Obama Campaign's Intense Effort To Combat E-Mail Smear

Politico.com:

For over a year, largely out of the media glare, Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign has been fighting a determined, low-intensity conflict against the viral e-mail that forwards the myth that Obama is a crypto-Muslim Manchurian candidate.

Among the campaign's first hires in January 2007 were two opposition researchers who didn't begin with the traditional round of research into their boss's past, or his rivals' records. Instead, they were immediately assigned to debunk the widely circulated anonymous set of e-mails.

"We've been bird-dogging it from the beginning," said Devorah Adler, Obama's research director. "The first research document that I put together was a response to the 'Who is Barack Obama?' e-mail."

The e-mails aren't a well-funded, faux-grassroots smear like the attacks on John Kerry's war record.

Read the whole story: Politico.com

Comments

[mikelartist]

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071112/hayes

This the link in the Politico piece. It was written in Oct of 2007. It is very worthwhile.

It points to all the usual suspects but traces back to the origin of the email. Some litigious nutcase named Andy Martin, and the Free Republic printed it without any hesitation. As did Insight magazine and Newmax.

Hook line and sinker. Gullible people with little desire or ability to investigate further spread this crap from hell to breakfast.

We are living in trying times.

[Ginzaman]

Impeach Bush and Cheney:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I7nz5rcBmI

[blackwell98]

Curious. That site is registered to a guy named Parker Shannon. His name doesnt seem to appear anywhere on the page tho.

[justsaynotofascism]

My Bushbot brother-in-law forwarded the Obama smear email to me last week. It had been forwarded about a dozen times.

I gathered the correct info and emailed everyone who received the forwarded email. One person emailed back with a thank you for the correction. No doubt, the rest of those Bushbots will continue to forward their lies.

Yeah, the GOP is the party of morals and integrity. LOL

[TWOSHORT]

His mother is White-Grandparents who raised him are White!Why aren't more White folk asking each other shouldn't we claim one of our's!Harvard grad-Law Prof-U.S Sen.What not to be proud of[HE'S BLACK]American's who want change here's your chance claim him as one of you[Black/White]Me i just want to become an AMERICAN.

[Bushgirlsgonewild]

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We republicans know best, so back off.
We know that what people really want in this election is 'change', and since we are the party that is sensitive to what people want (at least 26% of them), we're not going to roll out the old, tired bogus claims against Bill Clinton - we're going after Hillary with new stuff. As an example, this talking point memo is going out this summer:

Attention loyal Republicans!

Several Republicans have noticed a single theme emerging since Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for President of the United States. The following is a partial list of deaths of persons connected to Hillary Clinton and facts regarding those connections. All loyal party members are expected to memorize and transmit this information this summer the moment the secret signal is given.

-- THE HILLARY CLINTON BODY COUNT "
MYSTERIOUS DEATHS SINCE HILLARY ANNOUNCED HER CANDIDACY

1. "Lady Bird" Johnson (widow of the late President Johnson, not a basketball player). Hillary was overheard making comments about LBJ signing some kind of "act" just a few weeks ago. Evidently, this presidential signing "act" repealed many of the rights belonging to members of our base to practice Republican values. Hillary Clinton"s husband, Bill Clinton, has also signed (but use "committed") acts"!

2. Henry J. Hyde, 83, powerful House Republican who led impeachment of Clinton and later admitted to having an extra-martial affair (with a woman! "unique in the "annals" of Republican history)!

4. Tammy Faye Bakker, 65, evangelist. Bad blood brewed for years between Bakker and Hillary because Hillary once told her "the only person who wears more eye-shadow than you is Rudy Giuliani"!

[blackwell98]

Im curious what the origination of this disinformation is. If you web search for
obama is a muslim you dont really get much.
Of course web searching isnt what it used to be.
Debbie is a Straussian Neocon mouthpiece.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2006/12/barack_hussein.html

Justin Raimondo at Antiwar http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12249
listed a source of disinformation or 2 from
foreign sources.

[littlebozo]

They are similar to the Bill Gates (In it's untruth)is giving away gobs of free money or Bill Clinton murdered 500 people as president. (Obvious lies and character assasination, meant to deceive and to malign.)
Maybe Obama's legal team can get a cease and desist on this site - I'm not a lawyer and depite not being a Barack supporter, I find this despicable.

http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm