The following is an email I sent nearly everyone in my address book. I excluded my father and mother.
It's from a fellow blogger who sent the link for this to
my Obama blogsite. I have modified it a bit to make it "gentler" for a lot of those whom I emailed it to that I know are hard-core Republicans.
To all my family, friends and fellow Hounds;
I am not sending this on because I want you to vote for Senator Obama, or any other such thing. 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. I wish that ALL politicians could run a clean, honorable campaign. I am honestly so tired of all the attacks against EVERY politician. If those who put out attacks on politicans can back them with facts, then do so. If not, it is my opinion that they shouldn't say anything at all. Now, I realize that many people believe that this is "just the way politics is", but it doesn't have to be that way.
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.
Subject: End the smears
I hope you will take the time to read this. Again, I say, this is 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?
The emails are so absurd that no rational, informed person could possibly believe them. Unfortunately, there are people out there who don’t pay attention and likely to believe such lies. 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/watch?v=svo9mutE6TM&feature=related
Discussion of the pledge of allegiance myth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPT6edfURTI&feature=related
Obama As A Muslim Extremist - CNN Counters FOX Lies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhWaiULqkp4
Obama responding to dirty tricks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7INpMhtG3g&feature=related
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