I'm Going To Send This To Everyone To Fight The Ridiculous Anti-Obama Emails. Please Do The Same!

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Wed Jun-25-08 04:18 PM
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I'm Going To Send This To Everyone To Fight The Ridiculous Anti-Obama Emails. Please Do The Same!

Edited on Wed Jun-25-08 04:53 PM by ihavenobias

(NOTE: The formatting is much nicer in my actual email compared to how it is below. For one thing I was able to BOLD certain words and sentences to make it easier to read and also, my email is full of hyperlinks which make it easier to read *and* more professional looking. At any rate, unless someone can help me improve the formatting for DU purposes, this will have to do. I encourage to you to send this email to everyone you know, and of course, feel free to add on to areas you feel I may not have addressed thoroughly, or that I may have missed entirely. Also, PM me-Ihavenobias-if you want the the clean, easier to read hyperlink version.)

So I just watched a laughable right wing propaganda video trying to smear Obama: http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?RsrcID=2036.

Here are my thoughts and a bunch of links to videos and articles on these issues. I encourage you to pass this on to undecided and Republican voters. In fact, reply all and share it with the people who send you the Obama scare tactic emails. But before I get to this email, let me share some startling information:

Wage growth for the middle class is twice as high when a Democrat is president compared to a Republican: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/13/ST2008061302816.html

Also, 90% of Americans would pay less taxes under Obama's proposed tax plan than under McCain's. If you make less than $112,000 as an individual (this is NOT household income, it's individual), you will pay less taxes under a president Obama than you would under a president McCain: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/11/141710/932/876/534084

Okay, let's address the nonsense issues raised in the smear video...

Obama doesn't wear a flag pin? Question: When did you ever see Hillary Clinton wearing a flag pin? How about John McCain? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi5nbZvS9cg

Obama doesn't put his hand over his heart for The National Anthem. Wow. Really, this non-story became a story? THIS is what worries people? Not Iraq, not the tanking economy, not gas prices, but where Obama had or didn't have his hand during the National Anthem? That says quite clearly to me that the Republicans know they can't win on the issues (they've had control of the country for 7 years and drove it into the ground) so they need to find and add up as many non-issues as possible and try to scare people. At any rate, click here for the truth about the Obama and the Anthem (and some of the other absurd statements made in the right wing propaganda video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljboY5t2Dw).

Obama doesn't show up for votes? Guess what the punchline to this one is? McCain has missed A LOT more votes than Obama: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/23/939359.aspx.

Reverend Wright. Apparently now everyone believes every word of what their Reverend, Pastor or Priest says in church…oh wait, except they don't (do you?). Can anyone name a single piece of legislation that Obama has proposed or bring up a policy position that has been negatively influenced in any way by his association with Reverend Wright? No, because it doesn't exist. Tell me, will we get lower gas prices or better health care based on what Reverend Wright said or didn't say(?): http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2008/04/30/rev-wright-so-what/

Obama is antisemitic? That's funny, this video suggests that because of "liberation theology" espoused by Reverend Wright, Obama is antisemitic. That's pure and utter BS on it's face. But that brings me to number 5...

What does that make John McCain in light of Reverend Hagee? McCain actively sought out Hagee's endorsement and said he was "proud" of it for months. Hagee said that God sent Hitler as the great hunter to take care of the Jews who didn't go to Israel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct4_ze_FjNo. Hagee also said that poor people should STARVE if they aren't working http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mQvvGJYQaM. And Finally, Hagee also had plenty of terrible things to say about Catholics and the Catholic Church http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/29/john-hagees-mccain-endor_n_89189.html.

So what if McCain didn't go to Hagee's church? McCain ACTIVELY sought out this guy's endorsement and kept insisting for several months that he was proud of it until he was forced to reject it (even though Hagee's sermons got about 3% of the coverage that Wright's did).

Why do we care what Michelle Obama says? Is SHE running for president? Ok, let's assume that you do in fact care for some strange reason. She made the "for the first time in my adult life I'm proud of my country" comments which were pounced on by the right wing and taken grossly out of context. John McCain has said on multiple occasions "I didn't really love America until I was deprived of her company": http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/19/watch-mccain-didnt-love-a_n_108191.html Does that mean McCain hated America before he went to Vietnam? No, of course not.

By the same token, Michelle obviously didn't hate America prior to her husband running for president. It's laughable to suggest anything different. But again, why do some people seem to think that Michelle and Barack are the same person? Should we harshly question McCain because his wife Cindy was addicted to prescription drugs that she stole from a third world relief organization that she founded http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/politics/republicans/cindy_mccain? My honest answer is NO. I would NEVER think to bring up this non-story about Cindy if not for the stupid attacks on Michelle. I just did this to point out how ridiculous it is to be talking about the candidates wives, unless they are directly talking about policy.

As for John McCain, he just might be the biggest flip flopper we've seen run for president in a very long time. He makes John Kerry look rock solid by comparison. The John McCain of 2000 would never consider voting for the John McCain of 2008: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9000.html One of the two worst flip-flops that McCain has had is on torture. He was strongly against it based on his experience in Vietnam. He basically said it was ineffective and un-American and he still claims he's against torture. Except that he recently voted against a bill to stop the US from torturing: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/02/mccain-against.html

The other huge flip-flop from McCain was on tax cuts. He strongly opposed and voted against Bush's tax cuts but now he supports even bigger tax cuts for the rich. And again, 90% of Americans would pay less income taxes under Obama's proposed tax plan than under McCain's: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/11/141710/932/876/534084

In fact, Obama is only raising taxes on people making more than $227,000 individually (that is NOT household income, that is individual income). Notice that McCain's tax plan benefits the top 10%, and especially the top 1% of Americans tremendously. People making over 2.9 million dollars a year individually will get almost a million dollar tax break under McCain's plan.

Finally, while it's true that no one can take away John McCain's heroism and great service to our country in Vietnam, it IS true that he has made some incredibly questionable personal decisions in his past (I only bring this up because apparently values voters seem to care). For example, the fact that he left his first wife (after she raised his kids while he was away and after she was in a severe car accident) for a beautiful, wealthy woman almost 2 decades younger than him: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/10/meet-john-mccains-wife-no-not-that-one/

And of course who can forget the time that McCain said the following to his current wife Cindy in front of several people "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c#nt": http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/07/report-mccains-profane-ti_n_95429.html

PS----Here is a short youtube video on McCain that has more than 2.5 million views, and for good reason (and look, it doesn't focus on personal attacks and guilt by association like the laughably bad Obama video did): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c&eurl

By the way, if anyone is watching Fox News for "Fair and Balanced" information, I would point out of the fact that the last three people hired by Fox are:

Karl Rove, Mike Huckabee and conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham. Really, is that "fair and balanced"(?): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouKJixL--ms

But come on, you're telling me that Obama is supposed to be a radical liberation theologist because one of his hundreds of campaign offices happens to have one poster of a 'radical liberal'? Or do we go back to questioning Obama's former church, even though we seem to ignore the religious figures that were involved with all of the other candidates(?): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/different-standards-for-b_b_92337.html?page=2 By the way, if Obama is a crazy radical Christian (or Muslim, and by the way, he can't be both although obviously he's neither radical nor Muslim) why is the conservative Evangelical biographer of George W. Bush and Tom DeLay writing a rather positive book about him(?): http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11099.html

I mean come on, is that the best these guys have? Why doesn't this video talk about REAL issues, like who's going to do something about housing and gas prices? Who's going to keep us in Iraq for another 100 years http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFknKVjuyNk while adding trillions of dollars to the National Debt(?): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702846_pf.html

Keep in mind that just 3 Republican presidents are responsible for over 70% of our national debt.

How about medical insurance? Speaking of medical insurance, it's funny when someone says that Democrats are for "socialized health care" or "socialized medicine". Ignore the fact that our military is socialized (aka, tax payer funded and run by the government), as are the police and fire departments we depend upon and trust to keep us safe.

When people refer to single payer health care, that just means that the government makes the insurance payments to the PRIVATE hospitals. It does NOT mean that the government runs the hospitals and hires and fires the doctors. IF the government hired and fired the hospital staff, THAT would be socialized health care, and no one, including Obama, is pushing for that on the campaign trail.

The bottom line is that the right wing is resorting to smear emails and character assassination because they have no record to run on and the country is more than ready to kick the bums out of power and give someone else a chance.

This is as good as it gets for John: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/as-good-as-it-gets-for-mc_b_106898.html

Once people find out about The Real McCain, it's all downhill from there... http://therealmccain.com/