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Barack Obama--known by the company he keeps [Why he'll lose in the Fall]
The National Post ^ | April 21, 2008 | Theo Caldwell

Posted on 04/22/2008 6:23:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

If he becomes the Democratic Party's nominee for President, Sen. Barack Obama will lose the general election for this reason: When the smiles and platitudes are set aside, Obama's campaign and the philosophy of his cadre amount to one big put-down of America.

Anomalous among Western leaders, the president of the United States serves as head of both state and government. Moreover, he is elected directly by the voters, unlike in a parliamentary system whereby a leader attains power through the success of his party. As such, the president represents something very personal to Americans. He is, for four or more years, the personification of their country, embodying the aspirations and goodness of the land that they love. A president may disappoint after assuming office, but America is not in the habit of electing candidates who hold their country in contempt.

Not only have the comments of Obama's wife, Michelle (who has referred to America as "downright mean" and stated that she was not proud of her country until her husband started winning primaries) and his minister, Jeremiah Wright (whose hateful, anti-white, anti-American diatribes are available for sale in Obama's church, or for free on YouTube) revealed the tired, leftist scorn for America that Obama represents -- the Senator's own remarks have exposed this ugly, unelectable side.

Speaking to a fundraiser in San Francisco, Obama attempted to explain his persistent deficit in Pennsylvania primary polls by describing small-town Americans as "bitter" people who "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." This is hard stuff, and patronizing, besides. Add to this Obama's characterizations of the "typical white person" (in the context of describing his grandmother, whom he had originally tossed under the campaign bus in order to create a false equivalence with Wright's racism), and one finds something far more damaging than a simple series of gaffes --it is a window into how the Senator sees his countrymen.

Obama's associations, even beyond Wright, speak to this unappealing point of view. William Ayers, a domestic terrorist of Weathermen infamy, enjoys a friendly relationship with the Obamas. As general-election voters will learn, Ayers bombed the Pentagon on May 19, 1972, and fondly recalls, "The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them." Ayers and his accomplices also bombed the U.S. Capitol, the State Department, as well as banks, police stations and courthouses.

In one's associations, as in other aspects of life, mistakes are made. But a hallmark of a leader is the willingness to make them right. For this, Obama has shown little talent or enthusiasm.

Obama has defended Wright by insisting that he merely represents the convention of "Black Liberation Theology," as though this were just some quaint offshoot of traditional Christianity. One need not pore over the tenets of Black Liberation Theology or its founder, James Hal Cone -- although a Google search of either would provide a world of clarity to the undecided voter -- to recognize that a would-be President who cannot utterly disassociate himself from such racist, anti-American rubbish lacks sufficient character and affinity for his country's ideals to be its leader.

The bumper-sticker slogan "dissent is patriotic" has for decades been employed to legitimize any insult to America, no matter how hateful or moronic. But Americans understand that their president's instinct ought to be to defend the nation against unfair invective, not embrace those who purvey it -- or, in the case of Ayers, seek to blow it up altogether.

With his demonstrable view of America, and considering his cohorts, Obama would be wise to make himself very comfortable in the Senate.

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theojpcaldwell@yahoo.com - Theo Caldwell, president of Caldwell Asset Management, Inc., is an investment advisor in the United States and Canada.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blackliberation; election; elections; mccain; michelle; obama; obomber; wright
EXACTLY!
1 posted on 04/22/2008 6:23:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama’s Pastor Celebrates 9/11 (explicit)
Only 5 Days After 3,000 Americans Killed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzhl-endvco

Jeremiah Wright Says America Deserved 9/11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9HUdF9OZa8

Obama: Bitter Americans Cling to Guns and Religion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNJAl8a3d9Q

Meet Barack Hussein Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onOYL2ZG7fk

Obama’s Racially-Divisive Pastor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUbUBTlmAiA

Obama Disrespecting U.S. Flag and Anthem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8QCkgg5Kjo

The Audacity of Barack Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjnT4eJJvs

The Audacity of Barack Obama 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeC8BE-2T_k

Is Obama Wright? - Pastor Wright & Senator Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72B3tUAqpo4

Obama’s Pastor - 9/11 Fault of Israel Association

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnI431s1r6s

Obama - Cult of Personality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP7lUGn7HWk

Name Obama’s Accomplishments if you can #1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGeu_4Ekx-o

Name Obama’s Accomplishments if you can #2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzFOOcEQtP0

Barack Obama: There Will Be Bamboozling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuB_W8o_UsU

The Two Things Senator Obama Accomplished

http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/02/27/obamas-empty-change-message/

The Jeremiah Wright Lifetime Achievement Award

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prhnc2fxAzg

Gaza Strip Palestinians Campaigning for Obama

http://youtube.com/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g

Barack Obama Doesn’t Want His Daughters ‘Punished’ With a Baby

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eNzmly28Bmg


2 posted on 04/22/2008 6:25:09 PM PDT by F15Eagle (1 John 5:4-5, 4:15, John 11:25, 14:6, 1 Tim 2:5, John 3:17-18, John 20:31, 1 John 5:13, John 6:69)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

High Hewitt made a good observation tonight.
Obama can get a security clearance if he becomes POTUS but nine of his buddys will be able to!


3 posted on 04/22/2008 6:26:18 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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None


4 posted on 04/22/2008 6:26:49 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When the smiles and platitudes are set aside, Obama’s campaign and the philosophy of his cadre amount to one big put-down of America.
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And what else would we expect from the anti-American, radical, far left?? Patriotism? Pro-Americanism? Support of the Constitution? Care about Americas’ needs and the will of its people? A government FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE?

Hell no. Not from today’s left.


5 posted on 04/22/2008 6:27:45 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: mylife

High Hewitt made a good observation tonight.
Obama can get a security clearance if he becomes POTUS but nine of his buddys will be able to!

What’s that mean?


6 posted on 04/22/2008 6:27:48 PM PDT by unkus
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To: unkus

He runs with terrorists and folks who condemn America and foment hate against the Gov


7 posted on 04/22/2008 6:28:54 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Unfortunately, the president can give anyone (William Ayers, Charles Manson, Hugo Chavez, etc..) a security clearance. He’s the “decider” as the saying goes.


8 posted on 04/22/2008 6:29:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary or Obama can!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If the Democrats don’t wise up NOW, he will. They have a much better shot with (shivers) Hillary.

We’ll vet him if they won’t.


9 posted on 04/22/2008 6:29:25 PM PDT by Baladas
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Kinda like Sandy Burglar?


10 posted on 04/22/2008 6:30:42 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: EagleUSA

When you’re further left than Dennis Kucinich, Ted Kennedy, Jack Murtha, John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi, you are WAY out there!!


11 posted on 04/22/2008 6:31:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary or Obama can!)
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To: unkus

It means I type with two thumbs and one eye closed!


12 posted on 04/22/2008 6:32:17 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife
"Kinda like Sandy Burglar?"

Good example.

13 posted on 04/22/2008 6:32:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary or Obama can!)
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To: mylife

LOL-me too.


14 posted on 04/22/2008 6:33:43 PM PDT by unkus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I am the ONE, I can and will change America:-() Sure:-)

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15 posted on 04/22/2008 6:34:52 PM PDT by geo40xyz (McCain, Obama or Hillarybeast possibility of 4 Supreme Court Justices, Gore @UN. The WINNER is?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; F15Eagle; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; Grampa Dave; gonzo; FARS; ...

16 posted on 04/22/2008 6:37:51 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: geo40xyz

I think his right arm is way too long in that cartoon.


17 posted on 04/22/2008 6:40:03 PM PDT by skimask (Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lucky for the Dems that Rush is doing everything he can to get Hillary nominated, then.


18 posted on 04/22/2008 6:42:02 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Unfortunately, the president can give anyone...a security clearance.

Yep. Some of the incredibly damaging leaks during the Clinton administration were done by irresponsible punks who regarded their clearances as perks of office. It isn't just who's sitting in the Oval Office, it's the crowd he brings with him. Or her. BTT.

19 posted on 04/22/2008 6:42:36 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Obama the Savior"

Louis Farrakhan, at the annual Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2008: "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better"..."If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4337417

Louis Farrakhan, at the Millions More Movement rally in DC, Oct 15, 2005: "...what Mao Tse Tung did was, he went to the cultural community, and they [Farrakhan spreads his arms beneficently] accepted his idea."..."Mao Tse Tung ... had a billion people whose lives he had to transform."..."the idea of Mao Tse Tung became the idea of a billion people, and China became a world power on the base of the culture and the arts community. If we had a ministry of art and culture in every city we'd create this movement [in the U.S.]."
Source:
http://thedrunkablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/communist-plot-noted.html

Louis Farrakhan, Santiago de Cuba, February, 1998: "There is not a member of the black masses in the United States who is not proud of the example set by Cuba and its revolution, with Comandante Fidel at its head"
Source: http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/farakhan21898.html#says

Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Obama's "spirtual advisor" and pastor of more than 20 years, honors "Honorable" Minister Louis Farrakhan with the "Jeremiah A. Wright Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer Award" at the 2007 Trumpet Gala held at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.
[it appears the original video was removed, but this one is identical to it]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW2OhkZ0RSg

Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle
FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02

"During his fugitive years, Mr. Ayers said, he lived in 15 states, taking names of dead babies in cemeteries who were born in the same year as he. He describes the typical safe house: there were usually books by Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh, and Che Guevara's picture in the bedroom; fermented Vietnamese fish sauce in the refrigerator, and live sourdough starter donated by a Native American that was reputed to have passed from hand to hand over a century."

(snip)

"Mr. Ayers, who in 1970 was said to have summed up the Weatherman philosophy as:

'Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at,' is today distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

And he says he doesn't actually remember suggesting that rich people be killed or that people kill their parents, but 'it's been quoted so many times I'm beginning to think I did,' he said."

(snip)

"He also writes about the Weathermen's sexual experimentation as they tried to 'smash monogamy.' The Weathermen were 'an army of lovers,' he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend."

From Sept 11, 2001, New York Times article/interview with Obama associate and friend, William/Bill Ayers.
Article title: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

Bill Ayers, TODAY, April 6, 2008:
"Imperialism. I’m against it, and if Sean Hannity and others were honest, this is the ground they would fight me on. Capitalism played its role historically and is exhausted as a force for progress: built on exploitation, theft, conquest, war, and racism, capitalism and imperialism must be defeated and a world revolution—a revolution against war and racism and materialism, a revolution based on human solidarity and love, cooperation and the common good —must win.

We begin by releasing our most hopeful dreams and our most radical imaginations: a better world is both possible and necessary.

Source: http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/

Note: Ayers is very likely quoting Bob Avakian, chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, with the phrase 'both possible and necessary' in regards to a communist overthrow of the US government. See these Yahoo search results for "bob avakian" + "possible and necessary"--Eye On The Left

20 posted on 04/22/2008 6:43:07 PM PDT by Eye On The Left
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To: Eye On The Left

A perverted killer, and commie no less if he thinks like this.
Nice, real nice.
Why is he still on the streets?


21 posted on 04/22/2008 6:52:41 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (I heard it on the grapevine and saw it in the paper, so it must be true.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He might be able to shrug off an acquaintance, but he has created a circle of advisers who literally hate America and hate white people.


22 posted on 04/22/2008 7:02:26 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U
A perverted killer, and commie no less, if he thinks like this. Nice, real nice. Why is he still on the streets?

Fortunately, as an organization, the Weather Underground didn't kill anyone, other than three of their own in the NYC townhouse explosion. But they definitely tried.

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"three members of the Weather Underground accidentally killed themselves in a Manhattan townhouse while attempting to build a powerful bomb they had intended to plant at a social dance in Fort Dix, New Jersey -- an event that was to be attended by U.S. Army soldiers. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plot been successfully executed."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

"The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
The bomb was packed with nails to inflict maximum casualties upon detonation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Chronology_of_events

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"On October 20, 1981 -- long after the Weather Underground had ceased to exist -- former Underground member Kathy Boudin and her soon-to-be husband, David Gilbert, were accomplices in the robbery of a Brinks armored car in Nyack, New York. In the course of that heist, one Brinks guard and two Nyack police officers were murdered. Also involved in the robbery was Judith Clark, who had served a prison term for her participation in the 'Days of Rage.' Boudin hired attorney Leonard Weinglass, a law partner of her father, to defend her in the case.

Weinglass arranged for a plea bargain whereby Boudin pled guilty to one count of felony murder and robbery, in exchange for a prison sentence of twenty years to life. She was paroled in 2003, however, over strong opposition from New York State police. Gilbert remains in New York's Attica State Prison, having refused to bargain.

In 1985, former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg (who also was implicated in the Nyack robbery) and Linda Evans were apprehended while transporting 740 pounds of explosives which they both acknowledged were slated for use in additional bombings. Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years in prison, Evans 40; President Bill Clinton pardoned both women in January 2001."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

The 1981 Former Weather Underground members/Black Liberation Army Brinks truck robbery/murder:

"David J. Gilbert, 37, rented the vehicle that same day in the Bronx. Gilbert was a long time member of the Weather Underground and a fugitive from the state of Colorado where he faced charges of assault and possession of explosives. The passenger in the front seat of the U Haul was Kathy Boudin, on the run from the law since the townhouse explosion in 1970. The couple had dropped off their one-year old child with a babysitter in the morning and was waiting for the return of the red van."

"In the back of the red van were Cecilio 'Chui' Ferguson, 35, Samuel Brown AKA Solomon Bouines, 41, Samuel Smith AKA Mtayari Sundiata, 37, and Donald Weems AKA Kuwasi Balagoon, 35. There were others present, but it has never been proven who, or how many. All the men in back of the van were members of a group they called 'The Family.' Most of them had ties to the Black Panthers or the Black Liberation Army, radical political groups that had many violent confrontations with police during the 1970s."

"At approximately 3:55 p.m., Paige, a 24-year Brink's veteran and his partner, Joe Trombino, 48, exited the doors to the Mall rolling out the moneybags on a hand truck. They walked over to the Brink's truck and began to load up the bags onto the rear deck. Simultaneously, the red van pulled up and the rear doors swung open. One of the suspects, armed with a shotgun, ran to the front of the truck and immediately fired two blasts directly at the bulletproof windshield. The guard in the front seat ducked just in time and was unhurt.

Another suspect, wearing a ski mask, opened up with his M-16 automatic rifle before his feet even hit the pavement, striking Paige in the neck, arm and chest. He was killed instantly.

Joe Trombino fired just one shot before he was hit several times in his upper arm and shoulder. The bullets all but severed his arm off his shoulder. "I've got no arm!" he screamed. But Trombino would survive that day, only to perish years later in another terrorist attack at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001."

Former Weather Underground members/Black Liberation Army Brinks robbery:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/4.html

Allies in War
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001:

ON THE MORNING OF THE ATTACKS on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, along with a million other readers of the New York Times including many who would never be able to read the paper again, I opened its pages to be confronted by a color photo showing a middle-aged couple holding hands and affecting a defiant look at the camera. The article was headlined in an irony that could not have been more poignant, "No Regrets For A Love Of Explosives."

The couple pictured were Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, former leaders of the 1960s’ Weather Underground, America’s first terrorist cult. One of their bombing targets, as it happened, was the Pentagon.

"I don’t regret setting bombs," Ayers was quoted in the opening line of the Times profile; "I feel we didn’t do enough." In 1969, Ayers and his wife convened a "War Council" in Flint Michigan, whose purpose was to launch a military front inside the United States with the purpose of helping Third World [Maoist-communist] revolutionaries conquer and destroy it.

Taking charge of the podium, dressed in high-heeled boots and a leather mini-skirt – her signature uniform – Dorhn incited the assembled radicals to join the war against "Amerikkka" and create chaos and destruction in the "belly of the beast."

Her voice rising to a fevered pitch, Dohrn raised three fingers in a "fork salute" to mass murderer Charles Manson whom she proposed as a symbol to her troops. Referring to the helpless victims of the Manson Family as the "Tate Eight" (the most famous was actress Sharon Tate) Dohrn shouted:

"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"

(big snip)

Today William Ayers is not merely an author favored by the New York Times, but a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

His Lady Macbeth [Bernardine Dohrn] is not merely a lawyer, but a member of the American Bar Association’s governing elite, as well as the director of Northwestern University’s Children and Family Justice Center.
[it's true! see: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/aclu/]

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09


"Sara Jane Olson and former fugitive Bernardine Dohrn chatted before Dohrn was to lead a panel discussion about conspiracy prosecutions of political activists in 2000. Olson (former Symbionese Liberation Front captor of Patty Hearst) has been sent back to prison for her role in a murder committed during a bank robbery, but **Dorhn and Ayers never had to serve a day in prison for their deeds in the Weather Underground, thanks to bleeding heart judges who threw the case out of court on a technicality."--source unknown

**"Dohrn once was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. She served seven months in prison for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating a 1981 armored truck robbery in Nyack, N.Y., in which two police officers were killed."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20011101/aponline190504_000.htm

"All charges against him [Bill Ayers] were dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct during the long search for the fugitives. They later became legal guardians of Chesa Boudin, the son of former Weathermen David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, after his parents were arrested for their part in the Brinks Robbery of 1981.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers

From wikipedia.com:
6 March 1970 – Another group blows themselves up when their 'bomb factory' located in New York's Greenwich Village accidentally explodes. WUO [Weather Underground] members Theodore Gold, Diana Oughton, and Terry Robbins die in this accident.

The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
The bomb was packed with nails to inflict maximum casualties upon detonation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Chronology_of_events

The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference

[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]

April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.

I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)

We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.

Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy

III. Lunch and Public Encounters

Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.

IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.

William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm

23 posted on 04/22/2008 7:09:48 PM PDT by Eye On The Left
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To: Eye On The Left

bm for later


24 posted on 04/22/2008 7:16:25 PM PDT by JessieHelmsJr
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To: mylife
Obama can get a security clearance if he becomes POTUS but nine of his buddys will be able to!

"To"? To do what?

25 posted on 04/22/2008 7:24:54 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Cobra64

Nine =None


26 posted on 04/22/2008 7:26:24 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: unkus
High Hewitt made a good observation tonight. Obama can get a security clearance if he becomes POTUS but nine of his buddys will be able to!

What’s that mean?

I just figured it out after reading it three times. He meant "too" as in "also." If he'd written "two," I'd have been really confused.

27 posted on 04/22/2008 7:31:35 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
a would-be President who cannot utterly disassociate himself from such racist, anti-American rubbish lacks sufficient character and affinity for his country's ideals to be its leader.

Character is implicated in the man's associates, to be sure, but that is not the main thing.

The primary issue raised by his associates, and one which is mysteriously absent from the public debate, is that once elected, a President Obama would have numerous appointments to make--the cabinet, federal judges, all manner of "advisors", heads of powerful regulatory agencies; and if he surrounds himself with radical a-holes for the last twenty years, we can hardly expect him to do otherwise in filling out his regime.

The reason these creeps are relevant is that Obama would give them power over us, the people. How would Jeremiah Wright, Secretary of Health and Human Services grab you? NO THANKS.

28 posted on 04/22/2008 7:35:48 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: mylife
Obama can get a security clearance if he becomes POTUS but none of his buddys will be able to!

Security clearance is a joke and has been ever since the Clinton regime. He never did get clearance for half his staff and associates because they'd all flunk. So he didn't bother and no one, including Newt and the rest of the republicans, did a damn thing about it.

29 posted on 04/22/2008 7:39:22 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

Its sad to contemplate that a potential President doesnt have to meet the requirements that millions of regular folks have to live up to.

Its a travesty


30 posted on 04/22/2008 7:42:29 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: All
Babbling Idiots for Obama
31 posted on 04/22/2008 7:50:08 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: PhilDragoo

32 posted on 04/22/2008 8:03:49 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (I want to "Buy American" but the only things for sale made in the USA are politicians)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Rush’s idea of keeping the campaign alive is the only way that most of this Obama dirt ever made into the MSM. Wright, Ayers, etc. would have never made it past the internet, talk radio, and maybe Foxnews. Instead, it has been big stories on ABC, CNN, and other major outlets. The idea was to keep the campaign going past OH/TX because the dirt would come out on this leftist. Otherwise, he would have entered the general election untarnished and any of this news would have been dismissed by most as just the VRWC v.2.


33 posted on 04/22/2008 8:06:33 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: hinckley buzzard; mylife; 2ndDivisionVet; Cobra64
Security clearance is a joke and has been ever since the Clinton regime. He never did get clearance for half his staff and associates because they'd all flunk. So he didn't bother and no one, including Newt and the rest of the republicans, did a damn thing about it.

Revenge of Gary Aldrich
Clinton-Gore security meltdown sad vindication for ex-FBI agent

Posted: June 22, 2000
By Paul Sperry
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com

"WASHINGTON -- He could crow, "I told you so," and who could blame him? Even early skeptics Sam Donaldson and Tim Russert have confessed to him, in private, that he was right all along.

But that wouldn't be his style. The soft-spoken, almost diffident, FBI agent who first warned of the White House's reckless disregard for security procedures, is also too busy exhorting other federal whistle-blowers to come forward to inform the public of a dangerous pattern over the past nearly eight years: the systematic dismantling of safeguards across the entire U.S. security complex. ....

Lots more at:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=20725

34 posted on 04/22/2008 8:09:24 PM PDT by Eye On The Left
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To: ilgipper
Otherwise, he would have entered the general election untarnished and any of this news would have been dismissed by most as just the VRWC v.2.

I agree completely. And once the Dem convention is done, these truths will be shoved back in the closet. Barry is going to get a huge book of "free passes" along with the nomination. Bet on it.

35 posted on 04/22/2008 8:17:58 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Dare we call Obama a black supremacist?

Yes, I will.

36 posted on 04/22/2008 8:19:08 PM PDT by razorback-bert (If yer gunna regret this in the mornin, we kin sleep til afternoon.)
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To: mylife
Billy Ayers may end up being a bigger liability for Obama than his "close spiritual mentor" was. Billy was and is a pro-terrorist, anti-democracy, anti-American silver-spooner.

If the story turns out to be true that the Obama campaign began in Billy and Bernadette's living room, he is toast. He is roasted toast.

37 posted on 04/22/2008 9:27:57 PM PDT by cookcounty (Obama reach across the aisle? He's so far to the left, he'll need a roadmap to FIND the aisle.)
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To: cookcounty

He is Toast if this country has its eyes open


38 posted on 04/22/2008 9:29:34 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: cookcounty

What scares me Cook is that fully half this country doesnt give a shit


39 posted on 04/22/2008 9:31:22 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife
"Kinda like Sandy Burglar?

Lee Hamilton sits on Sandy's "Board of Reference."

In Lee Hamilton's judgement, Sandy Berger is a fine upstanding exemplary citizen, and now Hamilton's campaigning for Obama, and wants us to take his judgement of Obama seriously.

Seriously.

40 posted on 04/22/2008 9:33:49 PM PDT by cookcounty (Obama reach across the aisle? He's so far to the left, he'll need a roadmap to FIND the aisle.)
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To: cookcounty

Oh a uhh its 1774 and some say ..Yeah I am buds with Cornwallis, we have BBQs together..

How does that work out?


41 posted on 04/22/2008 9:34:14 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: cookcounty

We need to run ALL the bums out


42 posted on 04/22/2008 9:35:54 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: cookcounty

I’m willing to toss it for “free Health care”

L0l!Gotta get some Zzzzs now


43 posted on 04/22/2008 9:38:59 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

Poll Shows New York Turning “Purple”
WXXI | April 22, 2008 | Karen DeWitt
Posted on 04/22/2008 2:28:33 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005410/posts

McCain Begins to Get It Right
Townhall | April 22, 2008 | Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
Posted on 04/22/2008 12:35:49 PM PDT by calcowgirl
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005356/posts

McCain exits campaign money race
[ http://www.johnmccain.com/ ]
Politico | April 22nd, 2008 | JEANNE CUMMINGS
Posted on 04/22/2008 12:35:06 AM PDT by The_Republican
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005095/posts


44 posted on 04/23/2008 12:29:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
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To: mylife

It means I type with two thumbs and one eye closed!...

...at least you use your other thumb...unlike some of us...


45 posted on 04/23/2008 5:37:22 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: mylife

You said he can get a clearance? Must have been a mistake. I had to get a top secret clearance at one time and if I had associated with the kind of people Barack has I would never have gotten it.


46 posted on 04/23/2008 5:49:15 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: hinckley buzzard

You are exactly right..half of the impeached ex president clinton’s white house crowd did not get clearances... and the lame republicans let it slide..


47 posted on 04/23/2008 8:41:43 AM PDT by JoanneSD (illegals represented without taxation.. Americans taxed without representation)
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