Douglass K. Daniel of the AP Is Not a Journalist [UPDATE: Sarah Palin Responds]
By Truthteller on October 5, 2008 at 1:40 PM in Associated Press, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Media, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, Obama's Thugs, Obamedia, Race, Race Card, Sarah Palin
[UPDATE] Sarah Palin responds to race baiting AP reporter Douglass K. Daniel::
“The Associated Press is wrong,” Palin said. “The comments are about an association that has been known but hasn’t been talked about, and I think it’s fair to talk about where Barack Obama kicked off his political career, in the guy’s living room.”
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Douglass K. Daniel of the Associated Press is not a journalist; he is a venal operative who serves as mindless stenographer of the Obama campaign. Let us read the article he filed today at 10:43 am EST in full, beginning with its slanderous title. A revised version is available at this URL.
I quote paid pamphleteer Douglass K. Daniel with embedded commentary:
Analysis: Palin’s words carry racial tinge
[This is not "analysis;" this is a tendentious misinterpretation of Palin's words. And besides, what is a "racial tinge?" Does everything have a racial tinge? Should we brace ourselves for another Bob Herbert moment? ]
WASHINGTON (AP) – By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists” and doesn’t see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign.
And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.
[Sarah Palin's discussion of Obama's deep and controversial ties to Bill Ayers is not "unsubstantiated," and it is certainly not an "attack." Indeed, she offers a factual analysis of the available data, data Steve Diamond and others have made available to readers of No Quarter. And nothing about Sarah Palin's words contain a "racially tinged subtext," unless, of course, you are a compromised journalist who must project racism on everything you encounter in order to repress the racist impulses you compulsively disavow in your vain attempt to conceal your racism. I challenge Douglass K. Daniel to cite one sentence Sarah Palin utters that mentions or even alludes to race. Too bad he will fail, as she does not mention Obama's race at all.]
First, Palin’s attack shows that her energetic debate with rival Joe Biden may be just the beginning, not the end, of a sharpened role in the battle to win the presidency.
[Yes, this is just the beginning. Besides, she is a Vice Presidential candidate, and O'Biden, to be sure, has been waging a very negative campaign against John McCain.]
“Our opponent … is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country,” Palin told a group of donors in Englewood, Colo. A deliberate attempt to smear Obama, McCain’s ticket-mate echoed the line at three separate events Saturday.
“This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America,” she said. “We see America as a force of good in this world. We see an America of exceptionalism.”
Her reference to Obama’s relationship with William Ayers, a member of the Vietnam-era Weather Underground, was exaggerated at best if not outright false. No evidence shows they were “pals” or even close when they worked on community boards years ago and Ayers hosted a political event for Obama early in his career.
[I refer Obamabot Douglass K. Daniel again to the work of Steve Diamond and others at No Quarter on Bill Ayers and Barack Obama. And yes, Douglass, friends tend to hold political fundraisers for friends, especially when those friends were engaged in philanthropic projects since 1988. And no, Douglass, a discussion of the facts is not a "smear." Go "fight the smears" at an Obama campaign office and not in the office of the Associated Press.]
Obama, who was a child when the Weathermen were planting bombs, has denounced Ayers’ radical views and actions.
[Thank you for repeating the prevarication Obama uttered during the Philadelphia debate when questioned about his relationship with Ayers by ABC News, Douglass.
Did the Obama campaign send you this statement in a memo you read before typing the article? ]
With her criticism, Palin is taking on the running mate’s traditional role of attacker, said Rich Galen, a Republican strategist.
[Yes, she is, and that is perfectly acceptable.]
“There appears to be a newfound sense of confidence in Sarah Palin as a candidate, given her performance the other night,” Galen said. “I think that they are comfortable enough with her now that she’s got the standing with the electorate to take off after Obama.”
Second, Palin’s incendiary charge draws media and voter attention away from the worsening economy. It also comes after McCain supported a pork-laden Wall Street bailout plan in spite of conservative anger and his own misgivings.
[Nothing about her charge is "incendiary." Incendiary are the acts of Bill Ayers. Incendiary, properly speaking, is bill Ayers. Incendiary is a person who commits arson or a person who incites sedition. And an incendiary agent is usually a bomb. Bill Ayers is the one who incited sedition with his bombs. Read the reports, and learn the English language. And no, this is not a distraction, unless, of course, you are an Obamabot who only views discussions of the economy as tried and true manners whereby voters in states such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado, Michigan and Minnesota can be terrorized into voting for candidates who refer to them as bitter and xenophobic. And by the way, Obama also voted for the bill you characterize as a "pork-laden Wall Street bailout." But thank you for reiterating all the claims made in the memo you received from the Obama campaign.]
“It’s a giant changing of the subject,” said Jenny Backus, a Democratic strategist. “The problem is the messenger. If you want to start throwing fire bombs, you don’t send out the fluffy bunny to do it. I think people don’t take Sarah Palin seriously.”
[Thank you for revealing that all Democratic operatives must resort to sexism and misogyny when referring to Sarah Palin, Jenny Backus. Perhaps you are jealous of Sarah. Or perhaps you are just another mindless Obamabot. And by the way, it was Ayers who threw "fire bombs," not Sarah Palin.]
The larger purpose behind Palin’s broadside is to reintroduce the question of Obama’s associations. Millions of voters, many of them open to being swayed to one side or the other, are starting to pay attention to an election a month away.
For the McCain campaign, that makes Obama’s ties to Ayers as well as convicted felon Antoin “Tony” Rezko and the controversial minister Jeremiah Wright ripe for renewed criticism. And Palin brings a fresh voice to the argument.
[Yes, she does. And why is it that you and your colleagues refuse to discuss any of this, Douglass? Why must we repeat this again and again? Are you simply derelict in your duties as journalist, or do we have to send you memos you can simply reproduce in Sunday news articles in order for us to finally convince the traditional media to discuss Obama's problematic affiliations? You have time to accuse Sarah Palin of racism, but somehow you do not have time to investigate Obama's ties to Rezko. I guess you have priorities.]
Effective character attacks have come earlier in campaigns. In June 1988, Republican George H.W. Bush criticized Democrat Michael Dukakis over the furlough granted to Willie Horton, a convicted murderer who then raped a woman and stabbed her companion. Related TV ads followed in September and October.
The Vietnam-era Swift Boat veterans who attacked Democrat John Kerry’s war record started in the spring of 2004 and gained traction in late summer.
“The four weeks that are left are an eternity. There’s plenty of time in the campaign,” said Republican strategist Joe Gaylord. “I think it is a legitimate strategy to talk about Obama and to talk about his background and who he pals around with.”
[Because Obama's deep and controversial ties to Ayers are demonstrable, Palin's discussion of that relationship will be effective. To try to compare Palin's desire to analyze the record with the advertisements of the Swift Boat veterans reveals once again that you are simply regurgitating the bilge submitted to you by the Obama campaign. Those ads were false, while Palin's discussion of Obama is based on rigorous research. And no, these are not "attacks;" these are facts to be considered. Or is any attempt to vet Barack Obama a "smear" and an "attack?"]
Palin’s words avoid repulsing voters with overt racism. But is there another subtext for creating the false image of a black presidential nominee “palling around” with terrorists while assuring a predominantly white audience that he doesn’t see their America?
[And what evidence do you have that "Palin's words avoid repulsing voters with overt racism?" Quote someone who attended Palin's event, please. Or cite a specific passage from Palin's speech in which overt racism is couched in metaphorical terms. Because you lack evidence for this slanderous claim, I recommend you strike it from the article. And no, a predominantly white audience does not serve as evidence for racism.]
In a post-Sept. 11 America, terrorists are envisioned as dark-skinned radical Muslims, not the homegrown anarchists of Ayers’ day 40 years ago. With Obama a relative unknown when he began his campaign, the Internet hummed with false e-mails about ties to radical Islam of a foreign-born candidate.
Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as “not like us” is another potential appeal to racism. It suggests that the Hawaiian-born Christian is, at heart, un-American.
[While Americans may or may not visualize terrorists as swarthy, this has no bearing on Sarah Palin' words. Besides, she is not responsible for Obama's Muslim problem. And regarding Obama's status as a "Hawaiian-born Christian," I refer you to this document. And by the way, Palin stated Obama does not share the audience's version of patriotism; nowhere did she state that he "is not like us" as a result of his appearance. I recommend you read and reread the transcript of her speech until its full import and significance is comprehended. And no, I will not hold my breath.]
Most troubling, however, is how allowing racism to creep into the discussion serves McCain’s purpose so well. As the fallout from Wright’s sermons showed earlier this year, forcing Obama to abandon issues to talk about race leads to unresolved arguments about America’s promise to treat all people equally.
[Obama and his wife Michelle Obama are largely responsible for inserting the politics of race into the Presidential campaign. Just read these articles, Douglass K. Daniel. And no, Americans did not react adversely to Wright and Father Pfleger as a result of "unresolved arguments about America's promise to treat all people equally;" they recoiled when they discovered that Obama aided and abetted the activities of a man who damned America, claimed America deserved to experience 911 and claimed white politicians could never empathize with African-Americans. Exacerbating racial tensions in order to benefit Barack Obama, Reverend Wright alienated white voters who would have otherwise embraced Barack Obama. And please do not tell me that Father Pfleger helped us resolve America's legacy of race with these statement he made in the God Damn AmeriKKKa church in inner city Chicago:
And please explain how Obama's use of the phrase "typical white person" helped heal racial divides.]
John McCain occasionally looks back on decisions with regret. He has apologized for opposing a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. He has apologized for refusing to call for the removal of a Confederate flag from South Carolina’s Capitol.
[And what relevance does this have to Sarah Palin's discussion of Obama's ties to Bill Ayers? Or did the Obama campaign ask you to cite this in the article? We know Obamabot Jonathan Alter mentioned everything you cite in this paragraph on Charlie Rose's 11 SEPT 2008 television program. Will the Obama campaign issue a memo accusing McCain of racism that rivals the one they issued about the Clintons during the South Carolina primary? Will anyone mention how that exacerbated racial tensions, or will we excuse it as a result of Obama's putative racial status?]
When the 2008 campaign is over McCain might regret appeals such as Palin’s perhaps more so if he wins.
[In other words, McCain will only win as a result of racism. Thank you once again for repeating what you and many other news organizations have been repeating in their vain attempt to coerce voters with allegations of racism. And yes, your latest article is just another installment of this endless series of racial blackmail you and other journalists are deploying on behalf of the flawed candidate you shamelessly support.]
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Contact the AP, and ask them to retract the article and to issue an apology to Sarah Palin. Also ask them to fire Douglass K. Daniel immediately. One may write Douglass K. Daniel at ddaniel@ap.org, and one may contact his editors at info@ap.org
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I wrote a scathing two emails to AP. I’m APPALLED.
AP is also the organization that announced Hillary was conceding the election the morning of June 3rd — while people were just going to the polls in two primaries.
Zell and Murdoch, big Obama supporters, are on the AP Board.
Perhaps that helps to clarify the butter.
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Thank you, Jeremiah.
ITS GOING VIRAL!!!
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ITS EVERYWHERE!!!
CALL US RACISTS SOME MORE PUNK!!!!
Sarah is obviously landing some devastating blows. Otherwise, why such a reaction with much distortion to boot? When Barack and Biden start addressing Sarah’s statements, that is when we all know SHE IS being really, really, effective. GO SARAH! GO! GO! GO!
And MORE! MORE! MORE!
Obama is on the run now! Keep hitting him hard! He will fall!
Johnny Mac….is in control…and Barky & the USS DUMBASS have been broadsided…I’m lovin it…Palin doesn’t wield a weapon…she is a weapon
You Betcha!…PRAISE THE LORD & PASS THE HAMAS
I wrote them as well; both “douglas” and AP.
This was a piece of crap article, with the audacity to invoke “racism”.
How is the remark that Obama associated with a white terrorist racist?
For the umpteenth time, boycott MSM journalists, alleged journalists, putative journalists, would be journalists, or whatever they are.
Gee…shouting RACIST worked with Democratic crackers….didn’t it…chuckle…BARKY & THE MINIONS ARE SHRILLING DESPERATE….PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE HAMAS…chuckle…
Thank you. Ayers is white. Obama’s mom was white. Obama has white grandparents.
Mention black folks – racist.
Mention white folks – racist.
New Obama campaign theme – mention any human being on the planet – racist.
Ayers himself said they (The Weathermen)didn’t go far enough. Quoting Ayers is now racist.
Good grief.
Actually, saying anything less than hallelujah! re BO is undoubtedly racist!
open you heart to obama and he will heal yur souls from the bondage of racism.
“come all yeah that are weary and racist, lay down thou religion, thou bitterness, and thou sword and obama will give ye hope. worship him that has caused our oceans not to rise, praise him who who taught us to keep our tires in flated, for the obama is good, and his presidency will endure forever and ever.”- 1 Obama 3:2-4
Hmmmm….Well I’v been sayin from the beginning…
Obama has a serious conflict with his Inner Cracker
Found this from Little Green Footballs:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
Little Green Footballs is the ones that busted both Rueters and the AP for using staged photos, false reports, photoshopped photos, etc…I am not a frequent reader of the blog, I just remembered the “Green Helmet Man”, that turned out to be a director. I remembered they were vindicated and correct, so I went to see their take on the election and other things going on.
Emphasizing that Soetoro/Obama “was only 8″ when Ayers was heading his bomb squad could have even graver repercussions because Barry Soertoro was getting his education and his news through an Indonesian filter in a Muslim police state. Not quite the elementary education you would wish for the President of the United States, is it?
Maybe, because of that upbringing, Soertoro/Obama really doesn’t see anything wrong with what Ayers did. And maybe that is why the Constitution states “native born”.
That suggests the perfect question for him: “Senator, that photograph of Mr. Ayers trampling the flag while having ‘no regrets’ about his earlier activities was published in 2001 and distributed to many media outlets. It was seen by millions of people. How is it that you did not see it?”
How can he answer that question? He is cornered no matter how he responds.
McCain REALLY should make a commercial focusing on this point … Ayers commits terrorist acts when Obama is 8 (as O correctly stated in debate) … Ayers stomps on US flag and makes repulsive anti-American comments in 2001 while serving on board of the Woods Fund with a then-40 year old Obama …
This might put the truth in perspective for many Americans.
candymarl – LOL! What you said is ABSOLUTELY TRUE! It’s getting to the point where we can’t say or mention ANYTHING! We’re ‘forbidden’ to use the word ‘boy’, ‘uppity’ because those are – GASP – ‘racist’ words! I affectionately call my 20 yr old son “Boy” – guess I better stop. I’m a real down to earth type of person, I’m not the least bit ‘uppity’ (WHOOPS – ‘racist’); I don’t put on airs or think I’m better than anyone else.
We have just GOT to watch what we say! LOL! Actually, it’s SCARY and it’s DOWNRIGHT MADDENING!!! I am SICK of this crap!
disgusting.
Fabulous work here, Truthteller.
Thank you for spelling it out so clearly.
What a putz Bozo and his gang of name-calling assholes are.
GO SARAH!!!
Thank you, Medusa. I am glad you enjoyed the essay.
TD thinks the relationship goes WAY back:
http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/obamas-ties-to-ayers-back-to-high-school?/
Oh My GOD…FLOP SWEAT drowning robby…clean up on aisle 6…lol
XCELLENT TRUTHTELLER….
VERITAS VOS LIBERABIT
THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE
Agreed Excellent Spot On Analysis of this Obama Campaign Wishlist Talking Point Press Release Masquarading as a news story.
SHAME ON YOU ASSOCIATED PRESS FOR ALLOWING THIS CRAP RACISM SCARE TACTIC STORY TO HAVE YOUR NAME ASSOCIATED WITH IT!
JUST UNBELIEVABLY BIASED REPORTING OF THE WORST KIND!
Oh Wait what am i saying AP is in the Tank for Obama…this is what they consider their job to do!
if anything, i think it will backfire on them. people are getting tired of this sh*t. Palin is right – Obama is not “one of us,” and it doesn’t have anything to do with his skin color. i personally don’t even think he sees himself as an american; he thinks he’s just somebody who happens to live in america. unfortunately, a lot of his supporters feel the same way, and that is exactly why this whole obamanazi movement must be stamped out.
Thank you, workingclassartist. I really enjoyed writing this essay. In fact, it wrote itself.
This so called “journalist” knows exactly what he is doing – he is injecting the race-card to benefit Obama.
It is their fear of the One’s true character being revealed that drives them.
Please, oh please, NAIL THIS FRAUD!!!
Palin: “The comments are about an association that has been known but hasn’t been talked about,” she said. “It’s important to talk about how Barack Obama kicked off his political career in the guy’s living room.”
Paln is takin on Obama and the MSM…McCain is a genius at strategy…He’s right…Barky does not know the difference between a tactic and a strategy…I’ll take butter on my popcorn…BARKY
This has all been expertly scripted.
WHo better to take on the MSM than the person they attacked so vicously for 4 weeks?
WHo better to Point out Barky’s questionable past than a woman who has such an all american past.
Obama – Checkers
McCain – Chess
too bad Sarah Palin has to do the MSM’s job. I emailed the NYT, CNN, MSNBC, ABC and NBC and told them the same thing. If they had done their job a year and a half ago, Palin wouldn’t have to do it now.
“In the guys living romm” LOL wow wow wow.
She says it like it is. Not in his office but much more like friends..in his house!
i think obama and friends are about to get his race card revoked. White people are going to get sick and tired of him and his race card. he’s up in the polls but spite is a wonderful thing and if he keeps it up, he is going to get jacked up. when you accuse people of certain behavior, it can have serious reprocussions if people figure out you are lying so i think his cheerleaders need to leave it alone.
Well the OB camp accused the Hillary side of the democratic party for being racist since they weren’t “getting over it” and unifying.
Now the GOP are getting a taste and I am pretty sure they will not take it sitting down. You betach Obama and his minions just woke the sleeping bear! GOP does not have racial guilt – remember they were responsible for freeing the slaves, Having Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas AND Condi Rice. So who is the racist now? Um-hmmmm. Not gonna work.
Also, if i remember correctlty, though Repubs were in minority, by “proportion” they voted for civil rights by a larger margin than Dems. Correct me if i’m wrong. I was actually surprised to here that myself.
You are correct…these are the kind of enlightened tidbits of truth that made me change my lifelong membership in the Democrat party and become an independent…and frankly, I sleep better at night for it.
Now we have to make sure that Obama goes down in flames Nov.4 so we can all sleep better at night!
i was of the impression that terrorist is not a race. Weren’t you?
Oh and you should update this with Mccain campaign’s response:
“The last four weeks of this election will be about whether the American people are willing to turn our economy and national security over to Barack Obama, a man with little record, questionable judgment, and ties to radical figures like unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers. Americans need to ask themselves if they’ve ever befriended an unrepentant terrorist, or had a convicted felon help them buy their house — because those aren’t smears, those are true facts about Barack Obama.” —Tucker Bounds, spokesman McCain-Palin 2008
Their is no logic in their arguement. however i did see one of the people from the DNC on fox who was claiming that John Mccain and Pain were desperate. I think the people on hill buzz were on to something last week where obama as running around saying things like John McCain is so desperate he will say anything and his follers were running around calling people racist. they must have know mccain and palin were going to come at them with this and tried their best to shoot it down before it was even launched .
that is right! i forgot about that. i truly believe the whitey tape exists, and that there is other dirt out there that they have on obama.
they were using the whitey tape at fundraisers…
IN THE WORDS OF THE DAY (When Billy boy was bombing the country that most of us love):
RIGHT ON!
GO MAC DADDY!
Call me racist, I don’t give a flying rat’s ass.
Just keep this cheater out of the White House.
McPalin: Country 1st!
Didn’t usama Bin Laden say the next attack would be from the inside…I wouldn’t trust putting a man in the White House with the name Hussein,,,I don’t care where he lives.Or where he came from..Obama has no record,and is a unknown person to many…Americans are taking a Big chance putting there trust in a man like this.imo
Mccain/Palin
Same people who think “African” is appropriate to put on Birth Certificates under “Race”. Hahaha, dumb and dumber.
Teheehehe…Wouldn’t it be GREAT…If on Tuesday McCain had a Stevenson moment and just said Obama You Should Be Ashamed of Yourself…
If Mac ever said that, Barry would set a new record for “uh’s”…
Barky’s head spin faster than lil’ reagan’s did in the exorcist…lol
THE ILLUSION THAT IS BARACK OBAMA
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23643866-5013948,00.html
I read it and I suggest everyone send it to their family and friends. It covers what our press refuses to cover.
This Australian media does not candy coat.
Wow – what a correct assessment; BRILLIANT!
Good article. It’s a real shame that our media will not report like this.
Juicy morsels and big chunks to bite on. Here is Australian News article for archive and all.
Fred Siegel | May 05, 2008
POLITICAL campaigning necessarily produces a wide gap between words and deeds. This is the price of bringing together a broad coalition with disparate interests. All effective politicians are at times authentically insincere or sincerely inauthentic. Exaggeration, embellishment, overstatement, doubletalk, deception and lies presented as metaphorical truths are the order of the day.
So, of course, Barack Obama is no different. He exaggerates the credit he deserves for a limited piece of ethics-reform legislation. He embellishes when he presents himself as having had a consistent record on the Iraq war when in fact he’s done a fair amount of zigzagging.
He engages in doubletalk when, on free trade and Iraq, he tells the yokels one thing and the policy people another. He overstates when he presents his minimal accomplishments in the Illinois Senate as proof of his stature. He engages in systematic deception when he says he doesn’t take money from lobbyists. He presents a lie as metaphorical truth when he says it was the 1965 bloody Sunday attacks on peaceful civil rights protesters in Selma, Alabama, that inspired his parents to marry. (They had been married for years already.)
All of this is unappealing, but also unexceptional. What makes it different is that there’s not just a gap but a chasm between his actions and his professed principles, which would normally kill a candidacy. And because his deeds are so few, the disparity is all the more salient.
Obama, far more than the others, is the “judge me by what I say and not what I do” candidate. He wants to be the conscience of the country without necessarily having one himself.
The disparity between Obama’s rhetoric of transcendence and his conventional Chicago racial and patronage politics is a leitmotiv of his political career. In New York, politicians (Al Sharpton excepted) are usually forced to pay at least passing tribute to universal principles and the ideal of clean government.
But Chicago, until recently a city of Lithuanians, blacks and Poles governed by Irishmen on the patronage model of the Italian Christian Democrats, is the city of political and cultural tribalism.
Blacks adapted to the tribalism and the corrupt patronage politics that accompanied it. Historically, one of the ironies of Chicago politics is that the clean-government candidates have been the most racist, while those most open to black aspirations have been the most corrupt. When the young Jesse Jackson received his first audience with then mayor Richard Daley Sr – impervious to the universalism of the civil rights movement in its glory – offered him a job as a toll-taker. Jackson thought the offer demeaning but in time adapted.
In Chicago, racial reform has meant that the incumbent mayor, Richard M. Daley, has been cutting blacks in on the loot. Louis Farrakhan, Jackson, Jeremiah Wright and Obama are all, in part, the expression of that politics. It hasn’t always worked for Chicago, which, under the pressure of increasing taxes to pay for bloated government, is losing its middle class. But it has served the city’s political class admirably.
For all his Camelot-like rhetoric, Obama is a product, in significant measure, of the political culture that Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass described: “We’ve had our chief of detectives sent to prison for running the Outfit’s (the mob’s) jewellery-heist ring. And we’ve had white guys with Outfit connections get $100 million in affirmative action contracts from their drinking buddy, Mayor Richard Daley … That’s the Chicago way.”
At no point did Obama, the would-be saviour of US politics, challenge this corruption, except for face-saving gestures as a legislator. He was, in his own Harvard law way, a product of it.
Why, you may ask, did the operators of Chicago’s political machine support Obama? Part of the answer was given long ago by the then boss of Chicago, Jake Arvey.
When asked why he made Adlai Stevenson – a man, as with Obama, more famous for speeches than for accomplishments – his party’s gubernatorial candidate in 1948, Arvey is said to have replied that he needed to “perfume the ticket”.
Obama first played a perfuming role as a state senator. His mentor, Emil Jones, the machine-made president of the Senate, allowed him to sponsor a minor ethics bill. In return, Obama made sure to send plenty of pork to Jones’s district. When asked about pork-barrel spending, Jones famously replied: “Some call it pork; I call it steak.”
Obama repaid the generosity. When he had a chance to back clean Democratic candidates for president of the Cook County board of supervisors and Illinois governor, he stayed with the allies of the Outfit. The gubernatorial candidate he backed, Rod Blagojevich, is under federal investigation, in part because of his relationship with Tony Rezko, the man who helped Obama buy his house.
The Chicago way has delivered politically for Obama even this year. Ninety per cent of his popular-vote lead over Hillary Clinton comes from Illinois, and two-thirds of that 90 per cent comes just from Cook County.
Some of this advantage came from the efforts of Obama’s political ally, the flame-throwing reverend James Meeks, a political force in his own right. Meeks, who mocks black moderates as “niggers”, is an Illinois state senator, the pastor of a mega-church and a strong supporter of Jackson’s powerful political operation, which has put its vote-pulling muscle squarely behind the Obama campaign. It was only with Obama’s remark about bitter, white, working-class, small-town voters that we saw his difficulties appealing beyond the machine’s reach. He won his US Senate race in 2004 not only because his opponents self-destructed but also because of the machine’s ability to deliver votes.
In Pennsylvania, he has lacked such assistance and the campaigning has not gone nearly so well. First, Obama pretended to be a tenpin bowler and scored a 37. Then, appearing before a supposedly closed San Francisco audience, he complained that small-town Pennsylvanians “cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations”. This is the man who belongs to a church built on bitterness, rancour and conspiratorial fear. During the Wright affair, Obama not only repeatedly lied about what he knew and when but violated the spirit of the civil rights movement in its mid-1960s glory.
When, as a young man, I was on the periphery of the movement, there was an unwritten rule that if people told racist jokes or speakers engaged in defamatory rhetoric, you needed to register your immediate disapproval by confronting the speaker or ostentatiously walking out.
Wright’s “black theology” is essentially a Christianised version of Malcolm X’s ideology of hate.
But for 20 years, Obama, who had planned to run for mayor of Chicago, kept silent about the close, if at times competitive, relationship between Wright, whose 8000-member mega-church gave him his political base, and Farrakhan. His ambition overrode his moral integrity.
As part of his “black value system”, Wright attacked whites for their “middle classism”, materialism, and “greed in a world of need”. Obama sounded similar notes in his recent address at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, in which he laid the blame for the sub-prime mortgage crisis on those who had “embraced an ethic of greed, corner cutting and inside dealing”.
But that’s exactly what Obama did in buying his luxurious house. Given the choice of purchasing a less expensive home or getting into bed with his fundraiser-cum-slumlord-cum-fixer Rezko, Obama chose the latter. Then again, the oppressed of Trinity United Church of Christ are building Wright a $US1.6 million ($1.7million), 960sqm home complete with four-car garage, whirlpool and butler’s pantry. This house, which backs on to a golf course, is to sit in Tinley Park, a gated community in southwest Chicago that is 93 per cent white.
The Obamas’ charitable giving is consistent with Wright’s talking Left while living Right. Obama and his wife are quite well off. They had an estimated income of $US1.2 million from 2000 to 2004. But the man who preaches compassion and mutuality gave all of 1 per cent of that income to charity during those years. Most of that went to Wright’s church.
There is a similar chasm when it comes to Obama’s claim to post-partisanship. His achievements in reaching out to moderate voters are largely proleptic. But words are not deeds and, although Obama has few concrete achievements to his name, his voting record hardly suggests an ability to rise above Left v Right.
In the Illinois Senate, he made a specialty of voting present, but after his first two years in the US Senate, National Journal’s analysis of rollcall votes found that he was more liberal than 86 per cent of his colleagues. His voting record has only moved further Left since then. The liberal Americans for Democratic Action gives him a 97.5 per cent rating, while National Journal ranks him the most liberal member of the Senate. By comparison, Clinton, who occasionally votes with the Republicans, ranks 16th.
Obama is such a down-the-line partisan that, according to Congressional Quarterly, in the past two years he has voted with the Democrats more often than did the party’s majority leader, Harry Reid.
Likewise, for all his talk of post-racialism, Obama has played, with the contrivance of the press, traditional South Side Chicago racial politics. The day after his surprise loss in New Hampshire, and in anticipation of the South Carolina primary, with its heavily black electorate, South Side congressman Jesse Jackson Jr – Obama’s national co-chairman – appeared on MSNBC to argue, in a prepared statement, that Clinton’s teary moment on the campaign trail reflected her deep-seated racism.
“Those tears,” said Jackson, “have to be analysed … They have to be looked at very, very carefully in light of Katrina, in light of other things that Mrs Clinton did not cry for, particularly as we head to South Carolina, where 45 per cent of African-Americans will participate in the Democratic contest … We saw tears in response to her appearance, so that her appearance brought her to tears, but not hurricane Katrina, not other issues.”
In other words, whites who are at odds with, or who haven’t delivered for, Chicago politicians can be obliquely accused of racism on the flimsiest basis, but pillars of local black politics such as Wright, with his exclusivist racial theology, are beyond criticism.
Liberals love Obama’s talk of taking on powerful financial interests. But here , too, he is rather slippery. In his Cooper Union speech, he denounced in no uncertain terms the “special interests” of people on Wall Street (who are well represented among his campaign donors).
He, of course, had an opportunity to push for repealing the privileged tax treatment of private equity firms when that question was before Charles Grassley’s Senate subcommittee – but he simply made a pro-forma statement in favour of doing so and disappeared.
Nationally, as in Chicago, Obama the self-styled reformer never crosses swords with any of his putative foes. To pick another example, he has attacked “predatory” sub-prime lenders while taking roughly $US1.3 million in contributions from companies in that line of business.
Obama is the internationalist opposed to free trade. He is the friend of race-baiters who thinks Don Imus deserved to be fired. He is the proponent of courage in the face of powerful interests who lacked the courage to break with Wright (until Wednesday). He is the man who would lead our efforts against terrorism yet was friendly with Bill Ayers, the unrepentant 1960s terrorist. He is the post-racialist supporter of affirmative action. He is the enemy of Big Oil who takes money from executives at Exxon-Mobil, Shell and British Petroleum.
Obama has, in a sense, represented a new version of the invisible man, a candidate whose colour obscures his failings.
But so far, the wild discrepancy between Obama’s words and his deeds, and between his enormous ambitions and his minimal accomplishments, doesn’t seem to have fazed his core supporters, who apparently suffer from a severe case of cognitive dissonance. Like cultists who rededicate themselves when the cult’s prophecies have been falsified, his fans redouble their delusions in the face of his obvious hypocrisy.
That is because Obama, in the imagination of many of his fans in the public and the press, is both a deduction from what was – the failures of the Bush administration and the scandals of the Clintons – and an expression of what should be.
The ideal, the aspiration, is so rhetorically appealing that it has been assumed to be true. They remind one of Woodrow Wilson’s answer when asked if his plan for a League of Nations was practicable: “If it won’t work, it must be made to work.”
Fred Siegel is a contributing editor of City Journal. He teaches at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
That article pretty much says it all. When the powers that be first starting pushing this standard-issue Chicago pol, I knew to look at him with a jaundiced eye. My 8-years living in Chicago make me very cynical of anyone who emerges from that cesspool.
When Obama was 20+ years of age, do not forget Bernadine Dohrn was put in jail, not for something she did in the 1960’s, but for something in the 1980’s!
Bill openned his big mouth again in 2001 wishing he’d done more!
Yes I am a racist against terrorists of any kind, Ayers and Dohrn’s friends who they go every year to NYC to remember, who blew themselves up making a bomb to kill civilians and soldiers, do I have regrets, yes one, that Ayers and Dohrn were out and not in that townhouse when that bomb went off!
One more thing, why do you think there is so much about Ayers going on now, false AP reports and attacks towards Palin?
Obama does not want this issue raised tuesday night to 70 million people and the false AP reports will be the only answers Obama will give if they are raised Tuesday night! So Obama thinks…lol
Hmmmm….I think McCain is handling things with mastery…I have’nt enjoyed anything this much since Bill Clinton ran the first time….chuckle…Go Johnny Go
You know what Bill Clinton’s secret weapon was?
Ross Perot!
In The Tank for Bill Clinton!
good point, Mel. He cannot dismiss the association as he did in the debate with HRC, saying “its old politics”……
wondering tho, about the town hall debate format…will someone ask the key follow up questions to these ridiculously superficial media reports?
YOU BETCHA….BARKY is in McCain’s backyard now…& this is gonna be fun
The leftists blogs are now flipping out, chanting their mantra of “racism” against The Precious. They are of course, calling Palin the very foulest sexist of names while they are at it.
NAIL Obama on Ayers – they are running scared!!
http://newsbusters.org/people/douglass-k-daniel
Mr. Daniels does appear to be a faithful member of the Obamination.
…Thanks for the link, but I find it hard to swallow coming from a site that advertises t-shirts saying “I’d rather be waterboarding”.
That person is not supporting US Soldiers.
Great story, Truthteller.
When this election is over, we can thank this “uniter” and his corrupt, elite Congressional stooges for dividing this country. Obama set this country back at least 20 years.
Yes, he has, and he has trivialized racism to a point at which real acts of racial violence will be ignored.
Make sure you tune in to Hannity’s America less than 6 hours from now. Obamabots only think they need a diaper change now.
Sarah Palin responds to the AP’s BS!
Go Sarah Go!
Can’t believe it, but First Read has this up…
Sunday, October 5, 2008
LONG BEACH, Calif. – Sarah Palin told reporters Sunday that “the Associated Press is wrong” for saying her recent remarks tying Barack Obama to William Ayers are “racially tinged.”
“The comments are about an association that has been known but hasn’t been talked about,” Palin said before boarding a plane to San Francisco. “I think it’s fair to talk about where Barack Obama kicked off his political career, in the guy’s living room.”
Palin said Saturday that Obama was “palling around with terrorists” because of his association with Ayers, a founder of the 1960s terrorist group Weather Underground. The New York Times reported Saturday that Obama and Ayers served together on several charity boards in Chicago and Ayers, now a professor at the University of Illinois, held a fundraiser for Obama’s first race for state Senate. But the article also said the two men are not particularly close.
The AP said Sunday that Palin’s recent comments were “unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subject that John McCain himself may come to regret.” The article said Palin’s charge about Obama’s relationship with Ayers “was exaggerated at best if not outright false.”
Palin made the comments three times Saturday, as part of a new effort by the McCain campaign to move the focus towards Obama’s character.
“It’s important for Americans to know,” Palin said on the tarmac Sunday. “It’s really important for Americans to start knowing who the real Barack Obama is.”
GO SARACUDDA!!!!!!!!!!
It has to be said!
Not just lipstick!
BALLZ!
BIG ONES!
just to be technical, balls AND ovarian fortitude!!!
He needs to send her to MI now so she can take on the voter suppression and theft that occurred there in the primary.
The hell wit rocking the vote, this gal will rock the election!
Palin talked about Obama and Ayres, NOT the black guy and Ayres. The only racism in Palin’s comment was put there by AP and the Obama campaign.
The PITBULL has been UNLEASHED! Sic ‘em, Sarah!!!
In keeping with Obama’s ability of time concepts, let’s use his for a minute!
Obama claims he was a product of Selma, even claimed so in a church, even though Selma took place years after Obama was born, ok then one can only conclude that the Weathermen are a product of Obama due to his present relationships with them years after they did their nasty deeds.
like i said, i was unaware that terrorist was a race.
Or maybe she was racist for suggesting Obama has white friends?
If i was mccain camp i would say ” i did not know that Obama thinks having white friends is racist”
That would be a deathblow. A real hurtpiece.
Look at all the coverage this is getting.
The pitbull in lipstick is on the attack and it will only get better.
The bots are such grownups. Bye bye, Robby–haha
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O-Bot heads exploding…avoid aisle 6….chuckle…
Popcorn anyone?
lol…my thoughts exactly. some of it made it over to aisle 3.
Call the HazMat team!
Admin (Susan)– imagining you field dressing it. LOL
Good shot…that was quick.
Damn! I take the dog for a leak and poof, like that, he was gone….
I called the associated press and left a message.
1-212-621-1500
Now I am going to send off emails.
It is time that the actual reporters have their details shared on the web so we can all call THEM to register our disgust. They poke their noses into the private lives of others and then rip them to shreds. They are fair game in my book. After all, the press couldn’t care less what we think. They will do as they please whether it is in the best interest of the American citizen or not.
thank you Truthteller…
Thank you for reading NO Quarter, American Woman.
And thank you , all of you!
This site has given me so much comfort. It’s been a bit lonely(politically speaking)as most of our close friends are blindly liberal Democrats(as were we for many years) who don’t watch or listen to anything but CNN and NPR,and don’t believe anything outside of the leftist agenda in the MSM.(They think I’ve gone to the “dark side”)Needless to say, it’s been very frustrating.
So…thank you for providing an outlet of sanity!
Love you guys!
Cleanup on aisle 3
Another obamabot explosion–some of it got on the canned beans.
I am going to watch Mars Attacks….O-Bots with exploding heads…YOU BETCHA!
To extend that thought, imagine Obama locked in a room with Slim Whitman songs being pumped into it.
I’d give him ten minutes, tops and he’d roll over on everyone…
Post video of it on YouTube.
lol! darn right!
This makes me almost as sick as seeing (http://patriotroom.com/?p=2791) CNN
“Truth Squad” declare Obama Ayers relationship as “FALSE”. This bullshit
is enraging. God help our country. The media is now audaciously LYING on Barry’s behalf. Sad. Half this country at least will be in the dark come election day.
Obama and his friends in the Associated Press – the mainstream media – have pulled their BS one too many times now!
Expose them all for the frauds they are!!
Sarah just shoved their BS racist remarks right back down their throats!!
Obama’s last card to play is the race card. He and his camapign know is on the ropes with the terrorist connections.
Keep hitting him Obama straight in the mouth with the truth and he is going to fall falt on the mat!
Sarah Palin…keep doing what you do!!
Obama, the Obamabots, and the mainstream media – AP -are on the run now!
No Retreat! Keep firing!
Keep hitting them and keep hitting them HARD!!
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/sunday-revolution-roll-call/
Thanks for this link. Wonderful Riverdaughter has a great analogy in this article:
“The PUMA name, it seems, has become associated with all of the out groups of the old coalition. We are the lunchtable where the stupid and the ugly people sit. Well, I ‘know’ we’re not stupid.”
Nor are we ugly, or racist. I am happy to be here at this outcast lunch table, with my new friends.
I do not sit at a table for rejects. But I understand why others feel comfortable in such a setting.
Perhaps John McCain is going to force Obama to “go on the record” during Tues debate as to
Obama’s relationship with Ayers.
If Obama and Ayers have had a ltr, then there is plenty of evidence somewhere of it and Repub have found it.
Contact the AP, and ask them to retract the article and to issue an apology to Sarah Palin. Also ask them to fire Douglass K. Daniel immediately.
http://www.ap.org/pages/contact/contact.html
AMEN!!!
Thank you for the call to Action at bottom of article, No Quarter!
Better yet, lets help this and the Ayers cover up on NYT article get as moch BLog Rage as possible!
Post every where!
Make it the Hot Issue for the Tuesday Night TOwn Hall Debate!!
I want to Hear Barry talk about Ayers and how Palin and McCain are Racists!
Lets see what he has to say about it!
Will i be watching?
YOU BETCHA!!
(everyone find a way to end your posts with YOU BETCHA! from now on…haha)
Basically Douglass K. Daniel, called all of us racists. If the mere mentioning of Obama’s close relationship with Ayers makes someone a racist, then every one of us are guilty. We all need to write the AP and tell them we are not racists, and we resent their implication that discussing a politicians close ties with a terrorist, makes someone a racist .
done!
I just emailed ‘em!
Cue Sarah’s Palin Speech.
You can’t question our opponents associates or you would be painted as a racist.
You can’t question our opponents tax increases on small businesses that will kill jobs or you will be called a racist.
You can’t question our opponents massive government spending plans or you will be called a racist…
McCain….is strategizin circles around Barky….Tuesday is gonna be great…Barky will drop another 12 ibs. and be a paler shade of ashen…
Meeeechelle will look like she’s been constipated for a week…chuckle…Aaaaand Palin will be so shiny and new….While McCain….Looks presidential…lol
You crack(er) me up!!
At this point who really cares if they call Sarah racists? The obots & msm will not stop so we are not surprised. The ones that are pissed are the ones that think BHO is the messiah and NOTHING will change their mind. It is the rest of America that wants and needs to hear the facts, and Thank God McCain has someone with him that America is listening to. Sarah, if you are reading this – BHO has not only palled with Ayers, there are many others to start talking about to. Please don’t stop now.
Exactly, Their is nothing to lose except the election. Let the racist accusations fall where they may!
THE TRUTH FIRST!
ABSOLUTELY NO OBAMA!!
Everything else we can talk about after!
before the VP debate even ended, AP had this jim kuhnhenn article up. of course it was picked up by various media around the world. just look at these excerpts. where is there any mention of the multitude of biden lies, gaffes, etc? the piece is scarcely about the debate at all.
AP: Sarah Palin stands her ground in VP debate with Joe Biden
by Jim Kuhnhenn
Under intense scrutiny, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin stood her ground Thursday night against a vastly more experienced Joe Biden…
After five weeks as McCain’s ticket-mate, her poll ratings have begun dropping as even some conservatives question her readiness for high public office…
With one month until the election, polls show Obama with a small but perceptible lead, and Republican officials said earlier in the day that McCain had decided to pull out of Michigan, conceding the state to the Democrats. At the same time, his own aides said the campaign may soon begin to advertise in Indiana — a state that has voted Republican in every presidential election since 1968.
After intense preparation — including two days at McCain’s home in Sedona, Ariz., Palin made only one obvious stumble, when she twice referred to the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan as “Gen. McClellan.” His name is David McKiernan.
As is her custom on the campaign trail, she spoke in familiar terms, saying “betcha” rather than “bet you” and “gonna” rather than “going to.”..
Biden’s burden was not nearly as fundamental as hers. Although he has long had a reputation for long-windedness, he is a veteran of more than 35 years in the Senate, with a strong knowledge of foreign policy as well as domestic issues…
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/10/palin_stands_her_ground_in_vp.html
the above kuhnhenn piece was originally at the following URL, but AP replaced his piece with the following Beth Fouhy article, which is even more scandalous. absurd polls from CBS and CNN are given the headline now. truly shocking.
AP: Palin says debate went well as polls favor Biden
By BETH FOUHY
Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin on Friday played up her debate performance as polls showed voters judging her Democratic rival, Joe Biden, to be the winner of the only vice presidential face-off of the campaign…
A CBS News/Knowledge Networks Poll found that 46 percent of uncommitted voters who watched the debate thought Biden won, with 21 percent siding with Palin. A CNN poll found respondents judging Biden the winner by a margin of 51 percent to 36 percent but calling Palin more likable by 54 percent to Biden’s 36 percent…
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/V/VICE_PRESIDENTIAL_DEBATE?SITE=CAANG&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
never forget it is the corporate media who make up the board of associated press. the corpmedia is a single organism and no matter how much criticism you throw at them, no matter how much their reader and viewer numbers decline, they will not stop their propaganda for a minute.
get in their face.
There is one name that I have not seen referenced and that is TIMOTHY McVEIGH!
The McCain campaign should make an ad that morphs Ayers into McVeigh and then explain that the only difference between them is that McVeigh succeeded with his plans.
They also have to bring up Reverend Wright, and Khalid-Al-Monsoor, and the fact that Obama has NOT released his birth certificate. I am waiting for John McCain at this debate on Tuesday to bring up William Ayers and the fact that Obama is lying about only meeting him when he was 8 years old, he is a LIAR and I want John McCain to say “Barack Obama, you are lying to the American people, STOP LYING” just see the look on Obama’s face as he craps his pants
Come to think of it. Wasn`t there a connection with Timothy and Indonesia?
GOP filing a complaint against the BO campaign for 450 million dollars of contributions. GOP charging that it came from foreign nationals…….
woohoo!
wow – that would be a BIG DEAL, A very BIG DEAL…. and no pun intended, make a big bang.
But it’s so true as no one has thought about it in that context
I just sent this letter:
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Subject: The AP should fire Douglass K. Daniel
Until summer of 2008 I was a registered Democrat.
One of the most despicable things that unfolded this year was that it became a legitimate and acceptable tactic to accuse of racism anyone who criticized a non-white candidate. This has had a chilling effect on free discussion and has deeply undermined the vetting process that the media is supposed to play in our political life.
Mr. Douglass K. Daniel showed himself to be not only biased but beneath contempt in his resent article accusing Sarah Palin of racism simply because she mentioned Obama’s association (which is well-known and not simply an “acquaintance”) with former Weather Underground member William Ayers. Gov. Palin made a fair distinction in the cultural values of those who gloss over a colleague’s background of actually planting bombs against his own nation, and the rest of us. This “us” and “them” is not racial, though Mr. Daniel insists that it is in the most egregious hyperbole. This is not “analysis” from Mr. Daniel. It is campaigning for Obama with the same vile tactics that Obama surrogates have used to silence debate all year wrong: when in doubt, cry racism.
God, what an awful year for journalism in this country. And how truly horrible for race relations! Do you really think that an unfounded inquisition-like auto-da-fe against anyone who criticises a black candidate is going to -help- us bridge the remants of racial divides in this nation?
The AP should be ashamed for printing this garbage and should offer a full aplolgy to Gov. Sarah Palin, to the American people and – to show you mean it – fire Douglass K. Daniel.
The MouthPeace Strikes Again…
And other good one, and it puts the Clintons on the side of good, namely that Bill Clinton was stonewalled on Fannie and Freddie too…
Goes to show you how powerful the ACORN lobby is when not even Bill Clinton can talk sense to them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5z9lD4C2Io
This is Mouth Peace’s best video yet. Some of his other videos have more than 1 million views. This one deserves 10 million views. Send it everywhere and post it everywhere. If the media won’t do its job, we need to do it for them — with the help of talented people like Mouth Peace.
It’s understandable that NO QUARTER would send a nastygram to anyone who criticizes the McCain\Palin ticket. That’s a no brainer, it’s an advocacy web site.
But I’m curious.
What’s with the grudge with the AP? The campaign would not let them on Palin’s plane as early as 9 September.
Is there a feud with the AP that hasn’t been publicized?
Ehemmmm…read the archves…
“Ehemmmm…read the archves…”
I’d rather set my hair on fire.
If anyone really knows, gimme a link.
Yes the AP is in the tank for Obama and the McCain campaign is not pleased about that.
Its the same fued that is going on with McCain and Waqshington Post, MSNBC ABC NBC and several other media outlets and commentators like Andrew Milky Glutes Sullivan.
And please save your advocacy website crap for Daily Kos.
“And please save your advocacy website crap for Daily Kos.”
I save my contempt for KOS & the HuffPost.
I save my giggles for you losers.
Save your tears until after Election Day – when John McCain wins the Presidency.
You dork.
“Save your tears until after Election Day – when John McCain wins the Presidency.”
What does that have to do with what the McCain campaign’s beef with the AP?
“You dork.”
Spoken like a true NO QUARTER sophisticate. Keep me entertained.
Obama must have been fearful of his Ayers connecction from the beginning; otherwise, why did he lie about it during the debates? Therefore this should be the line of attack–the Obama character issue everywhere she campaigns from hereon.
Sarah is correct in bringing the known facts directly to the people, so that the Obamedia cannot distort or filter her statements.
The Media is now an arm of the Obama campaign.
Bud the MSM has been in the tank for Obama since the very beginning of his campaign. My only question was would they flip on Obama during the GE and back McCain? That question has been answered.
Oh my god what a moron! Using the term “fire bombs” when defending Obama’s relationship with a terrorist bomber?
Oh good! That means she can keep lopping them! Woohoo!
So, sexism is OK? But if you say “boo” you are racist?
hahaa
Check….how FAST CAN O-BOT HEADS SPIN…LOL…BEFORE THEY ERUPT….Barky seriously thinks this will work with the GOP…Aaaaand this is the guy Democrats want to have access to the button….
I know, the Repubs will eat Barry alive. They looked docile until October arrived and now they have released the trap door and the millions of little swift boats floating at the bottom. Hope Barry has fun floating away on the swift boats with his terrorist friends.
My understanding is a Swift Boat is made up. In Obama’s case there is no need to make anything up.
I think I was smart to stock up on butter and popcorn. October is going to be fun! Hot tip: invest in popcorn futures!
Praise the lord and pass the Hamas…chuckle…
“The Associated Press is wrong,” Palin said. “The comments are about an association that has been known but hasn’t been talked about, and I think it’s fair to talk about where Barack Obama kicked off his political career, in the guy’s living room.”
And Palin makes the Obama/MSM amalgam look weak and inept.
I beg to differ slightly. The Obama/MSM amalgam makes itself look weak and inept. Palin is just pointing it out.
I suggest that all who support McCain place an American Flag beside the McCain sign because McCain is certainly an American. As a matter of fact, let us, who support McCain (if we don’t have a McCain sign) just put out the flag which Obama was reluctant to wear at first.
If someone attacks Obama in any way that could possibly hurt his chances at getting the presidency, it is a racist attack because it could keep Obama (a black man) from getting the presidency–hence it is racist.
After careful consideration, it’s clear that is the only possible way this “journalist” could think that what Palin said was racial in the least.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Republican National Committee plans to file a fundraising complaint against Democrat Barack Obama’s presidential campaign Monday, alleging it has accepted donations that exceed federal limits as well as illegal contributions from foreigners.
“RNC to seek audit of all contributions to Obama campaign”
F*CKING AYE!!
ABOUT DAMN TIME!!!!!!
GO GO GO GO GO!
FIGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY!!!
queen…takes Bishop…Johnny Mac…It is a Pleasure to witness your strategy….
After months of Democratic swindle…You have given this McCain Democrat the best day I’ve had in a while
Go Johnny Go! Kick that snot’s ass on Tuesday
Woohoo! Kick his A$$. Roll out an Oblowme scandal every day.
Go Johnny Go!
John McCain wins! President of the US of A.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY4s-lSlsfw
I’m sure this video had probably been posted before, but it won’t hurt to repost it. And please send it around. It demonstrates the incredible media bias of CNN with these ridiculous focus group results. Who are you going to believe, CNN & Solidad O’Brien, or your lying eyes!!
Take a look and pass it around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDgwL_JNcAw
One or two hands = significant margin!!
Hahaha
CNN Lying to you as if their lives depend on it!
Watch it people!!
http://townhall.com/blog/g/b6822448-9507-4375-bfe4-5c1a6ce667c3
anonymous thanks. It would be helpful to post the first couple of paragraphs. People might think you are a troll not knowing what your link contains. Great link!
JohnnyMac…YOU ARE RIGHTEOUS!
SALUS POPULI SUPREMA LEX ESTO!
LET THE WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE BE THE EXTREME LAW
’bout time!!
Republicans JMac campaign read this.
I read Democratic Underground an Obamabotland blog, and noticed that somehow after struggling to get $50,000 donation, they are able to rustle up $75,000 and $100,000.00 even faster. Something changed and I think DU is getting these donation from FOREIGN SOURCES. Check into it.
Douglass K. Daniel:
Her reference to Obama’s relationship with William Ayers, a member of the Vietnam-era Weather Underground, was exaggerated at best if not outright false. No evidence shows they were “pals” or even close when they worked on community boards years ago and Ayers hosted a political event for Obama early in his career.
obama hardly knew the guy. That’s the same thing obama said about his state senate campaign finance chair, largest donor and 15 year political mentor rezko. Anyway why would ayers host a neighbor meet and greet for obama when they hardly knew each other:
In the mid-1990s, Ayers and Dohrn hosted a meet-and-greet at their house to introduce Obama to their neighbors during his first run for the Illinois Senate.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/902213,CST-NWS-ayers18.article
Just one ‘palling around’ example of many.
“Five billable hours with this…indivdual.” Obama at debate in South Carolina. Couldn’t even say Rezko’s name.
YOU BETCHA!
FIRE THAT AP HACK !!!
What are you talking about?
AP IS IN THE TANK!!!
Which Hack do you want to fire?
Have you read AP news coverage on Obama McCain lately?
And if you Fire all the Hacks that would leave hardly anyone to write the stories!!
Thank you NQ and truthteller. I lost count long ago of how many times early in the year I clicked on AP articles only to find INSANE ob bias. I soon learned to scan only the titles now and then and not give them any “hits” at all.
That they see racism in his deep and abiding relationship with Ayers is just their “typical obot person” reaction. It was ob’s campaign long ago that admitted Ayers was his “FRIEND”, their word!
It is so clear they are pals, real buddies, just like he is with so many other freaking lunatics and sleazy characters who I wouldn’t let touch my dog.
Sarah can say what needs to be said, whereas Hillary had to put on a DEM UNITY face.
Sadly, Hillary Clinton was forced to take little swipes at his TRUE history because the media was on the ob gravy train and relentlessly parsed her every word to the point of continuous undeserved ridicule.
Go get ‘em ‘cuda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-45A6I-N5I&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_582657
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Wow thanks for posting this video. Y’all have to see it and pass it around. Ughhhh…Obama makes me puke.
This video is devastating. The most damaging quote from the video is:
“Rev. Meeks, Father Pfleger, Rev. Wright and Trintity United Church of Christ all got Obama/Ayres fund money” (from the Woods Fund and Annenberg Challenge both of which Obama was involved in). These YouTube videos are doing the media’s job. We need to get the word out.
OhVoter……….can you send the video to Hannity at Fox News?
This video looks familiar in the beginning, but you gotta watch it all the way through — excellent!
Having never heard of Douglass K Daniel before, I took a quick look on google to see if any info on his background was readily available. I did not find anything helpful right off hand, but there were some people who found his “obituary” of Tony Snow very offensive.
If this guy wants to be a commentator, maybe he could find something on MSNBC or CNN. If this is supposed to be a news report, then maybe he can apply for a job in some totalitarian regime where objectivity has been flushed down the toilet. If Obama wins, he won’t have to go far.
Interesting point about the guy. Then too, I never thought AP was an OPINION OUTLET in that they are not a newspaper but a pool reporting outfit. They are supposed to COVER the news not MAKE the news.
This is desparation by the in the tank media trying to cover its ass through re-drection and obfuscation. Insiders like us know the score, now many of those 75 million plus viewers of Sarah Palin will magically recognize the bullshit media for what is.
Keep it up Sarah. You and John are the only way to talk to the people while simultaneously inducing the MSM to actually cover what you say. THEY HAVE TOO!
I read the following list last April on the WAPO’s “the trail” and although I knew decades ago that Ayers was and always will be a criminal and a lunatic, this drove home how sick he really was.
the list copied and pasted:
Ayers and Dohrn were FOUNDING MEMBERS of the Weathermen, a violent terrorist group who escaped prosection because of surveilance tactics, not because they were innocent of wrongdoing. They terrorized government agencies for years threatening to bomb them and succeeded in doing so.
10/7/69 Bombing of Haymarket Police Statue in Chicago, as “kickoff” for “Days of Rage” riots
10/8/69 “Days of Rage” riots in Chicago – 287 Weatherman were arrested and a large amount of property damage done
10/6/69 Bombing of Chicago Police cars. The WUO stated in their book “Prairie Fire” that they did the explosion
12/27/69 Weathermen hold “War Council” finalizing plans to submerge into an underground status from which they plan to commit strategic acts of sabotage against the government. Thereafter they are called the “Weather Underground Organization” WUO. Dohrn raised three fingers in a “fork salute” to CHARLES MANSON, whom she proposed as a revolutionary inspiration. She went on to joke about Manson’s victims. “Dig it,” said Dohrn at the time. “First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!”
1969 Ayers attempted to extort money from the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, demanding $20,000 to abstain from violence during a planned peace protest. After rejecting this demand, a member of the group asked Ayers what he really wanted. “To kill all rich people,” Ayers responded. When another peace activist pointed out that Ayers came from wealth, he answered with an angry slogan: “Bring the war home. Kill your parents.”
2/13/70 Bombing of Berkeley CA police vehicles
2/16/70 Bombing of San Francisco Police Department, killing one officer and injuring a number of other policemen
3/6/70 Bombing Detroit PD. 34 sticks of dynamite are discovered. During Feb and early March, 1970, members of the WUO, led by Bill Ayers, are in Detroit, during that period, for the purpose of bombing a police facility
3/6/70 “bomb factory” located in Greenwich Village explodes. WUO members die. The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer’s dance at Fort Dix, NJ that night. The bomb was packed with nails TO INFILICT MAXIMUM CASUALTIES UPON DETONATION
3/30/70 Chicago Police discover WUO “bomb factory” on Chicago’s north side. Subsequent discovery of WUO “weapons cache” in south side Chicago apartment several days later ends WUO activity in the city
5/10/70 Bombing of The National Guard Association building in Washington, D.C.
5/21/70 WUO under Bernardine Dohrn’s name releases its “Declaration of a State of War” communique
6/6/70 WUO sends letter claiming credit for bombing of San Francisco Hall of Justice. No explosion actually took place. Months later, workmen in this building located an unexploded device which had been dormant for some time
6/9/70 Bombing of New York City Police Headquarters
7/27/70 Bombing of The Presidio army base in San Francisco
9/12/70 WUO helps Timothy Leary break out and escape from the CA Men’s Colony prison
10/8/70 Bombing of Marin County courthouse
10/10/70 Bombing of Queens traffic-court building
10/14/70 Bombing of The Harvard Center for International Affairs
3/1/71 Bombing of The US Capitol
4/71 abandoned WUO “bomb factory” discovered in San Francisco
8/29/71 Bombing of the Office of CA Prisons
9/17/71 Bombing of The NY Dept of Corrections in Albany, NY
10/15/71 Bombing of William Bundy’s office in the MIT research center
5/19/72 Bombing of The Pentagon
5/18/73 Bombing of the 103rd Police Precinct in NY
9/28/73 Bombing of ITT headquarters in NY and Rome, Italy
3/6/74 Bombing of the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare in San Francisco
5/31/74 Bombing of The Office of the CA Attorney General
6/17/74 Bombing of Gulf Oil Pittsburgh headquarters
9/11/74/ Bombing of Anaconda Corporation
1/29/75 Bombing of State Department
6/16/75 Bombing of Banco de Ponce in NY
9/75 Bombing of Kennecott Corporation
10/20/81 Brinks robbery several members of the Weather Underground stole over $1 million from a Brinks armored car near Nyack, NY. The robbers murdered 2 police officers and 1 Brinks guard. Several others seriously wounded.
1991 “Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country,” Ayers said when interviewed by David Horowitz
1995 Obama campaign event at Ayers/Dohrn house
1997 Ayers and Obama serve on a U of Chicago panel organized by Michelle Obama
1999-2002 Obama and Ayers serve together as paid directors on Woods Fund Board of Directors
4/2/01 Obama accepts campaign contribution from Ayers and, after 9/11 never returned the money
9/11/01 “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? “I don’t want to discount the possibility”
4/20/02 Ayers and Obama serve on panel together called “Intellectuals in Times of Crisis” organized by Michelle O.
Posted by: jpp | April 21, 2008 5:54 PM | Report abuse
Oh and he was 8 in 1969. He was 20 in 1981.
In 1991 when Ayers spouted his “Free as a Bird” ob was his friend and ob was 30 years old.
I knew Ayers was a terrorist as a child.
Oh and some of Ayers victims were 8 years old, and they never doubted he is not somebody to befriend.
Bad judgment, not ready to lead.
contact him at ddaniel@ap.org and his editors at info@ap.org
“The New Definition of Racism in America”
with Examples
By: soldier4hillary
Book Comes out Nov 1st to a blog near you
Racist: Someone who will not vote for Barack Obama
You are a racist if:
1. You choose to not vote for Senator Barack Obama
2. If you use spell out his middle name without just using the initial despite the fact that is what his mother named him
3. If your black and vote for someone other than him
4. If you ask questions on his stance on the issues and his policies when they clearly told you they are “Just like Hillary’s”
5. If you didn’t do what Senator Clinton told you to do.
6. If you watch Fox because they seem to be the only one who will occasionally mention something every blue moon about a certain candidates past associations.
7. Your racist if you ask a question about a flip flop made by Obama
8. Your racist if you dont believe the reporting on CNN, MSNBC, NBC on Obama is the gospel truth
9.Your racist if you only watch CNN when Lou Dobbs show comes on
10. Your racist if you dont blog on Pro Obama websites like Daily Kos, Taylor Marsh, & Huffington Post
11. Your racist if your white and you dont vote for Obama
12. Your racist if you believe the media should vet Obama like how they were in garbage cans in Alaska in regards to Gov Palin
13. Your racist if you want to see the original birth certificate of Senator Obama when it is SOOOO clear to his supporters, CNN, and the Democratic party that he was born in a manger.
14. Your racist if you think they should let the American people know about the current investigation of Obama and the DNC on his citizenship just because they report on Trooper Gate
15. Your racist if you think Gov Palins brother in law was wrong to taser his son and threaten her father when in the back of your mind you said if it was your brother in law. That you would of hunted him down to the same cave bin laden was in to get your retribution. Country First-Family Always
16. Your racist if you believe they should throw Nancy botox betty Pelosi out of the Democratic party.
17. Your racist if you believe Donna Brazile might need to find a better daytime job.
18. Your racist if your a Puma
19. Your racist if you love hanging out on No Quarter
20. Your racist if your black, occasionally have stories posted on No Quarter, Female, In the military, and would rather go through the Great Depression times ten with Dr Manning then to vote for BO.
You can download the new definition of racism under the “download” tab on
http://www.soldier4hillary.com
FYI this is snark for anyone new to NQR.
Xcellent Soldier4hill…fringe humor classic
lmao, very clever.
This is outstanding, soldier. I love it!
And btw, I guess I’m racist!
Video: Former Obama adviser on invading Israel
This is from HotAir
[snip]
So, Sarah Palin should be back in the bedroom/kitchen. She should not have a message, as that is the problem. She is just “a fluffy bunny” whom people don’t take seriously. (Not playing the female sexist card here. Wink, wink.) BUT, she’s also a racist bomb thrower and giant subject changer. Hmm. Which is it?
Annie as I already pointed out the worst of it is:
You know Jenny Buckus can kiss my ass.! Palin was in the kitchen, dropped five children, kept her great shape, kept her beautiful face at (her age-we all wish we look like her)ran a state, hunt, kill moose, climb, flys a plane, etc., and now this Jenny person is comparing her to fuzzy bunny? What a stupid individual!
Fluffy bunny, not fuzzy bunny. Important difference!
There is a “fluffy bunny” in one of Monty Python’s movies (I forget which) that is billed as a horrible man-killer. Everybody laughs when they see the little bunny hopping around. But suddenly the bunny rockets from throat to throat ripping out their arteries. Blood is everywhere . . . .
Go Sarah Barracuda!
That was Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They use the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch to kill it.
This is my first time posting here. I’m so afraid for our country. The media, the millionaires, the terrorists, they’re all going to make sure that Obama is our next president and there’s nothing we can do about it. After what they did to Bill and Hillary I can’t believe so many people are being brainwashed, or are they?
yes, they are unfortunately.
But fortunately you’ve landed on a blogsite with Americans totally concerned for our country. Dems, independents, republicans, all dedicated to stopping this man.
Keep reading and posting here, it will help, and do what you can. Links and archives key.
I found out about NQ when Obama first pulled the race card. NQ has been a godsend.
I hope people are seeing through all of Obama’s lies and the media’s lies, it is like the voters are being brain washed by the MSM.
Welcome to the ” deadenders racist/racetraitors ” fringe party…very good writers and smart folks…Xcellent troll spanking is an xtra…Have fun and avoid aisles 3 and 6 as Trollheads are quite fragile today…chuckle…Cause JohnnyMac is in The HOUSE & BEING RIGHTEOUS…
This was email that a friend of mine received.
I think it is good enough to pass to everyone you know.
“To All My Friends, this is very important, please take the time to read it.
This election has me very worried. So many things to consider. About a year ago I would have voted for Obama. I have changed my mind three times since than. I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another. I must say this drives my husband crazy. But, I feel if you view MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, you might get some middle ground to work with. About six months ago, I started thinking ‘where did the money come from for Obama’. I have four daughters who went to College, and we were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans.
I started looking into Obama’s life.
Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California. He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. ‘Barry’ (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan. During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a ’round the world’ trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia, next Hyderabad in India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate’s family, then off to Africa to visit his father’s family. My question – Where did he get the money for this trip? Nether I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they where in college. When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York. It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barack – not Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia? It’s not cheap to say the least! Where did he get money for tuition? Student Loans? Maybe. After Columbia, he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000 a year. Why Chicago? Why not New York? He was already living in New York.
By ‘chance’ he met Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria, and a real estate developer in Chicago. Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko, was named ‘Entrepre neur of the Decade’ by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association’. About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School. Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School? Where did he get the money for Law School? More student loans? After Law school, he went back to Chicago. Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what? They represented ‘Rezar’ which is Rezko’s firm. Rezko was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago. In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with ’seed money’ for his U.S. Senate race. In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price). With ALL those Student Loans – Where did he get t he money for the property? On the same day Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.
Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama’s boss. She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first. Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran! Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy?
On May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley, advisor to Obama, was ’sacked’ after the press found out he was having r egular contacts with ‘Hamas’, which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran. This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama’s visit to Iraq, he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will ‘Take care of things’.
Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that where born in Pakistan? They are in charge of all those ’small’ Internet campaign contributions for Obama. Where is that money coming from? The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East?
And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on ‘This Week’ with G eorge Stephanapoulos. Obama on talking about his religion said, ‘My Muslim faith’. When questioned, ‘he made a mistake’. Some mistake!
All of the above information I got on line. If you would like to check it – Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times – Obama visited Pakistan in 1981; The Washington Times – September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008.
Now the BIG question – If I found out all this information on my own, Why haven’t all of our ‘intelligent’ members of the press been reporting this?
A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear – ‘Beware of the enemy from with in’!!!”
mimorees – please tell everyone you know who is concerned about our country and our futures about this site. Please tell them to watch FOX NEWS – all of the anchors are good; I especially love Cavuto at 4:00 EST and Brit Hume and ESPECIALLY Hannity at 9:00 pm – I love Greta, also, at 10:00. Hannity is the one who gets ALL the info out there.
I’m am sick to death of racism being used as the new dismissive “F” bomb! When facts don’t support ideology, just drop the “R” bomb and keep going. It reminds me of the OJ Simpson trial. While any rational thinking person knew this man was a double murderer, race was injected into the trial and presto, he’s free for the next 13 years. In fact, his appeal will be based on the premise he was not tried by a jury of his peers. (There were no AA on the jury)
While clear thinking legislators warned about the pending doom for Freddie and Fanny and the ultimate meltdown that would follow, others implied the “R” bomb. They insisted the books were not cooked and what we had here was a conspiracy to deny minorities’ affordable housing. The “R” bomb has been the brass ring for ill-gotten riches, fame, pandering, corporate shakedowns and yes incredible human suffering. I shudder to think of the huge divide in this country regardless who wins.
You need to go to the riverdaughter post. It is the most powerful of all that I have read to date. I was starting to become fairly discouraged and she has not only renewed my hope, but has me back on the phone again to talk to my friends and neighbors.
How does the article at the blog you mention relate to MY essay?
You know, I posted an article on my website about how I thought Obama looked really mean and evil in the debates. I said he had “serial killer eyes.” So some dumb ass from Blog Her posts this lengthy analysis of Obama not falling prey to the “angry black man stereotype” and links to my comment about the serial killer eyes as an example.
I was like, um, excuse me, but all famous serial killers are WHITE MEN. What the f!@$!????
These people will read racism into everything. We could say that Obama likes his coffee black and that would be a racist comment. Pathetic.
Thank you Truthteller, your updated analysis and comment is a CLASSIC thread. You and Sarah are winners, champions.
Thank you, DT. I am glad you enjoy reading No Quarter.
You do a great job Truth
Thank you for your kind words and accolades, 30yr. Dem.
I am addicted to NQ. I send everyone that questions BO here.
Obama sure has turned our media in to apologists for him, and being seen as the SAPS they’ve turned in to.
Our media has turned in to a laughing stock.
Thank you, TT. Articulate and brilliant as ever. I have made calls and sent an email. We have to keep telling it like it is, like you are.
Thank you, Dr. Kate. I too wrote the AP, and I intend to telephone them during business hours tomorrow.
are still crazy.
Refusing to be assimilated reveals us as intelligent, not crazy.
I talked to someone in my family who is in Georgia (US) and he said that every time people hear the racist thing more and more people go out and register to vote, and they aren’t voting McCain. That is why Obama continues to play the race card.
You must be talking about the 99% blacks in Georgia who are voting for him. Because the whites know Ayers is ‘white”. oops……try again…doesn’t work here, child.
I am telling you they weren’t registered and were not going to vote, these people don’t care about politics and it is causing them to go register and they get mad when they here it reported on television.
My family member has been trying to get the truth out on Obama.
That surprises me because I thought it would backfire on Obama since people get very offended for falsefully being accused of being racist. I know I was extremely offended, and it sure isn’t going to make me vote for Obama.
Geez I guess I’m overly tired…..
falsefully=falsely
Okey, Sarah….you got their attention. Now on your next stump….tell the people how they forced Mccain to show his birth certificate- ask Obama to show his….get down in the mud and roll with him, girl!Come back everytime with an answer- CBS is reporting now…..and is getting on board….they awoke from the slumber sleep…….and writing articles….get the other main streams- awaken them…Sarah….
hee hee, I thought the same! Go Sarah Go. Americans are counting on you!
This webpage is racist because the background color is white. It means you like white people better, and that they are the foundation of the United States, since that’s the main color of the page. And then the type is black, but no matter how much we type, there will always be more white than black. We can’t cover up the white. You are saying that there will never, ever be more black people than white people. Racist.
^^^
LOL, jk. that’s probably what Obama and his peeps would say if he came to this page
And when you write anything angry, it is black on white aggression!
Oh poor Barky can’t take the truth of who he is.When the truth is told of Barky he runs “Help me please”Well he doesn’t even say please he DEMANDS.
Barky thinks he can shoot his nasty mouth off in all the lies and attack but can’t take Palin or Mccain or anyone else for that matter telling nothing but the truth and the whole truth of Barky’s bad judgements.And yes Bill Aryes is a terrioist who hime and Bill Ayers worked together 2004 as Bill Ayers help funded poor Barky’s campaign and yes many othe terrorist barky has.What I said to dam bad if we tellthe people what a scum bucket-liar-A a friend to manmy terrrorist Obama holds near.
Obama Barky stop you srying.You are nothing bur a liar and a waste of fleash!Period!
NO OBAMA EVER!
McCain/Palin08
Country First.
“And nothing about Sarah Palin’s words contain a “racially tinged subtext,” unless, of course, you are a compromised journalist who must project racism on everything you encounter in order to repress the racist impulses you compulsively disavow in your vain attempt to conceal your racism.”
THANK YOU!!! This is dead on.
Wow this was the most fair reaction to an article I have seen in a while. GREAT JOB! Loved the break-down paragraph by paragraph
I have been so repulsed by the CNN team and MSN, I was so angry and made that statement in conversation and was told they were all Democrats. Well go figure.
Fox news has 100% of my attention from now on. Would love to see this author on Bill O’Reily’s show or Greta’s as some people only watch T.V. and don’t have access to the internet.
The AP can kiss my ass. I could care less what they think. Palin is saying the truth. Scared? They should be. All I can say is when the dust settles and all of the shit really comes out about Obama, there is going to be an awful lot of people that look stupid at best and unAmerican to say the least.
Well I emailed AP, that idiot Doug Daniel, and I left a message on their comment line. This just sux. I do think that the GOP has something up their sleeve though. I mean, you gotta give McCain credit for the timing of the Palin announcement. It totally deflated that 100 Million Dollar Toga Party that [DELETED BY ADMIN]
WHOA; was this ever a stretch! You know, I wondered when the Obama campaign (and not just the punks I have had to deal with) would begin the racist garbage in referring to McCain or Palin, and here we go (and, hey, douglass even inserted his own sort of sexist remarks in the same breath!).. It’s just disgusting that this election has devolved to this. I’ve been called racist and my children, who are of mixed heritage, do disagree. Yet, the idiots banter on and on, with no proof of anything; out of thin air.
Just awful!
How in the WORLD does one get ‘racist’ out of stating that Obama has had meetings and/or a friendsihp with a known WHITE American terrorist???? Ayres is an AMERICAN, a bomber and he’s WHITE – how is THAT ‘racist’???
I read that article on Yahoo! and I was enraged! This guy needs to be FIRED!
Obama and his supporters ARE SCARY – be VERY AFRAID.
Poor Obamabots…
They must be having a “Heart Smear” after finding out their latest operative has been exposed.
Wow wow wow. Could our blogging be paying off?
FBI Investigates….
Obama-ACORN Root Causes of Mortgage Crisis?
FBI Investigates U.S. Financial Crisis – Where Did $1 Trillion Go?
The high-risk subprime mortgage social engineering community service experiment by left-wing ACORN and Obama has created the largest financial crisis since The Great Depression. The full reach of the corruption and scandal may never be known but those who created it must not be rewarded. The architects, primarily left-wing Democrats, created laws, took donations, looked the other way and instead were too busy overseeing donations to their own presidential campaigns and robbing main street blind. Now these same left-wing Democrats blame everyone else and get up on their high horses and say, “we are here to save you” from the crises they created.
Demand Congress Protect Taxpayers Not Speculators
No Bailout – Prosecute Offenders!
Yes, Mr. Obama knows a great deal about the mess. He is a central figure in the left-wing ACORN exploitation of financial institutions and pressuring them to make high risk loans. The very same left-wing ACORN was guilty of voter fraud in the last presidential election.
Now these same Democrats want to do another high risk “community service,” social engineering experiment. They want to elect a high-risk, low experience, socialist one of the same community organizers that created the mess to be our next president. We cannot experiment with the office of president and learn as we go. Barack Obama is not qualified and has no history of success as a leader in government or business.
The FBI investigation
An FBI investigation is under way at Lehman Brothers and three other contributors to America ’s financial crisis to determine whether they put pressure on ratings agencies to award top ratings to securities they issued.
Concerns that Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG or Lehman may have sought to encourage agencies to inflate their ratings – by offering higher fees or the promise of more work – form part of a broad inquiry by the bureau.
The agencies are widely regarded as having failed debt holders by attributing the top ratings to many securities that turned out to be extremely risky and have lost investors hundreds of billions of dollars.
The FBI, which is also investigating whether any of the four institutions deliberately misled investors about the true health of their assets, is expected to demand that they “hold all papers and e-mails under lock and key” as it sifts through the evidence, a source said.
How did we get here?
FOLLOW THE MONEY AND CORRUPTION! A Lending Policy created by democrats for democrats run by democrats monitored by democrats enforced by community organizer democrats and profited from by democrats.
The following information is condensed from an article by Stanley Kurtz. O’s Dangerous Pals.
Fannie and Freddie acted in response to Clinton administration pressure to boost homeownership rates among minorities and the poor. However compassionate the motive, the result of this systematic disregard for normal credit standards has been financial disaster. ONE key pioneer of ACORN’s subprime-loan shakedown racket was Madeline Talbott – an activist with extensive ties to Barack Obama. She was also in on the ground floor of the disastrous turn in Fannie Mae’s mortgage policies.
Obama Trains ACORN Staff in Shakedown Tactics
It would be tough to find an “on the ground” community organizer more closely tied to the subprime-mortgage fiasco than Madeline Talbott. And no one has been more supportive of Madeline Talbott than Barack Obama.
When Obama was just a budding community organizer in Chicago , Talbott was so impressed that she asked him to train her personal staff.
He returned to Chicago in the early ’90s, just as Talbott was starting her pressure campaign on local banks. In those years, he also conducted leadership-training seminars for ACORN’s up-and-coming organizers. That is, Obama was training the army of ACORN organizers who participated in Madeline Talbott’s drive against Chicago ’s banks.
Obama Funds ACORN
More than that, Obama was funding them. As he rose to a leadership role at Chicago ’s Woods Fund, he became the most powerful voice on the foundation’s board for supporting ACORN and other community organizers. In 1995, the Woods Fund substantially expanded its funding of community organizers – and Obama chaired the committee that urged and managed the shift.
That committee’s report on strategies for funding groups like ACORN features all the key names in Obama’s organizer network. The report quotes Talbott more than any other figure; Sandra Maxwell, Talbott’s ACORN ally in the bank battle, was also among the organizers consulted.
More, the Obama-supervised Woods Fund report acknowledges the problem of getting donors and foundations to contribute to radical groups like ACORN – whose confrontational tactics often scare off even liberal donors and foundations.
Indeed, the report brags about pulling the wool over the public’s eye. The Woods Fund’s claim to be “nonideological,” it says, has “enabled the Trustees to make grants to organizations that use confrontational tactics against the business and government ‘establishments’ without undue risk of being criticized for partisanship.”
Obama Aware of Intimidation Tactics
The Woods Fund report makes it clear Obama was fully aware of the intimidation tactics used by ACORN’s Madeline Talbott in her pioneering efforts to force banks to suspend their usual credit standards. Yet he supported Talbott in every conceivable way. He trained her personal staff and other aspiring ACORN leaders, he consulted with her extensively, and he arranged a major boost in foundation funding for her efforts.
And, as the leader of another charity, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Obama channeled more funding Talbott’s way – ostensibly for education projects but surely supportive of ACORN’s overall efforts.
In return, Talbott proudly announced her support of Obama’s first campaign for state Senate, saying, “We accept and respect him as a kindred spirit, a fellow organizer.”
In short, to understand the roots of the subprime mortgage crisis, look to ACORN’s Madeline Talbott. And to see how Talbott was able to work her mischief, look to Barack Obama. Together, we can preserve the Constitutional rights our Founding Fathers intended our people to have forever.
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Claiming that a statement is “tinged” with racism appears to me to be a way to embue almost any declaration of opinion with a socially unacceptable bias. The holier-than-thou critic can then behave as if the commentator is beneath contempt, and no counter argument need be made. Any criticism of a person who happens to be black can occasion the charge. But I don’t know where the Obama camp is going with all this, because if a voter truly is racist, he surely doesn’t care what bleeding hearts think. Ayers is an admitted, unrepentent terrorist who looks more like Timothy McVeigh than bin Laden, and Axelrod himself said Bobo and Bill have a “friendly” relationship. So, if Palin interprets that to mean “palling around”, then is that any sort of a stretch? And BO’s other associations make it all too easy to believe. It’s not like someone accused McCain of belonging to a S/M club! Camp Obama, the chickens have come home to roost, and you’re getting splatted with their droppings!
fox repoting that Macain and Obama in a statistical tie according to realclearpolitics – margin of error 6% yeah……… fight, fight fight
Bring it home MacDaddy and SaraCUDA!
I saw yesterday that SUSA has McPalin up 1.
Soetor got punked by Palin!
“It also comes after McCain supported a pork-laden Wall Street bailout plan in spite of conservative anger and his own misgivings.”
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Uh, excuse me, Mr. AP writer – but Obummer ALSO supported the ‘pork-laden’ Wall Street bailout. In fact it was MCCAIN who helped GET RID of some of the pork that was originally in the bill and THAT is HOW and WHY the bailout passed – BECAUSE of McCain REDUCING THE PORK!
this endless series of racial blackmail you and other journalists are deploying on behalf of the flawed candidate you shamelessly support.
Any & all criticism of Obama is considered racist. It has gone beyond absurd. It really is racial blackmail. The only way to fight it is to confront it directly. McCain & Co. should call them on it and point out that it has been Obama’s M.O. since the primaries. I’m sick of it.
Soooo,
Does anyone know contact info for this ball of ear wax “author”? AP damned sure doesn’t show it. Cough it up if you know.
Uigi
ddaniel@ap.org
Thanks – sent mine again directly to him….
Wow –
Can you see up there? I mean really. You have your head shoved so far up the rectum of Obama that it must be getting difficult to even breathe. You must not know that you are helping McCain and Palin with your continued bias, in-the-tank-for-the-ONE “news” coverage. American’s are much, much smarter and aware than you give us credit. I have never ever voted for a Republican. Never. But, when the media outlets continue to push Obama on us like they did WMD’s it makes us stop and go “hmmmm?”. Keep it up. No really. We want McCain/Palin to win by a landslide, a fricking landslide. This election is about two things now, thank you very much, a referendum on Obama and a protest against the media. You checked the mass media’s ratings lately? Mmm-kay so then you know all cable networks ratings have fallen below number 19, except for FOX news. FOX was rated number 2. Hmmm. Wonder who is watching FOX? Newsweek’s subscribers fell by how much? NYT’s circulation, what is that these days? Yes, please, please keep it up. You are a joke and a has been and after this election hopefully non-existent.
Gotta go set my TIVO for Hannity tonight. He is having a special show on Obama’s “special” friends. I guess I am a racist too because I don’t trust a man who could not pass a basic security clearance based on his past let alone be POTUS. Put the bong down man and do your job.
McCain/Palin – Country First!
I want to thank DKD for his inflaming article. It made me mad enought to get on line and discover this fine site. Anyone with a taste for the truth HAS to be ticked about this. Hopefully this idiot will cause the backlash necessary to bring about a McCain / Palin win. Maybe it should be Palin McCain.
Finaly who is this moron Jenny Backus with her sexist comment about Palin “Fluffy Bunny”. Go ahead, bite her Sarah!
I hope Mac & Palin do such damage to the race-baiting ploys of the Obama campaign and the media they collude with that the guy can never run again. Like sarainitaly, I do believe the whitey tape exists too – when it’s leaked, it’ll be interesting to see this same non-journalist AP writer defend that as not racist.
Yeah, that must be why her “positives” are tanking in the polls, down double-digits in the last two weeks. Brilliant analysis there.
By the same token, the squealing & outrage here must, by your logic, be proof that the MSM is “getting to you.”
Get used to it. Memorize this acronym: BOHICA.
“‘The more they attack her, the better she looks.’
Yeah, that must be why her “positives” are tanking in the polls, down double-digits in the last two weeks. Brilliant analysis there.”
No, that’s why when she talks she gets monster media attention to nail Obama. But look at the bright side (from the anti-American POV). Bill Ayers’ book sales are probably booming on Daily Kos.
Yeah, can’t talk about Obama – “their baby” – no matter how nefarious his friends have been.
Wow, this just motivates my husband and I to work harder to make certain that McCain/Palin ticket wins come November.
Just who is “stupid” and “ugly” here? Could it be the MSM who thinks that we buy the “garbage” that they spew is newsworthy? It’s not even good entertainment, let alone intelligent commentary.
Obama is already firing up the Keating 5 ammo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/mccains-keating-5-scandal_n_132103.html
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Kelvin Hates PUMAS, you crack me up!
This attack is really not a good way to go. It’s not news and comes across too much like the McCarthy witch hunts of the 50’s. No one wants to revisit that era because it was not a shining moment for America. McCain must remember the aftermath of the witch hunts and it was not good. I don’t know why he is trying it now.
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I just sent an e-mail to both ddaniel@pa.org and info@ap.org. The one to Douglass Daniel came back with a message that said something like “permanently undeliverable”. Apparently, his Inbox is over his limit or he has his e-mail turned off.
I doubt I will get a response from AP but I have at least sent them my opinion on this ridiculous “analysis.”
Sorry for the typo in my last comment. I sent my e-mail to ddaniel@ap.org, not pa.org.