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Obama camp releases 41-pg doc debunking new "swiftboat" book

huffingtonpost.com — As promised, Barack Obama's campaign is hitting back hard against smear author Jerome Corsi's NYT best-selling book The Obama Nation. In a 41-page PDF document entitled Unfit for Publication - a riff on Corsi's 2004 Unfit for Command, which targeted John Kerry - the campaign documents every false claim they have been able in Corsi's current tome.

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  • thejoshuablog, on 08/14/2008, -25/+174THIS is how you deal with scumbags like this.
    • Biller13, on 08/15/2008, -31/+13Agreed, the only thing he didn't answer was the part on Obama's cocaine use. But most people voting for Obama don't really care about that so I guess there was no point.
      • CryRightardCry, on 08/15/2008, -10/+26I guess most people voting for Obama would rather have a little nose candy rather than the lies and corruption and lying to start wars. Oh, and the murder of thousands of innocent Iraqis.
        Yeah, I'd rather Obama get high once in a while, not lie to America rather than some addled old warmonger.
      • cygnus2112, on 08/15/2008, -22/+6Given Obama's recent remarks about Iran, Israel, Georgia and the like - it seems like Obamapuppet would have voted along party lines to invade Iraq back in 2003. Thing is, most Obama-zealots refuse to believe that.

        The two-party system is one party. I have to sort of laugh at those who think that Obama would do anything differently than McCain once in office.

        Whatever the majority is behind, I question. Because the majority is usually wrong. Thanks media.
      • rchargel, on 08/15/2008, -1/+13It's hard to make that claim considering Obama was actively denouncing the war back in 2003. I remember him speaking at an anti-war rally that I attended only a few months before the invasion. I suppose it was easier to take that stance when he was merely a state-senator and not in national office.
      • OwdenBowden, on 08/15/2008, -15/+4Watch what you say on Digg about Obama because this is the home of the Obama Brown-shirts and they will send you ass to a Obamanation concentration camp where they will either, Torture you, kill you or re-educate you into the Obama bot you should be.

        I on the other hand am not afraid to take on the Obama Machine and call it like it is. He is a Socialist not a democrat. He is a lover and friend of Islam and the Islamic Terrorist (and their networks); He is a flip flopper and would lie in order to get what he wants from whom ever he wants. He has no respect for the United States of America - what the country was founded on, its laws, its rights, its constitution and all of the symbols. He is not even an American citizen (I too can photoshop a birth certificate). ANYONE who votes this scumbag into office should be tried for treason.

        I am not endorsing McCain but I will state that he did give up a large portion of his life for his Country. Where as Obama would give up his country.

        I don't care if you Digg me up or down as Digg has become a JOKE and a Land of ObamaIdiots.
      • anstice85, on 08/15/2008, -0/+6Corsi supporters are running wild in this thread.

        http://digg.com/politics/Damage_control_as_Obama_t ...
      • DemonWasp, on 08/15/2008, -0/+5@OwdenBowden: Do you have proof for any of these claims? Because if not, stop wasting our time and screen space.
      • cygnus2112, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1"It's hard to make that claim considering Obama was actively denouncing the war back in 2003."

        No it's not:

        "Since taking office in January 2005, [Obama] has voted for four separate war appropriations, totaling more than $300 billion."

    • superkendall, on 08/15/2008, -40/+8It doesn't even address all the points the book raises, and mostly attacks the author!

      You mean to say that you deal with scumbags by strawman and ad-hominem attacks?
      • stagmire, on 08/15/2008, -3/+30Umm, you might want to actually look at it before you take another mental *****: http://obama.3cdn.net/a74586f9067028c40a_5km6vrqwa ...

        29 pages detail factual inaccuracies in the book. Only 5 pages concern the author himself.

        OWNED!!!
      • SpacePoet, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1That was a very interesting read. And the pages on the author are either reviews about the book or his own words taken from FreeRepublic.com. After reading this report it is obvious the guy is a raging ***** who has no shame.
    • pitlord, on 08/15/2008, -38/+9By releasing a 41 page response that never answers a single question raised in Mr. Corsi's book?
      >.>
      The book cites over 700 sources that prove Barak Obama was lying about having been a Muslim, about his radical communist history. It proves that Barak Obama worked to pass legislation to ensure that a baby who survives a late term abortion completely unharmed and alive could be discarded with the trash and not be afforded the protection of the U.S. Constitution.
      o.o
      He is working on a law to allow a baby to be killed AFTER IT SURVIVES IT'S OWN ABORTION!
      >.>
      I'm sorry but that is just horrific. Any baby that can get through an abortion in one piece could kick Chuck Norris' ass and is just as much human as any one of us Killing that person is just plain murder.
      -_-
      Anyway the only response the liberals have to Jerome Corsi is to call him names. The bottom line is, if Corsi's book is so "wrong" why can't the Obama campaign actually respond to all of the questions he raises in "The Obama Nation?"
      o.O
      Thank G-d I will merit watching the Obama campaign self-destruct. We just might be able to avoid a global disaster if we can keep up the good fight against all of the evil in the world.
      • stagmire, on 08/15/2008, -5/+4"He is working on a law to allow a baby to be killed AFTER IT SURVIVES IT'S OWN ABORTION!"

        Awesome if this is true. I fully support such a law.
      • charm803, on 08/15/2008, -3/+19Wow. You are delusional.

        Next time to lie, you should at least pretend to show your sources.
      • rchargel, on 08/15/2008, -0/+6A baby surviving a late-term abortion is about as likely as you surviving being mauled by a bear, then a tiger, then a lion, then being shot in the head, then being stabbed, then being drowned and finally being strapped to a nuclear warhead before detonation. I'm wondering how often this happens that anybody would really feel the need to pass a law covering the eventuality. That's like passing a law to ban people from giving birth to alien zombies, it's just not really an agenda item. And while I am a liberal and will be voting for Obama in November, though neither he nor Hillary were anywhere near my first choice, I seriously doubt any politician (regardless of party) would vote FOR killing babies before an election. Please cite your sources (credible ones only please).
      • Gutterpunk, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3"He is working on a law to allow a baby to be killed AFTER IT SURVIVES IT'S OWN ABORTION!"?

        I hope they make a law to kill the parents of any baby able to survive their own abortions as well!

        We can't have people spawning super invincible babies like that...
    • Lythium, on 08/15/2008, -1/+8This made me regain a small measure of respect for his campaign management, though they still need to really step it up if they want to widen Obama's meager lead in the polls.
    • catcher6250, on 08/15/2008, -1/+15The first 9 of 11 footnotes in Corsi's book refer to other works written by Corsi

      What a ***** joke.
      • thejimmyo, on 08/15/2008, -0/+13He also cites to anonymous bloggers. It's completely ridiculous.
    • BROWNS004, on 08/15/2008, -8/+3Obama is a great guy, he doesn't lie! He said he was against FISA! And he didn't support it, right? Obama said he was the Iraq War, and he wants to bring the troops home immediately, right?

      When are you Obama supporters going to wake up and realize this man is not the Holy Saint you make him out to be? Every time he opens his mouth he insults your intelligence...
      • StarlessKnight, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4No, you're insulting the intelligence of those you want to 'help' by insinuating they're not capable of seeing that Obama isn't a messiah and that he can be or is just as flawed as any other person or politician. If Obama's not the answer, McCain sure isn't, so propose your viable alternative candidate (and I doubt most people off the internet believe in rallying to such a person, but one could always try summoning the grass roots campaign for it to work).
      • Suzilla, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3@BROWNS004

        I suggest you educate yourself as to what a "strawman" argument is. The only one calling Obama a "saint" or "messiah" or other such hyperbolic aphorisms are the same ones who are attacking him with these terms.

        As for FISA, their are two very important things to keep in mind:

        1) It makes no mention of immunity from criminal prosecution. The companies might be off the hook for paying money damages, however, their management can still go to jail for what they've done.

        2) In order for the telecoms to be granted immunity, they must provide written documentation from the White House that says the telecoms were acting under instructions from Bush and with the understanding that they'd be held harmless. This is prima facie evidence that can be used against Bush for suborning violations of federal law -- an IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE.
      • SpacePoet, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2He is against FISA but there is a thing called compromise, it's part of the democratic process. There were hundreds of parts in that bill and eventually you have to go with the version that most closely resembles the one you want passed. He voted against the immunity (unlike mccain) but they were unable to get that part to pass. If he had filibustered the smear machine would have torn him a new one for hindering a national security bill. It was a lose lose situation so he chose to compromise.
    • NighthawkBlack, on 08/15/2008, -3/+1Indeed. This is how you deal with worthless globalist stooges. Go Corsi!
  • lsumed, on 08/14/2008, -19/+76Coming out swinging.
    • winnestow, on 08/15/2008, -31/+3BHO: 1. Has never run anything larger than the Harvard L. Rev. and his Senate office. 2. Has owned exactly two common stocks in his entire life. 3. Has never worked for himself. 4. Has never been in military. Qualified to be leader of free world?
      • lsumed, on 08/15/2008, -2/+30Yes.
      • winnestow, on 08/15/2008, -14/+4care to elobarate so i can refute you?
      • charm803, on 08/15/2008, -3/+30George W. Bush
        1. Ran an oil business into the ground. (Love the irony!)
        2. His oil company had strong ties to Salem bin Laden, brother of Osama.
        3. Has never worked for himself, only used money from his daddy (and still ran it into the ground.)
        4. Not only did he NOT serve in the military, he ditched his service requirements, even though he WAS in the military. Bush failed to meet the attendance requirements established by Federal law, Department of Defense regulations, and Air Force policies and procedures for "obligated" members of the Air National Guard, and the Air Force requirement for an annual physical examination for pilots.

        Qualified to be leader of the free world?

        Obviously not.

        I'll take my chances with someone who has brains, class, and thinks before he speaks and acts.

        We don't need another bluthering idiot.
      • lajaw, on 08/15/2008, -15/+2Even Obama says he isn't qualified.

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj6syUD1I4U
      • lajaw, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1cowards
    • nycmac247, on 08/15/2008, -4/+2Out of the closet with Larry Sinclair?
  • barbiesnow, on 08/14/2008, -22/+87boycott the publisher Simon and Schuster owned by CBS...
    • thatsmyaibo, on 08/15/2008, -16/+8This book is a best-seller. Like liberal Diggers would purchase this book anyways.
      • catcher6250, on 08/15/2008, -2/+5This book is being sold in bulk, so its gonna get a little dart next to it's title on the list, and people are gonna know its *****.

        Individuals aren't buying this book, Republican organizations are to give out to their members for free.
    • fsweep, on 08/15/2008, -6/+37Published by what? The "liberal media"?

      Here is the truth about McCain:

      SUBJECT: IS MCCAIN SECRETLY A WOMAN...OR EVEN WORSE?

      For the love of -od and the love of this country, you will forward this email onto all your friends and family. The fate of the free world may rest solely on this information becoming mainstream. If we can not stop this, I pray for all of our souls. -od speed!

      I have confirmed these facts through my reliable sources. I suggest you take it to heart – feel free to confirm these disturbing truths. Please print out copies and hand them out or mail them to friends and neighbors without access to the Interwebs.

      Who is John McCain?

      US Presidential candidate, John SIDNEY McCain, was born in Panama (thus the reason he doesn't mind his people flooding across our borders). He tries to hide his middle name by constantly referring to himself as John S. McCain. Do not let this fool you. John SIDNEY McCain, the probable presidential runner-up, has a woman's middle name. At the very least, the concealment of his middle name, SIDNEY, raises serious questions about his true gender and whether he is a SECRET woman. He has admitted that economics is not an issue he understands well. A certain gender is well known to be less inclined towards math and numbers. Then there are his $500 shoes. If elected, it's very likely McCain will institute mandatory lingerie pillow AND tickle fights.

      John SIDNEY McCain was raised by parents of Scots-Irish and English ancestry. At their most harmless, the Irish are notorious drunks who enjoy fighting while stashing large piles of gold underneath rainbows. In the extreme, the Irish are violent TERRORISTS attempting to overthrow the government. While no evidence exists explicitly linking McCain to a TERROR organization, he has never denied membership in the IRA. It is also unclear whether he or any of his drunken relatives ever knew anyone who might know someone who once interacted with or passed in the street a member of the IRA. Given the challenges facing our country, we need confirmation that McCain is not affiliated nor knows people affiliated with TERROR organizations.

      Born in 1936, John SIDNEY McCain moved around a lot throughout his early years, which coincided with World War II. The exact details of McCain's behavior during this time are sketchy at best. It is interesting to note there is no record of McCain denouncing the actions of the Nazis while they were committing genocides. He was noticeably silent. He may not have been a NAZI SYNTHESIZER, but this raises doubts about which side he was rooting for during World War II. This also raises questions about his potential loyalties as president, given our current wars and the wars he promises to start.

      John SIDNEY McCain served as a naval pilot during the Vietnam War. While executing a mission in 1967, McCain was captured in Hanoi, where he stayed in the Hanoi Hilton for 5 long years. McCain's fellow soldiers battled valiantly against the evils of Communism while McCain was lounging in a hotel (most likely alternating between the pool and the hot tub to enhance the experience of both) run by Paris Hilton! If McCain had fought alongside his comrades, we may have never needed Rocky to defeat Communism.

      After Vietnam, McCain returned to the US to discover his first wife with horrific injuries from an auto accident. He promptly began an affair with a woman 17 years his junior, eventually divorcing his disfigured first wife in 1980. As President, McCain will be faced with a similar situation, given the current wreck that is our country. He will be tempted to fool around with other countries. It will just be a matter of time until he divorces the US for a newer, younger, and more attractive country that offers him more than we can.

      During this presidential election, we must be vigilant to prevent a John SIDNEY McCain presidency.

      Can we really risk having a drunk, fighting Irishman who may or may not have ties to TERRORIST organizations? When trouble times arrive, will McCain fight for us or will he fall into the arms of another more-youthful country that looks strikingly like his current country? Do we really want to trust this country to someone who may secretly be a woman or a NAZI SYNTHESIZER?

      Please forward to everyone you know. We can not have this (wo)man leading our country.

      Your Friend,
      • shawn650, on 08/15/2008, -0/+9Lol
      • bubba9999, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4Falco used Nazi synthesizers in Rock Me Amadeus.
      • thespiff, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4Actually that was pretty funny. Where did you steal that from?
    • pintomp3, on 08/15/2008, -1/+23"Obama Nation" is published by Threshold Editions, a division of Simon & Schuster that is run by Mary Matalin, the former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney.

      http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080815/ap_on_el_pr/an ...
      • thespiff, on 08/15/2008, -5/+3Whose second cousin was in Hollow Man with KEVIN BACON.
    • hivoltage815, on 08/15/2008, -1/+2How come liberals always want to boycott? Just ignore it.
  • xaoiv, on 08/15/2008, -13/+92link to pdf:

    http://obama.3cdn.net/a74586f9067028c40a_5km6vrqwa ...
    • FlaG8r, on 08/15/2008, -4/+16Include that link anywhere you have a message board signature.
    • springboks, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2Thanks - Lunchtime reading!
    • SpacePoet, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1It's actually a pretty good read, i just finished it. It's amazing how much smear is being thrown at Obama.
  • Dndlion, on 08/15/2008, -24/+58Boycott McCain. Corsi's McCain's mouthpiece.
    • birch25, on 08/15/2008, -1/+24it's really incredible many of the lies in this book. my favorites are the parts where corsi questions what's in obama's books. the obama team debunked them by...wait for it...quoting the book!

      major credit to the obama camp for getting this out there in a timely manner. don't do what kerry did and ignore the smears.
      • Lythium, on 08/15/2008, -0/+8Parents really need to quit spouting the "just ignore them; they'll go away" ***** to their kids. It didn't work with bullies in high school, and it won't work with bullies in politics.
      • corncat, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1The PDF is much less impressive if you read it and pay attention.... for example the "lie" that "Stanley Ann and Obama Senior were ever married in a church" is "refuted" by saying that Corsi "admits" that they were legally married.

        Sorry, but "legally married" is not the same as "married in a church".

        I wonder how many of the people praising this PDF have read it... or the book, for that matter.

    • Newportbeachguy, on 08/15/2008, -13/+2Corsi is not voting for McCain. He's voting the Constitutional Party.
    • robdazomba, on 08/15/2008, -2/+4At its head there rode a tall and evil shape, mounted upon a black horse… The rider was robed all in black, and black was his lofty helm; yet this was no Ringwraith but a living man. The Lieutenant of the Tower of Barad-dûr he was, and his name is remembered in no tale; for he himself had forgotten it, and he said: 'I am the Mouth of McCain.'

  • rawg, on 08/15/2008, -20/+86Once again Obama aggressively fights the smears with well documented facts and exposes his attackers as the bald-faced liars and morally corrupt bigots that they are. Hopefully, Corsi will be so thoroughly discredited that it will tarnish everyone associated with him all the way back to Rove and McCain.

    Let this be a lesson to anyone else who tries this type of ***** during the 2008 campaign.
    • TheInformer, on 08/15/2008, -31/+7In Huffingtonpost's world, it's a smear if it's against Obama but a 'fact' if the very same information or circumstance is against McCain (or Hillary for that matter).

      All hail the Messiah.
      • CryRightardCry, on 08/15/2008, -4/+21Again fail the rightards.
        If you have ANYTHING to refute it, please, post it.
        If you are just going to whine because once again the right wing is shown to be honorless liars, flush on back to LGF.
      • publiclurker, on 08/15/2008, -1/+18No, it's a fact when it's proven true and a smear when it's proven false.

        What's your real reason for hating him so much?
      • bacon_skoda, on 08/15/2008, -0/+18corsi admits there is no evidence.
        he doesn't need it.
        he's "simply pushing the questions forward. pushing the evidence forward."
        this by the way is how Kansas does science.
      • bubba9999, on 08/15/2008, -0/+8I find TheInformer's post hilarious, since the rabid right are the ones who pioneered this tactic.
    • pagno, on 08/15/2008, -8/+1BTW, its a "bold-faced" liar.
    • pdizz, on 08/15/2008, -1/+3Once again people respond more to dumbed down emotional attacks than long lists of well documented facts.

      Unfortunate but true.
  • berryessence, on 08/15/2008, -27/+13OBAMA IS GOING TOO WIN!!

    THIS IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KERRY'S CAMPAIGN AND OOBAMA'S

    FIGHTING BACK WITH DIGNITY & RESPECT
    • rrouse, on 08/15/2008, -15/+3Obama is better man then I'm because I would be so nice in a fight. I'll bring a gun to a knife fight.
      • Murdats, on 08/15/2008, -0/+14and apparently not english
      • CryRightardCry, on 08/15/2008, -1/+4You sound like you'd bring dumb to a stupid fight.

        If you are a foreigner and english is your second language I apologize. In that case I applaud you.
    • dima1109, on 08/15/2008, -7/+2Dignity and respect? How about classless sarcasm?
    • pitlord, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1I'm sure you've convinced more people by writing in all caps.
      >.>
  • onetimer, on 08/15/2008, -21/+85Don't forget this guy is also a flagrent racist AND a 9/11 truther:

    http://digg.com/political_opinion/Jerome_Corsi_sme ...

    http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Obama_Smear_Book ...
    • Carv, on 08/15/2008, -2/+9...And I thought the Digg 9/11 truthers were annoying.
    • KennMac, on 08/15/2008, -2/+16holy *****, I just dugg up a comment by onetimer. Are pigs flying?
      • Lythium, on 08/15/2008, -0/+7Na, you haven't dugg anything by JimmySpaza yet. We're still okay.
    • 99CentFreedom, on 08/15/2008, -12/+149/11 was an inside job you impudent whelp.

      www.911truth.org, get the facts ladies and gentlemen.

      Oh and Ron Paul 08!
      • Rikkochet, on 08/15/2008, -2/+12I can ALMOST feel the /s there, but I'm just not sure anymore.
      • stagmire, on 08/15/2008, -3/+20A month ago Ron Paul's idiot followers were screaming about how gold was a "hedge against inflation" at $1000/oz. Today it's trading at $799/oz.

        *stifles laughter*
      • pagno, on 08/15/2008, -3/+3Ive actually been saying that since 9/11/01.
      • lajaw, on 08/15/2008, -3/+2@stagmire- and oil is down too.
      • stagmire, on 08/15/2008, -3/+8" oil is down too."

        So? That only further highlights Ron Paul's stupidity. The whole reason you people were going ***** for gold was that you thought the dollar was going permanently south and that the US was headed for hyperinflation. Turns out you're all a bunch of know-nothings. The fact that commodities have fallen is precisely why you idiots have no business being anywhere near the wheels of government.
      • card51short, on 08/17/2008, -3/+1"
        A month ago Ron Paul's idiot followers were screaming about how gold was a "hedge against inflation" at $1000/oz. Today it's trading at $799/oz.

        *stifles laughter*"

        How's that dollar doing?

        *busts out laughing*
    • scojac, on 08/15/2008, -2/+1The word you're looking for is flagrant.
    • lajaw, on 08/15/2008, -4/+4If for one minute you think that the federal government was not complicit in 9/11 you are a fool. They may not have been directly responsible, but by allowing foreigners to ILLEGALLY overstay their visas, and having an open border policy, they are ultimately responsible for 9/11. You leftists/anarchists/fascists need to get real here. We must hold our government responsible for this.
  • vexingmodstwo, on 08/15/2008, -38/+15I've read halfway through the rebuttal and a couple of them are pretty weak. Some of this ***** is going to stick, folks.

    And from a truther, no less. Damn this is fun.
    • chesscat, on 08/15/2008, -6/+10The only ***** sticking is on the bottom of your shoes.
    • EtherGnat, on 08/15/2008, -3/+16"a couple of them are pretty weak"

      Please do share. I've been reading through and all of them seem pretty solid to me.
    • CryRightardCry, on 08/15/2008, -7/+9Like which ones?

      Same old rightard shill.
      Never ANYTHING to back up your claims.
      Just whining and crying and claims you never can back up.
      The Army needs rightards!
      • DreadPirate, on 08/15/2008, -7/+6Just like the insults and rants that you can never back up, CRC? The left needs cowards like you that run from any discussion, too scared to actually engage in real debate!
      • DreadPirate, on 08/16/2008, -1/+3Oh, look. Some of CRC's buddies came to digg me down. Funny how not a single one of them could leave a message refuting my claims about him. How unsurprising.
    • vexingmodstwo, on 08/15/2008, -3/+8The Ayers "rebuttal" is pretty weak and doesn't address the fact that Ayers is an avowed communist and a domestic terrorist. Their response is that he's part of the "establishment" now? C'mon.

      And Obama was in Florida the day Wright gave the crazy sermon? As if Wright only ever went off once? Please.
      • rthakidn, on 08/15/2008, -2/+3Well Crying??
      • vexingmodstwo, on 08/15/2008, -2/+2Still waiting Cry and Ether...
      • DreadPirate, on 08/16/2008, -1/+3You'll never get a response from CRC - he's far too cowardly to actually respond to anyone. He, more than anyone else on digg, specializes in the "post and run" attack. He'll leave an insult-laden post with few if any facts to back it up, and never be seen in that particular thread.

        He hasn't even had the balls to respond to me despite the number of times I have called him on his behavior. Instead, some of his little friends just come by and digg me down instead - and even *they* don't have the courage to respond to my post. An anonymous digg is the best they can manage.
  • dBass, on 08/15/2008, -17/+32The ditto heads are echoing the ***** repug talking points as per usual: "It's a work of scholarship and is very revealing", blah, blah, blah. corsi doesn't even lie as good as some 4th graders and expects to turn an election?

    Great to see Sen. Obama's team so quick on the draw - as usual. Right about now, corsi and the putrid lot he festers with are slowly realizing, Obama's no ***** John Kerry!

    Oh, please, please, please, let it be Wesley Clark:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Clark
    • B08ama, on 08/15/2008, -1/+9To underestimate the threat is to allow it to grow and advance; I would fight rather than ignore, as Neoconservatives have thrived on ignorance.
    • bubba9999, on 08/15/2008, -0/+6"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

      -George Santayana
  • superkendall, on 08/15/2008, -28/+14Yet another HuffPo hatchet job? How about some real reading. Like, here come the taxes:

    http://www.nysun.com/editorials/obamas-war-on-wome ...
    • CryRightardCry, on 08/15/2008, -4/+10Submit it to digg if you like.
      I'm sure you and your rightard pals will shout it to each other.
      For now these comments are regarding the lies and untruths of the book.
      While I'm not suprised you can't follow along and have nothing to say to actually defend such dishonesty, it gets tiring seeing you trying to change the subject all the time.
      • superkendall, on 08/15/2008, -8/+4I'm not a "right" anything, I'm a libertarian opposed to huge government expansion and related taxation. Had enough of that under Bush thanks, I don't need another four years (Obama being far worse in that regard than McCain who at least is a fiscal conservative).
      • neognostic, on 08/15/2008, -1/+4McCain is a fiscal conservative? hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
        This link shows which party is better at controlling debt. (It's not McSame's party)
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S. ...
    • wampalord, on 08/15/2008, -1/+4That article has the most retarded presumption at the end of it. Because he has different tax policies for single people and for couples, he's attacking women and forcing them to stay in the home? That makes no sense.
  • dBass, on 08/15/2008, -15/+39Best comment I read on this so far: Print out the PDF and insert it into corsi's slander rag for free at your friendly neighborhood bookstore. A corollary to that, insert a card with the link to the PDF to save money and trees while being more discreet.
    • bacon_skoda, on 08/15/2008, -2/+5or as the Obama team would put it..
      it should be in the Fiction section.
    • Gorgonzola44, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1tinyurl.com/obamabook
      That should make it easier..
    • pitlord, on 08/15/2008, -3/+2Yeah great idea, everybody do this so the rest of the world can see that Obama does not have any valid arguments against the points raised in Corsi's book. Not to mention what an idiot douche bag Obama supporters are for being stupid enough to think Obama's response is even rational.
      ^^
      ROFL
      (8^D
      Obama's gonna loo-oooose. McCain is gonna wiii-iiin.
      (X^P
  • ZenMojo, on 08/15/2008, -13/+19Mary Matlin called it a "piece of scholarship," shying away from saying there were any actual facts in it that could be verified.

    I think she was one letter off.
  • TheInformer, on 08/15/2008, -43/+16Jerome Corsi revealed information that Obama and his minions have tried hard to suppress. Too bad. Corsi's previous book revealed information about John Kerry that the Kerry campaign had been able to keep hidden up to that point.

    Cat's out of the bag.

    Oh yes, Huffingtonpost SPAM. Buried.
    • Drogoganor, on 08/15/2008, -8/+19LOL

      Get a clue.
      • bobh1234, on 08/15/2008, -11/+3Why don't you get a clue.. Your blind following of Obama will lead this country to ruins.
      • treehugger87, on 08/15/2008, -6/+2@bobh1234

        Country already IS in ruins. Look around you. We are a 2nd world country at best and there is worse yet to come.
      • thh204, on 08/15/2008, -2/+4LOL second world country? Have you seen how full the malls, restaurants, movie theaters, sporting events and bars are? Recession my ass. Americans still have the best living conditions in the world (proven by the fact that many millions are still emigrating into this country)
      • neognostic, on 08/15/2008, -2/+3His book on Kerry was as bad with actual facts as this book, the guy is an ass kissing zealot of the neocons and anybody that believes him is even worse.
      • rthakidn, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1Nice comeback.
  • wastedfish, on 08/15/2008, -23/+12Bitches be trippin and Obama will throw dem hoes in their place

    word
  • supertaliman, on 08/15/2008, -17/+12YES! Show them you got the balls Obama! Let everyone know how you intend to pwn all noobs who try to attack you.
  • xtensive, on 08/15/2008, -16/+25Why isn't this considered slander?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libel
    • winnestow, on 08/15/2008, -17/+8slander is oral. libel is written. the truth is neither
      • TotalHalibut, on 08/15/2008, -4/+3Actually that's not true at all. The truth can be both slander or libel, it just happens to be a legal defense against both in court. Doesn't stop it actually being slander/libel. Internet lawyers go home please.
    • noogymmij, on 08/15/2008, -3/+15When you enter into the public eye... running for president DEFINITELY qualifies as that.... you forego some of that protection
    • joe122370, on 08/15/2008, -15/+8truth isn't slander
    • twoheadedboy00, on 08/15/2008, -1/+4For a public figure to maintain an action for slander/libel against a publication, the plaintiff has to show New York Times malice. Proving malice is a bit tricky.
    • NighthawkBlack, on 08/15/2008, -1/+0Because it's all true.
  • rowjimmy, on 08/15/2008, -8/+37this, of course, assumes that the target audiences of smear campaigns might be swayed by literature & reason.
    • tewstep, on 08/15/2008, -2/+9*sigh* sadly, u r correct.
    • SpacePoet, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1I had my friend of 15 years just last night telling me he wouldnt vote for Obama because it sounds like Osama. I am still trying to wash that stupid out of my mind. And he was dead ***** serious. Thank god there is still time that the voters can learn about the nominees and their views instead of bumper sticker opinions.
  • kontraire, on 08/15/2008, -22/+27Yeah, I've looked it over...the Obama campaign pretty much whips this little weasel's bitch ass.
  • LukasSmith, on 08/15/2008, -36/+13Well he couldn't "debunk" his polygamist father who had wife and kids in africa went to Hawaii ***** Obamas Mom and an English teacher at the same time. Then went back to Africa where he became a alcoholic and lost every job he ever had. He died after two car wrecks. the first took his legs. The second his life. He left behind multiple wives and children. Yeah Obama failed to mention this "fact" in "dreams of my father." Apparently he was dreaming when he wrote that book. I especially love how Obama in his own book makes it sound like his father was forced to return to Africa. ahahaa. Deluded Obama? Change you can believe in? not. Like his books Obama is a fairy tale.
    • Drogoganor, on 08/15/2008, -6/+20I'm sorry, I couldn't get past how ***** crazy and obsessed you are.
    • LukasSmith, on 08/15/2008, -20/+7Yes I am obsessed with truth. Odd how I know more about a candidate I am not going to vote for then you. Odd or sad? oh well.
      • Drogoganor, on 08/15/2008, -6/+12It's funny, 9/11 conspiracists call themselves "truthers", but they're not really interested in the truth beyond what confirms their preconceived notions.

        Like them, you are completely full of *****.

        Also, I'm not American and I know more about these candidates than the average Republican ignoramus like you.
      • LukasSmith, on 08/15/2008, -17/+5Obviously not if you think knowing the truth about Obama's father is knowing too much.
      • Latentk, on 08/15/2008, -1/+7Bravo. Whether or not what you said is true, and I apologize I cannot confirm it due to lack of sources, you are truly an amazing debater Lukas. Masterful use of language.

        With that said, can you supply sources?
      • LukasSmith, on 08/15/2008, -7/+2http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-431908/A-d ...
      • fxu1989, on 08/15/2008, -3/+3DailyFail? Really? As a reputable source?

        rofl, ok...

        "Yes I am obsessed with truth. Odd how I know more about a candidate I am not going to vote for then you. Odd or sad? oh well."

        Who are you going to vote for?... I hope you say Ron Paul otherwise you should research more about your own candidate (seeing as how there's only one left, McCain)...
    • johnsna2, on 08/15/2008, -4/+19I'm glad you have lived Obama's life for him and can account for it.
    • phrenzy, on 08/15/2008, -4/+5Welcome to the block list you ***** nutcase. Nothing you say is of any value to anyone. I just pray that somebody stops your disturbed ass before you turn into one of those guys that starts shooting at "liberals" because they caused your miserable excuse for a life.

      Now, get yourself back to your hatefest at LGF or FreakRepublic so you can build up the courage to go out in a blaze of glory.
      • rthakidn, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1Wow phrenzy, for someone commenting on "hatefest"s, you sure have an anger problem. Your idea of open debate and exchange of ideas?? Change.
    • stagmire, on 08/15/2008, -4/+6"***** Obamas Mom and an English teacher at the same time."

      He gets my vote just for that.
    • treehugger87, on 08/15/2008, -3/+13So Obama gets in to Harvard, goes to Harvard law school, becomes a law professor, a politician, community activist US Senator and candidate for US President after coming from a broken home and you want me to vote AGAINST him?
    • LukasSmith, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1Divorces in America, and nasty divorces at that, are as common as chicken soup. The idea that he comes from a "broken home" doesn't surprise me in the least. Hell I came from a "broken home" you going to elect me president? "broken home" doesn't mean qualified to lead. Most of America has that honor. Except Obama decided to lie about it in books that were supposed to reveal Obama. When he lies about one thing what else could he be lying about? How much of his autobiographies are fairytale and how much are truth? Actually if Obama had just been honest in his books he may even have impressed me enough to bother to read all his books. I know most autobiographies written by the person themselves are self flattering, But seriously as an Obama supporter, I think you should expect better.
  • brainscab, on 08/15/2008, -9/+45They have made the author of the book the topic of discussion. Good tactic
    • bubba9999, on 08/15/2008, -6/+12After refuting his fictitious claims.
    • SpacePoet, on 08/15/2008, -3/+2The only thing about the author in the pdf are reviews to the book and his own words pulled from freeper blogs. It's good to know where the information is coming from.
  • OfNumbers, on 08/15/2008, -13/+6So if you think Bush had anything to do with 9/11 actually happening, you're now a "Truther" which is undoubtedly bad.
    • superkendall, on 08/15/2008, -5/+5That sir is correct.

      Damn Truther *spit* I put you right up there with skinheads for the most misguided slime humanity has yet produced.
      • demizer, on 08/15/2008, -1/+4The hate in that last post is scathing. I don't understand why people hate "Truthers" so much?

        I consider myself a "Truther," (even though it has a negative connotation to it) but I am far from a skinhead. ( Although, I do shave my head bald, but for cosmetic purposes.) :)

        I just CAN NOT believe the biased report the 911 "commission" released. It did not answer the correct questions sufficiently for me, and on top of that, many of the people on that commission were picked by Bush himself, who I find to be a war criminal in his own right. (just look at Iraq)

        In the middle ages people were burned at the stake for believing the earth was round, they were punished by those who stuck with the traditional beliefs that the earth was indeed flat.

        In time, the truth would be told.
    • scoottie, on 08/15/2008, -4/+1honestly if you didnt see something like 9/11 coming starting with US policy during the Clinton years then you are blind
      • stagmire, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1I guess a couple thousand New York investment bankers were blind.
  • tewstep, on 08/15/2008, -10/+9glad to see it.
  • samimnot, on 08/15/2008, -16/+39I thought this summed up Jerome Corsi perfectly:

    "a discredited, fringe bigot"

    This guy makes a living off of the uneducated...period!
    • dazparkour, on 08/15/2008, -1/+2EVERYONE in a capitalistic society makes money of the uneducated.
  • Kcaj, on 08/15/2008, -26/+5Somebody please put a hit out on McCain and get this BS over with.
    • Anzat, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1knock knock
    • SpacePoet, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1Why? there is a line around the block of slimeballs waiting to take his place. Might as well take a weak and pathetic one and have fun with it.
  • harrisbradley, on 08/15/2008, -23/+11Sorry they're both douche-bags. Ron Paul.
    • stagmire, on 08/15/2008, -2/+4I think you're confused. Ron Paul is just one person.
  • rebotfc, on 08/15/2008, -11/+31He is doing everything that John Kerry didn't, tackling slander head on instead of weakly pretending it was never said in the first place.
    • winnestow, on 08/15/2008, -14/+2john kerry knew his lies were indefensible
  • LonewackoDotCom, on 08/15/2008, -19/+12Their PDF misquotes Corsi in order to support their claim that he's a "Truther":

    http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007909.html
  • mike17032, on 08/15/2008, -21/+15Spam, and ***** propaganda.

    Buried.
    • diggapleeeze, on 08/15/2008, -4/+4Get used to it if McCain wins.
    • byronm, on 08/15/2008, -1/+4I'm glad you used that gray matter in your head to actually refute anything or say anything intelligent or add to the discussion or even show an iota of fact for or against the document that i'm SURREEEE you didn't bother to read.

      Way to blow it
  • NotGibbwake, on 08/15/2008, -29/+15He wont touch this one, the real expose of Obama:

    McCain and Obama are both fully owned tools of the establishment working for the same objectives. Stop buying into the left right paradigm, just because you know one is bad doesn't mean the other crook represents any change.

    Fascist pattern.

    populist -> change -> not so popular -> more change -> dangerous.

    "The danger from Iran is grave, it is real, and my goal will be to eliminate this threat," -Barack Obama

    "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." -Obama 7/2/2008 Colorado Springs. If this isnt a stasi, this is a draft!

    YES, Vote for some of that CHANGE. Obama is just as insane as McCain, dont vote for either if you have any dignity left. He is a demagogue, he will say anything to get elected. Stop buying his BS. The stasi quote above was removed from his official transcript, but is in the video.

    Barack Obama is a deeply troubled personality, the megalomaniac front man for a postmodern coup by the intelligence agencies, using fake polls, mobs of swarming adolescents, super-rich contributors, and orchestrated media hysteria to short-circuit normal politics and seize power.

    Obama comes from the orbit of the Ford Foundation, and has never won public office in a contested election. His guru and controller is Zbigniew Brzezinski, the deranged revanchist and Russia-hater who dominated the catastrophic Carter presidency 30 years ago. All indications are that Brzezinski recruited Obama at Columbia University a quarter century ago. Trilateral Commission co-founder Brzezinski wants a global showdown with Russia and China far more dangerous for the United States than the Bush-Cheney Iraq adventure.

    Obama's economics are pure Skull & Bones/Chicago school austerity and sacrifice for American working families, all designed to bail out the bankrupt Wall Street elitist financiers who own Obama. Obama's lemming legions and Kool-Aid cult candidacy hearken back to Italy in 1919-1922, and raise the question of postmodern fascism in the United States today. Obama is a recipe for a world tragedy. No American voter can afford to ignore the lessons contained in this book.

    http://www.bravenewbookstore.com/product_info.php? ...


    Want to set your AC under 72? Not with Obamas CHANGE. Want to fight in Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan instead of just Iraq? You'll get it with Obamas CHANGE Sick of the middle class? So is Obama! Itll be destroyed with some of his awful CHANGE!

    "The danger from Iran is grave, it is real, and my goal will be to eliminate this threat," -Barack Obama http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=61626§ion ...


    Obama The Dummy - Brzezinski The Ventriloquist
    By Webster G. Tarpley
    5-19-8
    http://www.rense.com/general82/obm.htm

    WASHINGTON, DC -- In my book Obama The Postmodern Coup: The Making of a Manchurian Candidate, I argue that presidential candidate Barack Obama is a wholly owned puppet of Zbigniew Brzezinski and his associates of the Trilateral Commission, founded by David Rockefeller. As some have noted, Brzezinski has been attempting to conceal his actual domination of the Obama campaign, for which he is the chief guru and controller. Now a rhetorical outburst by Obama on the campaign trail in Oregon has once again pointed to the reality that Obama is a ventriloquist's dummy, with the Russia-hating fanatic Brzezinski, a barbarous relic of the Cold War, acting as the ventriloquist.

    At a recent campaign stop in Oregon, Obama stated:
    "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said. "That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added. If India and China's "carbon footprint gets as big as ours, we're gone." (AFP)

    This remarkable statement reveals the true program of a future Obama administration: savage austerity, brutal economic sacrifice, and a massive further reduction in the standard of living of the depleted and exhausted US population as demanded by David Rockefeller, George Soros, and Obama's Wall Street backers. This will be done under left cover through a global warming tax, a third world solidarity tax, and other demagogic frauds, with the revenue going to bail out Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and JP Morgan Chase. The tired, discredited post-9/11 "war on terror" slogans will be dumped.
    ..continued here http://www.rense.com/general82/obm.htm

    * Obama once said that the issue of gay marriage should be left up to the state. But now he opposes a California ballot measure that would ban same-sex marriages.
    * The messiah once opposed the Republicans (later adopted by Bill Clinton) welfare reform plan, calling it "disturbing." Now he embraces it.
    * He was against granting immunity to telecom companies that aided our government in eavesdropping on telephone messages to and from known terrorist operatives overseas. Now he is for granting this immunity to the evil telecom corporations.
    * Some time ago Obama said that he wholeheartedly supported the ban on the private ownership of guns in Washington DC. Then, after the Supreme Court came down with their ruling last week, suddenly Obama is a supporter of the people's right to keep and bear arms.
    * Earlier this year Obama said that he was going to accept public financing of his presidential campaign after the convention. Now that he has seen he could get more money from private contributions than he would from public financing, he changed his mind.
    * NAFTA? Barack was going to immediately renegotiate all of the evil NAFTA treaty. Now ... well, let's just say "not so much."
    • nycmac247, on 08/15/2008, -5/+8All true ...hope that people take the time to look...I used to LOVE obama and now have come around.
      McCain is a ***** MONSTER but Obama is a "cult of personality" that we're supposed to project all our hopes on ... while conveniently ignoring some uncomfortable things...
      • sajorojas, on 08/15/2008, -3/+1^^
        What? Another empty vessel with his blinders on.
    • NotGibbwake, on 08/15/2008, -4/+5Better keep burying it you Obama koolaid drinkers - dont let the facts get in the way.
    • hapax, on 08/15/2008, -1/+2TLDR
    • vandalin7, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/21/164117 ...

      the real facts about obama...
    • vandalin7, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2just so u know the book your quoting was written by Webster_G._Tarpley.

      Webster_G._Tarpley: "was part of the LaRouche movement which has been referred to as Marxist, fascist, a political cult, a personality cult, a criminal enterprise, and "one of the strangest political groups in American history." The magazine argues it would be more accurate to call the movement a "vast and bizarre vanity press." The movement promotes a number of beliefs which are called conspiracy theories by critics. Some of these beliefs have been accused of being anti-Semitic." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster_G._Tarpley and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaRouche_movement

      you may wanna make sure your sources aren't nut jobs.

      btw your last source "http://www.rense.com/general82/obm.htm" was written by the same nut job. ^ check my facts please : )
  • Barackalypse, on 08/15/2008, -7/+16I don't suppose this piece mentions which accusations have not been refuted, I'm kinda curious what allegations they haven't bothered to dispute.
  • scoottie, on 08/15/2008, -16/+7this is the problem with these independents, but honestly huffingtonspam is no better. But maybe the digg "Bury Brigade" is getting to huffingtonspam because i didnt see one mention of McCain until the comments after the story. McCain should just not acknowledge this book but he will probably be asked about it and should denounce it.

    Good for Obama for answering this book. But its said that both sides have to answer these nut jobs.
    • scoottie, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3said = sad ...... damn time limit for edits lol
  • lndmn01, on 08/15/2008, -21/+16After reading the Obama camp's rebuttal I almost have to wonder what the point was. Surely the issues addressed were not the worst accusations in the book and even then some of the counterpoints were weak.
    Another thing, why are 10 pages (one quarter) of the document used to personally attack Corsi and show negative reviews of the book. Were Obama's people afraid that there was too much truth to his book?
    • radiofrequency, on 08/15/2008, -10/+6Some of the rebuttals are outright lies. See my post below.
    • barblibrarian, on 08/16/2008, -1/+1What a strange little person you are. Haven't you ever heard of discrediting the witness in a court case in order to have the jury question their entire testimony? That is the point here. Anything that discredits Corsi puts into question the entire book. If he gets anything minor wrong, then how likely is it he got the major things wrong? - very likely!! If he is a total scumbag of a person to begin with, how likely is it he is lying throughout the book? - very likely!! Besides, everyone now knows how his book about Kerry was a total lie and yet it cost Kerry the presidency. That is because Corsi was supported by Bush and Rove. So, yes, this is very important for the Obama camp to answer, to attack, and to discredit the man Corsi himself. Any other questions, Mr. Conservative?
  • nycmac247, on 08/15/2008, -8/+14Be sure to read both sides ... here's the Introduction to the book

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/books/chapters/c ...
    • Drogoganor, on 08/15/2008, -2/+13Yep - you can't read the debunk without first reading the lies.
      • nycmac247, on 08/15/2008, -1/+3yes, agree or disagree read both or we are as bad as those we "oppose"


      • corncat, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1how many here have read *either*?
    • B08ama, on 08/15/2008, -1/+8Will you really let Corsi decide how you spend your time?
      • nycmac247, on 08/15/2008, -2/+2So you will never read anything he says, just the rebuttal of what he says?
      • B08ama, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1Why read something that you know isn't true (unless J.R.R. Tolkien wrote it)?
      • corncat, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1... and you magically "know" it isn't true... how? 'cuz Obama's paid staffers told you so?

    • thespiff, on 08/15/2008, -2/+3Man that isn't an introduction it's a Resume.
    • WillieWendel, on 08/15/2008, -2/+0There are not "two sides" there is only the facts and the truth.
  • radiofrequency, on 08/15/2008, -25/+14Barack Obama's book, if not full of lies, is full of embellishments.

    Here's one from p22:

    Unfit for Publication: "Obama Supported The [Rezko] Project “Because It Was Going To Help People In His District…It’s A Successful
    Project…And He’s Proud To Have Supported It.”"

    Reality: The Rezko project was a slum that cost taxpayers over $1m that was never paid back. Rezko had to be sued to turn on the heat for residents during the Chicago winter.

    http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353829,CST-NWS- ...
    "For more than five weeks during the brutal winter of 1997, tenants shivered without heat in a government-subsidized apartment building on Chicago's South Side. It was just four years after the landlords -- Antoin "Tony'' Rezko and his partner Daniel Mahru -- had rehabbed the 31-unit building in Englewood with a loan from Chicago taxpayers."

    Here's another lie from Obama's book, p23 from "Unfit for Publication": "OBAMA NEVER REPRESENTED REZKO. NEVER. EVER."

    http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/07/let-me-pu ...
    "After stating he'd 'never done any favors for' Rezko, the Chicago Sun-Times discovered letters Obama wrote to city and state officials supporting Rezko's bid for $14 million in taxpayers' money for an elder-care facility."

    http://bp0.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SHLAkqyi0gI/AA ...
    Is that Obama's signature on the letter? It states, "I am writing in support of the New Kenwood LLC's proposal" - a project in which Rezko and Obama’s former boss Allison Davis, who resigned from the Davis law firm in 1997, were partners.

    Chicago Sun-Times, "Obama's Letters for Rezko": http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/425305,CST-N ...
    "As a state senator, Barack Obama wrote letters to city and state officials supporting his political patron Tony Rezko's successful bid to get more than $14 million from taxpayers to build apartments for senior citizens.

    "Obama's letters, written nearly nine years ago, for the first time show the Democratic presidential hopeful did a political favor for Rezko -- a longtime friend, campaign fund-raiser and client of the law firm where Obama worked -- who was indicted last fall on federal charges that accuse him of demanding kickbacks from companies seeking state business under Gov. Blagojevich."
  • TomustPain, on 08/15/2008, -14/+2I stopped reading this crap when I got to the part about Bill Ayers. I seem to recall some negative press, but that was 40 years ago like it says in the publication. I was 6 years old back then, and unless it was something of paramount importance like WWII or something as momentous, then I don't feel like rehashing all this *****! I trust Obama more than McCain for reasons a lot simpler than the complexity of all the pertinent issues, so he's getting my vote in November. But man! Please stop with all of this petty *****! I'm tired of watching stupid video clips of *****-face laura bush dending Michelle Obama saying "ooohhh.... I think she meant to say she's more proud..." Shut the ***** up you evil bitch laura bush you're married to the devil himself, and I can't understand Obama wanting to have filthy ***** laura bush come to their defense! Kinky Friedman once said: "the republican and the democrat, are the same guy looking at himself in the mirror", and you've gotta wonder what he must know that we don't!
    • TomustPain, on 08/15/2008, -2/+0LOL!! Hey people, give me a break on the minus diggs LOL! I wrote this rant in stream-of-consciousness at 3:00 AM. Yeah, I digressed and said some really nasty things about our first lady LOL! ...And no I won't apologize! LOL!
  • radiofrequency, on 08/15/2008, -17/+7Here's another lie - or let's just call it an inaccurate rebuttal - from the Obama's campaign book, "Unfit for Publication". Turn to page 11, where Obama claims Corsi is telling a lie when he writes, "“Even as Kenya entered this postelection violence, Senator Obama has continued to insert himself into Kenyan politics.”"

    The Obama campaign response: "SECRETARY RICE ASKED OBAMA TO TAPE A RADIO ADDRESS"

    The reality: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14512605/
    Fri., Aug. 25, 2006
    NAIROBI, Kenya - Hundreds of U.S. Embassy employees and their families cheered and sang to greet Sen. Barack Obama after he met Friday with President Mwai Kibaki during Obama’s first trip to his father’s homeland since taking office.

    I'm just curious, would a tourist visiting "his father's homeland" get a meeting with that nation's president without being involved in Kenyan politics?
    • malex, on 08/15/2008, -2/+6Sure, if that tourist was famous and/or influential enough. Does that surprise you?
    • stagmire, on 08/15/2008, -3/+6"would a tourist visiting "his father's homeland" get a meeting with that nation's president without being involved in Kenyan politics?"

      If the "tourist" is a US senator and hugely popular author of Kenyan descent? Sure. Was Yakov Smirnoff "getting involved in US politics" when he met with Ronald Reagan?
  • radiofrequency, on 08/15/2008, -14/+9p15 from "Unfit for Publication" calls this statement a lie: “Sol Stern, a contributing editor of Chicago’s City Journal, has observed that ... the impression of Ayers’s good citizenship is incorrect.”

    I'll let you decide if Bill Ayers strikes you as a good citizen: http://obamawho.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/ayers5 ...

    • ErrorF002, on 08/15/2008, -3/+2Quite frankly, you are an idiot. As if a picture is a proper way to judge a person. If you want to frame your comment of "I'll let you decide..." intelligently you would have picked another medium. Instead you come off sounding intelligent and reasonable, only to look like a shallow moron.

      At the very minimum,
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers
      or
      http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/902213 ...

      or anything other than a picture that obviously only paints your point of view of him not being a patriot or an America hater.

      You fail at imitating an unbiased or intelligent person. Thank you and play again soon!

      P.S I could care less about Bill Ayers or his views. This commentary is not in his defense. People should base their opinions on facts, not stylized pictures a journalist took.
  • mannyqui, on 08/15/2008, -5/+16If you really want to do something..... Print out and cut business card Inserts with the link to the document headlined " The Truth about this book" and go to all your local bookstores and place them in each copy of the book..... JA!! that will hit em hard. I am formatting them as we speak.
    • samimnot, on 08/15/2008, -3/+3Yeah ;-) I thought it was a great idea, also
    • jsmith39, on 08/15/2008, -2/+3post a link to your book marks, I'll print some out and have some fun this weekend.
    • ogbar, on 08/15/2008, -6/+5you folks might actually do more good for yourselves if you read his book instead of blindly believing in Obama.
      • mindvise, on 08/15/2008, -2/+3How is reading factual information that discredits this "book" and being able to simply google all of Obama's counterpoints and see that hey are valid constitute, "blindly believing in Obama?"
      • Saturdaynightis, on 08/18/2008, -0/+0Yes, from Obama and Google it's factual... we don't need to hear what anyone else says....


        www.thenewliberal.org
  • stagmire, on 08/15/2008, -3/+22Republicans can't seem to make up their minds about Michelle Obama. One minute she's a militant, Stokely Carmichael-quoting black activist, the next minute she's an wealthy, pampered, dilettante lawyer.

    Which is it, guys? Sidley Austin doesn't recruit too many black panthers, ya know.
    • TinternAbbot, on 08/15/2008, -9/+3she's clearly not a dilettante if she's harvard educated. Do you even know what the word means? A better example of a dilettante would be her husband when it comes to foreign policy affairs.
      • stagmire, on 08/15/2008, -1/+7But I thought she was just an affirmative action admit who used her Princeton education to write a bunch of radical mumbo jumbo. You're saying she's actually sophisticated an intelligent now?
    • mrtymcfly, on 08/15/2008, -13/+0she is a benefactor of affirmative action. her 'thesis' at princeton was a HS level paper about how it is living as a black woman. whop ti friggan dooooo.
      • stagmire, on 08/15/2008, -2/+8What confuses me is how she nonetheless landed a job at a prestigious corporate law firm and represented a bunch of fortune 500 companies in important matters. Do AT&T and Union Carbide routinely hire incompetent lawyers to represent them in hostile takeover bids?
      • mrtymcfly, on 08/15/2008, -6/+1a diploma from princeton goes a long way my friend.
      • stagmire, on 08/15/2008, -1/+11A diploma from Princeton doesn't automatically land you a job at Sidley Austin, which pays 1st year associates $160k/yr + $30k bonus. The average Princeton grad makes half that much. They pay their summer associates - second year law students - $3k/week. Annual pay raises at Sidley Austin are about 15%/yr, so after 3 years her base salary would have been well over $200k.

        Michelle Obama not only got hired by Sidley, she got staffed on major projects representing Forture 100 companies in high stakes corporate endeavors. Care to name any other radical black activists who have done the same thing? Johnny Cochran started out as an assistant state's attorney making less than 1/4 Michelle Obama's starting salary.
      • jsmith39, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3Not that she was but.. by your statement you're saying that people who were helped out by or took advantage of affirmative action automatically don't count? I'm not a big fan of AA but there was and in some cases is a need for it. It would be better that the program was created and then ignored?
    • corncat, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1Um, the two aren't contradictory.
  • pitlord, on 08/15/2008, -16/+2This is the best response the Obama camp could come up with?
    >.>
    Ad Hominem and straw man attacks against the author?
    o.o
    Obama can't even debate the author's allegations?!?!
    -_-
    It's good to see the Democrats self destruct.
    ^^
    • pagno, on 08/15/2008, -2/+6[Looks at rancid droppings on the ground]
      "Trolls..."
  • TinternAbbot, on 08/15/2008, -10/+10Please don't conflate Corsi with McCain. There are many of us on the right who wish he would go away too.
  • wtrwlkr, on 08/15/2008, -5/+21After being given carte-blanche on Faux News multiple times to sell his hitpiece, Corsi appeared on Larry King Live (on the evil librul CNN) opposite Paul Waldman from MediaMatters. It's nice to see how Corsi sweats when he doesn't have the Faux GOP cheerleaders throwing him softball questions. Newshounds.us did a great piece on this here:
    http://www.newshounds.us/2008/08/14/corsi_and_wald ...
    • skmckinny, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1MediaMatters... you mean the PRIVATE and UNTAXED organization that is funded by Soros - unlimited funds for their dish out.

      MSM has their head buried in Soros money... and kill democracy in the US.

      WAKE UP!!! WAKE UP!! WAKE UP! I really mean it. PLEASE TAKE ME SERIOUSLY AND LOOK UP SOROS AND HOW HE IS MANIPULATING THIS ELECTION. HE WILL OWN THIS COUNTRY.
  • jomelpactao, on 08/15/2008, -11/+0hiiiii
  • WarDogLRS, on 08/15/2008, -15/+2What matters is that Obama is unfit to lead he is a socialist just like Hitler. Were do you all get your info that support Obama?. This man voted on the FISA bill so that's enough said.
    Now that he showed you his true colors and you support him still is a disgrace to this country.

    Obama FISA bill vote stole your 4th Amendment right how far do you want to take this he is just as dangerous as Bush. Obama is simply more suttle. He said he would vote against it to the move on group and when it came time to prove it he failed. Just like he will fail again and again. And as far as Mccain goes he is just an old old fart that lives in a dream of war. Ultimately there Both unfit to lead.
    • repins, on 08/15/2008, -7/+1and the Obamafawns begin the bury bomb in....1...2....3.....

      Sorry dude you are going to be buried hard, the truth has no place on digg....all we get is huffingtonpost blog spam with a couple of thinkprogess articles thrown in to make it look on the up and up...
      • jsmith39, on 08/15/2008, -0/+5Whether you support Obama or not comparing him to Hitler automatically gets your buried. It's a ludicrous claim at best, the worst part being that most people who would compare him to the fascist are people who would follow a Hitler-type personality.

        Obama signing off on the FISA bill was disgusting and I don't understand his action on that, but that does not make it HIS bill, it was a Republican sponsored bill, and simply the latest in a long string of Republican bills aimed at ripped the heart out of this country.
      • repins, on 08/15/2008, -3/+2Comparing him to Hitler is just sensationalism.....Obama is a Socialist of the highest order though...

        Not only does he want to take away money people earned and give it to people in the USA, he wants to give it to other countries on a grand scale as well with the "Global Poverty Act"

        Obama balancing the budget is a pipe dream given the about of addition Government spending he wants, regardless of how much he raises taxes on the "rich"
    • kencurran, on 08/15/2008, -0/+7I'm sorry but too much is wrong here. First of all Hitler was not a socialist, and second of all it's "subtle." I don't know how old you are but your name is WarDog.
    • OrigamiRonin, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4Are you aware that socialists were one of the groups that Hitler had thrown into the concentration camps? If having the word "socialist" in the name of the Nazi party actually made them so, then the USSR was a republic and North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is a democratic republic.
    • SpacePoet, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2Annd... we have a godwin. Good job, loser.
  • gklitt, on 08/15/2008, -3/+12This is a great rebuttal. Here's the sad thing though: who do you think is going to read this document? I would guess that over 90% of readers already know this stuff is all BS. Are people who are so unbelievably ignorant that they actually believe the facts in Corsi's book going to actively seek out and read a 40-page document prepared by Barack Obama's campaign? I don't think so. There has to be some better way to reach the ignorant sector of the public.
    • nova912, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1Grind them up for food and force feed them to uneducated children until they do better in school?
    • bubba9999, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1You mean like the Youtube?
    • dazparkour, on 08/15/2008, -1/+2That's still 10%.

      I say again.

      That's still 10%.
    • nycmac247, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1"Here's the sad thing though: who do you think is going to read this document? "


      How much of Corsi's book have you read? The Preface is online at the New York Times...

      http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/books/chapters/c ...

      ...or are you saying its a "great rebuttal" ....without having even looked at what its rebutting??
    • VitriolAndAngst, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4It will make its way into the media -- kind of how the think tank documents filter in.

      Reporters sometimes take sides -- but a lot of time, they are just there to cover the fight. If one candidate throws a punch, they want to report the block or counterpunch.

      Obama's response then, is more likely to become the story, than the "Obama Nation" screed. That's the point. The news cycle is just hungry for nonsense to fill the hours.

      Heck, they've been reporting McCain's ramblings as if they were news for weeks now. It's got to filter down to the general public the huge difference between the two, especially when you have sharp, timely, and thoughtful rebuttals like this.
  • roddack, on 08/15/2008, -3/+7*sigh* I hate elections they turn into nothing but attacks against each party and no one wants to talk about real issues like fiat currency or our "fantastic" foreign policy. In the end no matter who gets elected it will be four more years of a candidate bought and paid for by the money changers.
    • byronm, on 08/15/2008, -1/+4Sadly republicans want you to believe that Obama isn't that good and you're only choice is 2 poor candidates. Believe it or not, Obama has lots of good plans, good ideas and new ideas. He's showing how going green creates jobs, creates wealth and satisfies environmental issues all at the same time.

      Fear mongers are scared that he will be a tax and spend "librul" but i hate to break it to you, Under Bush my taxes didn't change but inflation killed me more than any of the largest democrat tax increases ever and we have a trillion dollar war we have yet to pay for and a deficit a mile high, how could we NOT increase taxes?
      • roddack, on 08/15/2008, -1/+3Simple get off fiat currency

        the problem is that I am a libertarian and both the major candidates will do nothing but expand government and over exceed its authority since I feel the constitution has been in shreds ever since Wilson.
      • byronm, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1Libertarian is meaningless these days. I'm all for libertarian ideologies but they're poisoned with the fact they align themselves with being conservative. The sole purpose of a conservative is that "progress" is bad.

        Doesn't seem very libertarian to me if someone is trying to convince me that progress is bad.
  • tpearl, on 08/15/2008, -3/+2Keep dreaming.
  • vexingmodstwo, on 08/15/2008, -11/+7You know what's the best part? This one book is going to cause more damage to Obama than ALL the HuffPo, Thinkprogress, rawstory ***** McCain smears combined.
    • homercles337, on 08/15/2008, -3/+5Agreed. The Corporate Media will make sure of that. I just cant wait for the debates! Bring on grandpa with his alzheimers and his silly ideas.
    • barblibrarian, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1What smears are those? The only smears I have seen have been the McCain group smearing Obama. The organizations you have listed have been identifying McCain's lies and inconsistencies. I don't think anyone would call that smearing him. Even McCain's camp doesn't say they are smears. You might not like the truth, but that doesn't make it a smear. The stuff about Obama is lies and ridiculous misrepresentations of who he is and what he has said. That is a smear.
  • HiCaP, on 08/15/2008, -13/+5Lets hope it stays number one for a long time and hope it puts a dent in the obama nation

    Huffonmepost = Buried

    • dagnabbit, on 08/15/2008, -5/+7haha "buried" when it's already got almost 1000 diggs.

      Shame the republicans have to support these outright lies because they lose on the issues that matter. All the same, McCain is going to get crushed.
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