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February 12, 2007

Grand Unified Smear Theory

by AltHippo @ 12:29 pm. Filed under 2008 Elections, wingnuttia

It doesn’t sound right to call this “taking off the gloves” in an effort to smear 2008 candidate Obama. It’s more like “let’s throw everything including the garbage disposal”:

Campaign 2008: Those spreading rumors that Barack Hussein Obama is a “closet Muslim” are off the mark. His religion has little to do with Islam and everything to do with a militantly Afrocentric movement that’s no less troubling.

Surrogates for Hillary Clinton and GOP front-runners hope to tarnish golden boy Obama by making him out to be some kind of Manchurian candidate for Islamist masters because he shares a name with Saddam Hussein and is the son of a Muslim.

True, his late father was Muslim, but he can hardly be described as “radical,” as the rumors have put it. He turned atheist in his early 20s before Obama was even born.

Obama: Islamofascist Saddamist or Afrocentric militant? You be the judge.

Yes, I know that most of us look at this kind of hit piece as a perversion of the notion of civilized discourse, and therefore won’t return fire. But, every so every often it’s tempting to get down in the same primordial ooze these guys crawl around in, and give as dirty as has been gotten.

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2 Responses to “Grand Unified Smear Theory”

  1. r~ Says:
    February 12th, 2007 at 8:56 pm

    [sarcasm] No doubt this “militantly Afrocentric movement” is the same one espoused by the “radical” Martin Luther King Jr. Non-violent demand for liberty, justice and equality for all is clearly something these wingnuts fear. Heaven forbid that America finally realizes the dreams of Franklin, Jefferson et. al. [/sarcasm]

  2. Tom Says:
    April 14th, 2007 at 3:55 am

    Republican Election Fraud new

    LET US NOT LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN
    From: OpEdNews

    Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_press_re_070408__22commander__n_thief_22.htm

    April 8, 2007

    “Commander ‘N Thief”- Explosive new documentary presents evidence of fraud in 2004 election

    By Press Release

    Explosive New Documentary Presents Evidence of Fraud in 2004 Ohio Presidential Election

    Investigative journalist Greg Palast, author of the current best-selling Armed Madhouse and of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, introduces the documentary and also provides staggering information in the body of the film about the RNC’s purposeful and targeted strategies for disenfranchising millions of minority voters across the United States, including African-American soldiers serving in Iraq.

    Others appearing include Congressman John Conyers, Jr.; attorneys Cliff Arnebeck, John Bonifaz, Robert Fitrakis, Joseph Geller, Peter Peckarsky and Susan Truitt; President/CEO of Common Cause Chellie Pingree; computer science expert Professor Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins and Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D., the leading public-advocacy investigator of voting fraud in the 2004 Ohio presidential election; statistical expert Professor Steven Freeman, Ph.D. of the University of Pennsylvania; consumer advocate against electronic voting Bev Harris; Franklin County, Ohio Director of Elections Matthew Damschroeder; and Ohio poll workers, concerned citizens, and community activists.

    In addition to the RNC’s nationwide campaign to disenfranchise American citizens from targeted minority groups, several other clearly fraudulent activities are identified: 3,600,780 votes were cast for president but never counted; in Ohio, forensic evidence has been uncovered of ballot switching in selected rural precincts and of double punched ballots used to invalidate legitimate votes in specific urban precincts; and there is strong statistical evidence that as many as five million votes nationally were shifted, subtracting five million votes from Kerry and adding five million votes to Bush to produce a swing of up to ten million votes in the officially reported result.

    The outcome of this series of sickening schemes is that the wrong candidate was sworn in as President of the United States. The evidence presented in this documentary, “Commander ‘N Thief,” should be seen as a warning that our democracy is now in peril and that ordinary citizens must act quickly and forcefully to restore honesty, transparency and verifiability to the American electoral system.

    The documentary also cites the absence of any comprehensive or sustained media investigation or coverage of the evidence of serious election-day problems and, with the notable exceptions of Greg Palast (BBC, Guardian/Observer) and Keith Olbermann (MSNBC), there has been no significant attention paid to this unsettling story in the national media.

    Former U.S. Senator, Ambassador and 1972 presidential candidate George McGovern provides a powerful closing statement for the documentary pointing to the need for citizen action to insure a transparent, accessible, easy-to-use and entirely verifiable voting system that will protect and preserve our democracy over the long future.

    http://www.commander-n-thief.com/

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