Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In Alfred Ingram's Blog:
"Sunday, on 60 minutes, I watched a guy in Ohio say he really liked what he heard from Obama, but he'd heard that Barack was actually a muslim and that he wouldn't sing the National anthem. Steve Croft, the interviewer, said ' You know that's not true,don't you?'
These things keep coming up because there's an active effort to keep these lies before the public. These attacks didn't work for most of the campaign, because the attacks came too early, giving us time to demonstrate how false they are.
The new tactic, and all they have is tactics not strategy, is to make the attacks as close as possible to election day, leaving us little or no time for an adequate response.
We have to do the same thing, not with lies, but with truths.
We must use their instinctive reactions against them, questioning their secretiveness, their financial ties, their poor management.
We must make the press feel inadequate for not following up on these items. We must ask why, if her claim to the nomination is her experience, the record of that experience is sealed.
We must show that this is a historical pattern. The Whitewater documents only appeared after the statute of limitations had run out and she was facing contempt charges.
We must show, that she doesn't trust the people she wants to support her.
We must do this as close to the next primary as possible, leaving her with only the option of releasing those records or explaining why she doesn't trust the voters.
Or of plagiarising Pontius Pilate by asking " What is truth?""
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In Chillicothe, people told 60 Minutes that both race and gender would both be hidden factors in southern Ohio - that many blue collar workers here won’t vote for a woman and others would never vote for a black. And Sen. Obama has another problem: a malicious campaign against him that surfaced in a number of our interviews.
Schoenholtz told Kroft he is leaning towards Obama, but that there were a couple of issues he was “not too clear” on.
Asked what they were, Schoenholtz said, “Well, I'm hearin' he doesn't even know the National Anthem, you know. He wouldn't use the Holy Bible. He's got his own beliefs, got the Muslim beliefs. Couple issues that bothers me at heart.”
“You know that's not true,” Kroft remarked.
“No. I’m just…this is what I've been told,” he replied.
“One of the things that we found in southern Ohio - not widespread, but something that popped up on our radar screen all the time - people talking about it, this idea that you're a Muslim,” Kroft told Sen. Obama.
“Right. Did you correct them, Steve?” Obama asked.
“I did correct them,” Kroft replied.
“There you go,” Obama said.
Asked where this is coming from, Obama told Kroft, “You know, this has been a systematic e-mail smear campaign that's been goin' on since actually very early in this campaign. It clearly is a deliberate effort by some group or somebody to generate this rumor. I have never been a Muslim, am not a Muslim. These e-mails are obviously not just offensive to me, somebody who's a devout Christian who's been goin' to the same church for the last 20 years, but it's also offensive to Muslims. Because it plays into, obviously, a certain fear-mongering there”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/29/60minutes/main3894659_page3.shtml
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