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Numerous “outraged citizens” have peppered the e-mail boxes of reporters with complaints about a mailer and robocalls sponsored by John McCain’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, denouncing them as a new low in politics and an ugly, possibly racist attempt to frighten voters about Barack Obama in the closing days of the campaign.
The automated phone calls in Virginia, Nevada and possibly elsewhere and a separate direct-mail piece imply Obama will be soft on terrorists abroad and play up his links to 1960s radical William Ayers.
The mailer shows pictures of North Korean President Kim Jong Il, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and carries the headline “America must face the threat of terror head on.”
The mailer calls on Republicans to vote early by absentee ballot and says that, “”Democrats who want to control Washington have pledged to meet, without preconditions, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea … Our foreign policy must not be appeasement.”
In the robocalls, a narrator says, “Hello. I’m calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge’s home and killed Americans. And Democrats will enact an extreme leftist agenda if they take control of Washington. Barack Obama and his Democratic allies lack the judgment to lead our country.”
In response, Obama spokesman Bill Burton called the effort “dishonorable and dishonest.”
“John McCain’s campaign has admitted that the economy is a losing issue for them, so he’s chosen to launch dishonorable and dishonest attacks like this. John McCain can’t defend the fact that he’s voted with George Bush’s disastrous policies 90 percent of the time and will continue the same Bush-McCain economic policies American families can’t afford.”
However, the repetitive nature of the e-mail complaints sent to reporters suggests a coordinated campaign by Obama sympathizers to highlight the McCain mailer and robocalls
One e-mail sent to reporters reads: “Absolutely reprehensible that ANYONE would think something like this is acceptable. I do hope I will be hearing about this on the news this evening.
“After attempting to place himself above the fray at last night’s debate, McCain is shamelessly launching a different kind of negative campaign. This one takes the form of robocalls to households, informing them of the Obama-Ayers link.”
I am as mad as a hornet right now! The McCain campaign is sinking to the dirtiest tactics possible. My 7-year old daughter just answered our phone to hear a recorded call about Obama and terrorists bombing government buildings.
She didn’t know what was going on, and she got terribly upset. I pulled the phone from her hands and listened to the last little bit of it. It was disgusting.
I wish I had a copy of this call for all of you in this community so you can hear the vile comments and scare tactics being played out here in North Carolina.
I am struggling now to explain to my daughter what the call meant and who these people are and why they would call our house.
I immediately called the number at the end of the message and told them what happened and expressed by pure outrage.
I will try to find a transcript of this robo call somewhere.
I am asking anyone in North Carolina or anyone else in those states who are receiving these calls to please call and lodge a complaint.
The phone number is: 202-863-8500 (RNC) I don’t know where.
I AM MAD AS HELL!!!!!!!
Update: (thanks to comments below) This is what my daughter heard!
Hello. I’m calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayres, whose organization bombed the U.S. capitol, the Pentagon, a judge’s home and killed Americans. And Democrats will enact an extreme leftist agenda if they take control of Washington. Barack Obama and his Democratic allies lack the judgment to lead our country. This call was paid for by McCain-Palin 2008 and the Republican National Committee at 202-863-8500.
