What if Barack Obama received an endorsement from a known 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist and did not condemn them? The outlandish rumors that Senator Obama is a closet Muslim would only escalate. If Senator Obama failed to condemn this person’s views on the 9/11 attacks, he would be condemned by Democrats and Republicans alike and would lose his presidential campaign in a landslide. Nothing would save him from there on out.
Why does Senator John McCain get a free ride?
It turns out that the person who wrote the smear Obama Nation is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, and what’s worse is that the McCain campaign won’t condemn him or the book he has written.
I knew that somebody would write a book titled Obama Nation. It was only a matter of time. McCain supporters will probably be chanting Obama Nation at the Republican National Convention. Let’s see how that fairs in "No-More-Bush Country." According to Mail Online, "Mr. Corsi claims Mr. Obama is covering up his ties to Islam, hasn’t properly answered questions on when he stopped taking marijuana and cocaine and has close links to Communists and black-power groups." None of these claims are true, and Obama’s campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor has condemned the book, saying "this book is nothing but a series of lies that were long ago discredited, written by an individual who was discredited when he wrote a similar book to help George Bush and Dick Cheney get re-elected four years ago."
But Senator McCain does not seem to mind that the book is attacking Senator Obama because it adds fuel to the fire. Lies from this book will make it to the internet and soon hearsay will become truth in the eyes of under-informed Americans. The internet is a dangerous place: it should be more so for President Bush and Dick Cheney who I assume are unaware of the existence of video tape. They can say one thing one day and the exact opposite a week later, and the American people are kept in the dark. Also, Senator McCain’s flip flops have not been exposed by the mainstream media. He even flip flopped on torture, an issue that nobody ever thought he would waver from. However, when a book entitled Obama Nation is published, under-informed people jump on the opportunity to buy it. Instead of digging for facts, they begin digging for dirt.
Jerome Corsi’s book is a best-seller because right-wingers all over the country are looking for more ways to smear Barack Obama. I guess that the one liners about latte drinking liberal line is getting old (I for one do not even drink coffee) and right winger always need new material to spread on Yahoo message boards. They get their information from people with little if any moral fiber, like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly, and now Jerome Corsi. Though these right-wingers are smearing Barack Obama as anti-American and unpatriotic, they are purchasing a book written by Jerome Corsi, who swift boated Senator John Kerry and is a member of the 9/11 Truth movement. Corsi believes that the United States government played a role in destroying the World Trade Center, and even appeared on Info Wars, a show hosted by 9/11 conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. And this man is the hero of the right? He is no hero, he is an enemy of freedom and all that America stands for. Demanding truth from our leaders is one thing, but spreading smears and falsehoods destroys our democracy, and we can’t allow it.