I've predicted the barrage that will start growing if Obama continues to forge ahead state by state as he has done recently.

Seem the entrenched right-wing extremos decided to start the band playing at the highest levels:

"Appearing today on Fox News Sunday, President Bush laid into Sen. Barack Obama, claiming he would "attack Pakistan" and "embrace" Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"I certainly don't know what he believes in," Bush said when asked if there had been a "rush to judgment" about Obama. "The only foreign policy thing I remember he said was he's going to attack Pakistan and embrace Ahmadinejad."

Bush added he doesn't think people know enough about Obama -- but wouldn't comment on why, if that's the case, so many are supporting him.

In fact, Obama has not advocated either for attacking Pakistan or embracing Ahmadinejad. Obama has said that the U.S. should be willing to strike against al Qaeda targets in Pakistan if the country's president Pervez Musharraf refuses. Obama also said during a debate last year that he was willing to meet with leaders of Iran and other U.S. rivals without preconditions, although he did not commit to doing so.

Obama's chief rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, has also criticized Obama for his remarks on Pakistan and for being willing to meet with foreign leaders.

Obama's campaign responded this morning. "Of course President Bush would attack the one candidate in this race who opposed his disastrous war in Iraq from the start. But Barack Obama doesn't need any foreign policy advice from the architect of the worst foreign policy decision in a generation," said spokesman Bill Burton."

(Huffington Post)

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As one who has greatly profited from the proiscuous deployment of falksehoods and slanders and defamatory rumours as a tool of politics, President Bush undersatnds, he believes, the power of a good black PR line. But he may not understand what happens when a black PR line gets clearly disproved by someone. It blows up in the face of he who promulgates it, and makes the promulgator look like an ass.

Not something Bush has to fear. He's already got the tee-shirt.

In any case, this is an early example; there will be more. You can document them here, if you are interested. I am sure Hill will be hit with some of the same, but I expect that to be less hydrophobic than the ones directed against Barack, for some reason. Just my humble opinion.


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