Iowa Defense Alliance

There has been some startling developments in the race for the White House in the State of Missouri in the last few days. Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has announced that it is launching what it is called a “truth squad” to counter what it perceives as lies and misleading ads from Republican nominee John McCain. Now normally I would not have a problem with citizens taking up the cause for their choice for president. What so disturbs me about this development is that he is enlisting public officials for this venture. This includes lawmakers, prosecutors, and even law enforcement. This strikes me as very unethical as it can be construed as the government itself endorsing one candidate over another.

In my opinion this is just another attempt at silencing legitimate criticisms and questions targeted at the Democratic nominee. This isn’t a bipartisan effort to ensure that neither side engages in questionable tactics. In a press release from Obama’s campaign provided to the News-Leader (a Springfield, Missouri newspaper) Senator Claire McCaskill will chair the group “who will be proactive in letting voters in the Show-Me State know the truth in the face of the distortions by the McCain campaign.” This begs the question, will they turn a blind eye to any and all distortions brought forth by the Obama campaign. It would appear to me that this so-called truth squad is nothing more than Obama’s shock troops whose sole intent is to intimidate his critics into silence.

Already the Obama campaign has attempted to silence critics in his hometown of Chicago where WGN radio has aired shows that had as a guest an extremely outspoken critic of Senator Obama. The campaign has attempted to use strong arm tactics such as lawsuits to prevent the shows from airing. Failing in that respect, the campaign then urged Obama’s blind supporters to call the network to voice the campaigns displeasure at being questioned and criticized.

Then in Pennsylvania, the state that he claimed was clinging to God and guns because they were bitter, Obama has launched an assault on the National Rifle Association. The campaign is targeting this group over an ad the NRA had made outlining Obama’s voting record on gun rights. This wasn’t something pulled out of thin air folks. The NRA did some in depth research on Obama’s voting record in regards to gun rights. And yet when that voting record is made public, the campaign cries foul. They claim that the ads distort Obama’s record. To this I ask a simple question. How can they distort Senator Obama’s record when the it is all a matter of public record? Any Joe Schmoe can research it on their own. If I had to hazard a guess it is simply that Senator Obama did not want that record widely known. I believe that he wanted to keep the people of Pennsylvania in the dark about his past votes and his opposition to the 2^nd amendment.

It is events such as these that should raise the warning flag of any red blooded American. Why is it that Senator Obama and his campaign want to silence legitimate criticism and questioning? It seems to me that Senator Obama wants keep the voters ignorant of his past. And what I find even more disturbing is that many Americans are willing to play the sheeple by giving him a pass on his efforts to censor and silence his opposition. These events leave me to ponder the question, what would a Barack Obama administration look like? Perhaps it would be one nation under Obama, with liberty and justice for none.

Update: The gang over at In Flyover Country has a video that could have been taken from WWII Germany. Could this be the Obama youth.