George Will on the Impact of Guilt by Association Tactics

From today’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos (excerpt starts at about 5 minutes into the clip, or with about 12:40 remaining on the counter):
There will be those that say [McCain] wasn’t tough enough, he should have run on – with Rev. Wright, that he shouldn’t have ruled that out. I don’t think the American [...]

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The Odinga Lie and Cold Fury’s Pathetic Standards for Truth

I’ve noted previously that I count Cold Fury among my sources for right-biased information. Mike Hendrix typically keeps his opinions separate from what he calls facts and asks honest questions. In my experience (if you can get past the barrage of insults and profanity) the site can sometimes be useful, particularly posts authored [...]

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The GOP’s Hail Mary: Brand Him a Socialist

First step: dilute the word, ’socialist’. In order to effectively cite Senator Obama’s tax proposal as evidence that he is a ’socialist’, a certain ignorance of the meaning of the word is required. The entry at Merriam Webster online offers three definitions. Here are the first two:
1: any of various economic and political theories advocating [...]

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Colin Powell Will Have None of It

Former Secretary of State General Colin Powell, flatly rejecting the Agenda to Dehumanize Barack Obama this morning after his Meet the Press interview:

“You know, we have two wars. We have economic problems. We have health problems. We have education problems. We have infrastructure problems. We have [...]

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The Agenda to Dehumanize Barack Obama

…is not without allies in Congress:

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The Agenda to Dehumanize Barack Obama

…is not without support among GOP-associated organizations:
From Tanya’s Blog at barackobama.com:

The latest newsletter by an Inland Republican women’s group depicts Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama surrounded by a watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken, prompting outrage in political circles.
The October newsletter by the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated says if Obama is [...]

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The Agenda to Dehumanize Barack Obama

…is simply thriving at Fox News Channel
Thank you, Hilzoy.

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The Agenda to Dehumanize Barack Obama

…is a genie that doesn’t squeeze itself back into the bottle so easily:

Publius at Obsidian Wings credits McCain for doing “the right thing” in that clip and points out that on the campaign trail, the right thing often isn’t so easy to do. I can go with that and I’ll [...]

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The Agenda To Dehumanize Barack Obama

It’s working:

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The Agenda to Dehumanize Barack Obama

…does have legs beyond a handful of cowards who hide from behind the anonymous safety of their computer monitors.  Listen closely, at about 13 seconds in, for the very first and loudest answer to McCain’s question, “Who is the real Barack Obama?”:

This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.  And to his credit, McCain (for just a split [...]

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A Moment for Some Sane Perspective

It means guilt by distorted association. It means your platform and your candidates are so weak that any distortion of the record is acceptable if it distracts from real issues that need to be addressed.
Does the right wing believe those who have associated with G Gordon Liddy as palling around with burglars, or with Oliver [...]

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The Agenda To Dehumanize Barack Obama

Palin told a group of donors at a private airport, “Our opponent … is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.” She also said, “This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as [...]

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The Agenda to Dehumanize Barack Obama

I know this one has been out there for almost a week now but it didn’t occur to me to add it to this heading until I noticed a conservative blog touting the ad.
For anyone unfamiliar with George Hussein Onyango Obama, here’s the story.
The first problem with the ad is that [...]

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The Agenda to Dehumanize Barack Obama

Texasdarlin (sounds like a real peach) claims to have unearthed “proof” that Obama is not only Muslim, but also a citizen of Indonesia.
I wouldn’t normally bother with such lowly blogger drivel but this has been making it’s way around.
More on the Agenda to Dehumanize Barack Obama

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The Agenda to Dehumanize Barack Obama

From the good folks at redstate.com.
Hat Tip: Sullivan

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The Agenda to Dehumanize Barack Obama

Sullivan posted this photo at Daily Dish today, a shirt sold at a booth at the Texas GOP convention in June.

I hadn’t seen that before. I assume most recall the infamous pin that was spotted for sale at that event:

No telling if it was the same vendor.

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The Agenda to Dehumanize Barack Obama

This appeared on the Pemberton Township and Burlington County (South Jersey) GOP website for at least two weeks:

Hat Tip: Blue Jersey

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