good god - Tenn. Democrat believes Obama has terrorist ties

[spanone]

you can't make this crazy shit up folks
this is what we're up against



Barack Obama may be in trouble in Tennessee.

He lost the state primary. Ten of the state’s 17 superdelegates still haven’t endorsed him. And to cap it all, a member of the state Democratic executive committee has speculated publicly that Obama may be “terrorist connected.”

“They reported that on Fox News, that he has associates who are connected to terrorism,” said Fred Hobbs, a state Democratic party official from Eagleville. “It does throw up a red flag for me … I certainly don’t think he’s a terrorist. I’ve just heard he has associates who might have those ties.”

Asked if he really believes his party’s presumptive nominee would associate with terrorists, or associates of terrorists, Hobbs said: “I really don’t know. A lot of people don’t know a whole lot about him. Maybe if he would address some of these questions … He refuses to go on these programs and talk about it.”

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880613087

[Iris]

1. Obama has a website debunking these rumours about him and his wife. Does anyone have a link to it?

[kestrel91316]

12. Link to Obama Fight the Smears page:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesmearshome/

[ben_meyers]

14. You seem to miss the irony of your question

We all get numerous e-mail smears against Obama on a daily basis. Obama has a website to counter these smears and yet a longtime member of DU is asking for the link. If you haven't found it how does anyone expect a large portion of the population to ever get to it?

In a round about way this Tennessee Democrat is right, Obama better be more aggressive in his countering these attacks because they are just starting. They cannot just be ignored, they won't go away by themselves.

[nashville_brook]

23. you are so right -- don't want to see him Kerry himself.

[Iris]

31. I just read about the website yesterday. No time to spend on the internet yesterday. What better

place to ask than DU?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I guess this proves you can get to be a wheel in a state's party machine

and still be industrial-strength stupid.

[realisticphish]

3. "associates"

means "other black people"

[sharesunited]

4. I'm sure this must be a reference to William Ayers, knowingly or not.

No sense in bothering to distinguish acquaintance from associate if your motive is to smear.

[ColbertWatcher]

6. Yes, but thankfully we have a summer to clean this crap up. n/t

[mrreowwr_kittty]

5. Those aren't REAL Democrats! They must be GOP plants! Ignore them and they'll go.....

...oh wait. They're elected officials of the Democratic Party. :grr:

But still, brace yourself for the Unity Police to come along. Apparently, we're supposed to "reach out" to dolts like Hobbs, because we don't want to "alienate" them.

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Ignoring it won't make it go away.

We need to refute this crap immediately with humor and facts.

[JohnnyLib2]

13. Absolutely.

[spanone]

21. can't ignore it . this was in today's paper. the tennessean. nashville. capital of tenn.

[papapi]

8. Maybe the idiot, Fred Hobbs, should study up on Obama before...

before spewing this kind of idiotic shit. Are there not reams of information on this man who has been campaigning for POTUS for, what, 2 years or more? What a total asshole Fred Hobbs is. Can we boot his ass out of the party.

[Wiley50]

9. These are the idiots we have to deal with to work with our party down here!

I volunteered 16 hours a day, 7days a week for 3 months

before the 2004 election at my county Dem Party HQ

Never again

At least until more of these Blue Dogs die or wind up in nursing homes

[MannyGoldstein]

10. I Can't Wait For The Bush Dog "Democrats" Become Irrelevant

Hopefully in November.

[Whoa_Nelly]

11. Bush has ties to terrorists

bin Laden family, for one...

Ergo, so must McCain :evilgrin:

[ColbertWatcher]

15. Don't forget these two...

[Whoa_Nelly]

22. They look so mean!

We iz all'us a-skeered! :scared:





Go git'em, Unka Dickhead! :scared:

[ColbertWatcher]

27. All terrorists look mean! n/t

[newspeak]

24. I'm with you

maybe someone needs to write to this congresscritter and ask him what he thinks of *'s ties to the Bin Ladens and the House of Saud?

[zbdent]

16. Note to self ... Fred Hobbs believes that Fox reports "news" ...

um, ... how long does this idjit have left on his term?

[Fovea]

17. This is a job

for Rahm Emmanuel!

He says he wants to be Barack's party enforcer, here's a nice place to start.

[Wiley50]

18. These are the idiots we have to deal with to work with our party down here!

I volunteered 16 hours a day, 7days a week for 3 months

before the 2004 election at my county Dem Party HQ

Never again

At least until more of these Blue Dogs die or wind up in nursing homes

[JohnnyLib2]

19. Amen and amen from Kentucky.

"Know thine enemy" still holds.

[DailyGrind51]

20. That's an outright lie!

He wears either Halston or Yves St. Laurent, and don't let anyone try to tell you different!;-}

[spanone]

25. 'he refuses to go on these programs and talk about it'

there is nothing to talk about except how fucking ignorant some people are...and if fred hobbs is truly a democrat, he needs to educate his sorry ass.

[MzNov]

26. I see a not too bright future for good old Fred Hobbs. nt

[pepperbear]

28. All this proves is that Dems who don't like Obama are just as bad as Republicans. n/t

[marmar]

29. Dumber than a box of rocks......

A politician this willfully ignorant, and brave enough to be quoted on it? That doesn't say much for the voters of that district.

[Telly Savalas]

30. Fred Hobbs needs to step up and address charges of pedophilia.

People don't know a lot about Fred Hobbs. Maybe if he would address some of these questions, people wouldn't be as quick to suspect him of being a pedophile. He refuses to go on TV and talk about it.

[mwb970]

32. Hobbs sounds like a "Lieberman Democrat".

That is, like a "Republican wacko".