Barack Obama Exposed! GOP Hit Squads Load Up For Obama
Barack Obama Exposed! This provocative, better to say inflammatory, headline screamed from the website and a handful of other websites virtually from the moment that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama announced his “dream campaign” for presidency on the steps of the State Capitol at Springfield, Illinois last February. The website promised to reveal the “truth” about Obama, from his alleged role in corruption scandals to doubletalk on the issues. This was rightly laughed off as a typical smear and slander hit by one of the pack of ultra-conservative hit squads. The squad consists of the Fox News Network, talk shock jocks, New York Times neo-liberal, Wall St. Journal neo-con columnists, and Christian Evangelical politicos. In this case, the squad member doing the Obama hit was Human Events, a fringe, ultraconservative outfit.
The laughter at the Human Events attack was before Obama’s smash win in Iowa. That instantly marked him as the potential Democrat’s presidential go-to guy. It also set off alarm bells and whistles among the hit squads. With the exception of Human Event’s website, they have rapped Obama with the most tepid criticism or kept hands off.
There are two reasons. One is Hillary Clinton. The media driven vendetta against her has been unprecedented. It has matched, and at times exceeded, even the worst of the hit attacks on hubby, Bill. The thousands of Stop Hillary websites that sprouted up piled shrill personal attack on shrill attack on her. The second reason is the sneaky and sometimes open smugly expressed belief that an African-American had about as much chance of bagging the White House as a Martian. Legions of white voters in Iowa, one of the whitest, and most rural states, donned their color neutral lens and bought Obama’s much touted pitch that he’s a change agent and can repair the shambles reverse of Bush’s domestic and foreign policies shattered that belief.
Obama well knows the history of dirty political tricks against Democrats, especially liberals, black and women Democrats. If his surge becomes a tidal wave, the hit squads will load up on him as they have on countless others. It’s nasty and brutal, but sadly, it’s what passes for politics American style.