Swiftboating 2.0

mediamattersaction.org - Brilliant analysis of the structure of the right-wing smear campaign against Barack Obama, with extensive references.

MsCreant
  • Submitted by at 7:39 AM on Sep. 5, 2008
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  • MsCreant
    Submitted by at 7:39 AM on September 5, 2008

    Digg it.

  • Friday
    Submitted by at 11:15 AM on September 5, 2008

    I knew it would be like this when McCain hired Rove's people. That is when I lost the last shred of respect I had for him. After what they did to him in 2000.

  • SRiveroC
    Submitted by at 11:50 AM on September 5, 2008

    Great post. BUMP

  • Cartercasa
    Submitted by at 12:20 PM on September 5, 2008

    Bookmarked and bumped!

  • Raintree
    Submitted by at 12:59 PM on September 5, 2008

    Bump!

  • tericared
    Submitted by at 1:09 PM on September 5, 2008

    great post

  • Katherine1...
    Submitted by at 1:23 PM on September 5, 2008

    I could see the strategy from the beginning. I noticed how on this site the women were being suckered into it. They had a way of putting it out there and running. when Obama addressed it he was accused of playing the race card. There has been a strategy in everything McCain has done. Including his whining and crying. He was permitted to make an ad preceding Obama's speech at the DNC. After Obama's speech he announces his VP choice taking the thunder out of the DNC aftermath. And last night when he spoke about congratulating Obama for his achievement (not the race thing of course) but for everything else. Everything this man has done since he drew breath as an infant has been self-motivated. You will notice when someone else is speaking next to him he has this look on his face like "hurry up and shut up".  Ever notice how he points to the crowd and has a recognition expression in his face. Do you for one minute believe he sees someone he knows? I saw a woman's puzzled reaction last night when he did that. The man is a phony and an actor. Did you see how he brushed his wife's arm from around him after his speech? He did it behind his back, but guess what...that's where the camera was.


    To those of you who are supporting him, I hope you are prepared for the draft to be reenacted and your son's to leave you not by choice, but by government order should McCain become president.  You may sit there smugly and say you don't mind that happening, but you do not know the full force of that action until your son gets a low number in the draft pick. And your daughters may be drafted as well. And while you are relating to McCain's sons and Palin's son being in the service, do not be so naive for one moment believing that your child will be treated the same as their sons are. Most of you do not have the connections, the money or the power.

  • chaiteamom...
    Submitted by at 2:06 PM on September 5, 2008

    Katherine that was a great post. Also Bidens son is in the Military, and they did have to parade it to show their patriotism.


     


    I heard McCains speech was just as bad as his other ones last night. I didn't bother to watch, so I can listen to him talk for an hour on how he was a POW. I did hear though that VETS were protesting him. Good for them!!!


     

  • chaiteamom...
    Submitted by at 2:08 PM on September 5, 2008

    Great Post MsCreant, sorry to say some people have their eyes closed so tightly they will never see the truth.

  • AmericanGr...
    Submitted by at 2:39 PM on September 5, 2008

    I smell ROVE every where in the RNC tactics...I pray he rots in jail...he is sooooo evil!

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