Last week the Straight Talk Express metamorphosed into the Swift Boaters’ Express by launching at least three shameful attacks on Senator Barack Obama; attacks that had absolutely nothing to do with the issues or with the fitness of Senator Obama to be president.
Regrettably, the “latest barrage of ads” that included a blatantly false smear on the Senator’s patriotism and concern for the troops (The “Landstuhl incident”), compared him to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, etc., are only the beginning of what promises to be one of the dirtiest campaigns in recent years, reminiscent of the infamous attacks on Senator Kerry’s patriotism in 2004.
I say this because, last week, the co-author of the Republican bestseller “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry,” a book that contains numerous attacks on Sen. John Kerry’s patriotism and military service, has now authored a new book—one that also promises to become a Republican best seller: “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality.”
Oliver Willis says, “Jerome Corsi’s ‘Obama Nation’: Like Clockwork, Swift Boating Begins.” He is correct, right on cue, Corsi’s new book, all 384 pages, “scrupulously sourced with more than 600 footnotes,” promises to be a gold mine of material for innumerable inspiring and noble campaign ads by the new, re-invigorated McCain’s Swift Boaters Express. Stay tuned.
See also:
John Avlon: “McCain’s Negative Ads Could Lose Independent Voters” by our Editor-in Chief,Joe Gandelman, and
“McCain setting his own trap with celebrity gambit” by ELROD
