Obama Wants You!!; (to rat people out)
 

As a public service for my fellow TOTV'ers who are of the President Obama loving persuasion, I'm performing a public service to let you know that he and his people have a website for you to report attacks against him, to him.

I don't think I ever seen such a scheme in my entire life, but I know his rabid fans who are scared to death of his failing popularity will want to help him by reporting online articles critical of him, directly to him.

Will he use questionable behind the scenes tactics to punish those who perpetrate, write and abet the dissembling of critical articles against his administration?

I don't know, but the fact that he can is troubling enough for me.

I would like to know what everyone thinks of this.

But as promised, here it is................

http://my.barackobama.com/page/signu...port-an-attack

I cannot wait to hear the comments.

:22yikes: Unbelievable!

Watergate!!!!!!!!!

Good grief...what's next?:undecided:

I'm not seeing the problem here. It's nothing new. Oh, sure, the fact that it's a website might be new but there are companies that sell this service (reporting malicious comments, bad press, etc) all the time - some even advertise on XM Radio.

"Rat people out"? Since when it saying "Hey, this person is saying [whatever] about you" "ratting out"? Oh, if you MAKING IT UP, that's a different story but shouldn't people be unafraid to stand behind their words when it comes to a public figure?

If "ratting out" is identifying the extremest lies, then it must be a good thing. Here is the purpose of the site:
"President Obama’s re-election campaign launched a Web site on Tuesday called AttackWatch.com that encourages supporters to help dismiss false accusations made about the president’s record and to report what they believe is misinformation about his policies."

thank you love2travel for setting the record straight. There is nothing sinisterabout this sight. As a matter of fact it was set up to find misinformation just like this and set the record straight. Nice job. Just a thought but this site could keep his folks very busy.

Informing on you neighbors is the bulwark of a totalitarian regime. It doesn't matter if there's a "wall of separation" between the Obama campaign and this organization, it's very unseemly. Especially when the powers that be can retaliate. Whether they do or not, they can and that is the problem.

Remember J. Edgar Hoover tactics, or the alleged uses of the IRS to intimidate political foes in the past? I do, and it can happen again.

Only fools would use that site.Or maybe the foolish

Already Backfired on Obama
 

The Obama campaign team's strategy of the "rat out" site it initiated has already become a laughing stock and a Republican campaign tool.

Is the Washington Post changing it's ways? I'm seeing more and more articles critical of the President published in this usually left leaning paper

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...HDSK_blog.html

Richie: Since when is "dismissing false accusations" the equivalent of "informing on your neighbors" a-la the USSR?

No offense DJ, but I'm thinking it's a little naive to take what Obama operatives say at face value.

Video
 

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