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Use ‘Em Then Lose ‘Em

By Pat Racimora on October 20, 2008 at 8:00 AM in Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Tony Rezko

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A friend whose political analysis I greatly admire reports that he is less concerned about Obama’s corrupt and anti-white friends and connections than he is about Obama’s pattern of taking from people who can bolster his own position and then dump them out like garbage when they are no longer useful to him.

Tony “Let’s Buy You a Big House You Can’t Afford” Rezko was welcomed as a consort for many years and a major bundler for Obama’s campaigns since 1995, until he was indicted and convinced on 16 out of 24 counts of fraud, money laundering, and aiding and abetting bribery. Now, according to Obama, “This isn’t the Tony Rezko he knew.” Is anyone buying this line? Or, if Obama is being honest, he is no judge of character. More here.

Rev. “God Damn America” Wright was like family, until he referred to Obama for what he really is—“just a politician.” Whoa—that went too far! So, after 20 years of sitting in Wrights Afrocentric church, he dismissed his spiritual advisor and “sounding board” by saying, “What became clear to me is that he was presenting a world view that contradicts who I am and what I stand for…And what I think particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political posturing. ….You know, I have been a member of Trinity United Church of Christ since 1992. I have known Reverend Wright for almost 20 years. The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago. His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate and I believe that they do not portray accurately the perspective of the black church.”

Uh—if it really took 20 years to figure that out, that pace of processing information will leave us all in the dust. But, back to the main point. Wright was still family as long as he stuck to anti-white, anti-American tirades, that is until he said that Obama was engaged in political posturing. Ooooh–that was too much.

Home-grown terrorist and bomber Bill “We Didn’t Do Enough” Ayers was also affiliated with Obama on several levels, all of which Obama now claims were superficial. Ayers and his wife gave Obama his introduction to politics in their home. Obama was the chair of the Annenberg Challenge, started by Ayer’s father. They gave speeches together and served on the Wood Foundation Board together. But when that friendship (and, yes, David “Hope Change Theme for All My Clients” Axelrod said the two men were “friendly”) began to surface, all of a sudden Ayers was “just a guy in the neighborhood.” Obama tried to place space between them by whining that he was only 8 when Ayers terrorized America.

Then there was an early mentor, the popular civil rights activist Alice Palmer. She helped Obama get into politics, but he turned around and bit that hand that fed him. Alice Palmer had been a popular Illinois State Senator for years, and decided to run for Congress. Obama decided to run for her open seat. But Palmer lost the congressional election and wanted to run for her old seat again. Most of the community leaders asked Obama to withdraw. But, instead, by using
Chicago-style tactics he was able to force Palmer (and all of the other contenders) off the ballot. (Note: Alice Palmer campaigned actively for Hillary Clinton.)

Well, you say, except for Alice Palmer, aren’t these are folks that he should have dumped? Yes, agreed. But, now answer this question, “Why did he hang on so long to any of the other three when he knew all along exactly who they were?”

  • Fenelon spoke

    Taking from people who can bolster one’s position and dumping them when they no longer useful is a classic trait of people with NPD. Of course, this disorder can’t be be diagnosed without proper psychiatric/psychological evaluation, but the more I have read about Obama over the past ten months the more I think he has major psychological issues.

    • csuzeq

      I was married to an NPD and am a psychology major. NPD fits Obama to a T and believe me, we do not want this in the Wite House. his supporters will be very disappointed to learn that they matter nothing to him. He needs them now, yes, but after elected? The furthest thing from his mind. Promises? NPDs don’t ever keep promises. For the NPD, it’s all about them and no one else!

      • Fenelon spoke

        Married to an NP? You have my sympathy. Dare I say that I am glad for your sake that you are no longer married to that person? I am not married to one, but I made the mistake of thinking that I could be friends with several. I didn’t until later that the NP was what was probably going on. And I agree with your view that Obama couldn’t care less about his followers. He would be a disaster as President.

        • Ferd McBerfle

          I was formerly married to one for a grueling ten years. It was, literally, hell on earth. They are never satisfied with anything. Forget everything else about Oblockhead–his NPD is what makes him a completely unfit person to occupy any position of authority.

    • hank48188

      If you were abandoned by both of your parents by age 10 you would have some issues too. Some people are raised Catholic, some Jewish, Obama was raised Communist, his family was at least sympathizers and connected him to Frank Marshall Davis to be his Mentor. It’s no wonder that all the rest of the people in Obama life, except Tony Rezko, have a strong dislike for this country.

    • oowawa

      Narcissistic Personality Disorder: “a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy.” Gee, d’ya think? And how might that relate to another concept: “sociopath.”

      Can we think of someone who was born in Austria and rose to great power who had similar characteristics? (Nope, I’m not thinking of Arnold Schwarzenegger.)

    • susan

      I’m willing to bet Obama has an “attachment disorder” stemming from his abandonment by both of his parents. He is unable to trust and therefore form any long-lasting relationships with people, as evidenced by his lengthy list of those he has thrown under the bus. But, seriously, I firmly believe that Obama first met Ayers back in his Columbia days, that Ayers wrote Obama’s autobiographical books, that Ayers groomed Obama to do the one thing Ayers himself could not, that is, run for political office, and that Ayers, not Wright, is and always has been Obama’s true mentor, and that the two of them have formulated a catastrophic world agenda based on Ayers long standing hatred of America and the middle class. God help us!

      • susan

        Afterthought: maybe it is this catastrophic world agenda that Biden was referring to recently. If so, Biden better get out while there’s still time.

  • IronMan

    BREAKING NEWS LAST NIGHT ON WILLIAM AYERS AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH OBAMA

    Amazing Ayers Audio Unearthed from Same Week Obama worked with him! Extremist Ayers and Obama views matched almost word for word!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xBlTdsnOh8

    Ayers talks about being an anarchist and a marxist and says that the people he works with know what his views are.

    “I mean I’m as much an anarchist as I am a Marxist”

    - – William Ayers

    Everyone on this site, please watch this video before YouTube takes it down and send it out to everyone you know, including the media you think will help spread the word.

    This is HUGE BREAKING AUDIO UNCOVERED!!

    Obama knew this about Ayers!! Ayers was saying this when they worked together!

    Please help spread the word on the video and the content thereof. Let’s make the video go viral!

    This is the smoking gun on the relationship with Ayers and Obama. The American people need to hear the truth!

    Good lord. This college radio interview with William Ayers took place April 12, 2002, a week before he and Obama worked together on the Intellectuals: Who Needs Them? panel.

    Ayers waxes eloquent about his Marxist and Anarchist leanings, and claims, “I am very open about what I think, and nobody is surprised by what I think”:

    Obama’s claim that Ayer’s was “just someone from his neighborhood” with whom he “occasionally crossed paths”, and with whom he “didn’t exchange ideas” is becoming increasingly untenble.

    We need to get this out to everyone you know ASAP!!

    • IronMan

      Other blogs that are running with this Breaking Ayers/Obama story last night.

      http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/audio-marxistantarchist-ayers-nobody-here-is-surprised-by-what-i-think/

      http://thegadfly.typepad.com/the_gadfly/2008/10/amazing-ayers-a.html

      http://grizzlygroundswell.com/2008/10/19/amazing-ayers-audio-unearthed-from-same-week-obama-worked-with-him/

      The media will keep being silent about this. Obama and the MSM cheerleaders for Obama don’t want the American people to know the truth.

      Please help pass this shocking video on to Hannity and FOX and any reporter/blog you know that will help get the word out.

      • Lizzie Struthers

        I hate Fox. I really hate Fox for all they’re worth. But right now I love them and respect them. And isn’t that strange! LOL

      • Elle

        Rush Limbaugh needs to have a copy.He would release the audio on his show.Nobody could ignore those shivering frightening facts to how closely BO is alligned to Ayers views.
        Here we have a bold statment that Ayers embraces Marxism on a non-deniable recording of and Radio Interview and all in the week that he worked closely with BO.
        This must be shown and spread faster than BO’s “Spread the wealth” -same Marxism !

      • http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com InsightAnalytical-GRL

        I trust the McCain camp has it?? But will they use it??

        I’m reading that there are no 527s running in a lot of states….

    • bemused

      Ayers has a rather hypnotic way of talking, himself. Another influence of his on the One, maybe.

  • BernieO

    While I do think that is troubling, I am still more disturbed by the fact that he would align himself with crackpots and crooks in order to promote his own career. It says to me that he is willing to do anything to get ahead – something he excoriated Hillary for. Instead of worryhing about him belatedly dumping these people, what about the fact that these people were really damaging to the very people Obama was supposed to represent? They are the ones who paid the price for Rezko’s slums and the angry victim message that poured forth from Pfleger and Wright is the worst kind of thinking for people who are disadvantaged. Thinking of yourself as a victim is associated with lack of success, depression, substance abuse, etc. (See Martin Seligmann’s extensive research on optimistic attitudes.) I am not saying that the real problems and discrimination faced by Obama’s constituents should have been overlooked, but the clear blame- game message of anger and victimization is very destructive to them, not to mention our entire society. It is also the antithesis of Jesus’ message. Obama is smart enough to know Wright was hurting his congregation. Obama could have protested to Wright about it instead of implicitly endorsing his divisive message by attending the church.

    So his dumping these creeps is the least of my problems with his actions.

    • workingclass artist

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgtij3dE10A
      This video makes clear exactly who Barky’s message appeals to…Most of these folks would fit nicely
      in Wriiiight’s Heretical Church…Farrakhan’s Racist Mosque…Or Ayers Radical Socialist Meetingrooms or class rooms…APPALLING REALLY…SIMPLY APPALLING!

      WHEN DO IDIOTS LIKE THIS REALIZE THAT SOCIALISM AND FASCISM DO NOT STOP AT ECONOMICS…IT IS TOTALITARIAN…WHICH MEANS TOTAL…THESE FASCISTS MEAN TO OBLITERATE FREEDOM…OF THOUGHT…OF SPEECH…OF EVERYTHING….

      REPUBLICA PRIMO! = COUNTRY FIRST!

      • Lizzie Struthers

        Please please please do not equate fascism with anything – especially socialism. Which you have turned into a dirty word. At least do not equate with social democracy. Which is basically what runs the western world aside from the United States. And they have it a lot lot better in case you didn’t know.

        Stop falling into the JP Morgan trap.

        • Ferd McBerfle

          I may be off base here, but I think WCA is saying that Oblockhead is using one ideology, the promise of socialism, to get to the other, fascism. Oblockhead certainly doesn’t care about any ideology but that which will make him the center of attention. He is dangerous to a fault. Additionally, extreme left and extreme right become the same at the fringes.

          • oowawa

            Ferd, this is exactly correct.

            • Ferd McBerfle

              Thanks oowawa.

        • notrees

          Socialism is not just a dirty word but a dirty form of government or I should say lack thereof. Socialism is rule from the top down and not of the people by the people and for the people. Socialism is leader take all, and the leader will mete out to you your daily needs–which are minute in the eyes of the glorious leader. The ULTIMATE GOAL OF SOCIALISM IS COMMUNISM.

          • Ferd McBerfle

            Socialism is leader take all, and the leader will mete out to you your daily needs–which are minute in the eyes of the glorious leader.

            Which is no different from Fascism at its extreme. Dueling ideologies are getting everyone way off track. You say to-may-to and I say to-mah-to doesn’t work when your adversary will take either according to what works at a particular point in time. Oblockhead won’t be boxed in by words or ideologies.

            It really isn’t about any of these things. Frankly I don’t care what “ism” du jour he is spouting, he is simply unfit, unqualified, and given his sociopathic tendencies, dangerous to our country and the world at large. This is how one fights narcissists–you demonstrate who they truly are.

            • imustprotest

              Your right Ferd. We shouldn’t be looking to our political dictionaries for a definition of what Obama is……we need to look to the DSM IV to see what pathology best defines him. I think NPD is spot on. And for anyone who thinks Narcissists are harmless, think again.

              • Ferd McBerfle

                And for anyone who thinks Narcissists are harmless, think again.

                You are so right, imust. I was married to one for ten years. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. I’d rather live alone in an unlit dungeon than spend another day with someone having NPD.

                • imustprotest

                  I hate to make an I have a bracelet too comment….but I was married to a NPD too! They suck the life out of you don’t they?!

            • notrees

              Call it whatever you wish. Cancer begins with a very small growth.

              • Ferd McBerfle

                I definitely agree with that and Oblockhead is indeed malignant.

        • workingclass artist

          Gosh Lizzie…Hitler’s party was a SOCIALIST PARTY!…SHEEESH!
          SOCIALISM IS A SLIPPERY SLOPE AND IS ANTI-AMERICAN

          OBAMA IS A FASCIST AND ANYONE WHO KNOWS THE DEFINITION CAN SEE IT…

          BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY IS THE FASIST DAUGHTER OF THE MARXIST PARENT…LIBERATION THEOLOGY…

          RELIGION AND FASCISM OR SOCIALISM CAN SYNTHESIZE… Where have you been for the last 35 years?

          • Sue

            You betcha!

          • lark

            Yes, everything you guys say is all true. And the thing is we can see it by seeing the advance warnings, a diagnosis if you will, the symptoms, the pre-dispositions, the virus in its pre-outbreak form, pre-pubescence. This is not stupid country.

        • lark

          Because something works (seemingly) in Europe does not mean it will work here.

    • Jackie

      Amen

      Obama needs to keep the Blacks down so he has a cause.

    • Lizzie Struthers

      I am still more disturbed by the fact that he would align himself with crackpots and crooks in order to promote his own career.

      But that’s all there is in Chicago! Have you ever been there? LOL

      • hank48188

        Daleyville is just like Kwametown, they just have more Money to steal.

        • hank48188

          One more difference though, Kwametown corruption was all black and DEM, In Daleyville it’s diverse corruption, black and white, Dem and Republican, all working together.

    • Lizzie Struthers

      It says to me that he is willing to do anything to get ahead – something he excoriated Hillary for.

      It takes one to know one. Which is why I suspect she never saw him as we do – for some reason she just thinks more highly of people – even crooks.

      I finally saw that campaign funding flip-flop speech Obama came out with. At first I thought it was an Obama hater made the clip. But no – it came straight from Camp Obama, barackobama.com. Not only did they make him look like a monster with those extreme closeups but they let him talk on and on about how evil John McCain is.

      That doesn’t go over too good. And it exposed Obama just as when he so ruthlessly and groundlessly attacked Hillary in that vicious unwarranted shameless way.

  • PKJAYNE

    My mother calls these kinds of people users. My mother is always right.

    • Lizzie Struthers

      :)

  • Arabella Trefoil

    The Bushes belong to the “use ‘em and lose ‘em” school of management too.

    • Ferd McBerfle

      That he does.

  • Fenelon spoke

    It has been noted before on NQ that Obama had no friends who had known him a long time speak for him at the convention-only Michelle. That’s because people with NPD don’t really have or keep friends. They just use people and move on.

    • PKJAYNE

      I can not think of ONE upstanding, long term association he’s had for 20 years.

  • doc99

    ACORN is a real Sweatshop. They should form a union.

    • Lizzie Struthers

      Great article. Yes I think they should form a union. Perhaps Wade Rathke could organise them?

  • workingclass artist

    Xcellent Pat
    http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/made-my-obama-friends-list-now-checking-it-twice/
    lots of folk feel the same way…Keep Up the Good Fight!

    • http://IthinkIfeel... Pat Racimora

      Oooh–good one workingclassartist. I had not seen that article. I especially liked the African proverb: “If you know who his friend is, you know who he is.”

  • hadenough

    “Why did he hang on so long to any of the other three when he knew all along exactly who they were?”

    obama is a climber. He could be a ‘socialist’ or Manchurian candidate or worse but he is definitly a climber. He kept close to that crowd for access to political power and money. Question not asked: Why would rezko, ayers and wright stick with obama? They made him, they owned him.

    • Ferd McBerfle

      To them, Oblockhead is a tool to be used. Too bad he will be stolen away from them by the same folks that brought us Chimpy. Oblockhead needs his ego to be fed constantly and Ayers, Wright, and Rezko can only give him so much–that is the true danger of Oblockhead. His narcissism eclipses all and he will sell himself to the highest bidder. He has no other ideology but that of the One.

    • Lizzie Struthers

      They made him, they owned him.

      I think it’s more like they own each other. Look out for each other. These are friends – friends and neighbours. They know how the game is played. Ayers has been patient for 40 years. Now he’s having a wet dream about socialism coming to America.

      • Ferd McBerfle

        Now he’s having a wet dream about socialism coming to America.

        It won’t happen. Oblockhead isn’t about ideology but about him. He will be bought by the highest bidder and they aren’t socialists. This is much more dangerous than socialism, which has never worked anywhere. Generalissimo Francisco Franco is not dead, so to speak.

        • Lizzie Struthers

          This is much more dangerous than socialism, which has never worked anywhere. Generalissimo Francisco Franco is not dead, so to speak.

          Wow but do you ever need history lessons. And what does the generalissimo have to do with socialism? Perhaps you forget Eric Blair fought on the other side?

          • Ferd McBerfle

            And wow, you didn’t read my post–see bold below. I said:

            It won’t happen. Oblockhead isn’t about ideology but about him. He will be bought by the highest bidder and they aren’t socialists.

            Franco was a Fascista and Oblockhead is no socialist, to boot. He is a narcissist who will be bought by the highest bidder, which won’t be socialists. Hence the reference to Franco.

            I need no history lessons. You are caught up in dueling ideologies, which aren’t even in play here.

        • Elizabeth

          Obama’s grandstanding schtick is the only constant. Rub raw the sores of social discontent to psychologically and intellectually manipulate the masses into accepting him as their charismatic savior. He needs to make people dependent on HIM and HIS government, whether by dispensing welfare checks or controlling political discourse, as Joe the Plummer flushed out very nicely.

          • Ferd McBerfle

            Obama’s grandstanding schtick is the only constant.

            You’re spot on–excellent post, Elizabeth. You just tied it all together.

            Diagnosis: NPD.
            Prescription: Defeat in November.

  • Ferd McBerfle

    Oblockhead’s judgment, which was much ballyhooed during the primaries, certainly isn’t up to what I would consider a de minimis standard for the office of POTUS.

    Methinks that “judgment” was used solely as a means to get into state and then federal office. His eye has always been on running this country into the ditch from the Oval Office. An ambitious one, that Oblockhead.

  • Lizzie Struthers

    Lovely sentiment Pat but can I say a bit naive? What all these crooks need is to keep Obama clean on the outside. If he gets tarnished he’s worth nothing to them. They expect him to disavow if they get into trouble. That’s the way the game is played, Pat! There are no hard feelings there at all!

    • http://IthinkIfeel... Pat Racimora

      You may be right, Lizzie. It makes perverted sense. It also scares the hell out of me.

  • Lizzie Struthers

    Most of the community leaders asked Obama to withdraw.

    The rest of your story is well documented. But how about this part? Can you cite references? Can you cite which ‘community leaders’ asked Obama to withdraw?

    Thank you!

  • notrees

    Obama and his friends deserve each other and whatever hardships they heap on each other. Obama’s friends will turn on him just the same as he has turned on them. It’s just a matter of time. Loyalty isn’t in their vocabulary. Loyalty is replaced with Me, Myself, and I. What really concerns me is the thought of Obama and his cronies selling out America to our enemies.

  • Zimeeisme

    I wonder if the GOP are investigating who sponsored the earmarks to ACORN. That might be interesting.

  • Jason

    New questions arise about the money Obama has raised – this is all VERY suspicious:

    http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_illegal_donations/2008/10/19/141979.html?s=al&promo_code=6D84-1

  • Sara

    People signing the “Stop the Obama Constitutional Crisis” petition!

    http://www.rallycongress.com/constitutional-qualification/1244/stop-obama-constitutional-crisis/

  • Jason

    Obama Broke Illinois Ethics Laws As A State Legislator

    Apparently, on Obama’s released tax records, he discloses income from speaking fees. The problem? Accepting payment for speaking fees when you’re a legislator is against Illinois state law.

    http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/obama_broke_illinois_ethics_laws_as_a_state_legislator/

    • AnninCA

      I saw that. Ironic, eh?

    • Arabella Trefoil

      “I made a boneheaded mistake.”

    • Docelder

      I am certain I have seen cached archive pages listing Obama as paid speaker for hire… listed as speakers under $3500. Not sure about the exact timeline.

  • OhioMary

    That African Press International site has written that they will release the Michelle tape at 16:00 PM Norwegian time today. The accumulation of all of this information against Obama should make a difference.

    [Administrator: This is an off-topic comment that should only go in "open threads," which we provide aplenty. Also, we discourage any discussion of API or Phil Berg at this blog. If it gets to be too many comments, we will erase them. And we will ban anyone who spams such information in every thread -- which some have done, opening up each thread, no matter the topic.]

    • OhioMary

      I think that is about 10:00 AM our time.

    • Elle

      That would be in 2 minutes.

    • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

      Now their site says they have retained the law offices of U.S. attorney P. Berg to represent them and still have not finalized an agreement with a network. Also says they want no money for the tapes and they will be released unedited.

      • Arabella Trefoil

        It’s a scam, and they are trying to up the ante by using Berg’s name.

        • Peggy Sue

          I still don’t trust this business from API. And the fact they’re using Berg’s name? What better way to descredit the man who is in court demanding Obama’s missing BC. It’s a distraction, anything to run out the clock on the real Barack Obama behind the mask.

          Wake up, America.

          BTW, Pat. I absolutely agree with the tilt of your essay. If you want to know the man, look at his past associations, look at the pattern of behavior. Isn’t it strange that there’s not a single testimony from Obama’s past, ordinary folks, singing his praises and accomplishments. All we have is Axelrod’s spin and the crooked powers that be in Chicago, all members of the Board Games. Where are his personal friends, his college chums, his professors? Where are members of his constituency in Chicago saying how he made their lives better?

          Then look at what he left behind. The district he left in Chicago, after funneling $100 million in public funds to Tony Rezko for urban renewal? The housing units aren’t fit for dogs. This is how he and his buddies care about vulnerable people. Use them for the moment and then toss them. And if you get in their way, his way? You’re mincemeat.

          Transformational leadership? It’s a sad and very dangerous joke.

          Wake up, America!

    • lark

      I will leave you next week.

      I will leave you next week.

      I will divorce you next week.

      I will give you back your watch next week.

  • Hank

    I wonder when Obama will stop wearing the USA Flag…

    • HARP

      NOV 5

    • notrees

      The only US Flag Obama would wear is the one William Ayers used to wipe his dirty shoes on.

      • calli

        He probably spits on the flag pin!

    • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

      He will replace the U.S flag with that dreadful “rising sun” abomination and instead of placing our hands over our hearts, we will have to face Mecca and bow down.

  • Jackie

    This is a video that we cannot see on our normal “youtube site” but it is available to folks in Holland.

    Please share far & wide

    Ayers & Obama

    http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=cH7kT4xwddg

  • workingclass artist

    OVER AT PEOPLESCUBE I READ an insightful article on Liberal v Conservative using the film reviews of 2 recently released films…Does this relate? It does when you consider that Liberalism as an ideal as well as conservatism have been so shaped by the media and this manipulation is exposed by this election…
    It is truly astonishing to me how socialist the Democratic cause has become while they support a candidate who is clearly FASCIST!
    http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?p=45281#45281
    this 30 year democrat feels as if I never knew my party…Wonder if Hill & Bill feel the same way?

  • http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com InsightAnalytical-GRL

    kenosha Marge has a new one up that touches on the new McCarthyism…in which she comments that “Racism” has become the new “McCarthyism.” SO TRUE!!! Thanks for all the links….

    Oh No, Poor Joe (Joe the Plumber Meets the Ghost of Joe McCarthy)

    http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/oh-no-poor-joe-the-plumber-meets-the-ghost-of-another-joelast-name-mccarthy/

    And check out yesterday’s weekly roundup post with the comments about hypnosis and NLP….

    • Ferd McBerfle

      “Racism” has become the new “McCarthyism.”

      It sure has. Find a word with some meaning, change it into a mantra, and voila: the herd stampedes.

  • JULIE

    barack Hussein obama is a conniving fraud.

  • trails

    To those who say socialism works well elsewhere, I humbly disagree. Europe is in worse shape than we are, and the European Union does not allow for direct elections from citizens of member states, yet has power over member nations.

    This is not a future I want for the US.

  • benny

    Nice article, pat. Obama always surrounds himself with crooks and haters. Very suspicious behaviour from the chosen One.

  • HARP

    And, in response to a request from your Radio Equalizer, syndicated host Mark Levin offered this reaction:

    “It’s my understanding Colin Powell gave his word to John McCain that he would not make an endorsement in this election. Powell stabbed McCain in the back. This is the same Powell who kept silent for two years while Scooter Libby was falsely accused of leaking to Bob Novak when Powell knew his own deputy, Richard Armitage, had spoken to Novak.

    “I have never been a fan of Powell. He was plucked from obscurity by Ronald Reagan, did little noteworthy in all the top jobs he has held, had become a favorite in the Washington social scene, and now he endorses Barack Obama. In the end, though, it won’t make a difference. Powell thinks he’s more important and influential than he actually is.”

    http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2008/10/colin-powells-obama-endorsement-may.html

    • Ferd McBerfle

      That is some pretty damning stuff. I certainly wouldn’t want his endorsement. So much the better that Oblockhead gets it. The company you keep, and such….

  • JohnnyB

    Great Cartoon Pat.

    Many people want to know one person that Ob was friends with for over 20 years that is somewhat mainstream. There are none? Where are they?

    Use em, and lose em. A great title Pat.

    Ob’s got a new guy to throw under the bus, Gen. Powell. So Powell waits until the polls show him who will be in the White House, then picks that horse to ride. Ob says that Powell will be an “advisor” or some other role in his administration. If Powell didn’t endorse, he could not be part of the administration.

    Ob’s boat was floating during the primaries. If you were on the boat then, you are safe (Richardson, for one), but if you were in Hillary’s boat, there will never be room on Ob’s boat, because it is all ready over crowded with his pre-primary victory supporters. There’s not enough jobs in the administration for all of those on Ob’s pre-primary victory boat, so now a select few (those that can help him ‘seal the deal’) are allowed into the boat.

    Ob says he was against the Iraq war and made a speech before an anti-war crowd before the war began. Powell went to the UN and gave infomation that ALL the public believed to be true, but was shown later to be a lie. Ob needs the General to cut into some of the McCain military vote in key swing states.

    Maybe Powell can last a few more weeks before the election so that he does not get thrown in the trash, who knows?

    • http://IthinkIfeel... Pat Racimora

      Ironic about Powell, isn’t it Johnny B. Good analysis.

      General Wes Clark while stumping for Obama also made a statement (actually, he just answered a direct question). The answer, (forget the exact words, but something like “being shot down in combat is not a sufficient experience for being president”) was played out far and wide. Then Obama and his people forgot Clark’s name.

  • gazzed

    I think Obama is a very big con artist and he is good at it also, and then he has the help of Biden, who is worthless if you ask me, I don’t know how people can be fooled by him, people please wake up before its to late.

  • Soldier of Christ

    http://www.nationalrepublicantrust.com/video_th.html

    Great ad- probably will scare the ilegals now. They sure don’t want to be picked up by immgration knowing that there is an ad like this going around too.

    • tek

      You can just count on the Democrats handing our country over to the Illegal hispanics, that’s been Dick Durbin’s fondest plan all along. there was a headline article today that the Mexican Mafia kidnapped a little kid in Nevada because they had some dealing with his grandfather. I never went to Mexico because of all the crooks. Now all the Mexican crooks are right her in the heart of America. If Obama gets in, you won’t be able to go to the grocery store without your life being threatened by these thugs and Obama’s AA thugs.

  • standard

    McCain had so much to draw from.
    It’s a pity he concentrated on Ayres, weaker than Rezko or Wright, IMHO.

    If there’s a whitey tape, I hope it will appear sooner rather than later.

  • pm317

    Obama is now going around saying Powell will have a role in his administration, yea right! He is already more than half way to Pat’s version 2 garbage can with that cute little cat watching.

    • pm317

      oh, BTW, if he becomes convenient but hard to shake (like Edwards), he will dig up dirt and throw it at him.

      • pm317

        should read: inconvenient (but hard to shake…)

  • lark

    Hillary. I don’t know what’s my fix with her. She will be stumping for Obama today in Orlando.

    PatRacimona: Use ‘Em Then Lose ‘Em

    Hillary is not like those unsavory fellows in the article. Instead she is a pristine character that has never ever to my knowledge damaged anyone. Always doing good work. Good work.

    Today she’ll do some more good work. This time for ‘The One.’ She’ll vouch for his Democratic values. As she vouches for his Democratic values she’ll be remembering her enabling days. Days filled with misguided confidence.

    Misguided confidence.

    She is not invisible to me. That’s for sure.

    Misguided confidence.

    • notrees

      You mean like the good she did defending the black panthers? She vouched for them too. Hillary has became a wedge issue and I hope she continues to drive that wedge between the American people and the anti American radicals.

  • Jane

    Chicago Tribune, March 15, 2008 Obama: I trusted Rezko by David Jackson

    Faced with intensifying scrutiny as the Democratic primary season grinds on, Obama said voters should view his Rezko dealings as “a mistake in not seeing the potential conflicts of interest.” But he added that voters should also “see somebody who is not engaged in any wrongdoing . . . and who they can trust.”

    After news reports of Rezko’s questionable political dealings first emerged in 2005, Obama said he asked his friend about them. Rezko assured him there was nothing wrong. “My instinct was to believe him,” he said.

    Asked if he ever thought Rezko would expect something from their relationship, Obama was emphatic: ‘No. Precisely because I had known him for [many] years and he hadn’t asked me for something.”

    The friendship between the Obamas and Rezkos included occasional dinners and the Obamas once spending a day at the Rezkos’ Lake Geneva retreat. It began in about 1991, when Obama became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review and Rezko offered him a job building affordable homes with his Rezmar Corp. Though Obama declined, a friendship and political alliance began.

    His first big contributor

    When Obama launched his bid for the Illinois Senate in 1995, Rezko was his first substantial contributor. Obama said it was his “best guesstimate” that Rezko raised $10,000 to $15,000 of Obama’s roughly $100,000 collected for that race. Obama said he didn’t have more certainty because he didn’t then have the staff to maintain better campaign finance records.

    Rezko helped bankroll all of Obama’s subsequent campaigns except his presidential bid. Rezko was on Obama’s campaign committee in his failed run against U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush and gathered between $50,000 and $75,000 of the estimated $600,000 raised in that race, Obama said.

    Rezko also was on the finance committee for Obama’s 2004 U.S. Senate run. “My best assessment is that he raised $160,000 during my U.S. Senate primary,” he said, adding that those funds had been given to charity.

    Obama explained Rezko’s appeal to up-and-coming politicians. Part of it was his seeming modesty. “In my interactions with him, he was very gracious. He did not ask me for favors. He was not obtrusive. He wasn’t one of those people who would insist on coming around all the time or constantly being photographed with me.”

    And Rezko was loyal. He had been a supporter of Rush but sided with Obama in that 2000 race. Five years later, bolstered by payments for his best-selling autobiography and advances for future books, Obama and his wife, Michelle, went house hunting. They were drawn to a 96- year-old South Side home with four fireplaces, glassdoor bookcases fashioned from Honduran mahogany and a wine cellar.

    The house and the adjoining yard had been owned as a single property, but the owners were listing them separately and asking $1.95 million for the house and $625,000 for the landscaped side lot.

    Obama disclosed Friday that someone else already had an option to buy the garden lot. But he said Rezko took over that option after Rezko learned Obama was bidding for the house. Obama said he knew next to nothing about those transactions and does not recall when he learned that Rezko was interested in buying the side lot- or even how Rezko learned it was for sale.

    But they talked about the upcoming sales. “He said, ‘I might be interested,’ ” Obama recalled. “My response was, ‘Well, that would be fine.’”

    Obama added: “This is an area where I can see a lapse in judgment.” He said his motivation was “if this lot is going to be developed, here’s somebody I knew. So I didn?t object.”

    The senator said that at the time, in early 2005, he was aware of the growing controversies surrounding Rezko’s dealings with state and city government. In March 2005, for example, city officials alleged that a minority contractor at O’Hare International Airport acted as a front for a Rezko firm. “I started reading the reports that were surfacing,” Obama said. Rezko “gave me assurances that this wasn’t a problem.” And, Obama added, “at that time, the news around Rezko’s problems had not elevated to the levels that they did later.”

    At some point before the property sales closed, Obama toured the home with Rezko for 15 to 30 minutes. Obama said he asked Rezko to assess the property because he was a real estate developer in the area. “He said, ‘I’d be willing to go inside and take a look,’ ” Obama recalled.

  • http://www.anvp.typepad.com soldier4hillary

    Obama is a idiot. The Democrats are idiots. Who the heck would do an interview and say Colin Powelll will be part of your administration? Does Obama need to sell a war to someone? He has zero clue how we view Powell. He is sinking faster than a boat with a big hole in it. Why did he dig this man up? I know alot of people respect Powell blah blah blah. I dont. This man outright lied. Not just lied but provided aerial photo’s of fake facilities of fake WMD’s with fake vehicles used to transport them to a fake place that didnt exist. DESPITE the UN inspectors going in and finding NOTHING.

    People were getting over it until he drug out Mr Colin “It’s Payback Time” Powell

    • pm317

      He betrayed the trust people put in him. That is worse than a con man tricking people.

      • http://www.anvp.typepad.com soldier4hillary

        They should of left Colin Powell out of this because it is so not helping there campaign. At all

  • http://www.anvp.typepad.com soldier4hillary

    If this suppose to be wonderful judgement of his wonderful campaign, the Democrats are worse off than I thought.

    • workingclass artist

      it gets worse soldier4hill…Barky will put Kerry as Sec. of State…Times London reported it…

      • Ferd McBerfle

        Yikes, it’s Lurch at the door!

  • HARP

    Obama ….you are scum and you are inciting violence. Be careful what you wish for.

    (Sunday, October 19 – Filed by Mark Williams in Raton, New Mexico with the Stop Obama Tour) We learned at this morning’s Stop Obama Rally here that the McCain/Palin Straight Talk Express came through town yesterday. It arrived with a window shattered by a .22 caliber weapon. It had also been hit by an unknown number of paint balls from a paint ball gun or guns. There were reportedly no injuries and neither candidate was on board.

    http://www.sacunion.com/mark/

    • McKatmoon

      I’m afraid this is just a warm up for those filthy cowards. Buy the election and intimate citizens, wow what road did the o campaign turn down? I know, Perdition.

  • Mary Kay

    I just wrote to Kristol about this very point. I’m not so concerned that Obama associated with these folks, but what promises did Obama have to make to get them to help him along the way? How will some of these men and radical groups react when they figure out Obama was using them?

    Remember what the progressives did for Bill Clinton (NOT) when Clinton was impeached? Nothing. They let him go down with the ship because they were angry at Bill for moving to the middle. This was only because reality set in once Bill got into office and he realized if he was going to raise taxes, it better be to invest in America by balancing the budget. Some people paid more, but credit lines opened up, etc. This is why the 90′s were do good. But to take money from one person and give it to another, only to raise that poor person’s marginal tax rate so high that person is penalized for making a few extra honest bucks… that keeps people in poeverty in poverty. Think about it. Obama will pay toward college, but that person must then to into the Peace Corp, or work for… gulp… ACORN for two years. Nothing wrong with the Peace Corp, but unless that person gets out there and finds a great job right away, they will stay dependant on government handouts. Employers will be less likely to hire. The “investor” class will be finding tax shelters and we’ll all end up paying for to pay for the entitlements. It’s just econ 101.

    But back on topic, I am very afraid at some of the domestic violence that will result from Obama turning his back on his friends. Look at how the protesters lashed out against Johnson when it was clear that he wasn’t going to get us out of Viet Nam. It took a Republican to end that war. But people have short term memory when it comes to history.

    • workingclass artist

      the only folks who hate the Clintons more than the Far Right…is the Far Left…nuf said

  • McKatmoon

    Obama’s endorsement by Powell, is more of the same of the Bush administration. Powell didn’t give two sh*ts about putting our troops in harms way based on those lies that fell so easily from his lips. And all O has to fight McCain with is the pet liar who helped perpetuate the war? Gee, doesn’t this go against the great one’s whole primary stump speech about being against going into Iraq? IF this helps him get votes, it’s from a new species who has two, half functioning brains.

    • tek

      I agree completely. The Obamabots have a new mantra: Powell was misled! He didn’t lie, he was misled! I guess W was misled too.

      It is absolutely amazing to me that Hillary should be condemned by these people because she voted for a resolution to study whether or not we should go to war, but Powell–one of the chief architects of the war–gets a pass because he’s a black Republican who endorsed Obama.

      Apparently, there was some poll in which Independents said they would vote for Obama if Powell endorsed him. So, Axelrod either threatened to kidnap his kids or paid him the whole 150 mil they took last month.

  • NCgirl

    It angered me when Powell endorsed Obama, but it was predictable. I have been thinking about a great ad that a 527 could put together. Obama is constantly talking about his opposition to the war, and that he made that speech nobody saw or heard. Anyway, the ad could have Colin Powell at the UN making that infamous speech that was the catalyst to getting us into the war in Iraq. Yes, Obama, having this guy endorse you really makes sense. The guy who says he wants to get us out of the war being endorsed by the guy who got us into it.

    • http://www.anvp.typepad.com soldier4hillary

      Powell endorsed based on race. If it had anything to do with all the crap he stated he could of did it when Gov Palin was first bought out. He thinks Gov Palin is bad but makes wonderful comments about someone with legal issues. Obama will go down as being the man with the honors of dividing so many people by using “race”. Bringing out Colin Powell bought out memories I really don’t care to think about because after his show he put on at the UN before he disappeared we deployed. Yeah I used to watch the news as everyone talked about WMD’s and just shook my head at the spin.

      Listening to Bots talk about Clintons “vote” and knew they had zero idea of what they were talking about because the REASON we went in to Iraq was based on WMDs sold to us by Powell. The actions of Clinton , Biden and others were based on his words. Who would of voted no to go in when you have someone briefing you that they had WMDs complete with evidence that didnt exist? Not to many people were willing to take that risk especially after 9/11.

      That’s why a Obama administration scares the crap out of me. Because there doing the exact thing they did in 2001. Spinning a story line to fit there needs and his supporters eat it up.

      • rapp

        They have found WMD’s, just not when it mattered at the beginning. If I remember correctly, a lot of Democrats wanted us to go over there because of all of the killing of innocent people by WMD’s and other means, for humanitarian reasons.

        All Saddam Hussein had to do was let the UN inspectors in and he wouldn’t. He wanted to fight a war. According to documents, he thought it would last about 8 yrs and we would leave in disgrace.

        • Ferd McBerfle

          They have found WMD’s

          Nothing like one that would have caused a mushroom cloud over this country, however. There was a bit of overselling, wouldn’t you agree?

      • workingclass artist

        they trotted out Powell because oeterobama is in TROUBLE!!…Soetrobama can’t close the deal…This Ayers/Rezko/ACORN/WRIIIGHT/Socialism/Radical stuff is steadily sinking in…sheeeesh!

        i smell desperation…and have for weeks

    • Hank

      Yep, that would make a great AD. Seems that MSM doesn’t want to link him as the one getting the UN to approve the Iraq war.

  • http://obamafact.blogspot.com/ Mel

    OT: Exelon, Obama’s major bundler has made an unsolicited bid to buy NRG Power to become the US’s largest power and nuclear company and feels it will pass regulatory requirements in the coming months ahead, aka Obama POTUS!

    Change you can believe in if you are a fool!

    • Ferd McBerfle

      This is definitely not good.

  • tek

    It’s very interesting to me that we’ve heard no more about Reverend Wright since the GE started. Makes me think the media is protecting Obama and nothing will matter now.

    • Bas

      I totally agree with you. Nothing is sticking with Obama. Everybody seem to ignore this stuff

  • rapp

    It’s 1640 in Norway. What happened to API?

    • Arabella Trefoil

      Ignore it. It’s a hoax.

  • PewL

    Obama is black,and Powell is Black,,, it fits…The brains of the Outfit is

    Mccain/Palin and Hope many of the 18 million who voted Hillary will remember,what Obama,Pelosi,reid,Dean did to Hillary in the Primary.

  • LIsabona

    Obama always had the clear sign of a ” sociopath”. I was living in a country with one for more than 30 years ( as prsident) in Romania, to recognize in Obama, nothing more than the Romanian dictator. I don’t know what else to say, then” you show the horse where the water is, but you can’t drink for him ” To bad, until the American people ” will learn how to drink”, all of us, will be forced to endure the consequence of ignorants.

    • workingclass artist

      It would be interesting to see a video of folks like you who lived under socialism and fascism state the similarities in Barky…

      • Ferd McBerfle

        What do all despots have in common? Is there a real difference between Stalin and Hitler? Mao and Franco? Allende and Pinochet?

  • Sassy

    Good work Pat!

    Lose em? Maybe not! That may be wishful thinking on our part.
    Leopards don’t change their spots!
    At age 47, BO’s idealogy is ingrained, and he is the most power-driven person that I have seen in recent memory!
    If he is elected, his associates will have his backing, at least in private.
    We need to stop him, and them, NOW!
    McCain/Palin!!!

  • Elle

    The story to focus on is Joe Biden stating that he guaranties an international crisis will take place within 6 month if BO gets elected to test him.
    He will make decisions that are not popular but he needs our help, is the essence of his statement made .
    It is on the CNN Ticker and the comments section was closed after only 45 responses as they were mostly pro McCain which is rare there as we know.
    Not exactly raising the confidence in the foreign policy factor,by what Biden said.
    It sounds pro-republican and many are outraged.
    JOE Biden placing a fear and doubt note by saying that of BO and what is the international crisis he is concealing ?

    • Ferd McBerfle

      JOE Biden placing a fear and doubt note by saying that of BO and what is the international crisis he is concealing ?

      This will be some crisis that will necessitate a super-duper Patriot (aka Last-refuge-of-Scoundrels) Act, I’m sure. I’d say his statement represents borderline treason, if he knows something now and isn’t divulging it.

    • http://IthinkIfeel... Pat Racimora

      This Biden thing is REALLY a major story! And scary as hell. I am trying to think up a cartoon on it (even though I am supposed to be taking it easy–surgery this morning).

  • Pays Attention

    So let’s see… Warren Buffet, Bill and Hilary Clinton, and now Colin Powell…

    And you all think know something they don’t know – get a life!

    • benny

      Is that the best you have? lol

    • http://IthinkIfeel... Pat Racimora

      That’s politics Pays Attention. Everyone protects their turf. That’s the great thing about being a regular person with no dog in the fight–we can speak openly and truthfully.

  • Rat-a-tat-tat

    Hey Pat, you forgot ACORN! I now have a clear understanding of what the meaning of Community Organizer is. I now know where Barack got his rootz.

    • http://IthinkIfeel... Pat Racimora

      Yep–I do believe you are right, Rat-a-tat-tat. He deso seem to want to distance himself from that crowd not that their real acts are coming to light.

      • http://IthinkIfeel... Pat Racimora

        Trying again, minus typos.

        Yep–I do believe you are right, Rat-a-tat-tat. He DOES seem to want to distance himself from that crowd NOW that their real acts are coming to light

  • lightacandle

    The two most important people Obama had helping him get started in Chicago politics were:

    (1) Tony Rezko (now jailed), Obama’s earliest and principal FINANCIER, and

    (2) Bill Ayers — member of perhaps Chicago’s wealthiest and most influential family — who introduced Obama to everyone who mattered on the Chicago political scene.

    We must always keep in mind that Bill Ayers is the son of a very wealthy and powerful Chicago figure.

    His family greased the path for Bill Ayers and his terrorist wife Bernadine Dohrn ever since they came out of hiding and decided to resume normal middle-class lives. For example: Bernadine Dohrn, who cannot get a law license because of her conviction, is nevertheless on the faculty at Northwestern University because her father-in-law is (or was, at the time) chairman of the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University.

    Bill Ayers comes from a Very Wealthy and Powerful Family — his father was CEO of Commonwealth Edison, the giant Chicago-based electric power company, chairman of Northwestern University, a trustee of the Chicago Tribune Co. and on the board of the Chicago Symphony.

    It was Ayers’ powerful and politically well-connected father who got the federal terrorism charges against Bill Ayers DROPPED so that Ayers could stop hiding from the law and resume his privileged life in Chicago. Bill Ayers is nothing more than a spoiled rich kid who wanted to play revolutionary — but ran to his father for help once the law was on his tail.

    - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -

    Thomas Ayers (Bill Ayers’ father) served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University, the Erikson Institute, the Bank Street College of Education in New York City, the Chicago Symphony, the Chicago Community Trust, the Chicago Urban League, the Community Renewal Society, the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry, Chicago United, the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, and Dearborn Park Corp., and served as vice president of the Chicago Board of Education.

    Thomas Ayers also served on the board of directors of Sears, G.D. Searle, Chicago Pacific Corp., Zenith Corp., Northwest Industries, General Dynamics Corp. of St. Louis, First National Bank of Chicago, the Chicago Cubs, and the [Chicago] Tribune Co.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Ayers
    - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -

    No wonder Bill Ayers was an IMPORTANT person for Obama know and link up with — Bill Ayers and the Ayers family were well-connected to everyone who was anyone in Chicago and, even, in the state of Illinois.

  • LIsabona

    The answer to; WORKINGCLASS ARTIST, I never wish for nobody to be became a “robot”, to loose you identity and just say and think as they ” program” you. I pray it will never happen in America.I know, is hard to imagine,but just look over Cuba. The image are the same as it was in Eastern Europe. Worts, then in a horror movies.

  • JTomorrow

    Very concise descriptions.

  • Rich

    Great cartoon! Next time make the trash can bigger to include all of the promises and good intentions that have been discarded. If Obama wins, then you will need a trash truck, not a can, to hold all the promises, people, and our rights yet to be discarded. Just one person’s projections based on current events.

    Rich

  • Anne Marie

    Obama is the ultimate “user.” His past associations and history are indicative of his behavior if elected President. He has used your money. He has used your party. He has used you. When you have “satisified” his “purpose,” he will abandon all of you…until he needs you again. Just look at how he’s using Hillary.

    “A leopard never changes its spots.” Stop drinking the kool-aid and start drinking coffee, Obots. It might sober you up to face reality.

    Boomers against Obama. We are too smart…too tough to be done in by a con-man.We are too scared to place our future in this man’s hands. We deserve better. We demand better. We will not be silenced.But we WILL vote…long after the kool-aid is all gone. Who will be sorry then, Howard?

  • Don S

    Your clever usem/dumpem cartoon has certainly ignited a lot of pentup anger at Obama and set the stage for people to diagnose him as a sociopathic personality or narcissistic personality. If he indeed fits the definitions, one would expect that after the election, if he becomes President, Hillary and Bill will be next in line to hit the trash can. The picture painted by many of the people commenting on your cartoon elicits the image of a wolf in sheep’s clothing. How effective these attempts to besmirch the character of the anointed one will be remains to be seen. My guess is that most people have already made up their mind who they will vote for. However, some of those undecided, on-the-fence voters may be influenced if they read No Quarter. The die-hard Obamabots that I know will only dig in harder to get out the vote for their hero in the face of negative press. They discount any adverse information as simply irrelevant dirty politics.

  • GBS

    This cartoon is great commentary on how quickly names can cycle in and out of the media’s focus. Even so, it is clear from the responses that follows the cartoon that they have not left everyone’s consciousness, and many people are demanding explanations.