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John at Powerline has a must read series on The Friends of Barack Obama. I am giving you the links to both with just a blurb from each. The links are time consuming to get through, but it is time well spent!
The Friends of Barack Obama, Part 1
When Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer decided to retire in 1995, she hand-picked local left-winger Barack Obama as her successor. In order to introduce Obama to influential liberals in the district, she held a function at the home of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. This was, really, the beginning of Obama’s political career, and it linked him forever with Ayers and Dohrn, with whom, as his campaign has acknowledged, he continues to have a friendly relationship.
Ayers and Dohrn were famous radicals, and fugitives from the law, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Dohrn, actually, was the more famous of the two; she was the head, as I recall, of Students for a Democratic Society or one of its factions. Dohrn was crazy. She is the only public figure, to my knowledge, to approve publicly and enthusiastically of the Charles Manson murders.
It only gets better from there..keep reading
The Friends of Barack Obama, Part 2
Obama has defended his relationship with Ayers and Dohrn by saying that Ayers did “reprehensible” things forty years ago, when Obama was eight years old. He says that Ayers and Dohrn are now respectable, mainstream figures in Chicago. But the reality is quite different; they, like Wright, are anything but “mainstream” in their views of America. The audio clips in which Ayers and Dohrn reveal their still-radical views were uncovered by Guy Benson, a recent college graduate who works for radio station WYLL in Chicago. Guy writes to introduce this series of clips
Again, there is tons more, so please keep reading
Let’s not forget:
Other blog reactions:
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Dohrn in 2007: America, “the heart of the monster”
Dan Collins / protein wisdom: Flat Affect — Bernardine Dohrn. Flatter than just-ironed Nebraska.
Michelle Malkin: Barack and Michelle and Bill and Bernardine: The Obama/Weather … Howie /
The Jawa Report: Obama Fundraiser Host : America is “Monster”
Richard Adams / No Left Turns: Tenured Radicals — Several blogs, including Powerline …
Hugh Hewitt / Hugh Hewitt’s TownHall Blog: Powerline Posts The 2007 Ayers-Dohrn Audio
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Obama: Excusing Violence
The Campaign Spot: We Learned a Lot From How Obama Responded to the Ayers Question.
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs: OBAMA’S BROADWAY BABY BOMBERS
Right Voices: Swell:Terrorist Fundraisers For Obama
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Dohrn and Ayers are respected citizens in Chicago? No, they are anti-American vermin. And anyone who thinks they are not is mentally ill or vermin as they are, including that idiot mayor.
Hey North Carolina - Wanna buy a nuclear power plant?
This Presidential election is not about black/white, male/female, Liberal/conservative, Republican/Democrat.
Its about MONEY - Cheney’s NEXT Big Monopoly POWER Energy RIPOFF on behalf of his Corporate Elitist masters.
Austan Goolsbee, Obama’s Economics advisor is, in my Grandpa’s terminology - an educated idiot.
Goolsbee, who must have several degress in economics, says we must be careful to identify the cause of - the rich getting richer and everybody else getting poorer.
Goolsbee says the cause is: dramatically increased returns to skill i.e. college degrees are paying off better and better all the time.
Uh, huh, yeah but that does nothing to explain the rise of the super rich, nor the increasing poverty of everyone else.
The cause is simple: Reagan cut the top tax rate down from the 70%’s to the low 30%’s AND Corporations all over America trotted out the “Two-Tier Wage Structure” - - right after Reagan was elected. i.e. pay everybody at the top a whole lot MORE, pay everybody else a whole lot LESS.
The rich are getting richer, and have been doing so at a faster & faster rate for the past 30 years -because of RADICALLY INCREASED RETURNS to CAPITAL.
Everybody else has been getting poorer and poorer over that same time span because its been CORPORATE POLICY to pay everybody else a whole lot less; (not to mention the fact that - everybody else has been Paying a Lot More Taxes - to make up that portion of the Federal Budget no longer being paid by the wealthy - or not currently being “borrowed” from our children and grandchildren.)
My grandpa was a farmer, son of a share cropper. In his later years he worked for an experimental farm operated by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. The people who ran the farm had degrees in agriculture. My grandpa had a LIFETIME of EXPERIENCE.
When the …educated idiots… wanted to get some plants to actually GROW & prosper IN THE REAL WORLD they had to have my Grandpa SHOW THEM and TELL THEM
HOW to do it.
Condoleeza Rice & the whole gang of “Vulcans”/ …neocons… are educated idiots, along with Zbigniew Berzinski, one of Obama’s “foreign policy” advisors.
All they’ve ever DONE is … write, postulate & publish their latest hare-brained DRIVEL & …Wait … for applause and compliments from the same “‘highly specialized literary” ilk as themselves.
Paying those at the top a Whole LOT MORE has paid off handsomely for the corporations and politicians…because… those at the top - responsible for things like morals, ethics, obeying the law, are ALREADY Paid off to … look the other way … incentivized … to sell their fellow citizens down the river.
Case in point: Howard Fineman of Time magazine, and an MSNBC “News Analyst” … plaintively whining to Chris Matthews on Hardball last week: They shouldn’t be complaining about US - they shouldn’t be blaming US for our coverage … We’re JOURNALISTS — reporters — we just report the facts.
NO. They are highly paid Propaganda Operatives who would make Goebbels (Hitler’s Propaganda Minister) PROUD.
GE, 2nd largest corporation on the planet, Westinghouse, Excelon Corp of Illinois, Entergy w/utilities in the Southern States have been planning since 2005 - When the Cheney Energy Bill was passed - to build 29 new nuclear power plants. (licensing hearing for the first few have already been scheduled).
GE owns MSNBC & NBC. Westinghouse owns CBS. AND they have Billions of Advertising $$$$ to spread around in all other forms of media. Obama & McCain are PRO-Nuclear. Clinton says nuclear can be considered in the future IF they make it CHEAPER and find a way to SAFELY and PERMANENTLY dispose of the nuke waste.
The Mainstream Media (the most blatant offenders being MSNBC & NBC) are busy selling We the People and Democracy in America … down the river.
The media is holding a lid on all the bad news about Obama … until AFTER he gets the nomination. Then, the full force of their Propaganda BARRAGE will be directed AGAINST him, instead of FOR him.
Thereby, leaving nobody but McCain ACTUALLY running for President.
Starting out the campaign season with the consensus of opinion being that a large majority of voters were all in favor of electing Hillary Clinton President w/Any Republican nominees chances of being elected standing at virtually NIL … what was the nasty party of the rich & super rich TO DO?
Same thing they Always do Pinky … Divide & Conquer! (HOW ELSE can a very small minority CONTROL a much larger majority?)
Can YOU think of anything better to DIVIDE the Democratic Party than … to run a black man Against THAT WOMAN?
Contrary to the Media’s BIG LIES:
Obama started the negative campaigning several months ago during the first Philadelphis debate. He began with NAME-CALLING with him & his wife endlessly repeating … disingenuous…Hillary’s disingenuous … while his campaign staff and surrogates went on TV yelling … She’s a Liar, a Liar, a liar.
Next, the Obama campaign pushed those …totally absurd… accusations of “racism” to the press because they were LOSING the South Carolina primary.
The LYING and Propaganda have continued to this day … Obama’s the negative dirty campaigner; the Media turns it around exactly backwards & Blames Hillary.
Neither one can gain enough delegates to get the nomination ON THE BASIS OF DELEGATES, but DELEGATE COUNT, having FAILED to get the job done … the Media Proclaims that it should be the ONLY criteria to get the job done.
First the Obama camp INSISTS on Playing by the RULES
FL & MI delegates DON”T COUNT); but, NOT Playing by the RULES: SuperDelegates are ENTITLED to and CHARGED to: SELECT the BEST, most Electable candidate - that’s the RULES - But NO, don’t do THAT!
Obama claims he has special “talents” for working across the aisles, bringing people together to get good new progressive legislation passed - CHANGE -We can Believe In; as EXEMPLIFIED by 26 wonderful Bills he got passed WHILE in the ILLINOIS legislature.
But … according to a hometown Chicago reporter - all 26 Bills were passed in ONE Year because the Democratic legislative leader …. gave Obama …. all the good legislation OTHER Senators had been WRITING, CRAFTING, and WORKING to get passed …. during the DECADES when the Republicans had majority control. One year to get 26 bills passed would leave…suspiciously little TIME for… working across the aisles, bringing people together, & given a Democratic Majority …. how much NEED to “work across the aisles to get the bills passed actually existed? Obama’s claim appears to be FALSE.
He has little to NO experience or accomplishments that would in any way qualify him to be President of anything -or- give him much more than a CLUE about crafting and passing legislation in the U.S. Congress … absent … a party leader willing to Falsely give him credit for other people’s work.
Things that DON’T ADD UP: The Obama campaign has been bragging to the compliant media parrots since January that he has raised 2X, 3X, and now 5X as much money as the Clinton campaign …. from …. we the little people, but if that’s the case then why hasn’t he been getting 2X, 3X, 5X MORE VOTES in the primaries from all those little people who support him to the extent of giving him money?
If, as Obama keeps repeating - Clinton is the “establishment candidate”, the candidate of corporate controlled America, the candidate financed by Washington Lobbyists Then, WHY is Clinton’s campaign chronically running out of money … WHILE …. the Obama Campaign has been wallowing in Big Piles of CASH since January?
Why is it the Clinton campaign that has been financed the past several months by …. WE the People? How come the Corporate Elites aren’t giving her the cash?
The MSM says her wealthy donors are ‘tapped out’;have already reached the legal limit & so, can’t give her any more CASH.
The FACT is tho, the ruling elite corporate power structure, Lobbyists, and Bundlers, have a practically unlimited capactiy to collect myriads of small donations for campaigns - So, IF the corporate elite “establishment” power structure was behind Clinton, rest assured SHE would be Rolling in the CASH.
WHY does the media keep on allowing Obama to tell the BIG LIE that he does not accept money from LOBBYISTS?
He says - I don’t take money from REGISTERED FEDERAL Lobbyists. True. But, he does take money from STATE Lobbyists and the husbands, wives, law partners, aunts, uncles and cousins of REGISTERED FEDERAL LOBBYISTS.
I found that information, including plenty of details, with very little searching on the internet, so you would think the media could, and would, find it too …you would think that… only IF you had not been watching the media very much this campaign season.
For those millions of us who HAVE been watching - the Outright Propaganda and brainwashing put out all day everyday by the MSM — quickly becomes repetitive, boring, DRIVEL. We stopped watching it and went searching the internet for REAL Information.
The MSM sold you Reagan, Bush 1, and Bush 2-TWICE. The MSM sold you the Iraq War. Are you going to just sit there and let them Sell you Obama/McCain/ 29 nuclear power plants? i.e. the NEXT Big Cheney Energy MONOPOLY RIPOFF just waiting in the wings?
Going to let The Media Sell You, Your Children and Grandchildren Down the River? Democracy down the tubes — again?.
Or, are YOU going to get the WORD Out Write …copy paste… & email to everyone on you email list… write & paste into blogs on the internet, newspapers, magazines, radio & TV stations…nationally and locally.
WE the People are in the same situation as the Russians during the days of Samidzat … when they made Xerox copies & passed them around as the only means available to GET THE WORD OUT about their govt & its govt controlled media —- but, we’ve got a LOT BETTER TECHNOLOGY than they had.
In case you don’t know what’s wrong with building more nuclear power plants - GOOGLE Hanford WA nuclear waste dump, Rocky Flats CO, Barnwell South Carolina nuke waste dump & find out why I would not accept an all expenses paid vacation at the best hotel in Devver; would go around the entire state of Colorado rather than drive thru any part of it;
why I would advise everyone to Completely AVOID setting foot in an entire county in the state of Washington.
Hey North Carolina - Wanna buy a nuclear power plant?
This Presidential election is not about black/white, male/female, Liberal/conservative, Republican/Democrat.
Its about MONEY - Cheney’s NEXT Big Monopoly POWER Energy RIPOFF on behalf of his Corporate Elitist masters.
Austan Goolsbee, Obama’s Economics advisor is, in my Grandpa’s terminology - an educated idiot.
Goolsbee, who must have several degress in economics, says we must be careful to identify the cause of - the rich getting richer and everybody else getting poorer.
Goolsbee says the cause is: dramatically increased returns to skill i.e. college degrees are paying off better and better all the time.
Uh, huh, yeah but that does nothing to explain the rise of the super rich, nor the increasing poverty of everyone else.
The cause is simple: Reagan cut the top tax rate down from the 70%’s to the low 30%’s AND Corporations all over America trotted out the “Two-Tier Wage Structure” - - right after Reagan was elected. i.e. pay everybody at the top a whole lot MORE, pay everybody else a whole lot LESS.
The rich are getting richer, and have been doing so at a faster & faster rate for the past 30 years -because of RADICALLY INCREASED RETURNS to CAPITAL.
Everybody else has been getting poorer and poorer over that same time span because its been CORPORATE POLICY to pay everybody else a whole lot less; (not to mention the fact that - everybody else has been Paying a Lot More Taxes - to make up that portion of the Federal Budget no longer being paid by the wealthy - or not currently being “borrowed” from our children and grandchildren.)
My grandpa was a farmer, son of a share cropper. In his later years he worked for an experimental farm operated by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. The people who ran the farm had degrees in agriculture. My grandpa had a LIFETIME of EXPERIENCE.
When the …educated idiots… wanted to get some plants to actually GROW & prosper IN THE REAL WORLD they had to have my Grandpa SHOW THEM and TELL THEM
HOW to do it.
Condoleeza Rice & the whole gang of “Vulcans”/ …neocons… are educated idiots, along with Zbigniew Berzinski, one of Obama’s “foreign policy” advisors.
All they’ve ever DONE is … write, postulate & publish their latest hare-brained DRIVEL & …Wait … for applause and compliments from the same “‘highly specialized literary” ilk as themselves.
Paying those at the top a Whole LOT MORE has paid off handsomely for the corporations and politicians…because… those at the top - responsible for things like morals, ethics, obeying the law, are ALREADY Paid off to … look the other way … incentivized … to sell their fellow citizens down the river.
Case in point: Howard Fineman of Time magazine, and an MSNBC “News Analyst” … plaintively whining to Chris Matthews on Hardball last week: They shouldn’t be complaining about US - they shouldn’t be blaming US for our coverage … We’re JOURNALISTS — reporters — we just report the facts.
NO. They are highly paid Propaganda Operatives who would make Goebbels (Hitler’s Propaganda Minister) PROUD.
GE, 2nd largest corporation on the planet, Westinghouse, Excelon Corp of Illinois, Entergy w/utilities in the Southern States have been planning since 2005 - When the Cheney Energy Bill was passed - to build 29 new nuclear power plants. (licensing hearing for the first few have already been scheduled).
GE owns MSNBC & NBC. Westinghouse owns CBS. AND they have Billions of Advertising $$$$ to spread around in all other forms of media. Obama & McCain are PRO-Nuclear. Clinton says nuclear can be considered in the future IF they make it CHEAPER and find a way to SAFELY and PERMANENTLY dispose of the nuke waste.
The Mainstream Media (the most blatant offenders being MSNBC & NBC) are busy selling We the People and Democracy in America … down the river.
The media is holding a lid on all the bad news about Obama … until AFTER he gets the nomination. Then, the full force of their Propaganda BARRAGE will be directed AGAINST him, instead of FOR him.
Thereby, leaving nobody but McCain ACTUALLY running for President.
Starting out the campaign season with the consensus of opinion being that a large majority of voters were all in favor of electing Hillary Clinton President w/Any Republican nominees chances of being elected standing at virtually NIL … what was the nasty party of the rich & super rich TO DO?
Same thing they Always do Pinky … Divide & Conquer! (HOW ELSE can a very small minority CONTROL a much larger majority?)
Can YOU think of anything better to DIVIDE the Democratic Party than … to run a black man Against THAT WOMAN?
Contrary to the Media’s BIG LIES:
Obama started the negative campaigning several months ago during the first Philadelphis debate. He began with NAME-CALLING with him & his wife endlessly repeating … disingenuous…Hillary’s disingenuous … while his campaign staff and surrogates went on TV yelling … She’s a Liar, a Liar, a liar.
Next, the Obama campaign pushed those …totally absurd… accusations of “racism” to the press because they were LOSING the South Carolina primary.
The LYING and Propaganda have continued to this day … Obama’s the negative dirty campaigner; the Media turns it around exactly backwards & Blames Hillary.
Neither one can gain enough delegates to get the nomination ON THE BASIS OF DELEGATES, but DELEGATE COUNT, having FAILED to get the job done … the Media Proclaims that it should be the ONLY criteria to get the job done.
First the Obama camp INSISTS on Playing by the RULES
FL & MI delegates DON”T COUNT); but, NOT Playing by the RULES: SuperDelegates are ENTITLED to and CHARGED to: SELECT the BEST, most Electable candidate - that’s the RULES - But NO, don’t do THAT!
Obama claims he has special “talents” for working across the aisles, bringing people together to get good new progressive legislation passed - CHANGE -We can Believe In; as EXEMPLIFIED by 26 wonderful Bills he got passed WHILE in the ILLINOIS legislature.
But … according to a hometown Chicago reporter - all 26 Bills were passed in ONE Year because the Democratic legislative leader …. gave Obama …. all the good legislation OTHER Senators had been WRITING, CRAFTING, and WORKING to get passed …. during the DECADES when the Republicans had majority control. One year to get 26 bills passed would leave…suspiciously little TIME for… working across the aisles, bringing people together, & given a Democratic Majority …. how much NEED to “work across the aisles to get the bills passed actually existed? Obama’s claim appears to be FALSE.
He has little to NO experience or accomplishments that would in any way qualify him to be President of anything -or- give him much more than a CLUE about crafting and passing legislation in the U.S. Congress … absent … a party leader willing to Falsely give him credit for other people’s work.
Things that DON’T ADD UP: The Obama campaign has been bragging to the compliant media parrots since January that he has raised 2X, 3X, and now 5X as much money as the Clinton campaign …. from …. we the little people, but if that’s the case then why hasn’t he been getting 2X, 3X, 5X MORE VOTES in the primaries from all those little people who support him to the extent of giving him money?
If, as Obama keeps repeating - Clinton is the “establishment candidate”, the candidate of corporate controlled America, the candidate financed by Washington Lobbyists Then, WHY is Clinton’s campaign chronically running out of money … WHILE …. the Obama Campaign has been wallowing in Big Piles of CASH since January?
Why is it the Clinton campaign that has been financed the past several months by …. WE the People? How come the Corporate Elites aren’t giving her the cash?
The MSM says her wealthy donors are ‘tapped out’;have already reached the legal limit & so, can’t give her any more CASH.
The FACT is tho, the ruling elite corporate power structure, Lobbyists, and Bundlers, have a practically unlimited capactiy to collect myriads of small donations for campaigns - So, IF the corporate elite “establishment” power structure was behind Clinton, rest assured SHE would be Rolling in the CASH.
WHY does the media keep on allowing Obama to tell the BIG LIE that he does not accept money from LOBBYISTS?
He says - I don’t take money from REGISTERED FEDERAL Lobbyists. True. But, he does take money from STATE Lobbyists and the husbands, wives, law partners, aunts, uncles and cousins of REGISTERED FEDERAL LOBBYISTS.
I found that information, including plenty of details, with very little searching on the internet, so you would think the media could, and would, find it too …you would think that… only IF you had not been watching the media very much this campaign season.
For those millions of us who HAVE been watching - the Outright Propaganda and brainwashing put out all day everyday by the MSM — quickly becomes repetitive, boring, DRIVEL. We stopped watching it and went searching the internet for REAL Information.
The MSM sold you Reagan, Bush 1, and Bush 2-TWICE. The MSM sold you the Iraq War. Are you going to just sit there and let them Sell you Obama/McCain/ 29 nuclear power plants? i.e. the NEXT Big Cheney Energy MONOPOLY RIPOFF just waiting in the wings?
Going to let The Media Sell You, Your Children and Grandchildren Down the River? Democracy down the tubes — again?.
Or, are YOU going to get the WORD Out Write …copy paste… & email to everyone on you email list… write & paste into blogs on the internet, newspapers, magazines, radio & TV stations…nationally and locally.
WE the People are in the same situation as the Russians during the days of Samidzat … when they made Xerox copies & passed them around as the only means available to GET THE WORD OUT about their govt & its govt controlled media —- but, we’ve got a LOT BETTER TECHNOLOGY than they had.
In case you don’t know what’s wrong with building more nuclear power plants - GOOGLE Hanford WA nuclear waste dump, Rocky Flats CO, Barnwell South Carolina nuke waste dump & find out why I would not accept an all expenses paid vacation at the best hotel in Devver; would go around the entire state of Colorado rather than drive thru any part of it; why I would advise everyone to Completely AVOID setting foot in an entire county in the state of Washington.
re: Did Obama, or did he not, deliberately, with malice aforethought … Flip Off a fellow Senator?
YES. He DID. Watch the video again. The same feces-eating smirks & grins that appeared AFTER he did the finger, also appeared BEFORE he flipped the finger.
He looks down - reading his script on the podium, breaks out into the feces-eating smirks and grins - several times …in anticipation… of what he is about to do.
Deliberate, premeditated, SCRIPTED and PRACTICED beforehand.
Asinine, juvenile, UNFIT to be President of ANYTHING.
I am beginning to think the Clinton machine is working overtime to get something out there about Obama. Of course I am rooting for them on this one. Go Hillary!!
To anyone who cares about this country, it’s rule of law, it’s honorable service to the global community and it’s freedoms we own that makes us the envy of the world, DON’T VOTE FOR OBAMA! The consequences could be dire.
I’m really looking to the Klinton smear machine to go into Warp drive now, after that PA victory! Surely there is much more dirt in their invetsigative files on Obama…I’ll bet he didn’t return the Communist Manifesto he checked out from the Chicago public library or something…
eleme #3 I’m not following you too well but you really lose me when you talk down nucear power. You need to give it some more thought.
Nuclear power is clean, safe, limitless, and the nuke waste argument is a BS red herring. Nuke power is the ONLY thing we have on the horizon to replace natural gas and coal for electric generation.
You better do some more research…
eleme #3 I’m not following you too well but you really lose me when you talk down nucear power. You need to give it some more thought.
Nuclear power is clean, safe, limitless, and the nuke waste argument is a BS red herring. Nuke power is the ONLY thing we have on the horizon to replace natural gas and coal for electric generation.
You better do some more research…