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Barack Obama sets up internet 'war room' to fight slurs (Obama troll alert)
TimesOnline ^ | June 9, 2008 | Tim Reid

Posted on 06/15/2008 9:07:57 AM PDT by Bushwacker777

"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. "

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KEYWORDS: 2008; farrakhan; internet; kenya; liberalsstink; marxist; militant; muslim; obama; terrorist; wot
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As if Free Republic didn't already have enough DU types pretending to be disgruntled conservatives who will either not vote, or vote for a third party, now I suppose we'll get even more. Their goal? I suppose to go by scripts and whenever someone points out something about Obama's true character to cut and paste all kinds of rhetoric to make it sound as if it's all lies.
1 posted on 06/15/2008 9:07:57 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
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To: Bushwacker777
I think they'll be evident.


2 posted on 06/15/2008 9:10:07 AM PDT by bannie
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To: Bushwacker777

How about if someone accuses him of being the second Jimmy Carter, Inept and not qualified for the job.


3 posted on 06/15/2008 9:10:36 AM PDT by Texas Mom (Two places you're always welcome. Church and Grandma's house.)
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To: Bushwacker777

I could see this on a greater scale if he becomes president.


4 posted on 06/15/2008 9:11:22 AM PDT by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: Bushwacker777

Obama is a sensitive little wussy! And this clown wants to be Commander in Chief?

I am sick of all his racist and hatered crap! Ooooh! But don’t dare call him on it... He’s too sensitive.

No wonder the liberals love him. He’s a little wussy man ready to cower in the corner at the first “BOO!”


5 posted on 06/15/2008 9:12:08 AM PDT by avacado
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To: Bushwacker777

Obama is a sensitive little wussy! And this clown wants to be Commander in Chief?

I am sick of all his racist and hatered crap! Ooooh! But don’t dare call him on it... He’s too sensitive.

No wonder the liberals love him. He’s a little wussy man ready to cower in the corner at the first “BOO!”


6 posted on 06/15/2008 9:12:12 AM PDT by avacado
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To: Bushwacker777
Claim?? It's called observation and deduction.

It's not like someone made up his Muslim background or "The Church of Wright" or his "Socialist" agenda.

7 posted on 06/15/2008 9:12:16 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: Bushwacker777
The kitties will be ready to pounce....


8 posted on 06/15/2008 9:13:03 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: Bushwacker777
"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.”

Better be a division-sized ‘crack team’ to keep up with that.

9 posted on 06/15/2008 9:13:44 AM PDT by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard)
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To: Bushwacker777

10 posted on 06/15/2008 9:14:00 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Vote For McCain But Trust In The Lord.)
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To: Bushwacker777

We can make up and spread rumors faster than they can refute them, so it’s hopeless.


11 posted on 06/15/2008 9:14:13 AM PDT by Kleon
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To: Bushwacker777

Guess we better be vewy, vewy careful. A clue to a poster being an infiltrator might be found in their verb conjugation, ya dig?


12 posted on 06/15/2008 9:14:21 AM PDT by FMBass ("Now that I'm sober I watch a lot of news"- Garofalo from Coulter's "Treason")
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To: Bushwacker777

How is it that you know his true character?


13 posted on 06/15/2008 9:16:12 AM PDT by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
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To: Bushwacker777
They want lies? I say give it to them! Let's make up the most outrageous lies about BO we can. FReepers are very creative....

I'll start...

Obama's mama is so fat....

14 posted on 06/15/2008 9:16:16 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: darkwing104

Haven’t seen the vikings in a while...

time for them to come out and play!


15 posted on 06/15/2008 9:16:20 AM PDT by EBH ( ... the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. --Alculin c.735-804)
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To: Bushwacker777

Obama sets up internet war room to spread campaign spin.

Time for Conservatives to stop letting the Left lie about this

The people misstating and lying about things are those at Obama’s campaign at his site.


16 posted on 06/15/2008 9:16:34 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com ---- Get involved, make a difference.)
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To: Bushwacker777

Can you imagine if McCain had set up an Internet police .The radical left and the Obama media would flip out and Matt drudge would be crawling all over McCain. Why isn’t the RNC and the McCain camp screaming bloody murder over this outrageous attack on freedom of speech or Matt ? Well, Matt is a Obama media whore now. BY the way, a bunch of these Obama drones accidental outed themselves last week on a joke post about this same topic and Obama birth certificate issue . Trust me, the Obama thought police are watching.


17 posted on 06/15/2008 9:17:13 AM PDT by ncalburt
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To: bannie; Bushwacker777
First it was the “Bimbo-Eruption Trollop Troops” now it's the “O-Troll Terror Troops.” sheesh,,,,, They must have a lot to worry about.
18 posted on 06/15/2008 9:17:16 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Bushwacker777

You should be able to spot them easy enough. Up until this week I was an ardent Non-MCain voter. I spent a couple of days researching and have come to the conclusion that despite the multitude of daggers in my back from the Maverick, we cannot have Obama as president. Honest and reasonable people are waking up to that fact..


19 posted on 06/15/2008 9:18:23 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Obama and Osama, whats the difference?)
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To: Bushwacker777

Good grief not only is he marxist, he is a cry baby too.


20 posted on 06/15/2008 9:18:44 AM PDT by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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To: EBH

YES !!!
I miss the Kitties !!!


21 posted on 06/15/2008 9:19:00 AM PDT by Thinkin
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To: Bushwacker777
No need to spread rumors!

Obama is a wussy!

It's self evident.

22 posted on 06/15/2008 9:19:14 AM PDT by avacado
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To: stuartcr
How is it you know it not his true character? His conduct to date in this campaign has indicates it is true. What coutervaliling evidence do you have to offer to refute that evidence?
23 posted on 06/15/2008 9:19:51 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com ---- Get involved, make a difference.)
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To: Bushwacker777

How about the claims that he’s a Commie, pinko, homo-loving, fellow-travelling atheist?


24 posted on 06/15/2008 9:20:07 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Barack Obama--the first black Jimmy Carter.)
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To: Bushwacker777

I hear Obama is lazy and shiftless, and has stolen silver ware from the main kitchen. Has the “Obama Truth Squad” ever debuked or bunked these rumors?


25 posted on 06/15/2008 9:21:28 AM PDT by San Jacinto
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To: bannie

“I think they’ll be evident.”

Or just plain obnoxious.


26 posted on 06/15/2008 9:21:35 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (I reserve the right to misinterpret the comments of any and all pesters)
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To: MNJohnnie

True. Maybe we should spend some time at liberal forums pretending to be liberals who don’t like things like Obama’s policies that will favor the rich and buy off the very poor and squeeze the middle class.

Operation Chaos taken to it’s logical next step!


27 posted on 06/15/2008 9:21:56 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
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To: Bushwacker777
It will be interesting to see how Obama is going to spin his "donation" and support speeches for his murderous cousin during visit to Kenya.
I'd like to see how he explains it to MSM in general, not that his fan club will ever bring it up.

So here it goes Obama, tell us why you support a murderous, Taliban- like Islamic regime headed up by your cousin in Kenya, a regime which has forced itself into power by murdering thousands of innocent people whose only "crime" was to vote for a democratic government, rejecting the totalitarian Islamic dictatorship?

Oh, and why is Michelle's University thesis hidden away until AFTER the election?

28 posted on 06/15/2008 9:23:56 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Bushwacker777
The problem with this this sort of blizzard of attacks - against any candidate - is that after a while accurate reports and/or reasonable inference start getting buried in the mountains of BS.

Then, if something really damaging *does* turn up, it that much harder to get average voters to pay attention.

29 posted on 06/15/2008 9:23:59 AM PDT by M. Dodge Thomas (Opinion based on research by an eyewear firm, which surveyed 100 members of a speed dating club.)
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To: Thinkin

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/883347/posts

Follow the link! ;-)


30 posted on 06/15/2008 9:24:05 AM PDT by EBH ( ... the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. --Alculin c.735-804)
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To: Nachum
Obama's mama is so fat.... If you told her to haul butt, she would have to make two trips.
31 posted on 06/15/2008 9:24:09 AM PDT by processing please hold ( A gov. big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have)
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To: stuartcr
How is it that you know his true character?

He’s a democrat, isn’t he?

32 posted on 06/15/2008 9:24:45 AM PDT by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard)
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To: Texas Mom
How about if someone accuses him of being the second Jimmy Carter, Inept and not qualified for the job.

Heh! Here's a link to a BlackFive post where they publishe some of the notes they got back when they asked readers who had served during the Carter years to write in. God help our military if Obama gets in.

33 posted on 06/15/2008 9:26:28 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Back Mac.)
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To: Bushwacker777; monkapotamus; dead; All

How long before Barek people be yelling see those Freepers they are racist man

We Freepers are not racist come on we do reset on Sanford and Son with Aunt Esther and Looter guy

Looter guy is our favorite dude

Beside Islamic rage boy and Tourist guy


34 posted on 06/15/2008 9:26:30 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: Nachum

35 posted on 06/15/2008 9:26:49 AM PDT by bannie
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To: Bushwacker777
The hypocrisy of the Obamites is sick. After whining that Rev Wright “was taken out of context” when he was not. They are now deliberately editing tapes of various Conservative to misrepresent what was said.

They are lying. They know they are lying and they simply do not care. Their "holy mission" and political fanatisim always trump over any notions of intellectual or moral honesty.

36 posted on 06/15/2008 9:27:12 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com ---- Get involved, make a difference.)
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To: UCANSEE2
...unable to resist!


37 posted on 06/15/2008 9:28:05 AM PDT by bannie
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To: darkwing104

I do sooooo miss the kitties! get them ready for this campaign.


38 posted on 06/15/2008 9:29:27 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (WE NEED A TROOP SURGE IN CHICAGO !)
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To: Bushwacker777

Maybe they’ll start by debunking Larry Sinclair.


39 posted on 06/15/2008 9:30:31 AM PDT by Aria (NO RAPIST ENABLER FOR PRESIDENT!!!)
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To: Bushwacker777

He ain’t got no game. I remember him talking trash about how he couldn’t wait to face off against the GOP nominee....

He’s lame..what a shame..his game is tame..just another no name trying to front a claim to fame...and soon he’s going to be in a world of pain...as his reputation goes down the drain.
>;O)


40 posted on 06/15/2008 9:31:05 AM PDT by DGHoodini (Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand)
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To: randomhero97

So can I but I’m afraid we disagree on this. I think it is a great idea. I just wish President Bush had had the foresite to something like it. He was attacked from every side of the aisle and elsewhere. He even said at one point a few years back as rumors flew his administration would come out immediately to quell them. They never followed through. They SHOULD have but...he kept turning the other cheek.


41 posted on 06/15/2008 9:31:22 AM PDT by cubreporter
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To: Thinkin
Enjoy


42 posted on 06/15/2008 9:32:32 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Bushwacker777

What a super-heated turd...


43 posted on 06/15/2008 9:32:32 AM PDT by johnny7 (Don't mess with my tag-lines!)
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To: Bushwacker777

Allegation:

Barak looks like Urkel riding around on a bike with a flat rear tire.

Facts:

1.) A staffer ran his Harley through the dryer.
2.) That's not the Schwinn I knew.
3.) Mike Dukakis was using the tank.
4.) The Republicans let the air of the rear tire.
5.) Urkel is pretty kewl, in a nerdy way.
6.) Some tough kids stole my lunch money.

44 posted on 06/15/2008 9:33:10 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Hillary to Obama: Arkancide happens.)
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…intellectual or moral honesty.

Oh man, that account went bankrupt long ago.

45 posted on 06/15/2008 9:33:33 AM PDT by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

7.) “Did I do that?”


46 posted on 06/15/2008 9:33:55 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Hillary to Obama: Arkancide happens.)
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To: SandRat
They must have a lot to worry about.

Courtesy of http://www.lonestarconservative.net/mytake/

47 posted on 06/15/2008 9:34:07 AM PDT by Ron H. (A lesser evil candidate is still an evil candidate even if it's a Republicrat!)
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To: Bushwacker777

“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.”

They tried a swarm attack (that we easily repelled) at “Freedoms Enemies” — a web site rum by fellow FReeper beckwith.

http://www.freedomsenemies.com/

STE=Q


48 posted on 06/15/2008 9:34:46 AM PDT by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
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re: respond aggressively to online rumours)))

chuckle...like, how? Post rebuttals?

49 posted on 06/15/2008 9:36:04 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Bushwacker777

If he said “I am not a Muslim,” then we might have to take his word for it. But he has repeatedly said “I have never been a Muslim.” And that is a downright, provable lie. He was a Muslim seven times over, and since he’s lying about that, he probably still IS a Muslim. There is no evidence that he ever was baptized.

He is a political ally of his Cousin Odinga in Kenya, who is a Muslim church-burner and Christian killer.

Certainly he has the enthusiastic support of Muslims at home and abroad, which would be very curious indeed if he were an apostate. If that were the case, they would be condemning him, the way they condemned Salman Rushdie, and issuing Fatwas calling for his death. Not at all. They love him, including several terrorist groups who have endorsed him, several of which are associated with his church.

He is also a Communist, with numerous card-carrying, KGB sponsored friends and advisers.

He is a race-baiting white hater, with Black Muslim friends of long standing, and in his own books he repudiates his white mother and grandparents.

Finally, he and his wife clearly hate America.

So, how are these lies?


50 posted on 06/15/2008 9:36:11 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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