Join us in fighting the email smear campaign against Obama and his pastor.
I'm emailing this to everyone I know. If you use the BCC line to put everyone's address in, the people you send it to will only be able to see their own email address. They won't know who else you sent it to so you can protect everyone's privacy.
If anyone sends you one of the email smears against Obama, you can reply with this. You can also SEND THIS TO EVERYBODY YOU KNOW so they'll have an easy response as well. We need to get this in front of as many eyes as possible and get people to foward it on if we're going to counter the smear campaign. More than 90 people are involved so far.
Anyway, here's the email:
Subject: End the smears
I hope you will take the time to read this. It’s not an attempt to sway you towards a particular candidate, it’s an attempt to end the reckless smear campaigns that plague this nation.
When Sen. John McCain ran for president eight years ago, the far right ran a smear campaign against him in South Carolina, accusing him of fathering an illegitimate black child. Such tactics were an outrage then and they’re an outrage now.
Their new target is Sen. Barack Obama. They claim he’s secretly a Muslim, went to an extremist school as a child and doesn’t say the pledge of allegiance. Yet not ONE word of this is true.
The bottom line? Obama is a Christian, he attended a secular (non- religious) school in Indonesia and he has led the pledge of allegiance on the Senate floor numerous times.
Whichever candidate you support isn’t the point here, the point is this: are we going to tolerate such negative and baseless attacks that have nothing to do with the real issues?
Unfortunately, some people might take such emails at face value and believe them to be true. There are also those who forward such emails simply because it fits their agenda.
This is made especially worse by the fact that Fox "news" ran some of these rumors without bothering to even try to verify them. So much for being "fair and balanced" or even responsible, for that matter.
Real news organizations, such as CNN, have debunked these rumors and they’ve done so without the "unnamed sources" and innuendo used by the smear campaign.
Again, this email isn’t an attempt to sway you to towards a particular candidate. I feel as strongly about this as I did when the far right went after McCain eight years ago. It’s about negative, baseless attacks and trying to put an end to them.
If anyone forwards any such emails to you, PLEASE send them this email or at least send them these links. Look at it this way, if they’re going to send you a pack of lies that they haven’t bothered to verify, they certainly can’t take issue with you responding with the truth.
They’re all here in video, so they don’t even have to read a thing.
Obama LEADING pledge of allegiance on Senate floor
http://www.youtube.com/...
Discussion of the pledge of allegiance myth
http://www.youtube.com/...
Obama As A Muslim Extremist - CNN Counters FOX Lies
http://www.youtube.com/...
Obama responding to dirty tricks
http://www.youtube.com/...
Fox lies on Pastor Wright:
By now you’ve probably heard Wright’s "chickens coming home to roost" comment about 9/11. What you might not know is that Wright was quoting directly from Edward Peck, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. If you watch the entire sermon, you’ll hear Wright say that he saw Peck make this comment on Fox. Unfortunately, Fox "news" conveniently left that part of the sermon out of their coverage.
From CNN:
"One of the most controversial statements in this sermon was when he mentioned ‘chickens coming home to roost.’ He was actually quoting Edward Peck, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and deputy director of President Reagan’s terrorism task force, who was speaking on FOX News. That’s what he told the congregation. He was quoting Peck as saying that America’s foreign policy has put the nation in peril."
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/...
See the whole video:
http://youtube.com/...
Also see:
Gov. (and former Rev.) Mike Huckabee defends Wright
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
PA Jews for Obama
http://elections.jta.org/...
Obama denounces controversial remarks
http://www.youtube.com/...
Obama's "A more perfect union" speech
http://www.youtube.com/...
Rev. Wright in a different light
Obama's church and former pastor defended by white 25-year member
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...
Different Standards for Black and White Preachers
The right tends to ignore the extremists in their midst
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
McCain’s "spiritual advisor" accuses government of "black genocide"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Far right preacher cheered for condemning America, can anyone say "hypocrisy?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
McCain and John Hagee, in their own words
http://www.youtube.com/...