Obama's Internet Rapid Response Team

As we reported in the Second Amendment News Roundup section of The Liberty Sphere yesterday, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama has launched a new website for the single purpose of rapidly responding to and repudiating negative comments about the candidate.

Of particular concern to the candidate is what he terms 'false rumors spread on the Internet.'

Using the real-time concept and the immediacy of the Internet, Obama hopes to blast and squelch any negative comment about him as soon as it happens. The candidate hopes that such 'rapid response' by his handlers will help to stop the 'rumors.'

Indeed, it is unfortunate that false rumors are spread about anyone, and politicians get their share. For example, it is a widespread belief among many in the electorate that Obama is a closet Muslim. That belief is false. The candidate is a member, or was a member, of a Christian congregation in Chicago, albeit an extremely liberal/extremist one.

The Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago is one of the most liberal, Leftwing churches in the nation, but it is part of a mainline Christian denomination. Yet many persist in referring to Obama as a Muslim.

This rumor is one that the Obama people refute on the new rapid response website. But what they don't tell us is that Obama has actually inadvertently fueled the rumor by consistently
supporting Muslim and Arab causes and by making statements that are clearly anti-Jewish.

Another rumor the new website hopes to snuff out is the claim that Obama doesn't place his hand over his heart when he says the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States flag.

In order to 'refute' that rumor, the Obama people post a video that shows the candidate in the Senate, clearly with his hand over his heart, as he recites the Pledge.

The problem is what they don't tell us. On the campaign trail Obama has been seen reciting the Pledge without the traditional salute of placing one's hand over one's heart. In one instance he didn't recite it at all even as fellow Democrats on the platform did so.

And this is not to mention the fact that Obama very publicly took his flag lapel pin OFF after having worn it for several months while campaigning. The candidate claims that the reason for the change was that having a flag on one's lapel is no indication that the person is patriotic.

Well, Senator, it is certainly more likely for a person who is not wearing the flag pin to be unpatriotic than a person who is wearing one. And that is the understatement of the year. Which of the hate-America. flag-bashing, anti-military extremists wear flag lapel pins?

And if the Senator felt that when he first started his campaign for President it was important enough to wear the lapel pin, then why did he suddenly decide that it was important enough to take it OFF?

Thus, the new website purports to address untruths and false rumors while failing to tell the complete truth. The rest of the story is curiously missing.

I have a hunch that this is the best we can expect from the new website.

But you can see for yourselves and make up your own minds. Here is a link to Obama's new Internet Rapid Response Team, called 'Fight the Smears':
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesmearshome/