IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT BARACK OBAMA (AND JOHN McCAIN)

Latest Update: September 3, 2008

FACTS VS. FICTION: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." - Mark Twain

If you know someone who has read, heard, or passed along unsubstantiated rumors or misinformation (AKA B.S.) about Obama, please make sure they see the relevant fact-checks that debunk the smears:

  • Fact-checks in response to attacks, smears, misrepresentations, and outright lies about Obama
  • FactCheck.org's independent research
  • Snopes.com's independent research
  • Truth Fights Back
  • Media Matters for America
  • Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
  • Fight The Smears
  • McCain's Low Road Express


    • WELL-REASONED ARTICLES, COMMENTARIES, BLOGS, AND BOOKS

    "Why Abiding Republican Has Switched His Party," by Patrick O'Hara (in the Philadelphia Inquirer)
    "The Obama I Know," by Cass Sunstein
    "Why I Think Obama is the Best Candidate on Foreign Policy," by Lisa Gans
    "Why I'm Backing Barack," by Miriam Landman
    "One-on-One with Barack Obama," US News & World Report interview
    "The Obama Opportunity," by Janet Napolitano, Kathleen Sebelius, and Claire McCaskill (in the Wall Street Journal)
    "Why I'm Backing Obama," by Susan Eisenhower (Washington Post)
    "Why Republicans Like Obama," by Peter Wehner (Washington Post)

    "Obama 101" links on the Think on These Things Blog

    Links to other recent articles about Obama and about McCain

    League of Conservation Voters' Profile of Barack Obama
    (Note: Obama's LCV lifetime score = 96.  McCain's LCV lifetime score = 26.)

    The Audacity of Hope (book), by Barack Obama

    The Real McCain (book), by Cliff Shechter

    List of Endorsements for Barack Obama

    VOTING INFORMATION

    If you are not registered to vote, or if you have moved or changed your name since you last registered, click here to:
    REGISTER TO VOTE

    To verify that you're registered to vote at your current address, go to:
    VotePoke.org

    For information on voting and election integrity, go to:
    Election Defense Alliance
    Election Protection: National Campaign for Fair Elections
    VerifiedVoting.org / Verified Voting Foundation / VoteTrust USA

    Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign website: BarackObama.com

    Barack Obama's Senate website

    FITTING QUOTATIONS TO CONTEMPLATE

    "Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

    "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." – Andy Warhol

    "There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out." – Russian proverb

    "The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them." - Albert Einstein

    "We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. We must do that which we think we cannot." - Eleanor Roosevelt

    "Experience is like tail-lights on a boat which illuminate where we have been, when we should be focusing on where we should be going." - John F. Kennedy

    "I hope we shall...crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson

    "There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, and Politics without principle." – Mahatma Gandhi

    "The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Toughness multiplies toughness. Through violence you murder the hater; but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. The chain reaction of evil must be broken." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    "We should all be concerned about the future because we have to spend the rest of our lives there." - Francis Kettering


    The links and quotations on this page were compiled by M. Landman Communications & Consulting.
    "Why I'm Backing Barack"