The job of Juan Hernandez is to win support for John McCain, particularly Latino votes. So it may seem odd that the campaign doesn’t want its national director of Hispanic outreach to get any press.
Repeated NEWSWEEK requests to interview Hernandez have been rebuffed or ignored.
When a reporter suggested talking to Hernandez at a convention of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, where Hernandez was slated to appear June 28, his name was suddenly removed from the list of scheduled speakers.
A NALEO spokesman, Eric Wagner, says someone from the McCain campaign called and asked to replace him, but didn’t offer an explanation. (A McCain aide, who refused to be quoted discussing internal campaign strategy, later told NEWSWEEK that the campaign had never signed off on Hernandez as a speaker.)
Here’s one possible reason: Hernandez is toxic to many conservatives. “He represents the opposite of everything conservative Republicans stand for,” says a GOP strategist who didn’t want to be quoted by name on a sensitive topic…..[MORE >>]
If the election were a football game…It appears that Senator John McCain just ran the ball into his own endzone: McCain told a Pittsburgh television station that he recited the names of the Pittsburgh Steelers defensive line while under interrogation in North Vietnam.
One problem with that remarkable anecdote? Every other time McCain has told that story… He’s named the Green Bay Packers instead.
The Straight Talk Express — is heading for a massive wreck?
John McCain’s Straight Talk Express Pic: Courtesy ClubAfrika.com
Gramm’s Slam: Barack Obama was handed a political gift — one that had the potential to keep… on… giving, when Phil Gramm (McCain’s Top Economic GURU) suggested that economic woes are basically a figment of America’s collective national imagination. Maybe Phil had just inhaled a “Gram” of POT!
Phil Gramm: ‘Mental Recession… Nation of Whiners’
Obama on Gramm Comments: ‘America Already Has One Dr. Phil’
BONUSES:
Fox News PORN
Former Republican Vice President - Indiana’s ‘Own’ Dan Quayle
….just another of the idiots Republicans have been parading in American
politics — and guess what, the dumb Appalachians have been electing them!!
….and the latest Moron!
U.S.A - A Nation of ‘Whiners,’ ‘Nut Cutters’ and ‘Crude Pastors’
Last week was indeed an exciting week.
A week in which “McCainiacs” inserted their feet into their mouths repeatedly, while black “civil-rights” icon, the Reverend Jesse Jackson threatened to cut Barack Obama’s 50% White/50% Black “nuts,”……at the “UnFair and UnBalanced” news channel…Fox News, of all places.
Not to be out-done ….The NRA, the “National Rogues Association” wants guns in Disneyland.
In a memo circulated last week and obtained by the Orlando Sentinel, Disney World Vice President of Public Affairs Shannon McAleavey advised other company executives: “Disney continues to maintain a zero tolerance policy” for guns. If an employee brings one onto Disney World property without authorization, it could be grounds for termination, the memo states….[MORE >>]
This enraged the “Gun-Drunk” “Gook-Morons” at the NRA (National Rifle Association led by ReTHUGlican Wayne LaASS-Hole) — Who like to “Cling To Dear Guns.”
I bet Joe Horn has been wetting his “2nd Amendment Pants” …all week!
But hey…in a country where Dan Quayle became vice-president and George Bush President, anything is possible. After all, only 1 in 7 can point to Iraq on a world map.
The e-mail/website/air-wave ’smear assault’ on Barack Obama has reached epidemic proportions.
THUG Republicans, idiots, missionaries based in Kenya, Appalachians, angry “White Women,” “blue-collar” white morons, racist radio pundits, Uncle-Tom she-goons like Michelle Malkin, Black Idiot Pastors like “The Reverend James David Manning” and Jesse Lee Peterson (Neo-Nazi Sean Hannity’s “Black” Pastor), bigots with guns, bigots in suits, The Neo-Nazis at FOX News — the ReTHUGlican mouthpiece, and many other media outlets across the US, have ganged up against Obama to disseminate big FAT lies …..hoping to floor his candidacy.
They are running around “spamming” the Internet and the air-waves with stinking HYENA dung.
This relentless smear campaign against Sen. Barack Obama has forced him to launch FightTheSmears.com.
Common Smears Circulating on The Internet/Air Waves:
1. False attempts to cast Obama as a Muslim
2. False attempts to cast Obama as un-American
3. Malicious attempts to question Obama’s citizenship and patriotism — some falsely claim he was born in Kenya, and is related to Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga,….a Communist!
This is totally false — Obama is American and Raila Odinga is a “True Democrat,” and a patriotic Kenyan — a Freedom Fighter who is solely responsible for ALL future steps Kenya will take to democratize its political institutions.
I have also read on some websites that Raila Odinga ordered the recent Kenyan “Mini-Genocide!”
This is also FALSE!
Raila Odinga was robbed of an election he won outright — by political forces in Kenya who operate in the same mode as the George Bush’s Republican dictatorship in America.
The violence that erupted was not caused by Prime Minister Odinga.
4. False attempts to portray Obama as linked to terrorists — “a threat to mainstream white America”
5. ….and many more scurrilous lies and contortions.
“The Republicans, they’re trying to make [it] ‘this is not about you; it’s about me.’ They’re trying to say, ‘Well, Obama, we don’t know him that well, he hasn’t been around that long, he’s got a funny name; maybe he’s a Muslim,’” Obama said last month in Montana. “They want to make people worry about me.”
Websites like Snopes.com have also listed and debunked many of these anti-Obama e-mail lies.
The “utter ignorance, illiteracy” and “racist inclinations” of some Americans just exacerbates the situation. 1 out of 7 Americans can’t point to Iraq on a map. Even more don’t read newspapers regularly. Most are glued to their TVs and car radios, consuming FAT falsehoods spewing out of the mouths of pundits, NAZI talk show hosts and Fox News.
Fortunately, younger Americans (who flock to Obama in large numbers) tend fare much better because of a voracious appetite for the Internet.
Extreme Ignorance in America!
Obama Rumors Dispelled!
Some illustrations:
A focus group conducted with 12 independent voters for NBC and The Wall Street Journal earlier this month in Charlottesville, Va., found that fully half said “no” when asked point-blank if they thought of Obama as an American. Two believed he is a Muslim and another mentioned the Quran fabrication.
One voter concluded that, “The United States of America should be run by somebody from the United States of America.” When reminded by the reporter capturing the footage that Obama is, in fact, American, the voter responded: “He’s Muslim.”
Voters widely and repeatedly cite information that has been gleaned directly or indirectly from the e-mails to explain why they won’t support Obama.
A Pew survey found that one in 10 Americans think Obama is Muslim, a misperception that crosses party lines.
Visit FightTheSmears.com to help combat these baseless and racist smears.
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Sample Smear Videos:
Proven GOP sleazemeister Roger Stone said on Fox News on June 1st that “there’s a buzz, which I believe now to be credible, that some indelible record exists” of a tape of Michelle Obama using the term “whitey.”
Truth: Stone conceded on June 2nd that he hasn’t met anyone who has seen the tape and that it therefore may be a hoax.
Barack Obama is a Muslim — and has attended a “radical madrassa.”
