Now, for the t-shirts (oh, the colors are great!).

Here’s the video up at Gerard’s, er Bill’s site:

There’s much, much more where that came from, at Gerard’s, er Bill’s site, including articles.

There have been reforms in the state, most notably a new ethics law designed to limit the impact of money in politics. It was approved only after Obama, a former state senator, called his one-time mentor, Senate President Emil Jones, and urged its passage.

His “one-time mentor”? Are you freakin’ KIDDING me??? How about the Kingmaker who put Obama’s name on legislation on which he had not worked?? Oh, wait, that’s just too close to the truth of Obama’s lack of experience/qualifications. No way can the AP get that close…

Ahem. But of course, the ONLY reason The One made the decision to begin his political career in Chicago, apparently, was to clean up Illinois politics. Hahahahaha! Yeah, and that’s why he endorsed Blagojevich – TWICE. And worked on his campaign. But why quibble over past history, right? RIGHT??

That does seem to be the MO around anything related to BO. It is really amazing to me. In my opinion, though, the only way someone can deny Obama is a Chicago-style politician is flat our ignorance, or flat our denial of reality. Take your pick. There is NO way from the stories that have come out about Obama, his relationships to Blagojevich, Rezko, Wright, Meeks, Ayers, et al, that he is above typical Chicago politics. The Rezko thing ALONE is indicative of his involvement. And there is no way that Blagojevich JUST became corrupt as of Nov. 5th when Obama, with the help of ANOTHER corrupt Chicago political institution, ACORN (there have been so many stories on ACORN, and their actions this year, it is hard to single out just one, but here’s a YouTube video, and here’s another. There are many more videos on this subject. If you want more article information, please feel free to use the”Search” function at the upper right hand corner of this page.), helped him become PEBO.

Yes, I know the MSM has been a HUGE help in both regards – ignorance and denial. But not ALL reputable sources were completely in the tank for The One. The New Yorker, for instance, had some impressive pieces, particularly this one,The Political Scene: “Making It: How Chicago shaped Obama. The article title alone is indicative of the effect of Chicago-style politics on Obama. The author, Ryan Lizza, published this article in July 21, 2008, so like I said, the information was definitely available…

Many of us have heard of Alice Palmer, one of the first people (of whom we are aware) thrown under the bus by a power-hungry Obama. There was another woman, too, Toni Preckwinkle, who had a whole lot to say about the young Mr. Obama on his ascension into Chicago politics:

One day in 1995, Barack Obama went to see his alderman, an influential politician named Toni Preckwinkle, on Chicago’s South Side, where politics had been upended by scandal. Mel Reynolds, a local congressman, was facing charges of sexual assault of a sixteen-year-old campaign volunteer. (He eventually resigned his seat.) The looming vacancy set off a fury of ambition and hustle; several politicians, including a state senator named Alice Palmer, an education expert of modest political skills, prepared to enter the congressional race. Palmer represented Hyde Park—Obama’s neighborhood, a racially integrated, liberal sanctuary—and, if she ran for Congress, she would need a replacement in Springfield, the state capital. Obama at the time was a thirty-three-year-old lawyer, university lecturer, and aspiring office-seeker, and the Palmer seat was what he had in mind when he visited Alderman Preckwinkle.

“Barack came to me and said, ‘If Alice decides she wants to run, I want to run for her State Senate seat,’ ” Preckwinkle told me. We were in her district office, above a bank on a street of check-cashing shops and vacant lots north of Hyde Park. Preckwinkle soon became an Obama loyalist, and she stuck with him in a State Senate campaign that strained or ruptured many friendships but was ultimately successful. Four years later, in 2000, she backed Obama in a doomed congressional campaign against a local icon, the former Black Panther Bobby Rush. And in 2004 Preckwinkle supported Obama during his improbable, successful run for the United States Senate. So it was startling to learn that Toni Preckwinkle had become disenchanted with Barack Obama.

Well, I’ll be damned – Obama DIDN’T win all of his races! Amazing how we have RARELY (if ever) heard about his “doomed” race. Or that some people who know him, really know him, no longer are delighting in his glow:

Preckwinkle is a tall, commanding woman with a clipped gray Afro. She has represented her slice of the South Side for seventeen years and expresses no interest in higher office. On Chicago’s City Council, she is often a dissenter against the wishes of Mayor Richard M. Daley. For anyone trying to understand Obama’s breathtakingly rapid political ascent, Preckwinkle is an indispensable witness—a close observer, friend, and confidante during a period of Obama’s life to which he rarely calls attention.

Although many of Obama’s recent supporters have been surprised by signs of political opportunism, Preckwinkle wasn’t. “I think he was very strategic in his choice of friends and mentors,” she told me. “I spent ten years of my adult life working to be alderman. I finally got elected. This is a job I love. And I’m perfectly happy with it. I’m not sure that’s the way that he approached his public life—that he was going to try for a job and stay there for one period of time. In retrospect, I think he saw the positions he held as stepping stones to other things and therefore approached his public life differently than other people might have.”

Well, again, if anyone could see the trajectory of Obama’s career as anything other thank opportunistic “stone-stepping,” it is only because they did not WANT to see that Obama was a driven POLITICIAN.

But here is my point: Chicago politics. This is a major foundation the MSM and Obama worshipers/supporters refuse to acknowledge – because it does not fit the narrative they have created:

On issue after issue, Preckwinkle presented Obama as someone who thrived in the world of Chicago politics. She suggested that Obama joined Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ for political reasons. “It’s a church that would provide you with lots of social connections and prominent parishioners,” she said. “It’s a good place for a politician to be a member.” Preckwinkle was unsparing on the subject of the Chicago real-estate developer Antoin (Tony) Rezko, a friend of Obama’s and one of his top fund-raisers, who was recently convicted of fraud, bribery, and money laundering: “Who you take money from is a reflection of your knowledge at the time and your principles.” As we talked, it became increasingly clear that loyalty was the issue that drove Preckwinkle’s current view of her onetime protégé. “I don’t think you should forget who your friends are,” she said.

Others told me that Preckwinkle’s grievances against Obama included specific complaints, such as his refusal to endorse a former aide and longtime friend, Will Burns, in a State Senate primary—a contest that Burns won anyway. There was also a more general belief that, after Obama won the 2004 United States Senate primary, he ignored his South Side base. Preckwinkle said, “My view is you have to bring your constituency along with you. Granted, you have to make some tough decisions. Granted, sometimes you have to make decisions that people won’t understand or like. But it’s your obligation to explain yourself and try to do your supporters the courtesy of treating them with respect.” Ivory Mitchell, who for twenty years has been the chairman of the local ward organization in Obama’s neighborhood—considered the most important Democratic organization on the South Side—was one of Obama’s earliest backers. Today, he says, “All the work we did to help him get where he finally ended up, he didn’t seem too appreciative.” A year ago, Mitchell became a delegate for Hillary Clinton.

What?? Obama not appreciative? Yeah – no kidding. He has made it abundantly clear that he will step on whoever whenever it is politically – I said, POLITICALLY – expedient for him to do so. And still:

The same month Mitchell endorsed Clinton, the Obama campaign reached out to Preckwinkle, and eventually she signed on as an Obama delegate. I asked her if what she considered slights or betrayals were simply the necessary accommodations and maneuvering of a politician making a lightning transition from Hyde Park legislator to Presidential nominee. “Can you get where he is and maintain your personal integrity?” she said. “Is that the question?” She stared at me and grimaced. “I’m going to pass on that…”

Can’t say as I blame her. What does it say when someone who DOES actually know him has “to pass” on answering a question regarding Obama’s integrity? Or when the governor of his home state refers to him as a “mo***r f***er”?? These are the people who KNOW him, after all, not just who worship him from afar.

And then there is this (emphasis mine):

Chicago is not Obama’s home town, but it’s where he chose to forge his identity. Several weeks ago, he moved many of the Democratic National Committee’s operations from Washington to Chicago, making the city the unofficial capital of the Democratic Party; his campaign headquarters are in an office building in the Loop, Chicago’s downtown business district. But Chicago, with its reputation as a center of vicious and corrupt politics, may also be the place that Obama needs to leave behind.

Exactly. Chicago, with its long, long, LONG history of corrupt politics, is the city in which Obama decided to forge his political identity. One other interesting note on Obama and Chicago politics:

…David Axelrod, who has been Obama’s chief strategist since 2002 and is the foremost political consultant in Chicago, was a witness to all of it, first as a political reporter for the Chicago Tribune and later as the chief consultant to two mayors: Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor and a hero of the Independents, and the current Mayor Daley, whose last name still carries negative connotations in the precincts of Hyde Park…

Uh huh. David Axelrod has shown himself to be a part of Chicago-style politics in the way he has run Obama’s campaign, that’s for sure. And no doubt, he will continue to use Chicago-style politics in the White House, too. Why change horses in mid-stream, right?

Oh, wait – that’s the wrong talking point. Ahem. Yes, Obama is trying to distance himself from Chicago politics NOW. Now that so many of its players’ wrong-doings are in the headlines, but those of us who have been keeping score know the real deal. Obama is inextricably bound to Chicago politics, and Chicago STYLE politics, as we saw this year with Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and John McCain. Basically, anyone who had the “audacity to get in Obama’s way experienced Chicago politics up close and personal, and it was not pretty.

There is much, much more to the New Yorker article, and I hope you will click HERE to finish reading it (it’s long, which is why I am not reprinting it all here). In it you will read about Obama’s contentious relationship with another member of the IL Senate, Rickey Hendon; his relationship with Rezko, Ayers, and Dorhn; how his community organizing REALLY went (hint: not as well as he likes to claim NOW), and much more. I will leave you with this passage:

Part of Obama’s political success is that he has been able to exploit relationships with important yet ethically dubious figures in Illinois while still maintaining his independence. In some ways, this is an Illinois tradition. When the liberal reformer Adlai Stevenson ran for governor, in 1948, one Democratic boss reportedly noted that he would “perfume the ticket.” The earnest Lincoln scholar Paul Simon stood out in the Senate for his moral rectitude and his commitment to good government even as his state wallowed in scandal. “The political bosses knew they had to have what they used to call in business a loss leader—the showcasing,” Don Rose, the Chicago political consultant, said. “The car that you sold for under its value for advertising purposes. While you had at the top of your ticket a shining star, under that it was like turning over a rock.”

Obama has said little about the scandals in his home state. Besides the Rezko and Blagojevich cases, there have been indictments and convictions against the Daley administration concerning hiring and contracting practices. Getting close to the sullied political leadership in Illinois was probably an unavoidable cost of winning the U.S. Senate seat. Emil Jones told me that another of the lessons Obama learned after his 2000 loss was the importance of political sponsorship.

You can say that again…

Obama is clearly losing goodwill points every day that Blago-gate drags on. Now it appears that indeed Rahm Emanuel was in touch with Blago and aide Harris about the senate seat though no evidence yet of malfeasance on Emanuel’s part.

The stench of Chicago machine politics now clings to Obama like a cheap cologne.

It did not have to be this way.

Obama started out his career firmly in the reform anti-Daley machine wing of the Chicago Democratic Party. That’s what it meant to be an Alinsky-ite Community Organizer in black south side poor and working class neighborhoods in the 80s (where, by the way, he first got to know the powerful Balanoff family of Tom Balanoff aka “SEIU Official” – the flag pole contact in the Feds affidavit against Blagojevich).

That’s what it meant to fight the Mayor’s office and the powerful school board and the teachers union simultaneously in the push for a school reform bill in 1988 which Obama did alongside his pal Bill Ayers. And Obama did that in opposition to mainstream black organizations like Operation PUSH and The Woodlawn Organization.

That’s what it meant to join again with Ayers in securing and then spending $160 million on education reform AGAINST the desires of Mayor Daley in what were called the Chicago School Wars. That’s what it meant to hold his initial campaign event in the home of his “family friends” Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. That’s what it meant to step into the shoes of outgoing state rep. and fellow traveler Alice Palmer.

In fact, that’s what it meant if your aspiration in political life, as it was for Obama, was to depose Richard Daley Jr. inspired by Obama’s hero, Harold Washington, the first black mayor of the city who died in office while Obama was a community organizer.

But at some point in the late 90s or so, Obama realized he had higher ambitions and perhaps becoming Chicago Mayor was not enough. At that point he began to establish relationships with the Chicago mainstream, including key business figures like Penny Pritzker and he even began cozying up to the Daley machine itself. These would prove critical in his rise to national prominence

And now he is stuck with them. Instead of taking advantage of his new national ties to the Kennedy family or VP-elect Joe Biden he immediately fell back on the Chicago crowd for his earliest appointments – Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett, for example – while only leaving behind Jeremiah Wright and, hopefully, Billy Ayers.

For whatever reason Democratic Presidents seem too heavily dependent on the home team. Carter had his Georgia buddies as Clinton had his Arkansas cronies. Usually, however, it takes a few years for their inadequacies to shine through. Obama hasn’t even moved to Washington yet!

From my blog, Global Labor and Politics.

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Reading earlier this week an opinion piece on the editorial by Ayers in the New York Times on a blog called The Moderate Voice titled: Prediction: The Ayers haters still Won’t be Satisfied,” reading the recent transcript, and viewing the actual footage on Hardball with Ayers, reminded me of my last deployment to Iraq and an incident that happened. I had just pulled my vehicle to park in the back of our TOC (Tactical Operations Center) with my TC who rode with me to pick up the mail. There wasn’t much that day so on the way back we stopped at the main PX that was located on another camp to get a carton of cigarettes since they always ran out at the small one on our camp. My TC who was also one of my tent mates wanted to smoke before we went in by the barriers, but we had to smoke five feet from the TOC, which was in front of one of our LMTVs, so I told her we should take our bags in first. Instead of walking around we decided to just cut through the TOC because it was quicker. We did not even make it inside all the way before we heard the whistle of a Mortar, the sound it makes when incoming. And the next thing we heard and felt, was that mortar as it hit the vehicle parked behind us, where not even a minute prior we had just left. It took out the truck, caused the chapel ceiling to cave in, and hit inside our camp, directly behind the vehicle we just left and in the exact place we had formations each and every day.

Mortars & IEDs. It was what people on convoys never want to encounter when they are convoying on dark roads since we ran our convoys at night. It is what you would hear while in the shower, in your sleep tent, while eating or when they constantly and consecutively attempted to hit BIAP (Baghdad International Airport) which was close to our camp, all the time. From mortars you can hear and IEDs you cant even see, till this day I have yet to see a non issue “friendly bomb” mortar or IED. There is no ducking or running for cover. Just like you are unable to dodge or outrun a bullet. When you hear that whistle you are screwed and can only hope where it hits will not happen in your vicinity and have you end up dead. I used to say that I would rather be in my tent sleeping if it hit us and not know it. Then to be awake taking a shower, eating or working, hear it and know what is coming next. These people who do this don’t care about who you are, what you may do or who you may be, the only thing that they care for is to cause destruction because of there cause. For them, if they take out even one of us, they consider it winning.

Because they are fighting for something which we don’t understand or believe in. They were not fighting against us, they were/are fighting for there cause, their beliefs, their ideology. And whether we were there in there country or not, they will continue to fight for their beliefs and will continue to strap bombs to themselves because it is not just about dying for them, it’s about believing in their cause to the point their death does not even matter. But I know and knew all of this when I reenlisted two weeks after 9/11. I knew it 10 March 1998 when I joined. I knew it when I deployed to Kuwait. I knew it when I deployed to Uzbekistan. I knew it when I was in Bagram in Afghanistan after 9/11, and I knew it when in Iraq on my last deployment. I was in Afghanistan during Operation Anaconda in 02 when 10th Mountain Division, the US Special Forces groups from USSOCOM, JSOC and CIA’s Special Activities Division and 101st Airborne Division, as well as other allied forces, went in to the Shahi-Kot Valley and Arma Mountains for Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Mullah Omar. Our task force from Fort Bragg, one of the many battalions in the rear which was part of the command of the former Coscom Commander General Dunwoody, was pulling base logistical support from fuel, ammo, water and running the SSA in Uzbekistan before we picked up to move down to Bagram to fall under 10th Mountain. Where part of your briefing was “if you didnt drop it, don’t pick it up” because of the amount of unexploded ordnance left from when they were fighting the Soviets could be found any and everywhere. When paths walked every day, walking in the wrong spot on a path you have been on daily, had the possibility to become deadly.

I knew this and I understood it, but we were fighting against something that was much bigger than my fear. It was a sacrifice worth making and I know it and still do till this very day. Which brings me to my point. What I do not know, do not understand, and will not even attempt to, is why in the hell anyone would give a man a platform to explain the ideology of their organization who is giving the impression that “bombs” are just a form of self expression. When I read the words of this portion of the exchange between the recent interview of Chris Matthews and Ayers I literally became sick to my stomach:

MATTHEWS: What’s the lesson of Vietnam for America?

AYERS: Well I think one of the lessons is that we should be, very, very wary when the United States government tells us that we must invade and occupy a country. We should be very wary of led down, being led down that path. And we should be rethinking, right now, most of all, we should rethink America’s role in the world. Do we have to be the policemen of the world? Do we have to be the one and only superpower? Or could we imagine ourselves a nation among nations. Could we imagine a foreign policy based on justice, rather than power.

MATTHEWS: Yeah. Aren’t you scared a little bit, I certainly am, by the willingness of the American people to assume language, brand new language like “weapons of mass destruction,” “Homeland Security,” all these references to a new kind of foreign policy? “Forward leaning.” “A preemptive, preventive war.” Preventive war sounds like an oxymoron to me. But aren’t you scared that the American people bought every one of those words, bought the whole argument that we had to go to Iraq?

AYERS: I actually think that those are contested. And I think you’re right to worry about how much we did buy into that. But on the other hand I think we should be very hopeful that people rejected quite, a month ago, rejected eight years of the politics of fear, the politics of terror, the politics of violence and war and said, “Let’s turn in a different direction.” So we’re, we’ve ended the era, I think, of 9/11, or at least turned a page on it.

MATTHEWS: Yeah.

AYERS: And we’ve entered an era of “Yes We Can!” But the question remains, “Yes we can, what?” And in foreign policy can we become a nation among nations? Can we become a nation who believes in justice for everyone.

MATTHEWS: Yeah well those are good things. I think you’re a different man. I think you’re a different man than the one that was in the Weather Underground and you’ve said so. Let me ask you are you concerned that the centrist positions of the people, Senator Obama, President-elect Obama has named – Senator Clinton, Jim Jones, General Jim Jones, Bob Gates, the holdover Defense chief – are you concerned that she’s putting establishment figures, who, who, who supported the war authorization in Iraq in powerful positions of influence over him? That the people in the room, all around him now, will be people who disagreed with him and you about the Iraq war? Are you worried about that?

AYERS: A bit but I think that people like you and me, and probably most of the people who watch your show are suffering a kind of postpartum depression. That is we were so used to reading the polls and getting agitated about every nuance of what was happening that we now don’t know what to do with ourselves. So we try to read the mind of the President-elect. I think it’s much less important that we do that, than that we pay attention to building, on-the-ground, forces that want to rethink-

MATTHEWS: Yeah.

AYERS: -and, and re-imagine what America could be.

Attempting to explain why they deemed it necessary to set bombs and actually have people not only explaining his actions but rallying to this man’s side is unbelievable. But to have the goddamn nerve to ask an individual about positions in the new administration as if his opinion counts? Unbelievable. I am amazed. I am astounded and I am furious. What in gods name are we coming to when this new Pro- Ayers media and bloggers have the audacity to insinuate that we, the people, are considered “haters” and that something is wrong with us for believing placing a bomb inside of a building is not some form of freedom of expression? Have they lost there minds? Do they even know what it is like to pray daily you will come home the same way you left when deployed? Or to pray daily for those once you left, for those still there? Have they ever seen the damage to a person who has been on the receiving end of what they are giving justification for? Seen what shrapnel can do to a person’s face? Their body? Their arms? Their legs? I have, as well as so many others who are watching this shit play out in the court of public opinion. It’s one thing to have injuries you can see as a daily reminder, this I know, but to hear explanations is entirely different.

They will send the message to those who would do our country harm that if they have a “valid reason” for their actions, they will be excused because pundits, commentators, and the MSM says it‘s a non- issue? We are fighting against something in which they have the gall to explain and give justification. And no one will say a word in fear the majority will label them “racist”. That they will be blacklisted, shunned or taken apart in the mainstream media if they have the audacity to question those who are considered the majority. I will not be held hostage by the label “racist” to keep me from speaking up or defending what is right. For the MSM to give this man a platform, for bloggers to make excuses for what he has done, and political parties to remain silent feels like a betrayal. What so many see as a “non-issue” is a very big issue for me because I do not see the difference in his type of “expression” and the same type of “expression” I have seen overseas.

What makes his type of bombs any different from anyone else’s? If his name would have been Akbar Jamal Muhammed and he did the exact same thing Ayers did, but did it in 2001? Would he have the opportunity to write opinion pieces to garner support in the New York Times? Would he be on a book signing tour? Have Democrats & Republican pundits, and commentators agreeing it was harmless while saying it’s racist to bring it up, asking advice on national security and appointments like he is qualified to do so, while lining up to the closest microphone and spotlight on his behalf to use that “non-issue” word? Or would he have the opportunity to do guest appearances on “Hardball” and “Good Morning America?” Chris Matthews deserves to be fired. We have not reached the level of desperation where we need to solicit the opinion of a domestic terrorist on national security or on how our government should govern.

Our elected officials are becoming next to worthless for not calling the media out on this. I want change but not at the cost of compromising what I know to be right. I want our country to prosper, but not at the cost of turning into a spineless wimp who cant do their job because they have seen how they destroyed others who didn’t cater to a certain campaign and the MSM. We don’t make friends with terrorists. We don’t listen to terrorists’ ideology. We don’t allow them to explain there actions. We don’t make excuses. We don’t attempt to sympathize, condone, attempt to believe, justify or encourage their form of “expression” when it involves anything that could do this country or the people harm. And I could care even less about the biased shill, in the pocket, media because they are just another organization that has to pay the bills to keep the lights on just like we do but thiee paycheck comes from ratings.

But what they do not realize, is that what is given to them, can be taken away. They may be bought and paid for but no one owns me and I refuse to join the crowd that lacks a spine, and a backbone who can’t form their own opinion without checking with the media first. I want someone to get up and say enough is enough and send that man back to the hole, rock and bridge he crawled out from under and do us all a favor by staying there. Either you are against terrorists who go about using bombs to get their message across or you are for it. Anyone wanting to sympathize and become buddies with terrorists, foreign and domestic, in my opinion should pack their damn bags, get a strip map for their training camps from officials in India and head to the goddamn borders of Pakistan or the mountains in Afghanistan. They can blog and report the news from there. This is the final straw for me.

There is no man or woman that walks on this earth, put their pants on the same way that I do, that can instill this type of fear that would make you compromise your integrity. I could care less. I was born from dissent and was told years ago the first time I was deployed to a combat zone and touched ground that no weapon ever formed against me shall prosper. And each time I stepped off a C130 when I made it home safely, I knew it to be true. But it was not and will not be at the expense of fighting terrorists in a foreign country just to see one on every damn channel on tv or writing editorials and doing interviews in the newspaper while whining about how they are misunderstood and done wrong. Who will the MSM interview and drag out next? Bin Laden? Will we have to listen to how its really our fault for not understanding his beliefs? Do we get to read his editorial in the New York Times? Will he do “Hardball?” Or maybe “Oprah” or “Good Morning America?” There is a quiet storm building over this and I cannot wait for the day the binds that currently hold me no longer exist. And any party, pundit, or person believing this will be the new way to fight the war on terrorism, is to relate with the enemy and attempt to explain and understand their cause may need to step back and realize that everyone does not care about being part of the majority.

Or care about being on the “winning side” with the MSM. Because the only “winning side” to be on is the side with this country and the American people on it. They have ALL failed the test the minute these elected officials, who we gave jobs with our vote to represent us, lost their minds, lost their voice, their credibility, and their common sense the moment they lost their backbone to stand up and represent us. If they can’t even fight for a cause here in our own damn country, they are going to get run the hell over by people in other countries. I want elected officials willing to fight, not watered down individuals scared to say or speak the truth because they need the majority to stand behind them. I don’t want to be Bff’s forever and couldn’t care less if the so called “enemy” in third world countries hate our guts. They should hate us . We don’t need to cater to or understand their beliefs or work on our nations social standing with them, they need to work on there social standing with us. We should not bow down to any individuals in any country. We don’t have anything to prove, they do, and if they dislike us even more so be it. That just means we are doing something right. Because when they begin to want to be buddies and best friends for life, then we have something to worry about.

Look at them. In the news acting as if government positions or no better than powerball tickets waiting to see if they bought and paid for enough while hoping they are the ones to have the winning number. Acting as if this is a high school student council instead of our governing body of our government. While other countries are dealing in politics, we look like fools who don’t know what politics actually is. We are not sending a message of strength. We look weak. I want individuals willing to stand up and take on the MSM for this, by calling them out for what they are doing by promoting these type of actions. It is wrong. It’s pathetic. Just because they don’t have the heart or strength to execute what they were elected to do, because they are too scared to do their job for fear of being labeled “racist” by “the report nothing and do nothing” MSM does not mean we, as a whole, should suffer.

All because they want to be on the “right side”. The “right team”. With the “right crowd”. There is no way on gods green earth will I listen to them hype this man up for the next four years. There is no way in hell I will watch individuals get smacked in the face daily by those explaining this man’s organization and what they have done as a “non-issue”. I don’t care if this man is best friends with the king and queen of England and considered royalty. What he did was wrong and there are no explanations in the world that can give legitimacy to his actions. If they want to sell their souls to the devil to prove they are not racist by embracing him that is their choice. They can stand behind and defend whoever they want, in their own warped thinking, thinking that speaking highly of him based on his past perceived association will gain them favor. By hiding behind the facade that they are standing behind this country and what is best for it by not questioning his actions so it will not reflect negatively on the President Elect. Bullshit. Theodore Roosevelt said it best:

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiently, or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

Listen to the video in its entirety because Matthews describes further how VERY near he was to where that bomb went off. And Ayers (of course, this was not discussed today) is a free man solely because his attorneys managed to prove the FBI improperly conducted wiretaps. (I have MUCH MORE TO SAY about this below, and ask you to read along and then share YOUR reactions and add your own knowledge and your own impressions of what occurred, shamefully, on MSNBC.)

I can only imagine what Concerned Mother would have to say about this travesty.

It is unconscionable to me that we and the MSM constantly RAGE about O.J. Simpson, who murdered two people, but not reject Barack Obama, a presidential candidate, now president-elect, who has associated freely and over a long time with a man who could have killed dozens and dozens of people.

On his remarkable radio show a few weeks ago, Nocturnal Warrior made a brilliant point about PEBO’s selection of numerous former Clinton White House and cabinet members. Warrior said that PEBO has to select such people because he has almost no FRIENDS or LONGTIME ASSOCIATES to appoint to any serious jobs in his administration. This is a situation that has NEVER occurred in the history of the presidency of the United States. Heretofore, every U.S. president has had a rich collection of friends, associates, and allies from whom he could select many qualified for high-ranking administration positions. But not Barack Obama. You faithful readers of No Quarter know of many of Obama’s real longtime associates: Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, Father Michael Pfleger, William Ayers, Allison and Cullen Davis, Penny Pritzker, Bernardine Dohrn, and on and on, only a very, very few of them suited for any respectable position at any level in an administration. (I’ve clicked several Categories to provide you with a list.) And now, this week, we learn more about other Obama longtime associates like Rod Bagojevich and his wife.

William Ayers’ Crimes, and Additional Perspective History

The SOLE reason no one died is because Ayers et al. were piss-poor bomb makers. What is the sentence range these days for an attempt to commit murder? And don’t forget all the other bombs that nearly killed many others. Including the judge, his wife, and his children — while they slept — simply because that judge was doing his job: Handling the trial of a Black Panther. I’m not generally in favor of the death penalty, but Ayers’ and the Weather Underground’s attempts, repeatedly, to kill as many people as possible in the Capitol, the Pentagon, police stations, and a judge’s home are the works of people so dangerous that those people should never be freed, and may be eligible to be charged with a capital offense.

Ayers has famously said, “Free as a bird, guilty as hell, ain’t America great.” (From Larry Johnson’s must-read article, “A Statement by a Retired FBI Agent Re William Ayers.”)

Dear readers, please understand this: All that, to Matthews, is just some history. It has some import to Matthews, given that he might have been blown up himself, but apparently not much since the conversation flows easily and reasonably amicably, and Matthews, at the end of the interview, gladly flogs Ayers’ book. THEN, after this interview, Matthews has his panel on. Matthews asks Joan Walsh, Salon’s editor, why Ayers — who appeared today to be “confessional” in his tone — didn’t do that during the campaign. Ms. Walsh LAUGHS with a SMIRK on her face, and says, “I think he wanted to stay out of it entirely, and not dignify what the McCain campaign and others were doing.”

Thank you, Ms. Walsh. We now know who the real criminals are. Shame on you, John McCain. Shame on you, Sarah Palin.

Ms. Walsh, please share your opinions with John Murtagh. Well, of course. That’s unfair. You don’t know who John Murtagh is.

Uppity Woman can tell you, in her story, “When This Man Was 9 Years Old, Ayers Bombed His Home.”

If I may, I will contrast the actions of William Ayers and the rest of the sociopathic members of the Weather Underground to the actions of a man who — unless you’re my age and you closely followed anti-war activities during the Vietnam War — you’ve probably NEVER heard of, and will not hear of in the MSM.

After all, he didn’t make bombs. He didn’t befriend a future president and excite the easily excitable rightwing. He simply did the hard work of truly changing history and he paid the price that true, albeit boring, heroes do, in anonymity.

His name is David Harris.

He was the resident counselor in the boys’ dormitory across the street from my girls’ dorm. Many of us sat at his feet as he modestly told us his stories about traveling to the South in summers past to try to help black people get the right to vote. He also shared with us the music he’d learned about in the South — the blues. He told us about Muddy Waters and more. We were entranced. With him, with his stories and the very REAL danger he was in during those summers when white racists wanted to kill him and every white college kid who dared to fight for blacks’ right to vote.

He ran for student body president and I worked on his campaign. He ran on the sole condition that, if elected, he would not serve. He won in a landslide. And did not serve.

Then his draft number came up. (My memory is vague these days, but I believe he tried all the normal routes available back then, such as conscientious objector status, and so on. All of those routes failed.)

So he went to prison. Leavenworth. About seven years ago, I did a search on him, curious what his life had been like. I discovered that he had written a book about his time in Leavenworth, along with his then-wife Joan Baez. I bought the book, and read it. It was a heart-wrenching account. I had no idea that being an inmate in Leavenworth was such a horrific, maddening, insane experience.

It is a simple story, really.

He refused to fight for a war he did not believe was right.

The U.S. government tried him and sentenced him to prison.

He served roughly three years, as I recall.

You may disagree with his decision, but he decided to take the punishment like a man.

He had a father who, as I remember it, was an attorney in Fresno, California. His father surely had some means, but not enough to prevent his son from going to prison.

Bill Ayers had a father who was Chairman of Commonwealth Edison and a mover/shaker in Chicago politics, the arts and education. His father had the means to hire a cadre of attorneys who successfully prevented his son from spending a single day in prison.

David Harris did not build bombs.

He tried to help blacks in the South get to vote, at great risk to his own life.

He helped educate and watched over younger students attending the university, which was often a tedious task, listening to those 18-year-olds’ angst and fear and uncertainty and their various problems with and anxieties about their classes.

He helped the students with the difficult reading for the required freshman class, The History of Western Civilization, because he had read all of those works, including all of Plato, Socrates, and more, and he could — and did — explain those works to those anxious students. He spoke with them patiently and kindly and always very softly.

He was a hulk of a man with broad thick shoulders and a large angular head and a blond mustache but he was, as they say, a gentle giant.

He did not teach the younger students to build bombs or burn down buildings.

He taught the students about giving black people the right to vote and about the blues and about philosophy and about literature and about political thinking and about peaceful protest and about Martin Luther King and Gandhi.

He marched and sang folk songs with his wife, who bore their son.

What a dull man.

Doubtless, Chris Matthews will never invite David Harris for a feature interview.

If only he’d built bombs and then buddied up with a future president, he’d be a sought-after guest.

At least he has an entry in Wikipedia.

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Via Google News results:

Matthews to Ayers: ‘I Agitate My Way, You Agitate Your Way‘ – NewsBusters

Chris Matthews invited on Bill Ayers on Wednesday night’s “Hardball,” and actually confronted him about his bombing of Capitol Hill during his days as a member of the ’60s terrorist group Weather Underground, as the former Capitol Hill police officer emotionally observed: “I was a Capitol policeman at the time, so I was one of the guys that could have been killed obviously at the time you put that, your guys put that bomb in there. So I have a little personal interest. It wasn’t just vandalism. To me it was life-threatening to the guys I worked with. And there were some pretty good guys working there.”

However Matthews, who paradoxically may not even be alive to conduct this interview today if the Weather Underground’s bombs were more devastating, devoted most of the interview tossing softballs Ayers’ way, as the two often agreed with each other on Barack Obama and Iraq policy as the “Hardball” host pointed out they only really differed on how to spread their points of view: “Well, Mr. Ayers, with all due respect, you agitate your way, I agitate my way.

Matthews, who back in October dismissed Sarah Palin’s mention of Ayers, as “the politics of distraction,” began the interview by setting up Ayers to play down any association he had with Obama: …

READ ALL: Matthews to Ayers: ‘I Agitate My Way, You Agitate Your Way‘ — NewsBusters

AND READ MORE of NoQuarter’s treasure trove of materials on the bombings conducted by William Ayers.

Can you believe that about the school changing its name to Barack Obama Elementary?? Sadly, it is true. Here is the article: New York School Changes Name to Barack Obama Elementary,

Some public figures wait a lifetime — or longer — to see their names affixed to airports, bridges and public schools.

Not so Barack Obama.

In what appears to be a national first, the school board in Hempstead, N.Y., has voted unanimously to change the name of its 460-student Ludlum Elementary School to Barack Obama Elementary School.

Officials hope to hold a name-changing ceremony shortly after the new year begins. Such quick action could put the 47-year-old president-elect’s name on a public institution even before his inauguration Jan. 20. “I think we were still caught up in the moment,” principal Jean Bligen said.

Like many across Long Island, Hempstead students followed the campaign closely. Students at the former Ludlum School held a mock debate, and a straw ballot there in grades 3-5 produced 257 votes for Obama, 28 for opponent Sen. John McCain.

The school’s enrollment is 62 percent Hispanic and 36 percent African-American. Several students come from Africa, and many more come from El Salvador, Guatemala, Ecuador and Puerto Rico.

“For me, we made history,” said Teonte Jackson, 11, a fifth-grader who played Obama in the debate. “I feel really proud to have an African-American president. I don’t think it’s a racial thing. I think he will bring everybody together.”

Here’s the thing. If they indeed did follow this election closely, did it not ever bother any of these TEACHERS that Obama refused to provide his transcripts? ANY of his transcripts from any three of the institutions of higher learning he attended? It didn’t bother ANY of them that he treated women so poorly? It didn’t bother them at all that he PLAGIARIZED his speeches and policies?? All because he is half black, he gets a school named after him?? He has done VERY little on his own, as I have been saying for months, and as the video above details.

Oh, but you know there is more:

Clear Stream Avenue School in Valley Stream will also consider a renaming resolution next month, The Associated Press reported.

Eileen Garbe, who teaches fifth grade at the former Ludlum School, said the election provided a “monumental” opportunity to bring history alive for students. She plans to retire in about a year and a half after 20 years of teaching. “Isn’t this a wonderful way to go out?” she said.

A photo of Obama already hangs in the school’s office. Coincidentally, since September the school has been sending hundreds of books to an orphanage in Kenya, the home of Obama’s late father, even before the idea of a name change took hold.

The idea began to jell after another fifth-grade teacher asked students Jalani Johnson and Samantha Alburez, both 10, to write essays on why their school should be named for Obama.

Interim Superintendent Joseph Laria praised both students and adults for urging the name change at the Thursday school board meeting. The board’s vote was 5-0.

As he voted, board president Charles Renfroe thought of his own fifth-grade teacher, Artiebelle Lowe, who worked in a segregated, two-room schoolhouse in rural Alabama.

Renfroe still recalls her joy at the news in 1955 that a Montgomery, Ala., seamstress named Rosa Parks had defied Jim Crow laws by refusing to move to the rear of a bus. “I just wish she could be around today to see how far we’ve come,” Renfroe said of his former teacher.

“I think this will unite us,” said another board member, Betty Cross, who has differed with the board on other issues.

Hempstead Village Mayor Wayne Hall said naming the school after Obama is appropriate. “The fact that he was elected on Nov. 4 as the first African American is the achievement,” Hall said. “He doesn’t have to do anything else. The fact that he was elected is the ultimate achievement for all Americans.”

A Web search finds no mention of other schools or public facilities in the United States named for Obama, though such moves are being advocated in Calumet City, Ill., and Portland, Ore.

Geezy pete. JUST because he is half African and half American is sufficient. Wow. That seems like a mighty low threshold to me, but hey – maybe I expect too much. Again, it just shocks and appalls me that these teachers are completely ignoring the reality of how Obama got to where he is – the lying, cheating, stealing, misogyny, homophobia, and deception (to name a few). If they were truly following this election closely, they would have to know on SOME level that what they are doing is all about color of the skin, and NOT character. What the hell kind of message is THAT to be sending to our young people??? No wonder so many of our youth are cheating, lying, and plagiarizing – they see that success comes to those who cheat their way to the top, with no recrimination whatsoever. Wow.

And on a final note of disgust, this was the very end of the article:

In Antigua, the prime minister has said he’s taking measures to have the island’s highest peak renamed Mount Obama, according to the AP.

A school in Kogelo, Kenya, birthplace of Obama’s father, was named for the president-elect after he was elected senator.

ANTIGUA??? What the hell does Obama have to do with ANTIGUA??? Kenya maybe, but holy cow, these people have drunk way too much kool aide…

One is reminded of the scene with Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicholson in Chinatown: “she’s my sister, she’s my daughter….” Bill Ayers says Obama is a “family friend” but at the same time only a “professional” colleague.  

And he was just as ambiguous about when they met. Today Ayers said it was at the same time that Obama was active on issues related to job loss and education. Well, that would mean the late 1980s when Obama was a community organizer working with laid off steel workers and also on the same school reform efforts that Ayers helped lead. 

Cuomo did not pursue the ambiguity and Ayers was content to let it sit there, unresolved.

But the larger impression made is of the utter political idiocy of Bill Ayers.

He still wants to argue that his violent tactics as a founder and leader of the 70s cult Weather Underground somehow contributed to the peace movement at the time. Instead, of course, he and his wife in arms, Bernardine Dohrn, helped destroy a generation’s efforts on behalf of peace and genuine social justice.  But that has not stopped him from re-issuing his apologia for his life, Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist, as well as co-authoring with Dohrn a new book that makes race the key explanatory variable for what ails America (“Race Course Against White Supremacy.”

The right wing tried, valiantly, to portray Obama as somehow tainted by his association with this political relic. But what is, frankly, more disturbing is how or why Obama would have believed there was any value, whatsoever, to spending any time listening to this guy or his wife, at all.

Washington Wire – WSJ.com : Ayers Speaks Out on Campaign ‘08 and His Tie to Obama

As a bonus for those of us who used to go to Taylor Marsh, that was another part of the trip down Memory Lane – before she became addicted to the Kool Aide and was actually a reasonable, rational person. Was that really only 8 months ago?? Seems like a lifetime ago, that’s for sure…

Then there is this:

Of course, I don’t understand why Morris, or the “52% of people” (I know, I know – there weren’t really that many given the duplicate fraudulent votes), DON’T think that Voldebama getting his start in Ayers and Dorhn’s living room, or working with him at Woods, wasn’t important! It goes to a pattern, a way of thinking, that is the issue here. That DOES matter, as Sean Hannity points out so succinctly (I know – I’m quoting Hannity, but he is right when he recites these associates. More in the media SHOULD have done so). Morris raises some great questions. Ones that were never answered by the media, that’s for sure. Just one more strike against them, in my humble opinion.

Anywho, I wonder how long it will be before Voldebama announces Bill Ayers as Secretary of Education? I think it will be January 21st. Maybe we should have a pool! Yeah, that’s the ticket!! And then we can watch all of the university professors who supported Voldebama, and others, trying to excuse the ideology of this unrepentant terrorist who wants to “radicalize” our youth. Oh, yeah – that should be some fun. If only it wasn’t so damn problematic. Let’s hope this is one bet that doesn’t come to fruition…

The suit filed by Mr. McCain’s campaign against elections officials states Mr. McCain could lose votes from military members overseas who support the Vietnam War hero.

“There are many military service members and overseas voters who support Senator John McCain for president in the upcoming election and whose right to vote will be denied without relief from this court,” stated the complaint, also filed in U.S. District Court in Richmond.

The complaint states some Virginia localities did not send absentee ballots to overseas voters at least 45 days before the election, as recommended in 2004 by a congressionally created commission.

Wow. That is just a tad problematic, don’t you think? It is 2008 – surely 4 years is sufficient lead time to make sure that everything is squared away in order to fulfill this recommendation. Just sayin’.

This lawsuit was sparked by one case – see? Making your voice heard DOES matter! Hopefully, anyway. THe article continues:

The complaint cites the specific case of a Marine stationed in Iraq who did not receive his absentee ballot from Arlington County until Oct. 29. It asks that the court order absentee ballots for federal offices sent by Nov. 4 from qualified voters and received by Nov. 14 in the state to be counted.

“The McCain-Palin campaign believes without exception that the servicemen and women on the front line protecting our freedoms deserve every opportunity to make sure their vote counts,” McCain spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said.

It was not clear last night when the suit would be heard in court.

“Of course we want to make sure that all the absentee ballots that are coming in from overseas are counted,” Miss Skinner said. “We’ll comply with whatever order the judge gives on that.”

I dunno – I don’t think 10 days is all that long to wait, all things considered, do you? Whether one agrees with the Iraq War (I don’t), the reality is that these people are putting their lives on the line, their lives at home on hold, making sacrifices the enormity of which many of us cannot fathom, including, sadly, the ultimate sacrifice for some. I think the least we can do is allow them to VOTE. THis goes for ALL of our military serving abroad, whether it be Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Germany – wherever it is, our citizens deserve to execute their right in a democracy to cast their vote. Anything less is unacceptable, especially when they are in harm’s way. And especially when people like these two get to vote unimpeded:

Isn’t it weird seeing people go up and hug them? Like they are just anybody else in the neighborhood, not two unrepentant domestic terrorists who want to teach their children?? I wonder – was it from them that Obama learned to be a con man? Ahem.

So, yeah – I don’t think 10 days is too much to ask to allow late absentee ballots from our military, through no fault of their own, to come back in, do you?

The common theme from Obama’s adoring media in these last hours before the polls open is that he did not know that his aunt’s asylum claim was denied and that she was ordered deported, did not know that she was in the country for the past four years illegally in defiance of that deportation order, did not know that she was living illegally in Boston public housing, and did not know that she had contributed close to three hundred dollars to his campaign.

Further, it has been recently noted that he also did not know that his Kenya-residing grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, was living in squalor. On top of this incredulous set of circumstances, Obama’s nutroots gangs are pushing the talking point that this is all a smear, based on data that no one should know about.

Yeah, right. If there is no other defining character trait fitting for Barack Obama, it is that he is a pathological liar always ready with an “I did not know, I did not hear, and I did not see.” In almost every case that Obama has used this defense it has eventually been proven a lie.

On November 1, Truthteller had an excellent piece on this very point, “A Dolt and a Thug, Obama Claims He Knows Nothing,” in which Truthteller wrote:

One would think Obama would know the immigration status of his aunt after he rendered her into a textual spectacle in his 1996 memoir entitled Dreams of My Father. One would also think a relative would have contacted him in 2004 in order to inform the aspiring US Senator and Illinois political official that auntie needed assistance with her asylum petition. After all, auntie attended Obama’s swearing-in to the US Senate the same year her asylum petition was unfavorably adjudicated. Moreover, one would think that Obama would have been informed by someone related to his aunt that she donated tainted money to his campaign. And furthermore, the Obama campaign must have asked Obama a question or two after an article on Obama’s aunt surfaced a few days ago in the London Times. Surely they would have asked about the aunt’s immigration status after it was revealed she fraudulently donated $260 to the campaign from her public housing address in South Boston.

Also on Nov. 1, Truthteller had another excellent piece, “Obama Relegates Aunt Who Resides Illegally in US to the Shadows While Taking Her Campaign Contributions, ” which I commend to you, as well as American Girl in Italy’s exceptional piece on Obama’s aunt on Oct. 30, “If You Are Not Caring For Your Own Family…“.

As you read this, keep in mind Barack Obama’s recent statement:

“Most people understand that if you are not caring for your family, then you are probably not the kind of person who is going to be caring for other people.”—Barack Obama, October 23, 2008

We now know that Obama had contact with his aunt as recently as 2006, two years after her deportation order, which implies that he knew she was here illegally. What is more, it seems that Obama and Governor Patrick colluded to help his aunt

• Has he financially helped her? If not, why not?
• As a newly minted U.S. Senator, why didn’t he help his aunt with her asylum claim in 2004?
• How does he justify his recent comment that, “this is a country of laws and that his aunt should be deported (!)” with the evidence that he knew she was still here?

Then there is the matter of financial assistance for is family. Why is his dear grandmother in Kenya living in squalor? Obama has been a penny pincher with regards to charities (2000-4: 0.88% of his AGI, 2005-6: 5.22%) but has spoke often of families and the support and care they should share with each other. He has visited Kenya on several occasions and cannot credibly say that he did not know where his grandmother lived and in what conditions. Why did he not help her? Additionally, why did he not sponsor her to join in him in the U.S.? Why is his brother still living in squalor? What happened to being his brother’s keeper? Or his grandmother’s? Or his aunt’s?

Well, one thing is for sure, Obama was not constrained by finances. Here is his adjusted gross income for the past seven years:

• 2000: $240,505
• 2001: $272,769
• 2002: $259,394
• 2003: $238,327
• 2004: $207,657
• 2005: $1,655,106
• 2006: $983,826
• 2007: $4,139,965

Right. Obama does not suffer from a lack of funds with which to help his family.

Back to the “I didn’t know, didn’t hear, and didn’t see” mantra that exemplifies Obama’s campaign season. It is simply unbelievable. Like I said, we’ve heard it all before from him on a number of issues. There are two major examples that highlight his dupicity: Reverend Wright and domestic terrorist William Ayers:

Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

• Barack Obama described Reverend Wright as his spiritual guide, mentor, and friend.
• Barack sat in Reverend Wright’s church pews for over 20 years.
• Reverend Wright married Barack and Michelle Obama. He also baptized their two daughters.
• Together Barack Obama and Reverend Wright helped their mutual friend, Minister Louis Farrakhan, organize his 1995 Million Man March.
• Obama directed tens of thousands of dollars to his church from organizations he directed.
• When details of Trinity United Church of Christ and Reverend Wright came out, Obama lied and claimed he had not heard anything controversial from his pastor friend or from his church.
• Obama said he did not know his church and pastor promoted Marxist-oriented Black Liberation Theology.
• Obama said he did not know his church and reverend promoted the view that the United States was a white racist nation and that the white church was the Antichrist.
• Obama said he did not know that his church and pastor repeatedly praised their mutual friend, Minister Farrakhan.
• Obama said he did not know his pastor and church blamed the U.S. as the source of the AIDS epidemic, nor that they claimed its goal is to wipe out minorities.
• Obama said he did not know his pastor and church blamed the U.S. for 9/11.
• Obama said he did not know that his friend and pastor damned America from the pulpit of Obama’s church.
• After all of these claims, after 20 years of sitting in the pew, Obama abandoned his friend and church for the political expediency of his presidential campaign. He’s since admitted he may have heard some controversial things but refuses to discuss it further.

William Ayers.

• Barack Obama dismissed William Ayers back in April as ‘just some guy in his neighborhood’ and claimed he knew nothing of Ayers’ terrorist past, even dismissing Ayer’s terrorism as something that occurred when he was only eight years old. While Ayers’ founded the Weather Underground in the 1960s, he led it on a bombing spree that lasted to 1981 in a quest to overthrow the U.S. He even called for youth to kill their parents. After escaping prosecution because of technicalities, Ayers was quoted by David Horowitz in 1981 as bragging “Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.”
• Ayers remains unrepentant to this day.
• “This guy” in the neighborhood shared common cause in the 1980s working through companion organizations funded by William Ayers’ father, Tom Ayers, to protest the local education system in Chicago.
• “This guy” in the neighborhood hired Obama to chair his Chicago Annenberg Challenge in 1995. Together, from 1995 to 2001, they spent $160 million in failed education projects, some that benefited their friends, including Reverend Wright.
• “This guy” in the neighborhood helped Obama begin his political career in 1995, hosting a get-together at his and domestic terrorist-wife Bernadine Dohrn’s home and by contributing to his campaign.
• “This guy” in the neighborhood received money from organizations that Obama headed. They also directed funds to Ayers’ fellow terrorists, his wife Bernadine Dohrn and Michael Klonsky, who would become an advisor to Obama
• Obama wrote a short review for one of Ayers books in 1998.
• Obama joined Ayers in at least one joint panel organized by Michelle Obama in 1997.
• Michelle Obama and Bernadine Dohrn worked together at the law firm Sidley Austin. Among Sidley Austin’s clients were Commonwealth Edison led by Tom Ayers, William’s father. Barack worked with them during a summer internship while in law school.
• Michelle Obama and terrorist Bernadine Dohrn worked together with several local Chicago groups.
• Obama and Ayers traveled to New York City in 2003 and toasted their mutual friend, Rashid Khalidi, the former spokesman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). While a video of the event has not been released, there was a LA Times article that contained a number of comments made during this dinner, which included an anti-Israel poem read by a young man. The next year, Khalidi and his wife Mona, also a former member of the PLO, hosted fundraisers for Obama’s U.S. Senate campaign.
• And Ayers, is not a “former” terrorist, as Obama would like us to believe. Ayers is unrepentant. In an interview published on September 11, 2001, he boasted “I don’t regret settings bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”
• In 2002 Barack, Ayers, and Dohrn participated together in a conference and panel entitled “Intellectuals: Who needs Them?”
• In promoting his autobiography, Ayers had himself photographed stomping on the U.S. flag.
• Later, he says he condemned Ayer’s actions. He even defended himself saying that he was only 8 years old when Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, and Michael Klonsky, were active terrorists.

The bottom line is that Obama is a pathological liar whose defining character trait is the lies, misstatements, and omissions of I did not know, I did not hear, and I did not see. In my opinion, that is not a qualification for president. I urge everyone to set party affiliations aside and vote for Senator John McCain and Governor Palin.

Cross-posted at my blog, The Independent View.

The relationship between the Democratic Party’s Presidential candidate Barack Obama and Bill Ayers, the founder and leader of the now defunct terrorist organization Weather Underground, is deeper and closer than currently understood, according to an individual who has had a senior role in the Obama candidacy. Ayers has had direct contact with the candidate.

The Weather Underground was responsible for a series of bombings during the 1970s that caused extensive property damage. [Only two bomb's failures (at the front of the home and under the gas tank of the family car) kept an entire family from dying as they slept, reports John Murtagh, then the 9-year-old son of the judge whose family WU wanted to kill. See Uppity Woman's story, "When This Man Was 9 Years Old, Ayers Bombed His Home." - Ed.]

Just when you had wished you had indeed heard the last of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, it turns out they are publishing a new manifesto described in brief on Amazon.com.

What makes the book blurb – this one apparently not written by their long time, umm, colleague, co-education policy wonk, fellow intellectual and, yes, neighbor Barack Obama – worrisome is that it links what Ayers and Dohrn say is America’s continuing sin, racism and “white supremacy,” with their views on war. 

In other words just as Barack Obama moves to the White House, these two destructive figures out of the past are about to advocate an entire new world view for America built around their curious race-centric obsession. Presumably this will be an opportunity to peddle, one more time, their Third Worldist clap trap which mandates that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” 

This narrow and dangerous thinking is what led Ayers, Dohrn and others in their camp to embrace figures like Castro, Ortega, and Chavez even as they trample all over the civil rights of their citizens in order to maintain their authoritarian hold on power.  

[Editor's note: See Uppity Woman's October 28th article here, "RBO: Team Cuba” — Ayers, Dohrn, just “two political activists” from Obama’s neighborhood, visited Cuba in September 2008.]

“We cannot get people in this country worked up about a terrorist who looks like a surviving member of the Lovin Spoonful.”

“These Donovan records, I could’uv gotten an eighth of ’shrooms for these Donovan records!”

Sung to the tune of “The Way We Were”.

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If the MSM had any difficulty, or even cared about, finding unrepentant domestic terrorist and Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers, or his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, during a week this past September, it was perhaps because they didn’t know where to look — or, most likely, weren’t looking.

The radical couple had made a little offshore visit to that four-letter island off Florida’s coast in the company of this lady, Chicago composer, flutist, and performance artist — and longtime Kenwood resident, a.k.a. Obama neighbor, and supporter — Janice Misurell-Mitchell, Co-Artistic Director of CUBE Contemporary Chamber Ensemble in Chicago since 1989, and wife of University of Chicago English and Art History professor W.J.T. Mitchell, also an Obama supporter.

How do we know? Well, thanks to sharp-eyed RBO reader jr, we have the Winter 2008 CUBE Ensemble newsletter that says so.

So, how did the Ayers-Dohrn “political activists” manage to travel to Cuba? Looks like they may have qualified as “full-time professionals“:

Full-time professionals whose travel transactions are directly related to professional research in their professional areas, provided that their research:

(1) is of a noncommercial academic nature, (2) comprises a full work schedule in Cuba, and (3) has a substantial likelihood of public dissemination.

Full-time professionals whose travel transactions are directly related to attendance at professional meetings or conferences in Cuba organized by an international professional organization, institution, or association that regularly sponsors such meetings or conferences in other countries. The organization, institution, or association sponsoring the meeting or conference may not be headquartered in the United States unless it is specifically licensed to sponsor the meeting. The purpose of the meeting or conference cannot be the promotion of tourism in Cuba or other commercial activities involving Cuba, or to foster production of any biotechnological products.

Venceremos Brigade-Weatherman

This must have been a highly nostalgic walk down the international revolutionary “memory lane” for Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

The following, which comes from an August 1976 redacted FBI report, provides a clear background. When, in July 1969, Vietnamese representatives met with “leading Weatherpeople” (including Dohrn) in Havana, Cuba,

… the influence of Vietnamese representatives on the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) leadership became sharply pronounced. At the same time, the example of the Cuban revolution became the guide for the emerging American student revolutionary. With an increasing number of trips to Havana where the youthful revolutionary could learn at first hand how to create revolution, the influence of Cuba on the developing WUO was enormous.

The WUO obtained their revolutionary methodology from the Cubans and Vietnamese and, importantly, put into practice what they had learned from them. [...]

So, when Huynh Van Ba, representative of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam (PRG), instructed WUO to “look for the person who fights hardest against cops…Don’t look for the one who says the best thing. Look for the one who fights,” the campus base was forgotten and the WUO began to recruit the greasers and assorted oddments who had displayed their hatred of authority in direct combat with police.”

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If he’s a Democrat, I’ll pass. Thanks.

And since I registered as an Independent June 7th, the day Hillary suspended, as a protest to the ‘election selection’, I figure I am immune from the “Obama Collective.”

So there I was the other day, invited into a political debate via email, painstakingly composing all sorts of facts, figures and associations of Obama that would certainly give any reasonable person pause.

You know the litany: 130 present votes, 6 wrong votes, reneging on FISA, NAFTA, public financing, women’s rights, don’t ask don’t tell, Iraq, Israel. Bitter Gate. Sweetie Gate. I mention ACORN, the Fannie and Freddie scandal, caucus fraud, Ayers, Dohrn, Wright, Rezko Auchi, Pleger, Meeks, Pritzker, Khalidi, Al Mansour and the piece de resistance, picking the bloviating, endlessly gaffe prone – Joe Biden. Wow, what judgment, Barack!!!!

I send facts and figures together with, I must say, a rather cogent argument.

They counter with: McCain will croak in office within two months and Palin, spawn of the devil, will be President and ship us all back to the stone age.

I send more info. They reply with: lalalalalalalalalalalalalalala, but he’s a Democrat and we need change.

These are educated people. M’kay.

They tell me I am bitter than Hillary didn’t win. They tell me the people who are for McCain/Palin are from red states and are low-information voters. Oy vey!

I remind them that Howard Stern had an adorable little video out the other day interviewing NY Obama supporters who were very approving of the fact that Obama had selected Palin as his VP! Go listen for yourself. High information, indeed.

Boy, it must be nice to be a big city Dem and think you know every damned thing, huh? I sure found out from my 800+ GOTV phone calls for Hillary, speaking to plenty of red state voters of both parties, there are a lot of very interesting and well informed people out there.

So these big city slickers better get off their high horses and stop treating everybody else like “the fly-over people.”

To that end, one of our readers put up a wonderful comment in response to my story re Governor Palin’s great speech on behalf of women in Henderson, NV the other day.

To LJ, we thank you for a great post. Enjoy…

“Thank you No Quarter! It’s not easy being a young, female liberal-turned-conservative in New York City – your posts and your reader community keep me sane. I can’t wait to cast my vote for McCain/Palin ‘08!! I sincerely hope we use the momentum and inspiration of the 2008 campaign to better our country even after Election Day. Like Sarah said, “never again!” Do not forget how we’ve been duped by party politics and how our economy was wrecked by corrupt politicians and their social-engineering programs. We should scrutinize every politician who wants OUR vote the way we have scrutinized McCain and Obama…freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

I’ve been rooting for McCain since the first debate, when he offered insightful, realizable solutions and showed the depth of his foreign policy experience. He inspired me to get out in my community and help where I can (by volunteering mostly). My boyfriend was also a Navy man and served this country. There is something these boys have – honor, respect for “the office, not the man”, love of country, love of service – they don’t complain, they do something about it. McCain may not be right 100% of the time as President (no one is), but from what I have seen, he will lead our country with courage and pragmatism.

As for Governor Palin, I was intrigued by her at first. I didn’t know anything about her so I didn’t pre-judge. I think her personal story is compelling (despite my fancy education, I have a lot of respect for people who worked their way up and are self-made). I think she has demonstrated experience running an executive office and negotiating with powerful interests, like the Alaska legislature and the oil companies. When you actually listen to her on the campaign trail and read the FULL versions of her interviews (not that travesty of an interview done by Charles Gibson in which half of what she said was cut out so she sounded incoherent), she is insightful and pragmatic on many issues. Faced with the Democratic choice of an inexperienced, machine party politician from Chicago, a run-at-the-mouth career politician, and the triple threat of a liberal supermajority in the WH, Congress and the Supreme Court…I am willing to give Sarah a chance.

However, my office has become inflicted with Palin Derangement Syndrome. Every day, they drag in “news” about her SAT scores, about how many colleges she went to, about her “prom queen hair”, about how she has no “family values” because her daughter is pregnant. It’s constant “Harvard good!,” “state school bad!” I don’t want to shatter their delusions and tell them Obama probably got into Harvard due to affirmative action policies and since he won’t release his scores, you don’t know how poorly or well he did (btw – these are the same affirmative action policies the New Yorkers grumble about because it keeps their prep-schooled, Kaplan-tutored kids from getting into their mommy or daddy’s alma mater. Hypocrisy stinks.)

It is sad that the so-called “educated” New Yorkers who pride themselves on how many degrees they have and how many museums they attend in a weekend can only resort to insults, ridicule and their own brand of fear-mongering (“She’s a redneck! She shoots moose! she believes in creationism!”). The women who hate Sarah because she is a conservative are the flag carriers of the “femi-nazi” movement. They think because she thinks differently, she has somehow betrayed women.

I consider myself a strong, independent women who can fight my own battles and I’ll wear heels and lipstick while doing it – thank you very much.

I appreciate the feminists who have made it possible for us to keep breaking the glass ceiling, but these “femi-nazis” would just as readily tear down any woman or man who doesn’t fall in line with their agenda. They don’t stand up and cry “foul” when those awful shirts about Sarah are worn. They don’t say boo about violence toward women when there is an artist in NYC who has erected a cardboard cutout of Sarah in a gallery and participants can take a SHOTGUN and SHOOT at the cutout.

I am not for stopping their right to act like fools and rabid dogs under the 1st Amendment, but maybe a public condemnation against this exhibit from a WOMEN’S ADVOCACY GROUP might be in order?! Doesn’t this de-sensitize violence against women?! The ACLU brings legal action against Christmas displays and the military’s flag-folding ceremonies…and this behavior doesn’t even get a stern frown or a letter from NOW??!!! They should be called NOW WHAT because they have no idea what to fight for anymore.

The funniest thing is, when I ask these “intellectuals” to debate me on the issues (since I actually KNOW what I am talking about and can give them a run for their money , they don’t bite. It’s easier for them to sit in the warm glow of PDS, feeling oh-so-smart about themselves. Palin Derangement Syndrome is the new Bush Derangement Syndrome.”

Excellent, LJ.

And let us not forget Clinton Derangement Syndrome. Lord knows, we suffered through that one lo these many months. Brave Hillary and her family suffered most of all. How tragic that Hillary opened the door for Sarah Palin to step through, when Hillary, more than anyone, deserved to step through it herself. Hopefully, some years from now, Hillary will.

If McPalin can surmount the Obama Collective’s Money Printing Machine and the MSM, otherwise known as Barack’s personal PR firm, Hillary’s daily flogging may indirectly be an aid to getting them elected. We are now hyper aware and ready to fight back. We will never again be caught off guard.

I am ashamed of men so lacking in self awareness they would vilify a woman, revealing their own insecurity with themselves. Likewise, I am ashamed of women using sexist attacks to degrade yet another woman, not caring that they both degrade and betray themselves, and all of us, in the process.

How gratifying to know that there are high-information voters out there, on both coasts and everywhere in between, who know better than to drink the kool-aid and can think very well for themselves.

More power to you all.