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GOP Swift Boaters Ramp Up Against President Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.30.2012

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The swift boaters are kicking their campaign of political dirt, mud and garbage slinging against Obama into high gear. Here's a checklist of their latest antics.

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Why Is the Republican Party Still Trying to Define President Obama?

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.22.2012

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Because he has been president for almost four years, Obama is now well known by almost all Americans. Accordingly, it will be extremely difficult to redefine him during this election, particularly if the effort to redefine him is based on what is, by now, old news.

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GOP Construction of a Fictional "Obama" Has Taken a Turn to the Absurd

Mitchell Bard | Posted 04.10.2012

Even as commentators start to note the GOP effort to create a fictional Barack Obama, it looks like Republicans have decided to double down on the stupid. That is, they have strayed from plausible lies -- lies that, to the uninformed, could feel true -- to absurd ones.

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Tim Pawlenty's ties to "Swift Boat" Bob Perry

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 08.30.2011

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By Delal Pektas and Kelsey Sheehy for iWatch News Tim Pawlenty may not have great name recognition but he does have one very important thing for...

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Bush "Deception Points" -- A Factual Rebuttal

Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Five years of research, hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents reveal a very different picture of Bush's presidency than the one painted in his new book. Here's what's missing.

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Lawbreakers In The 2010 Elections May Go Unpunished For Years

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

With an unprecedented amount of spending and a surge of new independent expenditure organizations thanks to the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling...

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Secret Donations Could Haunt 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Howard Fineman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republicans, buoyed this fall by freelance groups spending secret donations on TV ads, should fear what comes next: an especially vicious GOP presidential race in 2012 fueled, ironically, by that same kind of cash. In other words, the Swift Boaters of '04 could be back in '12 -- this time torpedoing potential Republican nominees -- while President Obama can stay safely ashore.

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Susana Martinez, Prosecutor, Wins New Mexico Republican Primary In Governor's Race

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP / Huffington Post)-- Prosecutor Susana Martinez has won the Republican nomination for New Mexico governor. She'll face New Mexi...

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John Kerry, Swift Boat Supporter Meet To Talk Climate Change

Politico | Kenneth P. Vogel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), looking for help where he can find it to pass his top legislative priority, has extended an olive branch of sorts to the ma...

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Conservatives For Patients' Rights Ad Mocks Obama's Vacation

The Huffington Post | T.J. Ortenzi | Posted 05.25.2011

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An organization taking credit for ginning up protesters at health care town halls has produced an ad mocking President Obama's vacation. The ad by Co...

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The Silly Season In Politics

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Silly season" refers to late summer, when governments go on massive taxpayer-funded vacations all over the world. This year's season could produce a bumper crop of silly.

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Franken Gives Millionaire Swift Boat Ads Funder A Piece Of His Mind

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

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Five years after he put his money behind the Swift Boat ads that helped tanked John Kerry's presidential campaign, Senate Democrats gave T. Boone Pick...

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Swift Boat Vets Group Enter

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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When conservative leaders wanted to criticize the White House over Sonia Sotomayor's record on crime, they turned to a little-known Alexandria public ...

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Obama Could Lose Election Due To Voter Suppression

Judah Freed | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republicans are seeking to suppress the voter turnout among youth, minorities and poor people. If Republicans can prevent enough Democrats from casting ballots, McCain could win the election.

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The Word on the Street

James P. Hoffa | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rank-and-file teamsters get it. They aren't willing to be swayed by false, irrelevant arguments. They want change. They want ideas. And the fact is -- McCain doesn't have any.

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This Election, Plates of Human History Will Shift

Michael Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

As November 4th approaches, voters are determining if they want to be an integral part of history, or on the wrong side of it. Forces are at work beyond description, like some divine hand pushing us forward.

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McCain: Same As He Ever Was

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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At some point it becomes hard to blame the traditional media for its improper coverage. Clearly, the McCain/Palin lies have not gone unnoticed -- yet, there is barely a blip in the polls.

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A Line of Attack the Obama Campaign Must Answer Forcefully

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tonight during the evening news the Republican National Committee ran an attack ad (multiple times) that featured menacing black-and-white images of H...

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The Incredible Lightness of Being Sarah Palin

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Palin will throw mud with impunity, then in the tradition of Agnew, Dole and Quayle yell "double standard" and "bias reporting" when she is called on it.

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What Obama Needs to Do in Denver

Drew Westen | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is time, once and for all, for Democrats to burn the Kerry playbook. It is the same playbook used to guide one losing Democratic campaign after another for decades.

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Swift Boat Sugar Daddy's Other Water Issues?

Patt Morrison | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harold Simmons has written a check for all of the $2.87 million it's costing to run ominous-sounding ads in Ohio and Pennsylvania about Obama's relationship with William Ayers.

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Culture Zohn: Dear Democrats, Please Wake Up!

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

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McCain was droll, offensive without being nasty and very relaxed. He was handy at spewing mixed-up rhetoric about his position and Obama's on the war, oil drilling, NATO and tax cuts -- It was seductive.

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T. Boone Pickens: From Swift Boater To Pluralist

Larry Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011

In just a few years Pickens has moved from being a totally partisan political animal to a man who is looking for the partial truth in the disparate views of a variety of people.

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The New York Sun's Obama Frame-Up

Joel Whitney | Posted 05.25.2011

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What The Sun had hoped to paint as Islamic extremism was an important agreement between a candidate and a Muslim human rights group to look at ways not to persecute Muslims.

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Unlike 2004, Mainstream Media -- Even AP -- Hit Back at New"Swiftboat" Book

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Among the Corsi pieces this week one stands out. It appeared Thursday night via The AP, written by one of its top political reporters, Nedra Pickler -- a journalist the liberal blogosphere has frequently criticized.

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