The 527’s Reply to Obama’s Efforts to Quash Ayers Ad
By SusanUnPC on August 25, 2008 at 8:45 PM in Current Affairs
On August 23rd, Larry Johnson wrote this article: “Obama Tries to Quash Ayers Ad.” Here is Larry’s opening paragraph which gives you some background on the controversy that has led to a filing by the Obama campaign with the Department of Justice (”Obama to DOJ: Block terrorist ad,” Politico.com, August 25, 2008) and a letter, obtained by No Quarter today, from the 527 campaign — the American Justice Project — to broadcast stations nationwide on August 24, 2008. That letter is reproduced in FULL below. First, from Larry’s story:
Bud White’s excellent piece on the Republican 527 ad now hitting the airwaves showing only part of Barack Obama’s relationship with unrepentant American terrorist, Bill Ayers, has the Obama campaign worried. First, here is the ad:
Larry then provided a copy of the letter that Obama’s campaign wrote to television stations around the country.
Today, we have received a copy of the letter sent by counsel for the 527, the American Issues Project, Inc., to all broadcast stations. Here is a aip-response.pdf. Below is the RTF version of the letter, which is 12 pages long:
PLEASE VIEW THE PDF version for the proper formatting. Here is the letter, sans formatting:
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Washington Harbour
3000 K Street, N.W., Suite 500
Washington, D.C. 20007-5143
202.672.5300
202.672.5399
www.foley.com
202.295.4081
Memorandum
CLIENT-MATTER NUMBER
999100-0130
TO: Station Managers / Legal Counsel
FROM: Cleta Mitchell, Esq.
Counsel to American Issues Project, Inc.
CC: Ed Martin, President
American Issues Project, Inc.
DATE: August 24, 2008
RE: Response to Obama Campaign Letter - August 23, 2008 Regarding American Issues Project Advertising
This letter is a formal response to the Memorandum dated August 22, 2008, from counsel to the Obama for President campaign, Mr. Robert F. Bauer (“Obama Memo”) in response to the advertising sponsored by my client for airing on your station(s), American Issues Project (“AIP”) (“the Ad”).
General Response. The Obama Memo argues initially that AIP’s substantial and thorough 167-page documentation and research in support of the Ad, which was provided to your station and publicly posted on the AIP website (www.americanissuesproject.org) was provided for the purpose of ‘hiding the truth’ or attempting to confuse station managers regarding the Ad. The purpose of the documentation is, of course, the opposite.
My client was well aware of the need to carefully and thoroughly research and substantiate every assertion in the Ad, which is exactly what has been done. The research document in your possession includes the full articles and transcripts, not excerpts or headlines. Every statement in the Ad is clearly stated, with the documentation for that statement furnished in its entirety.
By contrast, the Obama Campaign has furnished as its ‘documentation’ to refute the Ad a two and one-half page memorandum, with twelve footnotes, three of which are to AIP’s own research. None of the articles in their entirety were furnished, which would disclose that the ‘sources’ for the assertions in the Obama Memo include editorials by left-wing writers and publications, one transcript with an incorrect date, all without authors or titles of the articles, and none of which include the context of the statements cited to refute the factual statements in the Ad.
The Obama campaign asserts that the ad is “a malicious attempt to link Senator Obama to domestic terrorist activities.” The Ad does absolutely nothing of the sort.
Instead, the Ad discloses information that is factually accurate regarding William Ayers and his domestic terrorist activities including bombing the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon among other government buildings and targets. The fundamental information in the Ad discloses the relationship between Sen. Obama and Ayers, asking why a candidate for President of the United States chooses to associate himself with such an individual — ever.
The Ad raises an important and quite legitimate issue that should be addressed by any candidate seeking the highest office in the land, which carries with it the responsibility of serving as Commander-in-Chief of America’s Armed Forces and the leadership of the free and democratic world. AIP questions why Senator Obama would be friends with William Ayers, someone who engaged in detestable acts against the United States, continues to insult American values, and refuses to apologize for attacks on his own country.
The voluminous documentation is furnished in order to assuage any doubts regarding the veracity of every statement and assertion in the Ad. The Obama Memo’s efforts to discredit the research by arguing that it is “too much information” ignores the depth and breadth of the research contents. Yes, it is a lot of information – which my client believed was important to provide in order to demonstrate the magnitude of this topic and the substance of the Ad.
Specific Responses. The Obama Memo expresses concern with two specific word choices in the Ad, to which we respond as follows, underscoring the hollow and wholly unsubstantiated objections raised by the Obama campaign to the Ad.
The Ad’s Reference to the Obama Defense of William Ayers as “Respectable” And “Mainstream”
The Obama Memo states that “Sen. Obama has never referred to William Ayers as ‘respectable’ and ‘mainstream’.” That is simply incorrect.
Sen. Obama and the Obama presidential campaign have both consistently defended Ayers as an upstanding member of the Chicago community. (Please refer to page 104 of the American Issues Project research document for the entire sequence of documentation related to this topic.)
Specifically:
On a campaign fact check released after the Democratic presidential debate sponsored by ABC News on April 17, 2008, the Obama Campaign writes that “Ayers And Dohrn Became Respectable Fixtures Of The Mainstream In Chicago.”
The Obama Memo confirms the Obama campaign posted those words on its website, www.BarackObama.com, and cites to the same left-wing op-ed article that described Ayers as a respected figure of education in “mainstream liberal Chicago.”
The Obama Campaign website still contains the following defense of Ayers: “Ayers Is A Tenured Professor At The University Of Illinois At Chicago And Was A ‘Respected Advisor’ To Mayor Daley On School Reform.” See www.BarackObama.com, accessed 08/23/08
On August 14, 2008, the Obama campaign released a forty-one page “fact check” refuting claims made in Jerome Corsi’s book, Obama Nation. The Obama campaign did NOT choose to refute the relationship between Sen. Obama and Ayers, but instead defends Ayers’ standing in the community. The Obama Campaign document released this past week describes Ayers and his wife as “members of the establishment.” The exact statements in their entirety are attached to this Response and can be found on the Obama Campaign’s website publication on page 16. The Obama Campaign has posted this week three “testimonials” to William Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn as ‘mainstream’ and ‘respectable’. The simple fact is that the Obama Campaign has repeatedly defended Ayers, including the defense published this past week.
The Obama Memo states that despite his campaign’s defense of Ayers as respectable and mainstream, Sen. Obama ‘himself’ has not uttered those words. It is preposterous to suggest that the official campaign website does not represent Sen. Obama. Any campaign website is a sufficiently related surrogate to its candidate to belie such a statement and such an absurd claim hardly merits a response. Using that logic, your station would not be asking for my client’s response since Sen. Obama did not himself write the memorandum to which we are now responding. It would be a new and strange principle for a presidential candidate to claim that the official campaign website cannot be said to speak for him.
The Ad states, truthfully:
But Barack Obama is friends with Ayers, defending him as quote “respectable” and “mainstream.”
The Obama campaign has defended Ayers in the past and continues to do so. Sen. Obama has never publicly repudiated either Ayers or his campaign website’s defense of Ayers.
The Use Of The Word “Launched.”
The Obama Memo misstates the words of the Ad, falsely stating that the Ad states or suggests that Sen. Obama’s “career” was launched in the Ayers home. The Ad does NOT say that.
AIP recognizes, as the Campaign Memo pointed out, that Sen. Obama had worn many hats prior to the event in William Ayers’ home. His work as a community organizer in Chicago, being the first African-American President of the Harvard Law Review, having run a successful voter registration drive in Chicago, lecturing at the University of Chicago Law School and as civil rights attorney, serving on two philanthropic boards in Chicago and winning numerous awards for civic engagement and legal work are all very impressive achievements.
However, none of his jobs, whether paid positions or volunteer, were part of his “political career.” The exact language of the Ad states that Obama’s political career was launched in William Ayers’ home. That language is correct and was carefully chosen.
There are thousands of Americans who have won awards, lectured at universities, and assisted with voter registration drives, very few of whom have gone on to run for any political office. The Obama Memo manipulated the language of the Ad in an attempt to change the subject and refute a claim that the Ad does not make.
The language used to describe the Ayers’ event is absolutely accurate for the following reasons:
a. AIP merely repeats the description of the event as a “launch”. The word “launched” derives from two public sources, originally used in 2005 by a person who was in attendance at the event held in the home of William Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn to describe the event, then restated in an article published earlier this year.
“When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the living room of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn…they were launching him—introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread.” From blog of Maria Warren, 2005.
An article in The Politico on February 22, 2008 by Ben Smith referenced and quoted the Warren blog in his article, “Obama Once Visited 60’s Radicals” and used the word “launched” in his article describing the event. That entire article was furnished as part of the research book documenting the ad and is also contained in the research posted on the AIP website.
b. The term ‘launch’ was first used to describe the event by a first-person witness to/at the event. The Ad relies on the actual written statement of an individual who was in attendance at the event and derives the word “launch” from that witness. A first person witness’s account and description of the event is the best documentation for the term.
c. There is no documentation of any other word to describe the event. To arbitrarily select another word or term to describe the event at Ayers’ home and its relationship to Sen. Obama’s political career would be un-sourced and un-documented. My client has made every effort to use only words and information that is completely sourced and well-documented.
d. There is no published record to document any organizing event for the Obama state senate race prior to the one held in Ayers’ home in 1995. The research discloses no public record of an event prior to the one in the Ayers’ home regarding the open state senate seat to which Sen. Obama had decided to seek.
In fact, the news that the state senate seat was being vacated by the incumbent Alice Palmer was announced to her closest supporters at the gathering in the Ayers home. There was no public record or announcement of her intention to vacate the seat to run for Congress prior to late June, 1995. We do not know the exact date of the Ayers event because neither Sen. Obama nor William Ayers has been willing to publicly discuss the details of their relationship.
Another attendee at the Ayers event, Dr. Quentin Young, stated that this event was the first he had heard that there was to be a vacancy in the state senate seat:
“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, [Bernardune] Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.” (Ben Smith, , “Obama Once Visited ’60s Radicals,” Politico, 2/22/08)
The Ayers event was a private gathering of the key political leaders in the state senate district, according to the attendees at the event.
Following the event, the sequence of public announcements and publicly filed information regarding the state senate vacancy and election is as follows:
Alice Palmer Announced On June 28, 1995 That She Would Run For The U.S. House Seat. “The expected stampede of politicians hoping to succeed Rep. Mel Reynolds began Tuesday with the first Democrat announcing her challenge to the beleaguered congressman in the primary. State Sen. Alice Palmer told supporters at the Bismarck Hotel she would work to create jobs and provide the leadership she says has been missing in the South Side and south suburban congressional district under Reynolds and his predecessor, Gus Savage.” (Scott Fornek, “Reynolds’ 1st Challenger Announces,” Chicago Sun-Times, 6/28/95)
One week later, Sen. Obama Announced On July 7, 1995 That He Would Run For Palmer’s Old Seat. “Barack Obama will announce he’s running for the state Senate seat occupied by Alice Palmer, who’s running for Reynolds’ U.S. congressional seat. Obama, who has worked with Palmer, is an attorney at Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galance-and newly published author of ‘Dreams from My Father.’” (Judy Hevrdejs And Mike Conklin, “Something Different, Democrats Don’t Add A Senate Candidate,” Chicago Tribune, 7/7/95)
e. Neither the Obama Campaign nor Sen. Obama have previously objected to the description of the Ayers meeting as an important early event for his state senate campaign. On April 16, 2008, during the ABC debate between Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton, host George Stephanopoulos specifically asked Sen. Obama about the meeting at Ayers’ home. Sen. Obama did NOT reject the notion that the meeting was ‘an early organizing meeting’ which is what the term “launch” also implies. The transcript specifically reads:
George Stephanopoulos: “An early organizing meeting for your state senate campaign was held at his [Ayers] house and your campaign has said you are “friendly”.” (emphasis added)
Sen. Obama did not correct Stephanopoulos nor did he object to the representation or characterization of the meeting as an important beginning point for his state senate campaign and political career. Further, prior to the Obama Memo in responding to the Ad, neither Sen. Obama nor the Obama campaign had taken issue with the characterization of the description of the meeting as a ‘launch’ of his state senate campaign, despite the published references using that term dating back to 2005.
f. The meaning of the word ‘launch’ in this context is entirely appropriate. In checking the general meaning of the word “launch”, the following definitions appear: “the act of starting out”, “to commence”, “to initiate”, “to get going”. It seems that the person attending the event chose exactly the right word to describe the event and the Ad’s use of the term fully comports with a proper description of the event in the Ayers’ home according to customary usage. The common vernacular and use of the term makes it entirely appropriate for this purpose.
The Obama Memo cites a Sunday Times [London] article from April 13, 2008 in a feeble attempt to prove the event in Ayers’ home was not Obama’s political ‘launch’. However, nothing in the cited article proves the point of the Obama Memo.
Here is the quote in the Obama Memo:
“Sam Ackerman, a Chicago political activist and neighbour of Ayers, said: ‘The whole thing is preposterous. I held the first fundraiser for Obama, when he ran for the state senate, in my house. A lot of people held little coffee meetings. It wasn’t a big deal.’” (Sarah Baxter, “‘Terrorist’ Link Puts Obama Under Fire,” Sunday Times [London], 4/13/08)
Sam Ackerman may have very well hosted the first fundraiser for Sen. Obama’s first political campaign, but the first campaign contribution reported to the Obama state senate campaign was July 31, 1995, a full month after Alice Palmer announced publicly that she was vacating the office and three weeks after Sen. Obama announced his candidacy for the office. Further, the Friends of Barack Obama committee was not filed until August 7, 1995.
See Records of Illinois State Board of Elections, www.elections.state.il.us
The first fundraising event was obviously held after the Ayers event, which was described by two people who were there as an introduction to the chosen successor, Barack Obama, to the closest supporters of the incumbent, before their subsequent public announcements and before any fundraising or contributions were reported to the Illinois State Board of Elections.
The event in Ayers’ home was never described as a “fundraiser”, such as the event that Ackerman describes of the one that he hosted. In fact, there is a contribution reported on the Obama state senate finance report from Sam Ackerman on Dec. 31, 1995, and multiple other contributions are also reported on that date. Perhaps that was the campaign fundraiser to which Ackerman referred, but it is obviously well after the event in the Ayers home.
The Obama Memo twists the language of the Ad in an attempt to distract from the facts that have been thoroughly documented and the language describing the event having been extracted from an eye-witness who was present at the event.
Conclusion. The language of the Ad is precise and well-documented. The Obama Memo does not in any way provide support or substantiation for its objections to the Ad and its contents. If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact me at (202) 295-4081 or (202) 431-1950. Thank you.
Attachments:
A. Page from “Unfit for Publication”, posted on the Obama for President website on August 14, 2008
B. Screen Grab from Obama for President Website, referring to William Ayers as “Respectable” and “Mainstream”
Attachment A
Obama Campaign Still Defending Ayers as Mainstream and Respectable
From “Unfit for Publication”, p. 16. A ‘fact check’ response from the Obama Campaign in response to the book “Obama Nation” by Jerome R. Corsi (www.barackobama.org, accessed 08/23/08)
LIE: “Sol Stern, a contributing editor of Chicago’s City Journal, has observed that while Ayers today ‘is widely regarded as a member in good standing of the city’s civic establishment, not an
unrepentant domestic terrorist,’ the impression of Ayers’s good citizenship is incorrect.” [p 140 of “Obama Nation” by Jerome Corsi]
REALITY: AYERS AND DOHRN ARE MEMBERS OF THE ESTABLISHMENT WITH TIES TO THE MAYOR
Mayor Daley: Bill Ayers Worked With Me In Shaping Our Now Nationally-Renowned School Reform Program And Tarring Obama For Knowing Him Is Another Reason Americans Are Angry With Washington. “There are a lot of reasons that Americans are angry about Washington politics. And one more example is the way Senator Obama’s opponents are playing guilt-by-association, tarring him because he happens to know Bill Ayers. I also know Bill Ayers. He worked with me in shaping our now nationally renowned school reform program. He is a nationally-recognized distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois/Chicago and a valued member of the Chicago community. I don’t condone what he did 40 years ago but I remember that period well. It was a difficult time, but those days are long over. I believe we have too many challenges in Chicago and our country to keep re-fighting 40 year old battles.” [Tribune, 4/17/08]
FIU Law Professor Stanley Fish: I Too Have Eaten Dinner At Bill Ayers House (More Than Once), Served On A Committee With Him, And He Was One Of Those Who Recruited My Wife And Me At A Reception When We Were Considering Positions At UIC. Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and a professor of law at Florida International University, in Miami Stanley Fish wrote, “Confession time. I too have eaten dinner at Bill Ayers’s house (more than once), and have served with him on a committee, and he was one of those who recruited my wife and me at a reception when we were considering positions at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Moreover, I have had Bill and his wife Bernardine Dohrn to my apartment, was a guest lecturer in a course he taught and joined in a (successful) effort to persuade him to stay at UIC and say no to an offer from Harvard. Of course, I’m not running for anything, but I do write for The New York Times and, who knows, this association with former fugitive members of the Weathermen might be enough in the eyes of some to get me canned. Did I conspire with Bill Ayers? Did I help him build bombs? Did I aid and abet his evasion (for a time) of justice? Not likely, given that at the time of the events that brought Ayers and Dohrn to
public attention, I was a supporter of the Vietnam War. I haven’t asked him to absolve me of that sin (of which I have since repented), and he hasn’t asked me to forgive him for his (if he has any). Indeed in all the time I spent with Ayers and Dohrn, politics — present or past — never came up.” [New York Times, 4/27/08]
Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Marshall: Ayers And Dohrn Are “Absolutely Upstanding Establishment Citizens.” The Washington Post reported, “‘It’s kind of laughable for people who have worked with Bernadine and Bill in the most boring and mundane settings and recognize that they’re absolutely upstanding establishment citizens today,’ said Lawrence C. Marshall, a Stanford University law professor. He recalled a juvenile justice project: ‘Judges who were lifelong ardent conservatives had no trouble recognizing that the work that Bernadine and Bill are now doing is completely divorced from anything in their background.’” [Washington Post, 4/8/08]
Attachment B: Screen Grab from official Obama website – see p. 2 Website describes Ayers as “respectable” and “mainstream”.
1 At some point, the Obama campaign removed the page referring to Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn as “respectable” and “mainstream” from the campaign’s website. A copy of the screen grab of the page that has subsequently been removed from the site is attached to this Response Memorandum. Attachment B.
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GREAT ADD! Maybe Obama can tell us exactly what is untrue about the add? Fu*k this egomaniacal canman. It is WAY past time someone came out real plain and simple in public and painted this scum bag as the oppertunistic, mercenary, political whore he is. I was always told call a spade a spade, a jack a jack but always call a whore a Lady. Cause their life is hard enough and it don’t cost nothing to be polite. Obama is sure one big political Lady.
Not the “they served on the left wing board” comment.
Board of what?
More Republican knee-jerking that the word “left wing” merely uttered is damning.
Jack The Woods Foundation
The Woods Fund
The Annenberg Challenge
The Educational Leadership Organization
Bernadine Dorn, Bill Ayer’s wife, who took credit for the bombings in New York, was a coworker with Michelle Obama at the Chicago law firm where Barack Obama and Michelle Obama met.
And Barack Obama launched his very first political campaign with a kick off party in their living room.
This was just a guy in Barack’s neighborhood, unless by neighborhood Barack means a two decade long working and personal relationship- he is flat out lying.
Great letter from the Attorney about that ad. Just shows what Obama and Co. are up against. They think they are cool and are going to do a cake walk through this stuff. Ha!
An excerpt from the letter:
I’m glad you posted the information. I can use this. It will be a complete blood bath this political season. We are stoked and ready for it since we are well rested to deal with the obamanation.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/1124667,CST-NWS-dem25.article
Intimidate, intimidate–that’s been consistent with the Obama camp, no? The above Sun-Times story is about Obama’s buddy Emil Jones calling a black Hillary delegate an Uncle Tom.
So if you are not for Obama, then you are a traitor to your race? Wow.
Obama did NOT call someone an Uncle Tom…and he is not responsible for what Emil Jones said (and maybe he had a reason to say what he did???? How do you know the circumstances). The ad above most certainly states that Obama’s career was launched in Ayers home….what is Susan UnPC talking about? And, guess what…Ayers is considered a respected member of the Chicago community. He often comes to the office across the hall from where I work, his wife is active in my friends’ local bookstore….they are no more considered radicals than Mickey Mouse at this point. Don’t you have a life? why on earth would you spend so much time on this subject….who cares??
You obviously hang out with the Hyde Park crowd. The majority of Americans disapprove of bombing federal buildings, police stations, killing police officers, cheering for the Mansons, placing bombs in the cars of federal judges when their children could’ve been in it the next morning on their way to school and so on. The Weather Underground were a bunch of lunatics and gave the left a bad name. Ayers never served a day in jail or apologized for what he did; in fact, he bragged about it. He still hates our government. So, it’s important to examine why he endorsed Obama, the nature of the work they did together and how it reflects on Obama’s values. Ayers’ father was a fat cat executive, well-connected in Chicago, and Bill himself is respected among the LEFT. He is corrupt and seemingly unpleasant to be around. If he is so respectable, though, than what’s the big deal?
People who still take pride in being American care about this.
Yet to be discussed (big surprise) in the MSM is that when first asked about the Ayers connection, Axelrod said that the Ayers and 0bamas kids went to school together … which is horsehockey. Wikipedia: Ayers is married to Bernardine Dohrn, a fellow radical whom he met with during his time with Weather Underground with whom he has two adult children. They earlier shared legal guardianship of a third child, now also an adult. An interesting little side note … I believe that the child whose custody they shared was the offspring of Bill’s girlfriend who died in one of the bombings.
Since Bill’s kids are grown and we know the ages of Soretoes little girls, I can only imagine they take music lessons together!
I am glad that you pointed this out because it clearly shows that Axelrod was frightened of Obama being associated with Ayers — so he lied about it. I did the research when Axelrod first mentioned the kids thing and found the same information. If he has nothing to fear about it, he wouldn’t have smokescreened it.
The asshole Ayers said in a recent interview that he wishes he’d done more back in the day. He didn’t cause enough fear and carnage. But of course you would defend him. I’m sure you would feel differently if it was your family that got blown up. You are a horrible person.
ya a far leftists defending crack pot terrorists
You are something else Janine. I shouldn’t be feeding the trolls, but you are one of those typical Chicago hacks that can not see the world for what it is outside of your corrupt, dirty little city. I know Chicago well, and it’s an awful social culture. Closer to communism (with slight aristocratic fascism) than our republican democracy. Emil Jones is a hardcore south side hack politician who made Obama what he is today. Without Jones’ help, BHO would still be a backbencher in the state Senate. And, having seen Sen. Jones operate for years, I know he is more than capable of this. He has called members of the House, “house n—-rs” because they support the white Speaker over him. He is really a sad man who just retired, and guess what - he is doing the Chicago tradition of retiring pols - installing his non-college educated, state bureacrat son to his job, without a primary election. And, Sen. Jones has over $500,000 in his campaign account that can be used for personal purposes due to a state loophole. He is an ass of a man and he should be ashamed of himself.
Now back to Ayers. Just because you pinkos living in what you consider “mainstream” Chicago happen to like Mr. Ayers, that does not mean that a vast majority of Americans would never even shake this guys hand, let alone have dinner, cocktails, or a professional relationship with the man. Just because King Richard the Corrupt (Mayor Daley for all you non-Chicagoans) has issued a proclamation to his subjects decalring Ayers a friend of the kingdom, that does not mean those persons who do not receive some of Mayor Daley’s special city water will not see the horror in this relationship.
Sorry Janine, but there is a reason BHO has put an ad out addressing this issue. They know if t finally gets traction, they are toast. Ayers is Willy Horton, Jennifer Flowers, and Swiftboats all rolled into one. Your boy started it when he attacked McCain’s wife for being rich - now he’s going to feel the pain of the oppo research machine.
Great post Joe, thanks for writing it.
Who cares???????? I do. Ayres is a domestic terroist and would be in jail or with Timothy McVeigh if it were not for the fact that the FBI f***ed up. You may not care, but a lot of Americans do. This speaks to character and is a legitimate question and issue for anyone who us running for POTUS. Your guy is not exempt from vetting and questioning.
“guilty as sin, free as a bird, it’s a great country”
—bill ayers
All through this campaign he has let his followers do the name calling while appearing above it. When have you EVER heard him tell his supporters to be polite or respectful of other candidates followers?
His campaign of intimidation though his army of thugs is one of the reasons we still oppose him so much.
They vacillate between being thugs and then whine-y crybabies running to lawyers. Makes me ill. Nothing to respect there. Split personality of a playground bully.
Goddamn it, do these effete leftists think they can get away with knowingly befriending an unrepentant bomber AND BRAGGING ABOUT IT?? It’s embarrassing to me that people of such compromised morality call themselves Democrats. They bring shame on our party, and I can’t blame the Reeps for calling them out.
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So why in 2001 (on 9/11 no less) did Ayers say they didn’t do enough in those radical days?
did you even read the post? EMIL JONES–OBAMA’S SUGAR DADDY CALLED THE PERSON AN UNCLE TOM.
Tightly wrapped message, tightly wrapped overreaction.
Team Obama shares its leader’s emotional insecurities.
And all are about ready to snap - pass the popcorn!
Wait till next week. Things haven’t even STARTED yet.
Oh, I know. I can’t wait. Can you spell avalanche?
One would think this week will be exciting with this lawsuit that was filed last Thursday in PA. See the complaints at:
http://www.obamacrimes.com
It’s going to be at least 2 weeks before those papers are served….they have to be served in Washington DC.
papers have already been served.
US attorney in PA confirms FEC was served and is looking at the suit.
kat,
Black Republicans get that all the time despite the fact that from 1865 to 1932 the Republican Party was the Party of Blacks.
Not to mention that it was part of the mission of the KKK to drive Republicans out of the South.
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Larry - my guess is that the ad this post is about will go viral. Then the Shrinking Media will have to cover it. Just to explain what the fuss is about.
I just did a bit on it. I had other sources. Sorry. I’m over here looking for stuff though.
BTW loved your bit on “having a last smoke and waiting at the start line” did a post on that too. I get a lot of flack about your less than stellar prediction record, but I like to extrapolate from limited data too so you are fine by me. I like to say about myself: “frequently wrong. Never dull.” I think you fit in there too.
They have been doing their homework for quite a while. This may be a first, a candidate “swiftboated” with the truth.
The Repubs will be doing that a lot if the DNC carries through with its anointing of Obama.
I posted something that I was tipped off to by a GOP contact the other day, and that contact’s information was obviously correct: Obama and his goons have started their ‘big push’ to silence dissenters in various forums, including radio, TV, print, YouTube etc.
This started in earnest over the weekend and is a concerted effort. The first target was the AP’s Ron Fournier, and the AP itself. Now comes the attack at the American Issues Project and Sinclair broadcasting. This is the top rec’d diary at Kos, to contact Sinclair. I URGE people to contact Sinclair and tell them that you support free speech and, if you feel that way, that you support the ad as well. Please help fight back against the Stalinists who want to silence all criticism of Barack. First they call you ‘racist,’ then they file lawsuits with the DOJ. We CANNOT and WILL NOT be the next Alice Palmers for some Chicago punk. Here is the Sinclair contact info:
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
10706 Beaver Dam Road
Hunt Valley, Maryland 21030
410-568-1500 (Main Telephone)
410-568-1533 (Main Fax)
http://www.sbgi.net/contact/contact.shtml
I have emailed and called, both. When you call you will be given a series of options for extensions, or I was, anyways. I left my message with the ‘programming’ department.
This is happening now, this intimidation attempt by Camp Obama, because this is Obama’s last week to try to right his ship and take control of the election and he wants to have full control of the message and quash any and all dissent. So, it’s a two-pronged strategy: Work the convention and below the radar start running these hit campaigns on journos and outlets that aren’t bowing to Barack. This is what is going on, the strategy.
I cannot stress this strongly enough: If you want to see Obama lose, start reaching out both in support and denunciation of those outlets which deserve the appropriate reaction. Support Sinclair. Also support Ron Fournier and his editor, Michael Oreskes. Tell them either that you liked Fournier’s piece on Obama’s choosing Biden or at least you support Fournier’s right to express his opinion on the Biden pick without being hounded by a goon squad:
moreskes@ap.org
rfournier@ap.org
Go to the American Issues Project site and tell them that you like their Ayers/Obama ad, or at least support their right to run that ad:
http://www.americanissuesproject.org/contact/
Write Steve Capus, head of NBC, and tell him you are tired of the bias, that you support what Ed Rendell said about the network’s unfair reporting on Clinton and Obama and that you are outraged that Chris Matthews said that several PUMA women were, essentially nuts on the air tonight (on Keith Olbermann’s show, I think)
Chuck Todd is in full spin mode, seeking to downplay the phenomenon of PUMA at every opportunity. This is not reporting, it’s ‘planting,’ as in planting ideas in the public’s mind to try to get a result you desire. They want PUMAs and those who don’t support Obama to feel deflated, dispirited. Fight back, tell them you will boycott their network unless they present fairer, more objective coverage.
Contact CNN’s Lou Dobbs and tell him that you support his objectivity and the network’s more-balanced coverage in the last few days:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?7
Right now, Obama, the DNC and the tanked-out media is making their move to try to finish the coup that was begun months ago. If you care about the Democratic Party, and the country in general, you must act now. Obama’s people are acting, and if we don’t work to offset their efforts then we will get the same result as we did in the primary. Send one email, make one call. Now is the time and you can help stop the Obama Camp’s authoritarian power play attempt. Please help.
This is what is going on now - the making of target lists, the attempts at dismissing the Clintons and their supporters and attempts at shutting down free speech like the one Susan writes about here.
Think about what things would be like if Obama actually were elected, and had the ability to come after people from the Oval Office.
It is chilling.
It doesn’t matter who you’re voting for in November. If you support freedom of speech and oppose fascistic goon squads, please contact these and/or other outlets that I listed and help stop these totalitarian tactics being rolled out by Barry and his Chicago thugs.
America needs your help.
I stopped watching CNN months ago.
Thank you, Paul, for posting this - I will contact as many as I can in the next day or two.
And here I thought this gang of thugs couldn’t get any scarier…
Thank you, firefly. Really appreciate it.
We have to act now. This pushback attempt by BHO and his thugs is timed with the convention. We must meet their efforts and help to hold them down until the convention is done.
This is a very coordinated strategy by Team Ofraud, and it has to be understand and countered.
That’s the great thing about the internet and the “alternative media”. This ad will get plenty of play on YouTube and on independent blogs throughout cyberspace. Then the traditional media will be shamed into running it.
I hope so, Dan. And I think you’re right.
I have the ad on my YouTube channel and it has like 30,000 hits, so it is getting out there.
As I said, you don’t have to like the ad. As long as you like free speech, that is enough. The ad is accurate, and there is no reason it should not be heard.
No tolerance for authoritarians. If you give them one inch, the next thing you know you won’t be able to say anything.
Thanks for all of the information, especially the addresses and email links. Makes it very easy to contact these folks. You have put a lot of hard work into this and I appreciate it.
I have a question though. Is the DOJ the usual venue for complaints like this about campaign ads? Why is Obama going this route? And wouldn’t free speech trump any complaint by Obama? This does not rise to the level of yelling fire in a crowded theater. Of course, I am not a lawyer or Constititional scholar. But I don’t think he has a skinny leg to stand on.
I am glad AIP is fighting back. And politically it is dumb of the Obama campaign to do this. It just keeps the issue out there and makes him look foolish and like he is not an advocate of free speech.
Please everyone on this site, take action!!!!
I am not a lawyer or Constititional scholar
I am also not a good speller or typist - Constitutional
Thanks, Bert.
The AIP response is a blueprint for how the Obama Team has to be dealt with in order to close down their attempts to silence those who do not agree with them.
Obama’s Team is a very well-coordinated, centralized outfit. I don’t know this from studying their organizational structure but I can tell it from their execution. They work on this unified strike force principle in their Obama Camp gatherings, I am sure.
What you see from them is the community organizing principle brought to a presidential election. That is why, as Larry Johnson and, I believe, Steve Diamond, have reported on, Team Obama is still so tied-up with ACORN: they’re working off of the same principles and they have the same foundations.
I cannot tell you if the DOJ is the appropriate forum for such complaints. My first reaction is that it is not, and that the proper forum is the FEC. But I could be wrong. I am not a lawyer and don’t know the applicable statutes.
My gut feeling is that the DOJ move — much like the ‘Unfit for Publication’ rebuttal to Corsi’s work — is more of a public relations ploy than it is an actual, substantive attempt to refute the ad or the book. In other words, it’s like a cobra extending its hood: It makes Obama look as though he’s aggressively taking on the ad or the issues the book raises, but the rebuttals are doomed to failure on the merits. However, the public that comes across the Team Obama efforts might not know that, and so they will accept that Obama has, for example, ‘refuted’ The Obama Nation. It’s a shell game.
Obama’s people are like Bolsheviks, professional revolutionaries. It’s not an accident that pictures of Che Guevara have popped up at various Obama campaign offices.
I’ll put it as bluntly as I can: These people who are part of the extended Obama team, and the people calling the shots, are ruthless and relentless. They are efficient. They are cold blooded. So is Obama.
You cannot give these people one inch. This has nothing to do with race, either. Ask Bill Ayers. It’s about a mindset, a worldview, and a commitment to a certain method. I know that Larry Johnson, certainly, is familiar with this kind of organization. The problem is that many Americans are not familiar with this kind of outfit, and neither is the media. And the point guy, Obama, is biracial, which makes criticizing him more problematic for many.
This is all by design. It is part of the reason why Obama was picked to run.
The only way you beat these people is to stare them down and answer their every move. They will do anything, say anything.
The AIP response here is, as I said, how you deal with the Obama candidates of the world. Their response and previous preparation is an example all of us should follow.
Thanks Paul, you’re the best.
I sent a couple of emails and will try to do more tomorrow.
Thank you, meileen. Your efforts are very much appreciated.
Paul,
I have sent emails to all you mentioned.
During a Politico panel, Jesse Jackson Jr. says: ‘No one wants an angry African-American man in the White House.’
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12798.html
Oh, poor Obama, the repressed. He has been spit on, jeered at, called ugly names and booed by racists and hate mongers…
Oh wait, that would be Hillary. She is more like Jackie Robinson than Obama. Give me a break, JJ Jr.
Once again the Obama supporter injects race into the matter.
Thanks for posting this, while we all know the truth, it is nice to see that the group that created the ad did all the leg work and put all the facts in one place.
Good job!
I lived in those times. I am not so much angry about Obama’s association with these people, as I am that he had to know that these ads would appear against him, and yet he continued to run for President as a person who would unite the country.
The letter from the 527 shows remarkable research and a keen understanding of how to use facts to stir the pot. I can’t see how Obama has a leg to stand on in this one.
Hillary was right on when she kept saying that she had been vetted by the press over and over–news about her would be old news and boring to most. But, no–O had to go ahead and then think he could stop it. What an ego!!
I find it amazing that Obama would run an ad accusing the McCain campaign of something that Obama is trying to hide, when it is known that the McCain campaign has nothing to do with the ad.
Obama will put himself in a whole head load of sh!t if he does this.
No wonder the McCain camp welcomes this act.
I wonder if the attorneys of the tv stations are privy that they are making a false claim against John McCain?
I know, I know Obama always likes to cry wolf and make false claims, but they don’t have to drop it for party unity.
McCain would not hesitate — I believe — to defend himself against slander. I would be more than happy myself to send any amount of money to defend his good name.
Paul Villareal — I think this is Obama’s last week to shine because after this week the Republicans and their vaunted 527 ads will rip the Obama campaign apart. There is no way the media can avoid this. It is gonna happen. I don’t care what his thugs do — the media is Republican and they will stop Obama in his tracks. They were terrified that Hillary would be the nominee and now that she isn’t — watch them turn.
I will make the calls but Obama is the one who’s worried. Once the media turns Obama is toast.
From a taxpayer’s perspective I would much prefer to have some of the questionable “associates” of Mr. Obama investigated by the Department of Justice instead. Hey let’s start with Ayers himself.
Indeed. And a good first step would be get a federal subpoena to see those records from the Annenberg Project that Chicago’s Mayor Daley has put “off limits” … That is, assuming that they haven’t all be burned by now.
Hee hee …. Facts can be such inconvenient things, can they not?
Sorry Barry, but you cozy up to scumbags like William Ayers to get earn “street cred” among the radical leftist set in south Chicago and then expect to not have it raised as an issue when you’re running for president.
This is just the beginning.
It’s Obama’s character, stupid. It’s his character.
I’m trying to figure how they’re getting a crowd at the convention.
The middle-road dems were disenfranchised, Obama threw the hard line left under the bus as soon as he was nominated.
Are they being bussed in from Chicago?
They are offering free fried waffles…
With lots of sugar?
I am a democrat that will now vote for John McCain.
Never Obama. PUMA
You are not alone. Millions of other Democrats are with you and the number is growing by the day.
Political Punch just had this up:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/obama-insists-c.html
Did anyone else notice he could not say “yes”, plain and simple? And that “you can draw that conclusion”? He is shifty. This is just like his evasiveness when talking about his friend Ayers, pretending hardly to know him.
Obama finished by saying:
I wonder if when Obama played sports he treated defeated opponents badly? I rarely use profanity on a blog, but he really is an asshole.
She was on the short list of people he wasn’t even considering.
See short list. Just depends on how you edit the information.
again, word fog. yes or no, it’s a simple question.
“I think you can draw that conclusion,” Obama finished…
He IS an asshole.
Let me put it this way: If a small child wakes up on Easter Sunday, and finds chocolate eggs scattered around the back yard, that small child can “draw the conclusion” that the Easter Fucking Bunny had paid a visit.
That does NOT make that conclusion TRUE.
Why did the asshole use SEVEN WORDS to answer the question when a simple “YES” would do?
Because the real answer was NO.
you know the AIP is run by a racist billionaire right?
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
When all else fails, by all means play the race card.
Boy the hate and jealous rage seep out of you. Are you more upset because he is a rich person or because he is a racist? If you are black and voting for Barry because you THINK he is black then you are a RACIST.
As for the money, let me mention George Soros. Wanna be kingmaker? Does he control any of the MSM? Is he rich?
You know that the Chosen ONE is a racist in the extreme and he controls the DNC and ALL the DONATIONS are being funneled to HIM. So please retire the race card because it will come back and bite your ass for 20 years. Need I say more?
Oh Mama!!!
Elevator going up?… sorry going down down down…
Keep The Change Barry!
PUMA
HopeForHillary ‘08
What is so pathetic about obama is how weak his arguments are.
that ad surprised me with its precision. The site should not be called “fight the smears. it should be called “fight the facts”
Fight the facts.
Right on John!
I love “fight the facts” John… very smart
I enjoyed the AIP’s response. They decimated BHO’s complaint by citing the truth.
HAHAHA!!! Obama isn’t even at his own convention. Will only be there on Thursday. The guy was on by satellite. The guy cannot speak. ahhh um err ah ummm ah
Wasn’t he in Kansas City? Looking for people who can claim to be at his birthing? Digging in an attic somewhere? Totally odd not to be at the convention no matter where he was.
I’m an R and wasn’t going to run the ad on my blog. It seemed a bit over the top.
However, when I found out Obama was trying to suppress it I did a post and told every one about the suppression effort. I said get it out to your friends.
This will backfire.
BTW I have a nice color photo of Bill Ayres stomping the American flag to go with it.
Ayers stomping the flag
http://stopthemadrassa.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/features_ayers1.jpg
Expect more silencing of speech and Big Brother techniques if Obama gets elected.
Obama is not good for Democracy; Obama is not good for America.
Which may be why he voted in favor of FISA
MSM has picked up this story, sorta. It is on Drudge, hoping it gets further attention. Wonder how Chris and his ilk will spin this one?
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D92PL7400&show_article=1
Its gonna get good.The DNC caused this all by not paying attention to the American voter. Conventions, speeches are nothing, the real action will happen on Nov 4 when we return to the ballot box.
The Obama campaign plans to punish the stations that air the ad financially, an Obama aide said, organizing his supporters to target the stations that air it and their advertisers.
But the ad continues to air widely. Evan Tracey, who tracks campaign advertising at TNS Media Intelligence, said it has been broadcast 150 times in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Michigan. Federal Election Commission reports indicate that Simmons has spent more than $2.8 million buying ads.
Obama’s campaign has written a pair of letters to station managers carrying the ads.
The letter calls the ad’s attempt to link Obama to terrorism “an appalling lie, a disgraceful smear of the lowest kind on the senator’s patriotism and commitment to the rule of law.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12816.html
They do? They’re really planning on “punishing?” What idiots!!
If they “punish” the stations that air the ad, then that Five Twenty-Seven would be well served to put that ad on EVERY NETWORK possible, and put Obama in a position of having few outlets for his commercials, or having to reverse himself (fliiiip flooooooop) and being called a liar.
If Obama was serious about boycotting stations, if the rest of the outlets carried the ad, then he’d be stuck advertising on MSNBC, which has veered to the left of MOVEON and is losing viewers by the thousands each and every day.
Another example of a dire threat by Obama. Typical bullying.
You don’t have to agree with the ad–it’s the attempt to SILENCE that’s, well, a bit disturbing.
What the heck is obama going to do when McCain starts running HIS Ayers ads?
Can you imagine the firestorm if stations refused to air the ads?
Same thing that happened when the NYT refused to print Mccain’s Op-ed.
He’ll probably start airing his Keating 5 ads.
McCain was cleared by an ethics committee and gave back all campaign donations.
doctorwang,
Michelle’s hair looked nice for her Betty Crocker 2.1 speech.
Did John Edwards give her his hairdresser’s card?
“If You Write A Book And Want It To Become A Best Seller, Get it Banned In Boston”
I have had a dozen people call, email and ask where they could see the “Banned Ad”.
At No Quarter of course.
And while you are there, look around at the other ’stuff”.
Obama is worried about this ad and well he should be.
It is all matador and no cape.
It goes right for him.
The AIP group is well researched and documented.
I don’t think these Obamanazi tactics will work on them or the DOJ.
The indignant sound and fury is just that, all sound and fury, and nothing we haven’t seen and grown bored with.
Say goodnight Keith.
I know you monitor this site.
Goodnight Chris!
Goodnight Keith.
The DNC should have picked up on this when it first came out (months ago!) and figured out that this would be devastating to Obama’s campaign. He can’t win, and the Democrats should have known it. my party isn’t as smart as I was giving them credit for.
He thinks the DoJ will stop it?
Aw man, that is rich.
Did the typical white granny get to go to the Convention or is she still locked away in Hawaii?
Sorry. I meant to post my last question on the Convention thread.
Sent off three letters to the addresses you supplied, including corporate, entitled “Obama Irregularities” which should help to nail him and encourage them
BORN IN THE USA ?
The Times Herald has an article today about an attorney who has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, Eastern Circuit demanding proof that Senator Obama is a “natural born citizen” of the United States, a qualification demanded by The Constitution to run for office of President of The United States.
http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20089295&BRD=1672&PAG=461&dept_id=33380&rfi=6
I found the article interesting, but as a former resident of Chicago I found FactCheck.org’s comments somewhat disingenuous. FactCheck.org is funded by The Annenberg Foundation, and are in conflict of interest in this Obama Birth Certificate matter.
The conflict of interest is that The Annenberg Foundation has received $1 million dollars contribution from a foundation managed by Barack Obama, and in fact the Annenberg Foundation funded Mr. Obama’s “Challenge Project ” when he first started out as a “community organizer”. It would be interesting to hear their comments on that information, as this is the second “Certificate of Birth” that they have produced and claimed to be valid, the first found to be a forgery.
What is at stake here is The Constitution of the United States and the Founding Fathers dictate that only a “natural born citizen” be eligible for the office of President of the United States. Senator McCain is eligible because he was born on an Army base which is considered US property just as an embassy would be. I see no reason why Senator McCain should have had to pass the test and scrutiny by the New York Times, but Senator Obama not.
In fact, this matter has been swirling for months, and Senator Obama himself has never addressed it, but only surrogates publish certificates.
One has to wonder if he passes this important matter on to surrogates to answer for him so that he will not be caught in perjury.?
Can you keep us posted on this story….. I want to make sure that ad gets on the air for the sake of freedom of expression.
Mr. Bauer, Esq., meet Mr. Mitchell, Esq. Mr. Mitchell will be instructing you on how to make and document a case. Pay attention.
Soetorobama and his wife have given the Republican attack machine so much ammo that compared to swift boating, it will look like a giant aircraft carrier with 100 fighter jets lauched and coming at em! I am sure glad I already decided to vote McCain. When the cool aid kids get their heads out of their bongs they are going to be crying and wailing and I will get my Shoydenfrada (obviously I dont spell German).
It’s “Schadenfreude”, which means “damage-joy”.
[No, I'm not fluent in Deutsch, I just happen to know that word and a few others.]
Does anyone have a chummy picture of Obama and Ayers? I haven’t seen one but suspect they might exist.
Oh, I imagine that the Repubs might have a pic or two up their sleeves that they’re saving for after the convention.
Maybe we can dig up a few photos of John McCain and his long-time buddy G. Gordon Lidy, convicted of wiretapping, conspiracy, and the burglary of DNC headquarters. He proposed killing a journalist. Some airtime covering his plot to firebomb the Brookings Institution to destroy official evidence Daniel Ellsberg provided against the Nixon administration would be really good, too.
Does firebombing count as domestic terrorism, or would that only be arson and obstruction of justice?
Liddy also gave some very public advice on the best way to kill ATF agents. He advised that you should always shoot for the head, owing to the body armor.
John was a guest on Liddy’s radio program. John: “It’s always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great.”
Uh, yeah. It’s all on tape.
Meng bot, it still wouldn’t compare to the associations that Obama has. Never. Odinga, Wright, Ayers, Resko, Pfleger, and even his own wife “the United States is a down right mean country”.
What about the relationship between John McCain and KGB interrogator Oleg Kalugin?
Put those 2 names together in a Google search and see what you come up with.
Did John McCain lie about being interrogated by Russian agents? Or does John not know he was interrogated by Russian agents?
I wonder why John Kerry wanted to run with this guy.
Isn’t Ayers just a “guy in the neighborhood?” Nothing to see here? Pick a position and stick with it, sweetie. And after that, quit yer bitchin’ … it gets really old.
He’s a community organizer!
That was a snark, sorry.
The thing is with both Soretoes and his supporters is that they change their story so many times that they lose the argument on that basis alone.
They were too unenlightened about how BAD Ayers and company would look to your average dependale voter so they said, “just a guy in the neighborhood.” When that didn’t go over so well, they had to find another approach.
mine was snarky too - I thought!
The Richard J. Daley Library (Daddy Daley) at University of Illinois (UIC) is getting ready to make all of the Annenberg foundation papers available, according to an article in today’s Chicago Tribune:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-obama-records,0,7750626.story
With a population of over 300 million people it raises the question, why are we stuck with a choice between McCain and Obama? I could grab a stranger off the street and the chances of him/her being more qualified for the job than either of these candidates would be excellent! Neither party is offering the American people a quality product.
There’s Pat’s cartoon:
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/07/just-a-guy-in-baracks-neighborhood/
There’s the one of Osama with Obama:
http://politicalpartypoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/obama1.jpg
It’s also worth repeating this link about the Obama-Ayers coverup:
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MTgwZTVmN2QyNzk2MmUxMzA5OTg0ODZlM2Y2OGI0NDM=
Thank you Larry Johnson, Susan UnPC, Paul F. Villarreal and all those who understand how dangerous the candidacy of this authoritarian leftist, anti-American is to the Democratic Party and to our country. I still cannot believe that the DNC and all those Dem leaders I voted for over so many years could permit this to happen. I cannot believe that Hillary and Bill are going along with it. The truth must be told; Barack Hussein Obama offers nothing connected to democracy in his candidacy. As an aside, he is not even qualified to run.
Check out RCP article about it all being about Hillary,
Latest WSJ/NBC News Poll:
52% of Hillary voters to support Obama. That’s way down from the last number of 70+%.
We are doing our job!
Proud to be part of the 48% that just says no deal to a fraud!!!
Yes, American people must know, I am emailing this out and posting to all my frirnds, to spread the word and the letter, … nobama ever, Country before Party.
Hi! I’m new to posting on this site - but I’m definitely not new when it comes to reading the posts! I was a life-long democrat until I left the party following the the 2000 election fraud. About 6 months ago I rejoined the party specifically to vote for Hillary - a person I strongly admire. I knew BO was a fraud the first time I saw him speaking over a year ago. My opinion has worsened since that time. I am incredibly angry at BO as well as at the DNC. I don’t appreciate the fact that the DNC defrauded the voters specifically to install their pre-selected candidate. I don’t like cheating in any way, shape or form. And, the DNC is clearly stupid even when it comes to cheating.
Now that I’ve introduced myself I want to state my opinion about Obama making efforts to quash the opposition. My work revolves mostly around fraud exposure so I am reasonably certain that BO’s chief intent behind the supposed “DOJ complaint” is INTIMIDATION. I’ve noticed that BO & his operatives often employ underhanded, unstated methods that are normally used to confuse, create fear & intimidate. His methods are very similar to Bush’s methods involving the “fear” campaign. Recall that anyone that questioned Bush was, by default, on the side of and supporting the terrorists. BO’s campaign has consistently twisted the words of all dissenters specifically to (falsely) portray them as racists without using the word “racist”. Thus (as Hillary sadly learned), it was strongly “implied” that anyone who chose to “question” BO was, by default, racist.
In this way dissent is altogether quashed - as is any hope for independent thinking & freedom of speech. Con artists & other types of people trained in the subversive art of “persuasion” (e.g., “cult” leaders) use this method to control the masses and generate thought reform. This is especially scary in BO’s situation because - should he become President - he will have at his disposal 1,100 executive orders (signing statements) that have already been signed by Bush and cannot be challenged even by the Supreme Court. Given the fact that BO did an extreme flip-flop on FISA - there is no way that BO won’t be tempted to use the signing statements for his own personal benefit. After all, isn’t this what Obama is all about?
So - with the DOJ Obama’s chief intent was to intimidate and frighten. Moreover, the DOJ does not have jurisdiction here since the FEC is the actual federal regulator in this particular arena. By successfully intimidating & instilling fear in people, Obama reasons he will regain the control he so obsessively seeks.
The real question that should be put to Obama (knowing that the shameless MSM will only cave in to anything BO says) is “Why go to this extreme effort, Mr. Obama, if your associations are as you claim: all perfectly above-board, All-American citizens?” He is so lame to think that he can influence people otherwise when the mere undertaking of such a massive effort is cause for suspicion!
This guy lacks feelings and has clear, criminal leanings. BO is also shameless & has zero scruples! I cannot believe how closely BO matches the psychological description of a “Con Artist.”
How nice of him to use “intimidation” to get his way…….What a guy!
Did he miss the memo: not only are Republicans not intimidated by these tactics…they are prepared for them.
Oh, Yeah. I know the Republicans are very slick and very prepared. I’ve spent decades watching their so called “winning” maneuvers. But in this case we are dealing with the Democrats who have cheated so openly and clearly aren’t even good at it. Frankly, it’s disgusting to watch the Democratic Party try to emulate the Republican Party. This whole event provides yet another excuse for me to leave the Democratic Party for the second time around.
That anyone would support a candidate that so easily changes his positions, so willingly throws people under the bus for his own personal enrichment, and votes “present” an unprecedented 131 times is beyond belief. I don’t think Obama the “fence-rider” has the strength of character necessary to stand up for the Blacks or for anyone else. Not even a Tele-Promp-Ter can embolden Obama enough to do that.
I cannot believe the DNC is ready to throw it all away by supporting an unaccomplished nobody with no skills and no resume who attended a GOD DAMN AMERICA church in inner city Chicago for twenty years.
I’ve been thinking some more about this DOJ business since my last comment. My question is: has anyone out there actually seen this DOJ “criminal” complaint? I’m asking this question because I just don’t believe it’s true. I think BO and his campaign issued this “veiled” threat not only to intimidate us (as I stated earlier) - but also to “chill” us from speaking out or even thinking about doing something similar.
First of all, under normal circumstances the DOJ would not get involved unless BO was threatened. If there is no threat - what, then, is the crime? BO hints at defamation when he strongly insists on the falsity of the ad. But even if the ad was false and a legitimate source of defamation - the DOJ is STILL the inappropriate forum since defamation is normally adjudicated in the civil arena. BO cannot go whining to the DOJ and try to enlist the agency as his political ally.
Besides - absent some sort of illegal interference - there is a strong possibility that the recently-filed legal action will confirm that BO’s citizenship constitutionally bars him from running for president. It is ridiculous to think that weak-kneed BO would go sniveling to the DOJ when, in fact, HE concealed the facts specifically so he could run for president.
This DOJ story is unreasonable & sounds like a fabrication of the BO campaign solely to force the dissenters to back off and shut up. If so, then we can assume that the ad is 100% true without further question. BO’s expansive efforts to corral our free speech along with issuing the DOJ threat tells me that there is much more to this story than is portrayed in the ad. The ad just gave them a legitimate excuse to create an “issue” that would affectively silence any further dissent.
The effort to control & silence us is worrisome. Without dissent there is no democracy because a democracy is, by definition, adversarial.
I can’t think of anything Obama has done that hasn’t also simultaneously been controlling and restrictive on US. Thanks to Obama - this entire election is turning out to be shamefully undemocratic.
The AUDACITY of Obama to have so cruelly disrupted our nation.
Bob Beckel said an amazing thing there are more undecided voters than anything mmm, well here a caution light, during the primaries, all the undecided percentages or the majority swung Hillarys way,, be very worried, OS remember Obama did a very poor job on swinging undecided voters to his camp, so McCain will get alot more than you dismiss, Obama has a proven record of not closing the deal. Nobama
It is amazing to me that Obama is even in this Presidential race. I’ve seen better scum on polluted ponds.
And then there are his fans. What a bunch of charmers, huh?
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Up to the minute update from the convention floor….
I’m loving this…… Obama’s floating into open waters before it hit the iceburg and sinks….. ahahahahahahahah.
http://bourbonroom.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/08/26/clinton-camp-meets-secretly-in-denver-vote-your-conscience/
You are absolutely correct. Clinton cannot step in and provide the “fix” for Obama. I, personally, would not wish that she do so. I also would not vote for a “wrongside-up” Obama-Clinton ticket but would vote for the alternative.
Both Hillary & Bill Clinton have spent decades dedicated to pro-civil rights causes and all other causes that positively affect individual citizens - no matter what the skin color or religious preference. That Hillary should or WOULD ever accept a position secondary to Obama is laughable.
Perhaps the Democrats should reconsider the elements of a system that repeatedly generates candidates that are unable to win in the general. Getting rid of the caucuses would be a step in the right direction. And, of course, the cheating and arm-twisting would have to stop!
The lastest….
http://bourbonroom.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/08/26/clinton-camp-meets-secretly-in-denver-vote-your-conscience/
Obama + Ayers (known radical extremist terrorist)
Obama + Rev. Jeremiah Wright (anti-American radical former Muslim and racist)
Obama + Resko (indicted and convicted slumlord)
Obama + Frank Marshall David (Communist)
Obama + Father Pfleger (radical extremist racist)
Obama + Louis Farrakhan (known Muslim radical and racist)
etc.
Birds of a feather … flock together …
Beware.
Two recent polls had “O” with 79 or 81% of the base, net loss 6.84 million.
Of the Clinton faction, out of 48%, McCain has 30%, or 5.4 million, the remaining 21% of 3.24 million are declining to vote or going third party.
BO and MO may be playing the Apollo come November, and it couldn’t happen to a classier couple!
Mr. Phillip J. Berg, a Pennsylvania attorney, has filed a lawsuit/complaint against Barack Hussein Obama claiming that Obama is NOT a U.S. natural born citizen.
Hear his discussion:
http://www.plainsradio.com/
Complaint and details:
http://www.nextgenerationcorp.com/NextGenBlog/?p=43
quite the copy/paste stooge today, aren’t we?
Can’t wait for the next update!
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I think the purpose of the laws suit was to make sure the issue didn’t die and that more people got to see the add and that every one would be talking about the same thing at the water cooler for a week.
Obama is a genius. Just ask him.
BTW the ad is up twice at Classical Values and I just did another post using this post as the basis.
And Larry - we can go back to being enemies after the election. For now it is a pleasure to be on your side on the Obama issue.
Love giving you links. Drives the regular readers crazy.
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