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Astroturf for (or against?) Obama

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

An interesting comment showed up a few hours ago on an earlier blog posting of mine about Barack Obama: “Just wanted to say that I am eployed at a large Pharmaceutical company in Clayton NC and I support Barack Obama with all my heart. I would love for all my friends and colleagues to re-elect Obama in 2012!! I LOVE YOU OBAMA.”

The commenter gave the name “Diane Pearce Votes for Obama Again” and linked to my.barackobama.com. I thought it was slightly weird, but not weird enough to merit further investigation.

Then, three hours later, another comment came in on a different blog posting, this time from “Diane Pearce Loves Barack Obama”: “All I know is that I work at a large Pharmaceutical corporation in Clayton NC and I endroce Barack Obama with all my being. I would love for all my friends and colleagues to re-elect Obama in 2012!! I LOVE YOU OBAMA.”

That exceeded my weirdness threshold, so I looked into it a bit further.

The two comments gave two different email addresses, Reitter@gmail.com and Lipovsky@gmail.com, both of which appear to be based on people’s names and neither of which is related to the full name given by the commenter.

One of the comments was posted from an IP address in the United Arab Emirates. The other was posted from Indonesia.

I Googled for pages matching “Diane Pearce” and Obama, and there were 264 matches, many of which were similar comments. I did the same Google search a half hour later, and the count was up to 270.

Someone is clearly astroturfing here. The motives for this, and whether the people doing it are in reality trying to help or hurt Obama, are left as an exercise to the reader.

Diane Pearce Votes for Obama Again
my.barackobama.com
Reitter@gmail.com
86.96.226.22
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Barack Obama is still my president

Monday, December 20th, 2010

The greatest crisis facing America is not the state of the economy, or the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, or the threat posed by al-Qaeda. These are all critically important, and we prolong them at our peril. But none of them is the one existential crisis that threatens to undo everything our country has achieved.

Many people are disappointed in Barack Obama for not standing up to his opponents. The previous administration had spent eight years ignoring the will and desires of half the population, and now it was time to turn the tables and give the other half a taste of their own medicine. If only Obama had turned the thumbscrews a little tighter on a few recalcitrant moderates, he could have gotten any legislation he wanted through Congress, the opposition be damned. Obama was not liberal enough / strong enough / smart enough to do the right thing.

In fact, Obama has been doing exactly the right thing. He knows that what most threatens us now is not economics, war, or terrorism. Obama has seen the enemy, and it is us.

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The Obamas’ date in NYC: letter to the editor the Herald didn’t print

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

I sent this letter to the Boston Herald on June 8.  Unfortunately, they declined to print it.  Although I wasn’t reading the entire paper every single day around that time, I don’t recall the Herald printing a single letter, column or article defending the Obamas against the attacks on them for their “date night” in New York City.  Shame on the Herald.

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Voted

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Some day I would like to be the first ballot counted by the machine on Election Day, but alas, with five kids in the house, I doubt that day will come for a while :-) .

I was up before 5am — couldn’t sleep.  Got the kids up at 6:15.  Got breakfast and lunches made and packed up and out the door by 6:45am.  Got to the polls before 7:00; there was already a line.  My wife and I were the 22nd and 23rd ballots through the machine, and the line was longer when we left than when we went in.

One of the poll workers made me zip up my jacket to cover my Obama-Biden shirt, “Yes we can!” pin, and “JewsForObama.com” pin.  Go figure.

Reports are coming in from all over the place that turnout at the polls is like no one has ever seen before.  Finally, the fine citizens of the United States of America are going to reject the politics of hate and divisiveness that have ruled for far too long, and elect a president who can bring this country together and start fixing all the things that the demagogues have broken.

Yesterday was my son’s first birthday, and today is his grandfather’s birthday.  What a great birthday present this will be!

(And my son took his first unassisted steps on Sunday, one day before the deadline set by his demanding father. :-) )

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“Jewish Mother for Obama”

Monday, October 6th, 2008

This moving pro-Obama video testimonial is by Janette Hillis-Jaffe, an Orthodox Jew living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hillis-Jaffe was so offended by the anti-Obama smears being circulated in the Jewish community, that she felt compelled to respond by making this video.  Some excerpts:

I’m a Jewish Mother… so I worry! There was a time when I had a lot to worry about. You see, we lived in Jerusalem for four years during the peak of the Second Intifada…

I don’t want any Israeli to have to live like that anymore…

So because I love America, and because I pray for Israel’s security and peace every day, I’m going to vote for Barack Obama in November. I hope you will too!

Watch the video, then forward it to all your friends, especially those who still have doubts about Obama!

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REGISTER TO VOTE!

Monday, October 6th, 2008

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Prohibited from participating in Allston Village Street Fair

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Several weeks ago, I contacted Joan Pasquale, the executive director of the Parents and Community Build Group (PCBG), to inquire about the possibility of volunteers for the Obama campaign running a voter registration table at the fair.

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Awesome McCain flip-flop fact sheet from the NJDC

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

The National Jewish Democratic Council just released an awesome fact sheet on some of McCain’s biggest flip-flops.

 

Read or link to it here:
http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/2008/07/senator-mccain.html

 

Digg it here:
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/McCain_flip_flop_fact_sheet

 

This is powerful stuff!

 

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Ted Belman and the anti-Obama Smear Machine

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Right-wing pro-Israel blogger Ted Belman has recently embarrassed himself by joining the stampede of conservative Republicans so desperate to keep Senator Barack Obama out of the White House that they’ll say just about anything to scare people out of voting for him.

Make no mistake, Belman and his ilk are scared. The smear tactics which worked so well against John Kerry in 2004 just don’t seem to be working on Obama. So, what’ an ideologue to do? The answer, apparently, is to take a gaggle of absurd accusations against Obama, combine them into a hastily written hodgepodge of rumor and innuendo, and throw them out into the blogosphere in the hope that “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

Here’s what the smear-mongers want you to believe:

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Saving Hillary Clinton

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

March 25, 2008

Dear Hillary,

When it comes right down to it, there’s only one thing that could save your chances of winning the nomination. For you to defeat Barack Obama, something colossally bad needs to happen to his campaign. We’re not talking “bad” like tenuous links to a corrupt entrepeneur — Tony Rezko hasn’t even blipped Obama’s poll numbers. We’re not talking “bad” like offensive sound bites from his pastor — Obama overcame Wright-gate in a week. We’re talking really bad, a Big Scandal, like dead bodies buried in his basement or thousands in unmarked bills stashed in his freezer.

You’re certainly smart enough to realize this, so I’m sure you’ve got your people digging, digging, digging to find the Big Scandal. But the odds of finding one are low, and you’re smart enough to realize this as well. I hope you won’t mind if I offer you some advice for what to do while waiting for it to turn up?

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