Even more outrageous cyber attack on Obama referred to the Book of Revelation. The anonymous mailer tried to convince the readers that according to St. John (original spelling) the anti-christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, will destroy everything is it OBAMA?? In real life the Apocalypse hasn’t got much to say about the Antichrist and certainly not about his age. And it would be really hard for St. John to write about Muslims over 500 years before Muhammed…
Even the official party structures couldn’t resist smearing Obama. In May an e-mail issued by the Republican Party of Florida featured the photograph of Fidel Castro holding Obama’s poster and the excerpt from the article in which the Cuban retired dictator called Obama the most advanced candidate.
The image was clearly doctored and Castro’s words were taken out of context – in the article published by the English edition of Cuba’s Communist Party official newspaper Granma Castro indeed praised Obama for his political skills but did not hesitate to call his proposal of hardening the embargo against Cuba to enforce democratic changes on the island “genocide” and was far from giving the Democratic candidate an official endorsement. The local GOP spokesman tried to present the unfortunate e-mail as a joke and an attempt of portraying Obama’s willingness to sit down with the leaders of undemocratic regimes but it was far too weak for anybody to believe. Surely, Florida is one of the battleground states and anti-Castro Hispanic electorate is at stake but this was one of the most primitive ways to capture the voters.
Speaking about Communists, on February local Fox TV operating in Houston shown the footage from the local campaign centre, with the picture of Che Guevara featuring prominently behind the desk of one of the volunteers. Internet reacted instantly with thousands of posts and comments under the titles like Barack Loves Che. The picture , which reflected the volunteer’s private sympathies, was quickly removed from the centre but the damage was already done.
Still, one of the wildest rumors concerning the Democratic presumptive nominee probably wasn’t prepared by any of his political opponents. In the early February message was spread via blogs and e-mails that Obama was endorsed by not exactly modern America’s favorite Ku Klux Klan. The Klansmen were said to support the black candidate because anything was better than Hillary Clinton.
The sensational news were quickly discovered to be a hoax, produced by the British satire magazine The Daily Squib which noticed the enmity shared by the poorer part of white America towards Hillary and extrapolated it to the comical extremes. The KKK issued an official statement which included serious reservations concerning the Democratic candidate. Obama himself, although urged by some to repudiate the rumors in order prevent his reputation from harm, did nothing on the issue.
Enough to say, there are people somewhere in the Net who really don’t like Barack. Their message is so powerful Obama even launched special website, Fight the Smears, devoted only to disprove their claims. As the blogosphere is more right-wing and traditional than “real-life” media it is more prone to throw even the most absurd accusations against the Democratic candidate than John McCain. I’m not saying every Obama critic is a conspiracy theorist but, as we will see in the next issue, smears against John McCain, while also often untrue, have more to do with the common sense and don’t reach such great heights of lunacy.
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