"This kind of misinformation campaign short-circuits judgment. It also aggressively disregards the fundamental principle of free societies that one be able to debate one's accusers."
The way the Left "debates" its accusers is the way the Clinton White House took in the action against Free Republic back during the impeachment wars.
Call up a couple of your friendly in-house media organs, have them file a SLAPP suit, then line up a friendly federal judge to "hear" the case. Make sure the "judge" was appointed by you or your friends in government.
Then, let the show trial begin...
In 2004 the media (Viacom owned MTV included) ran a whisper campaign taht George W. Bush was going to bring back the draft.
MTV even interupted entertainment programming to provide “news” updates (like a breaking news item, not something aired at the commercial breaks).
The Democrats in the Senate and the House were the only sponsors of such measures. And later when their hands were forced they voted against their own bills.
It was a political rumor designed to appeal to the youth vote.
I overheard a woman at a restaurant talking about her teenaged daughter had learned that the whole “Bush’s draft” thing was a lie put out there by the Democrats. She came into the election with a bad feeling about Bush (because of the “Bush’s draft” smear) and then learned to distrust the Democrats because they alone sponsored the measure and lied to her. She said that she wasn’t going to vote at all because she “couldn’t trust EITHER party”.
Way to go. If they won’t vote Rat, get them to opt out altogther. < /sarcasm >
They’ve used the strategy before. They aren’t FOR democracy. They aren’t FOR the open exchange of ideas. They aren’t FOR debate or dissent. They are for POWER and nothing but. By any means necessary.
And Obama is as “chill” with that strategy as any Democrat. He knocked another Democrat out of a primary because her paperwork wasn’t all in order. The press took out a Republican by demanding to see his divorce proceedings paperwork.
The resistance to letting the public see his birth records and question his eligibility is downright hypocrisy considering how he got where he is today.
There are youths who TRUST Obama when he says he is a new kind of politician who does not engage in the political stunts of old. Doesn’t go negative. Blah blah blah.
Liar. If he turns of youth to the election altogether, it is nothing to him so long as they don’t vote McCain.