Posted on 02/13/2012 12:46:22 PM PST by lbryce
President Obama's re-election team on Monday rolled out a campaign to recruit two million supporters to help debunk attacks on the president's record and hit back at his Republican rivals.
Called the "Truth Team," the new effort will engage Obama supporters online and in person, encouraging them to communicate with undecided voters about the president's record.
"People don't just want to hear from campaign statements or ads -- they want to hear from the family and friends they trust," Stephanie Cutter, Mr. Obama's deputy campaign manager, wrote in an email to supporters.
Obama for America, the president's re-election team, will announce "truth teams" in a handful of swing states today. National groups like the National Education Association and the Service Employees International Union have also signed on as partners in the effort.
The "Truth Team" website highlights the effort's three goals, each of which have their own website: AttackWatch.com will defend the president against false attacks, KeepingGOPHonest.com will fact check Republicans' claims about their own records, and KeepingHisWord.com will tout the president's record.
In 2008, more than a million people participated in Mr. Obama's similar "Fight the Smears" initiative. This year, the campaign hopes to double that number before the Democratic National Convention in the fall.
The "truth team" effort acknowledges the bitter contest expected between Mr. Obama and his 2012 opponent. Social media can be a powerful tool to help combat attacks, but it also carries some risks -- when the campaign launched AttackWatch.com last fall, conservatives largely lampooned it.
The Liar’s “Truth Team”.
That’s a good one right there.
Aaaaattttttaaaaack Waaaaattttttcccchhhhhh!
An Obama Truth Team: right out of Orwell’s 1984.
I have laughed so much I will probably be sick!
Thus history is continuously rewritten. This day-to-day falsification of the past, carried out by the Ministry of Truth, is as necessary to the stability of the regime as the work of repression and espionage carried out by the Ministry of Love. - 1984 chapter XVIIHey, Eric Holder can be the first Minister of Love.
They should start by recruiting Jesse Ventura and Rosie O’Dumbbell as their national co-chairs. They’ve shown their “street cred” on distributing “Truther” comments.
The new site, “Attack The Truth,” will be devoted to advancing those bold faced lies Obama occasionally has trouble getting Media Matters to pass along to network media and major newspapers.
Thanks for mentioning it. My search for ‘Truth Team’ (singular) failed to pick up the previously posted ‘Truth Teams’.
I apologize to all for having erroneously posted that Attack Watch reborn as Truth Team.
Everyone in my family who worships obama knows better than to try to talk to me about it. And I sure as hell don’t talk to them. It’s pointless. And anyone who worships him who ain’t related sure as hell ain’t no friend.
bump for later
The Truth Team that picked WTF for campaign slogan!
I think we all should sign up.
Acronym of the Truth Team = T T.
This Fall it will be the Tea Party patriots from the right vs the TeeTee Teams on the left. Somehow, defeating the TeeTee’s doesn’t sound too scary to me. Another use of the two T’s is “Truth-Twisting”.
So, the left is going all out with their “truth-twisting twits”. Okay, then, even less intimidating.
Bring it on!
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