Posted on 05/06/2008 4:22:50 PM PDT by SJackson
A seven-year-old photograph of Barack Obama associate and onetime radical bombmaker William Ayers stomping on an American flag is all over the Internet, earning criticism from Obama’s presidential campaign.
The senator’s campaign spokesman said Obama is “appalled by the disrespect” to Old Glory, but decried efforts to associate Obama to the action just because the men know each other.
“Senator Obama is appalled by this disrespect of a flag we love and that so many have fought and died for. There is no excuse for anyone to treat that which we hold so dear with so little regard. But the politics of association required to link Obama to this picture in any way is ridiculous and a silly distraction from the important challenges facing the American people,” said Obama spokesman Bill Burton.
(Excerpt) Read more at elections.foxnews.com ...
Border-to-border, coast-to-coast house cleaning! That 's all I can think of!
(Professional cleaners only, please.)
If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!
I noticed that Obama actually hasn’t squat.
The real issue is that Obama IS a radical Marxist, and so all of his friends are too’ and this includes his wife.
I think I know what you mean!
"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."
"He [Bill Ayers] 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."
Article: "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
"when I was getting ready to leave [Bill] Ayers told me I couldn’t go until I slept with his roommate and his brother. At this point Bill and I had slept together just once. I was sexually inexperienced, having had only one serious boyfriend with whom I had recently broken up. At first I thought Ayers was joking. I got up; and went to the door. He moved quickly to block me at the doorway. He locked the door and put the chain on it. I went to the couch and sat down and told him that I had no intention of having sex with his roommate and his brother or him. He said that I had no choice but to do as he said if I wanted to get out of there. He claimed that I wouldn’t sleep with his married roommate because he was black -- that I was a bigot. I got up from the couch and walked over to the black roommate’s bed and put myself on it and he ****** me. I went totally out of my body. I floated beside myself on the outside and above the bed looking at this black stranger **** me angrily while I hated myself."
Remembering a Sixties Terrorist -by Donna Ron
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, January 04, 2006:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=9E8CD8A7-E90B-4311-8AA9-AEFD014A14B2
Now all Obama has to do is distance himself from some things a young senator called Barack once said, and it would be a perfect trifecta.
Obama really scares me, he seems like teflon, nothing sticks to him and he can say or do whatever he wants and people love it.
Judging nObama by his friends, I would have to say that he is either incredibly naive or a liar. Either way he’s not fit to be POTUS.
Excellent video! Thanks for the link!
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The problem with the original link was that, although it was named correctly, the url was incorrect. This is why it's always a good idea to check links *before* clicking on them by hovering your mouse's cursor/pointer over the link. Somewhere on your screen (depending on your OS and/or browser) you should see the actual url the link would take you to. On MS Explorer, the screen location would be on the 'Status Bar'. To add the status bar to your screen (for MS Explorer at least--it might be called something else on other browsers?), click "view" on the toolbar (next to File, Edit, View, Favorites, Tools, etc), then select Status Bar (checkmark appears). A link can 'appear' to take you to a trusted location but actually take you to a malicious website where viruses can be downloaded simply by going there. Fake e-mails supposedly coming from banks and other businesses use this trick often. Again, this can be easily avoided by first checking the links the way I described. If some or most of you already know this, I apologize, but others here might not know it.
Michael Savage should see this article.
No Lenten table causes rift at Prairie View
(http://www.southtownstar.com/news/935499,050708foodfight.article)
May 7, 2008
ILLINOIS
BY ANGELA CAPUTO Staff writer
When some parents at Prairie View Middle School asked for a separate lunch table for their children during the Ramadan fast, Principal Joel Martin thought the request seemed reasonable.
As long as the gathering of fasting students didn’t disrupt and didn’t cost the district anything, Martin had no qualm with offering the religious accommodation.
But his decision rubbed parent Jennifer Cimaglia the wrong way. And when the school shot down a similar, mid-Lenten request by seventh-grader Ryan Vandewiel and 60 or so of his classmates who signed a petition seeking separate seating for observant Catholics, the Tinley Park mother of three decided “enough is enough.”
“It’s not just about the table,” Cimaglia said. “It appears that there is preferential treatment for the Muslim students.”
The potential for ethnic tension prompted the Kirby School District 140 board to put “cultural diversity” on the agenda for its Thursday night committee meeting.
Board member John Martelli said people are welcome to attend to discuss concerns “in an open forum.” It’s unclear if the board plans to take any action on the topic, Martelli said.
Martin said Tuesday he never intended to set a double standard for students — particularly along religious lines. He only rejected the proposal for Catholic students to have a meat-free lunch table on Fridays because they hadn’t thought out the proposal enough to ask before the Lenten season began.
“Do I want to accommodate those students? Yes,” Martin said. “We’re going to look at accommodations for kids at Lent next year.”
Vandewiel — the 13-year-old who circulated the petition on behalf of Catholic students — said he’s satisfied by the principal’s commitment.
“I’d prefer that instead of having things for one religion or another there shouldn’t be anything for religion in school,” the Tinley Park teen said. “I think it’s wrong.”
The fasting-friendly Ramadan table may have been new at Prairie View, but it’s nothing new in the district, according to Supt. Michael Byrne, who is surprised by the fresh controversy. Parents at several of the schools have requested similar accommodations in years past.
What’s new is that the number of Arabic-speaking students in the Tinley Park district has continued to grow. And this year, the number of English as a Second Language students, mostly native-Arabic speakers, topped 20 at Christa McAuliffe School, which, under state law, required administrators to hire a full-time teacher to lead the students.
The addition of the ESL class bumped the art teacher from a classroom and forced the teacher to conduct class from a portable cart.
“It’s how education goes,” Byrne said. “We have special- education students ... I hope (people aren’t) pointing the finger at those students for using classrooms, too.”
But Cimaglia, who has a fifth-grader enrolled at McAuliffe and a seventh-grader at Prairie View, sees the changes made for Muslim students as a matter of preferential treatment - particularly when it comes to the religious accommodation.
“These are all little things adding up,” she said. “What I’d like to see is the same set of rules for all students. This is a public school.”
Angela Caputo can be reached at acaputo@southtownstar.com or (708) 633-5993.
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