Since this is designed for my friends and family, and I know that most of you don't have time to spend on the web getting the latest in the behind the scenes of this campaign, I want to give you a bit of backgroud. Small.

David Axelrod is Nobama's campaign manager. He additionally is known for the public relations business he runs, when not running campaigns for leftist candidates. His reputation in the business and political community includes his ability to "astroturf" which is an artifical "grassroots" campaign. Astroturf as in you professionally pay for and organize internet activities, youtube videos, commentors (called sock puppets) and the like. Making it look like highly motivated individuals participating in the election process by putting their thoughts and research on line in support of a candidate. When really, it's highly motivated people in direct association with those candidates and paid for it to boot. Not the same as you or I getting on line and talking about the election.

A great piece of investigation has been put together tracking the origin of a smear video which showed up on Youtube about Sarah Palin. It's a long article, but I want to point out 2 things in case you don't have time to read it all.

1. The female voice over (as far as can be determined by regular people with limited tech resources, but lots of determination and common sense) appears to be the same one use regularly by Axelrod's firm. She's certainly paid when she does that work. Hmmm...
2. Within minutes of the story being posted, all the videos and accounts on Youtube referenced for this story vanished! Amazing! (too bad for the Nobama group that there are backups!)
3. IF the story weren't true, then these accounts and videos would be by true grassroots people, who would be proud to say so! And proud for more people to see their work.
4. THE ONLY REASON for removal of such info, so quickly after the story's publication is, there was indeed something to hide. Which = astroturfing!

Here it is!

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