Obama Combats Dirty Politics Via the Web
What with his understanding of all things newfangled, the Internet has been an enormous part of the fund-raising effort for Presidential hopeful Barack Obama. He's raised more than $265 million dollars, in fact, more than three times the amount raised by his Republican rival John McCain. Now, Obama is putting it to another use: Namely, fighting smear campaigns being run against him in his bid for the White House.
On Thursday, the Obama campaign unveiled a Web site called fightthesmears.com, which has a mission to debunk false rumors spawned and spread by right-wing media outlets. The move came after the recent (and unfounded) assertion by Rush Limbaugh (among others) that Obama's wife, Michelle, had been caught on tape slurring white people. Obama, of course, has been called everything from "Muslim extremist" to an "anti-American" -- and that was just during the primaries.
"We created an interactive tool to allow our supporters to fight back against these smears in the same way that they received them -- on the Internet," campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor said. "People can upload their address books and easily send fact-based emails to their friends and family. Just knowing the truth isn't enough -- you have to proactively tell people the truth to fight back."
Three cheers for truthiness. [Source: AFP/Yahoo]
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delcogw said 1:25PM on 6-18-2008
you are as big an idiot as the racist obama is. lets build this country up instead of tearing it down. get down in the gutter where you belong. vote for a real american john mccain.
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Patti Hughes said 2:47PM on 6-18-2008
Buffy or Rufus, my basset hounds, for President...They can sniff out terrorists....Buffy is white, female vs. Rufus is black and brown and alittle white, male Your vote does count unless ur from Montana.
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Trish said 5:47PM on 6-18-2008
Its interesting that this website is being used for an anti-smear campaign, but when you click Rush Limbaughs name, the link takes you to an old news article about him being addicted to pain killers from 2003.....now whose smearing who?? I'm just saying......practice what you preach Hussein....LOL
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wes said 1:38AM on 6-19-2008
this is actually kind of scary, just think if this idiot actually becomes president
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jsn said 9:15AM on 6-19-2008
Am I the only one who notices how all of Obama's posters look like old communist propaganda? The only thing they're missing is the hammer and sickle.
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