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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So when is someone going to come out with the “Terrorist’s Voting Guide”? How is a terrorist supposed to know which Deomcrat to vote for?
Thank you Michelle.
Trollman…that was rich!
I’m looking at their 4 pics…and I can’t help thinking…it’s like some Symbionese Army meets Charlie Manson meets Angela Davis redux
a fanatic is one who can not change their mind, and will not change the subject.
IMPERIALISM!! EXPLOITATION!! CAPITALISM!!
their themes never change.
by the way, Bolivia’s the toilet it is because of its lack of capitalism.
Yeah, that Obummer and his friends… they want upheaval alright……. social, economic, and political upheaval.
I feel for the police officers’ families. They don’t get an ounce of sympathy while this Marxist cretin bathed in affluence his entire life. He also got indoctrinated his entire life like many innocent kids in our public schools.
I have family in Rockland County and will mention this scholarship fund to them.
Yet another sad, pathetic irony that what liberals think is some harmless, political, social experiment/protest has real life consequences.
I hope Chesa’s parents rot in prison in perpetuity. Too bad they can’t be put to death so the NY taxpayers no longer have to foot the bill to incarcerate them.
I hope that all University of Chicago alumni read this and keep it in mind when the next fundraising pitch arrives.
I agree - it’s the “vision” thing that’s so worrisomely indeterminant about Obama.
Exactly! Either Obama is much too naive to be President, or is so full of himself and his own pr, that he actually thinks voters will believe anything he says, simply because it is him saying it.
NO!
Ah… intemporate youth…the be-ins’s…protest marches…pipe-bomb making parties…too bad we had to grow up…
And that includes gunning down cops, and an armored car driver in New York?
I think the Rhodes committee should get its money back, and bill this waste of oxygen for the chow he’s been eating for the last several years.
Obama knows exactly who these people are, his explanations of associations is not feasible. I don’t know about you but I associate with like minded people, people who share my outlook. I would have to say if you have a friendly relationship with domestic terrorists and radical preachers, you at some point have agreed and adhered to their ideology.
After reading this through a second time and some of the comments.
It is clear who would be on a short list of potential PARDON choices for the militant President.
One more reason not to vote for Senator Obama.
The media’s got the makings of their next big field day right here, if they would just wake up and carry the ball.
I’m wondering if someone here can help me.
You see, I’m an executive at a mid-sized University and I have this nice young man named Timothy McVeigh who is applying for a position as an ROTC instructor. Mr.McVeigh has a little baggage in his past, but he seems like a fine young man.
Should I hire him.
We are on very friendly terms and Tim ande I serve on a couple of boards together.
Oh!! Did I mention, Tim’s wife once planted bombs at the Pentagon and NYPD.
Are there any photos of Obama gripping and grinning with Ayers, Dohrn, Wright or Farrakhan? Those would be terrific for ads in the fall.
LC, the MSM is much akin to a Hockey Referee. The Hockey ref won’t call penalities during crunch time because he doesn’t want to affect the outcome of the game. So in fact NOT CALLING obvious penalties, does just that….it affects the outcome of the game. The lib MSM, is going to dodge calling out Obama, because they want to protect him.
If you swapped these names out with Tim McVeigh, people might (and I stress MIGHT) actually get it.
This just goes to show that Americans don’t want to believe the truth about people when they have “hope” or a false sense thereof. Amazing. Blissful uninformed ignorance with the “right” (not privilege) to vote, will drive this country down the drain. I feel that November 2008 will mark one of the saddest days in US History regardless of who is elected.
My liberal friend just say this is all McCarthyism and Swiftboating. What do Dan Rather, Mary Mapes and Katie Couric think?
Sorry to say I won’t understand the liberal mind at all. Talked to plenty of liberals here in moonbat central Boca and they absolutely adored Kerry and now love Obama even far more. And clueless as can be too. Che Guevera was a good guy and Michael Moore is just outstanding ferreting out evil capitalists. Ditto for Yassir Arafish being a man of peace. You cannot use the truth and logic with these people.
Are there any pro-American non-socialist/non-Marxist friends of the Obamas?? Imagine Jimmy Carter redux except with a multitude of criminal/terrorist friends? God help us and yet the masses are mesmerized..Heil Hussein!!
The Obamination being the choice of Hamas is more than enough to scare the daylights out of me. His association with members of the “Weather Underground” his racist pastor associations with radical Muslim elements along with his liberal ideology should be enough to question his fitness to be a Senator more or less POTUS. The fact that the Obama-maniacs choose to ignore facts and are swayed by his rock star appeal could very well give this empty suit the most powerful position in the world. I will not be very surprised to find ourselves in another Revolutionary or Civil War if this version of the evil Sith Lord Senator Palpatine becomes POTUS (tried to stay away from the 1930s Germany comparison to keep from losing the debate).
The Boudin kid is a total waste of oxygen and I hope he continues to fight the good fight in South America. We already have too many people that are fans of the failed Communist ideology in this country trying to take away our Constitutional rights.
What in the name of God, has gone wrong with the democrat party.
Their last candidate for president has a shrine dedicated to him in a war museum in Hanoi, praising him for his help in getting his own country defeated.
Now they’re touting a guy who cozys up to black racists and bona fide domestic terrorists.
Not to forget, the sniper dodging socialist.
Are they that blinded by their arrogance and hatred for their own country, that they so boldly run these kind of people?!? I actually believe they think we are stupid, and that, with the help of their “comrades” in the MSM, they can fool us into voting for them.
Don’t they see the contempt the “silent majority” has for them?
Maybe Bill, Barack, and Hillary have had lunch with terrorists.
Question: which President released terrorists in US custody in the US implicated in a terrorist bombing of an airplane from custody? The release was after being pressured by pro terror groups in the US.
Boomer, the left doesn’t care. They love Ted Kennedy. Liberals are completely without any morals. How can you be immoral if you are a-moral.
Jimmmy Carter kisses Islamofascists whose stated goal is the destruction of Israel.
Any liberal behavior is acceptable as long as the aforementioned liberal is for Socialism.
Think about it. Liberals wet dream of socialism has been led by Pol Pot, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Castro, Che Geuvara, and Hugo Chavez.
Libs are so deluded that they haven’t noticed what Socialism has wrought upon human beings.
I love hearing people say U.S. Imperialism. People like this never lived in a socialist country or lived under a dictator, but they stand ready to fight the good fight against the people who let them spew this hatred from their lips. Things are starting to feel and awful lot like the Manchurian Candidate to me more and more each day.
lgm, B.J. Billy pardoned FALN terrorists and didn’t have the balls to take Bin Laden into custody.
Thanks for playing junior.
So this is why Kennedy endorsed Obama.
It doesn’t get any clearer than this.
I don’t think it would include a couple of border patrol agents convicted for protecting us from a drug smuggler.
Since our current Republican so called conservative President can’t see his way clear to pardon them.
LGM doesn’t know his history. Note the date of the interview and who he waged war against and why. Then come back and play, LGM.
I agree libocrat and as many have stated liberalism is a mental disorder. That’s one of many reasons they scare me. Don’t let those pesky facts get in the way of your feelings!
RezkoWatch reports on 2 other forums where we know Obama and Ayers participated. Ayers, Dohrn, and Obama have appeared together at a number of gatherings and academic events.
This information along with the fact that Obama served with Ayers on the Board of the Woods Foundation…
I heard Obama brazenly claim last bight in his “concession speech” that he can bring about change by uniting both democrats and republicans as he did in Illinois and as he as done in the US Senate.
People are taking Obama at his word, and he is very adept at painting issues related to his character and true record as a silly diversion away from the real issues. Incredible.
Obama’s record shows that he is anything but a uniter. He has a liberal record more to the left of Ted Kennedy’s, yet has the audacity to claim that he is a centrist unifier. Unfortunately, those that support him are mesmerized by the superficial flow of his words.
Until someone starts calling out Obama on these issues, and starts branding him as a liar and not merely a “misspeaker”, he will continue to wield his charm and charisma as shields against the truth.
The man is indeed a liar and a con artist, and he more than anyone running will say anything to get elected.
“Don’t they see the contempt the “silent majority” has for them?”
um, no, they don’t — they see 48% of the electorate going for them no matter what, and blame rovian dirty tricks for not being able to pick up those last few % …
This is the tip of a really ugly iceberg. If the USA lets these thugs and terrorists into the White House, the sinking of the Titanic will be a most appropriate analogy for what will happen to the USA. Contrary to these bozos, Christianity and capitalism built this great nation - but, as the Pope recently suggested, secularism, relativism and its socialist underpinning can destroy it.
By the way, I am not a Catholic, but I love this Pope. What a powerful Christian intellect. Wow!!!!
lgm, [leavign aside al the other valid refutations that have already been posted] if you think we give h.w and/or jeb a pass for that, you’d be sorely mistaken — why do you think jeb will NEVER run for prez?
Yes,
But, Michelle has told us, time and time again, McCain is a poopy-head…So, I’m staying home on election day*.
“Fair & Balanced,” I guess.
BUWAHHAHAHAHH !!!!
*sure I am
You can use moral equivalency for so long before you actually have to start asking some questions. One question would be: would you accept money from a known terrorist? If you knew who this person actually was, would you still sit on any kind of board with him or interact with him in any way?
Oh, and by the way, I’ve attended similar kinds of academic conferences over the years, and you do befriend people who you see a lot of. Like-minded people hang out together. Especially in academia.
I don’t expect you to understand. It’s just odd that you think that Ayers and Obummer are only “acquaintances.” People do form friendships and swap business cards when they see a lot of each other at these academic meetings.
Quite true. Hard to believe that almost half the people in this country are fooled by the democrats. Although, I think the dems have painted themselves into a “politically correct” corner this year.
Doesn’t mean “Gentleman John” McCain, will necessarily win, however.
I have been waiting for this since 1968. I am getting on the long side of life so I hope this is the year to get a chance to fight these Leftist SOBs. Senator Barack Hussein Obama or Miss Hillary, it does not matter. They will get Swiftboated.
While these Leftist Rats and their satraps in the media consider Swiftboating a negative
I consider it the closest thing to a secular Sacrament. Forty years I have been waiting. It is my turn.
Let the fun begin.
Obama is a typical Dhimmocrap politician who will say anything and promise anything to get elected. The last great Dhimmocrap to be elected, wild bill, did not fulfill most of his campain promises and in fact stole, plagiarized, used Republican ideas to stay in office. We are in trouble now that we have Rinos running the party. Even Newt forgets what he ran on in the 80’s and is out to line his pockets like AlGore.
Boomer: you said it for me. I’m so close to my big 80 that I can spit on it. I spent over 3 years in the National Guard and Regular Army during the Korean Conflict. I had ancestors and close relatives who fought in the Civil War, the Revolutionary War (an uncle Knowlton was a leader at the battle of Bunker Hill) and ancestors who marched on Quebec and Montreal and died of wounds at the city wall. Now I’ve got 23 grand children and six great grand children and more on the way. If I were young enough and not plauged with service connected injuries, I’d try and re-enlist. A grand-daughter and husband who “worship” Jimmie the potato-head shows how far off the track they can go when influenced by the Brights of the university circuits. Thank you all who know right from Wright and who support MM and her friends here.
Michelle, who do we contact to add a feature to ignore posters? i will gladly dust off the C++ book and help out.
#35 emjem24 wrote:
Um, you must’ve misunderstood the point of my post, which is that I’ve attended and been on panels and therefore — wait for it — I do understand. Sure, you can form these friendships. Also true: half of the people I’ve shared a dais with — multiple times — are people that I don’t know well. Just sharing a stage doesn’t mean you summer together. Not by a stretch.
Then, stay home.
I mean, after all, having a Black Nationalist and Terrorist Apologist for president is sooooo much better.
heh,heh,heh
I believe you used this as a description for Jimmy C. earlier. Once again, the similarities arise.
BTW, isn’t it amazing how “enlightened” “intellectuals” are some of the most short-sighted people on the planet?
Liberal lawyers have an affinity for debauchery and shady character.
Even if we assume that Obama is fundamentally a good person, and even if for sake of argument we further assume that who he associates with doesn’t define him, the “character” of those associates is still important.
Why? Consider this comparison: What is the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant mostly remembered for? Corruption. Not of the man himself, but of many of those he appointed in his administration. Grant’s failing was that he wasn’t as good a judge of character as he should’ve been, and that failing became his legacy as President.
Now consider Obama: a man whose associates seem to have a common basis of thinking and behavior: God Damn Amerkkka!
Ponder what kind of people will worm their way into an Obama administration, and what their agenda will be. Add to that thought the fact that Obama refuses to distance himself from or attempt to moderate the behavior of these kinds of associates, even when they show their true colors.
Even if we assume that Obama the man is a decent fellow, his emerging pattern strongly suggests that he’ll be asleep at the wheel when it comes to filtering out the “Punitive Liberals,” unapologetic bigots and unreconstructed radicals from positions of power and influence.
They can see a “conspiracy” under every rock, and around every corner…But, they can’t see a fraud, when it’s being played out, right in front of them.
NYK, I think we all understood your point. You are pretending that Obama isn’t in bed with Ayers and other Marxists. He is. I think you understand what Obama is. You’re just not honest.
It is possible to lie down in a pile of cow manure and come out smelling like Roses….right?
Obama is a dirt bag.
Frank, liberals are not always blind to what’s going on around them. They will vote for anyone that GIVES THEM SOMETHING.
Example. Libs are completely aware that Kennedy killed a woman and swam away to sleep off the booze. THEY DON’T CARE, as long as Kennedy supporst welfare, unions, gays, minorities, trial lawyers, teachers, and higher taxes.
Libs are completely aware that Sen. Byrd WV was a high ranking KKK member.
They don’t care as long as Byrd supports welfare, handouts, earmarks, unions and bureaucracy.
Libs are fully aware the B.J.Billy Clinton was getting serviced and shooting his jipe onto blue dresses in the ORAL OFFICE. They don’t care, as long as Clinton supports their causes with your money.
It’s really that simple. Then add to the equation liberal bigot guilt and you have perfect liberal storm.
Libs will prove that they aren’t racist by acting in a racist fashion.
Voting for someone because he is black makes them feel good. It is a racist act in and of itself.
I like it better when weathermen just didn’t do a very good job of predicting rain. What are they still fighting for? Always on the wrong side of history. They are all so tiresome.
Don’t mind LGM..
those who can’t do, teach..
Those who can’t teach, troll..
Regulus, good post. Thanks for cutting through the demagoguery and actually making a cogent and worthwhile point.
Rogue, Dohrn and Ayers are wealthy.
The are gentrified terrorists. They are nuevo chic terrorists.
They are WHOLE FOODS shopping, Prius driving, mansion living, chardonnay drinking, educational elite, not yolks for me, Business class flying, board of directors member, 401k holding, quiche eating terrorists.
Does their lifestyle seem vaguely familiar?
Hmmmm. Seems there’s alot of anger in Hyde Park. Bitter rich liberals.
#46 libocrat wrote:
I’m not pretending anything. I don’t believe this is definitive proof of anything, and I genuinely don’t believe in the radical portrait of Obama painted here. I think I understand what Obama is, and my view just happens to differ greatly from yours. Guess we’ve just got a strong difference of opinion.
Now, Dave, don’t you think lgm has contributed to this post (albeit with boring lefty drivel) long enough NOT to be called, “troll?” I think “TOKEN” is more apropos.
Trollman, I believe terrorists pay more attention to the candidates than most voters. Any Dem will do in a pinch, but Obama’s definitely their guy.
Nyk, I aplogize, maybe you aren’t pretending, maybe you’re just not very bright.
Nah, you’re pretending.
Hold it right there Libocrat! It’s the price of Arugula at Whole Foods that has made them terrorists! “Have you seen the price of Arugula at Whole Foods recently?” It’s enough to make them cling bitterly to their bombs and guns and copies of Karl Marx.
Excellent point! Reading about his associations this cycle has flashed thoughts of a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and a Trojan horse. There is just much about Obama, and those in the background that we know too little about. For those out there that are leaning towards Obama, remember this…Caveat Emptor!
It’s all so ironic when the privileged class, gnash and wail at the very institutions that provide their privileges. How deep their guilt must run.
Or, just not paranoid enough to hallucinate socialists, Marxists and America-hating hippies lurking around every corner. There’s a whole cornucopia of possiblities, really…
I agree, 100%.
Meanwhile, our intrepid blogger, in a misguided attempt at “Fair & Balanced” paints McCain as a poopy-head, and suggests you “hold your nose” or “stay home” on election day.
go figure
In my opinion, Obama is a Social, Economic, Foreign Policy, National Security THREAT…A threat, that if he’s elected, we may never recover from.
I’druther take my chances with the RINO’s.
“Although, I think the dems have painted themselves into a “politically correct” corner this year”
yep — billy jeff, gore, and to an extent kerry NEVER handed the gop so much ammunition during the primaries. you have to go back to dukakis imo …
/and i’d hapily settle for a ‘88 style margin of victory …
Right_on, you are dead wrong. Obama can’t be held accountable for the America haters he hangs with. I mean that’s guilt by association.
Many of us hang out with terrorist couples. It’s the in-thing to do.
Seriously, the left doesn’t think a Presidential candidate having a “spiritual” mentor who hates America is a big deal. Maybe Obama missed services on the occasion where Wright went loco. Maybe Obama and Bill Ayers are “just neighbors”. Maybe it’s just a coincidence that Obama in his own words sought out the most MARXIST professors when he was in college. Maybe we’re all just bitter. Maybe Michelle Obama has a reason to be angry at America, after all she is being forced to pay back her college loans on a $300,000.00 @ year salary. Poor baby.
“I genuinely don’t believe in the radical portrait of Obama painted here”
um, you haven’t read his bio?
taken a close look at his home church?
perused his parents’ lives?
listened to the man’s words the 3 whole times this campaign he’s been put under any sort of pressure — the wright eruption, crackerquiddick, and last week’s debate?
/none so blind … those who will not see … etc.
Couldn’t agree more.
“socialists, Marxists and America-hating hippies lurking around every corner”
no, they’re not around every corner, but they do happen to be concentrated in the faculty lounges of the ivy league, u. chicago, and the bay area — where sadly they now hold tenure at the very institutions they used to try to “overthrow.”
annnd [surprise!] they just happen to be attached, formally or informally, to a certain illinois senator …
lgm #20 I never thaought I’d thank you for a “head’s up”.
That would be the one who didn’t finish the job after Desert Storm (acquiesced to his friends via the UN) and reneged on his promise of “no new taxes”.
The one the RNC gave us.
Now-back to Clinton- who knew where OBL was - (now we know that a CBS reporter was interviewing him in 1998) -renegade (means traitor) news media at its best.
Nyk, don’t act like a sissy. You know Obama is a commie. Why do you pretend?
Buckaroo, you are spot on. Nyk knows, but libs think honesty is for suckers.
That photo of Michelle Obama is a ready-made pro-McCain poster…
#68 libocrat wrote:
This would be more offensive if I wasn’t a woman.
Who knew that liberal caricatures of conservatives were so spot on?
Anywho, enjoy the visions of pinkos dancing in your head as you fall asleep tonight. I’m off to the real world.
NYK, Real world?
You mean Cuba?
You’re funny, in a liberal kind of way.
As I go to sleep tonight I’ll envision Obama dancing. He is a pinko.
I’m just waiting to hear what Oprah has to say about it. You know, so that I can make up my little mind… (sarcasm now switching back to off position).
#70
the dude has stated himself he SOUGHT OUT the MARXIST professors on campus!
/sheesh, i’d say “do we have to draw you a picture?!” but i’m thinking that actually wouldn’t help …
Regulus said (#44):
Could it be worse than Brown, Gonzalez, Rumsfeld, Rove, Whitman (”the 9/11 air is safe”), Robert Coughlin, Alfonso Jackson, Monica Goodling, …. (a long and sorry list)?
Brian — “sooo, you just pretty much do exactly what oprah tells you to do, huh?”
Stewie — “no, it’s just she hasn’t yet told us which one to read nex- damnit!”
/family guy
I cringe every time I think of Obummer being the president. If he is elected, the left wingers will get their come uppance, but millions like me and most of the others commenting here will suffer more because we didn’t want him in the first place. If he goes into office, America had better give it’s heart to God, because he and his cronnies will have it’s a$$.
# 74
could it be worse — yes, yes it could, that’s kinda the point …
Christian Soldier said (#66):
Not only Bush I, keep reading.
Buckaroo, most garden variety libs really don’t believe Obama is what he is. I mean Commies are bad and Obama is good. It’s kind of like the guy with the comb-over. He’s not bald, bald people have no hair!
Commies live in Russia. Obama lives in Hyde Park.
see, i just can’t wrap my head around the fact that alledgedly educated peopel can be that self-deluded …
Wait and see the reaction if and when W pardons Libby. Outrageous!!!! The left will go totally nuts!
But Slick Willy giving pardons to terrorists & drug dealers got a pass from the left.
Liberalism is a mental disease!
Buckaroo, you’re going to have to accept it.
Think about this. 2 very prestigious Universities hired Dohrn. They hired self avowed, renowned, and well known TERRORISTS willingly. Much like Obama chose Jeremiah “the bull frog” Wright as his personal mentor and pastor.
In most countries, Dohrn and Ayers would have been imprisoned for life or executed. In liberal circles they are heroes. And Obama chose them as friends.
Clinton pardones his own drug dealing brother. Liberals screeched like caged monkeys when Valerie Plame lied and was called on it by Richard Armitage. They howled about her “super duper secret agent” status.They blames Rove and Libby when neither was responsible for the outing of a CIA paper pusher. They applauded when the NY Times published national secrets. Yet liberal institutions HIRED Dohrn and Ayers, the really GROOVY 60’s hippies who bombed numerous homeland institutions. You see liberals hate America unless they control it.
lgm
The Obama campaign has won the public relations war over Ayers and Wright. Here is how Obama did it. When Obama could not answer any questions about Wright or Ayers at the ABC debate, both Obamas blamed the ABC guys for daring to ask Obama any questions about his past associations. There was a thin undercurrent of racism directed at Gibson and George S. The MSM, led by CNN and the NY Times, was predictably intimidated and started whining that any tough questions to either Obama is racism. David Gergen, the superannuated
analyst at CNN, led the charge. So now we can be sure that only Fox News will ever again cover the Ayes and Wright story. Former Mario Cuomo aide Tim Russert at NBC has been intimidated into silence.
#74 Buckaroo
Exactly. This Obamania fever that has college students and their professors “hoping for the audicity of changing hope” have not put an ounce of thought it to Obama the man. No experience? Doesn’t matter. Pals with terrorists and racist hate mongers? Doesn’t matter. You bet it could a far worse administration.
Don’t talk about his Racist, America hating bigot crazy uncle Jeremiah. Don’t talk about his friends Bill Boom-boom Ayers and his darling wife Not so Bonnie Bernadine Dohrn. Don’t mention his seeking out Marxist professors, and certainly don’t talk about his elitist sob stories about paying back college tuition.
Pretend he’s a nice cool black dude who was put on this planet to save us.
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!
I am convinced Obama and Michelle are not only friends of Ayers and Wright, but “close, personal friends.” RINO McCain isn’t the best and brightest we Repubs have to offer, but he is definitely better than the Obamanation. I fear for my beloved country.
Keep digging here in Chicago. Obama didn’t get the nod to run for any office without a lot of agreement from the powers that be. Those powers that be offer up a fine brew of corruption, cross-party pay-offs along with a penchant for socialism.
The radicals just come with the territory especially when they have loads of money like Ayers does. His dad was beyond rich and connected — and the little rad still has loads of access because of it.
Chicago is like no place on Earth and we have the jailed politicians to prove it. Don’t dismiss the Chicago dirt that exists for both Barrack and Hillary.
lgm, perhaps it was an accident, but that’s actually a good question.
The Bush cronies and incompetents get bashed here pretty regularly for good reason, but I think people who actively hate America would be far worse.
PS - not that I would include Rove, Master Evil Genius….:)
I’m more and more convinced this Obama is a total fraud. He IS a muslim, who will not disassociate himself with Wright, Farakahn, and various leftists all of whom hate America. He says he’s a Christian, but he didn’t learn it in that Catholic school in Indonesia, because there enrolled as a Muslim, he was required to study and learn the Quran, and he was enrolled in a particular type of teaching which required him to memorize the Quran in Arabic. His name is Arabic, not Kenyan, and I frankly think he is a Trojan Horse. Can anyone say Manchurian Candidate (the original movie, not the recent PC one). Did you know that according to the Quran, it’s not a sin to lie to your enemies…..a little different from “Thou shall not bear false witness” as written in the bible. He’s a Muslim who conveniently turned Christian when he married Michelle, you know….that good little Christian who goes to Wright’s church.
I think he’s still a Muslim, and frankly want him so far from the WH it hurts.
nfbailey said:
If Obama were a Muslim, Manchurian Candidate, and Trojan Horse, wouldn’t it have made since for him to “disassociate himself with Wright, Farakahn, and various leftists all of whom hate America”?
Let me guess, it’s someone who isn’t running for President this election. Thus. . .irrelevant.
and only happens to look like one of the Iranian students that held Americans hostage back in ‘79-’80.
Osama Hussein Obama only wants POWER.
So Does the Clinton Bitch.
Marxist policies, nullification of the Constitution and destruction of the Economy are what they desire.
Just don’t Vote and Red Dawn is in your future!
And his insane obsession with the destruction of Israel doesn’t mean we can’t negotiate.
AlohaGuy #91
As it happens, the Washington Post has a blog post on Obama’s advisers. They seem to be distinguished people with strong reputations in their fields. Have a look and see what you can dig up on them.
Please stop with the hate America line for whatever Democrat has annoyed you today.
I think you are lowering the bar again, LGM. Just because these buffoons were just fine and dandy with some right-wingers, doesn’t mean Obama shouldn’t start showing better judgement with his associations. He is supposed to be about CHANGE remember. Regulus has the only clear headed points on this thread.
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 Stree