Posted on 08/27/2008 9:36:40 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The Chicago bully tactics aren’t going to work. While Obama sics his lawyers and Kossack minions on TV stations that dare to air an independent ad about his close relationship with Weather Underground terrorist-turned-academic Bill Ayers, the truth is seeping out. Thanks to the efforts of NRO’s Stanley Kurtz, blogger Steve Diamond, and intense pressure from Internet readers and talk radio listeners, the University of Illinois - Chicago was forced to release a trove of papers that a former official attempted to shield from public view. There are some 140 boxes and 1,000 files to sift through — and MSM outlets have barely scratched the surface. Kurtz is in Chicago to review the documents and will report tonight on his findings for two hours on Chicago station WGN’s Milt Rosenberg Show.
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
Hillary has to be kicking herself now, letting this Ayers stuff get away...
Hard to believe Carville and Co. did not rip the magic negro to shreds.
I really thought Hillary would use the convention to seize the nomination. That seems unlikely now. But the Ayers material can still help to destroy him. Then we get one term of old John McCain and in 2012, the Democrats can call Hillary their new savior.
Who said she “let it get away”?
She needs to NOT say a word and let others do it. She is just as much a socialist and does not want to be associated with Ayers in any way.
Hillary probably did not see the Ayers connection as a problem, since she herself shares the aims and attitudes of the bomb-tossing prof.
Hillary probably planed this document dump as a last ditch effort to steal the nomination. They are trying to make it look like “pressure” from blogers, not a conspiracy of the Clintons.
We’re all responsible for ensuring friends and neighbors understand what Mr. O apparently is all about. The MSM will not do it.
I can't imagine how Shrillary's vaunted war room missed this stuff -- all I can think is that they thought it hit too close to home for them, especially since Bill Clinton pardoned both Weatherfreak and Puerto Rican terrorists. The Clintonistas must have expected blowback if they tried to raise any of these issues. Still, you'd think that some of the media and other Demagogues would have seen the significance of this stuff..... but same thing, no one toward the left of the political spectrum wanted to remind the public of the kinds of scumbags under the bedsheets of the Democrat Party.
I’ve speculated that if the Hildabeast is going to stick a knife in Obamuh’s ribs, it’ll be after the convention. That way, it’s too late for a do-over.
Remember - the operating algorithym for Marxists is ‘chaos and conquer.’ Works just as well if you’re trying to regain control of your party.
It's even more outrageous that the MSM continues to try to 'spike' this story.
Obama needs to explain to the American people why his friendship and association with a blatant and proud anti-American terrorist whose only regret is that he did NOT DO MORE,,,,
is ok and acceptable.
The American people deserve that explanation--at a minimum.
In other words, Obama was Ayers’ puppet.
The Ayers Video"
Gee... It sure would be too bad if that guy was to have some kinda accident or sumptim'."
Hussein launched his political career in Ayer's house!!!! What does that you?
If Ayers stuff becomes well known, it will be, in part with the Cintons’ connivance. She may well have determined that It will be tough for her to beat McCain, but not his running mate in 4 years. So, they passively sink the doofus MSM candidate and wait it out.
If Ayers stuff becomes well known, it will be, in part with the Cintons’ connivance. She may well have determined that It will be tough for her to beat McCain, but not his running mate in 4 years. So, they passively sink the doofus MSM candidate and wait it out.
ooops.....What does that tell you?
Just as likely, the media and the other Demagogues probably didn't have any problem with Ayres and would've befriended him themselves.
They saw nothing wrong with the association.
ping for later
If BO’s nomination is confirmed, exposure of Ayers/COLB etc. can all be attributed to the repubs somehow cause Hilly no longer has a dog in the show. When he falls(due to the EVIL repubs) she can heroicly step in without losing the black vote.
If BO doesn’t get nominated due to floor fight or Ayers or ?,then she’s potentially “the bad guy” and won’t get his black/dedicated votes when he does eventually go down.
In any case, BO will never be in the white house.
Make sense to you?
Exactly — given that Hillary’s Bubba had PARDONED two of the Weatherfreaks who had actually MURDERED people, she did not dare make an issue of these associations for Obama.
btw, I got an email response from a liberal family member who has already received the new talking points memo for the left (yes, unfortunately, I have a couple of family members who do loyally subscribe to those). She compared Ayers to the “neocons” and glibly said both parties have people they need to keep at arm’s length...... so expect a lot of nonsense about “neocons” to re-surface now as the Obama-cons try to “re-frame” the whole issue about Ayers and Obama. So you see, Obama has his Ayers and President Bush had Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, so there!!
I seem to recall there was one debate appearance where she did mention it and Obama promptly smacked her down with the presidential pardon reminder.
Still, it is remarkable she didn't pursue the thing. She is a veteran at slithering out of such traps, Obama is not. And the nation is used to Clinton's smelly acquaintances. And the people Clinton pardoned weren't close associates as Ayers and the rest were close to Obama.
Last week I thought McCain would win by 10 points. Now, maybe with the Ayers stuff about to break, I’m thinking 15 points. This is going to be a blowout for McCain. Thank the Lord the Clinton’s dropped the ball during the primary season.
Plausible deniability is what the Klintons are all about. They are masters at letting others do their dirty work for them. And fall on their swords if need be.
No offense to “CJ” but I’ve been saying that for months!! :^)
Obambi and Ayers had $110 million or so to prove the possibilities of educational “reform” yet their own project’s final report acknowledges that virtually nothing of consequence was accomplished.
Given that this is the ONLY significant leadership role Obama has taken in his professional life, the media (and attack ads) should be all over this — what did they do with all that money besides holding retreats and workshops, what did they actually ATTEMPT to accomplish (if anything), what are the metrics by which Obambi’s performance can be evaluated, etc.
Was there any accountability at all??? I read that even though National Review and others are now getting access to Annenberg archives, the crucial Audit Reports are still being withheld!! There’s a lot more to understand about the Ayers/Obama stuff with Annenberg, but so far as I can tell Obama accomplished nothing at all with $110 million but now thinks he is qualified to take over the $2 trillion federal budget to show us all how well he can blow that money (not that federal bureaucrats and Congresscritters need much help in the waste department).
Hillary wrote her senior thesis on Saul Alinsky.
The sad part is that the ability to blow through $100M on social issues is likely considered a key attribute of a Democrat leader.
I heard 50 million, which is minor league edu. spending.
Look at Washington and the Republican Party to throw our money around like it was their own. They are as bad as the democrats with their
“No Child Left Behind Act”
for just one example...
Over the time of this law, Congress increased federal funding of education, from $42.2 billion in 2001 to $54.4 billion in 2007. This equates to an increase which outpaced inflation by 5%. No Child Left Behind received a 40.4% increase from $17.4 billion in 2001 to $24.4 billion. The funding for reading quadrupled from $286 million in 2001 to $1.2 billion. A 2008 study from the Department of Ed, “Reading First Impact Study: Interim Report,” analyzes the performance of students in 12 states who were in grades one to three during the 2004-5 and 2005-6 school years and concluded that the Reading First Program, a major billion dollar a year NCLB effort, had proven “ineffective.”
I haven’t forgotten the 8 year spending binge that Bush and company have been engaged in.
This is gonna leave a serious mark.
100 m buys houses, favors, racist churches,
Pass the popcorn, please.
And thank God for something else that has nothing to do with this blog and that is, the Catholic church is finally taking a very strong stand enforcing its anti-abortion position and telling the politicians to re-think or they’ll be denied the sacrament of communion.
‘Bout time!
— Jane Reinheimer
Good point.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/08/27/video-obama-and-ayers-the-hype-trailer/
Video: Obama and Ayers, the “Hype” trailerposted at 1:18 pm on August 27, 2008 by Allahpundit
It’s not a trailer, actually. It’s a snippet from the film itself, premiering next week in Minneapolis during the convention and produced by Citizens United, the conservative outfit led by former Whitewater investigator David Bossie that attacked Maverick with a “McCain = Hillary” ad during the primaries. Nothing here you don’t already know but plenty here that the average voter doesn’t, so expect it to draw the usual hysterical denunciations-sans-arguments from the left eager to kill the meme but without any effective rebuttal to the charge. Ayers is much more dangerous for Obama than Rezko is, I think: The public’s not going to reject a guy for engaging in the sort of petty graft which they assume all politicians engage in, but hobnobbing with terrorists is a different matter. Absent any defense of his......
This is *exactly* what Hillary has been frustrated about. She knew that Obama has some skeletons in his closet that are okay for Chicago politics, but that are total showstoppers for national office. But what could she do? Destroy the left wing legend with right wing arguements? It's one thing for her to see the bus heading towards Barack, but to push him towards it would be political suicide.
If you think about it, all of her actions for the last year make sense. She knows he'll be eviscerated by the Republicans, but if she eviscerates him first, she'll take the blame, and her dream of being President dies forever.
All she can do is what she's doing now. Look at the crowd look at her, everyone knowing that Barack is doomed, and that Hillary would have won, and let that thought soak in, so it's deep and ingrained by 2012. She can't steal the election now, but she can bargain for her position next time in electoral blood.
Have you seen this yet?
http://copiousdissent.blogspot.com/2008/08/bill-ayers-and-end-of-barack-obama.html
Thanks for the link, I hadn’t seen that video.
Yes, we are all responsible for getting the word out. I’m sending this link to everyone I know.
Obama Ayers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNkclbvuc9w
(Thanks again to ishabibble in post 41! This is the same video as viewed on the blog he referenced.)
“Hillary probably did not see the Ayers connection as a problem, since she herself shares the aims and attitudes of the bomb-tossing prof.”
Most Democrat primary voters do as well... they really dont see a problem. Ayers is just another radical who got a bit carried away when he bombed the Pentagon.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s annual public school budget is $1.2 billion dollars.
Sad to say, but relative to what they’re wasting here (with 40% graduation rates) $100 million isn’t really enough money to clean up a sinkhole like Chicago’s schools.
“Hillary probably did not see the Ayers connection as a problem, since she herself shares the aims and attitudes of the bomb-tossing prof.”
Most Democrat primary voters do as well... they really dont see a problem. Ayers is just another radical who got a bit carried away when he bombed the Pentagon.
The President has the awesome responsibility of being responsible for almost $3 trillion in spending.
The only time in Obama’s life that he was made responsible for a significant amount of money was this effort. How he did and what he did has a direct bearing on his fitness for office.
“so far as I can tell Obama accomplished nothing at all with $110 million but now thinks he is qualified to take over the $2 trillion federal budget to show us all how well he can blow that money (not that federal bureaucrats and Congresscritters need much help in the waste department).”
YUP!
Bill Ayers means the defeat of Obama’s campaign, even if the Demagogues haven’t grasped that yet.
There is no way they can go through the next 9 weeks without a lot more grievous embarrassment for Obambi.
Of course, we know that the Ayers relationship is merely a symptom of the anti-American far-left virus that infected Obambi decades ago.
The reason that Obambi sought out Ayers and sought out Jeremiah Wright and many other rabid radicals is b/c Obama shares their beliefs, at least in broad strokes even if not in every last detail.
Why did Obambi rave in his own book about how wonderfully he enjoyed the very first sermon he heard from Jeremiah Wright?? It was Obama himself who characterized Wright as ranting about “white folks’ greed runs a world in need!”
Obama is merely a softer, gentler packaging for the same rabid radicalism being sold by Ayers and Wright. We have 9 weeks to make sure enough Americans understand what’s at stake here, and then Obambi will be lucky if he does not lose in the biggest landslide in US history.
AH, we’re up to $3 trillion now?? Wow, so hard to keep track, pretty soon we’ll be talking about real money......
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