Posted on 10/05/2008 11:38:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As the 2008 presidential campaign hurtles into its final days, John McCain confronts a choice: He can either start telling the public about the real Barack Obama, or he can lose.
For much of his career, McCain has been a media darling. He could count on the press to carry his water as long as he was a “maverick” Republican, driving more conservative members of his party crazy. But as he surely knows by now, when it comes to Barack Obama and the press, all bets are off. In covering Obama, the press has adopted a “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy designed to boost the least-vetted, least-known candidate ever to seek the presidency. It isn’t by accident that the media has denied all less-than-glowing stories about Obama the kind of consistent, sustained coverage that allows them to penetrate public consciousness.
If McCain is going to have a chance at winning, he must make sure that the public becomes thoroughly acquainted with the real Barack Obama – the most radical presidential nominee ever. And because the press evidently intends to abdicate its responsibility to acquaint voters with the less-popular parts of Obama’s record, he’ll have to rely on paid advertising to do it.
For starters, McCain should consider running a series of “Did You Know” ads about Barack Obama. He should ask voters, “Did you know that:
Barack Obama has multiple ties to those responsible for the present economic crisis?:
Franklin Raines, the immediate past CEO of Fannie Mae – who has collected a $90 million golden parachute while driving Fannie into the ground – has advised Obama on housing issues.
Jim Johnson, yet another former Fannie Mae CEO, resigned from Obama’s vice presidential search team when it was revealed he had received a sweetheart home mortgage deal.
Despite serving in the Senate for only four years, Obama himself has been the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac largesse in the entire Congress, ahead even of former presidential candidate John Kerry, who’s spent two decades in the Senate?
Obama’s long-time political ally, radical group ACORN, played a key role in pressuring banks to offer loans to those who were unlikely to be able to pay them back. ACORN has taken credit for pressuring banks to accept undocumented income as a basis for offering loans, for offering loans without using credit scores, and for making 100% financed loans available to low-income people.
There is more, of course. Do voters know:
That, in apparent defiance of federal election law, the Obama campaign refuses to identify individual donors who have provided almost half the funds for his campaign, including obvious fakes like “Mr. Good Will” and “Mr. Doodad Pro”? And that 11,500 donations to his campaign – totaling almost $34 million – may have come from overseas? Or that two Palestinians living in a Hamas-controlled refugee camp spent $31,300 in Obama’s online store? Who are all these people, and why won’t the Obama campaign obey the law and identify them?
That Jeremiah Wright wasn’t Obama’s first radical mentor? As a young man in Hawaii, Obama had a quasi-filial relationship with radical Frank Marshall Davis – an avowed member of the Communist Party of the USA. In fact, in his memoirs, Obama concedes that he attended “socialist conferences” and encountered Marxist literature. (Now imagine the outcry if a Republican presidential candidate had such ties to a Nazi).
That the People's Weekly World – the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the USA – has rhapsodized about Obama’s presidential campaign, calling it a "transformative candidacy that would advance progressive politics for the long term"? (Think about how the press would react if a fascist newspaper heaped such praise on McCain.)
That Obama has routinely tried to intimidate his critics into silence? His political organization spearheaded a massive campaign against a Chicago radio show that invited one of his critics to appear – even after being asked (and refusing) to send a representative to balance the program, hosted by a non-partisan University of Chicago psychology professor. Worse, his campaign sought to chill free speech by establishing a “truth squad” of Missouri prosecutors and sheriffs, which threatened a “vigorous response” to any ad presenting information about Obama that they deemed to be “inaccurate.” And there are other examples.
That even as America struggles to “bail out” our own struggling economy, Obama backs a global bailout? His Global Poverty Initiative would assess $2500 per taxpayer, according to Investor’s Business Daily, to fund a global war on poverty administered by the UN and its agencies.
That despite touting his academic credentials as a rationale for initiating a campaign for president just two years after leaving the Illinois state legislature, Obama refuses to release either his college or his law school transcripts – just as he sought to keep records of his working relationship with former terrorist Bill Ayers on The Annenberg Challenge (a left-wing educational foundation) safely under wraps? What is it that he doesn’t want voters to know?
Repeatedly, we’ve heard the media denounce the “rumors” about Barack Obama that are, supposedly, circulated on the internet exclusively by the bigoted and the ignorant. But Americans sense that there is more to Barack Obama than they’ve been told. Having witnessed the media’s own bias and favoritism, they’ve come to suspect – reasonably – that even if any of the rumors were true, the press might choose to conceal them until the election is safely over. What’s more, they wonder: What else is the press not telling us?
Certainly, it would be terribly wrong for John McCain to traffic in rumors. But he doesn’t need to. The truth is more than enough. There are facts that the American people deserve to know – and which the press isn’t telling them. By filling in the gaps that the media has left unmentioned, John McCain isn’t just doing himself a service. He’s doing journalists’ job for them, and allowing Americans to make an informed decision when they head to the polls next month.
$31,300 would buy a lot of t-shirts.
The media will do the best they can. I saw Meet the press today. It was INCREDIBLE. Beyond in the tank. I was an Obama campain meeting...Meet The Obama Campain. Peggy Noonan was the token conservative. I think she is a joke. They are trying the best they can to justify Obama and hope that somehow they can supress the truth. The American press is history.
Best idea I've heard since McCain's "suspending his campaign" made me question if he even wants to win.
Odinga Obama Odinga Obama.
Obama spent taxpayers money to go campaign for Odinga in Kenya. Odinga is a radical socialist/communist thug aligned with Marxist Muslim groups.
There must be plenty of material to put together ads detailing the Obama Odinga connection....these would shock middle America.
OBAMA-ODINGA
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ&feature=related
GAZA CAMPAIGN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g
ON THE INTERNET:
Does Obama have deeper ties to the mortgage meltdown than he’d like to admit? ‘Hannity’s America’ investigates:
HANNITY’S AMERICA
http://www.foxnews.com/hannitysamerica
What I can’t understand is how Obama has come so far. Is America that shallow to base their impressions on his looks, charm, etc.? Have the Democrats totally lost their minds? Are their no true patriots in their party that object to his associations, lies, and smarmy leftist elitism? Why is it that only Republicans see his radical connections? Doesn’t that mean something to the rest of America? Democrats should be patriotic, after all didn’t they help fight against the socialism, against the USSR from Roosevelt onward? So why now does the hippie contingent of the Democratic party not see itself as an adjunct of international socialism? They are that! And why was there countless lives lost to fighting communism if they are just going the same way, fellow travelers. Well, because America has lost its way. Hollywood and the media and academia are all dupes — comfortably living dupes — who have the unmitigated gall to try their socialist experiment on America after winning the cold war. Which proves that the cold war was never really won. America should take no credit in toppling communism if communism is the latest fad. America is fad bound thinking that fads can’t do anything that threatens their comfortable lives. Well, they never did live through a bread line. Warren Beatty was never in a bread line, all of Hollywood was never in a bread line... but it is coming soon because you can’t have appeasement of guilt (socialism) and prosperity. The day Barbra Streisand cuts sugarcane in Cuba is the day America will know better. But it won’t. The luxury of it all, the egocentric guilt, the personal feelings, the crap that America indulges on is sickening. And is Bill Maher making such sacrifices for the common man with his political correct show? No. God save America.
Here’s several millions (minimum) of PUMAs, etc..
Hillary Clinton Supporters For John McCain:
Party Unity My A$$ PAC/People United Means Action PAC:
Democrats Against Obama/Nobama ever!
http://democrats-against-obama.org
Just Say No Deal:
Take a look around these sites for a half hour or 45 minutes....(there are hundreds more linked to these, just look for links)
It doesn’t look to me as if these sites have shut down just because Hillary and Bill endorsed Barack...
What's really pathetic is that he's letting Palin do his job.
As a combat veteran and POW, you'd think he wouldn't take any sh!t from anyone. Especially a terrorist running for POTUS.
Exactly right.
Ayers and Wright are just the tip of this radical iceberg.
This is the time to get the word out about Odinga and Obama’s relationship and why it matters to us all.
I certainly do think he CAN win this--I just don't have a ton of faith that he WILL do what needs doing. He should have been doing this stuff all along, building the evidence so it was undeniable.
Like him or not, the guy comes across so much better than either of them, or McCain or even Palin (who I like).
I'm not talking about the issues, purely presentation. I am from Massachusetts and I have problems with some of his positions, but overall he's a better fit than McCain, and he is capable of wiping the floor with the Dems without appearing mean.
Plus, he could make sense of the economic situation, and would have Obama or Biden looking like fools trying to keep up.
I too did not want McCain as Rep candidate and IMO Romney was 2nd best behind Fred, Duncan Hunter would be my dream candidate. But we got McCain and must ride him into office. It is not very encouraging that he appears to be passive in his attacks on BO’s horrendous background but what else can we do but try?
What looks and charm?
Last year Liebau wrote another article for Townhall describing how she knew Obama at Harvard Law School and presenting him in very complementary terms:
It is probably more important to bring up character in this election. Obama’s assocations make up who he is politically. The picture is not good.
Since the MSM will not enlighten people about who Obama is, it has to be done by McCain and Palin.
If nothing else, in the end, those people who decide to vote for this communist need to end up accoutable for Obamas actions should he win.
I was watching F&F this morning and Brian Wilson was in some restaurant asking people who they are voting for. He asked some old bag and she said “Obama. I have already voted” He asked her why, she said she “hates Palin”.
This woman has no interest in the truth about Obama. She is one who will be accountable for the US slip into outright communism.
Over the next days, the MSM is going to act like the public only cares about the economy. Many do, but there are also other issues that decide votes.
I see the debate Tuesday as the last hurrah for McCain. He better look right at Obama and call him to task.
If it helps him to pretend Obama is a republican, then he needs to do it.
He may have to do what Sarah did to get her message in, so be it.
We all know the debate will be set up to favor Obama.
If we get a performance like last time, it will be the last yawn.
Ah yes when the media tells you Obama is the greatest candidate ever, you reply.. LYING MEDIA.
If the Media tell you Obama is going to be a great uniting president.. You reply, LYING MEDIA.
If the media tells you John McCain is running a bad campaign and being destroyted by Obama you say... Damn right I always believe what the media tells me about Republican campaigns... the media would never lie to me about that...
If you were around in 1980 I’ll bet when the media and even some conservative columnists told you that Reagan was running a terrible campaign and did not stand a chance against Jimmy Carter you believed that as well...
In 1980 the media told us the race was too close to call even after Carter had told them to be ready to broadcast his concession speech in 15 minutes. Carter was conceding to Reagan but the media was not.
I appreciate your thoughts. And I agree.
People have problems with Romney on some issues. But I have bigger issues with McCain, for example, on illegal immigration and global warming and the bailout.
McCain better get fired up soon.
This will be on the Gunny Bob Show website tonight:
OBAMA AND BIDEN FACTS
The Hard, Shocking Truth
(1) Obama’s good friend, unrepentant Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers, whose terrorist group committed so many acts of terrorism that even included deadly bombings, held one of Obama’s first fundraisers in his (Ayers’) home.
(2) As board members for the Woods Fund, Obama and Ayers raised $75,000 for Palestinian spokesman and fundraiser Rashid Khalidi, who was a spokesman for the PLO.
(3) Hamas has endorsed Obama for president.
(4) Libyan master terrorist leader and dictator Moammar Gadhafi supports Obama for president.
(5) North Korean dictator Kim Jung-il supports Obama for president.
(6) Marxist Nicaraguan strongman Daniel Ortega, leader of the infamous Sandinistas, has endorsed Obama for president.
(7) Obama and his wife belonged to the Trinity Church racist hate group for 20 years. That group now endorses Obama for president.
(8) Obama says he will meet with terrorist leaders as president to negotiate (surrender?).
(9) Jodie Evans of the anti-military Code Pink hate group is a funding “bundler” for Obama who is closely linked to Marxist Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.
(10) Michelle Obama, Barack’s wife, says she was never proud of America as an adult until her husband ran for president.
(11) The Obamas are huge fans of their mentor, Saul Alinsky, a Marxist organizer from Chicago who wrote “Rules for Radicals”, a manual on how to overthrow the government and replace it with a Marxist regime. Michelle even quoted Alinsky (Chapter 2) in her Democratic National Convention speech.
(12) Obama refused to serve his country in the late 1970s because he said we were not at war: would he have joined if he thought he would have a chance to kill people?
(13) Obama was registered as a student in Indonesia as a Muslim.
(14) Obama’s brother lives in a tiny hut in a massive slum in Nairobi; Obama, a multi-millionaire, refuses to help him get out of the slum and start a better life.
(15) Obama has voted time and again to strip Americans of their 2nd Amendment rights.
(16) Obama is threatening those who disagree with him with legal action and imprisonment.
(17) Obama has supported abortion upon demand for any reason, even in late term and “live-birth” abortion failures.
(18) Obama supports the ACORN voter-fraud scam.
(19) Obama has never been the primary sponsor/author of a single piece of important legislation in the Senate.
(20) Obama promised to take only public funding via the government for his campaign, but lied: he is now refusing this public funding.
(21) Obama lied by claiming under Bush the average family income went down: it actually went up.
(22) Obama lied about McCain claiming you are not rich unless you make at least $5 million annually. McCain was joking and even added immediately after the joke, “But seriously...”
(23) Obama says all our troops are doing is bombing villages and killing innocent civilians.
(24) Obama claimed our military had failed with the surge shortly after it got going, but now even Democrats say it was a great success and that our troops are doing terrific with the surge.
(25) In a recent poll, our troops were shown to support McCain over Obama 68% to 23%.
(26) Cuban Marxist dictator Fidel Castro supports Obama for president.
(27) Terrorist Bill Ayers was the founder of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a Leftist political-intimidation “educational initiative” chaired by none other than Barack Obama. The CAC failed and disbanded after receiving an initial grant of nearly $50 million and spending a total of $110 million, and achieving a total of zero of its objectives.
(28) Obama and terrorist Bill Ayers went on a speaking tour together.
(29) Biden failed a college course for massive plagiarization; he plagiarized one-third of an entire law review article.
(30) Biden plagiarized two writers in a speech.
(31) Biden lied by claiming he graduated near the top of his college class; there were actually nearly 200 students above him.
(32) Biden claimed he got into law school on an academic scholarship; this was an outright lie.
(33) Biden got 5 deferments from the military and when he ran out of deferments, he claimed he had asthma.
(34) Biden claims he has three undergraduated degrees; he only has one.
(35) In October 2008, Biden gave a farewell address to his son’s deploying military unit and thanked them for answering their country’s call, but failed to mention that he refused 5 times to answer his country’s call.
Well, to answer your questions:
Yes.
Yes
No.
Because they don’t care.
Yes.
Yes.
They want Socialism.
It goes on and on, but basically, the answer is that they are Socialists or communists (Party or policy, one or the other) and don’t care about America. They want to destroy it. We have a country that is currently on a path to destruction and they’re trying everything they can to amplify it.
Somewhere along the way, we’re going to have to stand up and say enough is enough. I have spent a few weeks now on Amazon on their politics board trying to fight the lies and half-truths from the left. It’s insane. And what I find is I just have no patience for it anymore. They’re like children waiting for Obama to lead them to the righteous land of la-la to get their money from the Government. Apparently, they believe that Obama will cut their taxes, save us all, make out world better, cleaner and that he’s not going to let the government get into our lives.
Talk about delusional.
I’d really love a few Freepers to show up and help me fight the good fight.
Paul
How so far so quickly so easily, so unopposed? ... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2096674/posts
For the most part, this is a waste of time.
In my experience, a solid lefty cannot be persuaded from his beliefs. No amount of reasoning, evidence or testimony will sway him. Not until he experiences a serious jolt to his world will reality smash through.
For some libs, it's a literal mugging or other crime that will shock them. But something has to jolt a liberal's life deeply enough to cause him to reflect on his beliefs, or he will just go on believing.
It's always curious to me how people assume that if one disagrees with their point of view, that person MUST be a dupe of the media.
I sure don't need anyone to tell me McCain's running a poor campaign; I see it for myself.
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