Breaking: William Ayers Mentioned Obama in his “A Kind and Just Parent” Book
Ayers had to know Obama at a very close level to mention him in his book along with Muhammad Ali and Louis Farrakhan. The book came out in 1998. It takes about 2-3 years to write and publish a book, so this friendship can be placed going back to at least 1995. The evidence comes straight from William Ayers. Read the page at Google Book
Thursday, October 9, 2008
ACORN Told Pizza Boy To Register "10 to 15 Times"
October 9, 2008
CLEVELAND - Two Ohio voters, including Domino’s pizza worker Christopher Barkley , claimed yesterday that they were hounded by the community-activist group ACORN to register to vote several times, even though they made it clear they’d already signed up.
Barkley estimated he’d registered to vote “10 to 15″ times after canvassers for ACORN, whose political wing has endorsed Barack Obama, relentlessly pursued him and others.
Claims such as his have sparked election officials to probe ACORN.
“I kept getting approached by folks who asked me to register,” Barkley said. “They’d ask me if I was registered. I’d say yes, and they’d ask me to do it [register] again.
“Some of them were getting paid to collect names. That was their sob story, and I bought it,” he said.
Barkley is one of at least three people who have been subpoenaed by the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections as part of a wider inquiry into possible voter fraud by ACORN. The group seeks to register low-income voters, who skew overwhelmingly Democratic.
“You can tell them you’re registered as many times as you want - they do not care,” said Lateala Goins, 21, who was subpoenaed.
“They will follow you to the buses, they will follow you home, it does not matter,” she told The Post.
She added that she never put down an address on any of the registration forms, just her name.
A third subpoenaed voter, Freddie Johnson, 19, filled out registration cards 72 times over 18 months, officials said.
“It feeds the public perception that there could be [fraud], and that makes the pillars fall down,” said local Board of Elections President Jeff Hastings.
Registering under a fake name is illegal. But officials usually catch multiple registrations and toss them.
CLEVELAND - Two Ohio voters, including Domino’s pizza worker Christopher Barkley , claimed yesterday that they were hounded by the community-activist group ACORN to register to vote several times, even though they made it clear they’d already signed up.
Barkley estimated he’d registered to vote “10 to 15″ times after canvassers for ACORN, whose political wing has endorsed Barack Obama, relentlessly pursued him and others.
Claims such as his have sparked election officials to probe ACORN.
“I kept getting approached by folks who asked me to register,” Barkley said. “They’d ask me if I was registered. I’d say yes, and they’d ask me to do it [register] again.
“Some of them were getting paid to collect names. That was their sob story, and I bought it,” he said.
Barkley is one of at least three people who have been subpoenaed by the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections as part of a wider inquiry into possible voter fraud by ACORN. The group seeks to register low-income voters, who skew overwhelmingly Democratic.
“You can tell them you’re registered as many times as you want - they do not care,” said Lateala Goins, 21, who was subpoenaed.
“They will follow you to the buses, they will follow you home, it does not matter,” she told The Post.
She added that she never put down an address on any of the registration forms, just her name.
A third subpoenaed voter, Freddie Johnson, 19, filled out registration cards 72 times over 18 months, officials said.
“It feeds the public perception that there could be [fraud], and that makes the pillars fall down,” said local Board of Elections President Jeff Hastings.
Registering under a fake name is illegal. But officials usually catch multiple registrations and toss them.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
No More Welfare For AIG, No More Luxury Spa Retreats!
I could hardly believe it when I heard earllier today that insurance giant AIG is asking for an additional $37.8 billion dollar "bailout" loan from the federal government. Didn't we just loan AIG a whopping $85 billion a few weeks ago? What happened to that money? As if this isn't bad enough, another story reported today suggests a possible answer. Less than one week after whining and crying to the government about needing this massive financial favor to avoid bankruptcy, the company spent almost half a million dollars to send some of its top executives for a weekend of luxury and pampering at one of Southern California's most expensive resorts (over $20,000 on spa treatments alone).
AIG contends that the reason for this pampering was because they did not want a mass exodus of top executives because this would have made the company's economic recovery even more difficult. Regardless, how horrible does this look to the taxpayers who are footing the bill, many of whom would love even one day of luxury and pampering at the St. Regis, even without getting to spend the night in a thousand dollar a night suite?
Can you say GREED? This is absolutely disgusting, so have the Pepto ready:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5973452&page=1
AIG contends that the reason for this pampering was because they did not want a mass exodus of top executives because this would have made the company's economic recovery even more difficult. Regardless, how horrible does this look to the taxpayers who are footing the bill, many of whom would love even one day of luxury and pampering at the St. Regis, even without getting to spend the night in a thousand dollar a night suite?
Can you say GREED? This is absolutely disgusting, so have the Pepto ready:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5973452&page=1
Thoughts On Debate 2
To be honest, I was really disappointed. Both candidates seemed to do nothing more than repeat the same "talking points" from the first debate. I don't see how last night's debate would have changed the minds of undecided voters in either direction. McCain needs to "take off the gloves" and start taking Obama more to task on his past activities and associations, and also needs to remind voters that Obama has the former Fannie Mae CEO as one of his top campaign advisors (not a bad way to show his appreciation for the six figure Senate campaign donation he accepted from Fannie).
Obama decries excessive CEO and "golden parachutes" yet his own advisor got a huge such parachute when forced to resign from Fannie Mae amidst questionable accounting practices, specifically overstating profits to procure larger bonuses for the top executives (seems like Enron deja vu). This would have been a PERFECT time for McCain to take Obama to task, yet he failed to do so. However, at least he brought up the Fannie contribution to Obama, but that was about it.
Sarah Palin is fighting hard during these last few weeks of the campaign, and McCain should also if he really is as behind in the polls as the media insists.
Obama decries excessive CEO and "golden parachutes" yet his own advisor got a huge such parachute when forced to resign from Fannie Mae amidst questionable accounting practices, specifically overstating profits to procure larger bonuses for the top executives (seems like Enron deja vu). This would have been a PERFECT time for McCain to take Obama to task, yet he failed to do so. However, at least he brought up the Fannie contribution to Obama, but that was about it.
Sarah Palin is fighting hard during these last few weeks of the campaign, and McCain should also if he really is as behind in the polls as the media insists.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Program On Obama's "Friends" In Its Entirety
This is definitely worth your time to watch if you did not catch it last night. If you can't spare the 45 minutes, I'll post a summary later today of the key points:
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Great Blog On Obama From the Volokh Folks
Check Out This Blog (volokh.com)- One Of the Best On the Internet!!!
[David Bernstein, October 4, 2008 at 11:51pm] Trackbacks
What is the Significance of Obama's Ties to Ayers (and Wright?): Here's my take: Obama is an extremely ambitious man. He's been interested in a national political career for many years. It's not that surprising that he wouldn't find Ayers and Wright objectionable company--in the very liberal, Hyde Park/Ivy League circles that he's traveled in since attending Columbia, people with such views are more mainstream than, say, the average conservative evangelical Christian. That itself makes Obama far more liberal than the image his campaign attempts to portray.
But what is interesting to me is that not only did Obama not personally find anything especially obnoxious about Wright's radicalism, anti-Americanism, ties to Farrakahn, and so on, or Ayers' lack of regret for his terrorist past, he apparently didn't expect that much of anyone else would care, either. How else do you explain why he didn't jettison these individuals from his life before they could damage his presidential ambitions? How else do you explain how his campaign seemed to be caught flatfooted when Obama's ties to Wright and then Ayers became campaign issues? And, perhaps most tellingly, how else do you explain that when Obama was asked in a debate with Clinton about his ties to Ayers, he analogized his friendship with Ayers to his friendship with Senator Tom Coburn, as if being friends with a very conservative senatorial colleague is somehow analogous with being friends with an unrepentant extreme leftist domestic terrorist?
In short, Obama's ties to Ayers and Wright suggest to me NOT that Obama agrees with their views, but that he is the product of a particular intellectual culture that finds the likes of Wright and Ayers to be no more objectionable, and likely less so, than the likes of Tom Coburn, or, perhaps, a Rush Limbaugh. Not only that, but he has been in his particular intellectual bubble so long that he was unable to recognize just how offensive the views of a Wright are to mainstream America, or how his ties to Ayers would play with the public, especially post-9/11.
Does that mean that Obama would be a bad president, or an extremist president? No, or at least, not necessarily. One 20th century president--Reagan--had a rather extreme worldview, but he was a good enough politician to govern reasonably close to the center, and have a successful presidency. Obama may have similar skills, though he lacks Reagan's advantage of having been an ideological convert from the other side. But in any event, he is clearly not the mainstream partisan of nonideological change that he is running as, and it at least seems worth pointing that out.
[David Bernstein, October 4, 2008 at 11:51pm] Trackbacks
What is the Significance of Obama's Ties to Ayers (and Wright?): Here's my take: Obama is an extremely ambitious man. He's been interested in a national political career for many years. It's not that surprising that he wouldn't find Ayers and Wright objectionable company--in the very liberal, Hyde Park/Ivy League circles that he's traveled in since attending Columbia, people with such views are more mainstream than, say, the average conservative evangelical Christian. That itself makes Obama far more liberal than the image his campaign attempts to portray.
But what is interesting to me is that not only did Obama not personally find anything especially obnoxious about Wright's radicalism, anti-Americanism, ties to Farrakahn, and so on, or Ayers' lack of regret for his terrorist past, he apparently didn't expect that much of anyone else would care, either. How else do you explain why he didn't jettison these individuals from his life before they could damage his presidential ambitions? How else do you explain how his campaign seemed to be caught flatfooted when Obama's ties to Wright and then Ayers became campaign issues? And, perhaps most tellingly, how else do you explain that when Obama was asked in a debate with Clinton about his ties to Ayers, he analogized his friendship with Ayers to his friendship with Senator Tom Coburn, as if being friends with a very conservative senatorial colleague is somehow analogous with being friends with an unrepentant extreme leftist domestic terrorist?
In short, Obama's ties to Ayers and Wright suggest to me NOT that Obama agrees with their views, but that he is the product of a particular intellectual culture that finds the likes of Wright and Ayers to be no more objectionable, and likely less so, than the likes of Tom Coburn, or, perhaps, a Rush Limbaugh. Not only that, but he has been in his particular intellectual bubble so long that he was unable to recognize just how offensive the views of a Wright are to mainstream America, or how his ties to Ayers would play with the public, especially post-9/11.
Does that mean that Obama would be a bad president, or an extremist president? No, or at least, not necessarily. One 20th century president--Reagan--had a rather extreme worldview, but he was a good enough politician to govern reasonably close to the center, and have a successful presidency. Obama may have similar skills, though he lacks Reagan's advantage of having been an ideological convert from the other side. But in any event, he is clearly not the mainstream partisan of nonideological change that he is running as, and it at least seems worth pointing that out.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
What Team Am I On?
Here's the answer, as straightforward as possible. Note the e-mail to me (at the bottom of this message) that generated this response. Did this pundit honestly think I would fall for it?
Hello and Thank Your For the Question . . . let me tell you what team I am on:
1.) I am on the team that truly loves America, that has no prior association with America hating domestic terrorists.
2.) I am on the the team that supports our ally Israel and the Jewish people, and refuses to even acknowledge terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah by saying that they have "legitimate grievances."
3.) I am on the team that beleives employees should have a CHOICE as to which union they join or if they want to even join a union in the first place, rather than being forced to join a specific union as a condition of being hired.
4.) I am on the team that believes in providing not just any health care to Americans, but GOOD health care.
5.) I am on the team that understands that banks should not be forced to give mortgages to minorities (or anyone else) who have no creditworthiness or ability to pay their mortgage (look at where our economy is because of that).
6.) I am on the the team that says that as long as Iran is a radical Islamic theocracy, there will be no negotiations or reestablishment of diplomatic ties until the Iranian people stand up and take back their country (just like Eastern Europeans did under communism in the late 1980's).
7.) I am on the team that REALLY supports women's rights, and refuses to believe the stereotype that just because someone is a woman, especially a petitite and attractive woman, that she is automatically a "bimbo" or "airhead" and must be intellectually inferior to an aged and bumbling white man who has a long marriage to the Washington establishment. My team belives that sexist attacks aimed at Sarah Palin are just as disgraceful as sexist attacks aimed at Hillary Clinton.
8.) I am on the team that suports the rights of racial minorites, and remembers that same Senator Joe Biden as the pathetic jerk who, as head of the Senate Judiciary Commmittee in 1992, was determined to do everything possible to keep a black Clarence Thomas off of the U.S. Supreme Court.
9.) I am on the team that realizes that Barack Obama only got into to Ivy League schools because of affirmative action policies, and has absolutely nothing to show for these opportunities that were handed to him on a silver platter, simply because he has the right skin tone.
10.) I am on the team who realizes that unlike Barack Obama, Sarah Palin was not freely given any opportunities, but had to be proactive and find them on her own. As a result, she has accompished more in her "inexperienced" political career than Barack Obama will ever achoeve in his entire life.
11.) Most of all, I am on the team who realizes that John McCain has history of getting things done (I grew up in Arizona so I know this first hand). He walks his talk, and is one of the few politicians, Republican or Democrat, who we can really take at his word. John McCain resembles what America should be, while Barack Obama is the antithesis of what has made America great.
If we elect Obama as our president, we'll get exactly what we ask for. But if that happens, don't come crying to me, because my "team" tried to warn you.
Reagrds,
Casey
----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: wheatgrass
Date: Oct 5, 2008 8:16 PM
Educational Background:
Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
McCain: United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Palin: Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism
Now, which team are you going to hire ?
.. .. ..
Hello and Thank Your For the Question . . . let me tell you what team I am on:
1.) I am on the team that truly loves America, that has no prior association with America hating domestic terrorists.
2.) I am on the the team that supports our ally Israel and the Jewish people, and refuses to even acknowledge terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah by saying that they have "legitimate grievances."
3.) I am on the team that beleives employees should have a CHOICE as to which union they join or if they want to even join a union in the first place, rather than being forced to join a specific union as a condition of being hired.
4.) I am on the team that believes in providing not just any health care to Americans, but GOOD health care.
5.) I am on the team that understands that banks should not be forced to give mortgages to minorities (or anyone else) who have no creditworthiness or ability to pay their mortgage (look at where our economy is because of that).
6.) I am on the the team that says that as long as Iran is a radical Islamic theocracy, there will be no negotiations or reestablishment of diplomatic ties until the Iranian people stand up and take back their country (just like Eastern Europeans did under communism in the late 1980's).
7.) I am on the team that REALLY supports women's rights, and refuses to believe the stereotype that just because someone is a woman, especially a petitite and attractive woman, that she is automatically a "bimbo" or "airhead" and must be intellectually inferior to an aged and bumbling white man who has a long marriage to the Washington establishment. My team belives that sexist attacks aimed at Sarah Palin are just as disgraceful as sexist attacks aimed at Hillary Clinton.
8.) I am on the team that suports the rights of racial minorites, and remembers that same Senator Joe Biden as the pathetic jerk who, as head of the Senate Judiciary Commmittee in 1992, was determined to do everything possible to keep a black Clarence Thomas off of the U.S. Supreme Court.
9.) I am on the team that realizes that Barack Obama only got into to Ivy League schools because of affirmative action policies, and has absolutely nothing to show for these opportunities that were handed to him on a silver platter, simply because he has the right skin tone.
10.) I am on the team who realizes that unlike Barack Obama, Sarah Palin was not freely given any opportunities, but had to be proactive and find them on her own. As a result, she has accompished more in her "inexperienced" political career than Barack Obama will ever achoeve in his entire life.
11.) Most of all, I am on the team who realizes that John McCain has history of getting things done (I grew up in Arizona so I know this first hand). He walks his talk, and is one of the few politicians, Republican or Democrat, who we can really take at his word. John McCain resembles what America should be, while Barack Obama is the antithesis of what has made America great.
If we elect Obama as our president, we'll get exactly what we ask for. But if that happens, don't come crying to me, because my "team" tried to warn you.
Reagrds,
Casey
----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: wheatgrass
Date: Oct 5, 2008 8:16 PM
Educational Background:
Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
McCain: United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Palin: Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism
Now, which team are you going to hire ?
.. .. ..
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