Anti-Obama smears from the fever swamp

I just deleted this comment from my post on the National Enquirer smearing Barack Obama:

B HUSSEIN Obama IS a muslime, always was, always will be. He has sold out the USA for $200 MILLION from muslimes for his campaign. He will turn over the country to them if he wins. America will cease to exist once he and his muslime thugs are done with us. Only a stupid moron would vote for this POS!!

Sadly, we're only going to see more of this in the coming months -- Floyd Brown is already suggesting Barack Obama and his supporters are un-American in fundraising emails to the Newsmax list:

Make no mistake, there are people in the United States who despise America... hate America... and hate our way of life. Barack Hussein Obama is THEIR CANDIDATE and they will do everything in their power to make sure that patriotic Americans do not understand exactly how dangerous Barack Hussein Obama really is. They'll hide his record and his past and they'll tar-and-feather his opposition.

Update 4/27 1:48 PM: While the closest parallel to John McCain as a presidential candidate may be George H.W. Bush, the closest parallel to his current campaign rhetoric may actually be Floyd Brown (via TPM Election Central):

"All I can tell you Jennifer [Rubin] is that I think it's very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States," McCain said. "So apparently has Danny Ortega and several others. I think that people should understand that I will be Hamas's worst nightmare ... If Senator Obama is favored by Hamas I think people can make judgments accordingly."

For those who don't know, Brown is the loathsome individual who created the infamous "Willie Horton" ad of 1988. Is that the kind of company McCain wants to be keeping?

Comments

[thegoreyears]

Obama and Hillary both like to say this is a crucial election, and it is of course. Why either one of them would want to try to pick up the pieces after all this Bush madness is really beyond me, but hey, if they're up for the challenge, all the power to them. But, no, I think this election is a crucial turning point in American history not because of the mess we're in, but because we'll find out if the American electorate has a conscience and a brain.

Sadly, if the Bush reelection is our guide, the prognosis is not good. If, assuming Obama is the candidate, the knucklehead vote somehow carries the day again and leads McCain to victory, I'm afraid that the American experiment will end badly. Unlike a lot of Obama supporters, I'm not a Hillary basher. I strongly prefer Obama, but at least the alternative has a brain. But the same can't be said about the GOP contender. If the knuckleheads win again, it's game, set match for this country. Apathy will return, the nation will be in financial ruin.

The real irony is that if the knuckleheads buy into this kind of phony swift boating of Obama's character, there will really be no hope for this country.

As a 50 year old white male with pretty much centrist views on things, I don't care if Obama is left of Lenin. I'm drinking his kool-aid, and I make no apologies, because I honestly believe he'll change the country in dramatic ways. I only hope that the younger folks who seem so enthusiastic about him put your votes where you mouth is. Vote for him, get your friends to the polling place, and get this man elected.

Even if he lets us down, and he very well might, at least we'll have done our part.