innacuracies? check
logical fallacies? check
insane fear-mongering? check

looks like typical GOP attack politics.

Were they worried that Obama might chip into their standing with bigots?

Feel free to contact the TN GOP at:

http://www.tngop.org/contact/

I sent them the following letter:

Ms. Smith,

I was offended by your deeply dishonest smear of Senator Obama. I believe you have done your party a great disservice. You have also contributed to the unfortunate stereotype of the racist, fear mongering southern conservative politician. I have just contributed another $50 to Senator Obama's campaign as a consequence of your actions, and I am even more energized to defeat your candidate this fall. Thank you for reminding me again what America does and does not stand for, and I look forward to the day when your children and grandchildren renounce your words in the same manner that George Wallace, segregation, and lynching is renounced today.

I guess Eric like this story so much, it had to be printed twice in the same post.

This isn't new, and is to be expected. Obama has done his best to get out in front of stuff like this, so the only people that'll buy into it are the ones that this tool from the Tennessee Republican Party call his "base".

Or in other words, the bitter and hardcore racists that wouldn't vote Democrat under any circumstances. Stuff like this IMO is a net positive for Barack, as it further drives a wedge between independents and moderate Republicans that McCain has to spend time undoing. He can't win without his base, but it's increasingly clear that the hardcore GOP is going to be a problem for McCain this entire campaign.

With all due respect, they already are.

Sigh. As a person adrift in Tennessee for 10 years now, you can knock me over with not surprise.

Seriously, this is an unbelieveably backward state when it comes to thinking, and the TN repub party is among the worst of the offenders. And, hey, that should come as no shock since we have already foisted Bill Frist and Fred Thompson on the rest of you poor bastards.

Anyhoo, sorry for them. They're idiots. And, correct, this state is deep red, no matter who gets the dem nom.

Got to get that dig in on Hillary...if you watched the debate she actually helped Obama further distance himself from Farrakhan. People like you make me look for someone to cast my vote for in November.

I've been wondering for a while exactly how deep these smears have gone.

Wonder if there are any connections with the TN GOP and church group leaders like the one mentioned in this video:

http://theuptake.org/?p=500

Next thing you know the Repubs will be making anonymous phone calls asking folks would you vote for Barack Obama if you knew he had fathered a black child?

To my fellow Obama supporters -- and to all people who care about fairness and decency

There is an absolutely reprehensible mailing for the Tennessee Republican Party - the worst I have ever seen - that went out today

Here is the link:

http://www.tngop.org/wordpress/?p=113

YOU MUST SEND AN E MAIL AND FLOOD THE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR THAT WE WILL NOT STAND BY AND LET THEM SPREAD FILTH LIKE THIS

This is the State Republican Party people - WE HAVE TO MOBILIZE AND DO THIS NOW -- let the other party fight -- but fight fair

This is the man to e mail or call:

Bill Hobbs
Communications Director
Tennessee Republican Party
2424 21st Avenue, Suite 200
Nashville, Tennessee 37212
Phone: (615) 269-4260
Email: billhobbs@tngop.org

AND A SPECIAL CALL OUT TO MY FELLOW JEWISH OBAMA SUPPORTERS

THIS IS AN INSULT TO US ESPECIALLY

Please help

Thanks

amy

Even though this smear is mother's milk to Southern Republicans, I don't think it'll be enough to carry McCain to victory.

And McCain said that flying the Confederate Battle Flag should be left up to the State of South Carolina. He actually said that! How offensive is that? Not suprising when one considers his families ties to the Confederacy.

http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/02/15/mccain/index.html

Who's afraid of Obama.

Nice to see that Karl's still keeping his hand in, consulting-wise.

Wow, Obama's campaign staff are going to have a field day with this one.

Better than writing the RNC or TN Repubs - write to the McCain campaign and demand he condemn this (AND reject - okay Hillary?). And every time the Repugs do something like this contact McCain's campaign and repeat the process.

Make McCain police his own people/party.

I don't agreee with ADL Executive Director Abe Foxman on every issue, but it goes without saying that he is far more of an expert on anti-Semitism than Robin Smith. On the subject of Senator Obama and Minister Farrakhan, Mr. Foxman has already publicly stated that "[Obama] distanced himself and condemned it and rejected it . . . . What more do we want? On that issue we should move on." As a Jewish American, I strongly urge the GOP to move on, but am afraid they will just continue to drag our community down with them.

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/2008022720080227obamafarrakhandebate.html

Funny thing. All the people who pointedly use Obama's middle name fall back on the "well, it IS his name" argument. And yet, I don't see any discussion of John McCain or HRC's middle name. Wonder why that might be?

Stay classy, TN.

RNC= Racist National Committee.

If I saw the people who wrote this trash, I'd throw them a lead weight.

And I thought the Civil War ended in 1865.

Tennessee's the new Alabama. Or maybe Mississippi.

I emailed the whole lot of them, expressing my hopes that some members of the state's party leadership see the press release for what it is and take action to remove the responsible parties from their posts.

some are perhaps innocents, so be polite!

john@tngop.org, brewer@tngop.org, brooke@tngop.org, stamps@tngop.org, elizabeth@tngop.org, winslow@tngop.org, feedback@tngop.org, chairman@tngop.org, billhobbs@tngop.org

The lunatic fringe (on either end) is not going to determine the outcome of the election. Obama's movement is as much a repudiation of the polarization of politics as it is a repudiation of special interests, lobbyists, etc. I am not worried.

John McCain will rue the day he took on the mantle of the Republican Party. It's become the hate everyone, love myself party.

Nice work, Clinton campaign, in getting that picture out there! As others have noted, Penn only loses if Obama become President - his company is working for McCain's campaign, too. Going dirty on Obama will hurt the Dems, but it will help Penn.

Tennessee was not always like this. Albert Gore, Jr. -- Albert Gore, Sr. -- Howard Baker - Estes Kefauver - Cordell Hull.

Of course there is going to be a lot of ugliness in this campaign, but it shouldn't come from the candidates or the parties. People who might see through a flier like this from the "Anti-Obama Brigade" or "Tennesseans Against Terror" or whatever are going to give it additional weight because it's from the Tennesee Republican Party. Apparently the current Chairman is Mike Duncan and the Co-Chair is Jo Anne Davidson. Know nothing about either one

So either the Tennessee GOP is now a fringe group, or Frist, Alexander and Thompson stand by this statement. I'd like somebody to stick a microphone in front of these guys and ask if they stand by it.

White supremicist David Duke said in an interview published today: "[I] don't see much difference in Barack Obama than Hillary Clinton--or, for that matter, John McCain."

That's pretty much an endorsement coming from the former head of the Louisiana KKK.

So Senator Obama - Do you reject his endorsement? Or do you condemn it? OR do you reject AND condemn it? OR do you reject, condemn and repudiate it? Or perhaps you should simply stop it - stop not rejecting, condemning and repudiating endorsements from these racists. Have you no shame sir? At long last have you no shame?

yawn.

There is nothing surprising about this mailer. Be prepared for just this sort of filth in the general election. John McCain will stay above it all, while the republican wolves will be out framing Obama as a Muslim Manchurian Candidate. We've seen this movie before.

The simple truth is that this sort of crap won't work with Obama. People actually like him when they get to know him. And the more hysterical the right-wing attacks become, the more marginalized they will be. In the immortal words of GWB: "Bring it on."

I suspect we have a new era in American politics. The more the GOP relies on the tactics of the DIXIECRATS, the more they push a Republican like me to vote for Obama.

http://OsiSpeaks.com or http://RealConservativesSpeak.com

At least Obama has never groveled before terrorists like the AWOL drunk, George W. Bush.

When Osama bin laden ordered US troops out of Saudia Arabia, the 'man' who cowered in a bunker on 9/11 responded with a firm, "Yes, Sir, Mr. Bin Laden, Sir". All US troops were removed from Saudia Arabia and our Air Force base was shut down.

All so a bunch of cowardly, serial draft dodgers can prattle about 'no attacks on US soil since 2001'.

The Tennessee GOP endorses the first US surrender since Corregidor. They are the party of treason.

Did everyone see the update they posted? This is even more hilarious than their pitiful attempts at bigotry:

*Clarification: This release originally referenced a photo of Sen. Obama and incorrectly termed it to be “”Muslim” garb. It is, in fact, Somali tribal garb, hence, we have deleted the photo. Also, in order to diffuse attempts by Democrats and the Left to divert attention from the main point of this release - that Sen. Obama has surrounded himself with advisers and recieved endorsements from people who are anti-Semitic and anti-Israel - we have deleted the use of Barack Obama’s middle name.

Holy sh*t that is some hilarious stuff. Send it around, they look like such idiots haha.

Unfortunately for the Obamites and their chosen one, they're about to learn what Hillary has learned over that last few months -- in america today it's definately more acceptable to be sexist and anti-Islamic than it is to be a racist.

Prediction: all those white males (democrats and independents) that just couldn't bring themselves to vote for Hillary regardless of how best qualified she is will flock to McCain in November and no one will know until it's over.

TN is the first; however, state republican parties tend to run in packs -- expect similar mobilization efforts in UT, ID, AK, LA, SC, AL, GA, ND,... This could put a real damper on all that red state appeal the chosen one is always droning on about.

Why the sudden attacks from the right against Obama? They want to help Hilary. They are afraid of Obama.

This type of stuff is one of the many reasons over the years that makes Americans wonder what type of country they live in.

Yet, folks have the nerve to question Michelle when she says for the first time she is REALLY proud of her country.

This is why. Shyt like this.

I have called this from day one that Obama was talked about as a potential candidate.

I think we haven't even seen the bottom yet, either. I think we'll be in November hearing that he's a potential Al-Qaida sleeper agent, or has affiliations with terrorism. As terrible as that thought it, I don't have any doubt that the republican party would sink to that if it was a means to the end.

And i'd go so far as to say that the only real reason that the RNC and McCain camp have resisted this type of talk is that they don't want to blow their load before it counts. Much like how it wouldn't have made any sense for the Swift Boat Veterans to come out with their smears of Kerry 9 months before the Election of '04.

And besides, the Republican party is damn smart enough to realize that smearing Obama in this way can completely be accomplished by right wing radio, party operatives, Fox, columnists, etc. You don't need McCain or Bush or anybody nearly that important spreading this stuff to get it out there.

Yes, as an ex-republican myself, I can see that the only people left in the party who are real republicans are a very small minority. The wacko extreme conservatives are in self-denial and out of touch with reality.