Obama To Preempt McCain Assault

CBS ^ | oct 5, 2008 | Mike Allen

[fightinJAG]

Branding his opponent as "erratic in a crisis," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans.

Obama officials call it political jujitsu - turning the attacks back on the attacker.

McCain officials had said early in the weekend that they plan to begin advertising after Tuesday’s debate that will tie Obama to convicted money launderer Tony Rezko and former Weathermen radical William Ayers.

But Obama isn't waiting to respond. His campaign is going up Monday on national cable stations with a scathing ad saying: “Three quarters of a million jobs lost this year. Our financial system in turmoil. And John McCain? Erratic in a crisis. Out of touch on the economy. No wonder his campaign wants to change the subject.

"Turn the page on the financial crisis by launching dishonorable, dishonest 'assaults' against Barack Obama. Struggling families can't turn the page on this economy, and we can't afford another president who is this out of touch."

Then Obama says: "I'm Barack Obama and I approved this message."

McCain officials told Politico that the new offensive is likely to focus on Rezko and Ayers. The officials said the campaign will not bring up the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s former pastor, because McCain has forbade them from using that as a weapon. Without being specific, the officials said outside groups may focus on Wright.

[kcvl]

Community organizing is a process by which people living in proximity to each other, are brought together to act in their common self-interest.

Community organizers work actively, as do other types of social workers, in community councils of social agencies and in community-action groups. At times the role of community organizers overlaps that of the social planners.

pressure the decision-makers through a variety of means, including picketing, boycotting, sit-ins, petitioning, and electoral politics

Political campaigns often claim that their door-to-door operations are in fact an effort to organize the community, though often these operations are focused exclusively on voter identification and turn out.

Saul Alinsky, based in Chicago, is credited with originating the term “community organizer” during this time period. Alinksy wrote two books: Reveille for Radicals, published in 1946; and Rules for Radicals, published in 1971, which was adopted as a “bible” by many radical activists

The American Civil Rights Movement, the anti-war movements, the Chicano movement, the feminist movement, and the gay rights movement all influenced and were influenced by ideas of neighborhood organizing.

The American Civil Rights Movement, the anti-war movements, the Chicano movement, the feminist movement, and the gay rights movement all influenced and were influenced by ideas of neighborhood organizing.

Wade Rathke of ACORN
John Dodds of Philadelphia Unemployment Project
Mark Splain of the AFL-CIO

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[Paige]

Sorry, I’m still learning how this works.

[editor-surveyor]

"How does a TERRORIST become a "Distinguished Professor of Education"?!!!"

Ayers isn't unique:

Angela Davis, gun maul that smuggled a sawed off shotgun into a San Rafael, California Courtroom in 1971, so that her boyfriend could murder the judge, is at this time a professor at the University of California Santa Cruz campus.

[just me]

I don’t believe the polls.... I don’t think the meida believes their own polls either, because if they did they wouldn’t have to attack Sarah Palin the way they do if she wasn’t a threat to THE ONE. They had kerry winning also. If it weren’t for vote fraud we could win with a land slide..... I am thankfull that GOD counts the votes..

[kcvl]

Former fugitive Bill Ayers poses along a path in a California coastal park. He and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, now spend parts of their summers at a mountain retreat in Northern California.

After years on the run, Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, take a walk along a coastal park near Arcata, California. They visit the area yearly to summer with friends at a nearby mountain retreat.

Bill Ayers is seen during a panel discussion at a conference on racism at the Field Museum on Saturday, September 16, 2000.

Bill Ayers walks with wife, Bernardine Dohrn, and their son, Zayd Dohrn, 4, outside a federal courtroom in New York circa 1982.

Photo: Obama’s Hyde Park Booster Committee (1960s)

AKA: TERRORISTS!!!

Dr. William Ayers, the former leader of a 1960s-era political terrorist group called The Weather Underground, is now a professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC). His wife, Bernardine Dohrn, is with the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University Law School. Obama is a former Senior Lecturer in the University of Chicago Law School. Wondering whether the three may have crossed paths is not speculation. It is a fact that they have. Ayers, Dohrn, and Obama have appeared together at a number of gatherings and academic events.

In November 1997, Ayers and Obama participated in a panel at the University of Chicago entitled Should a child ever be called a “super predator?” to debate “the merits of the juvenile justice system”.

In April 2002, Ayers, Dohrn, and Obama, then an Illinois State Senator, participated together at a conference entitled “Intellectuals: Who Needs Them?” sponsored by The Center for Public Intellectuals and the University of Illinois-Chicago. Ayers and Obama were two of the six members of the “Intellectuals in Times of Crisis” panel.

http://tinyurl.com/4zamr8

[AGreatPer]

kcvl, that is so excellent informatioin. You can bet that it is printed and will be presented at my Pub tomorrow. Thank you.

[AGreatPer]

kcvl, that is so excellent informatioin. You can bet that it is printed and will be presented at my Pub tomorrow. Thank you.

[editor-surveyor]

Not one had an ad for "Community Organizer".

"Marxist Street Agitator" is the more recognized term. Rabble Rouser is also well recognized.

[AGreatPer]

Sorry for the double post.

[kcvl]

the authoritarian leftists Bill Ayers and his sidekick Mike Klonsky (who is an associate of former Weathermen terrorist leader William Ayers)

The origins of the Weathermen can be traced to the collapse and fragmentation of the Students for a Democratic Society. The split between the mainstream leadership of SDS, or "National Office," and the Progressive Labor Party pushed SDS as a whole further to the left. National Office leaders such as Bernardine Dohrn and Mike Klonsky began announcing their emerging perspectives, and Klonksy published a document entitled "Toward a Revolutionary Youth Movement" (RYM). RYM promoted the philosophy that young workers possessed the potential to be a revolutionary force to overthrow capitalism, if not by themselves then by transmitting radical ideas to the working class.

[kcvl]

Mike Klonsky joined the MDS board in 2006. Klonsky’s father Robert, was a leading activist in the CPUSA. In 1968 Mike Klonsky was the national secretary of SDS and in May 1969 was one of five SDS members arrested when police raided SDS offices in Chicago.

In late 1969, Klonsky founded the October League, a pro-Mao communist organisation which in 1977 became the Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist (CP-ML). Klonsky chaired the CP-ML which was recognised by the Chinese Communist Party as their US fraternal party. Klonsky made several trips to China beginning in July 1977, where he was feted by Communist Chinese officials.

[editor-surveyor]

"I don’t think the meida believes their own polls either, because if they did they wouldn’t have to attack Sarah Palin the way they do if she wasn’t a threat to THE ONE"

It has to be understood that Palin is the true threat on this ticket. Her election to the office of Vice President would be the 'foot-in-the-door' to returning control of this country to the people. It would shatter the Washington insider lock on the White House, and place a person that is intensely knowledgable on all the issues in a position of influence.

They can't thak that chance; they'll keep shooting their silver bullets until sunrise.

[pepsi_junkie]

Many (including Karl Rove) are wondering why McCain would telegraph his intentions to roll out a new tactic, giving Obama the opportunity to pre-empt or otherwise counteract it. I can think of only a couple of possibilities.

1. He is telegraphing a false tactic to flush Obama out, make him "go negative" unilaterally and somehow discredit his poltical image as a messianic healer. If so, I cannot see how this will really help him, Obama has gone negative before and it didnt hurt his image.
2. He is pressing Obama to reveal his response talking points, as a means of assising in pre-debate prep. Don't want to float something in the debate and not know how Obama will respond.
3. He hasn't thought this through but just figured it would be good to tell everyone what he's intending to do. God help us if this is the one.

My guess / hope is #2

[kcvl]

Mike James left, Franklin Rosemont, Mike Klonsky, Muhammad Ahmad

Bill Ayers as usual was a star, one of the few speakers whose thoughts were committed to video.

Press Here

In Part 2 (above) note Ayers’s chiding of Obama for adopting centrist positions. Note reference to Progressives for Obama founder Tom Hayden’s call for Obama to stay true to his anti-Iraq War position.

[pepsi_junkie]

I just thought of a third possibility.

3. He is telegraphing Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright will be his new attack and this will have Obama spend time and money preparing a defense against that. Then, unexpectedly, at the debate McCain will instead attack on a completely different line (housing crisis and democrat culpability?) Presumably this will throw Obama off in his preparation and he will have to speak "off teleprompter" without notes in his own defense.

[Edgewood Pilot]

Just wondering. Does this guy and gal (Ayers and Dorhn) have any children and what are they doing?

[kcvl]

Carl Davidson, a former vice president of the Students for a Democratic Society who traveled to Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro and still praises the dictator today, is another proud radical for Barack Obama, serving faithfully as webmaster for “Progressives for Obama.”

‘Progressives for Obama’

Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher, Danny Glover, Barbara Ehrenreich

The current President of OSI (Soros Open Society Institue) Aryeh Neier founded the Students for a Democratic Society

2007 Nancy Pelosi hired a George Soros activist to be her senior council. Joseph Onek

His more recent work was a Senior Policy Analyst with the Open Society Institute

http://tinyurl.com/4r7orw

[Twinkie]

Well, maybe those families who can’t turn the page on things and are homeless can move into the numerous boarded-up housing “developments” that Barry sponsored Tony Rezko in for government money in his district, then looked the other way while this slum lord let them go and deteriorate and be boarded up - while still helping Rezko along. Barry has some detailed answering to do. He’s not as good a liar as Bill Clinton.

[kcvl]

organization founded by Ayers and run by Mike Klonsky, a former top communist activist.

Michael Klonsky-Son of CPUSA member Robert Klonsky. A former member of SDS, who later led the pro-Chinese, Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist). Mike Klonsky works closely with Bill Ayers on educational projects.

[Philo1962]

Just wondering. Does this guy and gal (Ayers and Dorhn) have any children and what are they doing?

One of the women from the Weather Underground, Kathy Boudin, became involved with a splinter group that committed a Brinks armored car robbery in New York. Two cops and a Brink's security guard were murdered. Boudin had a son with another former Weather Underground member named David Gilbert, who was also involved in the robbery.

When Boudin went to prison, Ayers and Dohrn took Boudin's son, Chesa, into their home and raised him. Chesa is around 28 years old now. He graduated from Yale in 2002, he's a Rhodes Scholar, and he's just as radical as any of his parents, natural or adoptive. Quoted in a 2002 Slate article about him: "We have a different name for the war we're fighting now — now we call it the war on terrorism, then they called it the war on communism. My parents were all dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world. I'm dedicated to the same thing."