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AttackWatch Returns: Obama Campaign Announces ‘Truth Team’

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During the 2008 campaign, when then-Sen. Barack Obama had to contend with rumors that he was everything from a Secret Kenyan Muslim to a chupacabra, his campaign launched a website called “Fight The Smears.”

In 2012, that effort has been transformed into a “Truth Team,” a three-pronged effort to push back on attacks against the President, highlight his own record, and pick apart his opponents’ statements about their own records. One of those prongs is a less scary-looking version of the AttackWatch site the campaign launched in September. From Obama For America’s press release:

Beginning today with events across the country and continuing through the election, the Truth Team will engage grassroots supporters to spread the truth about the President’s record and respond to Republican attacks.  The program will be housed atBarackObama.com/TruthTeam, with individual websites - KeepingHisWord.comKeepingGOPHonest.com, and AttackWatch.com – serving as quick, comprehensive resources to help set the record straight.  Designed to put responsibility for spreading the truth in the hands of the President’s supporters, the websites contain videos and information on the President’s record, and fact checks on Republican claims about the President and themselves.  The sites also contain tools for sharing materials via Facebook, Twitter and email, and empowers supporters to take further action by volunteering, writing letters to the editor, sending postcards to undecided voters with information about the President’s record, and more.  The goal is to ensure that when Republicans attack President Obama’s record, grassroots supporters can take ownership of the campaign and share the facts with the undecided voters in their lives.

In September, the Obama campaign launched AttackWatch, a sinister-looking iteration of “Fight The Smears” that caused a furious, at times panicky, backlash among conservatives. Fox News didn’t help, at one point reporting, then correcting, that the AttackWatch site was launched by the White House. While the campaign trumpeted the site’s success at attracting supporters, the uproar faded.

Now, AttackWatch is back with an updated look. Gone is the stark black background, and some of the more tabloid-y design touches, replaced by an off-white and bluish-gray scheme and lots of earnest “Truth Team” iconography. Their logo is a sort of Slomin’s Shield for smears. There’s still an option to “report an attack,” which I tried out in September (I reported on people making fun of AttackWatch), but nothing ever happened.

The media has often bristled at this White House’s criticism of the press, but this site’s existence is, at least in part, the result of the political news media’s habit of letting Republicans repeat, unchallenged, bald falsehoods about the President’s record. One great example of this is Mitt Romney‘s constant refrain that the President “made the recession worse,” punctuated by the occasional denial that he ever said that, and the occasional admission that the economy is, in fact, getting better.

The recent debate over the Preventive Services Mandate was also rich fodder for unchallenged Republican falsehoods.

Of course, a site like this will have little impact over how the press covers the President, but it does give supporters a clearinghouse of talking points for those heated dinner-table arguments. The main object, though, is to continue the Obama campaign’s effort to make supporters feel involved, part of the team, while also providing ample opportunity for those supporters to “give as little as $3″ to help in the fight.

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  • RW

    Let’s not let White House chief of staff Jack Lew’s falsehood go unchallenged.

    Lew said: “You can’t pass a budget in the Senate of the United States without 60 votes and you can’t get 60 votes without bipartisan support. So unless… unless Republicans are willing to work with Democrats in the Senate, [Majority Leader] Harry Reid is not going to be able to get a budget passed.”

    From Jake Tapper, “Budgets only require 51 Senate votes for passage, as Lew — former director of the Office of Management and Budget — surely must know.”

  • OSTL

    Well, he’s worn out the race card so now he has to play the victim card. F’n pathetic. Loser.

  • Anonymous

    Who needs AttackWatch when they have Tommy. I mean seriously this is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. Why waste the resources on this website when he has got the vast majority of the lapdog media licking his feet.

  • Anonymous

    goebbels would be proud…

  • Anonymous

    Every few months they’ve launched another initiative and related webpages.  To be cynical, its their way of pushing their propaganda while bypassing the media and encouraging snitches to report their neighbors or family members who don’t follow the party line.   To be less cynical, this is an intelligent use of new media and is intended as a marketing and fund raising tool.

  • Anonymous
  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YCCUIOEO5JI5NKXFLDIRUF6X3U Phil

    I’d comment but I’m afraid to be on the official enemies list.

  • Anonymous

    Right, the leader of the free world is a f’n pathetic loser but a message board troll is a great winner? Um, no.

  • Anonymous

    Calm down folks, he’s just coming up with a way to address internet rumors spread by trolls. If you aren’t a troll with some sort of irrational hatred for Obama you shouldn’t have a problem with this.

  • Anonymous

    I think it’s just designed to put down false rumors.

  • Anonymous

    I think he was talking about filibustering.

  • Gloves Gunther Donahue

    “‘Truth Team’”

    “Employee Free Choice Act”.  Dems are good at naming something the opposite of what it is.

    Chris Wallace actually tied Jack Lew in knots yesterday. Time for the next Chief of Staff !
    It was like watching Phil Mickelson dismantle Tiger Woods.

  • Anonymous

    Hahaha – this is how you know that Obama never worked for a business. He doesn’t know how to brand.

  • Anonymous

    MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gordon-Bloyer/537945868 Gordon Bloyer

    Obama and “truth”. LOL

  • RW

    I think it was wrong and it went unchallenged.  It needs to be reported to the truth team. 

    BTW:  It appears you have a lot of answers – what are the savings they project in the budget for ending the two wars (Iraq and Afghanistan)?  Anyone?  Tommy?

  • Pablo

     You can’t filibuster the budget. That’s what reconciliation was meant for, not ramming ObamaCare through.

  • Pablo

    Not just wrong, but lying.  Lew last ran the Office of Management and Budget. There’s no way he doesn’t know this.

  • Pablo
  • Pablo

    Hey, who’s going to write up the “The mainstream media is in the pocket of Media Mutters is in the pocket of the White House” post?

    http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/12/inside-media-matters-sources-memos-reveal-erratic-behavior-close-coordination-with-white-house-and-news-organizations/

    What, are you afraid to wind up on the other enemies list?

    http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/13/inside-media-matters-david-brocks-enemies-list/

  • Pablo

    And get people used to turning their fellow Americans who aren’t thinking the right things in to the government.

  • Pablo

     Sarkozy is playing the victim card?

  • Anonymous

    This makes me want to read ’1984′ again.

  • Anonymous

    Cool story

  • Anonymous

    Don’t know what Sarkozy has to do with this but ok?

  • Anonymous

    Great. If the Republicans weren’t such disgusting and repulsive liars, President Obama wouldn’t need a “truth team”. But as it is, Republicans are liars by nature and are the least intellectually and spiritually evolved people on the planet….so lying and deceiving people is a way of life for the average republican.

  • Anonymous

     Duh…what is any ordinary person going to do if people are spreading lies and delusions and character assassinations? They will defend themselves. It’s not about you being a hapless victim to Obama’s “big brother” machine. That reflects your sick soul and paranoid psyche more than it does Obama’s political organization. You are a very very sick person and the thing is….you believe you are just fine. You are not just fine. You are paranoid and full of fear.

  • Pablo

    You said the leader of the free world.

  • Anonymous

     Republicans and Education LOL!

  • Pablo

    Hey, are you up for a Ministry of Truth? We could nickname it Minitrue!

  • Anonymous

     you guys are starting to look desperate… its why Obama’s poll numbers keep going up.

  • Anonymous

    Way to go, Prez! I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again! This president is smarter than most people think. We can’t cut and slash our way into growth, just like less taxes will grow jobs.
    Both are pure falseness on steroids. The president has tried for
    going on four years the need to equalized the tax pain. The repeated comments
    that he is vulnerable is pure hogwash as the nation knows the House numbers are
    lower than the president. Bush’s two unfunded wars and the Bush tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans,
    along with the “Housing Bubble”, coupled with the concentration of wealth in
    fewer and fewer hands and the concentration of power in fewer, less generous
    hands at the local level. The TEA party realized that real power begins at the
    local and state level and control of who runs for office in what district
    controls monies. States with majority rules have made great inroads to this
    maneuver. More than a dozen states, run by the TEA-GOP-Republican party, have
    enacted new voting restrictions, including eight — Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi,
    Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin — that passed
    variations of a rule requiring photo identification. Idaho and Oklahoma passed
    similar legislation in 2010, as did Utah in 2009. In 2008 New Mexico pass this
    legislation. Ohio and Georgia passed voter restrictions in 2006 while Missouri
    tightened their voter laws. In 2003, Voter ID laws passed in Alabama, Colorado,
    Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota with the Republican Party in charge. The
    only poll that will count is the one in November!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Luke-Meter/1316757444 Luke Meter

    When a liberal calls something the “truth team”, is that normal speak for “propaganda factory”? I have a hard time divining the real meaning behind what liberals say every now and again what with the lies upon lies upon self delusion.

  • Anonymous

    They past Obamacare with 53 votes…………inconvient truth?

  • Anonymous

    Right.  So much better for the whole country to be taxed into poverty.  Who needs jobs anyway?  Surely no one we care about.  Obama 2012 yay!  Look out Greece here we come!

  • Anonymous

    9 out of 10 liberals agree, Obama is better than just about any Republican.

  • Anonymous

    Right, now with the unions winning on ‘no child left behind’ all children can be equally non-educated.  Why on earth would a socialist government want an educated society anyways?

  • Gloves Gunther Donahue

    Obama wants you Republicans to get your mind right.

    Anyone don’t get his mind right spends a night in the box.

    We don’t need a failure to communicate.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    External Daily Caller information obtained by Greg reveals that the right-wing media tabloid employs reporters, bloggers, contributors (some with carnal knowledge of a sitting S.C.J.), bloggers and Republican Party strategists (Roger Stone bills himself as a “GOP hitman”) to target its political enemies. Included in the list of targets are left-leaning websites, liberal think tanks, prominent financiers and donors, and more than a dozen specific News organizations and their employees.
    One of the main targets is Media Matters for America  “We will conduct extensive public records searches and compile opposition books on David Brock,” declares their reporting, likely written in early 2012. Investigations, it says, “will focus on the backgrounds, connections, operations and political and financial activities of Media Matters.” 
    In addition to Brock/ Media Matters, the data contains this list of “targets”:

    Government Officials:
    - Barack Obama
    - Michelle Obama
    - Janet Napolitano
    - Kathleen Sebelius
    - Eric Holder
    - Anita Dunn

    Journalists 
    - Ben Smith
    - Greg Sargent
    - Sam Stein
    - Eugene Robinson
    - E.J. Dionne
    - Brian Stetler

    Pablo gets the picture…

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    “President George W. Bush used reconciliation to pass his tax cuts, and President Obama used reconciliation to pass amendments to the health care law. (Note: Republicans often say he used to reconciliation to pass health care, but technically, the health-care law was passed in the Senate with 60 votes, and then amendments were passed under reconciliation to placate House Democrats.) The Congressional Research Service also has a good primer on reconciliation.http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/jack-lews-misleading-claim-about-the-senates-failure-to-pass-a-budget-resolution/2012/02/12/gIQAs11z8Q_blog.html?wprss=fact-checker

  • Anonymous

    Savings?  We don’t need no stinking Savings!  

  • Gloves Gunther Donahue

    “Greg”, also known as Hugh Romney, is an undercover hippie working to destroy America. Do not visit his website.

    http://www.wavygravy.net/

  • Anonymous

    As are you

  • Anonymous

    Cryptic messages all the republicans use them

  • RW

    You might know the answer to my question since you know about “Bush’s two unfunded wars…”  How much is in the budget to fund the wars?

  • Anonymous

    Why hide links?

  • Anonymous

    Another cryptic message the “right things”

  • Anonymous

    I thought that is what Media Matters was for….  This is just another sleazy attempt for the president to collect campaign contributions, that was all that Attack Watch was about and I am sure that is all this site will really be about…  

  • Anonymous

    Kinda like the Right to work laws

  • Anonymous

    Gordo Blower lol

  • Anonymous

    8 out of 10 sane people agree 4 MORE YEARS

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    While “Steve Gramattico” (also known as “butterscotch lightning” from his incontinent schoolboy days) has emerged as a chief “Black-Duster” volunteer in the Voluntary Militia for National Security.

    Zona = Right
    Legione = Breitbart
    Coorte = Distractors
    Centuria = Blogs
    Manipolo = Media Blogs
    Squadra = Mediaite

    Now he spreads his butterscotch like a BIG boy.

  • OSTL

     it’s hidden?

  • OSTL

     scathing rebuttal…just scathing..

  • Anonymous

    4 more years of unemployment over 8%.
    4 more years of $5 gallon gas
    4 more years of “affordable” health care act
    4 more years without a budget
    4 more years of divisive race pimp politics
    4 more years of skirting the constitution
    4 more years of triilion dollars ayear deficits

  • Anonymous

    Nice Greg thanks for posting now pls report Lew and his Pinocchio’s to the Truth Team…

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Cheers!

  • Anonymous

     Government is a business?

  • Anonymous

    4 more years of job growth.
    4 more years of no terrorists attacks…
    4 more years of progress.

    race pimp politics ? really?  you guys are clueless.

  • Anonymous

     your comment proves you were left behind.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    They can start with these whoppers they have been spreading: 

    White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew says budget requires 60 votes in Senate – False

    Barack Obama says preventive care ‘saves money’ – False

    Obama surrogates claiming that 28 states already have similar mandates…that there are now 28 states that have passed laws similar to the regulation in the Obama health care law and eight of those states have absolutely no exemptions to the law, none. – FALSE

    His promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term - FALSE

  • Anonymous

     you do know that Taxes are the lowest under Obama that any other president in right?

  • Anonymous

     The wars were never placed on the books…. remember the whole “deficits don’t matter” speech

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    he said it more than once on Sunday. I know of at least two shows where he spread that little falsehood.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    oooh, we can link again?

  • Anonymous

     His re-election campaign is a business. It employs people. It is also a scheme to waste lots of money. OCCUPY!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Chuck capitalized the first word in his sentence. You didn’t.

    Chuck: 1
    You: 0

  • Anonymous

    You’ve created a secret language, all in the pursuit of Gloves?

    How precious.

  • Anonymous

    when you click the link thats not what appears on the url its a youtube link he changed the name. Why?

  • RW

    No – That was Obama’s claim to fame.  He put the wars on the books.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Psyche your mind like “hammer time”. “Gloves” (Steve) knows the deal. No need to insert yourself so sloppily. On the other hand… have at it. Get his back. He mismanages the front.

  • OSTL

     i think he dumbed it down fer ya

  • Pablo

     If it’s hidden, how could you see it?

    I made it a hyperlink for the same reason Tommy did it 10 times in the article: To make stupid people ask stupid questions. Pleasure doing business with you.

  • Pablo
  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    HAHA!

  • Anonymous

    I guess its a republican thing. You guys are just too savy. You made it a hyper link why? Pablo calling names you are elite.

  • Anonymous

    FUNNY, TOMMY or whatever your real name is, you shouldn’t write about the “truth” when you won’t even use your REAL name on your birdcage liner articles. You sir are a HACK and a FRAUD.

  • Anonymous

    FUNNY, TOMMY or what ever your  real name is, you should write about the
    “truth” when you won’t even use your REAL name on your birdcage liner
    articles. You sir are a HACK and a FRAUD.

  • Anonymous

    If you worked for RMoney he would fire you for all this posting on company time why is it your boss don’t care? Unless you work for some right wing org.

  • Anonymous

    Pablo already posted this link but he changed it. He is a sly one. If you don’t agree with him you will be called names. Go figure typical really

  • Anonymous

    You were wrong about the Pattys and you are wrong again

  • Anonymous

    Beware of wisconsin republicans

  • shawn greenaway

    Preventive care saves money.Any sane person knows that.An ounce of prevention equals a pound of cure.

  • Anonymous

     BUT RESIST WE MUCH, WE MUST, AND WE WILL MUCH, ABOUT THAT, BE COMMITTED…”

  • Anonymous

    link as you spew plz

  • Anonymous

    True.

  • Anonymous

    Working over tonight?

  • Anonymous

    Geez was just at your site. Stay in Itality

  • Anonymous

    Almost as bad as grover!

  • Anonymous

    deflect

  • Pablo

    Or maybe I work for myself.

  • Pablo

    That’s just dumb. Of course they’re on the books. They weren’t in the budget, they were separate legislation. By your talking point logic, Obama’s wars aren’t on the books either, since we don’t even bother with budgets anymore.

  • Pablo

    And a penny saved is welfare for the rich!

  • Anonymous

    Well if you work for yourself your bussiness must be failing, unless its a blogging org u run?

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Lew tried putting that same LIE past Wallace on FOX and it went unchallenged.

    These people will LIE about anything; they’re all about usurping more and more of our freedoms to engorge their powers and authorities – typical Third-World Junta Coup mentality.
    It’s failed everywhere before, and it’ll fail here.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Did everyone see the DESPICABLE display of divisive rhetoric from the community-organizer today?

    He’s a textbook Alinsky Marxist trying to “Divide & Conquer” the country – he embodies the dearth of integrity and character that is Today’s Democratic Party.

  • Anonymous

    Chairman Obama’s 2-million person Truth Team

    Desperate to win re-election, President Obama is taking inspiration
    from a tactic used by China’s Chairman Mao during so-called “Cultural
    Revolution.”

    In order to spread his ideology, he creates his own army of
    brainwashed propagandists who are supposed to popularize talking points
    sent to them directly from the White House.
    Modern days
    hongweibings (Chinese for red guards) are called the Truth Team, and if
    everything goes as planned, the president will have an army of over two
    million Americans on his side.
    The Obama administration unveiled
    on Monday a campaign created to crush the GOP competition come November,
    a mission that they hope to make possible with an army of propaganda-
    pumped plebeians that will take talking points handed down all the way
    from the White House. The aim is to influence friends and family with
    rhetoric being reared as honest-to-goodness truth, and the Obama
    campaign is calling for Americans to enlist in its coast-to-coast
    grassroots communications unit that they are calling the Truth Team.
    They’re an intelligence army being equipped with information right from
    the White House, and some administration officials are already saying
    that their troops will be engaged to take on Mitt Romney and whatever
    other Republicans stand in the president’s way.
    “If the other
    guys are going to run a campaign based on misrepresenting the
    president’s record – and their own — we have two options: sit back and
    let these lies go unchallenged, or fight back with the truth,” deputy Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter tells ABC News. “We’re fighting back.”
    With
    the help of a trio of websites launched to inform and advise the Truth
    Team intelligence soldiers, the White House wants to enlist millions of
    young minds that will take cues from Pennsylvania Avenue and attempt to
    influence cohorts who might not yet be sold on President Obama. The
    administration is currently trying to corral a youth crew of
    Obama-backers in the 13 swing states and will them increase their
    operation elsewhere. By equipping the members with communiqué and
    creating a hub of intelligence on the World Wide Web, they hope that an
    army of millions can man a massive social media campaign that will
    litter every Twitter and Facebook feed in America with facts about the
    president, as well as truths to counter Republican Party lies created to
    crush Obama’s run for re-election.
    Three years into his term and wielding a wheelbarrow full of unfulfilled promises, that might just not be enough.
    On
    the Truth Team-created website KeepingHisWord.com, the campaign recalls
    issues that the president has stood by throughout his term so far. They
    applaud the administration for bailing out the automobile industry,
    cutting taxes for small businesses and putting Americans back to work.
    But while the site suggests that Obama was able to boost employment
    numbers up after nearly three years of catastrophic conditions, it does
    not acknowledge that this president oversaw one of the longest trends of
    unemployment in ages. The website reads, “The economy has been growing in the last 23 months under President Obama’s leadership,”
    yet during a Monday morning address from Annandale, Virginia, the
    president also described America as only now emerging from the “worst economic crisis in three generations.”
    “I wake up every single morning thinking about how can I make sure that anybody who wants a job is able to get a job,”
    Obama is quoted on the site in a blurb that tries to defend his
    supposed record of employment creation. On Monday, however, he also said
    that it’s “a long way to go” before Americans looking for jobs will find them.
    Elsewhere, the Truth Team tries to dismantle the plans of the president’s competition.”The
    goal is to ensure that when Republicans attack President Obama’s
    record, grassroots supporters can take ownership of the campaign and
    share the facts with the undecided voters in their lives,” reads an
    official explanation from the president’s campaign. On one of the Truth
    Team-sanctioned websites, KeepingGOPHonest.com, the administration
    attempts to discredit Romney’s campaign by blogging about the Republican
    frontrunner’s record and how his campaign promises allegedly don’t
    align with what he tells America. “Romney’s tax plan helps millionaires and hurts the middle class” reads the latest post; “Romney thinks he can fix housing by doing nothing” says another.
    Not brought up, of course, are the president’s own lies and broken promises.
    There
    are the promises of comprehensive immigration reform which are three
    years behind schedule. There are the ongoing operations at the
    Guantanamo Bay military prison that the president vowed to shut down.
    And then there’s even the National Defense Authorization Act, which
    Obama signed two months ago making it possible for Americans to be
    indefinitely detained and tortured without ever being brought to trial.
    But the Truth Team, sadly, most likely won’t be informed of those.
    “People don’t just want to hear from campaign statements or ads – they want to hear from the family and friends they trust,”
    writes Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s deputy campaign manager. And so with
    the creation of the Truth Team, Obama-friendly facts will be fed to
    enlistees with the hope that they will go out and spread the message of
    the president and put Obama in the White House for another four years.
    “The president needs folks on board to roll up their sleeves, stand with him and get the truth out all over the country,” Cutter adds in her email. “The
    next time you hear Mitt Romney accusing the president of ‘crony
    capitalism’ or someone asking, ‘What has President Obama really
    accomplished?’ you’ll know what to do.”
    Cutter suggests that
    the appropriate response is to direct them to the Truth Team and hope
    for adding one more recruit to the roster. Just like the hope that the
    president offered during his last campaign, you might not want to take
    it for granted.

    http://rt.com/usa/news/truth-team-campaign-obama-195/

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    LMAO!

    I just noticed that huge logo, “The Truth Team”.

    What is this from, Saturday Night Live? – Jon Stewart? – Family Guy?
    That’s just some great satire right there!

  • Pablo

     I can teach you to spell, for a price!

  • Anonymous

    If your so smart why are you a republican? Ahh artificial intellegence.

  • Anonymous

    There’s a popular saying in the ghetto “snitches are bitches” your roots are showing.

  • Anonymous

    Repulsive progressive hypocrisy

    By Glenn Greenwald

    (updated below – Update II [Thurs.])
    During the Bush years, Guantanamo was the core symbol of right-wing
    radicalism and what was back then referred to as the “assault on
    American values and the shredding of our Constitution”: so much so then
    when Barack Obama ran for President, he featured these issues not as a
    secondary but as a central plank in his campaign. But now that there is a
    Democrat in office presiding over Guantanamo and these other polices —
    rather than a big, bad, scary Republican — all of that has changed, as a
    new Washington Post/ABC News poll today demonstrates:
    The sharpest edges of President Obama’s counterterrorism
    policy, including the use of drone aircraft to kill suspected terrorists
    abroad and keeping open the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
    have broad public support, including from the left wing of the Democratic Party.

    A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows
    that Obama, who campaigned on a pledge to close the brig at Guantanamo
    Bay and to change national security policies he criticized as
    inconsistent with U.S. law and values, has little to fear politically
    for failing to live up to all of those promises.

    The survey shows that 70 percent of respondents approve of Obama’s
    decision to keep open the prison at Guantanamo Bay. . . . The poll shows
    that 53 percent of self-identified liberal Democrats — and
    67 percent of moderate or conservative Democrats — support keeping
    Guantanamo Bay open, even though it emerged as a symbol of the
    post-Sept. 11 national security policies of George W. Bush, which many
    liberals bitterly opposed.
    Repulsive liberal hypocrisy extends far beyond the issue of
    Guantanamo. A core plank in the Democratic critique of the Bush/Cheney
    civil liberties assault was the notion that the President could do
    whatever he wants, in secret and with no checks, to anyone he accuses without trial of being a Terrorist –
    even including eavesdropping on their communications or detaining them
    without due process. But President Obama has not only done the same
    thing, but has gone much farther than mere eavesdropping or detention: he has asserted the power even to kill citizens without due process. As Bush’s own CIA and NSA chief Michael Hayden said this week about
    the Awlaki assassination: “We needed a court order to eavesdrop on him
    but we didn’t need a court order to kill him. Isn’t that something?”
    That is indeed “something,” as is the fact that Bush’s mere
    due-process-free eavesdropping on and detention of American citizens
    caused such liberal outrage, while Obama’s due-process-free execution of them has not.
    Beyond that, Obama has used drones to kill Muslim children and innocent adults by the hundreds. He has refused to disclose his legal arguments for why he can do this or to justify the attacks in any way. He has even had rescuers and funeral mourners deliberately targeted.
    As Hayden said: ”Right now, there isn’t a government on the planet that
    agrees with our legal rationale for these operations, except for
    Afghanistan and maybe Israel.” But that is all perfectly fine with most
    American liberals now that their Party’s Leader is doing it:
    Fully 77 percent of liberal Democrats endorse the use of drones,
    meaning that Obama is unlikely to suffer any political consequences as a
    result of his policy in this election year. Support for drone strikes
    against suspected terrorists stays high, dropping only somewhat when respondents are asked specifically about targeting American citizens
    living overseas, as was the case with Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemeni
    American killed in September in a drone strike in northern Yemen.
    The Post‘s Greg Sargent obtained the breakdown on these questions and wrote today:
    The number of those who approve of the drone strikes
    drops nearly 20 percent when respondents are told that the targets are
    American citizens. But that 65 percent is still a very big number, given
    that these policies really should be controversial.

    And get this: Depressingly, Democrats approve of the drone strikes on American citizens by 58-33, and even liberals approve of them, 55-35. Those numbers were provided to me by the Post polling team.

    It’s hard to imagine that Dems and liberals would approve of
    such policies in quite these numbers if they had been authored by George
    W. Bush.
    Indeed: is there even a single liberal pundit, blogger or commentator who would have defended George Bush and Dick Cheney if they (rather than Obama) had been secretly targeting American citizens for execution without due process,
    or slaughtering children, rescuers and funeral attendees with drones,
    or continuing indefinite detention even a full decade after 9/11? Please.
    How any of these people can even look in the mirror, behold the oozing,
    limitless intellectual dishonesty, and not want to smash what they see
    is truly mystifying to me.
    One of the very first non-FISA posts I ever wrote that received substantial attention was this one from January, 2006,
    entitled “Do Bush Followers have an Ideology”? It examined the way in
    which the Bush-supporting Right was more like an “authoritarian cult”
    rather than a political movement because its adherents had no real,
    fixed political beliefs; instead, I argued, their only animating
    “principle” was loyalty to their leader, and they would support anything
    he did no matter how at odds it was with their prior ostensible
    beliefs. That post was linked to and praised by dozens and dozens of
    liberal blogs: can you believe what authoritarian followers these conservatives are?, they scoffed in unison. Here was the crux of my argument:
    Whether one is a “liberal” — or, for that matter, a
    “conservative” — is now no longer a function of one’s actual political
    views, but is a function purely of one’s personal loyalty to George
    Bush. . . .

    People who self-identify as “conservatives” and have always been
    considered to be conservatives become liberal heathens the moment they
    dissent, even on the most non-ideological grounds, from a Bush decree.
    That’s because “conservatism” is now a term used to describe personal
    loyalty to the leader (just as “liberal” is used to describe disloyalty
    to that leader), and no longer refers to a set of beliefs about
    government.

    That “conservatism” has come to mean “loyalty to George Bush” is
    particularly ironic given how truly un-conservative the Administration
    is. . . . And in that regard, people like Michelle Malkin, John
    Hinderaker, Jonah Goldberg and Hugh Hewitt are not conservatives. They
    are authoritarian cultists. Their allegiance is not to any principles of
    government but to strong authority through a single leader.
    As this post demonstrates, long before Barack Obama achieved any
    significance on the political scene, I considered blind leader loyalty
    one of the worst toxins in our political culture: it’s the very
    antithesis of what a healthy political system requires (and what a
    healthy mind would produce). One of the reasons I’ve written so much
    about the complete reversal of progressives on these issues (from
    pretending to be horrified by them when done under Bush to tolerating
    them or even supporting them when done by Obama) is precisely because
    it’s so remarkable to see these authoritarian follower traits manifest
    so vibrantly in the very same political movement — sophisticated,
    independent-minded, reality-based progressives — that believes it is
    above that, and that only primitive conservatives are plagued by such
    follower-mindlessness.
    The Democratic Party owes a sincere apology to George Bush, Dick
    Cheney and company for enthusiastically embracing many of the very
    Terrorism policies which caused them to hurl such vehement invective at
    the GOP for all those years. And progressives who support the views of
    the majority as expressed by this poll should never be listened to again
    the next time they want to pretend to oppose civilian slaughter and
    civil liberties assaults when perpetrated by the next Republican
    President (it should be noted that roughly 35% of liberals, a
    non-trivial amount, say they oppose these Obama policies).
    One final point: I’ve often made the case that one of the most
    consequential aspects of the Obama legacy is that he has transformed
    what was once known as “right-wing shredding of the Constitution” into
    bipartisan consensus, and this is exactly what I mean. When one of the
    two major parties supports a certain policy and the other party pretends
    to oppose it — as happened with these radical War on Terror policies
    during the Bush years — then public opinion is divisive on the question,
    sharply split. But once the policy becomes the hallmark of both
    political parties, then public opinion becomes robust in support of it.
    That’s because people assume that if both political parties support a
    certain policy that it must be wise, and because policies that enjoy the
    status of bipartisan consensus are removed from the realm of mainstream
    challenge. That’s what Barack Obama has done to these Bush/Cheney
    policies: he has, as Jack Goldsmith predicted he would back in 2009,
    shielded and entrenched them as standard U.S. policy for at least a
    generation, and (by leading his supporters to embrace these policies as
    their own) has done so with far more success than any GOP President ever
    could have dreamed of achieving.
     
    UPDATE: The Advocacy Center for Equality and Democracy documents
    how much public opinion has changed on these issues under (and as a
    result of) the Obama presidency: “under the leadership of a President
    who campaigned with the promise to close the facility, . . . support for
    the detention center may be at its highest level ever.”
     
    UPDATE II [Thurs.]: Here is what Thomas Paine, in The Age of Reason, had to say about all of this:
    [I]t is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be
    mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing,
    or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does
    not believe.

    It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express
    it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far
    corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his
    professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared
    himself for the commission of every other crime.
    As is true for so many things, Paine grasped the crux of the matter and expressed it as well as it can be expressed.
     http://www.salon.com/2012/02/08/repulsive_progressive_hypocrisy/singleton/

  • Anonymous

    Greg – The fact that you know so much about Gloves speaks to the fact that you spend far too much time on this site.

    Enjoy your coding.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     Glenn,
    Appreciate it, but pithy Glenn, pithy.

  • Anonymous

    No serious person ever believed that Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn or any of the other radical libeals really objected to Guantanamo or any of the other Bush policies.  Rather, everyone knows that liberals are consumed with hatred and lies.

  • Anonymous

    Or Entitlement Programs.

  • Anonymous

    4 more years of continued employment improvement
    4 more years of NO MORE NO NONSENSE
    4 more years of NOT being denied health coverage for pre-existing medical conditions
    4 more years of a budget without CONS FILIBUSTERS
    4 more years without a Theological Edict guiding govt
    4 more years of repairing and cleaning up the mess left by Capt.Courageous and DICK-DEFECITS DON’T MATTER
                                     - AND -

    4 more years of MINORITY REPUBLICANS!!!!!

                                  PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    OBAMA’S
    COLLEGE CLASSMATE SPEAKS
    OUT
    By Wayne Allyn
    Root , June 6th, 2010

     

    Barack Hussien Obama is
    no fool.  
    He is not
    incompetent. 
    To the
    contrary, he is
    brilliant.  
    He knows
    exactly what he’s doing. 
    He is
    purposely overwhelming the U.S. Economy to
    create systemic failure.
    Economic crisis and
    social chaos — thereby destroying capitalism
    and
    Our country from within. 
    Barack
    Hussien Obama was my college
    classmate 
     
    ( Columbia
    University , class of ’83). 
    He is a devout Muslim
    do not be fooled. 
    Look at
    his Czars…anti-business..anti-
    American.
    As Glenn Beck correctly predicted
    from day one!  
    Barack Hussien
    Obama is following the plan of Cloward &
    Piven,  
    two professors
    at Columbia University ..
    They outlined a
    plan to socialize America by overwhelming the
    system.
    With government spending and
    entitlement demands. 
    Add up the clues
    below. Taken individually they’re
    alarming. 
    Taken as a whole, it is a
    brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn
    the United States into a socialist/Marxist
    state with a permanent majority, 
    That
    desperately needs government for survival
    … and can be counted on 
    to
    always vote for bigger
    government. 

    Why not? They have no
    responsibility to pay for
    it. 

    Universal Health
    Care .  
    The health
    care bill had very little to do with health
    care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions
    of hospital and health care workers, as well as
    adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will
    join government employee unions). 

    Obama
    doesn’t care that giving free health care to 30
    million Americans 
    will add trillions to
    the national debt.  
    What he does
    care about is that it cements the dependence of
    those 30 million voters to Democrats and big
    government .

    Who but a socialist
    revolutionary would pass this reckless spending
    bill 
    In the middle of a
    depression? 
    Cap &
    Trade.  
    Like health
    care legislation having nothing to do with
    health care, Cap & Trade has nothing to do
    with global warming. 
    It has everything
    to do with redistribution of
    income,  with government in
    control of the economy and a criminal payoff to
    Obama’s biggest contributors. 

    Those
    powerful and wealthy unions and
    contributors (like GE, which owns  NBC,
    MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to
    support everything Obama
    wants. 

    They will kick-back hundreds
    of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama
    and the Democratic Party to keep them in
    power. 

    The bonus is that all the
    new taxes on Americans with bigger
    cars,
    bigger homes and businesses helps
    Obama ”spread the
    wealth around.” 

    Make Puerto Rico a
    state. Why?  
    Who’s
    asking for a 51st state?
    Who’s asking for
    millions of new welfare recipients and
    government
    entitlement addicts in the middle
    of a depression? Certainly not American
    taxpayers.  

    But this has been
    Barack Hussien Obama’s plan all
    along. 
    His goal is to add two new
    Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and
    a million loyal Democratic voters who are
    dependent on big
    government. 

    Legalize 12
    million illegal Mexican
    immigrants. 
    Just giving these 12
    million potential new citizens free health care
    alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America
     . 

    But it adds 12
    million reliable new Democrat voters who can be
    counted
    on to support big
    government.  
    Add another
    few trillion
    dollars in welfare, aid to
    dependent children, food stamps, free medical,
    education, tax credits for the poor, and
    eventually Social Security

    Stimulus and
    bailouts. Where did all that
    money go? 
    It went to Democrat
    contributors, organizations (ACORN),
    and unions –
    including billions
    of dollars to save or
    create jobs of government employees across the
    country.  
    It went to save GM
    and Chrysler so that their employees could keep
    paying union dues.
    It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be
    bailed out (after giving Obama
    almost $1
    million in
    contributions). 
    A
    staggering $125
    billion went to teachers
    (thereby protecting their union dues). 
    All
    those public employees (unions)
    will vote loyally Democrat to protect
    their bloated salaries and pensions that
    are bankrupting America .. 

    The
    country goes broke, future generations face a
    bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party,
    government, and the unions grow
    more powerful. The ends justify the
    means. 

    Raise taxes on
    small business owners, high-income earners, and
    job
    creators. Put the entire burden on only
    the top 20 percent of
    taxpayers, 
    redistribute the
    income, punish success, and reward
    those who did 
    nothing to deserve it
    (except vote for Obama). 

    Reagan
    wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to
    starve the government.  
    Barack
    Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to
    starve his political opposition. With the acts
    outlined above, Barack Hussien Obama and his
    regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding
    constituency of voters dependent on big
    government; a vast privileged class of public
    employees (unions) who
    work for big government; and a government
    dedicated to destroying capitalism and
    installing themselves as socialist rulers by
    overwhelming the system. 
    Add it up
    and you’ve got the perfect Marxist scheme — all
    devised by
    my Columbia University college
    classmate Barack Hussien Obama 
    using
    the Cloward and Piven Plan
    .. 

    “Correctly attributed”
    says snopes!http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/overwhelm.asp
     

  • Anonymous

    And here I started to believe your posts were becoming a bit more lucid after the weekend.Time to put up the “sauce” till next weekend,Gloves.

  • Anonymous

    When you remove your cranium out of your anal orifice,the job of overwhelming the Fed Govt.,while starving it to death was the job of the Village Idiot/Dick-Defecits Don’t Matter from the previous regime.

  • Anonymous

    The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn’t Want You to Read
    Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/the-afghanistan-report-the-pentagon-doesnt-want-you-to-read-20120210#ixzz1mKCWP31HEarlier this week, the New York Times’ Scott Shane published a bombshell piece about Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis, a 17-year Army veteran recently returned from a second tour in Afghanistan. According to the Times,
    the 48-year-old Davis had written an 84-page unclassified report, as
    well as a classified report, offering his assessment of the decade-long
    war. That assessment is essentially that the war has been a disaster and
    the military’s top brass has not leveled with the American public about
    just how badly it’s been going. “How many more men must die in support
    of a mission that is not succeeding?” Davis boldly asks in an article summarizing his views in The Armed Forces Journal.Davis
    last month submitted the unclassified report –titled “Dereliction of
    Duty II: Senior Military Leader’s Loss of Integrity Wounds Afghan War
    Effort” – for an internal Army review. Such a report could then be
    released to the public. However, according to U.S. military officials
    familiar with the situation, the Pentagon is refusing to do so. Rolling Stone
    has now obtained a full copy of the 84-page unclassified version, which
    has been making the rounds within the U.S. government, including the
    White House. We’ve decided to publish it in full; it’s well worth reading for yourself. It is, in my estimation, one of the most significant documents published by an active-duty officer in the past ten years.Here
    is the report’s damning opening lines: “Senior ranking U.S. military
    leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the U.S.
    Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in
    Afghanistan that the truth has become unrecognizable. This deception has
    damaged America’s credibility among both our allies and enemies,
    severely limiting our ability to reach a political solution to the war
    in Afghanistan.” Davis goes on to explain that everything in the report
    is “open source” – i.e., unclassified – information. According to Davis,
    the classified report, which he legally submitted to Congress, is even
    more devastating. “If the public had access to these classified reports
    they would see the dramatic gulf between what is often said in public by
    our senior leaders and what is actually true behind the scenes,” Davis
    writes. “It would be illegal for me to discuss, use, or cite classified
    material in an open venue and thus I will not do so; I am no WikiLeaks
    guy Part II.”According to the Times story, Davis
    briefed four members of Congress and a dozen staff members and sent his
    reports to the Defense Department’s inspector general, and of course
    spoke to a New York Times reporter; only after all that did he
    inform his chain of command what he’d been up to. Evidently Davis’s
    truth-telling campaign has rattled the Pentagon brass, prompting unnamed
    officials to retaliate by threatening a bogus investigation for
    “possible security violations,” according to NBC News.Although Davis’s critics have tried to brush off his claims as merely the opinions of a “reservist,” – as Max Boot put it –
    his report is full of insight, analysis, and hard data that back up
    each one of his claims. He details the gross failure of training the
    Afghan Army, the military’s blurring of the lines between public affairs
    and “information operations” (meaning, essentially, propaganda), and
    the Pentagon’s manipulation of the U.S. media. (He expertly contrasts
    senior military officials public statements with the actual reality on
    the ground.) Davis concludes: “It is my recommendation that the United
    States Congress – the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in
    particular – should conduct a bi-partisan investigation into the various
    charges of deception or dishonesty in this report and hold broad
    hearings as well,” he writes. “These hearings need to include the very
    senior generals and former generals whom I refer to in this report so
    they can be given every chance to publicly give their version of
    events.” In other words, put the generals under oath, and then see what
    story they tell.
    Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/the-afghanistan-report-the-pentagon-doesnt-want-you-to-read-20120210#ixzz1mKCjrDkM

  • Anonymous

    Truth Team = ‘New Coke.’

  • Pablo

    Note: Republicans often say he used to reconciliation to pass health care, but technically, the health-care law was passed in the Senate with 60 votes, and then amendments were passed under reconciliation to placate House Democrats.

    Yes, the Senate did that on Christmas Eve, and the reconciliation trick is what allowed it to go to Obama’s desk when it wouldn’t have made it otherwise. So, they rammed it through with reconciliation and it would not have passed otherwise. That was their way of negating the election of Scott Brown.

  • Pablo

    I’m not a Republican.

  • Anonymous

    About time!

    From another site:
    1) President Obama tripled the deficit.
    Reality: Bush’s last budget had a $1.416 trillion deficit. Obama’s first budget reduced that to $1.29 trillion.

    2) President Obama raised taxes, which hurt the economy.
    Reality: Obama cut taxes. 40% of the “stimulus” was wasted on tax cuts which only create debt, which is why it was so much less effective than it could have been.

    3) President Obama bailed out the banks.
    Reality: While many people conflate the “stimulus” with the bank bailouts, the bank bailouts were requested by President Bush and his Treasury Secretary, former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson. (Paulson also wanted the bailouts to be “non-reviewable by any court or any agency.”) The bailouts passed and began before the 2008 election of President Obama.

    4) The stimulus didn’t work.
    Reality: The stimulus worked, but was not enough. In fact, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the stimulus raised employment by between 1.4 million and 3.3 million jobs.

    5) Businesses will hire if they get tax cuts.
    Reality: A business hires the right number of employees to meet demand. Having extra cash does not cause a business to hire, but a business that has a demand for what it does will find the money to hire. Businesses want customers, not tax cuts.

    6) Health care reform costs $1 trillion.
    Reality: The health care reform reduces government deficits by $138 billion.

    7) Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, is “going broke,” people live longer, fewer workers per retiree, etc.
    Reality: Social Security has run a surplus since it began, has a trust fund in the trillions, is completely sound for at least 25 more years and cannot legally borrow so cannot contribute to the deficit (compare that to the military budget!) Life expectancy is only longer because fewer babies die; people who reach 65 live about the same number of years as they used to.

    8) Government spending takes money out of the economy.
    Reality: Government is We, the People and the money it spends is on We, the People. Many people do not know that it is government that builds the roads, airports, ports, courts, schools and other things that are the soil in which business thrives. Many people think that all government spending is on “welfare” and “foreign aid” when that is only a small part of the government’s budget.

  • Anonymous

    This is an excerpt from Paul Weyrich’s Manual for the Religious Right which is the moving force of the Republican Party and it’s methods are employed by them all and especially by Fox Entertainment.

    1) Falsehoods are not only acceptable, they are a necessity. The corollary is: The masses will accept any lie if it is spoken with vigor, energy and dedication.
    2) It is necessary to be cast under the cloak of “goodness” whereas all opponents and their ideas must be cast as “evil.”
    3) Complete destruction of every opponent must be accomplished through unrelenting personal attacks.
    4) The creation of the appearance of overwhelming power and brutality is necessary in order to destroy the will of opponents to launch opposition of any kind.

  • Anonymous

    Better re-read the Snopes article.  All Snopes is saying is that the above article WAS written by Wayne Alyn Root – NOT that the article itself is true. 

    You’re following Weyrich’s Manual for the Religious right:
    1) Falsehoods are not only acceptable, they are a necessity. The corollary is: The masses will accept any lie if it is spoken with vigor, energy and dedication.

  • Anonymous

    On second though, read right down to the bottom of the Snopes article and you will find that Root was never a roommate of Obamas – simply that he attended Columbia University at the same time and later claimed that neither he, nor anybody he knew were familiar with Obama during that time.

  • Anonymous

    Google “GOP blocks Obama” – and you’ll see why he is having trouble getting anything done.  What you’re getting is a version watered down to please the GOP and what is essentially GOP legislation.

  • Anonymous

    And another tidbit!  “He has also made numerous appearances on various programs on the Fox News Channel. He is a frequent speaker at Tea Party events across the United States.[5]

    If that doesn’t tell allll………..

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    My gawd…woman…That’s three different spins.
    What is it with liberals that they refuse to learn?
    Some folks just have a need to remain ignorant…I guess.

  • http://profiles.google.com/ron.de.weijze Ron C. de Weijze

    It makes me sick to the core to hear the far Left claim they know what Truth is, when their postmodern philosophy, dead anyway, claims there is no such thing and never, ever applies independent confirmation but only blows the minds with more Derrida, Zizek and Michael Moore. Sick, sick, sick.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    Thats enough spam.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    Your spinning yourself into making people believe the Republicans are bad people and you need to get off your bandwagon.  You’re hurting our party.  

  • Anonymous

    Obama extended the Bush tax cuts while continue to spend like money is free.  Meanwhile many of the states, including my own, led by financially idiot  Democrats find new ways to tax citizens every day.  My pay has gone down but my taxes have gone way up, and gas has basically doubled.   

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    Ron Paul is a one man truth squad.

    This White House is a joke but one thing I agree with them on is..

    Everyone except Paul is a hypocrite on their complaints against Obama.

    So prepare for that crap.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    I read that when it circulated via e-mail.

    Devastating, and furthermore, NBC, ABC, CBS, the NY Times, AP, CNN, the Washington Post, etc. all worked in concert to cover it up!

    NEVER trust the Democratic-advocacy “news” media!

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     I just re-read this again, and am going to re-send it to through my networks.

    The welfare-leeching Democratic parasites that feed off of working people’s taxes won’t respond; but the people footing the bill will.

    This is a Saul Alinsky, government-dependency coup to undermine freedom and impose a Crony-Capitalist Junta in its place!
    It must be stopped.

  • Anonymous

    Glad to know your loyalties are with France.

  • Anonymous

    I think they just have to stick wih some sort of vague set of talking points to undermine Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Paranoid much?

  • Pablo

    Loyalties have nothing to do with it. I’m just noting the facts on the ground.

  • Pablo

    Yeah, like the awesome job he did following Sarkozy into Libya!

    Libya Tells UN Rights Council: “Gays threaten continuation of human race”

  • Pablo

    No. I just find it odd that we have an administration that considers 1984 an instruction manual.

  • Anonymous

    Better copy it quickly before Barry’s Truth Team deletes it forever.

  • Anonymous

    They will again since they too are MOSTLY MARXIST.  All of the LEFT LEANING LIBERALS VIEW THIS AS THEIR CHANCE FOR IMMORTALITY AND THEIR ATTEMPT TO TAKE OVER THE AMERICAN DREAM WITH THOSE OF KARL MARX. 

  • Anonymous

    Don’t ever trust SNOPES, a known liberal leaning site.  They will be part of Barry’s Truth Team or should I say Serum.

  • Anonymous

    We ‘ve had that since the book came out.

  • Anonymous

    Deflect from the Carter comparisons by going with the conspiratorial Nixon comparisons?  

  • Anonymous

    Independents like myself have officially given up expecting him to do a Clinton and work on bipartisan efforts.  

    Liberals choose party nominees, but independent voters choose election winners.

  • Pablo

     That’s what “correctly attributed” means.

    If there are falsehoods in the piece, you should rebut them.

  • Pablo

    That doesn’t tell much of anything. If you’d like to rebut his arguments, that might tell us something.

  • Pablo

    Reality: Bush’s last budget had a $1.416 trillion deficit. Obama’s first budget reduced that to $1.29 trillion.

    Wrong. You’re referring to the FY09 budget. That’s wasn’t Bush’s budget. Pelosi and Reid never sent him one. They kept passing continuing resolutions until Obama signed a budget in March of 09. That budget includes Obama’s stimulus. Bush’s last budget came in with a $455 billion deficit. Obama has never run less than $1.3 trillion and no other administration has never run over a trillion..

    If you can’t get through #1 without lying…

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    LOL!!
    Troll on…..

  • Anonymous

    Cliinton left a 128 billion dollar surplus which Bush brought up to a 1,4 trillion dollar deficit in his last budget.  Obama brought the deficit down to 1.2 trillion in his first year – according to a government financial graph saved to my computer.

    According to the 2010 National Priorities project, 58% of the budget was designated to the war.  Until that money is no longer being squandered on the war effort, there will be no improvement.

    Are you aware that Republican’s have never run a balanced budget since Washington?

  • Anonymous

    1) He never actually ever met Obama or know anyone who did know him.
    2) He himself is a presidential wannabe on the conservative side.
    3) He pals with the Fox misinformation channel and its Weyrich “stealth and deception” technique.

    It sounds more like spinnery that the Fox fans have sucked in hook, line and sinker.

  • Anonymous

    Because Snopes isn’t an out and out right wing site doesn’t make it “liberal leaning”.  It seems that the conservatives don’t realize that the Centre isn’t left or right and that makes it more accurate than those leaning either way.

  • Anonymous

    How does Lora rebut nonsense.  He’s making the claims – where is HIS proof? Actually, he should be charged with defamation of character.

    Weyrich Stealth and Decepion manual 3) Complete destruction of every opponent must be accomplished through unrelenting personal attacks.

  • Anonymous

    The Republicans operate on Straussian principles, a favorite of the Koch brothers who are involved with the very wealthy Council for National Policy that is a large source of Republican funds:  These are some of the Straussian principles they employ:
    1.  Stealth and deception – secrecy is essential
    2.  Power of religion used in herding together a voting block. Religion is primarily a propaganda tool to be used to get the masses to acquiesce in state intervention on behalf of aggressive nationalism. 3.  Aggressive Nationalism.
    4.  Perpetual war is necessary.
    5.  Patriotic fervour is to be rallied.
    6.  Political Expediency And Murder Become Virtue
    7. Possess And As Necessary Present The “Hidden Meaning” Reject Countervailing history.
    8.Maintain A Culture Of Lying And Carry On A Perpetual Confusion Campaign.
    9. The Many Are Told What They Need To Know And No More.  Deception is carried on continually. Lies are to be both aggressive and perpetual.
    10.Dissemble Democracy.

    Ignoble liars: Leo Strauss, George Bush, and the philosophy of mass deceptionhttp://www.lacosapizza.com/shorris.html

  • Anonymous

    silly girl… that is the DNC handbook you are reading from.

  • Anonymous

    You need to get some background info Val.
    Check out:
    2) Paul Weyrich’s Teaching Manual” for the Dominionists AKA Religious right who make up the moving factor in the GOP.
    2)  The Council for National Policy.
    3)  The 20 principles of the Straussians.
    4)  The Straussian link to the Koch brothers.
    5)  A back ground on the Koch brothers. 
    6)  Leo Strauss – godfather of the Neo-cons.

    When you finish that, get back to me.

  • Anonymous
  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Swann/100003281352784 Charles Swann

    Thank you for clearing up the Snopes thing;I’m afraid the difference between confirming the source of the article (which is uncontested) and confirming the substance of the article (which is completely fabricated) is too fine a point for our friend AIiveStiIIKickin to grasp.  It reminds me of conservatives who can’t distinguish between supporting our troops and supporting the war. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Swann/100003281352784 Charles Swann

    I can rebut them:  Wayne A. Root has made a career out of making up stories about the President’s time at Columbia and shopping them around to every right-wing media outlet.  His logic is this:  he didn’t see Obama at Columbia; therefore Obama never attended Columbia.  Well, I didn’t see the sun rise today, so the sun does not exist.  He should pay Obama royalties.

  • Anonymous

    I
    believe that I am fairly well-versed in how religious dogma and political propaganda
    work. It’s not rocket science so I’ll pass on that. I just always find it amusing
    when one side of the argument accuses the other side of doing the very things
    that they themselves are doing.  I am not
    overly concerned that a Christian fundamentalist movement is about to overwhelm
    America at this point but apparently you are.

  • Anonymous

    Gee, paranoid much?  

  • Holistic

    Tommy once again reporting for the White House on its truth teams. That will be the day when they start telling the truth. They and Tommy can’t afford the truth.

  • Anonymous

      Only a simple majority is needed, but to prevent a filibuster you need 60. Therefore, in the current climate you need 60 for everything. The 60 threshold allows the senate to invoke cloture – which limits the amount of time you can blockade a bill.

    Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_votes_are_needed_to_pass_budget_in_congress#ixzz1mNieZRzy

  • Anonymous

    When you join the Truth Team do you get a cape or something? :) I’ll join if I can be your side-kick Greg. I can be Fact Lad.

  • Anonymous

    You can use filibuster for the budget. Reconiliation on a budget maybe political suicide especially in an election year. 

  • Anonymous

    Certainly, pass on it if you wish. Facts have a way of getting in the way of what you believe, so I don’t expect you would want to risk that.

    By the way, did you get this posting job from Craigslist. I’ve seen their adds, looking to hire conservative writers to disrupt the blog sites with spinnery.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    I would love that. I will put in your cape order post-haste.

  • Anonymous

    I’m a centrist and Ron Paul looks to me like the only one with any sense on that side.

  • Duke Chesnut

    Clinton “balanced” his budget by raiding Social Security Funds and replacing them with IOUs.

  • Duke Chesnut

    DNC Spin Team wannabee.

  • Duke Chesnut

    The Snopes site has a Media Matters section on their home page.

  • http://teapartiers.blogspot.com brucepmajors

    I received email solicitations from this little experiment in Obama fascism, because I was once a Democratic donor and apparently I have to fire bomb the DCCC to get off their mailing list.

    It’s clear this is even more a fundraising tool than an actual strategy for bullying reporters who actually dare to cover the collapsing economy or the fast and furious scandal. The little Obama lemmings are invited to identify with their masters and feel that they too are exercising police powers, in the hopes that their fantasized power will make them fork over their shekels.

  • Anonymous

    oh please simpleton….. I don’t need the money.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you kind sir. TRUTH TEAM ACTIVATE!  FORM OF….. SHAPE OF………

  • Anonymous

    Name calling too?  Wow, you ARE so wonderful (not).

  • Anonymous

    I’m sorry sweetpea that was not cool. I try to take things from a pragmatic/objecitve view but sometimes my monkey/lizard brain vetoes that.

  • Anonymous

    DO YOU HAVE ANY GUBMINT SPANKS IVE GAINED 14 LBS and the UNITARD IS LOOKING ROUGH! I’m digging the big F on my mask though.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    I checked. We have a few pairs available. You choices are a lightly worn Frank hand me down or a terribly abused tip O’Neill pair. Either one sounds like it might fit.

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    Why aren’t you outraged about the 2 gun-walking projects the ATF ran under Bush/Vader?

    And the fact that is was the Bush/Vader economic policies of spend and spend but don’t pay for any of it that CAUSED the economy to collapse?

  • Anonymous

    Ummm, maybe because 2,000 sophisticated firearms didn’t go to Mexico, several hundred Mexicans didn’t get killed, and a border patrol agent didn’t get killed?  The IDEA of F & F was to recover the trafficked firearms at crime scenes, presumably murders, not to track buyers.  

  • Anonymous

    I have a change that Obama should try, and that is that He tell the truth sometimes, instead of being pathological LIAR that he is now!  In my sixty years, having served under Presidents Nixon thru Reagan, having the Highest Respect for all of them, even loving some of them, I find myself totally dispising the current occupier of the Oval Office, the Whore’s Son, Obama.  I have mostly been a Lifetime Democrat, I voted Carter into office, and I helped vote him out when he turned out to be useless, but I still respected him, just thought he was too good a person for the office.  My wife even saw him in Burns Flat, Okla, when he spent the night in Elk City.  I had to work or I would have been there.  But I helped vote him out because he was not doing his job.  I did vote Reagan both times.  I never voted for Gore or Bush, thought both were bad.  I did vote for Kerry, but in 2008 I just could not get myself to vote for someone who’s only accomplishment in life was being able to read a Dummy Board well.  There was no way!  So I voted McCain, not happy with him but he was better than the whores son, Obama.  At least McCain had served his country, while Obama was attending school as a Foreign Student.  One thing America does not need, and that is another four years of this Ba§tard Child!  Michelle Obama once said, “For the first time I am proud of my country”, well, for the first time in my sixty years, I actually Dispise the President of my County!  And America needs a Real Lady as 1st Lady, not one that would better suited to stand on a street corner in the ghetto, and also one that has ALWAYS been Proud of her country!

  • http://teapartiers.blogspot.com brucepmajors

    “Bush did it too” is the mark of an idiot who is trying to change the subject.  Now scream racism too my little lick spittle and maybe they will put a bonus in your check.

  • Anonymous

    Truth and Obama in the same sentence???? Are you kidding me?????
    ABO

  • Anonymous

    And 10 out 0f 10 Republicans agree all Liberals are seriously brain damaged. There is actually a medical study in progress trying to identify the damaged genome that is responsible for mindless liberalism. I hope they find a cure before our great country is destroyed.
    ABO

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