The Obama campaign is today beginning a new effort to enlist and educate at least 2 million supporters for a “grassroots communications team” they’re calling the Truth Team.
“The goal is to ensure that when Republicans attack President Obama’s record, grassroots supporters can take ownership of the campaign and share the facts with the undecided voters in their lives,” the campaign said in a statement.
The teams will be first launched in 13 “swing states,” including Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia.
The rollout also includes a social media blitz, directing supporters to three new websites: KeepingHisWord.com, which highlights Obama’s record and “promises kept”; KeepingGOPHonest.com, which highlights GOP policy positions; and AttackWatch.com, which fact-checks claims made against Obama on the campaign trail.
“If the other guys are going to run a campaign based on misrepresenting the president’s record – and their own – we have two options: sit back and let these lies go unchallenged, or fight back with the truth,” deputy Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said in an email. ”We’re fighting back.”
‘Keeping His Word’? Let’s get serious; the man has said some stupendously idiotic things! He’d cut the budget and reduce the deficit in HALF, cause the seas to retreat and the ice caps to grow ice or some other such nonsense. He thinks he’s… well:
15. February 2012 at 8:46 am
I saw this story yesterday and shook my head. Maybe we need to start the Anti-Obama Truth movement.
16. February 2012 at 7:07 am
There is one; it’s called ‘pissed off citizens’.
15. February 2012 at 8:45 pm
Fight the smears! Fight Moochelle’s pap smears!
16. February 2012 at 6:51 am
Look out for magma?
18. February 2012 at 1:56 pm
They are not back, they never left – they are just starting to spend some of our money that was given to them – I wonder what the kick back ratio is, 50/50?
18. February 2012 at 2:07 pm
Probably.