“The Game of Expedience”
By SusanUnPC on April 30, 2008 at 11:33 PM in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Rev. Otis Moss, William Ayers, Woods Fund
Expedience.
Expedience propelled the speech in Philadelphia, and Tuesday’s grim press conference. it was expedience that was borne from falling poll numbers, and really — let’s be clear here — nothing to do with anti-American, racist, divisive words. Because if those words had been the real reason, he’d have quit that church 20 years ago, wouldn’t have attended for 20 years, wouldn’t have been married by and had his daughters baptized by and had his new mansion blessed by Rev. Wright. No, it was the poll numbers:
Real Clear Politics nails the reason for Obama’s press conference yesterday:
So why did this particular performance by Wright finally create the need for Obama to speak up more forcefully? That answer is simple: falling poll numbers in Indiana, North Carolina and nationally, and to that, we can safely conclude, Barack Obama takes great offense. — From “Obama’s Wright Turn,” by Richard Baehr
You see, the rest of us — you, me, and millions of Americans — only had to listen to those tapes from the CDs of speeches sold for profit by his own church (about which he surely had to be aware) in order to know that there was something terribly anti-American and hate-filled about this narcissistic preacher’s rhetoric. Baehr describes OUR reactions:
Many Americans did not have to wait for Wright’s talk to the National Press Club to have taken offense. In fact, there is nothing the Reverend said Monday or with Bill Moyers on PBS, or at the NAACP dinner in Detroit (to thunderous ovations) that was in any substantive way different from what he has been saying over and over again for decades (to thunderous applause among the thousands packing Trinity Church). We had already heard about the US government bringing AIDS into the black community, and how Louis Farrakhan was a great American.
Then there is the example of William Ayers, who helped jumpstart Obama’s political career by hosting an early fundraiser in 1995, who donated to his campaigns, who served with him on a board for eight years. Then, the other day, Larry Johnson reports to us that Barack Obama was an employee of William Ayers’ foundation for EIGHT YEARS.
Obama’s excuse for his relationship with an unrepentant terrorist is that the bombings of the Pentagon and Capitol building, NYPD offices, and more all occurred when he was eight years old. But the CORE problem with “dusting off his shoulder” the issue of the relationship is that, well into their business and personal relationship — at least six to seven years or more into that relationship — William Ayers told the New York Times that he didn’t regret setting those bombs, that he wishes he’d set off more bombs, and that he feels he and his fellow Weather Underground terrorists didn’t do enough.
Didn’t Obama READ that account? Hasn’t he heard about the Ayers interview? Wouldn’t such remarks — even if we were children when the violence occurred — be enough to end a relationship for you or me with someone with such a history of violence? That not only does Ayers have no regrets but he wishes he’d done more?
That’d be a deal-breaker for almost all of us, I am sure. Even if our associate had led an exemplary life since, such suggestions that violence was warranted, that more violence had been needed, and that such violence may be needed again would do it for us. But not for Obama. Because, apparently, it is not politically expedient to do so. (And I have a lot of questions about why Obama does not find it politically expedient to also disown that man as well as his terrorist wife, Bernardine Dorhn.)
From “Why is Obama Hiding the Truth About William Ayers? Follow the Money“:
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[Barack Obama, in the most recent debate, the ABC News debate in Pennsylvania] conveniently forgot to mention what was already on the blogs — that Ayers held the first fundraiser at his home to help launch Obama’s state senate campaign in 1995; and that the two men have sat on the board of a private foundation in Chicago, the Woods Fund, for years, giving grants to, among others, a radical Palestinian activist named Rashid Khalidi.
But William Ayers was not just some guy who “lives in Barack’s neighborhood.” He is a well-known and controversial Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. And Obama wants you to believe that he knew nothing of Ayers views or politics even though Barack participated in public forums with him there? I don’t think so.
But that is not all. Barack also was essentially an employee of Bill Ayers for eight years.
In 1995, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created to raise funds to help reform the Chicago public schools. One of the architects of the Challenge was none other than Professor Bill Ayers. Ayers co-wrote the initial grant proposal and proudly lists himself on his own website as the co-founder of the Challenge.
And who did William Ayers, co-creator of the Challenge, help select as the new director of the board for this program? Barack Obama. Barack Obama was the first Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. This appointment came at a crucial time in Barack’s life. He was on the verge of challenging longtime state Senator Alice Palmer for her job. When Barack decided to run, it is no surprise that he turned to William Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn for help in organizing the campaign and in hosting his first fundraiser in the district.
Obama served on the board for eight years until the Challenge ended in 2003. Bill Ayers was intimately involved in the Challenge over this same time period.
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It is vitally important to read Larry Johnson’s report in its entirety: “Why is Obama Hiding the Truth About William Ayers? Follow the Money.”
Then there are Father Michael Pfleger — somewhat of an outlaw priest in Chicago — as well as Rev. James Meeks and Rev. Otis Moss — not to mention indicted slumlord Tony Rezko et al.
That’s quite a cast of characters to have involved so directly in one’s political career.
The Republicans should have a grand time staging a series of plays — in the form of 527 attack ads — should the Democrats fail to see the light, and give Hillary Clinton the nomination.
And, with that cast of characters to put on display between August and November, John McCain would have no problem becoming the 44th president.
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