Posted on 08/15/2012 9:09:56 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Nonetheless, be not too quick to see the president of the United States as a mere hapless victim of vicious partisan politics. He is also a perpetrator.
For the past 10 days, the president's Super Pac – Priorities USA Action – has been running a Swiftboat attack on Republican Mitt Romney so grotesque, so dishonest, so debased, as to force you to wonder who this Obama guy is, and whether he has been that guy all along. The ad features a former steel worker named Joe Soptic, recounting the death of his wife from cancer, after Soptic lost his health insurance when Romney's Bain Capital shut down the steel mill in 2001.
"I don't think Mitt Romney understands what he's done to peoples' lives," Soptic says.
What Soptic doesn't say, and what the ad leaves out, is that: a) Romney had left Bain Capital for the Salt Lake City Olympics when the plant was shut down; b) Soptic lost his health insurance, but his wife remained covered at her own job; c) she was not diagnosed with cancer till five years later; d) during which interim she held subsequent jobs and other insurance coverage.
Yet, the message is unmistakable: Mitt Romney has blood on his hands.
This is repulsive. The Obama campaign at first claimed to know nothing about Joe Soptic. But the campaign was caught in its transparent lie, when someone remembered a Obama 2012 conference call in which Soptic and his sad tale were trotted out by the campaign for the assembled press.
Meanwhile, the patron saint of hope and change has said not a word. It would have been so easy:
"I am Barack Obama and I emphatically disapprove this message."
But, nope, mum's the word. And the silence speaks volumes.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
This is often confused, quite deliberately by the mainstream media, with "borking" which should be defined as "attack viciously a candidate or appointee, especially by misrepresentation in the media.” According to William Safire in The New York Times.
Our mission on FreeRepublic should be to "Swift boat" the unworthy and to prevent the "borking" of the worthy.
big difference though,... the ‘swiftboating’ of john effin’ kerry was based on fact
The SwiftVets ads were truth. These ads were false, ergo, not “swiftboating” ads.
I suggest you read the comments following the article to see that the hard left actually are not disgusted. There are some seriously ill leftists out there.
He wonders who Obama is? Why? The wise have been saying Obama is evil from the very beginning. Didn’t this author hear us, or did he choose not to listen until now?
I hate this new definition of “swift boating”.
It should mean revealing an uncomfortable truth about a candidate.
Absolutely...the charges against Kerry were backed-up by over 200 eyewitnesses who served with him.
Democrats want folks to beleive that they were made up. They weren’t, and Kerry never answered them. Likely because he could not.
Wow! I'm so glad that Bob Garfield cleared all that up for me. I wonder if it hurts to be that stupid.
But, as you pointed out, at least he doesn't worship the usurper.
Good explanation of swiftboating in post#2.
So “mouth-breathers” is the new short-hand put down for white people who didn’t go to college? How disgusting. If any group is population overwhleming by “mouth-breathers” it’s the Left, with their breathless and hysterical affirmations of Obama and everything Communist.
I wonder if it hurts to be that stupid.Nah. He's too stupid to feel the pain.
Swiftboating = telling the truth
You got there before me. Swiftboating is telling the truth about a lying pos. obama be one of them.
It is "astounding" indeed! Granted it's guardian moonbats, but Good Lord!! 50% of the comments are "The ad is TRUE! Romney IS responsible for her death!" and 45% are "Yes, the ad is crappy, but it's about time Democrats gave back some crap to the right!"
There is a wide gap between that and the handful who get it.
Mind blowing insanity.
Barack Obama was a disgrace before he was elected...straight out of the cesspool known as Chicago politics.
Let’s not forget that Patrick Fitzgerald stopped a crime in progress by arresting Blago in Nov 2008 before Obama’s name came up in the wiretaps.
Mitt had to know this was coming from Obama...and it is just beginning. He (Mitt) had better learn how to twist Obama's gutter politics to his advantage. And he better get started ASAP.
Swiftboating is not a pejorative term except if you are on the left. We need to swiftboat Obama, i.e., expose the truth about his personal narrative and Marxist policies.
“So “mouth-breathers” is the new short-hand put down for white people who didn’t go to college? How disgusting. If any group is population overwhleming by “mouth-breathers” it’s the Left, with their breathless and hysterical affirmations of Obama and everything Communist.”
I’m confused, I thought the ‘mouth breeders’ were the gays on the far left?
The Dems’ SuperPac ad was fair, just as it would have been fair for the GOP to have highlighted BHO’s Alinsky tactics in Chicago.
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