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Obama's Radical Friend
Folks, meet William Ayers. This is a picture of William Ayers stepping on the American flag in a deliberate display of disrespect to the flag and the nation for which it stands.
In the seventies, William Ayers was a terrorist who tried to bomb and kill people. He never served a day in prison, and now has a cushy job as a college professor.
Why is this important? Because when Obama was looking to start his political career, Ayers was a close friend, donated money hosted a meeting that launched Obama's start in Illinois politics. Needless to say, Obama thought nothing of Ayers radical past, or anti-American leanings that continued on into the future.
Millions of Americans are disgusted by Ayers and others of his ilk, and while they can't do anything about Ayers non prosecution or his cushy job, they can punish Obama for associating with him. In other words, William Ayers is an electability problem. He can be pointed to while it is said, "These are Obama's friends, this is who he associates with."
So far Obama, by his statements, indicates that he doesn't understand what the big deal is. Which is even worse, in a way, indicating a naievete about the broad mainstream of American opinion toward the radical elements of the counter culture. And we wonder why he can't get the support of the bitter clingers? More at Michelle Malkin, among others.
Recent Comments
(Page 2 of 4)Southernhoosiers4hillary1:00AMMay 6th 2008
It is just amazing to me that Americans would vote for a man that calls a known terrorist his friend. What does that say?
jerry p1:44AMMay 6th 2008
Obama has connections with HAMAS,he also is connected to a Islamic terrosist organization that donated money to Obamas campaign. This all sounds scary to me What is wrong with all you black and white people that voted for O Bama. It sounds as if you also hate America.Go Hillary the real Christain-American
VictoryZone2:27AMMay 6th 2008
The extreme left wing Democrats Dean, Pelosi, Kennedy, Kerry, Richardson, will never GET to the White House, no matter how much they try - not even through pushing the racist bigot muslim Obama.
WE THE PEOPLE VOTE AND VOTE WE WILL FOR HILLARY. But NEVER for OBAMA.
Message to the DNC: Its not the voters fault
that the Republican legislature decided to change the dates and mess with democratic voters. The voters voted overwhelmingly for Hillary, and they can not be disenfranchised. If the DNC cuts them out, they will hit back in November.
Count the votes !!!
Eakarach2:42AMMay 6th 2008
My choice: Did you know that Hillary is a senator from NY, for 9 yrs now?
Eakarach2:45AMMay 6th 2008
People,Hussein Obama is a fucking anti-white,anti-america,racist,liar,fraud,crook and a scumbag just like his pastor Wright was.
JOHN6:35AMMay 6th 2008
Trinity United Church of Christ
Obama mentioned his church during his appearance with Oprah. It's the 'Trinity United Church of Christ'.
It is very alarming. Barack Obama is a member of this church and is running for President of the U.S. If you look at the first page of their Web site, you will learn that this congregation has a non-negotiable commitment to Africa. No where is America even mentioned. Notice too, what color you will need to be if you should want to join Obama's church? Does this surprise anyone?
Doesn't look like his choice of religion has improved much over his Muslim upbringing. This guy wants to rule America while his loyalty is totally vested in a black Africa !
I cannot believe this has not been all over the TV and newspapers. This is why it is so important to pass this message along to all our family and friends. To think that Obama has even the slightest chance in the run for the presidency is really scary.
Go Hillary7:08AMMay 6th 2008
Indiana and North Carolina please vote like Oklahoma and vote for Hillary. She will make a "GOOD" difference for America. We need her badly. I'm scared of what Obama and McCain will do to us. We are counting on you. I know that if most of the states that have already voted and went to Obama could go back they would now vote for Hillary. They did not know him then. As time goes by, we will see the true Obama come out and we will not like what we see. This has nothing to do with race, this has to do with what a person is inside. He is not a nice person and is a reverse racist. Whites have tried so hard to make up for what their ancestors did. We can't help what happened way back when. I have raised my son to not be a racist, but this is a 2-way street they have to be willing to go forward to. So,PLEASE INDIANA ANS NORTH CAROLINA DON'T VOTE FOR HIM, VOTE FOR THE BEST PERSON AND GIVE HILLARY A CHANCE TO HELP US ALL.
RawleyCoop7:21AMMay 6th 2008
David, I'm really tired of this guilt by association stuff. It really makes no logical sense, and since Senator Obama and Senator Clinton are mostly tied in the polls and race, it doesn't make any sense to most Americans.
All three candidates work in the Senate, they work with Senators of the opposite party and with Senators of some pretty opposite views than them. But hopefully they understand that you can work with people or even be friends with people who you strongly disagree with.
We have had 7 years of a President who can't work with anyone who disagrees with him, that was a disaster. The ability to work with everyone is a very important quality in my mind (and both Senator McCain and Senator Obama seem to have that quality).
Senator Obama's connection with Ayers is very vague, they were barely friends. You had to search really hard to find any connection at all. Mostly they did Charity work together. None of it indicates in the slightest anything about Obama's opinions on anything.
The Reverend Wright connection I almost see, but even that is pushing it. There are a lot of people who disagree with the views of their pastor; does that mean none of those people should ever run for office?
The bottom line is: why aren't you writing about what you dislike or like about Senator Obama himself? Why aren't you writing about the issues and his leadership abilities? Why must this campaign be a long laundry list about every big corporation or individual a candidates worked for as a lawyer, or every person the candidate’s husband pardoned, or every person who said they liked the candidate’s views, or every person the candidate ever met or had dinner with or worked with to get a job done?
Sorry for the tirade, but this guilt by association stuff has getting way beyond silly now.
Wake up America!7:21AMMay 6th 2008
Zogby Fixing the Polls?
Every time we think we are done writing about Barack
Obama and his questionable supporters and friends,
someone else with questionable views emerges.
Introducing the Zogby family - James, John, and Joseph.
James (Jim) Zogby is founder of the Arab American
Institute and also writes for Huffington Post. He
recently penned an op-ed in the Florida Times Union
entitled Israel Must Treat Americans Fairly, critical
of Israel's treatment of Arab Americans traveling
through Israel. In response, the Times Union published
Israel Must be Treated Fairly which shed some light on
Zogby:
Zogby's Arab American Institute election web page
includes the transcript of a 2007 address to AAI by
Barack Obama, who begins by stating:
«Hello, everyone. Let me begin by congratulating your
president and my good friend, Jim Zogby, for his work
in putting together this conference. It's an honor to
have his support.»
Interesting choice of words from Obama for a man who
supports Hamas and Hizbollah, potentially funded
Palestinian terrorists, founded the propaganda wing of
the PLO, and called on Arab nations to reinvigorate a
boycott of Israel, among other questionable activities.
In «Stopping the Saudis«, Alex Alexiev reported this
about Zogby's organization:«…according to the Arab News
(a Saudi government-controlled newspaper), the World
Assembly of Muslim Youth — which was incorporated in
the U.S. by Osama bin Laden's brother Abdullah bin
Laden — announced last June that it will «take up the
cases» of 13,000 Muslim illegal aliens slated for
deportation, together with the Arab American Institute,
an American non-profit organization (and the recipient
of $300,000 from Saudi prince Alwaleed ibn Talal...»
Even some Shia Muslims in the U.S. reject Zogby's
relationship with WAMY and it appears they've been
outlawed in the U.S. Yet apparently this is not enough
for Obama to denounce his «good friend» Zogby and AAI's
support. Discover the Networks details more disturbing
information on Zogby that can only bring Obama's
judgment further into question.
James Zogby is the brother of John Zogby, President and
Chief Executive Officer of Zogby International. Brother
Jim is also a senior analyst for the company widely
recognized for its Zogby Polls. Did you catch that? The
founder of pro-Palestinian organizations is a senior
analyst at a leading polling organization in the U.S.
Could any of James anti-American, pro-Arab bias be
reflected in his poll results?
Clinton Leads McCain by 9 Points Nationwide, AP Poll
Shows Clinton leads McCain 50 percent to 41 percent
while Obama is ahead 46 percent to 44 percent.
Click here for additional information.
Zogby: McCain Leads Clinton, Trails Obama in National
General Election Match-ups
UTICA, New York - Republican John McCain trails
Democrat Barack Obama by three points in a national
general election test, but leads Democrat Hillary
Clinton by 10 points, the latest Zogby Interactive
survey shows. This is wrong and they are doing this to
mess up the calculations for all the polls.
Davidg8:14AMMay 6th 2008
More on that harmless guy Bill Ayers. Isn't it funny how everything and everyone around Barack Obama is "misunderstood"?
http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0430jm.html
Katherine may have linked to this already...sorry if repeat. Thanks Katherine. It would be wonderful if the truth about Obama could actually get out BEFORE he's actually President!
Leslie8:27AMMay 6th 2008
some of you people are simply amazing. Black people have been and continue to be subjected to some of the most vile, racist people in this country. From the top of the food chain to some of you bottom-feeders posting here. Barack Obama is not Muslim. He is not involved in some secret illuminati-type group to overthrow the United States. His only "crime" to some of you is the fact that he is BLACK. After following some of your posts on here, there are a couple of different reasons out there for this outcry against Obama. Some of you are just down right racist and are having angina at the thought of a BLACK man becoming POTUS. Then there are some of the Jewish contingency who think he will discontinue all the support Israel receives from the United States. I will give credit to those who simply want someone else, other than Obama, which is their right. Some of you want to go back a few years to when Ayers was bombing. He was wrong and should have been punished. Let's, however, go back a few more years and talk about the church that was bombed and the four little black girls who were killed. Or let's talk about Emmitt Till. The list goes on and on. The people who perpretrated those heinous acts were citizens of this country and I'm sure related to some who are still alive today. Should we hunt them down and blame them for those things because they were associated with monsters? Things have not changed in this country the way I thought they had. Silly me with the blinders on. This country is still just as racist and oppressive as it always was. What's upsetting some of you is that Blacks are fighting back.
Katherine8:35AMMay 6th 2008
Davidg: Thank you, I hadn't seen that article.
Fire in the Night
The Weathermen tried to kill my family.
By John M. Murtagh
"...it is fair to hold him responsible for a startling lack of judgment in his choice of mentors, associates, and friends, and for showing a callous disregard for the lives they damaged and the hatred they have demonstrated for this country. It is fair, too, to ask what those choices say about Obama’s own beliefs, his philosophy, and the direction he would take our nation.
At the conclusion of his 2001 Times interview, Ayers said of his upbringing and subsequent radicalization: “I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.”
Funny thing, Bill: one night, so did I."
http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0430jm.html
LeeAnn8:39AMMay 6th 2008
As each day passes by, more and more about OBAMAS past surfaces.
It seems that people jumped onto his bandwagon without knowing a damm thing about him and went to the polls for their respective primaries and gave this "stranger" their vote.
Well folks, all I have to say is God help us if this man gets elected to the White House. If you think Bush was bad (and I did NOT vote for Bush), then I shudder to imagine what will be said about OBAMA.
However, WE CAN STOP THIS, but ONLY if we start contacting the delagtes and Super Delegates and tell them we now realize OBAMA IS NOT the person who should be nominated. Contact the DNC and tell them how you feel. They can forward your e-mails to your State Delegates.
I did NOT vote in my primary for OBAMA. I am very happy and proud to say I VOTED FOR SEN. HILLARY CLINTON.
Although he is trying to "distance" himself from our present President, MC CAIN is nothing more than a Bush puppet or clone. His ONLY reason for distancing himself is the fact that Bushs favorability ratings have gone so low in the crapper that MC CAIN wants to stay clear of him publicly. But don't be fooled by that, they both think very much alike.
Katherine8:59AMMay 6th 2008
--Next, "Malley, an Obama foreign policy advisor, has penned numerous opinion articles, many of them co-written with a former advisor to the late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, petitioning for dialogue with Hamas and blasting Israel for policies he says harm the Palestinian cause": http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59456
Katherine8:59AMMay 6th 2008
Also, on this exact same link above, you will find information stating that on June 22, 2007, there was a Hamas article republished in Trinity Church of Chicago's Sunday bulletin on the "Pastor's Pages." The article was written by Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook. Here is the Hamas article: http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/03/17/tuccs-church-bulletins-from-july-2007-probably-make-whether-obama-was-present-on-July-22-irrelevant/ Here is a news report on other controversial anti-Israel articles republished in the Pastor's Page of Trinity Church of Chicago Sunday bulletin, including articles from the Nation of Islam: Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3hrcCszAac
Katherine8:59AMMay 6th 2008
--Former President Jimmy Carter has not officially endorsed Barack Obama but he has heavily hinted his preference for Barack Obama: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/jimmy-carter-in.html Jimmy Carter decided to travel to the Middle East to speak with leaders of Hamas to promote peace. A closed door meeting between Carter and Hamas leaders occurred. Afterward, "The Hamas delegation in Cairo was headed by Gaza leaders Mahmoud Zahar and Said Siyam. Zayer said that Carter's meetings with its leaders will boost the group’s legitimacy despite criticism by Israel and the U.S. government." Here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/17/world/main4023091.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4023091
Katherine9:00AMMay 6th 2008
--Posted on April 16, 2008, Hamas came out to officially endorse Barack Obama for President. Hamas' top political advisor Ahmed Yousuf "hopes" Obama will win the presidential elections and "change" America's foreign policy and likens Obama to JFK. Chief Obama strategist David Axelrod says the JFK comparison is "flattering." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=61852 Listen to Aaron Klein and John Batchelor radio interview with Ahmed Yousuf: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/04/020315.php
Katherine9:00AMMay 6th 2008
--Also of note, Barack Obama's foreign policy advisor is Jimmy Carter's national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who says: "Obama offers "a new definition of America's role in the world." But the problem for some Jews is this: "Brzezinski, 79, stepped into the crossfire this summer when he published an essay in the summer issue of the journal Foreign Policy, defending a controversial new book about the power of the "Israel Lobby" in American politics.
The book's authors, Harvard's Stephen Walt and the University of Chicago's John Mearsheimer, thanked him for his "incisive defense." But the article inserted him into one of the most heated debates in America-Israel politics, a bitter dispute about whether the authors' claims smacked of bigotry, whether their critics are – as Brzezinski put it — "McCarthyite." http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5783.html
Katherine9:01AMMay 6th 2008
--On April 24, 2008, Jimmy Carter statements were published concerning whether or not Condoleezza Rice told him not to visit with Hamas. Rice says she did warn Carter to not go, but Carter says she and officials of the State Department are lying because there was no warning: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/977465.html
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Katherine12:40AMMay 6th 2008
Ester: GOOD POST. I feel the same.
"Everyone can and should vote for whom they please, but Obama supporters I will always look at you and wonder if you hate me for being white or not.
A lot of people thought Obama would somehow be a huge step toward destroying the racial divide. Unfortunatly it seems to be the opposite. Now I wonder just how hated I am by people I thought were my friends."