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Gloves off: Now, Obama calls for prosecuting GOP donor
michellemalkin.com ^ | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 08/26/2008 2:53:50 PM PDT by the anti-liberal

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 26, 2008 04:41 PM

I noted this morning that the Obama campaign’s Chicago-style thug effort to shut down the independent ad on Bill Ayers is part of the larger effort to intimidate conservative donors and curtail the free speech of The One’s critics.

It’s getting uglier, people.

Obama’s lawyer has sent a second letter to the Justice Department calling for the head of Dallas billionare Harold Simmons, who funded the Ayers ad that the Obama campaign doesn’t want the public to see.

Feel the chill:

Obama general counsel Bob Bauer today sent a second, sharper letter to the Justice Department, directly attacking the Dallas billionaire funding a harsh attack ad, Harold Simmons.

“We reiterate our request that the Department of Justice fulfill its commitment to take prompt action to investigate and to prosecute the American issues Project, and we further request that the Department of Justice investigate and prosecute Howard (sic) Simmons for a knowing and willful violation of the individual aggregate contribution limits,” he wrote.

He called the group’s activities “patently illegal.”

Bauer made the case that Simmons’ group [is not] fulfilling its [...] nonprofit charter because it hasn’t spent any money on anything other than attacking Obama. Simmons’ spokesman, Christian Pinkston, told me yesterday that plans to, and dismissed the complaints as an effort to lawyer away charges the campaign can’t rebut.

I posted AIP’s rebuttal here yesterday. And as I’ve noted today and will note again: Obama has some nerve whining about campaign finance integrity after getting caught hiding $800,000 in ACORN payments.

What’s going on? Simple: The Left has its George Soros sugar daddy and can’t stand that conservatives have their own committed benefactors. They’ve got a massive non-profit infrastructure funded with taxpayers and operating flagrantly in an illegal, partisan manner (hello, ACORN Watch!). They want the playing field all to themselves. And they are fighting for that turf by any means necessary.

Can they do it?

No, they can’t. Not if you don’t let them.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; 2008; 2muchtruth; 2true; 527groups; acorn; ad; ads; ayers; campaignfinance; chickenshet; crybaby; democrats; donors; electionads; elections; fascist; firstamendment; fundedbysoros; gop; intimidation; nobama08; obama; unfitforcommand; williamayers
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To: colorcountry
That is a good tagline! Thanks for sharing!
41 posted on 08/26/2008 3:16:45 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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To: ken21

Oba Mao? I like that. Is that your creation? Very original.


42 posted on 08/26/2008 3:17:35 PM PDT by DogBarkTree (The correct word isn't "immigrant" when what they are doing is "invading".)
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To: ken21; Fred Nerks
Pay Attention here:

Notice there is NO law suit for lible or slander!Because the video is TRUE! So they ask the feds to go after the alleged perpetrator, hoping that there is a leftist llawyer like Ronnie Earle arond to pay the wages of fascism??

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And this IS TRUE:

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43 posted on 08/26/2008 3:17:48 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, (Ridicule Obama))
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To: the anti-liberal
we further request that the Department of Justice investigate and prosecute Howard (sic) Simmons for a knowing and willful violation of the individual aggregate contribution limits

And as soon as they find a Howard Simmons, boy howdy, is he in trouble!
44 posted on 08/26/2008 3:18:25 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic ("And how can this be? For I am the Kwisatz Haderach! " - Barack Obama)
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To: Chode

Best goatse yet... Kudos!


45 posted on 08/26/2008 3:19:22 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: SkyDancer

bttt


46 posted on 08/26/2008 3:20:32 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
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To: Chode
Shut this down, communist thugs!
47 posted on 08/26/2008 3:21:09 PM PDT by E-Mat (Made in China = Arms for Tyrants)
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To: DogBarkTree

For more: Obamisms collection

48 posted on 08/26/2008 3:23:03 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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To: the anti-liberal

They want to prosecute him for exercising his freedom of speech? Who’d have imagined it?

By the way, I wonder what they taught Obama at Harvard. Must have been sick the day they talked about the Constitution.


49 posted on 08/26/2008 3:23:27 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

If they do still teach the Constitution, I suspect it’s the Liberal “living document’ perspective.


50 posted on 08/26/2008 3:26:17 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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To: SkyDancer

They are so determined to “not allow themselves to be swift boated again” that they literally foam at the mouth when somebody, like Corsi, says something negative about Neo (the one).


51 posted on 08/26/2008 3:28:50 PM PDT by ichabod1 (It's all fun and games until Russia starts invading Eastern Europe (pete))
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To: InterceptPoint
The idiot in question is our candidate, good old John McCain.

" I'm John McCain and I approve the restraint of political speech ".

52 posted on 08/26/2008 3:31:12 PM PDT by kbennkc (What passes for optimism is most often an intellectual error)
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To: the anti-liberal

bump


53 posted on 08/26/2008 3:32:59 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: the anti-liberal
Obama’s scared that his Ayers connection is going to get out to the poor saps that can barely think on their own but love America enough to know relations like this ain't respect for America.

The Change Theme is wearing thin.

54 posted on 08/26/2008 3:46:18 PM PDT by tobyhill (fraud -noun;(1)deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, (2) Obama)
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To: tobyhill
What Bambi doesn't seem to realize - especially since he seems to do this over and over - is that by making a controversy over it, it gets more publicity.

President Bush has always been smart in that he never responds to the vitriol from the Left, by not dignifying their idiocy with a response their attacks die a quiet death.

I hope Bambi keeps it up.

55 posted on 08/26/2008 3:50:44 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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To: Cacique

agree, the ends justifies the means

they can be thugs, murderers, crooks, etc. but if the cause they support is noble?


56 posted on 08/26/2008 3:52:43 PM PDT by machogirl
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To: tobyhill
All about Bill Ayers:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2169


57 posted on 08/26/2008 3:53:16 PM PDT by E-Mat (Made in China = Arms for Tyrants)
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To: Mamzelle

This from the guy who promised to take matching fed funds, then un-promised.”

I read somewhere that Nobama donated a million dollars ($1,000,000) to a Kenyan candidate a couple of years ago....
Where did he get that kind of money???

Wasn’t he tampering with and trying to influence another country’s politics????

Rules only apply where he wants them???


58 posted on 08/26/2008 3:53:20 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: the anti-liberal

Hooray Harold Simmons! Thanks Michelle Malkin.

Bill Ayers is a POS.


59 posted on 08/26/2008 4:01:09 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: the anti-liberal

“He called the group’s activities patently illegal.”

Yeah, that 1st amendment thingie is definitely illegal.

STE=Q


60 posted on 08/26/2008 4:02:11 PM PDT by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
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