Speaking of methinks doth protesteth too mucheth…
By Johnny Roosh
Unless the national polls are off by a mile, and I think they may prove to be in the long run (that’s a topic for later), Obammy has been the benefactor of an apparent Teflon coating.
Despite a long, long, long (long) series of hateful, unsavory, embarrassing, un-American, undeniable and inexcusable associations, and a storied history of political debauchery, Obama has somehow avoided the fate a more discerning electorate would deliver him. John Edwards dips his pen in the company ink and he’s not invited to the big show. Obama hangs with terrorists and mobsters and anti-American hatemongers and he’s neck and neck with John McCain.
Another day, another controversy but this time Obama’s posse is pleading with the feds to come to his aid. Dude, chill. What’s the big deal Obammy? What are you afraid of?
Why don’t you want us to see this video?
…and what don’t we know about Obama’s past and more importantly, his true ambitions?
Sen. Barack Obama is warning TV stations and asking the Justice Department to intervene in an attempt to block the airing of an ad by a non-profit group that links him to an unrepentant domestic terrorist.
The spot by the American Issues Project questions Obama’s ties to William Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground organization who boasted of a series of bomb attacks at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago.
Now everyone is going to go find that ad, and even if Oback Barama is successful in getting stations to pull the (quite relevant) ad off the air, a great many voters will find it on the web any way.
Obama campaign lawyer Robert Bauer wrote to station managers, the AP said, warning: “Your station is committed to operating in the public interest, an objective that cannot be satisfied by accepting for compensation material of such malicious falsity.”
Well there you have it. It can’t be true. Obama’s lawyer says so.
Documents released Tuesday by the University of Illinois at Chicago shed some light on Barack Obama’s relationship with William Ayers, a founding member of the 1960s and 1970s radical group the Weather Underground.
Obama’s association with Ayers, who now teaches at the university, has become an issue in the Illinois senator’s presidential campaign. The Weather Underground took credit for several nonfatal (does that mean it’s okay?-JR) bombings on targets that included the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, and critics accuse Obama of rubbing elbows with an unabashed 1960s radical.
Obama has said that, although he knew Ayers as a professor involved in community outreach efforts in Chicago, he doesn’t share Ayers’ extreme views.
To be fair, putting Obama and Ayers in the same room and on the same agenda doesn’t implicate Obama in a meaningful way in and of itself. However, when you couple this association with a myriad of related events and associations including the Reverend Wright debacle (I went to the church for twenty years but don’t share his views), the Tony Rezko controversy, Michelle’s early and telling slip ups, and Obama’s questionable (let’s call it heritage), what should be troubling for all Americans is the pattern that is emerging.
How the hell does an operative of this ilk get this far in our electoral process?
Americans have succumbed to such low expectations so as to expect politicians to be slippery; to be beholden to lobbyists; to be evasive, and have affairs. What they aren’t prepared for is a President that harbors extreme radical beliefs coupled with a career not marked by accomplishment but rather unabashedly for political gain; a would-be Manchurian Candidate.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
The media has really dropped the ball here. Rezko alone should be worth an hour or two of prime-time investigative journalism. The closer you look at Obama, the more you see a Chicago machine politician.
Four years ago Dan Rather & CBS spent an awful lot of time & money trying to show that Bush had missed some reserve meetings back in the 70’s. These days all the reporters want to talk about is where Obama’s kids get their hair styled.
August 27th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
You boys do not want to go into this. The Ayers connection to Obama is pretty remote, but if Pappy Hensley’s history starts getting dredged up,..
August 28th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Obama had a close working relationship with an unrepentant domestic terrorist.
McCain’s father in law was convicted of selling bootleg booze in the late 1940’s.
I hope that every Lefty uses this juxtaposition when Ayer’s name is brought up with Obama’s.
August 28th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Ayers is a malevolent forerunner of Timothy McVeigh who simply didn’t know how to make a “big enough” bomb. Hopefully sooner rather than later the voters will start to understand how dangerous his association makes “The One”
August 28th, 2008 at 8:19 am
charlieq:
Are you saying that if us “boys” don’t go “into this”, then “our” political opponents with politely disregard any wrongdoing or connection John McCain has to his father-in-law? Can I have a pony with that? It’s just a little bit unbelievable.
August 28th, 2008 at 8:55 am
How many people care about bootleggers in someone’s inlaws?
How many people care about someone who associates with unrepentant terrorists advocating death and revolution?
Sorry, charlie, but there’s a degree of separation and several degrees of personal responsibility difference between the two cases. McCain can’t control what his father-in-law did. Obama can control what he does and did.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:04 am
My great uncle was a bootlegger. He was a German-American who liked an occasional drink. Does that put him on par with the Birmingham church bombers and other domestic terrorists?
I think Barry voting against the law that required babies who survived botched abortion to receive medical attention…that alone should gave normal Americans reason to rethink BHO.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:29 am
I am pretty sure my Great Grandpappy ran liquor in the day and Mitch nominated me Vice Blogger so it must be okay.
I agree that there is a clear difference between helping people get blasted by choice and helping them get blasted to bits without their consent.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Hey, what a great club! My great-grandfather was involved in running liquor during Prohibition, too. This is turning into a boozy “I Am Spartacus” thread.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Quimby… lol, you’re killin’ me.
Family lore has said (for as long as I can remember) that my Italian grandfather and his brother made a million cooking up illegal booze in the Old East Side… and that my grandmother gave it all away to the church and charities.
I don’t know if you realize this, sonny, but Kennedy got elected in the 1960s. You might want to look up old Joe’s hobby.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Ooooh, I so don’t want to go “there”.
lol!!!
August 28th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Hey, if bootleggers are such vile creatures that having one as an in-law is critically damaging politically, where does the Kennedy clan stand in Charlie’s world?!
August 28th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Mitch nominated me Vice Blogger so it must be okay.
Ok, we’ve got booze covered, courtesy of Charlie. Where is the page 3 and/or beach bimbo issue covered? Where is the coverage of smokes? Dude, we want our vice!
August 28th, 2008 at 11:37 am
So where did charlieq go? It’s the quality of these trolls that make one miss angryclown. But still not that peevish guy. He can stay missing.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
It’s the quality of these trolls that make one miss angryclown.
I guess you’d be the one then.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
It’s the quality of these trolls that make one miss angryclown.
We haven’t had the witty comeback accusing “wingnuts” of homophobia, nor “jokes” about “wide stances.” I’ll take charlie’s “quality” anyday over the clown’s rush to the bottom of the joke barrel, especially since the joke is always the same with him. At least charlie floats a new target each time he pops up.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
As they say in The Village, it is “six of one, half a dozen of the other”.