Obama Smears

Mailbag: Anti-Obama "Vote For Obama" Banner

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics


We want your stories! What was your voting experience like? What interactions have you had with the campaigns? Are you volunteering for a candidate? H...

This Election, Plates of Human History Will Shift

Michael Hughes | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home


Michael Hughes

As November 4th approaches, voters are determining if they want to be an integral part of history, or on the wrong side of it. Forces are at work beyond description, like some divine hand pushing us forward.

Sam Stein

At An Anti-Obama Presser Where No Attack Is Deemed Outrageous

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics


Mark Willliams, a conservative radio host and voice of the rabidly anti-Obama group, Our Country Deserves Better, was hoping for a calm and effective ...

Race in the Race

Jim Ylisela | Posted 10.29.2008 | Chicago


Jim Ylisela

So here we are, 25 years after Harold Washington, and the stakes couldn't be higher.

Indiana Smears Cause Voter Backlash

Chuck Lasker | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home


Chuck Lasker

After receiving an email smear, one Indiana voter wrote: "I am outraged that the Republican Party sent this kind of smut to my home ... There is no place in this election [for] this garbage. It will not work; not this time."

GOP Group Head Calls Obama A "Muslim Socialist"

AP | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics


ALAMOGORDO, N.M. — County and state GOP officials criticized the head of a New Mexico Republican women's group for calling Democratic presidenti...

Skanks Gotta Stick Together

Disgrasian | Posted 10.12.2008 | Entertainment


Disgrasian

2008-10-13-pullpalin.jpg The Pussycat Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger said this week that she'd welcome Sarah Palin into her group if the Republican ticket fails in November.

Obama Predicted GOP's Nasty Turn (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics


The Jed Report reminds us that Barack Obama predicted the campaign's nasty turn months ago: ...

McCain's New Strategy Incites Violent, Racist Reaction

Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics


Eric Schmeltzer

Are you proud, McCain? In your quest for power, you threw out your morals, your principle, your past disdain for low-ball gutter smears. And now we know the reaction it has incited.

Going Negative

James Love | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics


James Love

I personally would emphasize the lateness of McCain's attacks, and that it is a character flaw to offer exaggerated and unsupported allegations against your opponent.

Seth Colter Walls

Fox News, GOP Tag-Team Obama With Voter Fraud Smear

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics


Weeks out from election day, Fox News has begun devoting extensive coverage to a scandal alleging "deep ties" between Barack Obama and a "radical" gro...

Sam Stein

Biden: McCain's Economic Philosophy As Broke As Lehman Brothers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.23.2008 | Politics


Today vice presidential candidate Joseph Biden decried the McCain campaign for running a "successful smear campaign" against Barack Obama, and ridicul...

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

Joel Weinberger | Posted 08.22.2008 | Politics


Joel Weinberger

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.

Sam Stein

In A Bind, GOP Throws Kitchen Sink At Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics


Prompted, it seems, by concerns over John McCain's foot-in-the-mouth admission that he did not know the number of houses he owned, aides to the Senato...

Alter: "Smear Gap" Between McCain And Obama

Newsweek | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics


This is hardly the nastiest campaign in recent memory. But it's not shaping up as the "civil" contest that both candidates promised either. Instead, w...

Jerome Corsi's Lies: Inside The Deceptions Of The Best-Selling Anti-Obama Book

John K. Wilson | Posted 08.14.2008 | Home


John K. Wilson

Corsi piles distortion upon innuendo to create a gigantic heap of right-wing garbage, with a seemingly endless parade of basic factual errors running through the text like rats.

Pavlovian Premillennialism

Randall Balmer | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics


Randall Balmer

In subtle and not-so-subtle ways, Republicans are seeking to portray the presumptive Democratic nominee as the Antichrist foretold in the Book of Revelation.

Sam Stein

Kerry Launches Obama-Helping Anti-Smear Website

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics


No stranger to being submarined by attack ads and smear campaigns, Sen. John Kerry is set to launch an online effort that will work to protect Barack ...

Jerome Corsi's Shameless Hatchet Job on Barack Obama

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

Corsi's biggest claim to fame is co-authoring the infamous Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Judging from the shrill and paranoid tone of his latest effort I get the impression Obama has really scared these guys this time.

"Obama Is My Slave" Shirt Sparks Lawsuit Threat In New York

NY Metro | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics


When a 25-year-old Manhattan graduate student who was assaulted Tuesday night got dressed that morning, she probably didn't anticipate that her T-shir...

Sam Stein

Maureen Dowd Becomes Fictional Actor In Obama Smear

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics


A comically absurd Barack Obama smear email is making the rounds right now involving a fabricated column by famed New York Times columnist Maureen Dow...

Obama To Counter Questions About Patriotism In Speech

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics


INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Monday he will never question others' patriotism during the race and bla...

Barack Obama, Comunista y Terrorista? / Communist and Terrorist?

David Paul Appell | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics


David Paul Appell

The U.S. doesn't have to embrace Cuba at this time, but we do need to engage, because if we don't evolve too, history won't absolve us. Obama understands this.

GOP Operatives Ready To Hit Obama (If Only They Had Money)

New York Times | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics


A Bible verse taped to a whiteboard in Floyd Brown's office that he uses to track his efforts to attack Senator Barack Obama reads, "That is why for C...