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1. #1
   On September 16th, 2008 at 12:18 pm, 30 pcs of silver said:

   Contributors to independent political groups – 1
   Obama – 0… kinda apropos, wouldn’t you say?
   

2. #2
   On September 16th, 2008 at 12:19 pm, Mister P said:

   Well, I have made it a practice my whole consulting career of finding the problems where people squawk the loudest. Obviously Obama is telling us all that this is a VERY sensitive area, and no doubt for good reason. He protesteth too much.

3. #3
   On September 16th, 2008 at 12:20 pm, Regulus said:

   The DOJ won’t act as Hopenchange’s henchmen — for the moment. What’s important is to keep him out of the White House, so he can’t change that state of affairs.

   It was the Clintons, after all, who turned the IRS into a means of punishing his enemies with audits and who misappropriated FBI files on people they didn’t like. Hopenchange would do the same damn thing, only with politically-motivated investigations and prosecutions.

4. #4
   On September 16th, 2008 at 12:21 pm, Anita said:

   No, Obama, the government will not do your bidding and intimidate conservatives exercising their free speech.

   Finally, some back-bone! Good.

5. #5
   On September 16th, 2008 at 12:25 pm, greenfairie said:

   Yeah!

   You’re not Emperor yet, Obama.

6. #6
   On September 16th, 2008 at 12:25 pm, MagnumOpus said:

   Amazingly, the Obamaniacs can inferentially read all kinds of “rights” into the First Amendment (abortion, sodomy, etc.) but, somehow, cannot see the right to free speech that is EMBLAZONED in the actual text. That is change we cannot afford.

7. #7
   On September 16th, 2008 at 12:25 pm, procopy said:

   I pray (Yes… to God) that he will finally be exposed for who he really is.

8. #8
   On September 16th, 2008 at 12:27 pm, John Ansell said:

   Not going to dig for dirt on Obama then they need to start digging for oil.

9. #9
   On September 16th, 2008 at 12:28 pm, Goldwater Knight said:

   I knew this was going to be the outcome.

10. #10
    On September 16th, 2008 at 12:29 pm, LC said:

    What can we now do to pressure the MSM to pick up on this story? And we don’t just want them to cover the DOJ response, we need to educate the public-at-large with what was just attempted by the Obama campaign.

    I don’t think the people would be too thrilled to hear that Obama tried to stifle free speech and trampled on the First Amendment.

11. #11
    On September 16th, 2008 at 12:30 pm, Jaded said:

    Great news and thrilled to know the DOJ will not be doing the marxist bidding of Obama.

12. #12
    On September 16th, 2008 at 12:31 pm, William Amos said:

    Its getting Worse. Biden said that if any corporation wants a government loan then it must subject itself to a complete public opening of its books which will hurt businesses by exposing its weaknesses to competitors.

13. #13
    On September 16th, 2008 at 12:33 pm, sandyb said:

    Rush just reported that along with blowing up buildings 40 years ago, that bastion of good citizenship, Bill Ayers, along with wifey Bernardine, received rings from the North Vietnamese for their service. The rings were made from the metal of U.S. bombers that were shot down.

    Uh, uh, that’s irrelevant. Uh, uh, he just lives in my neighborhood.

    Want something to investigate? These two make Jane Fonda look like a piker.

14. #14
    On September 16th, 2008 at 12:41 pm, josetheguerilla said:

    If it’s not biased left wing reporting, then they want to make it silent. If no one is around and a terrorist falls in the forest, dose anybody hear it? Should anybody hear it? Not according to the moonbats!!!!!

15. #15
    On September 16th, 2008 at 12:43 pm, ajmontana said:

    Obama Campaign

16. #16
    On September 16th, 2008 at 12:48 pm, beenthere said:

    Nice to have some good news for a change. Of course, the trend is set and we know that sometime in the not too distant future the DOJ will be giving a very different response. In fact for those interested in the future, click here for a vision that looks rather plausible actually (HT to Debbie S.) and funny too, I guess. Language and gesture alert.

17. #17
    On September 16th, 2008 at 12:52 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    ajmontana, right on target! A P-51D shooting down a BF-109E. Great graphic.

    As my father, a B-17 pilot, used to say, “You know you’re over the target when you start getting flak.”

18. #18
    On September 16th, 2008 at 12:54 pm, sonofdy said:

    McCain up 2 points in Colorado in the latest poll. If that holds, that means for the first time McCain holds over 270 electorial college votes. Keep it up Obama. Its working

19. #19
    On September 16th, 2008 at 12:54 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Still, the Richmond case demonstrates that there is work to be done. McCain-Feingold must be dismantled! It boggles the mind that a Crucifix in a jar of urine is ‘free speech’, but you can’t say anything against a political candidate 60 days before an election!

20. #20
    On September 16th, 2008 at 1:04 pm, James Felix said:

    No, Obama, the government will not do your bidding and intimidate conservatives exercising their free speech.

    Not yet, anyway.

    If we want to keep it that way we need to make sure we get off our hinders and vote for McCain, even if we have to hold our nose to do it.

21. #21
    On September 16th, 2008 at 1:14 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    I am over the top shocked that youtube has not pulled the ad.

22. #22
    On September 16th, 2008 at 1:16 pm, sonofdy said:

    New Anti-Obama ad. 100% acurate and to the point.

23. #23
    On September 16th, 2008 at 1:33 pm, Leatherneck said:

    Black socialist POS!

24. #24
    On September 16th, 2008 at 1:38 pm, rockhauler said:

    Does this mean, since DOJ will not prosecute, that the current regulations can be ignored?

    Ya’ll are looking at this as the DOJ not going after The Obama’s enemies, but not seeing that it means The Obama’s friends can safely ignore the law since no prosecution will happen.

25. #25
    On September 16th, 2008 at 1:44 pm, Paul Revere said:

    Wow…I’m pleasantly surprised.

26. #26
    On September 16th, 2008 at 1:50 pm, groundhunter said:

    Watch your back folks. Obama cornered is a dangerous thing. He is going to go ballistic before this is over. He will try to keep the lid on till the first debate and when he comes out of that looking like a plucked chicken he is going to go for broke. You have no clue how bad the loons are going to behave.

27. #27
    On September 16th, 2008 at 1:53 pm, cheapseat said:

    what is this guy trying to hide?

28. #28
    On September 16th, 2008 at 2:07 pm, letget said:

    If the DOJ want’s to something constructive, investigate bho and his past.
    L

29. #29
    On September 16th, 2008 at 2:08 pm, madchef said:

    On September 16th, 2008 at 1:53 pm, cheapseat said:

    what is this guy trying to hide?

    His past. The truth. His agenda.

30. #30
    On September 16th, 2008 at 2:12 pm, Arbalest said:

    BHO’s refusal to really throw Ayres under the bus is peculiar. BHO seems to have had longer and closer ties to Wright, but once the words of the Jeremiad became known, under the bus he went.

    This thread at Ace stuck in my memory; it was off the page when I speculated this response, based on another post at LGF that caused a couple of pieces to fall into place.

    Is it possible that this is Obama’s Watergate: he was asked to help free Susan Rosenberg, and this action ended up involving many reasonably powerful people who could not afford to be seen as supporters of domestic terrorists?

    Alternatively, will a close inspection of the funding pattern of Public Allies, The Woods Fund, The Joyce Foundation and CAC show very strong links to Leftist/Marxist organizations, ACORN and several very influential people (who have somehow managed to benefit from these organizations and ACORN)?

    Perhaps the thing to be hidden is the social circle and its members. Ayres Sr. seems to have had much influence (Sidley Austin, for one). Ayres and Dohrn are well-placed at U of I (and influential and very trendy), and they know people who have/had much influence: Leonard Boudin, Kathy Boudin’s father.

    To paraphrase another poster (I forget who):
    “It seems that every time we turn over a rock, BHO and Ayres are seen to be franticly wiggling away.”

    This really seems to smell like Watergate: the crime itself and perps are minor, but the parties involved ……

31. #31
    On September 16th, 2008 at 2:23 pm, FamilyMan said:

    TooMuchTime said: As my father, a B-17 pilot, used to say, “You know you’re over the target when you start getting flak.”

    Now that we are getting closer expect the vitriol to increase. The more they hate, the more missteps they will make.
    Hmmm a rhyme!

32. #32
    On September 16th, 2008 at 2:28 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On September 16th, 2008 at 12:19 pm, Mister P said:

    Well, I have made it a practice my whole consulting career of finding the problems where people squawk the loudest. Obviously Obama is telling us all that this is a VERY sensitive area, and no doubt for good reason. He protesteth too much.

    Bingo!

    We need to keep digging – we haven’t even scratched the surface.

    There is one thing that I appreciate about Barack Hussein Obama (a.k.a Barry Soetoro)…

    He is the “Rosetta Stone” to deciphering the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy.

    Really.

33. #33
    On September 16th, 2008 at 2:29 pm, Paul Revere said:

    Looks Obama wants people who have been evicted from their homes to be able to use that address to vote in Michigan. This is only the beginning of a very protracted legal battle to diminish our representative democracy. Their internal polls in Michigan must have them extremely desperate.

34. #34
    On September 16th, 2008 at 2:34 pm, rambler said:

    With the overwhelming number of public people wanting to advance Obama’s cause by whatever means necessary, I wonder what will happen if McCain/Palin are voted in. What will it take to get the raging libs to stop shoving their warped ideology down our throats? Ttheir perspective is.

35. #35
    On September 16th, 2008 at 2:36 pm, rambler said:

    Sorry, last line should be;
    The more they talk, the more warped their perspective is.

36. #36
    On September 16th, 2008 at 2:38 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On September 16th, 2008 at 12:20 pm, Regulus said:

    It was the Clintons, after all, who turned the IRS into a means of punishing his enemies with audits

    You know who else uses that tactic?

    Vladimir Putin.

    The threat of prosecution for tax fraud is the Kremlin’s weapon of choice against anyone who dares to challenge its hegemony.

37. #37
    On September 16th, 2008 at 2:40 pm, Flyoverman said:

    I am probably smoking funny things, but with all of the available ammo out there you have to ask yourself if things like Ayers are going to be used on Obama in October as part of a “Shock and Awe” type of strategic stike that overwhelms his ability to respond.

38. #38
    On September 16th, 2008 at 2:41 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    It was the Clintons, after all, who turned the IRS into a means of punishing his enemies with audits

    The threat of prosecution for tax fraud is the Kremlin’s weapon of choice against anyone who dares to challenge its hegemony.

    That’s one more reason why we need to abolish the IRS and institute the Fair Tax.

39. #39
    On September 16th, 2008 at 2:43 pm, Chief RZ said:

    Obama can not stand up to The Truth.

40. #40
    On September 16th, 2008 at 2:43 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On September 16th, 2008 at 12:25 pm, greenfairie said:

    You’re not Emperor yet, Obama.

    Naked Emperor News

41. #41
    On September 16th, 2008 at 3:28 pm, RetFireman said:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxoiZdBSi-g

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV_h-XwchkY

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpcTCH5zWfs

42. #42
    On September 16th, 2008 at 3:35 pm, emjem24 said:

    Hey, DOJ, if Obummer wants you to pursue investigation of those who criticize him, can McCain have you investigate Obummer’s ties to ACORN and the fraud that group has committed?

    How much did Obummer know and when did he know it?

43. #43
    On September 16th, 2008 at 4:20 pm, T-Bone said:

    Obama couldn’t be expected to know what kind of nefarious activities his benefactors are up to. He didn’t have time and resources to do a background check on Ayers. He was just a teacher and guy in the neighborhood trying to help underpriveleged youth same as Obama. Nothing to see here. Move along.
    He wasn’t convicted of anything. No prison bars on his house. yada yada.

    But now he knows…….and he doesn’t seem to concerned. I would be burning my bridges there. There are plenty more good decent citizens to work with than that guy.

    Oops.. forget..Chicago politicians are like a pot of bad stew. They can’t take out the bad ingredients so they just add more salt & pepper hoping people don’t notice the bad taste. People who don’t have enough to eat think it tastes great.

44. #44
    On September 16th, 2008 at 4:53 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Running For Hypocrite-In-Chief?

45. #45
    On September 16th, 2008 at 7:53 pm, corkie said:

    On September 16th, 2008 at 1:38 pm, rockhauler said:

    Ya’ll are looking at this as the DOJ not going after The Obama’s enemies, but not seeing that it means The Obama’s friends can safely ignore the law since no prosecution will happen.

    Obama’s friends can safely ignore what law?

    What law? What law can be ignored?

    Or are you trying to say that it means Republican’s can’t ask DOJ to conduct witch hunt investigations of Americans simply because they support Obama? No problem.

46. #46
    On September 16th, 2008 at 11:15 pm, bluedog said:

    So let me get this straight. A former constitutional law professor believes:

    1. The first amendment rights of a person who doesn’t believe as he does should be squelched by the DOJ.
    2. It’s OK for him to defy the Logan Act because he knows nothing will happen to him.
    3. Detainees from a foreign country should be extended constitutional rights after being captured on the battlefield.

    Anyone else scared?

47. #47
    On September 17th, 2008 at 11:49 am, TRM said:

    Thanks Michelle!