Swift Boat Vets Ready Anti-Obama Campaign

John Sibelius, a spokesman for the Swift Boats Veterans, today told a hastily assembled Da Nang news conference that his group was readying a multi-million dollar sustained TV and Internet campaign against Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama.

"It's time for America to learn the truth about Obama's record in Vietnam," Sibelius declared. "He won no medals for glory here. He led no troops into battle. He did nothing to fight Communism in the rice paddies of Southeast Asia. He is no John McCain."

A reporter pointed out to Sibelius that Obama was born in 1962 and was therefore just 13 at the time of the war's ending in 1975.

"That's no excuse," Sibelius replied. "Obama cannot run on his war record, because he doesn't have one. America needs to learn the truth."

Another reporter noted that Sen. Obama has never claimed to have fought in Vietnam.

"We don't believe the American people will fall for lies like that," Sibelius said. "Either he's a war hero or he's a fraud. America and the truth must finally come together."

Sibelius said that his group was prepared to spend "up to $15 million of reactionary Texas oil money at our disposal" in order to get the "truth" about Senator Obama's lack of a Vietnam War record out to voters.

"Every other ad you'll see on TV this fall will be ours," Sibelius promised. "Obama can no longer hide his lack of a Vietnam record from the people."

A spokesperson for the Obama campaign told reporters that when the Vietnam War was ending, "The Senator, then a teenager growing up in Hawaii, was going out for the junior varsity basketball team at his high school, and that had he actually been old enough to fight in Vietnam, he probably would have stayed in Hawaii. But we accept the right of the Swift Boat Veterans to tell their side of the story."