Let the Smear Campaign Begin!

I try to avoid going into the gutter when writing about this campaign. But I just want folks to know that there is a definite smear campaign out against Obama that attempts to scare people and preys on ignorance.

I believe the best way to fight it is to expose it.

So, while I won't post every single piece of misinformation that's out there, from time to time, I'll just let you in on a little bit of the anti-Obama underworld.

As they say, sunlight is the best disinfectant!

Here's a book that is listed on Amazon.com written by Webster Griffin Tarpley (let me guess... self published?) called Obama -- The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate.

The description:

Barack Obama is a deeply troubled personality, the megalomaniac front man for a postmodern coup by the intelligence agencies, using fake polls, mobs of swarming adolescents, super-rich contributors, and orchestrated media hysteria to short-circuit normal politics and seize power. Obama comes from the orbit of the Ford Foundation, and has never won public office in a contested election. His guru and controller is Zbigniew Brzezinski, the deranged revanchist and Russia-hater who dominated the catastrophic Carter presidency 30 years ago. All indications are that Brzezinski recruited Obama at Columbia University a quarter century ago. Trilateral Commission co-founder Brzezinski wants a global showdown with Russia and China far more dangerous for the United States than the Bush-Cheney Iraq adventure. Obama's economics are pure Skull & Bones/Chicago school austerity and sacrifice for American working families, all designed to bail out the bankrupt Wall Street elitist financiers who own Obama. Obama's lemming legions and Kool-Aid cult candidacy hearken back to Italy in 1919-1922, and raise the question of postmodern fascism in the United States today. Obama is a recipe for a world tragedy. No American voter can afford to ignore the lessons contained in this book.

I know it's crazy and doesn't make any sense. But these are the kinds of "facts" being emailed about Barack Obama. And, unfortunately, a good number of people believe them.