Dirty Politics

[jgaffney]

The Obama camp is incensed because Gov. Sarah Palin has rightly pointed out his association with William Ayers. This is from Reuters:

Democrat Barack Obama counterattacked on Sunday against a new Republican tactic by saying rival John McCain was more interested in a smear campaign than fixing the U.S. economy.

The Obama campaign unveiled an ad hitting McCain as one of the "Keating Five" senators who met federal regulators on behalf of a California savings and loan institution that collapsed in 1989. The ad faults McCain as unwilling to regulate the financial industry.

This reaction was predicted accurately in Jerome Coursi's book, Obama Nation. Dr. Coursi predicted that, as soon as the Republican machine started to bring up issues that were largely ignored during the Democrat primaries, it would be labelled as "smear tactics" and "Swift boating" by the Obama campaign.

SIDEBAR

Isn't it interesting to note the immediate use of the term "Swift Boating" by the Obama campaign. I think that is progressive code for "It's all a lie because they hate us almost as much as we hate them." But, the student of history will recall that, during the Kerry campaign, where the term first originated, the facts of the book Unfit For Command were never refuted by the Left, just the tactic of releasing it during the general election campaign. Dirty politics, indeed. But Gwen Ifill's book coming out, lauding Obama for breaking the "black" ceiling, is not?

It's not really important that William Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist who not only bombed the Pentagon almost 40 years ago, but also claimed that he was sorry that he didn't do more. The important point is that Ayers is a radical educational figure in Chicago, the originator of the Annenberg Challenge, something that has been actively supressed by the Obama campaign. Ayers is much more than just a guy in Obama's neighborhood, easily dismissed with the comment that "our kids went to school together." You will note that Ayers kids are in their 30s and Obama's kids are pre-teen. Who's a liar?

Obama served on the board of the Annenberg Challenge with Ayers, but was not selected randomly for the post. Ayers was the mentor of the board and served on the selection committee that picked Obama. It was no mistake that the two were on the board together. Who's a liar?

I'm at work right now and I don't have the book with me, which I just finished this weekend, but I will post more backup tonight, after Saunterelle weighs in with the MoveOn-DailyKos-HuffPost line.

[The Big Dog]

Going after Senator Obama for his ties to, and apparent belief in, extremely radical socialism is the issue that I've been hollering about for over a year. The Republicans have waited far too long to go after it, not to mention McCain's unwillingness to call his opponent on his record, and I suspect it is likely too late.

Unless a good piece of the electorate wakes up and says "the man is a socialist and he intends to take the country socialist", he is going to be elected on November 5. And he might not even need the ACORN (and similar) fraudulent vote as the 527 Media has lined up shoulder to shoulder in the tank for him and is pumping propaganda at an incredible clip, while calling it "news and analysis", while conveniently ignoring the real problems in the Obama record.

The next four years are not going to be fun.... for anyone. But it will be especially tough for centrist Obama voters and the centrist Republicans who've fallen for his bilge of "change". They are going to wake up one morning, realize they have been royally and completed screwed, and have no one but themselves to thank for it.

[jgaffney]

Cal Thomas says, Judge Obama By The Company He Keeps:

One can be known in part by the company one keeps. William Ayers is not somebody who just did evil things when Obama was eight years old.

They have an adult relationship and Ayers has been a booster of Obama’s and they have worked together on “education issues” in Chicago.

Let’s have some perspective here. What do you suppose the mainstream media reaction would be had McCain been associated with an abortion clinic bomber? You know what it would have been. The big media would be editorializing that McCain was not fit to be president. But Obama can associate with a man who belonged to Weatherman, a Communist-driven splinter faction of Students for a Democratic Society. Characterizing Weatherman as “an American Red Army,” Ayers summed up the organization’s ideology as follows: “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents.” He has never apologized for those remarks or said he has a different world view today.

We can also put the Keating 5 into perspective: there were 5 Senators (hence the name) involved - 4 Democrats and 1 Republican. Three Democrat senators were reprimanded and one, Alan Cranston, never ran again. The remaining 2 senators were both exonerated of breaking any rules; however, they were criticized for poor judgement. The Republican senator apologized publicly - the only one who did - and has since crusaded as a reformer in Congress.

Has Barack Obama ever aplogized for associating with a known terrorist? Has he ever told the truth about his early fascination with a known black communist? Have we heard everything about his meddling in the politics of Kenya?

[The Big Dog]

One might also note that former Senator John Glenn has been on the stump with Obama in Ohio. That would be the same John Glenn who, as a member of the Keating 5, got the exact same scolding from the Ethics Committee as John McCain did, even though he (exactly like McCain) was found to not have violated ethical or criminal standards by the 22 month investigation.

Link here.

So being associated with the Keating 5 only a problem if Obama thinks it's a problem. It becomes clearer with each passing day that, as concerns Mr. Obama, the clothes have no emperor.

[mrroqout]

It's a shame that the media wont touch this.

This man is a crook he should be well on his way to Leavenworth ALREADY!

Obama's criminal cronies:

Tony Rezko
William Ayers
Nadhmi Auchi
Steve Hildebrand
David Plouffe
David Axelrod
Penny Pritzker
Madelyn Dunham



He has taken so much illegal money into his campign it's ridiculous.

Obama has brought in illegally over $250 million dollars from foreigners into his campaign to subvert the US elections. The campaign via Pritzker, Hildebrand, Plouffe and Axelrod are drying cleaning that money to election fraud groups like ACORN who say they have registered 1 million new voters.
CSI of New Orleans is being paid around a million dollars for stage events when it doesn't do stage events for the Obama campaign and says it is passing the money to ACORN.

Anyone who knows Tom Daschle and Steve Hildebrand of South Dakota is well aware of their election fraud in showing up on the Sioux reservations with cases of cash buying Indian votes for victory. ACORN is funnelling money into a same election theft scheme.
All felonies and yet not one word from Congressional Republicans, President Bush, any pundits right, left or fringe on the national stage.

Barack Obama has lived a 3rd world dictator's life doping and vacationing off the American taxpayer and now he is implementing a 3rd world theft of the American election system.

and not one sound from any major player, not one indictment from a US Attorney like Patrick Fitzgerald who didn't seem to have problems indicting scooters and not one investigation by the FBI into the biggest 29 year felony embezzlement of taxpayer funds and the felony fraud on the US election system.




LOL this stuff is so scary it makes me laugh.

[The Big Dog]

The lens is finally beginning to focus on Mr. & Mrs. Bill Ayers.

Ayers-Dohrn-Obama Tie Shouldn’t Be Dismissed

As everyone concentrates on Bill Ayers, a bigger story may be Obama's link to Ayers' wife, Bernardine Dohrn.

October 6, 2008 - by Bob Owens

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has consistently tried to discount the depth of his relationship with Bill Ayers, one of the founding members of the Weather Underground, a radical left-wing terrorist group that formed in 1969 and was most famous for a string of bombings in the 1970s.

Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin hammered Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn over the weekend, stating that the Democratic presidential candidate “palled around with terrorists.”

Obama campaign manager David Axelrod and other campaign surrogates are now furtively trying to claim today that Obama “didn’t know the history” of Ayers and Dohrn as the leaders of America’s most infamous left-wing terrorist group when Obama met at their home for a political “coming out” in 1995, but their attempt to make pretend that Barack Obama didn’t know of their terrorist past is laughable.

By 1995, Barack Obama had known Bill Ayers at least eight years since their shared involvement in the Alliance for Better Chicago Schools, if not longer. Bernardine Dohrn, once labeled “the most dangerous woman in America” by none other than J. Edgar Hoover, was also well known as the inspiration for the 1988 movie Running on Empty. Subtle terrorists they were not.

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Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers’ wife, has largely escaped recent scrutiny, but that lack of attention doesn’t reduce her role as either a leader — and some may argue, the leader — of the Weathermen. Nor can it mask her ties to both Barack and Michelle Obama. It’s now a family affair.

According to a reputable Pajamas Media source that wishes to remain anonymous and knew the Dohrn family, Bernardine Dohrn “always believes the ends justify the means” and is the head of the Ayers-Dohrn household. Dohrn was the violent, arguably pathological Leninist core of the Revolutionary Youth Movement, which led her and allied militants to fight for control of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The SDS split as a result of the Dohrn-led revolt and the Revolutionary Youth Movement split again, with Dohrn’s faction becoming the Weather Underground.

For those of you unfamiliar with Dohrn and her special love of violence in the name of radicalism, one need look no further than her December 1969 rant celebrating the brutal Tate-LaBianca murders with the exhortation, “Dig it! First they killed those pigs and then they put a fork in their bellies. Wild!” According to Discover the Networks, Dohrn had even less sympathy for those who were on the receiving end of the Weathermen’s violence.

[The Big Dog]

And then there is this bit of intel from the Pajamas Media. Governor Palin's remarks are looking less and less like dirty politics with each passing hour.

Videos: The Ayers connection; Update: Obama doesn’t read newspapers?

posted at 9:32 am on October 6, 2008 by Ed Morrissey

This morning, we have a series of videos dealing with the intersection of William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and the Obamas. Sarah Palin’s accusation that Barack Obama “palled around with terrorists” has Team Obama attempting to play defense on the morning talk shows. David Axelrod went first and tried to play the Ignorance Is Bliss card:

And it keeps getting better.......... eventually the 527 Media is going to have to start reporting on all this, or they are going to wind up losing their asses yet again to the blogsphere.

Now let the ritual cries of "swiftboat!!!" ring out from the left.

[Mink]

I think the focus will really be on the economy, seriously.

[The Big Dog]

Oct 6, 2008 21:19:21 GMT -5 Mink said:

I think the focus will really be on the economy, seriously.

Why should it? Congress passed the bail out so everything should be fixed.

Are you saying that it isn't?

[Mink]

Oct 6, 2008 21:35:16 GMT -5 The Big Dog said:

Oct 6, 2008 21:19:21 GMT -5 Mink said:

I think the focus will really be on the economy, seriously.

Why should it? Congress passed the bail out so everything should be fixed.

Are you saying that it isn't?

Are saying that is it? Personally, I don't think so.

[The Big Dog]

The economy is not settled, obviously. The bailout didn't get it done, apparently. However, that does not necessarily mean that it still is the issue with the most primacy. Remember also that both men voted for it in the Senate.

Obama's socialism, the socialism in his "plan", his troubling socialist ties, and his dissembling pver them are going to be the issue for at least a day or two. Bear in mind that Obama has proposed nearly a trillion dollars in new social spending. Most of that money just went out the door in the bailout.

He is vulnerable on taxes, his agenda and his friends. Until he stops dissembling, they will remain the issue.

[jgaffney]

Speaking of vulnerable on taxes, the Wall Street Journal has this:

"It's like déjà vu all over again."

As John McCain heads into the second round of presidential debates tonight, Yogi Berra's words come to mind. Mr. McCain could do worse than remind the middle class what happened to them the last time a charismatic Democratic candidate promised them a tax cut. While he's at it, he might also remind them how much more expensive it will be to send Barack Obama to the White House at a time when his fellow Democrats will have a majority in both houses of Congress.

The Clinton years hold some good lessons on both these scores. Back when Mr. Clinton was campaigning for president in 1992, he made a pretty direct pitch: Raise taxes on people making more than $200,000, and use those revenues to fund tax relief for the "forgotten middle class."

In an October presidential debate, then-Gov. Clinton laid out the marginal-rate increase he wanted and some of his plans for the revenue that would be brought in. He followed with a pledge:

"Now, I'll tell you this," he said. "I will not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these programs. If the money does not come in there to pay for these programs, we will cut other government spending, or we will slow down the phase-in of the programs."

Mr. Clinton, of course, won that election. And as the inauguration approached, he began backtracking from his promise. At a Jan. 14, 1993, press conference in New Hampshire, he claimed that it was the media that had played up a middle-class tax cut, not him. A month later, he announced his actual plan before a joint session of Congress.

On page one of the New York Times, the paper described the fate of the middle-class tax cut this way: "Families earning as little as $20,000 a year -- members of the 'forgotten middle class' whose taxes he promised during his campaign to cut -- will also be asked to send more dollars to Washington under the President's plan."

Fooled me once, shame on you.
Fooled me twice, shame on me.