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Negative Americans: The Most
Hate-filled Flyers And Mailers In The
US 2008 Campaign
November 1, 2008"Passion and prejudice
properly aroused and directed...do about as
well as principle and reason in a party
contest."
- Thomas Elder, prominent Whig politician,
1840
In a bitterly-contested presidential election,
a Democratic candidate praised for his
intellectual demeanor and idealistic spirit is
the target of vicious personal attacks that
question his patriotism and his ethnic
background.
It was 1800, and Thomas Jefferson was the
subject of rumors and crude innuendo
circulated in newspapers and handbills passed
out in taverns claiming that he was the son of
a half-breed Indian squaw squired by a
Virginia mulatto father.
Obviously, things haven't changed that much.
The 2008 election has been marked in recent
months by an endless round of negative ads and
robo-calls attacking Barack Obama's
patriotism, honesty, integrity, faith,
experience.
The negative personal attacks of the
current campaign stands out, compared to dirty
tricks used in recent elections like the Swift
Boat Veterans for Truth ads in 2004 and the
rumors spread about John McCain's adopted
daughter in 2000, because they're being voiced
by the Republican candidate and his running
mate, rather than their surrogates or
sympathetic groups.
"One thing that has struck me is that it's
been left to McCain and Palin to directly make
some of the personal attacks on Obama's
character," says Kerwin Swint, the author of
"Mudslingers: The Top 25 Negative Political
Campaigns of All Time."
"In the past, this would have been done by
outside groups like 527s or PACs. Past
Republican candidates haven't directly made
these attacks. But those groups haven't been
there for McCain like they have for previous
candidates and that's left him in the position
of having to do it himself. He may not enjoy
doing it but his advisers have told him, "This
is your only chance." And he's thrown it all
at Obama - the only thing he held back on was
[Rev.] Jeremiah Wright."
One of the most negative lines of attack
used by McCain was the recent question: "Who
is Barack Obama?"
"That suggests he's not who you think he
is. It's a nefarious play to people's fears.
'Is he really a Muslim?' 'Is he close to
terrorists?' He's not one of us. It's about
making him seem scary and un-American."
Swint compared such attacks to the infamous
ad used by late Senator Jesse Helms in his
tough re-election campaign in 1990 against
Harvey Gantt, the first black mayor of
Charlotte, North Carolina.
Those attacks have a not-so-subtle racial
element to them, explains Joseph Cummins, the
author of "Anything For a Vote: Dirty Tricks,
Cheap Shots, and October Surprises."
"It plays into people's pre-existing seeds of
racism, that as a Muslim or as a black man,
he's alien to the mainstream."
Cummins says that current campaign is in
contention to make his list of the top 10
dirtiest presidential campaigns in American
history. "The volume of stuff put out by the
McCain campaign is pretty extraordinary."
Most of those ads have aired on TV, radio
and the Internet and negative attacks have
been used in robo-calls by the campaign and
Republican party officials.
But some of the crudest attacks, many of
which are circulated by independent operatives
and players not affiliated with the McCain
campaign, have used the oldest campaign
technique in the book: flyers posted on
bulletin boards and shoved under car
windshield wipers.
The worst examples, shown in the
accompanying slideshow, have used racist
caricatures, implied that Obama has an
affinity with Osama Bin Laden, and suggested
that the country is on the verge of a race
war.
There have been some anti-McCain flyers
with caricatures of the candidate as a scarred
POW but they did not appear during the general
election and were distributed by McCain's
contenders in the hotly-contested Republican
primary.
Watch a slideshow of the most hate-filled
flyers and mailers in the 2008 campaign:
In September, the Suffolk University
College Republicans came under fire after
creating a flyer depicting Barack Obama with
a digitally superimposed pig's nose and
smeared lipstick. The text reads: "You know,
you can put lipstick on a pig. but it's
still a pig." The cliche was used by Obama
in a speech mocking John McCain's claim to
be an agent of change. But it was widely
misinterpreted as an attack on Sarah Palin,
who famously described her personality with
the line: "You know the difference between a
hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick." The
flyer, which was found on a bulletin board
in the university's Ridgeway building, was
condemned by Bob Rosenthal, chair of the
school's Communication and Journalism
Department. "Obviously freedom of speech is
important, the First Amendment is important,
but this is in incredibly poor taste," he
told the Suffolk Journal. "It does nothing
to further political debate."
In late September, a white supremacist
group spread this anti-Obama political
leaflet headlined "Do You Want A Black
President?: Black Ruled Nations most
unstable and violent in the world" and
featuring a doctored photo of Obama wearing
a turban around the New Jersey neighborhood
of Roxbury. It goes on to ask "Why should we
seal our fate by allowing a Black ruler to
destroy us?" The group behind the leaflet,
the League of American Patriots restricts
its membership to "adult heterosexual men
and women who are entirely of European
Christian ancestry."
A flyer from the Republican Party of
Virginia attacking Obama for wanting to
appease terrorists and leaders of rogue
nations made the rounds of the state in
early October. The photo featured the eyes
of a man who looks like Obama although it
seems to depict Osama Bin Laden and is
headlined, "America Must Look Evil In The
Eye And Never Flinch." Elsewhere, the
sinister faces of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
North Korea's Kim Jong-Il and Venezuela's
Hugo Chavez, are featured.
This mailer sent out to likely voters in
Florida features a horrifying image of the
Statue of Liberty stripped of its eyes, nose
and mouth with the headline, "If the
Democrats win the White House this November,
AMERICA WILL BE UNRECOGNIZABLE" in an
obvious attempt to play to anti-immigrant
hysteria.
One of the crudest flyers, distributed
recently to 200 members of a Republican
women's group in California, the Chaffey
Community Republican Women, Federated, plays
to the worst racial stereotypes. The
newsletter states that if Obama is elected,
his image will appear on food stamps,
instead of dollar bills like other
presidents. The Obama Bucks features a
smiling Obama surrounded by a bucket of
fried chicken, ribs, and watermelon. In her
apology letter, the group's president, Diane
Fedele, said that she only wanted to make
light of a comment Obama made that as an
African-American, he "doesn't look like all
those other presidents on the dollar bills."
This mailer, sent out by the Republican
Party of Florida, features a menacing photo
of Obama against an all-black background
with the headline, "Crime & Punishment." The
other side of the mailer states, "Obama: 'he
acted more as a friend to criminals than
cops.'" It concludes, "Barack Obama, not who
you think he is."
This flier, distributed in Wisconsin
last week, pretends to be a message from
Barack Hussein Obama II for President.
Crudely playing to racial fears, the letter
states, "Change means... BLACK! We will take
care of our people when we win this election
on November 4th, 2008. Don't wait, vote now
and take a friend that will vote for the
next Black President."
This mailer, an official product of the
McCain-Palin campaign, depicts passengers at
an airport below the headline in
ransom-letter-type stating "Terrorists Don't
Care Who They Hurt, Why Should We Care What
They Have to Say, Barack Obama Thinks
Terrorists Just Need A Good Talking To." The
mailer, which McCain reportedly said he is
"absolutely" proud of, concludes "Barack
Obama. Not Who You Think He Is."
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