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McCain Campaigning With GOPer Who Compared Obama To Osama

Think Progress | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

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Earlier this week, Time magazine's Karen Tumulty reported on how Jeffrey Frederick, the chairman of the Virginia Republican party, gave GOP volunteers...

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Obama/Osama Sign Outside McCain Rally

Washington Independent | Posted 10.13.2008 | Home

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As Sen. John McCain's motorcade arrived for a rally at Cape Fear Community College, this sign, featuring a photo of Osama bin Laden in between photos ...

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"Obama Bin Lyin'" Sign At McCain Rally

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

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One day after John McCain passed up an attempt to criticize a comparison between Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden, he has been presented with another ...

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Virginia GOP Head Tells Volunteers: Compare Obama To Osama

Time | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

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If John McCain is as serious as he says about running a "respectful" campaign against an opponent he considers "a decent person," word hasn't yet tric...

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Osama Printed Instead of Obama on Absentee Ballots, an Accident? VIDEO >>

George Spyros | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

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AP reports that hundreds of absentee ballots sent to voters in Rensselaer County, NY, identified the Democratic presidential candidate as 'Barack Os...

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Obama Listed As "Barack Osama" On Some New York Ballots

Albany Times-Union | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's last name is spelled "Osama" on hundreds of absentee ballots mailed out this week to voters in Rensse...

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How Should Obama Respond? A Third Way to End the Sliming

Joel Weinberger | Posted 08.22.2008 | Politics

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Obama is refuting charges against him in an effort not to repeat the mistake of the Kerry campaign -- but this just substitutes a new mistake for the old one.

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Bush, Iraq, Energy, Osama: McCain/Obama Speech War

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

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In presidential campaigns, words matter. With Barack Obama belittled as an empty-suit orator and John McCain stifled by rhetorical blunders, the influ...

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Jon Stewart Explains The Difference Between Osama And Obama To Media: "Obama Has Only One Radical Muslim Wife" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media

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Jumping off a series of clips of pundits and TV hosts mixing up the names Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden, Jon Stewart laid out the differences betwe...

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State Senator Kevin Bryant Posts Osama-Obama Photo

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

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South Carolina State Senator Kevin Bryant has removed a classy photo from his website showing Osama Bin Laden next to Barack Obama with text claiming...

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Chris Matthews Confuses Barack Obama And Osama Bin Laden Once Again

Huffington Post | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media

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Talking about the flap over The New Yorker's controversial cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama, Chris Matthews slipped up -- once again -- and s...

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FearWatch '08: Keeping an Eye Out for GOP Fear-Mongering

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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Things are always less scary when the lights are on, so throughout the campaign HuffPost will be conducting a FearWatch, keeping our eyes peeled for attempts to scare the public into voting their fears. And we need your help... Read More McCain's Campaign Funding Hypocrisy: Why Are the Media Looking the Other Way? Amidst all the attacks on Obama's public funding "flip-flop," how much have you read in the old media about the fact that McCain has completely reversed himself on public financing -- and is currently breaking campaign finance law on a daily basis? Read More Watch Arianna on: BBC News' Hardtalk, CNN's Election Center, and Anderson Cooper 360

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Woops: GOP Congressman Talks About Shooting...Obama

Progress Illinois | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

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Interviewed on the Don Wade & Roma in the Morning show Wednesday, Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) said that he supports a policy "where if we see Obama there'...

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Is Hotmail Contributing To Obama-Muslim Smear Campaign?

The Huffington Post | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

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There is great concern -- both within and outside of Barack Obama's campaign -- that the smear attacks suggesting that the Senator is, in fact, a Musl...

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Chris Matthews Apologizes Again – This Time For Obama/Osama Error

Huffington Post | Posted 02.19.2008 | Media

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Last night on Hardball, Chris Matthews promoted the show's lineup, which would include discussion of Barack Obama's plagiarism of Deval Patrick's spee...

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Glenn Beck Calls Barack "Osama," Says Obama Is An "Unfortunate Name"

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 12.19.2007 | Media

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On Monday's "Good Morning America," Glenn Beck "accidentally" referred to Barack Obama as "Osama," calling Barack's last name "unfortunate." While th...

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The Year In Media Errors And Corrections

Regret The Error | Craig Silverman | Posted 12.11.2007 | Media

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Barack Obama appears to be a magnet for press errors. He was mistaken for "Osama" in two (1,2) news reports by CNN, and in one by the New York Post. ...

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Why Obama Becomes Osama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.29.2007 | Politics

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The reason Romney got off with a half-baked blow off of his verbal goof starts and ends with Obama.

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