Smears We're Fighting
THE REALITY:
Barack Obama is a Proud Ally of Men and Women in Uniform
Race: Barack Obama (D) vs. John McCain (R): President of the U.S.
An e-mail from a Michigan police officer makes erroneous and misguided assumptions about Barack Obama, and makes the outright false implication that Obama is averse to being seen in public with men and women in uniform. This misinformed officer’s e-mail has been cynically used by others to smear Sen. Obama and drive a wedge between him and those in the military and law enforcement. | Read the truth | Fight back
THE REALITY:
False Michelle Obama Lobster Dinner Story Was Retracted by New York Post
Race: Barack Obama (D) vs. John McCain (R): President of the U.S.
Scraping the bottom of the barrel for reasons to tag the Obamas as “elitists,” right wing rumor mongers are spreading the well-debunked story that Michelle Obama ordered an extravagantly expensive lobster dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. | Read the truth | Fight back
THE REALITY:
Barack Obama is Not Taking This Election for Granted
Race: Barack Obama (D) vs. John McCain (R): President of the U.S.
John McCain and Sarah Palin, trying to find new ways to rile up their crowds in the closing days of the campaign, are touting a lie. They are trying to use their own attack of “arrogance” by using the discredited claim that Obama has supposedly already written an inaugural address. | Read the truth | Fight back
THE REALITY:
Nothing Has Changed about Barack Obama’s Plan to Lower Taxes
Race: Barack Obama (D) vs. John McCain (R): President of the U.S.
Grasping at whatever flimsy straw presents itself in the final week of the 2008 race, the McCain campaign is using a minor slip-up by Joe Biden to falsely accuse Barack Obama of changing his tax plan at the last minute. | Read the truth | Fight back
THE REALITY:
Barack Obama is Not a Socialist, Believes in Limits of Court Activism
Race: Barack Obama (D) vs. John McCain (R): President of the U.S.
Matt Drudge and the right wing blogosphere are all a-twitter over a YouTube audio clip of a 2001 radio interview which they ridiculously claim “proves” that Barack Obama is some kind of secret socialist, and now John McCain is following their lead. | Read the truth | Fight back
THE REALITY:
Barack Obama is a Friend to Israel, with No Connections to Islamic Extremists
Race: Barack Obama (D) vs. John McCain (R): President of the U.S.
The McCain campaign has followed the lead of the extremist right wing smear machine by dishonorably implying all sorts of things about Barack Obama. The latest distortion involves stretched accusations about associations with people connected to Islamic extremists. | Read the truth | Fight back
THE REALITY:
Barack Obama Displayed Steady Leadership in the First Hours of the Economic Crisis
Race: Barack Obama (D) vs. John McCain (R): President of the U.S.
Unable to come up with their own coherent plan for the economy, and losing their grip on their message, the McCain campaign is sending out mailers and unleashing aggravating robo-calls with the dishonorable claim that somehow Barack Obama’s attendance at a single evening of meetings in Hollywood means something about his priorities while Wall Street was in crisis. | Read the truth | Fight back
THE REALITY:
Barack Obama did not vote present in the US Senate, again.
Race: Barack Obama (D) vs. John McCain (R): President of the U.S.
Apparently unaware that this creaky old smear was utterly debunked during the primaries, one of Let Freedom Ring’s ads tries to mock Barack Obama for supposedly dodging tough votes by voting “present.” | Read the truth | Fight back
THE REALITY:
Barack Obama has a plan to promote domestic production of oil and natural gas.
Race: Barack Obama (D) vs. John McCain (R): President of the U.S.
Despite numerous Obama statements to the contrary, Right Wing Fringe Group “Let Freedom Ring” has ads that go after a fictional “opposition” to domestic oil drilling. | Read the truth | Fight back
THE REALITY:
Barack Obama Will Not Ban Sportsmen’s Guns or Raise Their Taxes
Race: Barack Obama (D) vs. John McCain (R): President of the U.S.
The McCain-supporting NRA is trying to scare law-abiding gun owners by blanketing the airwaves with ads falsely claiming that Barack Obama intends to ban hunting rifles and impose an astronomical tax on firearms. | Read the truth | Fight back