Obama and the Radicals: Soulmates?
Right-Wing Nut House ^ | Feb. 23, 2008 | by Rick Moran
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Posted on Sat 23 Feb 2008 08:10:27 AM PST by jdm
I have waxed both seriously and clownishly on this site about Barack Obamas Cotton Candy Candidacy and the fact that his nebulously formed ideas make him something of an empty suit when it comes to trying to figure out where he stands on many issues.
I have also pointed out that this is deliberate obfuscation on his part, done in order to hide his liberal past. Indeed, there is no candidate in recent memory who has taken such pains to see that his political philosophy remains a cipher a razor thin record in the Illinois Senate along with almost as invisible US Senate votes are carefully hidden away in the campaigns attic, gone and mostly forgotten in the rush to proclaim the candidate The Agent of Change.
A slippery fish, this fellow Obama. Controversial votes when he was a state senator were avoided by voting present or claiming later that he erred by pressing the wrong button and didnt really mean to take that position. Seen in the context of the Great Game the left plays with the American people in trying to mask their liberalism for fear of rejection by the voter, Obama, it turns out, is a master of post partisan problem solving hiding his liberalism under an avalanche of platitudes and feel-good bromides that have his supporters swooning and the media eating out of his hand.
But the closet Obama may be in the process of being revealed. This is the Obama that voted to make a criminal out of a homeowner who was forced to use a gun in his own defense in his own home. This is the Obama that voted against making it a criminal offense for convicts on probation or on bail to have contact with a street gang. Indeed, Obamas record on anti-gang legislation is simple; because gang members are more often people of color, they shouldnt be singled out for increased attention or special penalties by the law.
But beyond his clearly liberal voting record in the state senate and his being named the most liberal senator in the US Senate by National Journal there is an issue just starting to bubble and froth below the media radar that may or may not become a huge issue depending on how protective the national media wants to be of Obama.
I am talking about the extent of the candidates ties to domestic terrorists from the 1960s and how the American people might feel about their future president paling around with someone who set off bombs as a member of the group Weather Underground and to this day refuses to apologize for it. William Ayers told his followers back then:
Stanley Kurtz' Latest Research Into Barack Obama's Connections To Terrorist Bill Ayers...
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Hugh Hewitt ^ | 10/7/08 | Hugh Hewitt
Posted on Mon 06 Oct 2008 11:10:41 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
From Hugh's interview on Monday's Hugh Hewitt Show.
HH: Im pleased to welcome from Nationalreview.com, the American Enterprise Institute, it is Stanley Kurtz, the man who knows more about the Ayers-Obama connection than anyone. Stanley, welcome back to the program.
SK: Hugh, thanks for having me.
HH: Stanley Kurtz, lets start with the basics. All of a sudden, Ayers is an issue. What is the relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama? Can you give us some details?
SK: Well, Hugh, I think they had a genuine political partnership. As far as we know for certain, it began in about early 1995 when Barack Obama became the chairman of the board of a small education foundation, not too small, because it had ultimately more than $100 million dollars to dispense. But Barack Obama became chairman of the board of something called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a foundation that was essentially founded by Bill Ayers. Now this foundation had two operating bodies, the board, which Obama chaired, and something called the collaborative, which Bill Ayers chaired. And so the two were effectively working together at this foundation, and whats more, the foundation was giving a lot of money to Bill Ayers personal education projects, and the projects of his allies. And as, since the board was in charge of giving out that money, Obama effectively was funding Bill Ayers very radical education projects for years on end.
HH: Now I want to play for you a little clip of David Axelrod from CNN this morning, and one by Robert Gibbs on CNN, talking about this relationship. Lets play David Axelrod first, cut number five.