A while back I wrote a diary, "The red-baiting has begun," which forewarned of red-baiting tactics that would be employed against Obama’s candidacy. These attacks have begun to escalate and we all should be aware of them.
While it might lead to retching and incontinence I recommend that everyone begin listening to Hannity on your local Fascist radio network. Today he had the ass-licking right-wing toady Dick Morris on who spewed out a litany of red-baiting charges against Obama, the whole shebang from Wright and Ayers to Michele’s comments and the new charge that all of Obama’s campaign staff and advisors are unreconstructed communists and radicals from the 60s. Of course Obama is a Manchuarian candidate of the far-left who has cloaked his anti-American agenda in the Kumbaya prose of his deceptive speeches. Morris said that McCain won’t be able to float these charges in his campaign because he has to present himself as the reasonable alternative to Obama’s Marxist misrepresentations. It must be left to the likes of pit-bulls such as Hannity to lead the charge. Hannity replied that he was happy to take up the challenge to "Stop the Radical Obama Express" (direct quote). We can make light of these pathetic attempts to bamboozle the American public at our own peril. We must confront these charges head-on, not by backsliding into tacit acceptance that while the charges are false if true they would disqualify Obama from the presidency, but by asserting that Obama stands for the progressive values, continually disparaged by the right-wing echo machine, that have made America great – a unionized workplace, social security, medicare, the public sector service industries (K-12 schools, community colleges, public universities, libraries, first responders such as fire fighters, the national guard, police, paramedics, etc. etc.). Hannity and his ilk would privatize all the above and have begun to do so to the country’s detriment (Katrina, Blackwater, Haliburton, etc. etc.). Don’t let the fascists define this campaign by the red-baiting tactics of the past.