Letters to the Editor
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He should bluntly tell the truth
Obama should bluntly tell the truth about what is happening: it is a right wing smear, vicious, racist, and stupid.
Barack is an appealing candidate who threatens to win by convincing moderate Republicans and independents to vote for him. Barack is a thoughtful, mild-mannered person who does not use or inspire fear.
So the right wing, unable to smear him directly, is smearing him by association. The other smear, the 60's radical Obama knows, seems not to have the legs of the Wright smear.
It is nothing but old-fashioned red-baiting guilt by association. It is an old trick and Obama should bluntly call it out, identify clearly what is going on, and warn us that if we fall for this move from an old playbook we are going to wind up stuck with yet another idiot right winger in the White House.
This is about McCarthyism at its worst.
Oh, thanks Salon for saying "How high?" when Karl Rove asks you to jump.