Is there a counter to this RW smear of Obama?

[divinecommands]

http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2008/08/texas-gop-runs.html

"Two years ago, Obama visited this particular school. So appalled was he at the conditions at the school--no plumbing or electricity--he promised to help bring the school up to snuff. The people there were so excited, they changed the name of the school in his honour. Two years out? Not a penny from Obama."

I don't mean the Texas GOP ad. What's this about a school in Kenya Obama promised to help fund? It sounds like BS.

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[eshfemme]

3. Oh crap, I didn't realize that until I looked at the post. Oops. Oh well, I already posted links

debunking it anyways.

[FrenchieCat]

5. Excellently done.

now, you can alert!

[eshfemme]

2. Uh... the video from Kenya available on YouTube under NTVKenya. The school got renamed

BECAUSE Obama gave them the funds to renovate. Also, if you go to http://worldmeets.us you can see an article that basically states that Obama's half-brother is mad about being used against Obama because he never asked for a fucking handout.

[divinecommands]

11. I know the thing about his brother is BS

I just hadn't heard anything about this school issue before.

Thanks for pointing me to the video. I knew it had to be another groundless smear.

I'm just another Canadian for Obama (I need to update my profile, but I did live in Fairfax for a time.) Lots of us here love him.

[pinto]

16. A lot of this stuff gets reposted/reprinted. Always best to go back to the original source,

in this case a conservative (in the US terminology) UK media piece, drawing a string of innuendo back from 4,5,10 years ago.

And innuendo is the key word.

[divinecommands]

19. Thanks, that's good advice!

I didn't realize that about the Evening Standard (do all publications with "standard" in their name lean conservative, e.g. Weekly Standard, Western Standard, etc)? What's with that?

[pinto]

20. Don't know. Some of our British members would know better than I.

(I'm in CA. Mostly read the BBC/Reuters/Int'l Herald Tribune.)

[sniffa]

4. .

[Zuiderelle]

6. Next time, try a little harder.

:boring:

[Arnold Judas Rimmer]

7. Fairfax VA, huh?

Flowbee, is that you?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

9. Focus on the Family is HQed in Fairfax

[Hawkeye-X]

10. Actually it's in Colorado Springs, CO.

I know - because it's a Fundyland HQ.

Hawkeye-X

[divinecommands]

17. I don't work at Focus on the Family

Never have, never will. I did work (for a while) for an organization that was going after Ted Stevens for defrauding the American people, when I was in Fairfax.

I don't think that makes me a freeper. And Obama was great to kick the lobbyists out of the DNC; that was what cemented my support for him, in fact.

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[Flash Bazbo]

18. That would make DU no better than the HCForum , and that is very low.

[pinto]

12. Mmm, BS would do. 'Obiero says that although Obama did not explicitly use the word "financial"... '

yada yada RW smear from the original media source.

[Cronus Protagonist]

13. IBTT!!

In Before The Tombstoning!!

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[scheming daemons]

15. IBTP

(in before the pizza)