The Swiftboating has begun. This will be the final attack on Obama and will be the nastiest yet.
First the ground was laid by the viral emails insisting that Obama was a Muslim (which he is not).
Second came Obama’s tenuous links Weather Underground founder Bill Ayers (who was never convicted of a crime) and "paling around with terrorists". And McCain’s questions, ‘who is Barack Obama, really?’
Third is the pointed emphasis at McCain’s recent rallys, of Barack Obama’s middle name, Hussein, to tie him to Saddam.
Fourth and still to come, you can bet on repeated showings of Rev Wright’s sermon where he says ‘goddamn America’. Count on it.
They want voters to connect all these dots, to paint Barack Obama, yes Barack Hussein Obama, as a scary and un-American ‘other’, maybe a Manchurian candidate who has secret evil plans. Too scary to vote for.
So fight back. Know that Barack was named after his Kenyan father. He is Barack Hussein Obama II. Know that his middle name means ‘handsome one’... a very common Arabic name. http://en.wikipedia.org/...
He was named after his father. Just as John Sidney McCain III was named after his. He did not pick his middle name, his father did.
Not so scary. No big deal.
This attack depends on people’s deepest fears and hatreds. We can fight it if it is all brought out into the sunshine. So de-mystify it. Meet it head on. Speak it out loud so we all get over it.
Know Barack’s story, how his Kenyan father traveled to America to attend the best colleges, where he married his white mother, American college student Ann Dunham.
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Obama, Sr., a black Kenyan of Nyang’oma Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham, a White American from Wichita, Kansas.[2] His parents met while attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student.[3] They separated when he was two years old and later divorced.[4] Obama's father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982.[5] After her divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro's home country of Indonesia in 1967, where Obama attended local schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old. He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School from the fifth grade in 1971 until his graduation from high school in 1979.[6] Obama's mother returned to Hawaii in 1972 for several years and then back to Indonesia for her fieldwork. She died of ovarian cancer in 1995.[7]
Not like John Sidney McCain III, pampered son and grandson of 4-star admirals, owner of 8 homes and 13 vehicles, who married a beer heiress worth over $100M.
In these trying economic times, remember the words of Chris Rock. "Vote for the guy with one house."
(thanks to David Bender for inspiring this post)