's not then he's a reasonable facsimile of one. His proposed policies would have the same effect.

4 posted on 02/29/2008 10:59:18 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Winged Hussar

Hello, we would like to ask if you would mind participating in our opinion poll by answering a few brief questions.

1. Does it bother you that Obama is a muslim?
2. Are you impressed by Hillary Clinton’s grasp of this issues and intelect?
3. If you had to vote today, would you vote for an old angry man, a smooth talker with no public record or an experienced woman with 35 years of experience?

...and no one knows where this information is coming from.

H I L L A R Y


5 posted on 02/29/2008 11:01:29 PM PST by BJungNan
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To: Winged Hussar
"She touted herself as an atheist, and it was something she'd read about and could argue."

"My mother may have raised me as an athiest, but I'm now a devout Christian. What? You don't believe me....?"


6 posted on 02/29/2008 11:02:40 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Winged Hussar

His campaign is alot more worried about Larry Sinclair than this.


7 posted on 02/29/2008 11:04:05 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Winged Hussar
He is the 12th Imam.

8 posted on 02/29/2008 11:07:24 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Winged Hussar

Please get Obama’s take on this:

http://eakenya.org/newsevents/article.htm?id=8


9 posted on 02/29/2008 11:11:10 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: BJungNan

“1. Does it bother you that Obama is a muslim?”

No, it bothers me that he is a Soros-backed fraud who promotes and endorses racists, anti-Semites, and Catholic-haters.

“2. Are you impressed by Hillary Clinton’s grasp of this issues and intelect?”

It impresses me about as much as Bill Clinton’s honesty and marital fidelity, and other nonexistent things.

“3. If you had to vote today, would you vote for an old angry man, a smooth talker with no public record or an experienced woman with 35 years of experience?”

I would vote for the one who was NOT Hillary Clinton (who also endorsed Sharpton) or Barack Obama.


10 posted on 02/29/2008 11:17:26 PM PST by Winged Hussar (http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/)
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To: Winged Hussar
The e-mails aren’t a well-funded, faux-grassroots smear like the attacks on John Kerry's war record.

In 24 business hours, John Kerry's war record will be unsealed so the public can finally take a look at his sterling accomplishments... What? It's true, I read it on TruthOut - didn't Fitzmas happen?

I remember when journalists reported facts, not opinions.

11 posted on 02/29/2008 11:36:01 PM PST by kingu (Party for rent - conservative opinions not required.)
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To: sageb1

and this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1975930/replies?c=219


12 posted on 02/29/2008 11:52:41 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Winged Hussar
The e-mails aren’t a well-funded, faux-grassroots smear like the attacks on John Kerry's war record.

The refusal to admit the truth continues...

13 posted on 02/29/2008 11:56:41 PM PST by CaptRon (Pedicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: Winged Hussar
Obama says he is not Mosque-erading as a Christian.
14 posted on 03/01/2008 12:25:44 AM PST by syriacus (Democrats who prefer to fight wars from a position of weakness can't be trusted with our military.)
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To: Winged Hussar

By the way, shortly before the “demise” of the Romney campaign, Andrew McCarthy joined with him. I was a Fred Thompson supporter, but I was glad to see Romney was paying attention with the addition of McCarthy.

McCain’s terminology in re: Islamic jihad is lacking, which leads me to believe that he is of the mind that Islam has been hijacked, rather than that something is intrinsically wrong with Islam itself. McCain may want to marginalize those of us who are questioning Islam, but consider the fact that Turkey is considering reform (at least as far as the hadiths). That would not have taken place if not for those of us who are putting pressure on Islam itself.

In that light, we are right in questioning Obama’s links - whether it is his brother Roy, or his cousin Odinga, etc.


15 posted on 03/01/2008 12:58:31 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

>If he’s not then he’s a reasonable facsimile of one. His proposed policies would have the same effect.

***************

Thank you. Beat me to it.

The whole Muslim world is itching to have this guy be president. I wonder why?????!!!!


16 posted on 03/01/2008 1:10:32 AM PST by ROTB (Front Runner=rich guy who doesn't hate evil and strives to offend no one, & WILL SELL YOU OUT.)
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To: pissant

Didn’t he fail the polygraph? Why would they care about him anymore?


17 posted on 03/01/2008 1:52:30 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Winged Hussar

What is wrong with hating Catholics?

/OBVIOUS SARCASM!!!!!

I do not hate Catholics, and as a Protestant I take attacks on the Catholics as an attack on Christians.


18 posted on 03/01/2008 3:22:15 AM PST by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
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To: denydenydeny

Obama solicited and obtained the endorsement of MoveOn.org, which also has a record of promoting anti-Semitism, hatred of Catholics, and 9/11 conspiracy theories.

after all.....he is b. HUSSEIN!!!!!!!


19 posted on 03/01/2008 4:26:07 AM PST by nyyankeefan
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To: Winged Hussar
When the Elephant crushes him in an electoral landslide, we can tell ourselves that we played a clean game and beat Obama, not with "smears" or "swiftboating," but with truth and honor.

You need to understand the meaning of so called "swiftboating" before you use it so carelessly. Those of us who were involved with bringing the truth to the American public take exception to your insinuation that it was a smear or dishonorable. You need to apologize!

20 posted on 03/01/2008 4:33:32 AM PST by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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