Obama Campaign Mapping Out Aggressive Counter-Attack Against Swift-Boating

TPM ^ | 8/14/08 | Greg Sargeant

[pissant]

A Sinclair cramp, apparently

[Tarpon]

So he is going to start with his birth certificate? I don't think there is enough room under the bus for more bodies.

Maybe an interview with a real journalist would help here, I hear Hannity has a standing opening.

Obama, his word is no good his signature is no good, his character is no good. Did I miss anything.

[Always Right]

When an anti-Bush comes out, the author gets the red carpet treatment and is the darling of the media, getting tons of free positive publicity. When an anti-Obama books comes out, the author gets black listed and Obama gets the red carpet treatment and plenty of free publicity to respond.

[kbennkc]

I didn’t even know Kenya had a navy .

[avacado]

Good deal! It just serves to give the book even more coverage and public awareness.

[Islander7]

Debunking the truth is a hard to do.

[goldstategop]

Obama can count on the obliging MSM to help his campaign. By the way, I saw his late night infomercial last night. I wasn't at all impressed.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[AmericanMade1776]

I am sure the Swiftboaters are scared..NOT! You and whose Army Obama?

[EagleUSA]

This is just great. Let this phony, lying, anti-American charlatan reprobate try and wiggle his way out of the TRUTH. Expect a lot of lying, and expect it ALL to be printed by the MSM -—

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The fact that they STILL don't have a clue that "Swift Boating" is nothing more than demanding the documented truth, I feel confident that anything they do will simply make it worse for them.

[pissant]

Obama has an infomercial?

[gwilhelm56]

It’s funny how LIBERALS consider truthful,footnoted FACTS as a PERSONAL ATTACK.

Be Careful, osama..errr ... NOBAMA, truth has a tendency to overcome SPIN!! People know truth when they see it. And so far, You’re NOT IT!!

Corsi’s book is #1 this week on NYTimes Book List. Pelosi’s has sold maybe 3000 by now.

[right wing]

Indeed, the planning reflects an uncomfortable reality for the Obama camp: They realize that the book, and any ensuing GOP attacks in its wake, are certain to continue to get extensive media coverage.

Not to mention the barage of dirt the Clinton's are about to unleash about the big O before the convention. As Ed Sullivan used to say: "Stay tuned for a really big show".

[sarasota]

But the people who support won’t read the book. Instead they’ll fall lock-step with the attack against Corsi.

[Sybeck1]

Everyone should buy Corsi’s book, even if they never open it. Worth the 22 or so dollars just to see Obama wince!

[gwilhelm56]

**Obama has an infomercial?**

He has Several called: NIGHTLINE, CBS Evening News, NBC News, ABC News and the Communist News Network (CNN) .. there are more but...

[DBrow]

His list of mitigations is almost exactly like Kerry's!

Swifties sent tons of documentation along with the ads, so when the station got hammered by “surrogates” they could go over it point by point. In this case the station will have the book.

Kerry's surrogates were reduced to screaming over the Swifties on TV so that they could not be heard. That was back in 2004, but the alternate information outlets are much stronger now (I for one person have bought NEW pajamas, have a gilded mug for my hot chocolate, and my new slippers are bunny slippers with a red LED on the nose that blinks when I walk).

I think trying to suppress knowledge of the book and “refute” its research will help Obama Nation, not Obama, no matter what MSM does.

[nikos1121]

....”and stepped up pressure on high-level media executives to let the Obama team have air time to rebut the charges....”

I would love a sit down, gentlemanly opportunity for Obama to counter these charges and accusations in Corsi’s book.

Problem is you have to have a hard hitting well,
Russert Style, journalist interviewing him and not Larry King or O ‘ Reilly. Both are lazy and ill prepared for hard hitting interviews.

Corsi covers ALOT of ground from the man’s upbringing to the people he’s associated with.

Saul Alinsky e.g. Does Obama think he’s a great man, as does Hillary Clinton, or not?

The association with Ayers is clear and not because of some mutual relationship based on their kids. Ayer’s kids are grown.

Lastly, Obama’s views on the issues. Corsi’s book is really all about issues. It’s not based on rumor and innuendos.

I want to hear Obama’s response to energy, reparations, taxes, Iraq, etc etc.

Bring it on...

[WOSG]

“including plans to dig more deeply into the author’s past statements”

Attack the messenger.

Hmmm, doesnt make the message untrue.

Maybe the author should have been “Anonymous”.