Obama Fears the Ayers Connection
Tags: Bill Ayers, Terrorist Groups.
Click here to get Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority by Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan.
Uh, Senator, you’re actually just drawing attention to the issue:
Barack Obama has launched an all-out effort to block a Republican billionaire’s efforts to tie him to domestic and foreign terrorists in a wave of negative television ads.
Obama’s campaign has written the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of the “American Issues Project,” the vehicle through which Dallas investor Harold Simmons is financing the advertisements. The Obama campaign — and tens of thousands of supporters — also is pressuring television networks and affiliates to reject the ads. The effort has met with some success: CNN and Fox News are not airing the attacks.
Obama has also launched his own response ad, directly addressing Simmons’ attempt to link him to domestic terror.
The project is “a knowing and willful attempt to violate the strictures of federal election law,” Obama general counsel Bob Bauer wrote to Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Keeney last week in a letter provided to Politico. Bauer argued that by advocating Obama’s defeat, the ad should be subject to the contribution limits of federal campaign law, not the anything-goes regime of issue advocacy.
Bauer’s letter called on the Justice Department to open “an investigation of the American Issues Project; its officers and directors; and its anonymous donors, whoever they may be.”
“This is a sad ploy to circumvent the First Amendment by a campaign who has no arguments with the merits of our ad. It’s the classic maneuver: If you can’t win on the merits, file a lawsuit,” said a spokesman for the American Issues Project, Christian Pinkston, who said his group’s non-profit status allowed it to participate in elections as long as it does a majority of policy work, which it plans to do.
A spokeswoman for Keeney, Laura Sweeney, declined to comment on Bauer’s letter.
The Obama campaign plans to punish the stations that air the ad financially, an Obama aide said, organizing his supporters to target the stations that air it and their advertisers.
You can see the ad here - its not terribly effective, but it does open up the can of worms Obama would rather keep closed: His ties to radical leftism. Its seems that Jeremiah Wright is just the tip of a kook left iceberg in Obama’s background.
Now, is Obama a wanna-be terrorist? Of course not – first off, he’s not of that generation. He’s of my generation, and we don’t tend to blow things up. If there were “60’s radicals”, we’re more “70’s stoners”, and didn’t have the oomph to go do much of anything. The downside to all this is that a lot of us also didn’t bestir ourselves to really learn about the past. I, on the other hand, did (there was a small upside to being bad at sports and a complete flop with chicks) – and even a cursory examination of 60’s radicals – like Ayers – convinces the knowing to steer clear of them. What profit is there is talking to a man who is unrepentant about the monumentally stupid idea of trying to change American policy via a terrorist bombing campaign? Obama isn’t a stupid man, so the presumption must be that he simply didn’t know, or at least didn’t know enough to draw the proper conclusions. To Obama, Ayers probably seemed well meaning – just as all too many dimbulb kids these days put on Che t-shirts because he seems romantic, and well meaning. As the kids today are unaware of Che’s brutal murders, so Obama is unaware (or only dimly aware) of just what Ayers and his cohorts were up to.
Why is this a problem? Because a man who hasn’t figured out that Ayers is persona-non-grata in decent society isn’t a man who can properly judge persons and proposals. If a screwball like Ayers can seem reasonable to Obama, then any kook out there can seem reasonable. While Obama has stepped out of the leftwing coocoon far enough to understand that people like Wright and Ayers have to be kept at arms length, he still hasn’t figured out that the whole leftwing project – ie, Obama’s whole worldview – is flawed and prone to such things as racist rants and terrorist bombs. Obama has some smarts, and our prayer should be that he’ll figure it out – but I don’t want him trying to figure it out while, during a tense moment with Iran, he’s got Sensible Advisor locked in battle with Nutty Leftist Advisor, and Obama unable to determine which one has it right.
UPDATE: Obama camp: Prosecute Simmons
Thank you for visiting Blogs For Victory. If you enjoy our content, please consider making a donation to help us cover the costs of our servers.Mark Noonan is co-author (with Matt Margolis) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at Nevada News and Views. Follow Mark on Twitter.
92 Responses to “Obama Fears the Ayers Connection”
Caucus of Corruption
neocon, navydad & FmrMarine,
OK, I give up. I can’t keep up the Earl of Leftwich charade any longer. I never realized how hard it is to think like a Liberal. You guys’ responses were hysterical. I had hoped to get some of our resident Leftists to cheer me on, but I guess they don’t actually believe the crap they spew here when it comes right down to putting it in real terms. Most of what I said isn’t much of a stretch from what Obama has actually promised to do as POTUS. I just tried to present it in black and white instead of with the usual Leftist spin.
Anyway, it was fun. Now I guess I better wash off my keyboard.
jayhay |
>>So the left is prone to violence… that’s freaking rich…
You guys haven’t met a war you didn’t want to dive headfirst into,
you love you some death row, >>>
HMMMMM
lets see
WW1 = woodrow wilson…..DEMOCRAT!
WW2 = FDR…..DEMOCRAT
Korea = Truman…..DEMOCRAT
Viet Nam = Kennedy/Johnson…….DEMOCRAT
Kosovo = Klintoon…….DEMOCRAT
Iraq = Bush….due to Klintons inability to deal with sadam….so really Klinton….DEMOCRAT
NEXT brilliant observation?
Thrower,
Go cry at some other blog. This is a big world and I just don’t care if your offended.
Obama is going to get his ass handed to him in November primarily because he panders to selfish, whining, uneducated sycophants like yourself.
have a nice day
neocon
Retired
LOL!!!!!!
Some additions/corrections for the marine who never lets facts stand in the way of hate-
Civil War- Lincoln (Republican)
Spanish-American War- McKinley (Republican)
Vietnam War- Eisenhower (Republican)
Gulf Way – Bush 41 (Republican)
Iraq War- Bush 43 (Republican)
And I’m not going anywhere Neocon. It’s too much fun watching you seethe behind those phony sign-offs.
Some days I wonder if these folks are for real or just “tongue in cheek”; however, most of them should go back to school and learn a thing or two.
Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist that founded a group (Weather Underground) that killed Americans and also his house was the place where Sen. Obama choose to launch his political career–no matter at all. All of a sudden, character takes a back seat. No matter about the FBI’s most wanted posters for him & his wife — all is forgiven
Some want the 2% that employ most of the other 98% to pay more — in reality, they would just fire or lay off enough to cover the loss of profits. Shareholders are the concern of most US corporations
Some think that taxing an 8% profit margin is wonderful while letting others make 300 and 400% profit is fine as long as you think like them. Ever wonder how much it costs to duplicate the same OS (operating System) over and over again but still charge top dollar for it? Before you cry subsides–think about laws enacted on behalf of corporation–same difference.
It is no wonder the Democrats never retain power for long–it take responsible people to clean up after their messes. Before you start claiming Pres. Bush is the worst ever and Pres. Clinton/ Carter is the best thing since sliced bread–take a minute and check history.
FmrMarine,
I always wanted to do a spoof like that. You can’t imagine how difficult it is to actually think like some of these Leftist kooks. As a result, however, I have a WHOLE NEW PERSPECTIVE on what it must be like to be Magnum Serpentine.
BTW, loved it Spook. Got my blood in a boil ~ now ROTFL
I had hoped to get some of our resident Leftists to cheer me on, but I guess they don’t actually believe the crap they spew here when it comes right down to putting it in real terms. Navydad
I knew your posts were a joke from the first one. Just shows you the level of intelligence of the three who responded to your nonsense. Only these three thought your posts were for real. They are the jokes.
neocon | August 26th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Thrower,
Go cry at some other blog. This is a big world and I just don’t care if your offended. . .
to selfish, whining, uneducated sycophants like yourself.
uneducated? pot, kettle, black!
Thrower,
You use to claim to be independent. Have you abandoned that now?
Do you believe that America started and/or initiated every war?
Why do think that I am seething? Are you clairvoyant? Or just projecting what you feel daily?
I find the selfish, ingrateful and uneducated comments of liberal quite amusing. I have never before witnessed such a pathetic entitlement mentality before. I guess what JFK asked is no longer relevant in the Democratic party, right?
Astoundingly, Earl wrote:
“For starters, he’s going to take big oil’s excessive profits and give each of us ordinary Americans $1,000.
Earl, sweetie, honey, babes..you actually believe that crap?
Just how is he going to “take” the excess profits? And what do you define as “excess”. Are you aware that oil company profit margins are around 7-8% or so? Consider this commentary from CNN, one of your trusted leftist outlets (i.e., not Fox):
So, Mr Messiah will ascend to his throne, decree that all oil companies will have money “taken from them” so he can engage in a governmental giveaway so poor, downtrodden Earl and all of the proletariat can get their $1,000 stipend.
The the evil oil-barons will meet in their secret star chamber room at Yale (they’re all members of the Skulls and Bones, of course, like the Bushes, don’t you know) and they will decree that they have to collude to raise prices yet again since they aren’t quite making their obscene 8% anymore.
So, you get in your car to drive down to the post office box where you expect to pick up your $1,000 from old B-uh-Rack Uh-Bama only to find that gas has gone up to $10 per gallon.
So your Messiah sees that the evil oil people have outflanked him and he decrees that Earl and the proles (catchy name for a rock group, don’t you think?) are now due $2,000..
..and the whole thing keeps going until the evil oil people decide to get out of the business to run Dairy Queens in Wichita (higher profit margins) or put their money in CDs at WAMU (higher return on their investment) and the only people left to sell you gas is some foreign company who gets theirs from the Saudis, Iran, or puss-bag-face in Venezuela.
Like Animal Mother said in Full Metal Jacket: “Flush out your head gear, new guy!”
Spook, the real challenge will be to try and represent the true intellects here, Sunny and bagni. Sunny has supported Bambi from day one because he has such an engaging smile, he’s for change, and did I mention he’s black? And She just loved John Edwards hair,but Bambi is the One.
Just the facts Neocon. I began my professional career as the chief of staff to a local politician. I got out because politics is phony (although my boss was not). He was a Republican.
I have only worked as a foot soldier in Republican campaigns. I have donated to both parties but in number and volume I have given Republicans more.
I think the California Democratic party is a disgrace and I don’t support Democrats here. The one exception was a Democratic assembly campaign (not in my district by the way) whose opponent made the entire campaign a slime job against her. It was so bad the Republican nominee never even mentioned his own name in his ads. I wrote her a big check.
I am socially a libertarian and fiscally a conservative. On the latter, Bill Clinton was head and shoulders above Bush. That’s the only good thing I have to say about anybody named Clinton. They have no deep personal commitment other than to themselves and their careers.
I loved the 2000 version of John McCain, but I don’t know who this new guy is. I won’t vote for him because he has thrown away his chances to have a somewhat unified country behind him if he win. Those are the wages of slime. I am probably going to donate fairly heavily this time around and it will likely be to a 527 willing to fight the Rove machine on its own terms.
I agree with you that JFK would hate this Democratic party, but no more than Eisenhower would hate today’s Republican party. They both suck, and you are too blind to admit it.
And finally, I think you are seething because you are. Why else insult people you dpon’t even know?
Thrower,
I have often lambasted the republicans for many things, so pay attention.
Rove is not a player in the current mcCain campaign but your obsession with him is noted. And I only insult the mindless, primarily because that is the main problem this country faces today. Too many stupid people.
A unified country is not a healthy country. N. Korea is unified, so let’s drop the histrionics about unifying this country. What’s needed is more educated dissent and sadly, your party offers none of that.
We agree to disagree, but anyone who can, with a straight face, vote for Obama is missing some gray matter.
throwup
nice try,
the kennedys were and still are womanizers , criminals, liars, and shameless vote stealing rats,
JFK would love this party because his father, brothers, and himself helped create it.
>>>Democrats: The Missing Years
By Jeffrey Lord
Published 8/12/2008 12:08:03 AM
Missing: 52 years of history.
Ignored: The other 113 years that take the Democrats from their birth in 1800 to 1965.
As Democrats prepare to nominate Senator Barack Obama to be the first black president, the Democratic National Committee and its chairman Howard Dean have whitewashed the party’s horrific and lengthy record of racism. The omission is in the section of the DNC website that describes the party’s history. The missing history raises the obvious question of whether the Democrats, unable or simply unwilling to put their party on record as taking direct responsibility for one of the worst racial crimes of the ages, will be able to run a campaign free of the racial animosities it has regularly brought both to American presidential campaigns and American political and social life in general.
What else to make of the official party history as presented by the DNC on its website? It is a history so sanitized of historical reality it makes Stalin look like historian David McCullough.
The DNC website section labeled “Party History,” linked here, is in fact scrubbed clean of the not-so-little dirty secret that fueled Democrats’ political successes for over a century and a half and made American life a hell on earth for black Americans. Literally, the DNC official history, which begins with the creation of the party in 1800, gets to the creation of the DNC itself in 1848 and then…poof!…the next sentence says: “As the 19th Century came to a close, the American electorate changed more and more rapidly.” It quickly heads into a riff on poor immigrants coming to America.
In a stroke, 52 years of Democrat history vanishes. Disappeared faster than the truth in the Clinton administration. Why would this be? Allow me to sketch in a few facts from those missing 52 years. For that matter, lets add in the facts from the party history before and after those 52 years, since they aren’t mentioned by the Democrats’ National Committee either.
So what’s missing?
* There is no reference to the number of Democratic Party platforms supporting slavery. There were 6 from 1840-1860.
* There is no reference to the number of Democratic presidents who owned slaves. There were 7 from 1800-1861
* There is no reference to the number of Democratic Party platforms that either supported segregation outright or were silent on the subject. There were 20, from 1868-1948.
* There is no reference to “Jim Crow” as in “Jim Crow laws,” nor is there reference to the role Democrats played in creating them. These were the post-Civil War laws passed enthusiastically by Democrats in that pesky 52-year part of the DNC’s missing years. These laws segregated public schools, public transportation, restaurants, rest rooms and public places in general (everything from water coolers to beaches). The reason Civil Rights heroine Rosa Parks became famous is that she sat in the front of a “whites only” bus, the “whites only” designation the direct result of Democrats.
>>>
The Ayers controversy has this missed point.
Knowing the background of Ayers, why did Obama establish any sort of political relationship as well as others. The point is not Obama may hate America as much as Ayers, BUT knowing his radical background why associate with this scum in any sort of way.
It all boils down to judgement – Obama has poor judgement. The Ayers and Wright associations prove that he has very POOR judgement – this alone disqualifies him as a viable candidate for President.
Evidence has come out that his relationship is just more than “Some guy who lives in my neighborhood” and “some guy who is at my university”.
Poor judgement deserves to be scrutinized.
Neo;
here are some interesting facts;
http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/oped/owens/02/racism.html
http://members.tripod.com/gopcapitalist/democratrecord.html
http://www.nodnc.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=401
http://stoprepublicans.blogspot.com/2006/05/racist-history-of-democratic-party.html
I believe it was Winston Churchill who observed that once it was united behind a cause, there was no greater force in the world than the United States of America. That observation was made more than 60 years ago when in relative terms, the U.S. was much less influential than it is today.
The current version of the U.S. is one in which partisans hate each other, a president like Bush can accomplish squat nothing in his second term, China is growing exponentially in economic might and influence as we grow weaker, and we are shipping our wealth to the countries that hate us the most because we have energy interests running the country.
Rove continues have influence over Republican politics, and McCain is using his playbook. And neither party offers anything more than a slate of egomaniacs who, once elected, consolidate their own power and direct wealth to those who buy access to them through big campaign checks.
And finally, your claim that only people of low intellect support Obama over a 72-year old whose platform will be derived from the architects of this mess is silly. Many quite brilliant people are appalled by the state of our nation and its politics.
danish;
>>>It all boils down to judgement – Obama has poor judgement. The Ayers and Wright associations prove that he has very POOR judgement – this alone disqualifies him as a viable candidate for President.>>
I humbly disagree;
poor judgement is doing ONE thing wrong and having to pay for it.
a history of a long term association with marxist-terrorists, racist cults, and being an insider of the most corrupt political machine is not bad-judgement.
It is a clear concise association among peers.
He should be on trial for treason, not bad judgement.
This is how far we’ve fallen in two generations, I believe we do not have much time left.
throwup;
>>>Many quite brilliant people are appalled by the state of our nation and its politics.>>>
then get the F out, go live in some libertarian kook paradise.
Better yet vote for oBOMBa, and see our ruination happen before your very eyes.
I see I am the recipient of a cut and paste broadside from the demented marine. Don’t use me as a vehicle to attack the Democratic party. I think as little of it as you do. It is the party of slavery, poll taxes and corrupt political machines.
Now excuse me while I go to the Republican website and read about McCarthyism, the “Southern Strategy” and political enemies lists. And by the way, I’ll live wherever the hell I want.
Sunny 59,
Get it right Sunnygirl! Please address your remarks to the correct party…
at least…geez!
throwup
>>>read about McCarthyism,>>>
YES DO read about it.
Than read about his “RABID” “RADICAL” associate
no other than Robert F. KENNEDY…….funny how his name is (ahem) never mentioned…only the “horrible” McCarthy.
sure go live in watts, a real democrat paradise.
Thrower,
China doesn’t even represent 25% of our economy so to lable them any different is being dishonest. Secondly, if the Democrats would let us drill and tap into domestic reserves, now or in the past, we could stop the transfer of wealth. It’s your insane policies that are allowing that to happen.
Many brilliant people mean nothing. We need educated, pragmatic people that aren’t looking for handouts, compassion or to be liked. Your party has become a party of wimps and selfish, lazy sycophants.
Quit complaining and do something productive. In other words, grow a pair.
neo
By Eric V. Moye
Robert F. Kennedy was a compelling figure,
His life was paradoxical. He was hated by some, being a staffer for, Joseph McCarthy, and so-called liberals would not let his work for McCarthy be forgotten. “Ruthless” was the adjective given early on,
Let’s put Obama’s life into perspective..shall we:
1- There’s no way any rational person will ignore his association with Rev Wright or Ayers…unless they hate America of course.
2- Obama’s wife is one of the phoniest people of all time. She offers conciliatory references about their cinderella lives that placate their negative perception.
3- Even James Carville (aka Yoda) feels their message lacks cohesion due to a lack of legitimacy.
4- Go check out Obama’s tax proposal on his site and try to read it in a non-biased way and you’ll see that he’s truly invested in socialism.
In essence, they’re both living a lie and trying (and partially succeeding) at convincing a large percentage of liberal lemmings. Why, cause they ain’t got nuttin else…period…lol!!
neo
>>>we could stop the transfer of wealth.>>>
Neo
dont be trapped by the marxist rants.
It is NOT a transfer of wealth;
It is payment for a commodity,
just like you buying a refrigerator…..You did not transfer your familys wealth to EEEEVVVILLLLL GE, you bought a commodity.
Oil fuels our lives, our nation, and our military.
This is purchased by us and allows our industry flourish, and be the most robust on the face of the earth and history.
We just need to produce this ourselves and not let the bad guys have a monopoly on this precious commodity.
All of this boils down to the fact at 71 years old McCain is too old to be President and would have trouble waking up for any 3:00 AM call. By Reagan was 69 when elected and by the end of his second term Nancy was calling the shots.
Power is not easy to give up, but the torch needs to be passed to a new generation of Americans. America needs a sense of urgency and energy. This energy is not going to come from a 71 year old.
Frmer,
Anyway you slice it, over $700 billion is going to foreign sources every year because of our dependence on their oil. I’d rather keep that money here at home.
fantasy,
Those are good qualities to look for in a motivational speaker, not a President.
Grow up.
Neo,
Again, isn’t it odd how the left cherry-picks issues such as age, education etc., and when confronted with the likes of The Swimmer, Byrd or even Biden, they look the other way?
We conservatives are not ashamed to stand up and say our candidate is not to our liking, and we object to their positions, but the lib kooks such as Fantasyteam claim to have the intellectual edge, which of course, is just that…a fantasy.
We conservatives are not ashamed to stand up and say our candidate is not to our liking 80. navydad | August 26th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Your not a conservative. Because a true con even though they are wrong never put their convictions on the shelf? Your a CINO. If the old white hair dude is not your cup of tea why not put a Barr poster on your lawn?
Fantasyteam
I hope this isn’t Spook again…LOL!!
You are one lost lemming soul that cannot think for yourself.
I hope this isn’t Spook again…LOL!!
No, it’s not. I’m still cleaning the icky stuff out of my keyboard.
Has anyone seen the trolls here condemning George Soros or moveon.org who has been doing much worse than any Republican supporter. For years. But the first thing out of the box by Republicans, even though completely factual, they start crying and demanding the justice departmant prosecute! Also they still whine and cry about Francois being “swiftboated” even though he has promised for years to release his complete military record, has not, and will not. Morons, why is that?
Deleted – false flag.
Navydad, eh, I mean Spook, is that you again [#85]? Former Republican that just discovered this blog, registered un-affiliated.
Hey Former, what about the one that the Republican legislators are responsible for the shortage of fuel! You know, the Republicans that want to drill, drill, and drill now, are causing a diminished supply and the blowhards that refuse to drill anywhere, anytime are the victims.
Integrity you can believe in.
Rascisim was mentioned in an earlier post…..the last party to nominate a segragationist was….THE DEMS….in 1956 when Adali Stevenson gave Kevhafer the VP slot….another Illinois “intellectual” that sold out after the primaries…..Sound familiar?
WhatChange, I’m not familiar with the one about the Republican legislators being responsible for the shortage of fuel. But I’m not talking about one side arguing that the other is to blame. I’m talking about emails that claim to state the facts but are in actually completely and deliberately false. The latest that I received is this one:
http://tinyurl.com/5m8ya4
I know we think Obama is quick to cry “smear” when he is criticized, but an email like the one I describe qualifies.
What is ironic is that I typically get this emails from my church friends. I expect better from my church and its members, and I tell them so.
What Bill Ayres (Terrorist) Sees In Obama
Ever ask yourself why Obama has any relationship at all with US Grown terrorist and 60’s radical Bill Ayres? The guy admits to bombing and planning to bomb government targets in the70’s and yet he sponsored one of Obamas earliest State Senate fundraisers in his own home, worked with him on several boards and has a friendly relationship with Obama?
Now ask yourself the more important question, what does Bill Ayers, the radical, terrorist bomber, see in Obama that he likes so much he wants him in government?
Bill Ayres – In case anyone forgets in 1969 Bill participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket Riot. The blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby Kennedy Expressway. The following year he “went underground” with several associates after the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, which caused the death of three of his terrorist cell members while a nail bomb was under construction. In Ayers’ words, decades after the fact, the bomb was “destined for the army base nearby,” Fort Dix in New Jersey. The massive bomb contained a box of carpenter nails, and though Ayers does not say it or admit it, it almost surely was intended to kill many people. This same man has 1) held a fundraiser at Obamas home to help launch Obamas State Senate campaign in 1995, 2) the two men have sat on the board of a private foundation in Chicago, the Woods Fund, for years, giving grants to, among others, a radical Palestinian activist named Rashid Khalidi, 3) Barack also was essentially an employee of Bill Ayers for eight years. He selected Barack as a director for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Obama served on the board for 8 years and Ayeres was intimately involved over the same period. 4) Michelle Obama worked with Bill’s wife at Sidley Austin law firm in Chicago in 1988.
[...] win on the merits, file a lawsuit,??? said a spokesman for the American Issues Project, Chrishttp://blogsforvictory.com/2008/08/26/obama-fears-the-ayers-connection/Women’s Equality DayEight-eight years ago tomorrow, on August 26, the United States ratified the [...]