Smearing Obama - AntiWar.com

Smearing Obama
Every antiwar candidate has to endure the same hate campaign
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12532

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The smear machine is taking out after Barack Obama, and with a vengeance. Not that this is surprising, or even anything new: they've been conducting a low-level hate campaign ever since he attained front-runner status, and now they're going into overdrive with a commentary by Ron Kessler in the Wall Street Journal that uses the same guilt-by-association technique that they used against Ron Paul.

With Paul, it was tarring him with the brush of "white nationalism," even though any sort of nationalism â€“ white, black, pink, or purple â€“ is anathema to libertarians of Paul's ilk. That didn't stop the character assassins, however â€“ including those Beltway "libertarians" who have imbibed the political correctness that is de rigueur on the Washington cocktail-party circuit. Newsletters written during the 1980s, excoriating race rioters and opining that they reflected the welfare-state mentality that pervaded our politics at the time, were condemned by these worthies because to even address the culture of entitlement in the black community is supposedly prima facie evidence of "racism." A campaign contribution from an obscure racist was blown up as proof positive that Paul is hoping for the revival of the Third Reich, although no one can be held responsible for who contributes to their campaign, and certainly the money â€“ $500 â€“ was to be used to achieve political objectives that aren't even remotely connected to racism or bigotry of any sort.

In the case of Obama, the assault is taking the form of an attack on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the now-retired pastor of Obama's church whom Obama describes as a religious "mentor" in his autobiography The Audacity of Hope. Again, the basic strategy is to make Obama answer for each and every one of Wright's pronouncements, no matter how wacky or lame-brained, such as the contention that AIDS was created by the U.S. government. Aside from the logical fallacy inherent in the guilt-by-association tact â€“ after all, Obama didn't say AIDS was a U.S. government plot, Wright did â€“ implicit in all this is the assumption that all blacks believe the same thing, that they are a collective entity linked by some sort of ethnic consciousness, and, therefore, Obama can and must be held responsible for Wright's opinions on every subject under the sun, including those he had no knowledge of.
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Interesting to read, Raimondo is an old right conservative, but he's definitely got a soft spot for an anti-war candidate (even one as compromising as Obama).

I wonder how much of this is the CIA backed MSM establishment, and how much is it the Clinton campaign (although Clinton/CIA do go hand in hand don't they)?

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