The Obama hit squad is out

I've been reading all kinds of things on blogs about the back door things that Team Obama/Biden is doing to try and silence critics. They believe that John Kerry didn't do enough, soon enough, to fight the allegations from the Swift Boat Vets for Truth during the 2004 election and now are working over time to fight ads from legitimate 501c's and 527's (after all didn't he work with McCain on the campaign finance reform laws that helped bring these groups into existence?)

Doesn't anybody get it? The only reason these ads stick is because they are TRUE. If they didn't have an element of truth to them and weren't backed up by the facts then they would be shot down through research and common sense. For instance, the false accusations about Obama being Muslim and being some kind of Manchurian Candidate for Islamo-fascists. Besides being just out there, it didn't hold up to the facts.

Now the latest one that Team Obama is putting all of its force into stopping concerns Bill Ayers. Really there isn't much new here, in fact I first blogged about Ayers back here in February. People are just now digging into the files of the boards that they served on together and exploring the relationship. Obama claimed that he was just some guy from his neighborhood and wasn't someone that he exchanged ideas with. It appears from the evidence, that this is completely false. Obama also claims that Ayers did something bad 40 years ago when Obama was a kid. Unfortunately he fails to point out that Ayers has no regrets about what he did back then, in fact the only thing that he is upset about is that he and the Weathermen Underground didn't do ENOUGH.

If someone puts an ad out against you that is false, normal political maneuvering would say that you put out a converse ad disproving the false one. Well, the problem is that Obama can't. All of the ads that he has put out so far are just condemning the group that produced the ad because they can't refute the MESSAGE. They have even resorted to filing papers with the Department of Justice, asking that the group and its contributors be investigated.

Why go through all of the effort? Unless there is real substance there.

Hmmm... a line about protesting too much is going through my head right about now...