Posted on 04/21/2008 4:59:28 AM PDT by moderatewolverine
>> How does Obama still manage to raise $40 million in a month?
That, to me, is truly frightening. Who IS funding Obama, anyway? Are they even citizens of the US?
Obama would be a big loser in the election. The older dem party is totally racist and will not vote Obama especially in the South and mid West so you do not get the middle age and older whites. Good luck getting the Asians, Hispanics to vote for him they really dislike blacks, and the Jews have had an eye opener concerning blacks in the last 2 primaries good luck with them also.
The republicans will not go and vote for McCain but they will go and vote against Obama. You might not get the most conservative but you gain the blue dog dems in droves. Probably a low turn out election but all McCain has to do is keep his mouth shut and run commercials on the stupid liberal things Obama has already said.
www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0420chapmanapr20,1,2975893.column
chicagotribune.com
About Obama’s terrorist acquaintance
Steve Chapman
April 20, 2008
But his comfortable association with an unrepentant former terrorist should induce queasiness in anyone who shares the humane values that Obama extols.
When the issue came up in Wednesday’s Democratic debate, the Illinois senator tried to duck it. “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from,” he said. He added that to suggest “knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense.”
Obama went on, “I’m also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who during his campaign once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions. Do I need to apologize for Mr. Coburn’s statements?”
This exercise in moral equivalence is unconvincing, if not dishonest. Would Obama be friendly with someone who actually bombed abortion clinics and defends that conduct? Not likely. But he is friendly with William Ayers, a leader of the radical Weather Underground, which in the 1970s carried out numerous bombings, including one inside the U.S. Capitol. (Though the last person who should object is Hillary Clinton, whose husband pardoned two Weather Underground members.)
Obama minimized his relationship by acknowledging only that he knows Ayers. But they have quite a bit more of a connection than that. He’s appeared on panels with Ayers, served on a foundation board with him and held a 1995 campaign event at the home of Ayers and his wife, fellow former terrorist Bernardine Dohrn. Ayers even gave money to one of his campaigns.
It’s not as though Ayers and Dohrn have denied or repudiated their crimes. After emerging from years in hiding, they escaped federal prosecution because of government misconduct in gathering evidence, but they don’t pretend they were innocent. In 2001, Ayers said, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”
EXCERP
“Who IS funding Obama, anyway?”
Rezko? Hamas? Hezbollah? Soros? The possibilities are endless... ;-)
>> Rezko? Hamas? Hezbollah? Soros?
All of the above?
[Obama Republicans could produce a Democratic presidential landslide.]
Hummm, someone smokin wacky-weed.
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