Obama’s Lies about his Radical Associations
Whenever I ask Obama-supporting friends about their candidate’s absence of executive experience, they assure he’ll do fine because he’ll surround himself with good people. Yet, when we look at the people with whom he’s associated in the past, we began to wonder if this is so.
It’s not just his associations with such radicals as William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, but his repeated misrepresentations of those relationships. Even CNN caught him lying about relationship with the unrepentant terrorist:
He even lied about the event where Ayers hosting the reception launching his bid for the Illinois Senate. (H/t: Dirty Harry.)
As Thomas Sowell puts it:
. . . the country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years allied himself with a succession of people who have openly expressed their hatred of America.
And given those alliances, shouldn’t the media be asking who would advise Obama if elected? And shouldn’t then the American people wonder about his associations?
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UPDATE from Bruce (GayPatriot): I think this documented, fact-based research from the GOP spells it all out for even Priya to understand.
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Obama claims he didn’t know Ayers was a radical terrorist when he knew him.
Obama claims he didn’t know Jeremiah Wright was an America-hating nutjob despite sitting through over 500 of his services.
Obama claims he didn’t know Tony Rezko was a crook.
Just how stupid is this Obama guy?
Comment by V the K — October 7, 2008 @ 2:49 pm - October 7, 2008
looks like the right has it’s wingnuts though. . .with a pretty tight connection to Palin. . .this was posted at Besen’s sight
Sarah and Todd Palin’s connection to the Alaskan Independence Party. She has the gall to accuse Obama of hobnobbing with terrorists, please. Listen to the video below.
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/palin-republican-party-infiltrator-damning-video/
Comment by kiley — October 7, 2008 @ 3:02 pm - October 7, 2008
Amazing, Kiley, that the left continues to peddle in such lies. All based on an improperly vetted story in the New York Times, I believe. Sarah Palin has been a registered Republican since 1982.
And the AIP, loopy though it may be, did not advocate terrorists as did Ayers.
And please, when did she lie about her relationship to the AIP?
Comment by GayPatriotWest — October 7, 2008 @ 3:21 pm - October 7, 2008
No need to play that game, GPW. Kiley’s merely trying to play moral relativist and spin that it’s OK for Obama to support avowed and practicing terrorists who bombed houses, bombed police stations, and attempted to bomb US military installations with millions of dollars in money so that they can teach public school students to do exactly the same thing in the name of “social justice”.
If Kiley and Obama opposed terrorism, they would repudiate Ayers, sever all connections with him, and publicly denounce the schools and groups that support and endorse him. But they don’t. Thus, it should be obvious to anyone that they have no problem whatsoever with terrorist activity, that they in fact support, endorse, and fund unrepentant terrorists like Ayers who publicly boast that their only regret is not killing more people and setting more bombs, and thus are being hypocritical when they in any way try to criticize anyone else’s behavior in this regard.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — October 7, 2008 @ 4:07 pm - October 7, 2008
More troubling thought; an Obama bin Biden regime will inherit Paulson’s $1.5-Trillion-dollar unregulated TARP empire…think of all that money in some Marxist Secy of the Treasury’s hands.
And Goldman/Sachs will be enriched.
Comment by Ted B. (Charging Rhino) — October 7, 2008 @ 5:02 pm - October 7, 2008
Looking at how Obama picks his advisors and confidants imagine who he would pick for the supreme court. One possibly two justices will be replaced by the next administration.
jeb
Comment by Jeb — October 7, 2008 @ 5:04 pm - October 7, 2008
Didn’t think of it that way, ND30. Good point.
Comment by GayPatriotWest — October 7, 2008 @ 5:09 pm - October 7, 2008
Northdallas said “terrorists like Ayers who publicly boast that their only regret is not killing more people and setting more bombs”.
That’s a lie. He said he wished he had done more to stop the war, he never said anything about killing more pople and settng more bombs.”
Gaypatriot said “I think this documented, fact-based research from the GOP spells it all out for even Priya to understand.”.
LOL, “fact-based” from the GOP, puuuleeezze! The GOP wouldn’t know a fact if it bit them in the rear.
Comment by Priya Lynn — October 7, 2008 @ 5:47 pm - October 7, 2008
yes, Barrack Obama, is distancing himself from his ‘neighbor’ and colleague Ayers. . .BIG BOO BOO. Ayers was not a good person and did some things, along with many others in the turbulent 60’s and 70’s.
John McCain, in his own act of omission, or faulty memory, tried to deflect his family’s ownership of houses.
Politicians stumble, politicians are human and make mistakes.
Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed in 1989, at a cost of $2 billion to the federal government. Some 23,000 Lincoln bondholders were defrauded and many elderly investors lost their life savings. The substantial political contributions that Keating had made to each of the senators, totalling $1.3 million, attracted considerable public and media attention. After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings, with Cranston receiving a formal reprimand. Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised “poor judgment”. wikipedia.
McCain’s Campaign is not going well and the attack ads are coming out.
But it won’t be hard for some private stories of the folk who lost monies in the savings and loan scandal come forward.
Becoming a public figure, choices in friends becomes very relevant. The McCains vacationed and benefitted from the greed of Charles Keating.
-McCain and Keating had become personal friends following their initial contacts in 1981,[11] and McCain was the only one of the five with close social and personal ties to Keating.[35][36] Like DeConcini, McCain considered Keating a constituent as he lived in Arizona.[28] Between 1982 and 1987, McCain had received $112,000 in political contributions from Keating and his associates.[37] In addition, McCain’s wife Cindy McCain and her father Jim Hensley had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators. McCain, his family, and their baby-sitter had made nine trips at Keating’s expense, sometimes aboard Keating’s jet. Three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating’s opulent Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay. McCain did not pay Keating (in the amount of $13,433) for some of the trips until years after they were taken, when he learned that Keating was in trouble over Lincoln.[7][38] In 1989 Phoenix New Times writer Tom Fitzpatrick opined that McCain was the “most reprehensible” of the five senators.[39] wikipedia
Mudslinging is very much at hand by both McCain and Obama. It would more beneficial for the citizens of the US to hear how the next President of the US is going to handle the economic challenges, to provide leadership in rebuilding America as one of the premier leaders in the world without pissing everyone off, and how America will become less reliant on foreign energy.
Comment by kiley — October 7, 2008 @ 6:27 pm - October 7, 2008
Once again, Priay, you’ve got your facts wrong. Ayers did sya he wished he had set more bombs.
Ok, if the GOP’s facts are wrong, please document how they are so.
Comment by GayPatriotWest — October 7, 2008 @ 6:31 pm - October 7, 2008
That’s a lie. He said he wished he had done more to stop the war, he never said anything about killing more pople and settng more bombs.â€
First line:
”I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. ”I feel we didn’t do enough.”
But of course, we know why Priya supports Ayers:
He also writes about the Weathermen’s sexual experimentation as they tried to ‘’smash monogamy.” The Weathermen were ”an army of lovers,” he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — October 7, 2008 @ 6:49 pm - October 7, 2008
I take it back. I was wrong. Ayers did imply he wished he had set more bombs. As to Northdallas’s claim that I support ayers because
He also writes about the Weathermen’s sexual experimentation as they tried to ‘’smash monogamy.†The Weathermen were â€an army of lovers,†he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend.
That IS a lie and a low down smear, and all too typical for this chronic liar. I don’t support that or any of Ayers actions as a part of the Weathermen. However, by all accounts of respected members of the community he is a changed man for a long time, a respected citizen, citizen of the year and a comunity leader and an agent for good. There is nothing wrong with someone who knows nothing of his past having associated with him on the recommendation of upstanding citizens.
Comment by Priya Lynn — October 7, 2008 @ 7:15 pm - October 7, 2008
Was Obama part of the Keating Five, too? And just how close to Voldemort is he??? Inquiring minds want to know. LMAO. These histrionic attempts at smears are silly. If you have to keep saying things like “documented, fact-based,” it starts to stink of the opposite. But, keep it up. Tell ‘em all to sit down, boy; call him a terrorist; yell out ‘kill him’: repeat 1992, please.
Comment by jimmy — October 7, 2008 @ 7:34 pm - October 7, 2008
However, by all accounts of respected members of the community he is a changed man for a long time, a respected citizen, citizen of the year and a comunity leader and an agent for good.
Um, no; if he were a “changed person”, he would regret setting bombs with the express intent of killing people. In addition, in the cited post, he states:
So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? ”I don’t want to discount the possibility,” he said.
Furthermore, he specifically states that the Weathermen “didn’t kill innocent people”. In their eyes, policemen, security guards, even the children whose houses they firebombed were GUILTY.
Finally, as is made clear in this short clip from the BBC, Ayers does not apologize in the least for what he did.
Of course, Priya Lynn fully supports and endorses this unrepentant terrorist who states clearly that all the people he and his cohorts attacked were guilty and that he did nothing at all wrong.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — October 7, 2008 @ 7:51 pm - October 7, 2008
If he is a “respected citizen,” that tells us more about the kind of people that respect an unrepentant terrorist than it does about the unrepentant terrorist. These are probably the same people who “respect” the mass murderer Che Guevara and the cop-killer Mumia al-Jamal (who can look forward to a pardon under the Obama presidency).
OT: Effete Girly-Man columnist Tony Norman still nursing emotional wounds from middle school whimpers that Sarah Palin is just a big mean bully.
Comment by V the K — October 7, 2008 @ 8:15 pm - October 7, 2008
Northdallas said “Priya Lynn fully supports and endorses this unrepentant terrorist who states clearly that all the people he and his cohorts attacked were guilty and that he did nothing at all wrong.”.
No that’s a lie, I do not “fully support and endorse” Ayers. On the other hand you fully endorse and support pedophilia, incest and polygamy. When I condemned pedophilia, incest, and polygamy you attacked me screaming that that was discrimination and a violation of perverts constitutional rights in this thread:
http://www.indegayforum.org/blog/show/31277.html?success=1#comments
at June 19, 2007, 4:02pm
In other news Mccain has been linked to a guerilla aiding group with ties to former Nazi collaborators in the Iran-Contra affair:
http://www.365gay.com/news/mccain-linked-to-guerrilla-aiding-group-in-iran-contra-case/
Comment by Priya Lynn — October 7, 2008 @ 8:42 pm - October 7, 2008
Mccain has been linked to a guerilla aiding group with ties to former Nazi collaborators,
In related news, John McCain was in “Wedding Crashers” with Christopher Walken, who was in “Joe Dirt” with Fred Ward, who was in “Tremors” with Kevin Bacon.
Comment by V the K — October 7, 2008 @ 8:51 pm - October 7, 2008
LOL….but of course, given that Priya Lynn refuses to condemn the ACLU for supporting polygamy and refuses to condemn her fellow Canadians for supporting sex with minors, what we see is that she is merely projecting her own beliefs onto others.
Meanwhile, it’s funny how these leftist organizations are suddenly desperately trying to smear McCain through what could only be described as tenuous associations. Could it be because they, like Priya, need to divert attention away from Obama’s association with, endorsement of, and support of unrepentant terrorist Ayers, who to this day says he is willing to attack people again, who insists that killing children is all right and that those children are not “innocent”, and does not regret his repeated bombings and attempts to murder thousands of American citizens?
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — October 7, 2008 @ 8:52 pm - October 7, 2008
Don’t worry, V the K; her next step is to accuse you of having an eight-year-old child chained up in your basement to molest.
When her propaganda points from Obama, such as the claim that Ayers was repentant for his crimes and admitted that what he did was wrong start to unravel, she resorts to personal attacks.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — October 7, 2008 @ 9:02 pm - October 7, 2008
Who told you about the eight year old?
Comment by V the K — October 7, 2008 @ 9:06 pm - October 7, 2008
No….. Not CNN!!!! What will Barry Obama do now that they have shown everyone that he and Bill Ayers have a tight relationship?
Seriously people, doesn’t everyone have a good friend who is an unapologetic domestic terrorist?
Comment by Clint Says — October 8, 2008 @ 2:53 am - October 8, 2008
I was a good friend of an elected official who embezzled large sums of money from our county and continued that friendship after her release from prison. In fact, we remained good friends until her death.
I am assuming that I would not maintain a friendship or relationship with a terrorist. There’s a big difference between stealing public funds and placing bombs at public buildings.
I can, however, understand Barack Obama’s situation. In 1995 — 13 years ago — when the Ayers introduced him in their home to political activitists in that part of Chicago, Obama says he did not know of Ayers’ terrorist backgroung. I can believe that.
I consider myself very well informed. As an author and historian, and former editor, I work hard to stay in touch. But, while very familiar with the Weather Underground, I did not hear the name Bill Ayers until someone affixed it (permanently I think) to Sean Hannity’s teleprompter.
I might not agree with him but I can certainly understand how Obama handled the situation he found himself in. Chicago’s Democratic establishment, including Mayor Richard Daley, who is not a radical and whose patriotism shouldn’t be questioned, had apparently forgiven Ayers for his terrorist past and accepted him for what he was in Chicago. At some point Daley even named Ayers as Chicago’s “citizen of the year”. Obama condemned Ayers’ radical past but decided he could work with Ayers, who by then was, I repeat, a generally respected member of the Chicago community. A number of years would pass — it would be September 2001 — before Ayers publicly stated he was unrepentant.
Unless there’s proof Obama continued a “close” relationship with Ayers since being elected to the U. S. Senate and consults him on public policy, I’m not going to let old Chicago relationships influence whether I decide to vote for Obama.
I am more concerned about the local businesses that are shutting their doors, the neighbors who are losing their jobs, the neighbors who may lose their homes, the boy across the street who can’t get a loan for next semester’s tuition, fees, books and board and room, etc. There’s ample evidence that a majority of Americans share those real worries.
Comment by Jack Allen — October 8, 2008 @ 3:30 pm - October 8, 2008
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