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Maybe I'm preaching to the choir: What to do when you get "hit piece" emails about Sen.Obama

By Dorothiea - Sep 18th, 2008 at 1:43 pm EDT

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Maybe I'm preaching to the choir here, but surely somebody can use these links and information to rebut the ugly stuff that people forward without bothering to check. Maybe they just don't care if it's true, but I'm happy to be working on a campaign that doesn't have to lie to get elected. We have the issues on our side; we just need to be ready to hit back and hit back HARD when people send us this crap.But here's an excerpt..... Yes, it's long, but there's so much material!!!One good resource is Obama himself. Wondering if some of the crazy claims are true about his proposals? Go to the issues secton of his Web site and find out for yourself: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/He also has a site specifically devoted to fighing smears, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be able to keep up with the new ones. Still, there's good info here: http://www.fightthesmears.comAnother good resource is Snopes.com - the urban legends Web site. You can often find a total debunking of one of these hit piece emails here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/You can do the same thing with John McCain at Snopes, and I urge you to do so. There are so many valid reasons to vote Democratic this year. We don't have to lie. You'd have me believe that the military thinks the Iraq war is just dandy. So it's pretty amazing that the majority of campaign contributions from deployed military people are going to Obama. Could it be that those troops who give 6 to 1 to Obama hate America? Or maybe they see the folly of pouring good money after bad and losing even more of our soldiers. (http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/08/troops-deployed-abroad-give-61.html) I think that the mistake that was made is taking the country to war based on the lie that Saddam Hussein was responsible for September 11. Sarah Palin and McCain are still peddling it. (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/inteldump/2008/09/palin_iraq_and_911.html) What's up with that? The mistake was not sending enough troops to adequately handle an occupied country. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Shinseki) The mistake was signing our country up on the list of regimes who TORTURE PEOPLE. (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-countries-knew-about-cia-torture-flights-524366.html) It's a LIE that Sarah Palin "opposed the bridge to nowhere" (http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed7/idUSN3125537020080901") and just like it's a LIE that Obama is, as you claimed previously, a Muslim. (http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp) And if he is, so what? Remember that pesky Article 6 of the Constitution that outlaws a religious test for public office?'course it's not a LIE that Palin's minister is a bigwig in Jews for Jesus and that her church hosted a speaker who claimed that terrorism in Israel is because Jews haven't embraced Christianity. (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13098.html)It's not a LIE that McCain's tax plan will give $269,364 in tax breaks to those making more than $2.87 MILLION, but only to $319 to middle class families making between $37,596 and $66,354. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/09/ST2008060900950.html) And it's not a LIE that McCain plans to tax the health care benefits of people with employer-sponsored health plans (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/11/politics/animal/main4440453.shtml) or that the Republican platform calls for abortion to be outlawed in ALL CASES - even rape and incest. Even if the woman/girl is the same age as our daughters. That really doesn't work for me.The GOP platform also calls for abstinenance-only sex education. We see how well that's worked in other prominent families, right? (http://www.rcrc.org/issues/election08r.cfm) That's not change I can believe it. That's change that simply unbelievable.Support any candidate you want. Vote for whomever you want. Fine. But do it on the facts, not poorly-sourced viral emails and videos. And remember that we're electing the President of the UNITED STATES.I think if someone sends out something that's inaccurate and doesn't bother to check the facts - which a quick trip to Snopes.com can do - then I'm not confident that the sender will correct him or herself later. So I reply to everyone. Or even add a few if the spirit moves me.McCain is running on a platform that supports a criminal regime that makes unnecessary war, tortures people, spies on its citizens, holds people without charge in violation of the Constitution of the United States, and has a president who agrees, along with his advisors, with Richard Nixon that "If the President does it, it's not illegal." (http://afjjusticewatch.blogspot.com/2008/04/when-president-does-it-that-means-that.html)That's just wrong.You may be happy living in a police state, but I'm not. I demand more from my government. Keep in mind that one of the Big Ten is to not bear false witness. I think everyone should check these forwarded emails for accuracy at the snopes.com urban legends Web site before sending them on. A campaign that uses its candidate's record of service and HONOR can do no less.
Happy rebutting!

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