By Candace Salima, Contributor, US Daily Review.
Barack Obama’s “Obama for America” group has launched a website called AttackWatch. And what this site is supposed to do, ostensibly, it is to provide a place for Americans to snitch on their fellow Americans. Well, to be honest, if I report that Barack Obama is the worst president ever because of his economic, military, constitutional rights, energy, immigration, healthcare policies, then little Obamaites can run to AttackWatch.com and report me. AttackWatch will kindly then provide them all the facts and figures to counter my “attack.” Because to Barack Obama, facts are not acceptable, they are ATTACKS! (His emphasis, not mine.)
Then they decided it would be a brilliant idea to create a Twitter account called @AttackWatch and a hashtag called #AttackWatch. I do believe that’s where their biggest mistake was made.
New York Magazine calls it “Obama assuming a fighting stance with AttackWatch.com website,” I call it the height of ridculousness in an already farcical campaign. And you should have seen it hit the Twitterworld Tuesday night. If Barack Obama thought anyone with an iota of common sense would take this site seriously, he was dead wrong.
Conservatives from every camp went crazy on Twitter. Not in anger, but in sheer disbelief and the hilarity ensued for hours and continues to this day. We are all doing our patriotic duty and reporting like mad.
Let me share a few of the gems I’ve run across on Twitter:
@CounterAtkWatch - Dear @attackwatch Susie said Obama was a poopie head and I said I’m telling, and she was like you better not, and I was all like, watch me.
@American_Tuna: If I’m attacking #AttackWatch, am I attacking the act of attacking, or attacking the attackers who attack attackers? Just want to be clear.
@iowahawkblog: #AttackWatch having a rough day over there at the Ministry of Truth, aren’t we? #BigBrotherFAIL
@STL_BLONDE: Obama throws like a girl. #AttackWatch
@AttackCatWatch: #AttackWatch is the new Angry Birds! Everybody’s doin it!
@Talkmaster (Neal Boortz): If I’m not on #AttackWatch by the end of the day I haven’t done my job.
The Drudge Report is streaming the thread #AttackWatch, a new Facebook Group popped up, blogs are popping up everywhere, and I’m writing an article about it. And why is that? Well, it’s not because it was such an all-fired brilliant move by Barack Obama. Personally, I find it to be the most boneheaded move any candidate, let alone a sitting president, has ever made.
Moving away from the frivolity, let’s take a look at the site itself. Does the site go after the Republican candidates? Oh, a little. But it also goes after Glenn Beck and Jerome Corsi too. (I’m rather insulted I’m not enough of a threat to warrant a story on AttackWatch.com. What’s a girl gotta do to be taken seriously around here?)
On the issues, Obama actually has the nerve to have included the following statement on the site: “President Obama’s opponents have falsely suggested that the President has not been a strong ally to Israel.“ And it just gets better and better.
If you’re an Obamaite you better run right over and report this article because Barack Obama is officially the worst president in history of the United States. And I’d offer you the facts behind that statement, but it’d probably scare you too much.
Record wins for the GOP on Tuesday night in New York and Nevada and Barack Obama launches…AttackWatch. How many days does this guy have left? Are we there yet?
Candace E. Salima is a syndicated talk show host, author, and columnist. Learn more about her at www.CandaceSalima.com. Follow her on Twitter @CandaceSalima
September 15th, 2011 at 8:29 am
THIS, this is the best gem out there on #AttackWatch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XYKRokgX00
Watch it.
September 15th, 2011 at 9:38 am
“Personally, I find it to be the most boneheaded move any candidate, let alone a sitting president, has ever made.”
I prefer to view it as a rather dangerous and alarming move on his part. Jefferson springs to mind:
“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Didn’t the Nazis do this when they began to take control? Hmmm. Yes, I do see a frightening similarity. The Nazis were looking for Jews and Jewish sympathizers, asking the common folks of the land to “alert them” to said people. President Obama, (I refuse to believe he is not aware of this AttackWatch group), is now asking us to do our part and help him fight against his detractors. Sounds simple enough, yes?
Guard yourselves. This is only going to get worse.
September 15th, 2011 at 9:39 am
Oh, sorry, I failed to mention:
Keep writing articles like this, Candace, and soon you will be on AttackWatch. The Internet, while an amazing invention, is indeed a two-way street.
September 15th, 2011 at 11:43 am
because you’re a hack distortionist. That’s why you’re not included on the attack list.
September 15th, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Oh, I am going to report this column to AttackWatch myself, following the examples of Michelle Malkin, Neal Boortz and so many others.
And yes, Chakam, I have seen the similarities to the the Nazi philosophy from the beginning. I’ll have to write an article or two about my father so you can understand where I come from and why I fight so hard for this glorious nation.
September 15th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
But is the snitching a red-herring? to distract everyone from the fact that AttackWatch is also accepting donations anonymously? where are these donations going? what are they being used for?
September 15th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
I love reading this kind of stuff as I enjoy my second cup of coffee. Obama just keeps taking a little more rope each day to hang himself. AttackWatch is hillarious … none of the real issues are addressed … like Solyndra (I know, no one in the government had anything to do with that) and Fast & Furious (how many of our agents have been killed now?). This entire administration has disintergrated into something even Obama’s biggest skeptics never imagined.
September 15th, 2011 at 12:59 pm
So true, Sandra. Every day he becomes a bigger and bigger joke. And it is my humble opinion that we continue to chip away at the facade surrounding Barack Obama, and do with facts, passion, and yes, humor … we will have completely revealed to the public at large before November 6, 2012. And that is my goal, to any one of those in the Republican field in office, although I have my preference. The fate of nation is in the hands of the people, it is my hope, and the reason I dedicate so much of my time to it, that we will restore this beautiful nation and turn her back from the precipice she now stands on.
September 15th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
If you love me, you’ll keep writing articles like this! Good work, Candace and here I am AttackWatch!
September 15th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
Thanks for your article Candace. I was wondering when someone was going to write about #AttackWatch.
I’m having so much fun with this #AttackWatch it not event funny. Ha … I was up until 1 AM this morning just reading everyone’s comments. Funniest thing I’ve ever seen. Amazing how a sitting president manages to shoot himself in the foot. Keep up the good work Candace! We love you!
September 15th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
And Marlee, excellent point. They are taking donations. But “Obama for America” is Barack Obama’s personal PAC. As such, there is no tracking of donations. It’s his end run. And to be honest, all politicians use PACs to get around the donation limits the federal government (read FEC) put in place.
September 15th, 2011 at 2:03 pm
WaPo is even getting a piece of this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/post/seriously-attack-watch/2011/09/15/gIQAhIsrUK_blog.html?wprss=compost
Best comment yet: “Is this available in the original German?”
October 22nd, 2011 at 1:50 am
Not being able to access Twitter, I sure appreciate you sharing these tweets made on Attack Watch. lol i love how the patriots have turned the table on Obama’s minions by making them a farce through the reports they post.
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