Obama Campaign Strikes Back Against Former Navy SEALs
Politically speaking, Navy SEALs aren't the safest targets to rail
against in a presidential race, but the Obama campaign isn't hesitating
to take down a group of former SEALs who've criticized the president's
national security decisions.
On Thursday morning, campaign officials waged a full court press against the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, a group of former U.S. Special Forces and intelligence officials
accusing President Obama of leaking vital national security secrets and
taking too much credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden. When the
group launched its anti-Obama media campaign Wednesday, consisting of TV
ads and a 22-minute film,
it wasn't clear if Obama officials would avoid a potentially messy
confrontation or refute the military veterans publicly. But now the
campaign has made clear it views the attacks in the same light as the
2004 John Kerry "Swift Boat" attack ads, which, however misleading, were
painfully effective.
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