Back in January, this article started a big controversy about Barack Obama's muslim upbringing:
http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/Obama_2.htm
Well, now many months later, and after all of the major media outlets have investigated the article and declared it a "smear", I still hear people talking about Obama's "Madrassa" participation.
It was mud raking, smear fest, not true. Obama was a little boy. Come on...
But this shows something very powerful about smear campaigns and negative politics. The fact is, negative politics works. Doesn't matter if the statement is true. People don't read or don't remember the followup... they only remember the big breaking headline.
That's what happened to Kerry with the Swift Boat folks. It is happening now to Obama.
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