it amazes me what the right wing are coming up with to try to win the election.
rather than run on issues and policy positions, the republicans are running on false smears and slander against obama.
let’s discredit some of the smears and slander:
1-that obama is a ‘socialist’. really? so he has the backing of the ceo of google and warren buffet and ben bernanke and thousands
of other financial and industry leaders and he’s a socialist? no, he’s a capitalist.
2-that obama is a muslim. again, nothing against islam, but obama was raised christian, married christian, and has publicly
stated hundreds of times that he’s a christian.
3-that obama’s middle name is ‘hussein’. yup, it’s true. but obama joked that he’s changing his middle name to ‘steve’.
if a political campaign/party lowers itself to making fun of a candidates name that’s probably a bad sign for that political campaign/party, in that they have little else to run on.
and did he choose his middle name? did you?
4-that he ‘pals around with terrorists’. obama served on a charitable board(started by republicans)with a man who
was part of a domestic terrorist group when obama was EIGHT YEARS OLD. there were many, many people on this
charitable board, the majority of whom are republicans.
5-that obama is ‘foreign born’. nope. to quote factcheck.org: “FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as “supporting documents” to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said.”
so what else does the gop have? nothing. john mccain voted with gw bush 90% of the time and has said publicly about himself that ‘knowledge of the economy isn’t my strong suit’.
if republicans want to win why don’t they run a campaign on issues instead of false slander? i hope that obama wins for many reasons.
i believe that he’ll be a principled and sensible and competent chief executive of the united states. but i also hope that he wins
because it would prove to the republicans that running a campaign based on slander and smears and lies no longer works.
the more negative the republicans go, the higher obama’s poll numbers grow.
obama has run a respectful and issue-oriented campaign, and that’s why he’s ahead in the polls. people are tired of
lies and slander and smears. people are tired of being manipulated by fear. people want hope and optimism and a steady
hand to help guide them through troubled times. john mccain and the gop have just offered more of the same. more slander.
more fear. more lies. and if they lose, that’ll be why.
obama is the single child of a hard working single parent. he struggled to put himself through school, eventually became a lawyer with a degree from harvard, and then worked
with displaced people in his community before working with the illinois senate. he has a great wife and 2 lovely daughters.
he’s principled and honest and steady and competent.
how is that not the perfect example of the american dream?
he’s worked hard and accomplished much, and that’s what the american dream is supposed to represent.
you can dislike him, you can choose not to vote for him, but your vote should be cast based on real issues, and not based
on the deceit and slander that has been coming from the republicans.
-moby