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Obama's foes gather mud to sling (Barf Alert)
The Everett Herald ^ | May 25, 2008 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 05/25/2008 5:31:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Here are some things we can look forward to learning about Barack Obama:

That he was mentored in high school by a member of the Soviet-controlled Communist Party.

That he launched his Illinois state Senate campaign in the home of a terrorist and a killer.

That while serving as a state senator, he was a member of a socialist front group.

That his affiliations are so dodgy that he would have trouble getting a government security clearance.

That there is reason to doubt his "loyalty to the United States."

These and many other implausible accusations were offered by a group of conservatives last week -- including a living relic from the House Committee on Un-American Activities -- in a Capitol Hill basement. The charges ranged from the absurd to the merely questionable, but anybody who watched the Swift Boat campaign of 2004 make John Kerry look like a war criminal knows that's not the point.

The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy took a blow with Hillary Clinton's exit. But it is regrouping, and finding plenty of sinister things to say about Obama -- even if he didn't trade cattle futures.

The group, assembled by something called America's Survival Inc., gathered in the basement of the Ebenezer Coffee House in Washington. They shared the stage with a big drum set, and posters documenting items they would seek to tie to Obama: an Students for a Democratic Society newsletter from 1969 (when he was 7), and a police killing from 1970 (when he was 8).

"We believe that any public figure with links to foreign and hostile interests should be asked to explain those associations,"....

(Excerpt) Read more at heraldnet.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; billayers; communism; election; elections; muzziechurian; obama; sleeper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
But which of the accusations are untrue? This is pure Obama strategy-call out your opponent for dirty tactics, but never answer the charge.If they were completely implausible, it would be one thing, but he does have ties to unrepentent terrorists, and has been endorsed by Muslim terrorists. His pastor (and mentor, by his own words) did damn America, and does preach racism and hatred. What's dirty about the truth?
21 posted on 05/25/2008 6:22:17 PM PDT by mrsmel
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To: FFranco

Once that happens, the whole world will understand why most Americans are so adamantly pro-Second Amendment.


22 posted on 05/25/2008 6:24:01 PM PDT by mrsmel
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To: Libertarianize the GOP

Exactly. They refined this technique under Clinton.


23 posted on 05/25/2008 6:25:25 PM PDT by mrsmel
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To: FreeAtlanta

They don’t even have dig very deep to start, they could just read his books. But it might be “libelous” to use even his own written words against him!


24 posted on 05/25/2008 6:27:37 PM PDT by mrsmel
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To: fish hawk

And a huge factor is that a lot of this isn’t even personal skeletons (since they dismissed all that with Clinton). A lot of this goes directly to his political beliefs and intentions.


25 posted on 05/25/2008 6:29:08 PM PDT by mrsmel
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Poor Dana has had her head buried in the sand the last year or is suffering from multiple Obasms and is just not paying attention.

Dana has only one X chromosome.

26 posted on 05/25/2008 6:30:23 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The TRUTH and FACTS have always been messy to those on the LEFT.

History also seems to be a problem for them, as well as national pride, loyalty, sacrifice, military service, the Constitution and self sufficiency....

The Left and their fellow travelers have been a anchor on America.


27 posted on 05/25/2008 6:34:46 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Google each name together with Obama & see what comes up. Clickable searches:

Tony Rezko
Nadhmi Auchi
Allison Davis
Raila Odinga
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga
Abongo
Al Bakri Group
Abdulkader al Bakri aka Abdel Qader Bakri
Frank Marshall Davis
Bernardine Dohrn
William Ayers
Saul Alinksy
George Soros
Rep. Jan Schakowsky
Robert Creamer
Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Louis Farrakhan
Mohammar Kaddafy
Bernie Sanders
Mike Kruglik
Democratic Socialists of America
Socialist International
Party of European Socialists
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
Saul Mendelson
Khaleel Ahmed
Zubair A. Ahmed
Talat M. Othman
Rashid Khalidi
Cornell West
New Black Panther Party
Malik Zulu Shabazz
Robert Malley
Edward Said
Harold Koh
Reverend James Meeks
General McPeak
Congressman Chaka Fattah
Father Michael Pfleger
Ali Abunimah
Imam Hassan Qazwini
Hatem El-Hady
Ahmed Yousef
Hamas

28 posted on 05/25/2008 6:37:45 PM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
That he was mentored in high school by a member of the Soviet-controlled Communist Party.

That he launched his Illinois state Senate campaign in the home of a terrorist and a killer.

That while serving as a state senator, he was a member of a socialist front group.

That his affiliations are so dodgy that he would have trouble getting a government security clearance.

That there is reason to doubt his "loyalty to the United States."

All of these are perfectly defensible and reasonably accurate statements.

30 posted on 05/25/2008 7:01:17 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let the games begin!


31 posted on 05/25/2008 7:08:42 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama speaks with a sneer in his voice.)
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To: FFranco

I have heard this theory from many, many people in various walks of life, and in both parties.

Most thoughtful, inquiring people do not trust Barack Hussein Obama.


32 posted on 05/25/2008 7:10:46 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama speaks with a sneer in his voice.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
Bill Ayers TODAY (April 6, 2008), from his own red communist star-headed website, begging to debate communism vs capitalism with Sean Hannity and STILL calling for revolution!

"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/page/2/

Weather Underground Organization [linked to N. Vietnamese and Cuban gov'mts, KGB]
[420 pages in all on pdf]

Source: FBI | Freedom of Information Act

In 1976, the FBI's Chicago Field Office prepared a summary which described the activities of the Weather Underground Organization, also known as Weathermen. This organization described itself as a revolutionary organization of communist men and women. The FBI's analysis of its motivations, beliefs, and international travels are outlined in this summary.

[some excerpts from the 1976 report linking the organization to foreign governments...]

From the moment in October, 1967, when Radio Hanoi announced the formation of the South Vietnamese Peoples Committee for Solidarity with American People (by the National Liberation Front (NLF), the political arm of the Viet Cong) with the objective of establishing relations with "progressive organizations and individuals in the United States," a political front was enjoined in behalf of the national interests of the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam (DRV) (and the NLF), the purpose of which was to intensify the anti-war sentiment in the United States. From the initial meeting between the Vietnamese and leading anti-war activists held in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in November, 1967, to the July, 1969, meeting with leading Weatherpeople held in Havana, Cuba, the influence of Vietnamese representatives on the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) leadership became sharply pronounced. At the same time, the example of the Cuban revolution became the guide for the emerging American student revolutionary. With an increasing number of trips to Havana where the youthful revolutionary could learn at first hand how to create revolution, the influence of Cuba on the developing WUO [Weather Underground Organization] was enormous.

The WUO obtained their revolutionary methodology from the Cubans and Vietnamese and, importantly, put into practice what they had learned from them. The Weathermen, of course, did not just happen to come about during the June, 1969, SDS National Convention. They fully admit their radical heritage began during experiences gained in SDS and as shown herein their international contacts with representatives of the DRV and NLF which began in 1967 increased their anti-imperialist consciousness so that by 1969 they had solidified their revolutionary commitment to include the maximum optimum of armed struggle. So, when Huynh Van Ba, representative of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam (PRG), instructed the WUO to "look for the person who fights hardest against the cops...Don't look for the one who says the best thing. Look for the one who fights," the campus base was forgotten and the WUO began to recruit the greasers and assorted oddments who had displayed their hatred of authority in direct combat with police.

The WUO has existed since early 1970. Since then, their ideological statements have developed a more consistent Marxist-Leninist revolutionary stance, and along with their numerous "underground communiques" which have accompanied significant bombings throughout the country, their statements quite clearly show they continue to consider themselves revolutionaries of an international order. Their revolutionary duty lies side by side with the oppressed Third World peoples and the proletariat of the world. Hence, the international character of the WUO and the foreign influence which shaped that character was early defined and has been a constant frame of reference when considering the investigative problem inherent to the WUO.
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/weather.htm

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

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

33 posted on 05/25/2008 7:21:52 PM PDT by ETL
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How can truth be called “mud slinging”.


34 posted on 05/25/2008 9:19:51 PM PDT by taxesareforever (We'll never forget Matt Maupin and his service to our country.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
1.  That he was mentored in high school by a member of the Soviet-controlled Communist Party.

His name was Frank Marshall Davis.  Davis was a drinking companion of Obama's grandfather, Stanley.  Obama, himself, writes of his long and close relationship with Davis in "Dreams," although Obama only identifies him as "Frank."

2.  That he launched his Illinois state Senate campaign in the home of a terrorist and a killer.

Well, he did!  In 1995, during Obama’s first run, the unrepentant terrorists, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn hosted a "Get to Know the Candidate, Obama" at their home.

3.  That while serving as a state senator, he was a member of a socialist front group.

During first run for the Illinois State Senate, Obama received the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for the Illinois state senate seat.   Obama, himself, was an associate of the Chicago branch of the DSA.

4.  That his affiliations are so dodgy that he would have trouble getting a government security clearance.

As an ex-member of the US Army, Military Intelligence, Counter Intelligence, and charged with conducting personal background investigations (BI's) for security clearances, I can tell you that every red flag in the book would go off if Obama was ever subjected to a BI.

5.  That there is reason to doubt his "loyalty to the United States."

I guess the Post believes there is ABSOLUTELY no reason to doubt his loyalty -- none -- zero -- zilch.

And, there's a bunch of other allegations in this article that the Post discounts -- all of them HAVE BEEN DOCUMENTED in other forums.

According to the leftists in the media, Barack is without sin, as is appropriate for any messiah.

The Obama File


35 posted on 05/26/2008 4:19:35 AM PDT by Beckwith ('Typical White Person')
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To: martin_fierro

And the Congessional Disrict that Obama Represented in Which Tony Rezco recieved 100 million dollars in Grants to rehabilitate the Delapetated housing , has been transformed into that shining city on a Hill ! I dont think so ,take a Look for yourself, Asked about this The Messiah said he didnt know anyting about it . I thought he might say,
Thats the Change we can believe in!


36 posted on 05/26/2008 6:02:46 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I sent the author a letter, for all the good it will do.


37 posted on 05/26/2008 8:59:02 AM PDT by Jack Black
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