Playing presidential politics Whack-a-Mole
June 18th, 2008 by Jerry BurrisApparently multi-ethnic, globally schooled, Hawaii born and bred Barack Obama just isn’t complex or exotic enough for folks.
The darker corners of the blogosphere keep looking for something mysterious or unknown about the candidate. Aren’t the facts enough?
The Obama campaign is concerned enough to launch its own anti-rumor website, but that’s a little like Whack-a-Mole. Knock down one and another pops up.
A favorite among the conspiracy theorists is the absence of a birth certificate for Obama, who came into the world on Aug. 4, 1961. The Obama campaign has provided a copy of the certificate, and you can see it HERE.
But apparently that’s not good enough. Conspiracy folks want the original dog-eared version, apparently.
If they get it, they’ll just move on to the next goofy rumor. Apparently looking at what the candidate actually says and promises to do is just too much work.
(And we’ll thank you not to follow up with jokes about the McCain birth certificate being written on papyrus)
Tags: hawaii, Obama, presidential campaign, rumors
June 19th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Unfortunately, the GOP attack machine will continue this kind of rumor mongering during the campaign. The Swift Boaters did it last time with Kerry. Already the Obama campaign has had to respond to false rumours about his religion, his schooling in Indonesia, and more recently, Michelle Obama’s fist bumping. His campaign will have to be ready to respond quickly and factually.
July 1st, 2008 at 7:19 am
What we know about the next president of our country is more important than “whack-a mole” or a fist bumping first lady.
If we had the facts about Bill Clinton past behavior these facts might have prevented a person that thinks with his big head (the one between his ears), this might have prevented an impeachment and lack of attention to the real job of governing and protecting our nation.