From Helen from Older Women for Obama:

Dear OWOs and Sunny's network:

You've asked me to recap the web places you can go to get solid information to help keep Obama and Michelle from being Swift-boated.

The campaign has constructed two different places so we all can keep setting the record straight, and a critical third place for us to inform the campaign about new smears. The right wing has already begun its battle to vilify Obama and Michelle. They will keep it up all the way through Election Day. We can defeat them on this.

One site is built so you can respond substantively to charges that McCain makes about Obama's history or policy proposals. It's:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesmearshome/

The second site is built to respond substantively to lies, smears, and innuendoes on talk radio, on the internet, in the coffee shops, bars, and back yard barbeques. It's:

http://www.factcheck.barackobama.com

This site lists the old and new lies and provides the documentation to rebut them substantively. It's worth going onto each website and touring around, so you get a flavor of what those on the right are going to try to get away with and see how substantive the campaign's responses are.

The third tactic, perhaps most important is this. If you get a smear by email, hear one on the radio, or hear it from another person, email it to:

http://www.watchdog@barackobama.com.

Then the campaign can rebut the charge immediately. They will send you the rebuttal as soon as it's ready, and you can send it back to the person you got the original email from or heard from. If they sent it to others as well as to you, use Reply All.

This way, you will be part of Obama's early warning system. Our man knows that it is vital to deny our opponents the ability to define him, his wife, his policies, or any other aspect of reality. (Remember the Republican boast? "We make our own reality." We can deny them the chance.) The 24-hour cable news cycle is a brutal new fact of political life. We need to help our man's campaign forestall these lies getting out on the news programs. It's always harder to rebut after the fact.

We can stop the liars and the bullies in their tracks. This will not only help get Obama elected, it strengthens our precious democracy. Our Founders knew that politics was a bloodly business, but they believed, as I hope you do, that the truth will bring the right outcome.

Yours,
HU
OWO