get ready - Group With Swift Boat Alumni Readies Ads Attacking Obama

[spanone]

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.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/13/AR2008091302270_pf.html

[renie408]

1. Where are OUR 527's?? Don't we have a Swift Boat group of our own?? n/t

[lamp_shade]

3. They're waiting for us to go first.

[renie408]

5. We are waiting for us to go first? That doesn't make sense...n/t

[lamp_shade]

8. They = American Issues Project

[EmilyAnne]

2. Does anyone know exactly what they are going to attack him on?

They can't bash him on purple hearts, after all.

[Expedition924]

4. They'll probably drag up the Wright, Ayers et al stuff again.

Or is there more?

[RagAss]

6. Welcome aboard.....

[spanone]

7. i imagine he'll be called a muslim time and time again