Stop Pretending There Will Be Just One Attempted “Swiftboating” of President Obama

By on May 7, 2012 in Barack Obama, LOLGOP

Everyday they Swiftboat this President

There’s a lot of hubbub about a new ad featuring conservative Navy SEALs. These purported ex-soldiers claim that President Obama is taking too much credit for the historically brave decision he made to go after bin Laden in Pakistan last year. Think Progress has pointed out that this ad has much in common with the 2004 “Swift Boat” ad that peed on war hero John Kerry.

Well, it ain’t 2004 anymore.

In 2004, Fox News was a smaller yet growing presence on cable. YouTube didn’t exist. DrudgeReport hadn’t caught Bieberfever for Mitt Romney.

Most importantly, Osama bin Laden was alive.

The “Swift Boat” sandwich served by Bush/Rove allies in 2004 worked because John Kerry was not yet defined in the American public’s mind. The country was still in 9/11 shock and fooled into thinking we’d won the Iraq war. It’s difficult to remember how hard it was to criticize President Bush in the mainstream media. (Watch the SHOCK in the audience Colbert’s Correspondent’s Dinner performance again to see how that invincibly lasted until 2006.)

Swiftboating is constant now.  The old fashioned idea of one being able to “Swift Boat” a candidate is a fantasy (but this WON’T stop the Koch brothers from trying). Twitter and Facebook spread so much information so fast that anyone who cares to can find all the information they want to confirm their biases at any time. We’re all being swiftboated and swiftboating all the time.

Plus what’s the core takeaway of this one ad? This President is too proud of killing our most loathsome enemy. He’s spiking the football. Way to spread the image of Mitt Romney having football after football spiked on his face.

So this weekend the President spoke to 20,000 people in person and exponentially more online to officially launch his campaign only six years after Mitt Romney launched his. DrudgeReport, of course, posted a photo taken before the event with a headline about the President speaking to an empty arena. :(

That’s balance. The right thinks the mainstream media reporting this President’s actual accomplishments without calling him a Muslim shows they’re biased. So they feel justified to lie all day all long.

The right is stuck with Mitt Romney, a candidate with zero foreign policy experience except a record of exporting jobs. In his one term in office, he was 47th in job creation and lost popularity every minute of the day.

So they have to make this popular President with his incredible record of creating 4 million jobs, confronting America’s enemies and ending war seem nearly as bad as Mitt Romney. That’s a difficult task but they managed to get people to blame this President for Bush’s economy in 2010. They’re sure they can do it again.

Swiftboating is a new word for basic political practice. It’s framing and it’s happening all the time. You can fight back. Never mention Mitt’s name without the word #unfit.

Mitt is unfit to unseat this President and if we let him argue otherwise that’s worse than any swiftboating.


  • Conniecuellar1025

    I visit Moms for Mitt and the Mitt Romney facebook page frequently and post the truth. I get yelled at a lot, but I just laugh. The other day I posted the link to the actual Affordable Healthcare Act on an anti Obama site which said that the government owned our healthcare. When I said read the law, some guy named Earl said liberals were too ignorant to read and we drop out of school. This guy had said previously that someone should read the law and tell him what it said. So when he said liberals were lazy and too ignorant to read I replied “says the man who wants someone else to read the law for him.” I enjoy spreading the truth on their sites, but it’s like they’re deaf dumb and blind. They refuse to get it.

  • POTUS_GTFO

    I read the law. Particularly pages 1001-1008 that tell me Obama wants to “TAG” me and all Americans like an animal with a “classII medical device” by March 23, 2013. I also read the National Defensive Resource Preparedness Executive Order, or as most people know it, the New Slavery Order. I also read HR 347 that makes protesting illegal in the presence of the Secret Service. I also read the Enemy Expatriation Act, or aka, the New Nuremburg Laws. I also read the order for DHS ordering 450 MILLION 40 cal hollow point bullets. In a nation with only 311 million people, this looks like the precurser to extinction. Obama’s politics are UNBELIEVABLY scarey. The only hope is Ron Paul, and 75% of Americans know this. 5% are being paid to shove Obama’s ‘stick’ down the throats of the other 20%.

    • Debbrell

       http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/microchip.asp  read some thing informative about it

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Kendrick/1667150067 Mark Kendrick

       Actually, you need that tag.  The reason is obvious.  You spread lies and disinformation.  We really need to track you and keep you out of areas where civilization exists.

    • Jones

      you must have one incredibly long nose from your lying.

  • guest

    Did you happen to read about our ‘generous’ donation to Egypt right before the Muslim Brotherhood declaired war on the US? Only one week apart, how convienant!

    • Gy Volt

      ^^^trolling assclown

    • jones

      Did you happen to know that one of the owners of Fox News is an ARAB from Saudi Arabia – Muslim and and ARAB oh no.

  • CB_Demented

    Think Progress is trying to find a memorable catch phrase, and landed on “swift boating.”

    There’s nothing in common, at all, between the swiftboat vet campaign, and questioning Obama politicizing the death of Obama.

  • http://twitter.com/LOLGOP LOLGOP

    See. Like 2 swiftboatings just the comments. By a swiftboat I mean constructing a basic falsehood to undercut a tremendous strength. This is the world Rove created.

  • http://twitter.com/JPJABBER JUDI

    Trying to debate, inform or discuss ANYTHING with those on the RIGHT anymore is an exercise in futility. They refuse to accept facts….if they have not seen it on FOX, read it on Drudge or Breitbart, or listened to it on Limbaugh…it just isn’t true. Rove and his propaganda machine has done a wonderful job over the last few decades. THEN elect a black president…and they go NUTS!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Kendrick/1667150067 Mark Kendrick

    The American public is actually far too sophisticated to accept any swiftboating this election cycle.  In other words, the Right already lost because this is the ONLY method they can find or use to demand allegiance to the man they LEAST wanted to lead their party. BWAAHAHAHAHAHAH!

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