Swift Boat Liars Ready to Produce More Smears for the McCain/Palin Shit Talk Express

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Group With Swift Boat Alumni Readies Ads Attacking Obama

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 independent 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.


AIP emerged on the scene in August, airing controversial anti-Obama ads in four battleground states -- Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan -- that sought to raise questions about his ties to William Ayers, a member of the Vietnam War-era radical group known as the Weathermen. The ad was sponsored entirely -- at a cost of more than $2 million -- by Harold Simmons, a Dallas-based businessman who also helped fund the Swift boat activities four years ago.

The new group was launched by Chris LaCivita, who was intimately involved in the Swift boat campaign, and Tony Feather, one of the co-founders of Progress for America, which spent tens of millions backing Bush in 2004 . . .


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

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1. Didn't read anymore...that was enough for me. They are really

really desperate when they have to release smear and nothing about their plans to make this country better. I really really despise that ticket and I hope people get fed up and they lose in a landslide.

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2. Bring it.

It's going to cement McCain as more of the same.

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3. I think you're right

we should make the atmosphere toxic for them

[bleever]

4. It's a strange feeling

when I'm not so worried about a story getting to DU's Greatest page because the story actually comes from the MSM, but I'm having it more and more lately.

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