Posted on 08/15/2008 4:05:16 PM PDT by mojito
A lot of the items in the Obama campaign's response to Corsi are items I was noting in my review - sloppy work, asserting "Obama didn't say X in his book," when in fact he did. (For example, Corsi is right that Obama never comes out and calls his father a polygamist in his book, but somewhere around the reference to the fourth or fifth wife a reader will start doubting whether he actually divorced each one.)
And then there's this one:
LIE: “Besides, Obama had to know who Ayers is and what he stands for, especially with Ayers making this splash on 9/11.” [p 147]
REALITY: AYERS COMMENTS WERE PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 11; THE INTERVIEW OCCURRED PRIOR TO PUBLICATION
On September 11, 2001, A Story About William Ayers’ Memoir Was Published In The New York Times; The Interview Occurred Prior To Publication. “‘I don’t regret setting bombs,’ Bill Ayers said. ‘I feel we didn’t do enough.’ Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970’s as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago.” [New York Times, 9/11/01]
This one completely misses the point — Corsi's argument is that Obama had to know who Ayers is and what he had done in his past during their many years of association; it's not like placing the bombs was an act he was ashamed of and made an effort to hide.
Or is this what the campaign is trying to argue? That indeed, Obama didn't know who Ayers was and what he stands for?
Anybody out there buy that?
They were only trying to bring about change! CHANGE!! CHANGE!!! oh... and hope.
Did Bernardine Dohrn Mentor Michelle [Robinson] Obama at Chicago Law Firm?
By daveinboca Posted in Archived — Comments (3) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
The media has been very gentle on Michelle Obama, but one blogger asks a very interesting question about Bernardine Dohrn’s possible mentoring of Michelle at Sidley Austin in Chicago, where Dohrn worked as a paralegal [her felony conviction meant she couldn’t pass the Illinois bar exam] while Michelle was an intern during summers while in law school. Michelle was later taken into the prestigious firm when she graduated from Harvard Law. Michelle in turn mentored Obama in ‘89 & they eventually married.
The MSM will never ask any questions about Dohrn & Michelle [Robinson] Obama intersecting at Sidley Austin. It would be nice if Republicans had more investigative reporters because my inquiring mind would like to know.
It might be that the Ayers-Dohrn relationship with the Obamas goes back earlier and the relationship could be much more extensive than previously reported.
I thought Obama had said somewhere that he was riding bicycles and just being a kid when Ayers was bombing America and that was long ago and who cares.....blah blah. Is he now changing his story and saying he didn’t know Ayers was a terrorist? That would be just like his initial response to the Wright debacle...”huh, Reverend Wright said those things? Its news to me.....”
Bambi appears to be even a more pathological liar than the Clintoons.
Obama must be getting tired of saying things like “That’s not the (fill in the name) I knew”. I wonder when he’s gonna have to ask Nagin if he has any more buses he isn’t planning on using...
On September 11, 2001, A Story About William Ayers’ Memoir Was Published In The New York Times; The Interview Occurred Prior To Publication. “‘I don’t regret setting bombs,’ Bill Ayers said. ‘I feel we didn’t do enough.’ Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970’s as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago.” [New York Times, 9/11/01]
So, I guess the insult to Ayers is that he is being called stupid for not realizing that he had to hide his true colors and pretend to be patriotic after 9/11. To a Liberal, this truly is a grievous insult. You are allowed to be an unrepentent terrorist, but you are not allowed to be stupid.
The defense is that he was an unrepentant terrorist prior to 9/11, back when that was acceptable, but after that he refrained from dancing on the flag and calling for the death of American civilians for a decent interval, at least two years...
Osama and Obama both have friends that have bombed the Pentagon.
Like his followers care.
“I live in Obama’s neighborhood and know some of the Obama / Ayers crowd. Ayers and Dohrn have babysat the Obama kids personally. The families are personal friends, not just professional acquaintances.
Posted by: hydeparker | August 13, 2008 at 01:41 PM”
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2008/08/i-know-the-secr.html
As evil as Hitler was, he never said, ‘kill your parents.’ Bill Ayers did!
Gee, Obamao isn’t aware of much of anything or anybody.
Yeah right, this guy is ready for the big time. LOL
The Indonesian Communist Party had just been destroyed, and atheistic Marxism outlawed. Pupils were required to state an affiliation with a major world religion. When enrolling a child, the common practice was to list the father’s faith.’” [Mercury News, 2/1/2007]
I thought Obama was raised a Christian. If he was raised a Christian and his mother was Christian, why didn't they use that? Instead, what this rebuttal seems to admit is what other articles have said, his mother was an atheist and he was given Muslim instruction in school. Maybe he was never a practicing Muslim but it doesn't sound like he was a Christian, either. So why doesn't he just come clean and say he was raised an atheist?
Me too, pal ...
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