"The old slime is back".....

From truthout.org :

Steve Weissman
Baiting Obama

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042108J.shtml

Steve Weissman writes for Truthout, "... using 'bittergate,' Wright and Ayres to drag down Barack Obama has nothing to do with fair-minded debate and discussion. Nor is all this a needed vetting of Obama, as Hillary persists in saying. The current noise is nothing less than the predictable rebirth of an American political tradition. Call it redbaiting, witch-hunting or McCarthyism, the old slime is back and the reasons go far beyond the demands of Gotcha journalism and electoral combat."

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