On eve of election, worst of the Obama mudslinging coming from outside McCain campaign

[Liberal_in_LA]

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On eve of election, worst of the Obama mudslinging coming from outside McCain campaign

BY ELIZA GRAY
DAILY NEWS WRITER

Monday, November 3rd 2008, 3:24 PM

Talk about outsourcing.

In the last months of their presidential campaign, John McCain and Sarah Palin have delighted in calling Barack Obama a "socialist" who occasionally "pals around with terrorists," but on the eve of the election, the GOP's dirtiest campaigning is coming from sources outside the McCain campaign.

Last Wednesday, in front of a crowd in Miami, Ohio, Republican Congressmen John Bohner took a shot at Senator Obama's voting record.

"In Congress, we have a red button, a green button and a yellow button, alright," he is quoted as saying in the student newspaper of Miami University. "Green means 'yes,' red means 'no,' and yellow means you're a chicken shit. And the last thing we need in the White House, in the oval office, behind that big desk, is some chicken who wants to push this yellow button"

The Republican Federal Committee recently sent emails to Pennyslvania voters connecting Barack Obama to the Holocaust, the Associated Press reported.

"Jewish Americans cannot afford to make the wrong decision on Tuesday, Nov. 4," the message read. "Many of our ancestors ignored the warning signs in the 1930s and 1940s and made a tragic mistake."

Despite McCain's public refusal to use Senator Obama's relationship with Chicago pastor Jeremiah Wright in his campaign, the National Republican Trust Political Action Committee has resurrected Senator Obama's association, airing a 30-second advertisement with clips from Wright's controversial sermons.

"For 20 years Barack Obama followed a preacher of hate and said nothing…" reads the narrator. "Barack Obama. Too radical. Too risky."

The Federal government has yet to find out who leaked story that Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango - his father's half-sister from Kenya - was living in the United States illegally, the Associated Press reports.

[NNN0LHI]

1. Anyone who thinks McCain didn't have a hand in these attacks is goofy

[gratuitous]

2. Precisely

If nothing else, folks like Boehner are emboldened by the harsh rhetoric of the McCain campaign, and Straight-Talkin' Johnny Maverick's inability or refusal to tell his "supporters" to knock it the hell off lays the blame for this garbage right at his front door. Or doors. If Obama has to answer for Jeremiah Wright, McCain should answer for his own colleagues.

[VP505]

3. I saw that Rev Wright ad

from that Republicker Trust outfit a few minutes ago, what a disgusting jump into the gutter that is. Every time I see one of those it just make me more determined to vote against any Republicker running for anything.