Let The Swift Boating Begin!

Everyone knew that it wouldn't take very long for Neo-Cons to assemble another swift boat strategy to air in battleground states. Texas billionaire Harold Simmons is at it again! This is the same man who funded the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth." May I also add that he is a huge contributor to the McCain campaign. For those of you who don't remember who "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" are, here is a taste of it.



John Kerry volunteered for Vietnam and served his country proudly. They turned John Kerry into a War Criminal. John Kerry won the Congressional Medal of Honor. They usually give those to War Criminals? Even John McCain has defended John Kerry on the destructive methods of the Bush campaign. To smear someones military service for political gain, is just horrendous. This is the true mastermind of Karl Rove, "attack your opponents strengths." We are seeing this campaign vision in John McCain's strategy now. McCain is trying to claim and take Obama's message of "Change." Before the RNC it was "Experience." Another famous Roveian strategy is to convey a ton of falsehoods repeatedly until they become truth in the voters eyes. Though Karl Rove will deny it, he is fully cooperating with the McCain campaign. I can probably write an entire book on why Karl Rove is a scumbag but that's another topic entirely.

Now back on the topic of the new "Swift Boat" campaign. For a profile of William Ayers visit here. Ayers was involved in a group that took credit for bombings that included nonfatal blasts at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago. After he surrendered in 1980, charges against him were dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct. He was a liberal radical protester who condemned the Vietnam War. He took his protest way to far by setting bombs, but he never had any intention of killing innocent people. He has also condemned the attack of 9/11 by saying, "Today we are witnessing crimes against humanity on our own shores on an unthinkable scale, and I fear that we may soon see more innocent people in other parts of the world dying in response."

Now this is how Neo-Cons attempt to try to link Barack Obama to William Ayers's beliefs. They say they were friends on a "left wing board." Ayers is currently an American Distinguished Professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois of Chicago. They were on Woods Fund of Chicago, an anti-poverty, philanthropic foundation established in 1941. If being on an anti-poverty board is somehow bad, that's news to me. The fact that Obama has condemned Ayers actions in the 1960's and shared conversation with him, he automatically believes in his ideology? That is like saying that if I had a conversation with a convicted felon in the past, I will automaticallly commit his acts because I talked to him. The politics of association is getting pretty ridiculous.

It's also great to have a candidate like Barack Obama unlike John Kerry, who quickly disproves and fights back against the smears against him. You can attack another candidates policies and votes but to promote character assassination, should be condemned from modern politics. Honor and honesty seriously needs to be brought back to the Republican Party.