Will Obama's Anti-Rumor Plan Work?

Time ^ | June 12, 2008 | Karen Tumulty

[supercat]

"...Let me know if you see this guy named Barack Obama, because he sounds pretty frightening."

Has the candidate Barak Obama openly denounced the positions of the supposedly-fictional version? Or has he been careful to avoid doing that? If the "fictitious" version's positions aren't shared by the candidate, the candidate should be able to contradict them point by point. Of course, I suspect that candidate Obama's positions are a lot closer to the "fictional" version than he'd like to let on.

[kublia khan]

I heard Obamer say earlier this year that he was not going to be “swift boated”, he must not want the truth to be told about him. I would have to guess that the new web site is set up to refute the truth rather than the rumors to be consistent with the candidates earlier statement.

[Godwin1]

What “rumors?” It isn't true then, that his Chicago career was kicked off in the home of unrepentant terrorist Ayers? It isn't true that Obama belonged to the America-hating racist cabal masquerading as a Christian Church down at Trinity? It isn't true then, that Obama had claimed the nutbags Wright and Pfleger were, respectively mentor and friend? It isn't true that Obama’s own autobiographyis is riddled with bitter expressions of anti-white racism? It isn't true that Obama publicly destroyed his own grandmother's reputation for political advantage? It isn't true then, that he entered into a shady real estate deal with then indicted,now convicted political fixer Rzco? It isn't true then, that Michelle called America a “mean” country she had never been proud of?

[informavoracious]

We will not allow Michelle — or, for that matter, Barack — to be defined...

You know that Obamatrolls scour FR and other sites to keep up on the rumors so they can discount them on their own site. Good grief, he needs a whole website to explain away negative rumors?

The problem is, the people who were going to vote for him will do it regardless of rumors because they think he can do no wrong. And the people who weren't going to vote for him are not doing so because of rumors, but because of the facts of his Marxist leanings, his history and his associations. Who needs rumors when you have the truth?

[ChiMark]

This “pencil neck geek” (credit to Fred Blasse) Obama cannot weather the
strain of the campaign trail.

[Kenny Bunk]

I feel compelled, compelled I tell you, to add to the baseless rumors:

(1.) Obama's dad was not married to Obama-Mommie, Couldn't be. He was already very married in Kenya. When Obama-Mommie (a commie) found out, she sent the spousal-battering, drunken, polygamist Harvard Ph.D. and fellow commie, packing. Back in dear olde Kenya, he married several more wives.

(2.) Obama's best friends, mentors, and financial supporters in Chicago were, and are Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn.

(3.) Obama is on the board of ACORN, a rad-left urban-guerilla-politics outfit.

(4.) Mama Obama thinks white people are just all-around bad news.

(5.) Ah youse guys'll never believe this one, but here goes Barack Hussein Obama is just another Chicago sleazeball race-pimp, crooked politician. Nice smile, though, and handles the Teleprompter well.

(6.) The man who best understands what is going on with the Obama craze is young Ford, the wannabe big shot from Tennessee. But he simply can't understand why it is not he up there being lathered with the adulation of the sheeple. Life is unfair. He's just as big a crook, better looking, and a much better speaker!

[dennisw]

I heard a rumor that Obama went to Koran classes in Indonsesia and was a Muslim when young....

Refute that you kool aid drinkers

[swarthyguy]

But you’ve missed, to use a quaint phrase from the last century, a paradigm shift, that renders all facts concerning Obama, moot.

The rhetoric is what counts, and the public image of having Obama as President of the USA.

On a more serious note, nothing will matter as as long s gas stays up.

But the Saudis are announcing production increases, and speculators may get burnt. A most promising sign, not only for our wallets.

[carmody]

Obama's website is almost identical to PEPSI.COM

Including the "fight rumors" links ... On the Pepsi site that link is in the lower left corner.

Obama is a brand and his campaign has borrowed Pepsi's website to market him to America.