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| Fight the Smears! 2: Electoral Boogaloo |
| 2008-06-17 |
| Jim Geraghty, National Review I have another tip for the Obama Anti-Smear Site. We found another person alleging that Obama has terrorist ties — Fred Hobbs, a Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee member, who said, "I'm not sure we know enough about him. He's got some bad connections, and he may be terrorist connected for all I can tell. It sounds kind of like he may be." It's not just that a Tennessee Democratic party official is making this horrific claim; the Huffington Post is repeating the claim in giant type on their web site. Best of luck in tracking down this nefarious malefactor and ensuring those statements are corrected. Now, for heaven's -er, I mean, Post-Obama-America's sake, the Tennessee Democrats ought to get their facts straight. Obama has no ties to terrorists... of the al-Qaeda variety. He merely has a long-term professional and fundraising relationship with a man who placed bombs in the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol Building, among other public places. And Obama doesn't have any connections to extremism or those who excuse terrorist violence... other than serving on the Woods Fund and giving $110,000 in grants to the Arab American Action Network, whose co-founder Rashid Khalidi has lamented the "media hysteria" about Palestinian suicide bombers. (He denies being a spokesman for Yassir Arafat's PLO in the past). Other than that, there's just not much there. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #4 Other than that, there's just not much there. That sums up Obama completely - other than the suit and the connections, there's just not much there. Warren G. Harding had more going for him. Heck, even Franklin Pierce had more going for him. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-06-17 23:52 |
| #3 FOTSGreg, nonsense. The Big O is a Democrat. Elected Democrats are above the law, and exempt from charges like that. When the Monica Lewinsky story first broke, I said to myself that if Clinton could walk away from charges like that unscathed, he could do anything he wanted, including shooting someone in full public view, and get away with it. He did walk away (largely) unscathed. So far he hasn't shot anybody, but he could have. |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-06-17 19:19 |
| #2 I was about to say something that might have been taken out of context and had the guys in black suits showing up at my front door for a little chat regarding Presidential security. On reading, I decided that the Dems themselves are throwing around enough dirt. It's enough to give one cause for hope for the Republicans after all. And if Obama gets elected and turns out to have terrorist ties, theres this little thing called impeachment, which can get him removed from office, sedition, which can have him in prison, and treason which has even more dire potential consequences. |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2008-06-17 17:50 |
| #1 "...there's just not much there." Oh, and his brother says he's a Muslim. |
| Posted by: Therert Barnsmell4536 2008-06-17 15:47 |