Barack Obama is lying about not being friends with Bill Ayers...

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

A Candidate's Associates and Influences ARE reflective of the Candidate personally. Many would prefer to ignore, or pretend that it doesn't matter, but the fact of the matter is that one's associates, especially when so many are likeminded, do present a pretty clear picture of the candidate's ideals, beliefs and goals. In Obama's case, his associates say more about his truths than his own words.



Frank Marshall Davis (whose identity Obama tried to hide when referencing him in his book). Davis had some considerable influence on the young Obama when they both lived in Hawaii. Obama himself says as much in his book, referring to his early mentor merely as "Frank." Davis has also been identified as a member of the Communist Party. When the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 1956 asked him to affirm or deny his membership in the party, he refused to respond, citing the Fifth Amendment. Davis began his communist career in Chicago and was a friend and associate of the singer Paul Robeson and the longshore union official Harry Bridges, both secret Communist Party members

Saul Alinsky was a radical socialist organizer. His main book was "Rules for Radicals." His methodology was you go in as a community organizer. Alinsky had change as his mantra. And by it, he meant radical socialist redistribution of income from the haves to the have-nots. That was the primary purpose. A very condescending view that he has of the middle class as people who are lost, who -- he says that they turn bitter, because they cling to certain fixed points that are elusory, but very real to them. Much like those Obama sees as clinging to bibles and guns.

Reverend Wright`s black liberation theology is a fairly radical left-wing approach to Christianity. It`s what some people would call a political religion, in a sort of black power ideology that is pretty closely tinged with Marxism. Barrack Obama’s pastor not only spews anti-American rhetoric from the pulpit but favors shaking down U.S. taxpayers for “reparations” for slavery. When questioned about reparation,Obama's sound bite that`s always played is, "I`m against reparations." The real story is, his full statement is, "because it doesn`t go far enough."

William Ayers, the Weather Underground bomber. And Obama began his career, his coming out party in 1995, and Ayers and Bernadine Dorns home. For some 20 years, Obama has been working with Ayers, certainly since 1995, on a series of foundations: the Annenberg Foundation and the Woods Foundation. The boards of directors together, or in the Annenberg Foundation, Ayers created it, and Obama was on it. And together they spent the money of these foundations to implement their radical socialist agenda.

Alice Palmer announced at the Ayers/Dohrn residence that she was stepping down to make a run for Congress and introduced Obama as her chosen successor. Alice Palmer was an official of a notorious Communist Soviet front group (so identified by the FBI), wrote an article for the People's Weekly World, a house organ for the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). In that dispatch, Palmer favorably recounted her experiences attending the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Former Obama advisor, Robert Malley, suddenly cut his advisory ties to the Obama campaign after he was forced to acknowledge that he had talked with Hamas, which is on the State Department list of terrorist organizations. You also may recall that Hamas advisor Ahmed Yousef was quoted as saying, "We like Mr. Obama. We hope he will win the election." Malley is Program Director for the International Crisis Group, lavishly funded by billionaire George Soros, whose number one aim in life is to steer America and the world sharply leftward. He reportedly would like to see a national convention by 2020 to write a new constitution for the United States. Robert Malley's father, Simon Malley, was an important figure in the Egyptian Communist Party, was pro-Soviet, passionately anti-Israel, and anti-West. He was booted out of Egypt and later out of France for awhile, to be welcomed back later when the more leftwing government of the socialist Francois Mitterrand took over in Paris. Martin Peretz, in the New Republic, described Malley as "a rabid hater of Israel," and described several of Malley's articles in the New York Review of Books as "deceitful." Yet, he was an officially annointed Obama advisor. Is anyone paying attention?

Herbert Romerstein, whose professional background in security and intelligence matters knows where the bodies are buried, released two documents that are chockablock with names, dates, places — page after page detailing the "Obama connection" to communists, socialists, and violent radicals. One deals with Obama's associates in Hawaii, the other is focused on his background in Chicago.

Obama campaign’s official blogger, Sam Graham-Felsen, has spent time in France participating in labor riots, has written for a socialist magazine, hung a communist flag in his home, and was a fan of Marx while at Harvard.

Not to mention this group listed on his own website:
Marxists/Socialists/Communists for Obama




To what extent do these people influence him — the communist Frank Davis, the neo-communists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the anti-Semitic pro-Arab terrorist groups that he met with in Chicago, the anti-American/racist sermons of Rev. Wright. To what extent do they influence his thinking, and will he repudiate those people?"

Just as American voters seemed to be willing to anoint as their messianic savior a junior senator just one half-step to the political right of Dennis Kucinich, some light is shown on Obama's REAL change for the United States of America is not what our country is founded on.

Plagerist AND Misogynist!

Where's Bernadine Dohrn; she and Michelle go WAY back!

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Rex W. Huppke writes in the Chicago Tribune:

In a new afterword to his memoir, 1960s radical William Ayers describes himself as a "family friend" of President-elect Barack Obama and writes that the campaign controversy over their relationship was an effort by Obama's political enemies to "deepen a dishonest narrative" about the candidate.

Ayers describes phone threats and hate e-mail he received during the campaign, and he bemoans Obama's guilt by association.

During the campaign, Ayers' friendship with Obama was a favorite subject of conservative bloggers and talk show hosts who insisted the two were closer than the candidate was admitting. Ayers' new description of the relationship seems to contradict Obama's statements.

Obama had dismissed Ayers as "a guy who lives in my neighborhood" and "somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know."

 

[RobDownSouth]

America voted, AJ.

Your side lost.

Get over it.

 

[miles]

Rex W. Huppke writes in the Chicago Tribune:

In a new afterword to his memoir, 1960s radical William Ayers describes himself as a "family friend" of President-elect Barack Obama and writes that the campaign controversy over their relationship was an effort by Obama's political enemies to "deepen a dishonest narrative" about the candidate.

Ayers describes phone threats and hate e-mail he received during the campaign, and he bemoans Obama's guilt by association.

During the campaign, Ayers' friendship with Obama was a favorite subject of conservative bloggers and talk show hosts who insisted the two were closer than the candidate was admitting. Ayers' new description of the relationship seems to contradict Obama's statements.

Obama had dismissed Ayers as "a guy who lives in my neighborhood" and "somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know."

No worries. The Obamaniacs will say Ayers is lying.

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

No shit.






Who can believe the word of a terrorist?







OH! It just keeps getting funnier... Watching Dems get exactly what they voted for, they learned NOTHING from the election of '06 about Democrats and economies.

 

[hogjack]

America voted, AJ.

Your side lost.

Get over it.

But the Cap'n voted Libertarian.

The Libertarian Party didn't just lose. It was crushed garnering only .4% of votes nationally. The obnoxious, cross-dressing Ralph Nader somehow got .5%.

Libertarian ideals still have value in the forum of ideas but unless the US political scene changes dramatically third parties will always be the fringe. many factors contribute to that but that's for another discussion.

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

And in true Joe Wilson fashion, Ayers is at once making a round of interviews saying, "Ach, he was telling the truth, we was strangers in the night, exchanging glances, lovers at first sight, exchanging glances..."





When it comes to resurrecting people, El is every bit as good as Jesus was...




Sandy Berger to head up Homeland Security as long as we're bringing back the Clinton Administration?

*yikes*

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

The Somali Pirates cry "Ayers me matey!"

Jack Cashill

have as much faith in the hypothesis that follows as astronomers do in the big bang or biologists do in evolution, so bear with me please as I, like they, present my evidence in the indicative.


The hypothesis is simple enough, namely that Barack Obama needed substantial help to write his 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father, and that this help came from the man who has made "unrepentant" a household word, Bill Ayers.


For simplicity's sake, I refer to the author of Dreams as "Obama." He provided the skeletal narrative and likely maintained executive control. Ayers fleshed that narrative out, imposing, where useful, his vocabulary, his rhythms, his style, his observations, his postmodern perspective, his weary 1960s weltanschauung, and, in some cases, stories from his and other people's lives.

...

For no obvious reason, Ayers' voice is particularly pronounced in the recounting of Obama's brief New York sojourn. In fact, Obama often seems to be channeling the very thoughts and experiences of Ayers, who lived in the city at the same time. More curiously still, Obama appears to borrow the only romance in his otherwise sexless memoir directly from Ayers' memory.


The opening scene of Dreams, which unfolds in the early 1980s in and around Obama's New York City apartment, offers a prime example of the Ayers' influence. The cited location on East 94 Street is where Obama actually lived. How he lived is at least partially imagined. Ayers knew enough to do so. During his decade underground, he dwelled in many such places. "Gloria met me at the Port Authority bus terminal," he writes of one New York rendezvous in his impressive 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, "and whisked me away to a safe apartment she'd rented uptown."


Ayers fondly recalls the moments he shared in one humble apartment with his then lover, Diana Oughton. "We made tortillas from scratch on Sundays in our little sloping kitchen on Felch Street," he writes. "A week's worth of homemade tomato sauce simmered hot and happy on the stove, a mountain of chopped onions and garlic sizzled in the skillet."


Cooking metaphors run through all of Ayers' work. In his 1993 book, To Teach, for instance, he describes his class's engagement with cultural study as a "thick stew." Similarly in Dreams, Obama describes "the stew of voices" heard in an evening with his extended family, one of seven references to "stew" in Dreams.


The small New York apartment that Obama inhabits has "slanting" floors. As the scene unfolds, he is making breakfast "with coffee on the stove and two eggs in the skillet." That both Ayers and Obama live in apartments with slanting/sloping floors, use stew as a metaphor, and talk about cooking -- both even using the southern regionalism "skillet" -- proves little, but promises more.


Obama tells us that the buzzer downstairs did not work and that visitors had to call from a pay phone at the corner gas station. There, "A black Doberman the size of a wolf paced through the night in vigilant patrol, its jaws clamped around an empty beer bottle."


Fugitive Days opens at a pay phone. Ayers spent much of his underground years waiting at pay phones. "Pay phone communication," he writes, "always paid for with rolls of quarters, was the main means for the diaspora to be in contact." He writes about pay phones with the loving detail art critics reserve for Picassos. The vivid image of the Doberman almost assuredly comes from his experience. Obama had no reason to use the corner pay phone, if it even existed.


Obama shared his apartment with a roommate. Upon watching "white people from the better neighborhoods nearby walk their dogs down our block to let the animals shit on our curbs," the roommate would yell out to them, "Scoop the poop, you bastards!." He would do so "with impressive rage." Adds Obama, ""We'd laugh at the faces of both master and beast, grim and unapologetic as they hunkered down to do the deed."


This story raises any number of red flags. One is that no sane New Yorker would walk his or her dog into the then drug-infested cusp of Spanish Harlem merely to let the dogs poop. This is likely an Ayers' memory from elsewhere, transposed to Obama's block. Another observation is that in a book as calculated as Dreams, it is, of course, the roommate who delivers the racially-tinged insult.


A third is that both Ayers and Obama speak of "rage" the way that Eskimos do of snow -- in so many varieties, so often, that they feel the need to qualify it, here as "impressive rage," elsewhere in Dreams as "suppressed rage" or "coil of rage," and in Fugitive Days as "justifiable rage," "uncontrollable rage," "blind rage," "and, of course, "Days of Rage."


Another note of interest is that all of the distinctive words in the last sentence above -- "master," "beast," "grim," "unapologetic," and "deed," as well as the phrase "hunkered down" -- appear in Fugitive Days.


"I enjoyed such moments -- but only in brief," writes Obama of his encounter with the dog walker. "If the talk began to wander, or cross the border into familiarity, I would soon find reason to excuse myself. I had grown too comfortable in my solitude, the safest place I knew." These sentiments seem much more natural for a terrorist in hiding -- Ayers uses the word "safe" in all its varieties and "solitude" as well -- than for a famously gregarious guy with a friendly roommate.


"Like a tourist, I watched the range of human possibility on display," writes Obama of his New York experience, "trying to trace out my future in the lives of the people I saw, looking for some opening through which I could re-enter." Re-enter what? This too seems more the reflection of a soon to be ex-fugitive than that of a Columbia undergrad.

...

One parallel between the two memoirs intrigues above all others, and it involves a subject about which Obama is surprisingly mute, namely romance. The one and only relevant scene takes place in Chicago, a few years after Obama has left New York. He is cutting peppers in preparing dinner for himself and his half-sister, Auma, when he answers her question about the challenges of a mixed-race relationship.


"There was a woman in New York that I loved," he tells Auma. "She was white. She had dark hair, and specks of green in her eyes. Her voice sounded like a wind chime." Obama continues, "We saw each other for almost a year. On the weekends, mostly. Sometimes in her apartment, sometimes in mine. You know how you can fall into your own private world? Just two people, hidden and warm. Your own language. Your own customs. That's how it was."


This nameless young woman had grown up on a sprawling estate in the country. It was during a visit to the country home that Obama began to see the distance between "our two worlds." That distance widened irreparably back in New York when the woman questioned the response of a black audience to a play by an angry black playwright. This led to a "big fight, right in front of the theater," one that undid the relationship. "I pushed her away," Obama tells Auma regretfully.


An interracial romance should have been grist for an aspiring writer's mill, especially a writer as obsessed with racial identity as Obama. That he dedicates only a few paragraphs to this romance -- and these in a flashback -- raises questions about its authenticity, not to mention Obama's forthrightness.


I am not the only one to notice this. One careful reader of the book believes that Obama modeled his inamorata on Kay Adams, Michael Corleone's wife in The Godfather. My single best correspondent, a Midwestern contractor I refer to as "Joe the Builder," makes a much more convincing case for a more proximate source, the aforementioned Diana Oughton.


Ayers was obsessed with Oughton who died in 1970 in a Greenwich Village bomb factory blast. In Fugitive Days, he fixes on her in ways that had to discomfort the woman that he eventually married, their fellow traveler in the Weather Underground, Bernardine Dohrn.


Physically, the woman of Obama's memory with her "dark hair, and specks of green in her eyes" evokes images of Oughton. As her FBI files attest, Oughton had brown hair and green eyes. The two women shared similar family backgrounds as well. In fact, they seemed to have grown up on the very same estate.


"The house was very old, her grandfather's house," Obama writes of his girlfriend's country home. "He had inherited it from his grandfather." Writes Ayers of Oughton, "She had been to the manor born -- the oldest of four sisters, she was raised in rural Illinois, her father a kind of gentleman farmer from a previous age."


Ayers knew this manor from experience. According to a Time Magazine article written soon after her death, Oughton "brought Bill Ayers and other radicals" to the family homestead in Dwight, Illinois. There, "she would talk politics with her father, defending the revolutionary's approach to social ills." The main house on the Oughton estate, a 20-room Victorian mansion, was built by Oughton's father's grandfather. Formally known as the John R. Oughton House, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.


The carriage house, in which Diana lived as a child, now serves as a public library. It may have already seemed like one when Ayers visited, an impression that finds its way into Obama's words as a library "filled with old books and pictures of the famous people [the grandfather] had known-presidents, diplomats, industrialists."


"It was autumn, beautiful, with woods all around us," Obama writes of his visit to his girlfriend's country home, "and we paddled a canoe across this round, icy lake full of small gold leaves that collected along the shore." As this aerial photo will confirm, the Oughton estate (103 South Street) has a small lake and, despite forty years of encroaching development, is still thickly ringed by trees.


"I realized that our two worlds, my friend's and mine, were as distant from each other as Kenya is from Germany," says Obama of his girlfriend. Ayers expressed similar anxieties about Oughton. "She knew other worlds and other languages and I knew nothing," he writes, "she was sophisticated and I was simple, she was untouchable."


Although Ayers had come from a family of means himself, Oughton's world intimidated him: "Diana's whole story was written on her face, etched with every advantage, accented with privilege." She awed him as she attracted him. "I adored her the moment I saw her," he writes, "but I knew she was way beyond my reach-too mature, too smart, too experienced."


In projecting Ayers' sentiments, Obama suggests more than a metaphor when he describes how he and his girlfriend fell into their "own private world . . . . Just two people, hidden and warm." Ayers and Oughton shared a literal "hidden world," one that functioned, in Ayers' words, as "a parallel universe somewhere side by side with the open world."


Again, Obama seems to be channeling Ayers when he relates how he and his friend developed their "own language," their "own customs." Writes Ayers of Oughton and others in the underground, "We spoke in a language that was meaningless babble to outsiders." He adds, "We invented words; we constructed culture."


"Between the two of us," Obama writes, "I was the one who knew how to live as an outsider." This was a sensation that the fugitive Ayers -- "nowhere a stranger but everywhere an outsider" -- was fully capable of imagining and imparting.


In Dreams, Obama worries that his world would inevitably yield to his girlfriend's. "I knew that if we stayed together," he writes, "I'd eventually live in hers." In Fugitive Days, Ayers describes how seductive the world of the Oughtons could be: "a perfect marriage, a comfortable career in banking, say, or the law, two golden children, the clubs, the country home."


Despite his obsession with Oughton, Ayers had other lovers, but then again, so did Oughton. This troubled Ayers considerably. He does not say whether this led to their parting, but he was not with her at the end. When Obama says, "I pushed her away," are we really hearing Ayers?


This split led one radical feminist in the underground, Jane Alpert, to chastise Ayers publicly "for his callous treatment and abandonment of Diana Oughton before her death." That death continues to haunt Ayers and almost assuredly found an outlet in Dreams, written six years before his own memoir.


"Whenever I think back to what my friend said to me, that night outside the theater, it somehow makes me ashamed," an unsmiling Obama tells Auma, while scraping the peppers into a pot. That shame is likely Ayers' as are the guilt, the girlfriend, the affair, the visit to the country home, the rowing in the lake, the fateful phone call, the dead body, the dog poop, and probably even the peppers.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/the_odd_story_of_romance_in_dr.html

 

[kbate]

Jack Cashill



http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/the_odd_story_of_romance_in_dr.html

Oh, hush. Obama is a great man who has penned two great books describing a most amazing life of overcoming the hardship of an unloving foreign father, a mother who lived on the brink of poverty - feeding him roaches and mice to survive, overbearing racial hatred from both African Americans and from Caucasians and constant political attacks. Now, we have the amazing moulded product of this, our first African American President - and he is already proposing sweeping economic reform, work programs, and socialisation of major portions of the economy - quite reminiscent of Franklin D. Roosevelt - our greatest leader ever.

I would be happy if he submitted Ayers as his press secretary. He is well spoken, can write a stirring narrative - and deserves a chance. Whatever misdeeds in his past - are just that - in his past and just as irrelevant as little things like Bill Clinton's non-inhaling and Bush's drunken partying.

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

*snicker*






Exit, stage left (house right)

 

[kbate]

*snicker*

Exit, stage left (house right)

pfft. I was serious. Maybe Ayers as Defense? He at least proved he is not afraid to use violence to achieve his ends, and apparently is already achieved in remaining deniable.

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

pfffffffffttttttttttttttttt






The New Peggy Noonan

 

[kbate]

pfffffffffttttttttttttttttt

The New Peggy Noonan

It is going to be a glorious next 2 years.

Are you going to join the CCCs and do good? More likely you'll be sentenced to them under the Neocon reformation act of 2009.

Will the new CCC be part of the Prison Reform plan? From prison to public works? I saw that in Shawshank Redemption, it worked pretty well in that film.

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Sorry, I'll be leaving soon, I've volunteered for the Army of Mars.






Salute!

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I love the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade of Know-Nothings.

No Helium needed...

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Jackass.





You know when you're not wanted, but yet you persist.

 

[The_Trouvere]

Bill Ayers talks back:

"President-elect Obama and I sat on a board together; we lived in the same diverse and yet close-knit community; we sometimes passed in the bookstore. We didn’t pal around, and I had nothing to do with his positions. I knew him as well as thousands of others did, and like millions of others, I wish I knew him better.
"Demonization, guilt by association, and the politics of fear did not triumph, not this time. Let’s hope they never will again. And let’s hope we might now assert that in our wildly diverse society, talking and listening to the widest range of people is not a sin, but a virtue."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/opinion/06ayers.html?_r=2



The fact that this matter got any play at all in this election is an illustration of how desperate the John McCain campaign was to draw attention away from the failures of the Bush Administration, and from the fact that McCain had nothing to offer but essentially the same policies.

Fortunately, the wingnuts do not represent the United States. According to the most recent Gallup Poll, "Two-thirds of Americans (65%) remain confident in [Barack Obama's] ability to be a good president."

http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx

 

[Slowlane]

http://www.batesline.com/archives/2008/10/cnn-ties-obama-close-to-radical.html

This report on CNN indicates a much closer relationship between Obama and Ayers them either if them care to admit.

There are similar indicators connecting Obama to Acorn. Also his knowledge (or ignorance of) (take your pick) of Rev Wright's ideals don't shine well for Obama. Even Oprah left his church sometime in the nineties, one of the reasons sited was she didn't like his "incendiary sermons".

Add a heapin' helpin' of his questionable citizenship and toss in a few other controversies to spice it up and it tastes pretty bitter to me.

Any one thing might be overlooked - but not all of them.

 

[phrodeau]

http://www.batesline.com/archives/2008/10/cnn-ties-obama-close-to-radical.html

This report on CNN indicates a much closer relationship between Obama and Ayers them either if them care to admit.

There are similar indicators connecting Obama to Acorn. Also his knowledge (or ignorance of) (take your pick) of Rev Wright's ideals don't shine well for Obama. Even Oprah left his church sometime in the nineties, one of the reasons sited was she didn't like his "incendiary sermons".

Add a heapin' helpin' of his questionable citizenship and toss in a few other controversies to spice it up and it tastes pretty bitter to me.

Any one thing might be overlooked - but not all of them.

Now you're questioning his citizenship? On what basis?

The whole question about his birth certificate was whether he was natural-born. His citizenship has never been credibly questioned, to my knowledge.

 

[Slowlane]

Now you're questioning his citizenship? On what basis?

The whole question about his birth certificate was whether he was natural-born. His citizenship has never been credibly questioned, to my knowledge.

Then, as usual, you don't know a lot. That's what the Supreme Court is looking into.

 

[phrodeau]

Then, as usual, you don't know a lot. That's what the Supreme Court is looking into.

I said credibly questioned. The Donofrio case doesn't pass the smell test.

Obama's father's status is irrelevant. Donofrio acknowledges that Obama was born in Hawaii. The only way Obama can lose his natural-born citizenship status is if he personally relinquishes it. He's never done so.

 

[Slowlane]

I said credibly questioned. The Donofrio case doesn't pass the smell test.

Obama's father's status is irrelevant. Donofrio acknowledges that Obama was born in Hawaii. The only way Obama can lose his natural-born citizenship status is if he personally relinquishes it. He's never done so.

I suppose that is what the court is deliberating.

 

[JustSkye]

Christ, you people are in here still bitching about Barack?

 

[phrodeau]

I suppose that is what the court is deliberating.

Actually, they're making the decision whether to deliberate it or not.

 

[JustSkye]

Actually, they're making the decision whether to deliberate it or not.

Seems he's the one who doesn't know a lot, hmm?