Will we see these in the D&C?
Republicans have launched an unprecedented underground email campaign against likely Democratic nominee Barack Obama:
The anti-Obama e-mails now bouncing around the Internet have multiplied and are difficult to track, though the website Snopes.com has catalogued and debunked many of them. But the themes are similar: Elements of his biography make him too exotic, or unknown, to be president.
One features a made-up quote in which Obama “explains” why he purportedly doesn’t place his hand over his heart during the national anthem.
“There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression,” the e-mail quotes Obama as saying. “And the anthem itself conveys a war-like message.”
Obama has never said such a thing.
The target audience for these smears is the nation’s most misinformed voters, e.g. the people who comment on the D&C blogs. We’re already seeing these smears being bandied about in the comments on the D&C blogs, and it will be interesting to see if Petrena Hayes and James Lawrence start repeating them. Remember: one of Lawrence’s first posts involved the Fox News rumor (debunked here) that the Clintons “trashed” the White House on their way out.
More generally, we should all be on the look out for these rumors. As noted in the article, they are debunked at Snopes.com.
Oh Joy, more whisper campaigns….
Pretty soon it’ll be the telephone calls: “If you knew that Barack Hussein Obama was a Muslim, would you be less likely to vote for him?” Etc.
Wait until they find out about McCain’s illegitimate black love-child.