>Well, apparently, the Obama campaign is sending cease-and-desist style letters to media outlets to prevent them from running ads criticizing Obama. I can't directly link to the site with the letter because the the URL contains a word I don't think Mike would like to see here, but look at the "Shut Up, The Explained" topic in this page from the Wall Street Journal
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>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122244867435379317.html
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>This is not the first time that the Obama campaign has attempted to intimidate a media outlet (the links I could post!). In the interest of fairness can someone show an example of McCain's camp doing the same?
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>Typical leftist tactic - silence the critics by any means possible. This is so anti-American I don't see how this is defensible in the least. I don't anticipate a lot of response to this post by my Democratic friends.
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So if some third party organization were to put out an ad full of lies about McCain, the McCain campaign shouldn't request that stations not air it?

I think we should all be trying to get the lies out of the process.

Tamar