Barack and Michelle and Bill and Bernardine: The Obama/Weather Underground compendium
The blogosphere and talk radio are turning up the heat on the Obamas’ cozy relations with Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Hugh Hewitt and Power Line have 2007 audio of the America-bashing WU terrorists, dug up by Guy Benson of WYLL’s The Sandy Rios Show (Update: More from Benson at Power Line here.)
Erick Stakelbeck compiles archival video of the couple’s left-wing diatribes.
John Kass has a Chicago Trib column today recounting Dohrn’s role in the Broadway Baby boutique customer ID theft scam that abetted terrorism.
Rezko Watch (see also here) has a link-rich chronicle of the Obama/WU story.
Ed Morrissey explains why this matters. Allahpundit’s got vid of McCain taking on the story and background WU vid here.
Rick Moran reviews the MSM coverage to date and sums up the key facts:
There’s more to this relationship than Ayers simply being a “guy who lives in my neighborhood.” The two were introduced back in 1995 when Obama was presented by outgoing state senator Alice Palmer to Ayers and other far left activists in the University Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park at Ayers house…RezkoWatch reports on 2 other forums where we know Obama and Ayers participated:
Wondering whether the three may have crossed paths is not speculation. It is a fact that they have. Ayers, Dohrn, and Obama have appeared together at a number of gatherings and academic events. In November 1997, Ayers and Obama participated in a panel at the University of Chicago entitled Should a child ever be called a “super predator?” to debate “the merits of the juvenile justice system”.
In April 2002, Ayers, Dohrn, and Obama, then an Illinois State Senator, participated together at a conference entitled “Intellectuals: Who Needs Them?” sponsored by The Center for Public Intellectuals and the University of Illinois-Chicago. Ayers and Obama were two of the six members of the “Intellectuals in Times of Crisis” panel.
And Campus Watch reports on a farewell dinner for the radical Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi, who was leaving the Arab American Action Network to take the Edward Said endowed chair at Colombia University, where Obama, Ayers, and Dohrn all gave glowing testimonials to Khalidi – whose group received $75,000 from the Woods Foundation
In bringing professor Khalidi to Morningside Heights from the University of Chicago, Columbia also got itself a twofer of Palestinian activism and advocacy. Mr. Khalidi’s wife, Mona, who also served in Beirut as chief editor of the English section of the WAFA press agency, was hired as dean of foreign students at Columbia’s SIPA, working under Dean Anderson. In Chicago, the Khalidis founded the Arab American Action Network, and Mona Khalidi served as its president. A big farewell dinner was held in their honor by AAAN with a commemorative book filled with testimonials from their friends and political allies. These included the left wing anti-war group Not In My Name, the Electronic Intifada, and the ex-Weatherman domestic terrorists Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. (There were also testimonials from then-state Senator Barack Obama and the mayor of Chicago.)
This information along with the fact that Obama served with Ayers on the Board of the Woods Foundation, gives the lie to Obama’s claim that he doesn’t know Ayers very well. And both of those forums at U of C were set up by none other than Michelle Obama in her capacity as University of Chcago PR executive; evidently she too saw nothing wrong in glad handing with terrorists.
It is beyond belief that the press is just now getting around to this, the most incredible of all Obama radical associations. And the scary thought is that it will change few minds about Obama and his hypocritical brand of “new politics.”
Andy McCarthy penetrates Obama’s moral myopia:
Here in 2008, the point is not that we should hold Obama accountable for “detestable acts” Ayers committed decades ago.
It’s that the vision which drove Ayers to savagery back then — a revolutionary vision “progressives” have vaporously relabeled “social justice” — is the same vision to which he still clings: the vision of a racist, imperious, exploitative America in need of upheaval. A vision we have every reason to think Obama, the Agent of Change, shares.
In the alternative, you could, I suppose, just tell yourself that Obama — a star at Harvard Law School who has risen like a meteor to a seat in the United States Senate and the verge of his party’s presidential nomination — somehow managed the feat despite being utterly clueless. Perhaps he looks at Ayers and really does see an English teacher, looks at Wright and sees only your average Christian pastor.
The question then becomes, are you comfortable with a president who looks at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and thinks, “Oh yeah, he’s that engineering student who was mayor of Tehran”?
See-Dubya’s handy guide to which terrorists support which Dem candidates is so good, I’m reprinting it here:
And to round out the profile of Ayers and Dohrn, here’s a flashback to my 2002 column on radical red diaper baby Chesa Boudin, to whom the terrorist couple have served as legal guardians. The apple doesn’t fall far from the rotted tree:
Being the child of left-wing domestic terrorists means never having to say you’re sorry.
Such is the case of young Chesa Boudin, hailed on the front page of the New York Times this week for overcoming “striking challenges” and lifelong suffering to win a prestigious Rhodes scholarship. In a lengthy tear-jerker profile, Boudin is elevated to hero status as the article details his childhood bouts with epilepsy, dyslexia, and “temper tantrums,” before going on to Yale, traveling the world, and hitting the lecture circuit to exploit his celebrity status.
Boudin is the son of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, members of the militant Weathermen. They’re the 1960s group of rich-kid radicals who bombed government buildings and corporate headquarters, aided convicted felons in jail breaks, and participated in a 1981 Brinks’ armored car holdup in Nyack, N.Y., that took the lives of three innocent Americans in the name of “peace.” Boudin’s mother and father were convicted for their participation in the Nyack murders and armed robbery, and remain remorselessly in prison today.
Two of the holdup victims gunned down in the botched Brinks’ robbery were police officers. One was a private security guard. All three were veterans from working-class backgrounds. Neither the Times nor any other media outlet that has breathlessly reported on Boudin’s Rhodes scholarship win has even seen fit to print the names of the Nyack victims: Waverly Brown, Edward O’Grady, and Peter Paige.
What about the “striking challenges” faced by these three officers’ children, who were robbed of their fathers forever and have never enjoyed the privileged lifestyle of a radical son like Chesa Boudin? Brown, who served in the Air Force after the Korean War, had two grown daughters and a teenage son. O’Grady, who served in the Marines and did two tours of duty in Vietnam, left behind a wife and three children - 6, 2, and 6 months old. Paige, a Navy veteran, also left behind a wife and three kids - 19, 16, and 9.
On the matter of their suffering and hardships, Chesa Boudin and his fawning interviewers are silent.
Chesa Boudin’s indifference to the victims of his parents’ ideological jihad was reinforced by his adoptive parents–unrepentant Weathermen colleagues Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Ayers celebrated bombing the Pentagon in his recent radical memoir, “Fugitive Days,” and now teaches at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Dohrn declared war on “Amerikka,” helped stage the “Days of Rage” in Chicago, when Weathermen blew up a memorial statue to police officers and rioted violently, leaving 75 policemen wounded and one permanently injured in a wheelchair, and then spent years as a fugitive from justice before settling into a comfy post as director of the Legal Clinic’s Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University.
From both his biological and adoptive parents, Chesa Boudin has learned to stew in the indignant self-pity of Marxist leftovers. “When I was younger, I was angry,” the 22-year-old told his sympathetic Times interviewer. “Now I’m not angry. I’m sad that my parents have to suffer what they have to suffer on a daily basis, that millions of other people have to suffer as well.”
Boudin is not talking about the families of victims who died as a result of Weathermen-sponsored violence. No, Boudin is talking about “urban misery in Bolivia, homelessness in Santiago and illiteracy in Guatemala.” Praised by the p.c.-infected Rhodes scholarship committee for his “passion” and willingness to “fight the world’s fight,” Boudin stands by the Weathermen’s revolutionary agenda: “My parents were all dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world. I’m dedicated to the same thing.”
Cecil Rhodes must be turning in his grave. So, too, Waverly Brown, Edward O’Grady, and Peter Paige. What to do? While the Rhodes trustees lavish money on the red-diaper baby Boudin, there is a tiny fund to honor the officers who died in the brutal crime involving Boudin’s parents. The O’Grady Brown Memorial Scholarship Fund helps deserving Rockland County, N.Y., students pursuing careers of public service in law enforcement. Checks can be made payable to: O’Grady-Brown Memorial Scholarship Fund, Inc., P.O. Box 1024, Nyack, NY 10960.
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Uh, really? Does the old saying “Birds of a feather, flock together” ring a bell? I didn’t come up with that. How about, “A man is known by the company he keeps.” Didn’t come up with that one, either. “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” Not mine.
You can assume anything you want about Obama, and if you make those assumptions without knowledge about “the man,” I would venture a guess that you would be, as you say, dead wrong in most of those assumptions.
I have lived long enough to know that if it smells like a pig, looks like a pig, and sounds like a pig, it most likely IS a pig, even though I wish it were something more attractive. Nice try LC.
#94 TheOtherSide wrote:
This post is waaayyyy too logical to get any support here.
If I may, let me just add that you can’t have it both ways. Either you believe that Obama spent two decades consorting with racists at his Christian church, or you believe he’s a covert Muslim operative. Pick your delusional fantasy, because you can’t have both.
I really don’t mind lgm posting his usual tripe. Seriously. It must suck-to-the-max to grow up weak and liberal. Never being happy unless fellatio is occurring in the oval office with young interns.and lying is going on at down at the grand jury.
I mean the last 7 plus years made lgm bitter and angry. But no guns for him. And no religion to cling to.
And I imagine lgm is a union man.
Like I said, it must suck-to-the-max being lgm. So in conclusion lgm God bless my friend, and get well soon.
nyk denies Obama is a pinko and now denies he sat through 20 years of race hate.
Naive is too kind of a word.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
A liberal mind is a waste.
#101 right_on wrote:
Yes, it does. And you know what sort of flocking I find far more troubling than sharing a stage with a terrorist? Doing business with them — as a family, no less. (see Bin Laden Family Could Profit From a Jump In Defense Spending Due to Ties to U.S. Bank , WSJ, 9.28.01). If you’re going to be up-in-arms about associating with terrorists, I’d be a little more upset about the well-established business dealings of the Bush family with the bin Ladens than the conspiracy theory-esq conjecture about Obama going on here.
“Distinguished” only to Obama’s supporters and fellow liberals; their possible co-conspirators to most level-headed Americans who know the full story of Ayers.
#104 libocrat wrote:
I see you’ve picked “Christian racist” — which means you must have opted to pass on “closeted Muslim.” Well, at least you settled on just one.
Thanks for playing.
Looks like they could be wearing one of the horrible suicide bomber t-shirts sold by Jinx. They’re an otherwise great shirt company, but this goes way over the line.
http://www.jinx.com/women/shirts/video_games/explosives_woman.html?catid=79
“the well-established business dealings of the Bush family with the bin Ladens”
does that chestnut NOT have an expiration date? sheesh …
Please, do enlighten us! Proof, please, not assumptions. Just because you liberals say it, and in your hearts HOPE that it is true, that does not make it true, and in my mind, even discussing. You give me unadulterated proof, and show me that it is prosecutable, and I’ll listen, otherwise, keep your fantasies to yourself. I’m not interested. And by the way, I’m not “up in arms” about terrorist associations, just leery of a man whom we know nothing about. The hysterics, as usual, are coming from thoughtless,hypersensitive liberals, not conservatives.
Yes, it does. And you know what sort of flocking I find far more troubling than sharing a stage with a terrorist? Doing business with them — as a family, no less. (see Bin Laden Family Could Profit From a Jump In Defense Spending
Don’t conservative hard-liners have a problem with the Bush/Bin-Laden family connections? Hannity and Beck laugh it off when asked on the radio. I’ve never understood why this never bothered people on the right. I’ll bet my kid’s eyes that Bin-Laden is captured or killed in the first term after Bush leaves office.
Selective moral outrage flows on both sides of the aisle.
On April 23rd, 2008 at 5:26 pm, Buckaroo said:
Agreed. It was tiresome the first twenty-seven thousand times the left said it. What’s more - it didn’t work then, as President Bush was handily reelected, so what use is there for them to bring it back up now?
Isn’t that the same Bin Laden family who has disowned their boy Usama, and has seen to it that his Saudi citizenship was revoked?
I don’t recall any of them still attending Friday prayers with him.
“I’ll bet my kid’s eyes that Bin-Laden is captured or killed in the first term after Bush leaves office.”
setting aside the cavalier approach you have to your children, IF it indeed occurs between ‘09 and ‘12, i presume you’ll credit billy jeff for his inaction in the 90s for making it occur rather than the 7 years of sustained pressure w has executed?
Yes, it bothers me immensely; but what purpose is there in punishing the entire bin Laden family for the unforgivable actions of one member of their family?
Oops! Post #106: their = there (it’s been a long, tedious day).
I’m extremely angry at G.W.Bush for hanging out with the Bin Ladens. I mean he and Osama were golfing buddies back in Midland. So I’ve decided never to vote for Bush again.
Now let’s talk about Bill “Boom-boom” Ayers and his “killer wife” Bernadine Dohrn.
The Bin Ladens think Osama sucks.
Obama said he likes Ayers.
A see a wee bit of a difference. In fact I think Ayers should have gotten the electric chair.
Why does libocrat always post twice in a row? One would think he/she could parse their thoughts into one post.
And another thing….libocrat should stop posting back to back posts.
#110 right_on wrote:
Read. My. Post. Again.
I list a Wall Street Journal article you can easily look up, since I sensed this accusation of “making it up” would be hurled.
Then read the posts of others here — who completely disagree with me politically — who acknowledge the tie.
#119 TOS wrote:
and then…
#120 TOS wrote:
Ha. LOVE it (wipes tear from eye from laughing so hard)!
117
You are one of the few.
Buckaroo:
You won’t see me giving Bill Clinton any passes. We will see if the capture of Bin Laden has ANYTHING to so with what Bush the administration has accomplished or failed to accomplish. I understand his lack of focus though,because we see how well Iraq is going, as opposed to under Saddam. And Please don’t give me that brutal dictator crap. There are brutal dictators all over the globe, and we won’t be invading their countries, because we don’t care how they treat their people. Saddam, brutal ahole or not was not a direct threat to us in 2002.
P.S. I think my kid’s eyes will be fine.
“Saddam, brutal ahole or not was not a direct threat to us in 2002.”
despite the fact he was gathering a wmd infastrucure, rewarding suicide bombers, shooting at our airplanes …
/how many times do we have to have this debate? you people lost it then and you lose it now ..
Buck you’re full of it.
I guess based on your phony criteria, we should invade Iran, like, oh Tomorrow.
i presume you mean “phony” in the sense that “i have absolutely no way to refute that”
i would counsel patience; i figger iran screws up so badly they either overthrow the mullahs or we invade in the autumn, with the iraqi army beside us …
/and mistressjustice’s bp spikes 15 points …
libocrat said #103:
I didn’t grow up liberal.
I’m not weak (maybe weak minded though). It is unlikely that you can run a marathon faster than me. I’m not a real fast marathoner (personal best 3:36, slower than Bush but faster than Gore). But statistically, the odds are that you’re slower. The same goes for biking or swimming. Post your stats & we’ll compare. (Are we off topic?)
(Are we off topic?)
yes, yes you are …
I find it appalling what these revolting [pun sooo intended] loser leftovers from the ’60’s want to promote as justice. What they are really promoting is their own assinine desire to be the RULERS of society…through fear and destruction if necessary. Doesn’t that just make them crappy little dictators?
As far as this statement about Obama:
“….a star at Harvard Law School who has risen like a meteor…”
Yeah…let’s all remember what happens to many meteors….they fall to earth as boring chunks of stone.
Feet of clay, heart of stone, head full of rocks…….oops, just described the “messiah”.
lgm, I’m so impressed. What’s your dress size.
Run Forrest Run!!!!
point of order — if they do fall to earth, they becoem meteorites …
Happily no Democrat has annoyed me today. I am speaking of his pastor Rev Wright and Bill Ayers as those I think have an influence on him, and seem to hate America.
A star at Harvard?? How do they determine who is a star?? Dancing, singing, sucking up to Marxist professors?
Britney Spears is a star.
Obama is a commie.
lgm,
Your list is not as sorry as you are. . .why don’t you take the next step and actually run down the transgressions of these folks? We are dying to peer deeper into the liberal mind. I’m surprised you didn’t list Halliburton or Big Oil on your long and sorry list.
What are the crimes here? Cronyism? “Warmongering”? “Stolen Election”ism? Are you just pissed and feeling inadequate because Rummy is 75 and could still kick your ass?
I’m no fan of Whitman, but I’m not buying into the psychosomatic WTC illness business. Just another false syndrome cooked up by lawyers and a hypochondriac society.
I admit I had to look up some of the names on Wikipedia, since some are so trivial and obscure, but I bet you are going to fill us in on how BIG these “scandals” are going to be, right?
“with the iraqi army beside us … ”
Buckaroo: We both know that’s not going to happen. If you are still on this site in the Fall, I’ll be reminding you about this absurd statement of yours.
Rewarding suicide bombers. Again, we should invade Iran tomorrow if that’s the criteria.
WMD infrastructure: You’ll admit as Bush has that there are no WMDs. Infrastructure, well I guess we’ll be invading Iran and N. Korea tomorrow.
Shooting at our planes: I guess we’ll be invading Iran tomorrow. As far as Iraq doing that under Hussein, prove it.
Clarke was right, Bush and Cheney always wanted to invade Iraq, and 9/11 just gave him his flimsy reason for it.
No big deal though right, it’s just American blood being spilt to help Bush settle grudges, and Cheney’s “former” business associates to hit paydirt.
Don’t tell me about patience, based on your phony criteria Iran should have been invaded months-if not a couple, three years ago. I guess Bush wants to salvage what’s left of his garbage of a legacy.
AlohaGuy, it’s telling that AMERICA haters don’t bother liberals.
Illegal aliens don’t bother them.
Criminals don’t bother them.
Presidents lying to grand juries don’t bother them.
Presidents getting blown by interns in the Oral office don’t bother them.
Domestic terrorist groovy post-hippy bomber couples don’t bother them
Garlic nosed Italians bother them.
AmeriKKKa bothers them.
Reference to God bothers them.
Me keeping my own paycheck bothers them.
Executing…Murdering/Rapists bother them.
Do you see a pattern developing.
MistressJustice, are you having feminine issues today?
You seem a little more shrill than your usual loonie self. Calm down, just calm down. Don’t go near any fire-arms.
Put down the BOTTLE, or the CRACK PIPE.
Everything is going to be fine. Just fine. Now breath deeply and repeat after me.
God Bless America! God Bless America!
Hail to the Chief.
Ahhhhhhhh I’m sure you’ll feel better.
December 31, 1998 The Washington Post
sam i am, take it easy sir!!! LGM will challenge you to a marathon. Then you’ll be sorry. He’s faster than GORE!!!! (except when Gore is flying about the world in a Gulfstream V)
I am not so sure, MJ. I have a tough time imagining Bush leaving office with Iran on the verge of aquiring nukes. I think he is holding off until November -trying to give McCain the win, then making a move. You can hang on to this for an I-told-you-so for me on January 20th but I can’t dismiss this idea.
On April 23rd, 2008 at 6:54 pm, libocrat said:
MistressJustice, are you having feminine issues today?
That’s a little over the line. Please read Michelle’s Terms of Use regarding appropriate behavior while posting.
Nyk…
Are you suggesting that a WSJ article is proof of some kind of wrong-doing? If that is the criteria for making accusations, then may God help us.
The fact that one family knows members of another family is not proof of wrong-doing, is it?
I never said anything about your assertion being made up, I asked you to show me proof of some kind of wrong doing, and you can’t. It is wishful thinking by the meek who can’t follow logic without getting emotional, and make stupid allegations like…”yeah, well, so and so did it, too.” or “so and so is just as bad,” etc. etc. etc.
I don’t believe the Bush family, nor any conservative I’ve heard address terrorism, for that matter, ever have anything but condemnation for UBL. I don’t know any conservative who has, or has ever said we should cozy up to terrorists, have you? OBAMA has associations with some, does he not?
And I had stated earlier…
You made my point.
#102 wrote
No, he spent 20 years consorting with America-hating reverse racists at his church, AND he is SYMPATHETIC to muslim causes and activism.
IOW, he is doubly troubling
Other Side, aren’t you the free speech guy?
Yet you seek to silence me because your mind is in the gutter. I’m sure Michelle Malkin can handle her own blog and can determine which comments are over the line and which are not.
Don’t you have an abortion to attend or something. Run along.
Typical liberal hypocrite.
#143 Joe 6-Pack wrote:
Wow. I’m gonna just let that nugget of wisdom stand on its own.
hear hear
You’ll have to let that nugget stand NYK, you’ve got nothing.
“there are no WMDs”
bioweapons, sarin-filled shells, a ton of uranium, missle engines …
/this is usually the part where folks like you move the goalsposts
//i see others have already refuted other equally absurd portions of your post
Libocrat,
Yes. I do believe in free speech. However, Michelle’s blog is not a public forum but rather a private enterprise entitled to have certain terms of usage. I abide by those terms, do you? Please learn up on the distinction between public free speech and the terms of use in private enterprises before lecturing me on hypocrisy.
It appears to me the Obama’s are part of the political arm of the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panthers.
Their Church is no Christian Church. It is full of hate for the white demon. I bet the Obama’s are part of that church to give the illusion they are Christian.
I’m just writing what I see. Now, this.
#147 libocrat wrote:
Because I don’t speak Crazy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_no-fly_zones
Gotta love history. I remember this first hand since I lived next to an Air Force base (Elmendorf) and joked about it with my fellow soldiers. Saddam failed miserably.
Other side, I’m laughing at you. You are as impotent as they come.
Run along son, I hear your mama calling you.
Other side, I’m laughing at you. You are as impotent as they come.
Run along son, I hear your mama calling you.
no, he joined that “church” to get street cred in Chicago when he was running for local office.
he wanted to show he was “black enough”, but that apparently means “anti-white enough” after watching the reaction of the crowd to the racist rants of Wright.
Spot on, Joe 6. The white mother, plus the fact that his father was an African black and didn’t go through the civil rights movement always threatened to derail his political future in Chicago. I think he picked Trinity Church precisely because they produced that bilge.
I don’t actually care why Obama sat through racist rants for 20 years or why he donated thousands of dollars that he could have used for his kids piano lessons or paying back those pesky Harvard loans (Columbia too!). I don’t care why he subjected his children to race baiting, anti-American and garlic nose Eye-talian screeds. I don’t care WHY Jesus Obama decided to dedicate his book to Jeremiah Wright or why Obama called Wright his Spiritual Mentor.
I only care that Obama did these things.
This not only displays lack of judgement, it displays a willingness to hbe EXTREMELY CLOSE FRIENDS with a ranting bigot and hate monger.
Then there are his pals the Weathermen (and that Weather lady!).
I wouldn’t associate with people who say GOD DAMN AMERICA and I wouldn’t be friends with a couple who bombed our government institutions and now consider themselves gentrified members of the Chicago liberal establishment.
This whole Obama story is disgusting.
This man wants to lead our country??
His friends bombed the fugging Pentagon and NYPD. What the hell has happened to the Democrat party??
Question:
I don’t think this matters too much to the Democrats for the primary but the super delegates have to know this will kill them during the general election in November. They can’t afford to lose white rural, Jewish, etc. and have a prayer. Any predictions for what they will do?
well, i suppose it matters a bit what happens in IN, NC, and WV. if b.o. can do well in at least 2, it blunts that. if she sweeps [unlikely] it becomes increasingly difficult for a party to crown him — even with the guaranteed intra-party strife that would result
/ahh, delciious schadenfreude …
FARC’s Raul Reyes?….FARC’s Raul Reyes?…….where did I read that name?…… wait a minute! That’s the guy that assumed room temperature on March 1st of this year!!!…no wonder Mrs. Clinton is opposed to have trade agreement with the country of Colombia!!! For a quick intro on who the FARC is (are), check out this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Armed_Forces_of_Colombia
You may also check what “La Violencia” is about ( for those of us Colombians know as the “Bogotazo”). I think Obama might refer to us Americans as “gringos” instead of “my fellow Americans”.
Rio
Semper Fi!
Their liberals. They’ll probably sit aroung a Ouija board singing Kumbaya seeking inspiration. Maybe they’ll get out the Magic 8 ball.
Whatever they do, it will be dramatic nonsensical and designed to show moral and intellectual superiority. They’ll certainly use race and gender as competing factors in their decisions.
Get a VP who appeals to that base. Next, turn McCain into the 3rd Bush brother, with a 3rd Bush term with his tax and economic policies and warhawk mentality. Embracing environmental sensitive ideas won’t be enough to clean the Bush funk off of him. There is still a long way to go, and a lot of the Obama stuff is hitting too early. Ayers and Wright will have weakened fratigued legs, and Bitterosity will be a long lost memory. We are running against Bush again.(At least that’s how we plan to beat McCain).
OOOOOPS!!!…almost forgot!
Michael Moore/Oliver Stone’s favorite revolutionario Fidel Castro, appeared to have been in Colombia during the assassination of a Colombian presidential candidate.
In spades, just in spades!
Rio
Semper Fi!
sooo, you want to get beat by bush for a 3RD time?
/ooooohhhkaaaayyyyy …
Man… I was lookng at this picture of Michelle O’bama and I’ve just realized if she gained 40 more pounds she’d look like Cynthia Mckenny.
well, she already sounds like her …
Come on nyk! Take off the blinders! Both can easily be explained, as granite has been so kind to point out:
See. It all makes sense if you just presume he is a closeted Muslim who uses evil Muslim deception to make us believe he is a racist Christian to throw us all off the trail while he plots his overthrow of the US. And any evidence to the contrary (like eating ham or attending a Christian church for 20 years) is just more Muslim trickery. Apparently really, really far-sighted Muslim trickery, to be sure, but Muslim trickery nonetheless.
WHEN WILL YOU WAKE UP TO THE HORRIBLE TRUTH NYK!
fatigued legs,
Buckaroo,
Yeah, we will take our chances with a war with no end in sight, 28% Bush approval rating, gas prices approaching $4.00 with a recession. I’d say 3rd time is a charm. Gay marriage issues won’t be able to distract voters this time around. There is a hell of a lot more going on.
If McCain runs away from Bush’s record, and shows coherant, distinct and crucial differences, he will win.
If McCain is painted as another Bush, he’s getting his but kicked by either, Barack, Hillary, or a combo of the two.
well, JSM grasps pork spending blows chunks, so that’s an immediate plus …
methinks you are also woefully underestimating us bitter folk who do think gay marriage [and other social issues] is a bit more than a “distraction” [nice b.o.-ism there] …
I thought Bush won last time because Kerry was his opponent.
#167 chapoutier:
Ha. Somehow, you make it all make sense!
Nicely done, sir.
Sad but true. Sad but true.
Ha. Somehow, you make it all make sense!