Everyone says they want candidates to debate the issues. But the recent Obama campaign ads reveal their willingness to not only get down into the mud, but dig to new depths. Like mocking McCain's age and computer skills.
The Obama-approved campaign ad willfully overlooks the fact that it's difficult for McCain to use a keyboard due to injuries he sustained as a P.O.W. being repeatedly tortured by the Viet Cong, choosing instead to ridicule his disability as being an indication that he's "out of touch."
Nice going, Dems. I guess that's the "new kind of politics" Obama bragged about in yesterday's Freudian slip:
"If we're going to ask questions about, you know, who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily."If the age/handicap smears weren't despicable enough, far-lefty loudmouth Randi Rhodes sinks even further, rabidly accused Gov. Sarah Palin of being a pedophile...
That one is so ridiculous, it's outright laughable. It reveals the despair-fueled insanity being felt by the Obama faithful, and their willingness to do anything necessary to personally destroy anyone who dares oppose The One.
FactCheck.org debunks several of the most common anti-Palin smears.
We’ve been flooded for the past few days with queries about dubious Internet postings and mass e-mail messages making claims about McCain’s running mate, Gov. Palin. We find that many are completely false, or misleading.
- Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn’t cut it at all. In fact, she increased funding and signed a bill that will triple per-pupil funding over three years for special needs students with high-cost requirements.
- She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a “What if?” question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin’s first term.
- She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She’s been registered as a Republican since May 1982.
- Palin never endorsed or supported Pat Buchanan for president. She once wore a Buchanan button as a “courtesy” when he visited Wasilla, but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair of the campaign of Steve Forbes in the state.
- Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska’s schools. She has said that students should be allowed to “debate both sides” of the evolution question, but she also said creationism “doesn’t have to be part of the curriculum.”
Most recently, freelance photographer Jill Greenberg revealed her blatant bias and unprofessionalism when she doctored out-takes of the already-unflattering photographs of McCain she took during her commissioned photoshoot for The Atlantic and used them for an anti-McCain screed on her website. Now that's a mature, substantive discussion of the issues, isn't it? The Atlantic has been forced to disavow her deranged work and apologize to McCain.It's another page right out of Vladimir Lenin's playbook, "A lie told often enough becomes truth." And it's worked for the past 8 years of the Bush administration (no blood for oil, unjust/illegal war, etc). Clearly, these "progressives" will continue to push the boundaries of bad taste...right down the throats of voters.
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UPDATE: Ace has some interesting accounts of "Concerned Christian Conservative Commenters" sockpuppets coming out of the woodwork and astroturfing the comments section of conservative blogs with Obama talking points. Same old desperation, now with 100% more conservative flavor!
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