Group With Swift Boat Alumni Readies Ads Attacking Obama

[Pirate Smile]

Source: Washington Post

By Matthew Mosk and Chris Cillizza
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, September 14, 2008; Page A07

A new group financed by a Texas billionaire and organized by some of the same political operatives and donors behind the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against Sen. John F. Kerry in 2004 plans to begin running television ads attacking Barack Obama, a signal that outside groups may play a larger role than anticipated in the closing days of the presidential race.

The American Issues Project has amassed a multimillion-dollar fund, and the group is putting the final touches on an eleventh-hour campaign targeting the Democratic presidential nominee, sources said.

"We expect to be doing both issues and express advocacy between now and November and beyond," said Christian Pinkston, a spokesman for the group.
The effort could mark a sharp turn in what has been an unusually quiet year for outside political groups. At this point in 2004, such groups had already spent about $100 million dollars on television commercials attacking Kerry (D-Mass.) and President Bush, but they have devoted $8 million to ads so far in this election cycle.

The resurgence on the right appears as though it will not go unanswered. The Service Employees International Union is set to unveil a multimillion-dollar television campaign on Monday, and other liberal and Democratic-aligned groups are rushing to establish financing for efforts over the final weeks of the campaign.



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[msongs]

1. let's hope Obama will hold john Mccain accountable n not be diverted nt

[BobbyZimmerman]

2. There has to be something to truth out about McCain.

[still_one]

4. Screw mccain, he won't do anything. We need 527s to come out first

and strong, only our 527s will not be distorting the facts, but telling the facts about mccain and his record, along with palin and her preacher, AIP, and the lies constantly coming from the mccain camp

We cannot wait for the repuke swiftboaters to come out first

[Stardust]

3. Here we go again...

:evilfrown:

[UTUSN]

5. K&R #4 for, "But we the Holy must not attack Mc5PLANES!1 Oh, NOooooes!1"

In case the other thread gets locked.

[HopeHoops]

6. You know, they could just recycle the old Kerry ads and replace the voice-over

"Barack Obama claims he was a respected captain of a Viet Nam Swiftboat, but the facts show otherwise. He was only nine at the time...."

Sadly, the GOP sheep would believe it.

[ohio2007]

7. When they talk "swift boat", they are not talking about Viet Nam in the least

they must be planning to play up the various religious root angles but, as the article continues;


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On the Democratic side, much of that effort appears to be falling to labor unions and a handful of well-known advocacy groups such as MoveOn.org and the Sierra Club. In the spring, a coalition of liberal groups that included the AFL-CIO announced plans to spend $350 million on political activities during the 2008 campaign season, but they have been slow in coming together.

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