An Obama Campaign Gaffe

An viral ad made by the intellectually devoid and morally bankrupt group known as BornAliveTurth.org has been circulating the conservative blogosphere over the past few days.



The ad, of course, has no problem leaving out the reasoning behind why Obama voted against each bill. Anyone is welcome to read his website on that issue, which isn't the main point of this post. But basically, Obama does support born alive porotections, and he voting against the bill initially because it wasn't worded soundly compared to the already pre-existing bill calling for provisions of care to so-called "failed abortions".

Of course no one bothers to read the history, instead the kool-ade drinkers would rather hit the emotional zinger. "Gianna wouldn't be here today if Obama had his way" claims the site where the video is. But insert any percieved evil person for Gianna, and it can be shown that the emotionally charged statement is moot in this discussion on women's rights.

But an ad from Obama calling out the BornAliveTruth ad is simply wrong on who made the ad:

I think whoever is running the response-ad part of Obama's campaign needs to stop being so trigger happy in blaming McCain for every misleading and despicable ad put out. There do exist some grassroot initiatives that have been putting out erroneous ads, such as BornAliveTruth here and another organization distorting the relationship between Obama and Ayers to the point of beaing nearly libel.

The campaign needs to fire back at BornAliveTruth, not McCain, in this instance. They need to pull out the guns to suppress any doubts on Obama's position on women's rights and how misleading such ads are from these grassroots initiatives.

And I may suggest them looking into any possible connection between these so-called grassroots and the McCain campaign management. I'm not calling dirty politicis yet, but the Republicans have a track record of unethical actions during campaigns. Swift-boating and voter caging: need I say more?

NOTE: According to Ben Smith, the Obama ad hasn't been released to the press but was found on the BornAliveTruth's YouTube account. Here's to hoping that the Obama campaign reevaluates the integrity of the ad and revamp it to criticize the proper disgusting individuals involved.