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2008-08-26 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-26 14:20|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 http://www.americanissuesproject.org/

The irony is pretty thick - they point out that they are using the same laws and corporate forms that Pro-Abortion NARAL has used for decades to put forth political speech that opposes and criticises GOP candidates.

If the DOJ goes after this, then it will have to go after Union, Sierra Club, and others who run such ads on the other side of things.

I guess the Obama people really do believe that it is OK for the laws to protect their side but not OK for people opposing them to be protected in the same manner.

Amazing amount of hubris on the Obama team.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-26 14:44|| 2008-08-26 14:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Barack Obamas relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the turbulent 1960s, turning fugitive when a bomb designed to kill army officers in New Jersey accidentally exploded in a New York townhouse. Prior to that, Ayers and his cohorts succeeded in bombing the Pentagon. Ayers and Dohrn remain unrepentant for their terrorist past. Ayers was pictured in a 2001 article for Chicago magazine, stomping on an American flag, and told the New York Times just before 9/11 that the notion of the United States as a just and fair and decent place makes me want to puke. Although Obama actually launched his political career at an event at Ayerss and Dohrns home, Obama has dismissed Ayers as just a guy who lives in my neighborhood, and not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. For his part, Ayers refuses to discuss his relationship with Obama. Although the press has been notably lax about pursuing the matter, the full story of the Obama-Ayers relationship calls the truth of Obamas account seriously into question.

Link: Stanley Kurtz researches Ayers-Obama

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-26 14:47|| 2008-08-26 14:47|| Front Page Top

#3 It's being quite well received on YouTube.

You would think that the "hip" crowd running Obama's campaign would realize that every time they bitch about it, about 1,000 more people check the ad out online. (But then again, this is the same crowd that thought it was a good idea to text everyone at 3 am on Saturday, a time reserved for either drunk dialing old lovers or getting notification that a family member is dying.)

Posted by Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-08-26 15:03|| 2008-08-26 15:03|| Front Page Top

#4 The hubris and incompetence of the Obama group is staggering.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-08-26 15:22|| 2008-08-26 15:22|| Front Page Top

#5 The Obama brain trust is slipping down a slipperey slope faster than they can say "Slippery Sloooopppppe!"

Can anyone point out one relatively normal , main street associate of Obama. And the fact that Barry hadn't yet even tooted a little blow on the beach when Ayers was blowing stuff up is a moot point.

Posted by Capsu78 2008-08-26 16:16|| 2008-08-26 16:16|| Front Page Top

#6 They are now asking the DoJ to file charges agaisnt the guy that funded the 527 in question, trying to silence a millionaire who dared to spend money to speak against Obama.

They are teetering on totalitarianistic tactics, abusing law and process to silence dissent.

Folks, Obama becomes presidnt and continues this sort of abuse, he will spark a second civil war.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-26 17:08|| 2008-08-26 17:08|| Front Page Top

#7 They are teetering on totalitarianistic tactics, abusing law and process to silence dissent.

Teetering? I'd say they're in it up to their eyeballs and, with respect to the American left, have been for years.

Posted by AzCat 2008-08-26 17:40|| 2008-08-26 17:40|| Front Page Top

#8 The Obamessiah will lose it in the debates. They think McCain has a temper he can't control. But this is only one more indication that The Obamessiah is the one whose arrogance and self-importance are so great that he cannot tolerate any questioning of his wisdom, intelligence, judgment, etc., etc. and at some point in the debates he will lose it and the election.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-26 17:55|| 2008-08-26 17:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Nimble: Could not agree more. Win or Lose...I suspect McCain and his staff are eating this stuff up and having an absolute grand time. 'The One' and his democratic presidential campaign are doing a superb job of unveiling their socialist, communists roots to the American people. I'd love to hear some of the backroom team McCain bantor.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-26 18:52|| 2008-08-26 18:52|| Front Page Top

#10 I think Obama is going to get hammered in the debates. He prefers a nuanced answer. McCain usually gives a straight forward answer. The public does not react well to the former, but does react very well to the latter. Obama will look weak, waffling and wimpy.

Posted by remoteman 2008-08-26 18:58|| 2008-08-26 18:58|| Front Page Top

#11 The public does not react well to the former, but does react very well to the latter. Obama will look weak, waffling and wimpy

Due mainly to the simple fact the bugger is... 'weak, waffling and wimpy.' I thought his family and HRH Michelle were OFF LIMITS! Marched the lot out last night for a handy tribute to The One. Whatever happened to OFF LIMITS?

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-26 19:06|| 2008-08-26 19:06|| Front Page Top

#12 It's only off limits if one says something negative about the poor, shrinking violets, Besoeker.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-08-26 19:15|| 2008-08-26 19:15|| Front Page Top

#13 His wife always came off before as bitchy and a whiner before. The watered down Huxtable version last night did not do anything to dismiss the view I had of her previously.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-08-26 19:42|| 2008-08-26 19:42|| Front Page Top

#14 The strength of a persons character can be judged by how well they stand by their mates,
The growing bulge under the bus would suggest that Obama has no character at all. Maybe he can make an exception this time by putting his hand in pocket and helping out an old mate.

Posted by tipper 2008-08-26 20:07|| 2008-08-26 20:07|| Front Page Top

#15 According to Gallop, the Biden Bounce didn't.

Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5*** 2008-08-26 20:12|| 2008-08-26 20:12|| Front Page Top

#16 It's only off limits if one says something negative about the poor, shrinking violets

It's a well-known fact that the most sensitive and vulnerable of whom are Harvard Law School grads.

Posted by lotp 2008-08-26 20:22|| 2008-08-26 20:22|| Front Page Top

#17 Barack Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away
It's ironic that these two Trotskyists got a gig with the Annenberg Foundation.
Citizen Annenberg
So long, you rotten bastard.

Posted by tipper 2008-08-26 20:52|| 2008-08-26 20:52|| Front Page Top

#18 Has The One said anything about drilling for oil yet? Didn't think so.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-26 20:55|| 2008-08-26 20:55|| Front Page Top

#19 Me thinks He doth protest too much.

Posted by Slains Scourge of the Nebraskans5448 2008-08-26 21:19|| 2008-08-26 21:19|| Front Page Top

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