Another Absurd GOP Smear of Obama
source: http://stonecipher.typepad.com/the_stonecipher_report/2008/07/another-absurd.html
I realize that I’m a couple of weeks late on picking up on this, the latest absurd GOP smear of Barack Obama, but I generally try to avoid reading crap like this because, as Grandpa Simpson would say “it angries up the blood.”
But late last night, I had an email from a family member with the subject line reading: Fw: Fwd: Editorial on Obama's Questional Internet Fund Raising Campaign.
Ordinarily I wouldn’t even open an email like this. I’m not a big ‘forwards’ guy plus the misspelling in the title provided my first whiff of suspicion about what I was about to read.
But I opened it and forged ahead with the email. My family member wanted to know if I thought there was anything to this piece and I wanted to provide a well thought out response.
Clearly to appreciate my response it would be best to read the actual original email first, but I don’t want to be guilty of spreading this complete filth, so long story short, the piece was presented as a New York Times Op-Ed written by Maureen Dowd on June 29, 2008.
The general idea was that Barack Obama’s campaign cash was coming from some very questionable places like, according to the piece “Saudi Arabia, Iran and other Middle Eastern Countries.” The author went on to imply that the Obama Campaign was claiming an average donation of $15, which would require 13 million-plus donors to reach the total of $200 million which the piece claimed was Obama’s internet fund raising total.
Where were these claims coming from? Well there were no sources offered in the piece other than a nameless “insider” who was one of Obama’s “internet geeks”.
So without further ado, below the jump, is my slightly cleaned up for the website response:
Read the rest at: http://stonecipher.typepad.com/the_stonecipher_report/2008/07/another-absurd.htm...
But late last night, I had an email from a family member with the subject line reading: Fw: Fwd: Editorial on Obama's Questional Internet Fund Raising Campaign.
Ordinarily I wouldn’t even open an email like this. I’m not a big ‘forwards’ guy plus the misspelling in the title provided my first whiff of suspicion about what I was about to read.
But I opened it and forged ahead with the email. My family member wanted to know if I thought there was anything to this piece and I wanted to provide a well thought out response.
Clearly to appreciate my response it would be best to read the actual original email first, but I don’t want to be guilty of spreading this complete filth, so long story short, the piece was presented as a New York Times Op-Ed written by Maureen Dowd on June 29, 2008.
The general idea was that Barack Obama’s campaign cash was coming from some very questionable places like, according to the piece “Saudi Arabia, Iran and other Middle Eastern Countries.” The author went on to imply that the Obama Campaign was claiming an average donation of $15, which would require 13 million-plus donors to reach the total of $200 million which the piece claimed was Obama’s internet fund raising total.
Where were these claims coming from? Well there were no sources offered in the piece other than a nameless “insider” who was one of Obama’s “internet geeks”.
So without further ado, below the jump, is my slightly cleaned up for the website response:
Read the rest at: http://stonecipher.typepad.com/the_stonecipher_report/2008/07/another-absurd.htm...
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