Ad hominem

At Commentary, Peter Wehner provides sufficient reason to be skeptical about Jerome Corsi’s The Obama Nation and then argues:

Corsi’s approach to politics is both destructive and self-destructive. If Senator Obama loses, he should lose on the merits: his record in public life and his political philosophy. And while it’s legitimate to take into account Obama’s past associations with people like the Reverend Jeremiah Wright - especially for someone like Obama, about whom relatively little is known - it is wrong and reckless to throw out unsubstantiated charges and smears against Senator Obama.

It is also immoral and ultimately counterproductive, since the exposure of false accusations tends to immunize people against those that are true - see the post below.

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