Posted on 06/20/2008 10:48:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Barack Obama has informed us that any criticism of his wife is strictly forbidden. This though Michele Obama is constantly making speeches for her husband and plays a significant role in his campaign. However, according to his allies in the press we are also forbidden to comment on the racist rants of his pastor, his association with a known terrorist, as well as his 20 year membership in a church that seems to preach more hate than anything else.
Seemingly, hyper-sensitive, Obama has taken an unprecedented step in confronting his critics who have legitimate questions about his background. He has set up a website (Fightthesmears.com) to confront so-called smears and rumors which surround him.
While the website offers very little in the way of proof for such issues as whether or not Obama ever attended a madrassa, it does offer a great example of just how thin-skinned the presumptive Democratic nominee may be.
Whether it is his lack of experience or his complacency which has grown out of an all too adoring press, it is obvious that he fails to understand the level of criticism and insults which are almost always heaped upon presidential candidates.
During his 1964 re-election campaign, President Lyndon Johnson set up a clandestine group known as the "five o´ clock club." Among other things, the sixteen member cabal dispatched CIA agent E. Howard Hunt to spy on the Goldwater campaign, with Hunt sending advance copies of Goldwater speeches to the White House. They also created a coloring book for children in which Goldwater was portrayed as a Ku Klux Klansman in full regalia.
Not to be outdone, the Republicans placed ads in newspapers across the western United States, which claimed that Johnson was suffering from kidney cancer and had only a short time to live.
During the summer of 1884, Republicans dubbed Democratic nominee Grover Cleveland a "lecherous beast," due to a child which Cleveland may or may not have fathered out-of-wedlock while he was still a bachelor. Despite Cleveland´s doubts over the child´s ancestry, he gladly and generously supported the boy. The Republicans introduced a popular chant which went: "Ma! Ma! Where´s My Pa?"
The race between Cleveland and James G Blaine even had a 19th century version of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. A Buffalo, NY preacher who supported Blaine once announced: "The issue is evidently not between the two great parties, but between the brothel and the family."
During the election of 1876, Democrats started a ridiculous rumor about Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, claiming that in a drunken "fit of insanity," Hayes had shot his own mother. It was a ridiculous rumor indeed, considering the fact that Hayes was a teetotaler, alcohol was actually never served at the White House during his presidency…Not to mention the fact that he loved his mother!
Equally dishonest was the claim from the Republicans that Hayes´ opponent Samuel Tilden had syphilis, supposedly contracted from an Irish prostitute.
During the 1836 election, Whig Congressman Davy Crockett accused Democratic nominee Martin Van Buren of wearing women´s underwear. Crockett even wrote a book devoted to bashing Van Buren. One passage reads: "Martin Van Buren is laced up in corsets, such as women in a town wear, and if possible tighter than the rest of them. It would be difficult to say from his personal appearance, whether he was a man or a woman but for his large red and grey whiskers."
Negative campaigning and even rumor mongering have a long and at times amusing history in American politics. The creation of a website devoted to calling the rumors lies along with his complaints about fair criticism of his associations, gives Obama a rather weak appearance.
If Obama is having trouble dealing with the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity…How can he possibly deal with Mahmud Ahmedinjad or Kim Jung Il?
As the old saying goes…If you can´t take the heat, then get out of the kitchen (or the presidential race)!
Hillary is still out there...and she is p*ssed.
The only thing that my _lib’ friends can match wits with me is the ‘YOU ARE RACIST’ card, after I called him an idiot.
It really doesn;t matter to them that they are WHITE libs who ‘claim” to be for equality BUT are damn scared to go down with me to Crenshaw Blvd in Los Angeles to attend a jazz show.
“The GOP is spineless, Obama has little to fear from them:...”
The GOP, as a political party, stands for nothing anymore. The party is now just about gaining power for the sake of gaining political power. No appeasement too great. No betrayal too foul. Slightly less in love with our enemy than the overtly treasonous leadership (and much of the rank and file) of the DNC, but only just barely.
The “conservative” party can’t even stand up for our own national sovereignty.
Forgot to add to the above pathetic venting type rant of mine...
Being reasonable during a fight means being committed to defeat. That is one thing that the GOP and most that describe themselves as conservative just can’t manage to wrap their heads around.
When fighting scumbags who have zero use for actual true fact, reasonable means getting ground down by argument fatigue. The only way to fight back against radicals is to back them into a corner and display enough rage at them to cause them to piss themselves. Let them know, absolutely and without equivocation, that death comes when the words stop. So, the longer they play their idiot games, the closer they get to ceasing to exist.
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Gibson fails to mention the Democrats' riposte:
"Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!"
The presumptive nominee of the Socialist party goes from ‘Yes We Can’ to ‘No We Can’t’ and ‘No You Don’t’ in one fell swoop.
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