Comments on: E-mail Forward Smears: It’s A Landslide Of Crap For Obama

By: PopeRatzo

PopeRatzo — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:16:43 +0000

How come I haven’t gotten a single one of these Obama smear emails? What did I do right to get myself off of every single one of the right-wing spammers’ lists?

I mean, I get spam, like everyone else, but it’s all about “male enhancement” and Nigerian presidents-in-hiding. And of course, my google spam cather gets them all.

But not one “Barack is a muslim terrorist who stole the Limbaugh baby” forward for me.

I feel a little bit left out.

By: davefragments

davefragments — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:54:00 +0000

Just keep knocking them down. That’s all you can do.

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:03:45 +0000

Be aware though that some of these will claim that Snopes or Urban Legend has already confirmed it so in those cases you have to get the real Snopes link and make sure to highlight that the previous statement that Snopes had confirmed is in fact a lie.

By: pmorlan

pmorlan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:52:22 +0000

Everytime I get one I hit the reply to all button and give everyone on the email sent to me a link to snopes. I figure at least I let those people know that it’s false and if they forwarded the original to other people sometimes there is a chance that they will feel guilty and foward the snopes link to those people too. I think the Obama campaign should create their own email to alert the public about this problem and do it in a humorous way so that people will want to forward it to friends. For some reason people love to forward funny emails.

By: timr

timr — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:38:30 +0000

I have been following elections since the Kennedy/Nixon election in 1960. I have noticed a very disturbing trend over about the last 20-30 years. The republicians have gone dirty,acting more like a protection racket than a political party; the use of the poison pen, the anonymous letter/E-mail, the rage to win-no matter what-use of lies and rumors against the dems, (along with the silly and sophomoric democRAT that they use at every chance). The use(willingly as far as I can see)of the MSM to spread scurrilous stories, the Atwater/rove meme. Always trying to spread rumors about the dems, but never tell anything positive about your own campaign, what the vision and policies might be. Never ever debate the dems on what the policies are, but claim that if they don’t agree with you then they are for(communists or terrorists, take your choice). I saw this up close and personal when Newt came to my home town to campaign for the republician candidate who was running against the incumbent Bart Stupak-D, Mi. The rep candidate-who I can’t even remember the name of-and Newt tried very hard to slime and throw mud at Bart, but her only vision for the district-other than wanting to win simply because she wanted to be the congressperson-was to build a 4 lane freeway across Mi’s UP. Which, if she had bothered to ask, no one wanted. In the end she lost every precinct in the district,and even lost her home town-her family was very big in state republician politics, and most of the counties in the lower peninsula that were in the district were very republician-yet they continue to vote for Stupek no matter what republician heavyweight comes in to try and help smear him.

By: TAGG

TAGG — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:33:47 +0000

And of course there’s this hidden camera shot of McSame’s brain trust. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008.....isors.html

By: Bluetoe2

Bluetoe2 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:31:40 +0000

It would seem that even though progressives own the internet the fascists have mastered it. Unless there is serious pushback Obama is going to find himself blindsided.

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:52:16 +0000

Maybe we should start asking the media why they are not following up on who is sending these emails or are they afraid of missing the barbecue?

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:49:02 +0000

I think we need some publicity on this subject the GOP has really lost the Silent Majority this time. Its the MSM who is out of touch on the issues and we have the polling to prove it.

Boring and middle class as selling points to win an election? I never thought I would ever right that:)

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:46:47 +0000

Email the person back and ask them how much more will McCain have to raise taxes if he keeps his promise to keep troops in Iraq?
Ask him whats cheaper hybrid cars only in America or more war?
Ask him why are we in Iraq when Ossama is in Pakistan?