Keeping the fight going in the right direction

Rather than facing a growing rumor mill and the inevitable backpedaling and re-education that that can cause, the Barack Obama campaign has createdFighttheSmears.com, a fact checking section of the main campaign site that can be used to preemptively dispel the most common rumors about the candidate. So far there are only four entries on the page but look for it to grow as we go into the general election. There is a change for people to sign up and help to "spread the truth." We may be seeing a new weapon in the battle over how the democrats fight back against rumors and innuendo in the media and the blogosphere. It will be interesting to see how effective this is in the long run but just seeing a politician that puts the most horrible smears against him up for the world to see and debunks them on his own public website is a great encouragement.