The Politics of the Desperate
The likelihood of a John McCain presidency disappears from his grasp as each day towards Election Day passes by. The latest poll on Pollster.com shows Obama with a 5.8 point lead nationally. In many of the swing states (CO, FL, VA, NC, NM), Obama is leading with a possible Electoral College landslide. It is clear John McCain has failed to make his pitch to the American people.
In a desperate attempt to win the election, surrogates of McCain and right wing groups have used the controversy over ACORN to suppress the vote of the American poor. Earlier this week, the swamp dwellers of the politically misguided have crawled out of the sewer and arrived at the door of colleges and universities spewing venomous lies to reduce the youth vote who strongly support Barack Obama. Now, according to Factcheck.org a commercial airing in swing states attempts to connect Obama to the 9/11 terror attacks and Mohammad Atta.
The ad created by National Republican Trust PAC has links to radically right wing site Newsmax.com. Factcheck.org declares that this ad is the sleaziest of the ads produced to date. The commercial attempts to woo or scare “security” moms towards McCain, the ad uses images of Mohammad Atta’s Florida driver’s license, granting health care to illegal aliens, and further messages of increased taxes. However, in specific detail factcheck.org debunks all the accusations made against Obama.
In an attempt to sway potential Jewish American voters, the McCain campaign continues to link Obama with anything Muslim. In Ohio, Sarah Palin reinvents her “Ayers” attack dog strategy revealing that the LA Times is purposely withholding a video tape featuring Barack Obama and “supposed” PLO spokesperson Rashid Khalidi. The video is rumored to contain conversations and speeches that are anti-Israel and anti-American support of Israel. Palin argues that the American people have the right to see how Obama participated in the event. Fox News, further questions the LA Times withholding the tape, and proclaims that Khalidi is a radical terrorist.
However, Seth Walls of the Huffington Post reports that ties to Khalidi could in fact affect John McCain. In the 1990’s John McCain served as the chairman of the International Republican Institute (INI). During his tenure, McCain approved several grants to Khalidi including one worth more than $500,000. Further, McCain’s relationship to Khalidi goes back as far as 1993, and has supported several studies run by Khalidi’s group. Moreover, Frank Rich revealed on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” that the latest attacks on Obama are the result of Obama having a plan for the campaign and McCain did not.
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