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Barack Obama sets up internet 'war room' to fight slurs
Times of London ^ | 6/9/08 | Tim Reid

Posted on 06/09/2008 1:05:54 PM PDT by pissant

A crack team of cybernauts will form a rapid response internet “war room” to track and respond aggressively to online rumours that Barack Obama is unpatriotic and a Muslim.

As he gears up for his general election fight against John McCain, Mr Obama and his chief advisers are aware of the danger of such rumours, amid polling data showing that a significant number of Americans believe he is a Muslim or are suspicious about his background. Such doubts were a factor in his poor showing with white, blue-collar voters during his primary battle with Hillary Clinton.

In recent days Mr Obama has — unprompted — brought up the subject of the chain e-mails and blog sites making the false claims. Some state that he is a radical Muslim who was sworn in as a US senator on the Koran; others that he sympathises with Palestinian radicals. Many focus on his middle name of Hussein, which was taken from his Kenyan father.

Referring to the e-mails in a speech last week to AIPAC, the powerful Jewish lobby, Mr Obama said: “They are filled with tall tales and dire warnings about a certain candidate for president and all I want to say is, ‘Let me know if you see this guy named Barack Obama because he sounds pretty scary’.”

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To: pissant

41 posted on 06/09/2008 1:33:15 PM PDT by Bobalu (What do I know, I'm a Typical White Guy)
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To: Coffee200am

I had to laugh at my lib relatives who wouldn’t take my bet that

if Obama was the nominee, the strategy from the Dems would be that if you didn’t vote for him you’re a racist.

It will go something like this:

“There are some elements of our society that won’t vote for Obama because of his skin color”


42 posted on 06/09/2008 1:33:26 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Polybius
"Obama is NOT a Muslim."

There are many Muslim theologians who would give you an argument on that statement.

43 posted on 06/09/2008 1:34:03 PM PDT by Beckwith ('Typical White Person')
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To: Polybius

The war room is really about defeating the real issues Obama has - that he is a zero accomplishment, inexperienced leftwing junior Senator with an elitist view of traditional America and radical socialist endorsements and associates.

“Obama is a cynical atheist who, for 20 years, in order to establish a political base, attended a racist church that spewed out hate speech but which calls itself “Christian”. ... He is merely a cynical racist without religious convictions one way or the other.”

We will see if they respond to this. Letters to the editor on the matter wouldn’t hurt..


44 posted on 06/09/2008 1:34:14 PM PDT by WOSG (http://no-bama.blogspot.com/ - co-bloggers wanted!)
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To: wastedyears

We have to rally up here and prep for the coming disinformation campaign. Guys like Backhoe and Howlin were on top of the typewriter/wordprocessor scam that undid Dan Rather. We need our own cyberprivate eyes to examine all falsehoods carefully because they could be more sophisticate. Photoshop beware.


45 posted on 06/09/2008 1:34:30 PM PDT by Thebaddog (Dog breath? I don't think so.)
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To: pissant

My tagline seem quite appropriate for Mr. Obama...


46 posted on 06/09/2008 1:35:46 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

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Where did he set his "war room" up?

Gaza's Obama campaign (Palestinians in Gaza run pro-Obama phone banks!)

Gaza's Obama campaign (Palestinians Phonebank for Obama)

Palestinians in Gaza Are Phonebanking for Barack Obama(not kidding!!)

47 posted on 06/09/2008 1:36:04 PM PDT by SJackson (It is impossible to build a peace process based on blood, Natan Sharansky)
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To: pissant

All kidding aside, this is a good strategy. The media has always attributed Bush’s lack of response & silence to weakness. Remember during Whitwater & impeachment, Clinton lackies were on every Sunday morning show to deny & berate the conspiracy against him. It would have been different if Bush had dismissed the rumors/lies/innuendo in much the same way. How many times have we wanted to pull out our hair wishing the administration’s side of the story was out there? Hopefully McCain has learned from this.


48 posted on 06/09/2008 1:37:22 PM PDT by Magnolia
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To: pissant
Barack Obama sets up internet 'war room' to fight slurs

Why fight slurs?

Just sit down with no preconditions and have a heart to heart talk with them.

49 posted on 06/09/2008 1:39:03 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: pissant
Barack Obama sets up internet 'war room' to fight slurs

Why fight slurs?

Just sit down with no preconditions and have a heart to heart talk with them.

50 posted on 06/09/2008 1:39:17 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: absolootezer0

“....throw back a couple beers”

Hillary tried that and it didn’t help her campaign. She even did shots and beers to bond with us typical white persons.


51 posted on 06/09/2008 1:40:34 PM PDT by RicocheT
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To: RicocheT

hillary wasn’t trying to prove she wasn’t muslim.


52 posted on 06/09/2008 1:41:34 PM PDT by absolootezer0 ( Detroit: we're so bad, even our mayor is a criminal)
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To: arderkrag
the left considers FR "hate training camp"

Try posting on democraticunderground.com an feel the love. Of course liberals are the real haters, but they're even better liars.
53 posted on 06/09/2008 1:43:48 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: pissant
A team of crack-smoking cybernauts...
There, fixed that up for them.
54 posted on 06/09/2008 1:45:12 PM PDT by thoolou ("I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." - David Bradley, inventor of Ctrl-Alt-Del)
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To: Magnolia

Propaganda is an art. Even the truth is propaganda. The Obama camp’s quick response team needs the media to support their findings and they will get it. Like Paplov’s dog experiment, the public has been trained to hate everything connected with President Bush and Republicans.


55 posted on 06/09/2008 1:47:16 PM PDT by griswold3 (Al qaeda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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To: pissant
B Hussein's "War Room"



56 posted on 06/09/2008 1:50:33 PM PDT by tiredoflaundry (High Maintenance Estrogen Bot........... look out :0))
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To: steel_resolve

No rumor. Barack Mohammed (since we are no longer to refer to his given middle name) Obama, Jr., the charismatic, messianic Magic Negro, was given instruction at an early age in the tenets of Islam, while living in Indonesia with his Muslim stepfather and his flower-child mother. The permission to become a Muslim was certainly there. At no time had the young fellow been given ANY instruction in how to be an American, and since achieving adulthood, has not attempted to acquaint himself with the basic knowledge of HOW the various levels of American government operates.

However, he has become VERY good at reciting platitudes and making grand-sounding speeches on how great HE is, but we still have only dimly seen shadows of what agenda he intends to pursue as President. What little we have seen should frighten the cold robbies out of the most blase among us.

Prosecution of members of the Bush Administration for pursuing the war in Iraq.

Rescinding the tax cuts that have been the saving grace that has helped to pay at least SOME of the bills run up in the past seven and a half years, in spite of the tremendous economic hit we took on September 11, 2001, and inheriting a widespread and growing recession as of January 2001.

Surrender altogether to the Muslim advances in the Middle East and encouraging their further expansion into what is not now considered Muslim territory, with the concurrent adoption of Shar’ia law (meanwhile suspending the entire code of law now in effect in most non-Muslim countries). This includes the total obliteration of Israel, and assimilation of Lebanon into greater Syria.

Shutting down most of what remains of US industry, by instituting the “carbon cap and trade” auction of rights to pollute. If the alloted number of credits get used up in the course of the year, shutdown is mandatory, or else heavy fines and/or severe prison sentences will be imposed.

And we are just getting started. Look to where so much of the funding that caused the huge leap to the forefront came from, and the signs will all lead back to the international Soros financial octopus. George Soros had put his money on the Power Couple from Arkansas, but they proved to be unreliable and had built up huge negatives over the years. So to put them out of business, a huge enthusiasm was whipped up for a relative unknown, one on which there would be, at least initially, not much of negative nature that would be revealed too soon.

You been punk’d, America.


57 posted on 06/09/2008 1:56:37 PM PDT by alloysteel (The Obamajesty exerting its Obamagic. What nirvana, what bliss!)
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To: roses of sharon
They are smart and know how to walk a thin line. Usually they take a shot and back off, pleased with the mark they made while knowing they can't win a full throated debate without being totally exposed. If they can get two or three to post like that in an average thread of 30 posts then they take it as a collective win.
58 posted on 06/09/2008 1:59:07 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (McCain will be the first ex-POW President.)
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To: pissant
Barack Obama sets up internet ‘war room’ to fight slurs
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Hussein Obama with a WAR ROOM? I thought this was his theme song:

DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE

Gonna lay down my sword and shield
Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside
Gonna lay down my sword and shield
Down by the riverside
AIN'T GONNA STUDY WAR NO MORE

59 posted on 06/09/2008 1:59:40 PM PDT by CHEE (Oh, give me land, lots of land.............)
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To: pissant
The group must be at work already: I noticed that "mybarackobama.com" has removed the "Marxists/Communists/Socialists for Obama" web page from their site. The page is still at ...

http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/MarxistsSocialistsCommunistsforObama

... but the data has been replaced with the message, "Invalid Group".

60 posted on 06/09/2008 2:01:09 PM PDT by JoeGar
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