If you are in an election against a Republican and your opponent makes a charge against you for something you know you didn’t do, your first reaction may be to shrug it off or deny it.

However, there is more that you can do with the charge. You have to realize that the charge is probably not completely fictitious. It is probably a sign that this is something your opponent is doing.

There are several reasons why the Republicans make these charges.

1. They want to charge you with doing something that will make you look bad.
2. They want to tie you up with having to make denials so that you cannot talk about issues.
3. They want to immunize themselves against the charge of doing something bad, so they charge you with it before you can charge them with it.
4. They fool the media who may report about the shenanigan. Because they have to be fair and balanced, the media duly note that both sides have made the same charge against each other.
5. They fool the voters, who think if both sides are accused of doing the same thing, then it cannot be a deciding factor in the choice.

Fortunately, they have not fooled Barack Obama.  He realizes that any charge they make is revealing of a crime that the opponents have actually perpetrated. Instead of having to have a team of investigators looking for Republican crimes, he just has to sit back and wait for the Republicans to tell him what they did.  He can then send his legal team into action.  If the action is forceful enough, he can stop the crime and reveal the perpetrators for the criminal, liars that they are.

You want examples of item 4. above?  How about Bob Schiefer in the third debate mentioning that both sides have accused each other of lying?  He made no judgment about which side has told the largest number of lies nor tried to compare the significance of the misstatements of fact on both sides.  To the fair and balanced media, a minor error is the moral equivalent of a blatant lie.

Follow this link to a recent Associated Press story headlined as “Issue of race grows with likelihood of Obama win”. They mention Obama supporter, John Lewis’s charge that the McCain campaign is “sowing the seeds of hatred and division”, before they mention the California GOP group that distributed anti-Obama literature with stereotypical black American images of watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken.

On the one hand, the part of John Lewis’s charges that are mentioned in the story are true.  On the other hand there is nothing truthful about what the California GOP group did. How is this fair and balanced reporting?

Follow this link to the see the letter that Robert F. Bauer, General Counsel of Obama for America, sent to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and Special Prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy.

The Obama campaign has asked Attorney General Mukasey to investigate whether the Justice Department is continuing its pattern of using U.S. Attorneys to start politically motivated investigations of voter fraud in order to influence an election. The current investigation by a special prosecutor of the firing of nine U.S. Attorney’s for refusing to participate in these illegal prosecutions can now turn into an investigation of an ongoing criminal conspiracy. Remember the Attorney firings is what forced Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez to resign.

If a conspiracy can be proved and linked to George Bush and Dick Cheney, do you suppose impeachment and jail time might follow? If true, these activities go far beyond what Richard Nixon did that caused him to be the only President in U.S. history to have to resign from office. This story also puts McCain’s friendship with G. Gordon Liddy of Watergate fame in an entirely new light.

Now we know why Obama has been able to be so calm when McCain was slinging his ACORNs.  What he knew and what we didn’t was that the Obama campaign had a WMD in its back pocket.  Sort of like Dirty Harry grinning and saying, “Go ahead, make my day.”  Look at the debate tapes.  Obama was grinning while McCain was talking.

This is one Democratic candidate that is not going to let them steal the election and then complain about it afterward.  If you had any doubt that Obama was tough enough, this should allay those doubts.

Bauer has already been on Keith Olbermann’s Countdown to explain the accusations.

Follow this link to the Google search for more information.

Here are a  few examples

Obama Lawyer Asks for Probe Into Vote-Fraud Claims

Obama’s legal team seeks special prosecutor for voter registration probe

From ACORNs, mighty smoke

Follow this link to an article on Huffington Post about some voter suppression methods that have been used historically.

This author recognizes the tried and true technique of making wild accusations against your opponent for committing the very crimes that you are committing.  That way, if your opponent brings up the true allegations against you, it looks like they are merely retaliating.  Then nobody knows whose telling the truth and you have successfully covered up what you are doing.

Follow this link to  Associated Press’s  analysis of Barack Obama’s tax plan.

In a manner that is typical with the Associated Press, they pretend to be professional reporters.  However, they defeat themselves with their own words.

The Worcester Telegram & Gazette published an AP analysis of the Obama tax plan’s effect on small business owners. The article says, “What’s very small, small, medium, and large? Obama doesn’t say.” I wonder if they asked?

If there is a piece of information that is missing for the “report” you are writing, isn’t it the duty of a professional journalist to go to the source and ask questions?  You cannot make snide implications that Obama is being vague unless you provide evidence that he refused to answer your question.

I have written to the Worcester T & G asking for clarification.

Remember the  name Calvin Woodward if you want to find further scintillating work by this author.

It is very clever of the people committing voter registration fraud to make charges against the people who are trying to do the job honestly.

Of course ACORN has had allegations of voter fraud lodged against them in 12 states.  It is the Republicans who are lodging the allegations. It is one thing to make an allegation.  It is quite another thing to prove it.  Trying to use the number of allegations as proof of any one of them takes a lot of gall coming from the ones lodging the frivolous allegations in order to cover their own tracks.

Enough said.