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The far left site Crooks and Liars jumps to the immediate conclusion that a psycho with lots of guns and lots of explosives is a right-wing anti-government loon. They also add this:
Of course, if this had been a Muslim extremist caught with such an arsenal, we'd be getting talk-show panels on Hannity featuring Michelle Malkin ranting at length about the threat of Islamic jihad, blah blah blah. Not to mention chatty discussion on Fox and Friends and Morning Joe.
But instead, because he's just a white anti-government extremist, hey, let's just give it a big shrug.
Hmmm...white anti-government extremist. Who does that remind me of? Let's see if I can recall. It's becoming clearer...white, anti-government, into explosives...
Oh yeah; the guy who was a mentor of the current president.
Yeah, I recall all the Crooks and Liars pieces condemning Hasan who, you know, actually killed people.
At 12:40 p.m. yesterday a man stepped through the doors of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He took two paces, lowered his rifle at a security guard and, before anyone could react, opened fire in a popular national landmark.
The guard, who did not have time to draw his gun, fell bleeding and fatally wounded to the polished floor. Other guards fired back, cutting down the assailant. Terrified patrons, many of them children, dived for safety. And what moments before had been a bright weekday in June became a tableau of violence
...The suspect, identified by law enforcement sources as James W. von Brunn, 88, of Annapolis, was said to be a longtime, "hard-core" supremacist whose Internet writings contain extensive, poisonous ravings against Jews and African Americans.
Shameless liberals will hold this up as another example of how right-wingers are going crazy and attach this dirt bag to all conservatives but the simple fact is this guy was a terrorist who hated Jews. He was no different than Ramzi Yousef or Bill Ayers. He was a friggin' terrorist who was responsible for the death of a human.
Note that none of them have brought up the hate-crime murder of the Army recruiter. it doesn't fit the meme I guess.
Sarah Palin mentioned that she still has an issue with the fact that Obama had/has and association with Bill Ayers. The libs can't seem to understand that some sane people question the choice of starting ones political career by seeking the blessing of a man who fought an insurgency against his own country, regardless if Obama won or not.
Read the comments to this Politico post and you'll the venom she conjures up. This is my personal fave:
Sarah is still condemning President-elect Obama which resonates louder coming from Mrs. Evil Palin and not condemning Ayers because he is walking around free as a bird. No respect for our Leader. I'm sick of her.
Posted By: Pallin Round | November 12, 2008 at 03:20 PM
Note the creepy way the dude/girl/whatever uses the word "Leader" and capitalizes it? Kinda like Kim Jong Il, huh? That's how the left sees Obama and the fact that he's not even taken office means nothing.
There's got to be another copy of this incriminating video and I'm thinking the guy or girl who gave it to the LA Times has it. Nobody with an iota of intelligence would give that tape up without making a copy and I'm sure that 175-large could help them out quite a bit. Here's the story:
Just got off the phone with an individual who has agreed to throw in another $25,000. This person checks out and has identified him/herself as a Freeper who uses the handle joinedafterattack.
This need not be the same video as the L.A. Times has. Just video that shows the event is what we’re looking for.
FOX News just reported that the known Jew-bashing contents of the video along with the L.A. Times refusal to release it has now become a part of Sarah Palin’s stump speech.
Man, the Times is going to come out of this looking really bad. A paper that is laying folks off left and right can't be doing what they're doing.
I wonder if the Obama campaign has info on who gave up the tape and I wonder if it provided by the Times. I also wonder if the Obama campaign offered to buy $175,000 worth of advertising from the Times today.
Who would discuss such a thing? Pol Pot? Saddam? Hitler? Stalin?
It couldn't be the people who "launched" Barack Obama's political career, could it? I thought I'd have read something about it in the paper.
These are the people who Obama has chosen as mentors and who he blurbed a book for. They are not just acquaintances. They have no qualms about discussing the liquidation of those they ideologically disagree with on a scale unheard of.
One flaw I see in their thinking was that they planned on putting the "re-education camps" in the Southwest. I'm currently in Houston and I would say that there's no way in hell that Texans would just drop their weapons and surrender to scumbags like Ayers and Dornh. I imagine those 25 in the Weather Underground would have ended up as deceased Ivy League grads.
Ben Smith at Politico has the story including audio:
In an interview with the sympathetic conservative talk radio host this afternoon, Obama offered the clearest explanation yet of how an extremely careful politician allowed himself anywhere near a former '60s radical who would become a Republican target in this year's presidential campaign.
Obama "had assumed" from Bill Ayers' stature in Chicago, he told the Philadelphia-based Michael Smerconish, that Ayers had been "rehabilitated" since his 1960s crimes. In the interview, which was taped this afternoon and will air tomorrow, and which you can listen to above, Obama recalled moving back to Chicago after law school, and becoming involved in civic life there.
"The gentleman in question, Bill Ayers, is a college professor, teaches education at the University of Illinois," he said. "That's how i met him -- working on a school reform project that was funded by an ambassador and very close friend of Ronald Reagan's" along with "a bunch of conservative businessmen and civic leaders."
"Ultimately, I ended up learning about the fact that he had engaged in this reprehensible act 40 years ago, but I was eight years old at the time and I assumed that he had been rehabilitated," Obama said.
Where to start.
First, Michael Smerconish is a lawyer and worked for the campaign of Bush 41. He's not a Conservative but is conservative on some issues. Call him Republican lite and he strives to be the guy who's fair. I listen to him daily and sometimes in his quest for fairness, he allows some questions to go unanswered by those he's interviewing. It seems to me that those who get off easier are Democrats because he wants to have them back on so he can continue to be perceived as fair. The fact that Obama chose a local Philly radio station and Smerconish to talk about Ayers says quite a bit.
That said, let's parse this for a second. Imagine if we weren't talking about William Ayers but were talking about Eric Rudolph. Rudolph placed a bomb at an abortion clinic that killed a security guard, one at a gay nightclub and another at the Atlanta Olympics that killed an attendee. He did it for political means in a war against the United States. Rudolph is in jail for the rest of his life.
William Ayers placed bombs at police stations, the Pentagon and during their escapades, a police officer was killed. He did it for political means in a war against the United States. Ayers is a tenured professor in Chicago having gotten off on a technicality.
Now imagine if John McCain was known to have associated with Rudolph actually having met and got his blessing before entering into politics. Further imagine McCain sitting on a board with Rudolph and setting up programs that doled out millions of dollars. What would you imagine the media would say? They would question his judgement and say he was not qualified to lead. It would be a story that would be splashed across the front pages of our major papers daily and would lead every newscast for the rest of the month.
Back to Obama. He said that he thought that Ayers had been "rehabilitated". Exactly what type of rehab is recommended for a left-wing zealot who waged a terrorist war against his own country? What therapy would one prescribe for a man who married a woman who participated in his crimes and was a fugitive for years? Is there a drug that turns one from a leftist radical who plants bombs into a person one would wish to serve on a board with and share lunch?
Both Rudolph and Ayers used bombs to further their political agenda, people died because of those actions and one is rightfully sitting in jail while the other was busy teaching and holding luncheons for a future presidential candidate. There's no difference between Ayers and Rudolph with the exception that one was a right-wing radical and the other a communist radical. Their aims were different but their tactics were identical. Ayers tactics were perhaps worse because Rudolph acted alone while Ayers was the leader of an organization and his followers were also committing violent crimes.
For Obama to say he thought Ayers had been rehabilitated is scandalous and for this reason alone should preclude him from winning the presidency. It's a sham that Obama says he didn't know of Ayers' past and then to say he believed him to be "rehabilitated" when anyone who knew any history of Chicago knew of Ayers. Obama chose to meet and serve with Ayers because Ayers was his ticket to winning elections and it was politically expedient for him to do so. Just as Obama knew of Rev. Wright's racism, he also knew exactly who he was dealing with in Ayers and chose to continue that association because it was beneficial to him. Either that or Obama truly was ignorant of Ayers terrorist past in which case he is too stupid to be be president. Obama may be alot of things but stupid is not one of them.
As for Smerconish, he tossed out softballs and let Obama take batting practice. Instead of following up with something like: "Senator, you say you thought he was rehabilitated, so that means you knew of his past activities when you met him?" (Obama has intimated previously that he didn't know of Ayers past) Smerconish asked about the Phillies-Dodgers series. Granted, it seemed as though he was pressed for time but if you were the one who scored this interview when the Ayers scandal was blowing up, wouldn't you have at least pressed him on it?
Update: I guess Obama didn't watch TV in 1998. It sure sounds as if Ayers and Dorhn were "rehabilitated", doesn't it?:
By the way the Obama campaign has been acting, very.
McCain not only stays on the offensive but increases the attack:
Why McCain didn't press this on Tuesday is beyond me but I digress. (Update: Obama is essentially saying the same thing for the record)
As Ed notes, McCain has added the requisite endorsement, which leads one to believe he's going to run this on TV in some markets and did not release it for Internet only.
But how effective will this tack be? Sure, people know of some of the details and Obama has been somewhat effective in countering them when aiming at those who don't know the minutiae of the relationship but this is devastating if the facts are fully known and the relationship is exposed.
Palin and McCain have got to pound Obama on this issue for at least the next week and then reopen the attacks on him with regard to Jeremiah Wright. He's on the defensive and if McCain/Palin can keep him that way, they'll close the gap.
I imagine that in the weeks after the campaign when undecideds are asked why they went for McCain, Ayers may well be a major reason.
With less than four weeks to go and coming off a lackluster debate, here's what's going on in the worlds of Obama/Biden & McCain/Palin.
Supposed big news from John McCain's camp today. Update: The big news is the Ayers ad.
Sarah Palin is going to drop the ceremonial first puck at the Flyers/Rangers game on Saturday. I expect to hear a smattering of boos but mostly cheers from the decidedly suburban crowd. A gamble for the campaign for sure but remember, these are fans that stopped a hockey game between these two teams so they could watch President Bush speak in the wake of 9/11. Best comment so far from Philly sports fans who are pissed off on a good day:
Good PR stunt by Snider! An attractive, smart, Vice Presidential candidate can drop the puck here anytime and promote the sport. Afterall, the Democrats have been dropping the ball in this City for decades.
Finding falsehoods in a Biden campaign e-mail. It's like counting hairplugs in a bad hairdo...
The spotlight is on ACORN and it's forcing the cockroaches to scurry. This is another Obama mess the media failed to report that is coming back to bite him. BTW, 105% of Indianapolis residents are registered, I would bet ACORN ensures that it's a full 118% by election day. Chicago politics goes national, baby! A whole nation full of "community activists" await the election of Obama.
Reporter: Obama plane reeks. Hope and change the air freshener on occasion.
This Ayers issue must really have them scared. The medias response is a steady drumbeat of fear and race baiting. Good.
Cindy McCain seems the quiet mother and wife. That is until you vote to withhold funding when her child is fighting for our nation in Iraq:
"The day that Senator Obama decided to cast a vote to not fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body," Cindy McCain told a crowd of several thousand here, speaking in advance of Palin and her husband."I would suggest Senator Obama change shoes with me for just one day and see what it means to have a loved one serving in the armed services."
Are theaters playing fast and loose with tickets for the conservative, Michael Moore-bashing An American Carol?
Here's the SNL skit eviscerating Pelosi, Soros, Bush and Frank plus those who got subprime loans. It was taken down by NBC, put back up, taken down and now it's up again. No bias here, just everyone move along...:
Sarah Palin continues to hammer Obama on William Ayers forcing him to respond and go on defense. Old Baba Wawa is not at all happy about this. Pitbull in lipstick, baby!
Yeah, that bailout solved all our problems, didn't it?
Is Tony Rezko about to speak and give Obama serious agita?
McCain has two more shots but this is the one to change the momentum. With the way things are trending, it's mucho important
How will the Maverick play it? If he goes with the talking points Maverick, probably not so good. Should he opt for the take no prisoners, get down and dirty Maverick, he could put The One on the defensive and turn him into a stuttering fool like he has a tendency to do sans teleprompter so it could be an enjoyable evening. I foresee a free-flowing debate in which the MSM will immediately declare The Messiah the winner but the public may see it differently. I also foresee McCain playing the Ayers/Wright/Fannie Mae card in which case I see the MSM calling it for Obama and saying McCain was mean, grumpy, surly or racist (or maybe a composite of all four).
Either way, The Maverick has to come out swinging and ready to take Obama down a few pegs. Take it to him from the opening bell and not let up for the duration. Yes, it could backfire, but as I noted earlier, these issues I mentioned above are new to those who have been living life and not reading blogs daily so if McCain hammers it home, it could be a game changer.
Obama has to explain his association with terrorist Bill Ayers and he has to do it now. His protestations that he was "eight years old" at the time of Ayers violence rings hollow with me and I suspect many others as well (including liberals).
The Obama campaign instead has chosen the tack of intimidation to keep the story under wraps and it's now to the point that the God-given right of Freedom of Speech is under attack by the Democrat nominee. This from the AIP:
The Barack Obama campaign has now sent a second letter to the Department of Justice calling for the prosecution of one of American Issues Project’s donors for his role in funding a political advertisement in full compliance with all election laws.
“Having failed in its attempts to get our legal, factual and fully-supported ad off the air, Barack Obama’s campaign now wants to put our donors in prison for exercising their right to free speech,” said Ed Martin, American Issues Project’s president. “These over-the-top bullying tactics are reminiscent of the kind of censorship one would see in a Stalinist dictatorship, with the only difference being that those guys generally had to wait until they were in power to throw people who disagreed with them into jail.”
Please keep up on this important issue as it is an alarming vision of what we could expect in an Obama administration. Michelle Malkin is writing great pieces about this daily.
I for one will not let this crucial story go. A guy who is now the Democrat nominee was associated with a man who waged war against this country. He has never apologized for his actions and didn't go to jail for the crimes simply because charges were dropped on a technicality. Think if John McCain had been shown to have an association with Timothy McVeigh and you'll grasp the significance.
Zombie got himself into some trouble reporting on the anarchists. It seems like the police were definitely prepared for the Recreate 68 idiots. Let's hope the St. Paul PD is as well.
Slick Willy will not attend the Obama coronation speech on Thursday.
Ayers/Obama papers released in Chicago. This story is not going away anytime soon with more revelations such as this coming out daily..
San Fran Nan is getting the old aunt in the attic treatment from Obama advisers.
I've sent this to the Chancellor at the University of Chicago at Illinois.
Paula Allen-Meares
Chancellor University of Illinois at Chicago
Dear Ms. Allen-Meares
As a citizen of the United States, I must address an issue that has not been thoroughly explained by the University. Mr. William Ayers is currently a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has been for some time. Mr. Ayers is an admitted domestic terrorist who targeted public institutions and helped plan acts that did massive amounts of damage. His organization was directly responsible for many bombings and attempted bombings including one aimed at police and soldiers.
He lived as a fugitive for years and never once admitted any remorse. In fact, on the morning of September 11, 2001 an essay written by him appeared in the New York Times and he said that the terror group he helped found "didn't do enough." Richard Reid, known as the "shoe bomber" never killed anyone but the intent was there and he's now serving life behind bars. Mr. Ayers never killed anyone but the intent was there as well.
As you are the Dean of UIC, I feel compelled to tell you that I have serious misgivings about my tax dollars, through tax breaks and federal programs, being given to UIC. According to the Chicago Flame, in 2007 $180-million of federal money--tax money--went to your institution and presumably to help pay the salaries of the staff including William Ayers.
That's unacceptable to me and I would assume to many others.
I'm calling for the expulsion of William Ayers from your university. A man who plotted violence against not only our government but also police and military personnel does not deserve to receive a paycheck paid for by tax dollars from the same government that he fought. He's an unrepentant terrorist who lives off the largess of taxpayers while never acknowledging that his actions caused harm to the nation and it's citizens.
In this age of electronic media, it will not be hard to generate support for this cause. As a veteran, I am personally disgusted that this man was welcomed into the UI system with open arms and given tenure.
Original post changed as I had the wrong woman earlier.
When Obama went after McCain on the "how many houses" deal, he left himself open to a full frontal assault on him on things that were not mainstream issues. The major one is Obama's association with unrepentant terrorist William Ayers. The McCain team produced this ad that was released a few days ago:
All factual and very inconvenient for The Messiah during his coronation week.
So, what does our hero Barry H.O. do? Well, he runs home and tells his Mommy that the boys in the neighborhood aren't playing nice and that the feds must get it off the air:
Barack Obama is striking back fiercely and swiftly to stamp out an ad that links him to a 1960s radical, eager to demonstrate a far more aggressive response to attacks than John Kerry did when faced with the 2004 "Swift Boat" campaign.
Obama not only aired a response ad to the spot linking him to William Ayers, but he sought to block stations the commercial by warning station managers and asking the Justice Department to intervene. The campaign also planned to compel advertisers to pressure stations that continue to air the anti-Obama commercial.
It's the type of going-for-the-jugular approach to politics many Democrats complain that Kerry lacked and that Republicans exploit.
Obama's target is an ad by the conservative American Issues Project, a nonprofit group that questions Obama's ties to Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground organization that took credit for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago.
The AP being the AP waters it down somewhat. First, John Kerry didn't respond to the Swift Boat attacks because they were truthful and was on tape lying during the "Winter Soldier" hearings. As for Obama, he's just as at a loss as Kerry because he has indeed had a relationship with a man who planned terror events against our nation.
The AP says that Obama is "going for the jugular" to protect himself but they fail to say that in doing so, he's making it a much larger issue. Now the MSM has to report this story and once it gets into the American consciousness, there's not changing it--think the Obama is a Muslim rumor and how hard he's fought to quash that particular innuendo.
As for going after advertisers, well, that's just stomping all over the 1st Amendment and Americans won't stand for that. McCain should have an ad out within a day slamming the campaign for stifling debate. The Obama hacks are all over the boycott bullshit but it will have zero effect since the Internet is the prime source of news now anyway--it sure as hell isn't the NY Times anymore.
So this must really have The Messiah on edge to go this far to stop this from becoming public knowledge. He's sinking daily in the polls and the convention isn't being watched by anyone so he most-likely won't get the bounce he expected. The implosion continues and this may be the biggest bang thus far.
Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds who remains the best in the business.
Police arrested some white supremacist's in an alleged plot to assassinate Barack Obama. Details are sketchy but a presser is scheduled for today to provide details.
Sen. Edward Kennedy and I agree on just about nothing. That said, it was nice to see the old liberal lion appear last night at the convention. He looked better than I had expected and spoke of a future of hope. Here's to hoping we see him at the next convention.
Obama just opened himself up to the William Ayers charges and he did it in his own ad. For those a little late to the game, Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground who bombed the Pentagon and killed policemen. Obama sat with him on boards and went to him to gain favor when starting out in politics. This may be the latest, yet greatest political blunder in a campaign that has seen many. This may have opened him up to even more associations that are, shall we say, sordid?
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