[DeaconBenjamin]

Even the hard left are disgusted by Obama's Chicago Way election practices.

[nathanbedford]

Swift boating should be defined as the exposing of a poltroon who inflates his biography.

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.

[Mr. K]

big difference though,... the ‘swiftboating’ of john effin’ kerry was based on fact

[Sgt_Schultze]

The SwiftVets ads were truth. These ads were false, ergo, not “swiftboating” ads.

[astounded]

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.

[Wiser now]

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?

[DManA]

I hate this new definition of “swift boating”.

It should mean revealing an uncomfortable truth about a candidate.

[LucianOfSamasota]

We now know more about Barack Obama than we did previously. Oh, not that he was born in Kenya, or Krypton, or wherever the moronic birthers still prattle on about. And not that he has ruined the economy; it's more accurate to say that he and the central bankers saved the world. Furthermore, he isn't a socialist or a tyrant bent on destroying America, as various demagogues – including a number of washed-out Republican presidential hopefuls – like to tell the teeming mouth-breathers. And, no, he's not a Muslim. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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.

[WashingtonSource]

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.

[donna]

Swiftboating = telling the truth

[Hotlanta Mike]

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.

[RoosterRedux]

You cannot disgrace a person who is already thoroughly disgraced and doesn't care.

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.

[kabar]

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.

[Armaggedon]

Obama has exposed himself and he is ugly.