AttackWatch Returns: Obama Campaign Announces ‘Truth Team’

[Tx4obama]

During the 2008 campaign, when then-Sen. Barack Obama had to contend with rumors that he was everything from a Secret Kenyan Muslim to a chupacabra, his campaign launched a website called “Fight The Smears.”

In 2012, that effort has been transformed into a “Truth Team,” a three-pronged effort to push back on attacks against the President, highlight his own record, and pick apart his opponents’ statements about their own records. One of those prongs is a less scary-looking version of the AttackWatch site the campaign launched in September. From Obama For America’s press release:

Beginning today with events across the country and continuing through the election, the Truth Team will engage grassroots supporters to spread the truth about the President’s record and respond to Republican attacks. The program will be housed at BarackObama.com/TruthTeam, with individual websites - KeepingHisWord.com, KeepingGOPHonest.com, and AttackWatch.com – serving as quick, comprehensive resources to help set the record straight. Designed to put responsibility for spreading the truth in the hands of the President’s supporters, the websites contain videos and information on the President’s record, and fact checks on Republican claims about the President and themselves. The sites also contain tools for sharing materials via Facebook, Twitter and email, and empowers supporters to take further action by volunteering, writing letters to the editor, sending postcards to undecided voters with information about the President’s record, and more. The goal is to ensure that when Republicans attack President Obama’s record, grassroots supporters can take ownership of the campaign and share the facts with the undecided voters in their lives.

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/attackwatch-returns-obama-campaign-announces-truth-team/

http://www.barackobama.com/truth-team

[Lionessa]

1. Obama hasn't shown himself to be

really terribly better at truth or transparency regarding many issues than any other administration or politician.

And "Truth Team," just seems akin to the term "homeland" to me. Just rubs me the wrong way.

[mcar]

2. OK then

Guess he should just let the right continue to lie about him, aided and abetted by the MSM.

[Lionessa]

3. No, not at all, but why couldn't his just regular campaign team do that, why this "homeland"

feeling new team called the "Truth Team" who may or may not fully and fairly represent his successes, but may instead resemble some of the posters on some big D democratic sites who are known for over-exaggerating the successes while seemingly oblivious to the pitfalls in those successes, and the blatant disregard for small d democratic principles regarding war criminals, war spending, killing un-tried persons, bank criminals, wall street criminals, and mmj, just to name a few.