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Related: About this forumThom Hartmann: The Secret Group that's about to Swift Boat Barack Obama
Adam Peck, Think Progress, joins Thom Hartmann. You might remember back in 2004 - Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry was dogged by these outrageous and misleading ads. Those were funded by the group Swift Boat Veteran's for Truth - a right-wing organization that attempted to spin John Kerry's military service against him. The ads were so effective they cost Kerry that election - and introduced a new word in our American political lexicon - "swiftboating" - meaning to launch unfair or untrue political attacks. And now - as we're heading into the 2012 election - one group is trying to swiftboat President Obama with this new ad - trying to spin President Obama's killing of Osama Bin Laden against him. The group behind that ad is calling itself "Veterans For a Strong America." So what more do we need to know about this group - as it begins its ad assault on the President?
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snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)Swiftboating and for us as individuals to stay on the
media anytime there's a smidgeon of SBing and voice
our opposition.
Speaking of which, where's everybody on this here?
I'm basically commenting to keep this kicked!
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)I don't think this stupid ad is going to have any legs, it's just ridiculous. If that's the best republiCons can come up with, "no worries mate"! Vote a straight Democratic ballot and give the President a Democratic congress, please!
anon-y-moose
(200 posts)CarmanK
(662 posts)What is amazing is that there are veterans who are willing to lend their good name to this type of LIE. Too bad for them, but then again they are opportunists looking for $$ and the GOP/TPARTY has plenty to spread around. Be sure to get these guys names. We want to keep them on file for later.