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Swiftboating's real definition: Telling the truth


By David Limbaugh


Posted: August 22, 2008 1:00 am Eastern



You can always tell when you've scored points against a liberal
candidate.


He and his minions, following the combined examples of Bill Clinton and
John Kerry, immediately assume counterattack mode, rather than addressing
the allegations, and accuse the accusers of "Swiftboating," by which
they mean smearing with false charges.


John Kerry's handlers adopted the technique when Kerry's fellow Swift
boat veterans unveiled his true military record after Kerry brazenly made his
record an essential campaign issue. They attempted to turn the table on
the truthful Swiftees by painting them as liars.


The episode proved that the mainstream media will go to any lengths to
save a floundering Democratic presidential campaign, including
conspiring to manufacture a new word for our political lexicon designed to
discredit and silence the accusers. Henceforth, "Swiftboating" would describe
the untrue smearing of a political opponent.


The irony and injustice is that the Swiftees, not John Kerry, owned the
truth. Never did Kerry or the mainstream media refute any of their
allegations. But the Swiftees did expose Kerry, objectively, as having
lied about his record in a surprising number of particulars. Kerry never
even attempted to answer the allegations, despite repeatedly promising
that he would. He didn't because he couldn't. The only option left open
to him was to launch a diversionary and fraudulent counterattack.


Which brings us to the present campaign. The Democratic Party, acting
like a man in heat who is driven by anything but his rational mind, lusted
after Barack Obama and made him its nominee when it should have known
better.


Even before the primary season was over, it was obvious not only that
Obama was an unknown quantity but also that what we did know about him
was very troubling. And many Democratic primary voters were beginning to
realize it, which is why Hillary Clinton won the majority of the late-
term primaries.


Every week, a new disturbing revelation surfaces about Obama, each
arguably more damaging than its predecessor. Having no substantive
response, Obama and the liberal media are reduced to accusing the McCain
forces of dirty politics, when any reasonable person knows there is
nothing unfair about exposing your opponent's character flaws and policy
weaknesses.


Increasingly, these desperate Obama defenders have been accusing McCain
of Swiftboating Obama, which signals that McCain has been scoring heavily
with incontrovertible allegations.


The most damning one yet is Obama's disgraceful record on abortion.
Obama enabled infanticide while in the Illinois Legislature and has been
dissembling about it.


David Fredosso, author of the excellent new book "The Case Against
Barack Obama," points out that Obama has repeatedly made the false claim that
he only spoke out against an Illinois bill that would have recognized
premature abortion survivors as "persons" because it would have
negatively affected Roe v. Wade. Yet "every single version of the bill was
neutral on Roe. Each one affected only babies already born, not ones in the
womb."

Obama's own words, circulating in transcript form and on YouTube, are
even more incriminating, as he articulates his opposition to the bill seeking
to protect a baby born alive as a result of a botched abortion.


"Essentially, adding an additional doctor who then has to be called in
an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really
designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the
physician to induce labor and perform an abortion."


Translation: Obama will not theoretically burden a woman's right to
abort her child, but he will actually burden an already-born infant's chances
of surviving.


Obama is so slavishly obedient to the abortion lobby's cultish
protection of a woman's right to terminate her own offspring's life, that he
opposed measures designed to protect an already-born baby's chances to
survive.


And you wonder why we say pro-abortion liberals have made abortion a
ritualistic religious sacrament!


On "Hannity & Colmes," Democratic strategist Bob Beckel indignantly
stated: "Are you suggesting Barack Obama wants babies to die?  I've
never thought the Republicans would go this far. This is about as low as
you can go."


Yes, Bob. Barack Obama was the only member of the Illinois Senate to
speak against a bill that would have granted legal protection to already-born
babies still alive after a failed abortion. He used his power to prevent
those innocent babies from having the best chance to survive. The
evidence speaks for itself. It doesn't get much colder than that.


In the face of this latest smoking gun, Obama and his beleaguered
defenders have no arrow left in their quiver except to attack their
accusers and label them as "Swiftboaters."


Because Swiftboating really amounts to truth telling, the targets of
those accusations should consider this an affirmation that the Obama forces
know the charges are true.


David Limbaugh


David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His book "Bankrupt: The
Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today's Democratic Party" (Regnery)
was recently released in paperback.




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