{"id":7006,"date":"2012-05-02T10:36:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T17:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2012-05-02T10:36:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T17:36:19","slug":"the-swiftboating-of-obama-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7006","title":{"rendered":"The Swiftboating Of Obama Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004 the campaign for president was tarnished by a band buttheads who thought that it would be appropriate to smear the military record of a decorated veteran who risked his life in Vietnam (John Kerry), in order to support a frat boy who evaded combat by leaning on the connections of his famous family (George W. Bush).<\/p>\n<p>The Swiftboat Veterans for Truth launched a well-financed campaign of distortions and lies in order to prevent Kerry from gaining any popular support for his service to the country. And now a similar campaign has begun by a shadowy group called <em>&#8220;Veterans for a Strong America&#8221;<\/em> to deny President Obama any credit for his role in finding and killing Osama Bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JsrSAqRrCc0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This video is brazenly dishonest in its portrayal of Obama as negligent in praising the efforts of all of those who had a role in Bin Laden&#8217;s demise. Obama has repeatedly and effusively honored everyone from foot soldiers to intelligence operatives to diplomats to civilians to the Navy SEALs, etc. There is abundant evidence of that praise had the liars responsible for this video cared to review it. Instead they chose slap together some deliberately deceitful soundbites of the President speaking in the first person.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, it took the Daily Show&#8217;s Jon Stewart to set the record straight. He not only shames the producers of the video above by demonstrating how easy it is to be honest, he also makes the undeniable point that any politician would seek and expect some credit for having orchestrated this sort of dangerous mission and seeing it through to success.<\/p>\n<p>Part One:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:413513\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part Two:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:413514\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Republicans would like to steal every speck of gratitude that the President deserves for having been in charge of this operation. They seem to think that the SEALS planned, executed, and gave themselves the order to proceed without any intervention from the Commander-in-Chief. They also seem to believe that the order was a foregone conclusion that anyone would have made in similar circumstances. However, we know that that is untrue because Mitt Romney said specifically that he would not have chased Bin Laden into Pakistan and he criticized Obama for proposing it.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004 there were, unfortunately, way too many gullible people who fell for the fallacies of the Swiftboat Liars. Hopefully that will not be the case today. President Obama was not solely responsible for determining Bin Laden&#8217;s fate. He knows that and says so frequently. But he did play an important role and is entitled to list it on his resume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004 the campaign for president was tarnished by a band buttheads who thought that it would be appropriate to smear the military record of a decorated veteran who risked his life in Vietnam (John Kerry), in order to support a frat boy who evaded combat by leaning on the connections of his famous family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,8],"tags":[183,82,83,260,409,246],"class_list":["post-7006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-barack-obama","tag-daily-show","tag-jon-stewart","tag-mitt-romney","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-swiftboat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1P0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7779,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7779","url_meta":{"origin":7006,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Launches The Swift-Boating Of President Obama","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/16\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The 2004 presidential election pitting George W. 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