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Obama's Associations Matter, Despite McCain's Failure to Explain Why (Mark Levin)
NRO's The Corner ^ | 10/13/2008 | Mark Levin

Posted on 10/13/2008 4:02:11 PM PDT by mojito

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Why can't this man be McCain's campaign manager?
1 posted on 10/13/2008 4:02:12 PM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito
Look, McCain owes it to the American people to do the unmasking of Barack Obama that the MSM will not do.

Americans need to know that he went to a racist chruch for 20 years. They need to hear the Reverend Wright damning America and claiming our government introduced the HIV virus into Africa. And they need to know that BArack sat their for 20 years taking it all in.

They also need to know that Barack Obama is an ACORN nut.

Similarly they need to know that Barack was weaned on the politics of William Ayers and Saul ALinsky.

It is McCains DUTY to do disclose these facts to American voters.

It is the lefts intention to preempt all this by calling McCain a racist now.

I have very serious doubts that McCain will take them on because of that preemption. I have no doubts that Sarah Palin would.

2 posted on 10/13/2008 4:07:09 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (MSM Lied, Journalism Died. RIP 2008)
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To: mojito

McCain’s campaign has sent an incoherent message about 0bama.
It has failed to define him.
What good is talking about William Ayers or ACORN if the campaign doesn’t use these associations to draw a conclusion about 0bama?

McCain needs to use not one, but rather the aggregate of 0bama’s influences in life to bring him into focus. Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Saul Alinsky, ACORN, The Democratic Socialists of America, The New Party. What do they all have in common?

The answer: a dangerous, radical, far left ideology.

McCain must make this about ideology, and take 0bama’s associations as instructive. He should highlight that Saul Alinsky taught radicals to cut their hair, put on a suit, and take down the government from the inside, and 0bama was so versed in Alinsky’s tactics that he taught them to ACORN activists.

McCain’s ACORN ad reveals that 0bama taught for ACORN, but it never reveals the substance of what he taught.
The substance is what we need to understand 0bama. The substance is what makes it tangible.

McCain needs to call 0bama a wolf in sheep’s clothing. A clean-cut radical with very little papertrail infiltrating the system in order to destroy it.
Exposing 0bama’s radical agenda and properly identifying it as Socialism would be enough to ensure his defeat. It is what McCain must do.


3 posted on 10/13/2008 4:07:11 PM PDT by counterpunch (It's the SOCIALSM, Stupid!)
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To: mojito

Hell, any of us could do a better job. It’s obama’s philosophy!! simple.


4 posted on 10/13/2008 4:08:09 PM PDT by lookout88 (Combat search and rescue officer's dad.)
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To: mojito

The reason is McCain belong’s to a club created at the founding of our country.

“The One Hundred Little Kings”

McCain is so misguided it is sad. He thinks Obama will make good USSC appointments.


5 posted on 10/13/2008 4:08:09 PM PDT by stockpirate (Congress created the right to own slaves, we're the slaves. To arms the Marxist are here!)
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To: mojito

Somebody here at FR posted a link yesterday to a documentary about the Weathermen. Throughout the footage Ayers, Dorhn and their friends commonly refer to anyone outside of their Terrorist cult as “pigs.” While it seemed clear a few weeks ago that Obama called Sarah Palin a “pig,” it struck me that Obama’s use of the word has deep roots going back to his mentorship/workinig relationship with Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers. Seems like the rage is coming from the left, despite what the chirpy network news anchors are telling me.


6 posted on 10/13/2008 4:09:48 PM PDT by purplelobster
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To: mojito; All
The McCain camp needs to make the critical connection between Bill Ayers' Weather Underground and Wright's "Black Liberation Theology"!

New York Times, August 24, 2003
"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."
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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..." Lots more on the connection here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103946/posts
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Also see:

VIDEO OF OBAMA IN KENYA CAMPAIGNING FOR MARXIST THUG/"COUSIN" RAILA ODINGA!
8 minute version:
"Barack Obama & Raila Odinga"
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ&feature=related
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Raila Odinga's official website:
"Your Agent of Change", "Register For Change", "Vote For Change"
http://www.raila07.com/

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Obama on video campaigning for Marxist “cousin” Raila Odinga, Kenya’s “Agent of Change”:
"When Raila Odinga lost the presidential election last week (12/27/2007) to Mwai Kibaki, he claimed the vote was rigged, whereupon his tribal followers went on murderous rampages such as in the town of Eldoret, where on New Years Day dozens of people were burned to death in a church set on fire. Throughout Kenya, hundreds of people have been politically murdered in the last few days."

"Listen as the Luo calls itself the "Taliban" in the video. It's graphic, it's gruesome but it is who Obama supported. Watch the whole thing, particularly the Luos burning a church, raping women, and hacking a man to death."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103801/posts

7 posted on 10/13/2008 4:11:25 PM PDT by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: mojito

Friends & Associates of Barack Hussein Obama


8 posted on 10/13/2008 4:11:31 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: jwalsh07

At the next debate, McCain should read the list of people in question and ask Obama to explain his relationship with each. If he answers, then McCain can read off the documented proof. Get it over with....take the chance.


9 posted on 10/13/2008 4:18:41 PM PDT by RC2
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To: counterpunch
I saw a statement the other day that sticks in my mind.

I think it was Thomas Sowell.

The statement was that Who Obama picked for friends is not so important.

What is really important is why his friends picked him.

Why do they support him?

We have a candidate for President of the US who is supported all the way, to the hilt, no reservations whatsoever by persons who are as anti-American as any foreign enemy we have in the entire world.

Why do they support BO all the way?

That is the real question.

10 posted on 10/13/2008 4:19:02 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: purplelobster
Throughout the footage Ayers, Dorhn and their friends commonly refer to anyone outside of their Terrorist cult as “pigs.” While it seemed clear a few weeks ago that Obama called Sarah Palin a “pig,” it struck me that Obama’s use of the word has deep roots going back to his mentorship/workinig relationship with Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers.

Re: "Pigs"

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 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/faculty/profiles/BernardineDohrn/]

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

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Confession (Manson Family)

When they got in the house, Susan [Atkins] said that in the living room there was a man on the couch and a woman on the chair reading. Then some of Susan's group stayed in the living room, while Susan went into the bedroom where Sharon was sitting on the bed talking to Jay Sebring. They quickly put nooses over Sharon and Jay's heads so that if they moved they would choke.

Frykowski ran for the door. "He was full of blood," she said and claimed that she had stabbed him three or four times. "He was bleeding and he ran to the front part, and would you believe that he was there hollering 'Help, help, somebody please help me,' and nobody came? Then we finished him off."

"Sharon was the last to die," Susan said with a laugh as she described how Sharon was begging her, " Please don't kill me. Please don't kill me. I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to have my baby. I want to have my baby."

Susan said she just looked at Sharon straight in the eye and said, "Look, bitch, I don't care about you. I don't care if you're going to have a baby. You had better be ready. You're going to die and I don't feel anything about it...In a few minutes I killed her."

Susan said she saw that there was Sharon's blood on her hand and she tasted it. "Wow, what a trip! To taste death, and yet give life."

Source: http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/manson/confess_4.html

"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!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn

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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

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From the Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam website, FinalCall.com...
Malik Zulu Shabazz, chairman of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBPP):
"We are happy today to be standing side by side with the Nation of Islam. We believe, like the Nation of Islam and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad believe, in a nation of our own. We believe in a Black first philosophy and a Black Liberation Theology. We don’t worry about the criticism. We love all of those who labored in the Panther Party from the ’60s. Many are with us today."
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1858.shtml

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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES

"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo.

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969):
http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html

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Louis Farrakhan, at the Millions More Movement rally in DC, Oct 15, 2005: "...what Mao Tse Tung did was, he went to the cultural community, and they [Farrakhan spreads his arms beneficently] accepted his idea."... "Mao Tse Tung ... had a billion people whose lives he had to transform."..."the idea of Mao Tse Tung became the idea of a billion people, and China became a world power on the base of the culture and the arts community. If we had a ministry of art and culture in every city we'd create this movement [in the U.S.]."
Source: http://thedrunkablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/communist-plot-noted.html

Louis Farrakhan, Santiago de Cuba, February, 1998: "There is not a member of the black masses in the United States who is not proud of the example set by Cuba and its revolution, with Comandante Fidel at its head"
Source: http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/farakhan21898.html#says


"Minister Farrakhan and his delegation met privately with President Fidel Castro of Cuba."
http://www.finalcall.com/media/cuba/

[that's Michelle Obama with Mrs. Farrakhan. Mrs. Farrakhan is at center bottom wearing white]
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/06/03/michelle-obama-and-louis-farrakhans-wife-together-in-photo/

Louis Farrakhan, at the annual Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2008: "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better"..."If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4337417

Must see video of Farrakhan's Obama endorsement at the above 'annual Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2008'. Hear him call Obama "The Messiah"! And speak of "universal change":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OowxMcVTjTE

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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103946/posts

11 posted on 10/13/2008 4:22:11 PM PDT by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: mojito
'It is the tactic of the Left to shout down such efforts or demonize the messenger. John Lewis was Obama's perfect surrogate for such a ploy. It is also their tactic to redefine terms and misuse the language. So, we have the situation where raising Obama's relationship with racists is said to be racist. I understand this, and I understand Saul Alinksy. But it must be done and done effectively. This is not to say that this is the only course of conduct for the McCain campaign. There's actually so much out there for McCain to focus on that his failure to do so in a coherent way is frustrating as hell — including explaining the destructiveness of Obama's extreme big-government beliefs and proposals, should they be implemented. But McCain must have the will to engage in this fight or he will lose badly — we will lose badly.'

As always, Mark Levin is right on the money. Even I as a Black woman find it frustrating the way McCain and the Republicans tap dance around this issue, for fear of being branded racists. It sickens me to the core.

Sean Hannity also addressed the fact it has been the Left, the Democrat Party, and the Obama Campaign, including the senator himself who have been raising the specter of Race in this election. And of course it is designed to silence any and all dissent, especially in the case of Obama's record (or lack thereof), and his reckless judgment.

The more I listened, the angrier I became. And I became angry because there are some excessively cheap shots being thrown at the American people by the Democrat Party and their surrogates, specifically the implication they're racist for questioning a candidate's competency to seek and hold public office.

12 posted on 10/13/2008 4:24:50 PM PDT by T Lady (The Mainstream Media: Public Enemy #1)
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To: counterpunch
I saw a statement the other day that sticks in my mind.

I think it was Thomas Sowell.

The statement was that Who Obama picked for friends is not so important.

What is really important is why his friends picked him.

Why do they support him?

We have a candidate for President of the US who is supported all the way, to the hilt, no reservations whatsoever by persons who are as anti-American as any foreign enemy we have in the entire world.

Why do they support BO all the way?

That is the real question.

13 posted on 10/13/2008 4:24:55 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: RC2

Definitely. He also needs to point out that Obama’s tax cuts are welfare for the 35 - 40% of Americans who don’t pay federal income tax. He will do neither.


14 posted on 10/13/2008 4:27:01 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (MSM Lied, Journalism Died. RIP 2008)
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To: jwalsh07
I look at this a little differently.

We have seen forecast after forecast that says that the medicare prescription drug plan alone will break the country.

We have seen other forecasts that say that Social Security will run our of money.

The Congress just passed the bailout with $150 billion tacked on top of it.

So how can BO the health care for everyone and tax cuts at the same time?

Anyone who can't see through this deserves what they get.

15 posted on 10/13/2008 4:36:48 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: mojito
Ayers now owns Obama, since he can "out" their deep relationship, including the writing of "Father" at any time.

What an amazing episode! A communist mole, being run by a communist traitor who "hid in plain sight" for decades, until he found his star prospect in Obama.

P>“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”

~~Marcus Tullius Cicero

16 posted on 10/13/2008 4:41:43 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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The only candidate who has surrounded himself with and befriended a freak show of racists, anti-Semites, and America haters is Barack Obama.

Well said...needs a bumper sticker (or at least a t-shirt).

17 posted on 10/13/2008 4:52:06 PM PDT by CRBDeuce (here, while the internet is still free)
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To: counterpunch
McCain must make this about ideology, and take 0bama’s associations as instructive. He should highlight that Saul Alinsky taught radicals to cut their hair, put on a suit, and take down the government from the inside, and 0bama was so versed in Alinsky’s tactics that he taught them to ACORN activists.

McCain’s ACORN ad reveals that 0bama taught for ACORN, but it never reveals the substance of what he taught. The substance is what we need to understand 0bama.

I've been noticing the 'emptiness' of his ads as well. A 'where's the beef' moment.

18 posted on 10/13/2008 4:55:02 PM PDT by CRBDeuce (here, while the internet is still free)
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To: CRBDeuce
McCain doesnt have to do "anything" if he doesnt want to. He can lose the election if he wants, too. All on his own.

If he wont get the message out, or his wussified campaign, then it is up to US to get it out to everyone. I mean, talk it up at the supermarket checkout line within earshot of everyone, letters to the editor in local papers, call folks, distribute e mails to friends/family/business associates, make it go viral. Use humor. Use graphics. Link YouTubes. ANYTHING. We dont have to rely on top down campaign messages anymore in this Wikionline world nowadays, we can create great grassroots viral efforts all on our own, regardless of what the powers that be will or will not have the courage to say.

19 posted on 10/13/2008 5:08:48 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (RINOs **BETRAY** us, since, if they ever DO take off the gloves vs. the Libs, they do so too late...)
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To: mojito

This is exactly what has been bothering. They need to explain why Obama has been in the inner circle of this shadey cast of characters and how it has affected his choices will continue to affect his choices as a leader. I wish I was better educated on socialism and the warped views of these people, because McCain has no comeback for these people. He and Palin are not sticking them effectively. It takes scholarship to nail him, and their speechwriters are too much the politicians and not enough the educators. He could be reamed very easily with someone who could communicate well, with sharp ideas.


20 posted on 10/13/2008 5:19:22 PM PDT by ruthles (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean people aren't out to get you.)
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