WHY are RIGHTWINGERS ALREADY SMEARING BARACK OBAMA WITH LIES?

Obama has been a Christian and a regular churchgoer for many years. So why is the right wing smearing him with lies about his religion? http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp

Public Comments

1. Yeah, nice church he goes to... I can just feel the love for the non-black there.
2. Never heard anyone outside of YA say anything about his religion....please tell me you're not basing this gross generalization on what you see on YA.
3. Comes down to one word - Hate. They hate anyone who is not a Republican or a Conservative. Doesn't matter who that person is or what type of person they are, if they are not Republican or Conservative, they hate them. And not just a little bit either.
4. I see no smear. Obama is a liberal. He is ideologically aligned with terrorists, as liberals are. Terrorists fear conservatives and sound just like liberals. Wait until the Hillary Clinton smear machine gets running.
5. neocons are very scared about Obama's presidential potential. a neocon lies as a often as a bird flies.
6. First, he's black, and Republicans are racists. Just look at the ads they ran last campaign. Second, it's a pre-emptive strike to destroy a popular figure before he gets the chance to grind them into the ground. BTW - I am not an Obama supporter.
7. They are warming up their swiftboats as we speak.
8. They're scared of him. Downright, wobbly-kneed, tooth-chatteringly SCARED. They know he'll probably be the one replacing Bush and that would be a NIGHTMARE for them. A black President?? Oh heavens no!!!! hehehe :)
9. It's the republican party, its what they do. Look how they've handled the last couple of elections.
10. Why are leftwingers praising Obama as if he can walk on water and turn water into whine? EDIT: True patriot... are you a con acting like a lib? Because what you said, is by far the dumbest thing ever embedded into the yahoo! answers website
11. I've already seen some nasty stuff on the internet..his name, he's a terrorist...pack of lies-the same old stuff from the far right.
12. Why does anyone lie about their opponents? Because they're desperate. Lying about opponents is NOT a Republican trait.
13. Because he scares them, so the only way to fight back is doing what they do best. There is a certain segment of our society that if they here the same lies over and over they will believe it as fact. Look at how many people to this day still believe that Iraq had a hand in 9/11.
14. Republicans are afraid that the killing and conflict will stop. Conflict, hatred, racism and greed is all they've got. It's their reason for getting out of bed in the morning. It's the air they breath.
15. its Hillary Clinton doing it. lol
16. Unfortunately, they think bashing other human beings is the way to win elections. Fortunately, the November elections proved that Americans are catching on to these sleazy tactics that lead to nowhere.
17. Conservatives always fire the first missile when threatened or when they falsely believe that the intelligence they have received is threatening...just look at Iraq!
18. EDUCATING IDIOTS: REALITY CHECK Hillary slammed him today for being educated at a Muslim Madrassa. Anyway, here's my view which is incapable of being disputed. Did you people fall out of the sky with yesterday's rain? To have ANY chance of winning the Presidency, you have to win a good portion of the South. Do you think that a radical Liberal could ever win the South? Now, let's add the fact that his name is B. Hussein Obama. Finally, let's add the additional fact that he's black. Oh, but wait, hmm, I wonder what Christian voters in the South and everywhere else are going to think about Homies' admitted cocaine usage too. This guy couldn't win 1% of the vote in the South. His chances of winning the Presidency in 2008 or EVER is LESS THAN ZERO. What a joke. B. Hussein Obama as the Democrats' nominee would be a dream too good to be true for Republicans. Even in natiowide polls, Senator John McCain, War Hero and Prisoner of War, is 21% ahead of Hillary Clinton and a whopping 32% ahead of B. Hussein Obama. Get in the game idiots.
19. nobody is smearing him with lies. He is very very liberal, like Ted Kennedy. its a fact and most people of this county fear what liberals try to do.
20. they're not. bettysdad: First, he's black, and Republicans are racists. i really resent that. i'm a white republican and i'm married to a black man. who, btw, doesn't even know who obama is, and doesn't care. and to give you an idea of his political leanings, he LOVES bill and hillary clinton. every racist i've ever met were democrats. believe me, i asked. i have often asked my husband how he could be in the party that is most racist. for the rest of you: pot meet kettle. you scream that republicans don't know how to do anything but bash people. what do you call this entire thread? i'm really tired of hearing how racist i am. i'll be sure to warn my husband when he's back.
21. http://www.usvetdsp.com/dec06/obama_muslim.htm http://mediamatters.org/items/200612200005 When reading literature on a person that is in the political spotlight you can leave no stone unturned. There are many such columns and news articles to be read. You cannot step up to the plate to swing a bat and expect no ball to be thrown, this is what you are saying.
22. I do not know much about his religion but religion alone does not make you a good person. Obama has voted for not requiring medical for a new baby born alive after an abortion. Does not sound Christian to me. The example he sets for our children in America & esp. our African American children by smoking is horrible. It is not cool to smoke it is dangerous. Last year while in the Senate he bought land at a real deal from a political fundraiser who was under investigation at the time. He admitted this on television & said it was a mistake. This was after he got caught & we knew he had made a mistake. Wouldn't we all like half price land?
23. Hillary's attacking Obama now. In house brawl starting. Whoops! Mud will be flung tonight!
24. I thought it was Hillary Clinton who outed him.
25. It is a ploy to move the conversation in America from the tragedy in Iraq to something superficial, like a potential-presidential candidate's personal life. Why is it our business if he is atheist, Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Taoist, animistic, gay, straight, bisexual, or Texan?
26. Hillary's the one firing up the Clinton smear maching against Barak! You sad pathetic lib lemmings need to stop following each other off the cliff and put the blame where it belongs!
27. Apparently all of you LEFT-WINGERS that are castigating Republicans and tossing out how Republicans have called Obama a terrorist and more have selective memories. I can't count how many times I have seen (and answered) questions blasting President Bush by calling him a traitor, terrorist, Nazi, a**hole, ****sucker, drafter dodger, the anti-Christ and on and and on. There have even been a handful (there could have been hundreds for all I know) that said they hoped the President would be killed, assassinated, murdered and even raped. Nice values you left-winger have. And yes, I know those aren't the vales of all left winger people...I just want to make the point that people on both sides of the isle can be asinine. But calling for the assassination of the President...any sitting President crossing the line.
28. Hey sweetcheeks, the repbublicans don't need to smear Obama. This 'leak' has Hillary's fingerprints all over it. Do you really think she would allow a Jr. Senator from the hick state of Illinois to steal her thunder? She is seething that he is actually leading her. Just her little way of trying to 'put him in line' to be her running mate.
29. I heard it was Hillary's campaign doing it, from another post. I have no clue who did, myself. However, I am against Obama because he is a globalist, something he would probably not have a problem being called, but which we don't need in any more Presidents.
30. If you would turn to another news channel other than CNN you'd see that its the Hillary campaign camp that has been doing all the smearing already. Her camp has been doing background checks on Obama, looking real deep. So why should the Repubs waste their time with the smear when Hillary's camp is doing it for us?.....LOL!
31. 1. It's Hillary Clintons war machine calling Obama out. 2. Republicans are not the racist party[which party emmancipated the slaves?/which party nominated the first african-amercan Sec. of state?etc...]
32. Just because you say you are a christian and go to church, doesn't mean your a christian! You can find that in the bible!! Look it up!!
33. Who is Barack Obama and who does he think he is running against the Hildabeast?
34. they are idiots and do not know what they are talking about.
35. this is exactly why people have to spend 10 years on average running for the presidency, we just know them. This may or may not be true but I can't tell after only four years of office holding??? I mean the reason he didn't vote for iraq folks was because he wasn't in congress, simple huh?
36. They obviously fear him because he is level headed and intelligent, unlike thier own. Also, he is not hideous looking like almost all of the GOP. They aer just in denial about Bush and need a left winger to degrade.
37. Politices and the america way
38. Because they fear him. It is party politics. If you can't beat him straight up, you beat him down. I wish they would all stick to the issues. BTW, I am not a democrat and I would not vote for Obama but not because of what any "Rightwinger" said about him.
39. They will say anything to discredit him. He is good looking, young, smart, sort of black, charismatic, very international, and an inigma. However, I must admit that I am not too fond of the Church of Christ...no dancing and no musical instruments in Church...very Puritanical, almost Islamic.
40. It's all they have.
41. Because they fear him.
42. Because thats the only thing there good at.
43. Republicans have no fear of Obama. He will never get by the primary process. Democrats let blacks vote for them, but almost never let them play and certainly never vote for one. Look how many minorities and women were in the two Bush administrations and then look at the Clinton administration. There are NO Republican KKK members in the US Senate, but the Democrats have at least one.