If you take the Obama campaign at its word, the contention that there is a relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama is “phony,” “tenuous,” a “stretch.” In Obama’s own words, Ayers was “just a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” certainly not a long time close political ally.
But a review of just the publicly known highlights of the Ayers-Obama relationship suggests a twenty year pattern of connections between the two.
At the heart of this “Top Ten” list is the
Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which Ayers founded and Obama and Ayers co-chaired for five years, raising and spending at least $110 million in an effort to bolster a “radical” (Ayers’ word) reform program in the Chicago Public Schools from 1994 to 2001.
1) Out of the Woods:
The Woods Fund financed the hiring of Obama in 1985 by the Developing Communities Project.
According to The Nation: “The Woods Fund, in many ways, is responsible for helping start Obama as an organizer and shaping his political identity. In 1985 the foundation gave a $25,000 grant to the Developing Communities Project (aka the “DCP”), which hired Obama, at 24, as an organizer on Chicago’s economically depressed South Side.”
The Woods Fund was founded by the
Woods family which owned the Illinois-based Sahara Coal Company, a major supplier of coal from its mines to major Illinois power companies. Commonwealth Edison, the giant Chicago-based electric power company was
headed by Thomas Ayers, father of Bill Ayers.
Obama served on the board of the Woods Fund from 1993 until 2002. Bill Ayers joined the board of the Fund in 1999 and continues to serve on the board today. He chaired the board for two years during that time.
2) Know your ABCs:
Obama’s DCP supported radical school reform project together with Bill Ayers.
In 1987 in the wake of a controversial strike by the Chicago Teachers’ Union, the Alliance for Better Chicago Schools, or ABCs, was formed to lobby for a new Illinois law that would mandate the establishment of a new power center in Chicago public schools. Local school councils would be established to watchdog union teachers and their principals and they would have the power to fire principals at will.
Bill Ayers helped organize the ABCs group, was its contact person and later its chair. Barack Obama worked on school reform efforts for the DCP at that time and the DCP was a member of the ABCs. Chicago United, a business group established by Tom Ayers, Bill’s father, was also a member of the ABCs.
The Woods Fund also provided additional financial support to the DCP in 1988 to support its school reform efforts. A program officer of the Woods Fund at the time was Ken Rolling who would later be hired by Bill Ayers and Barack Obama as Executive Director of the $110 million Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
3) Putting on the White Shoe:
Obama and Dohrn worked for elite law firm Sidley and Austin
After surfacing from the Weather Underground in 1980 Bernardine Dohrn, wife of Bill Ayers, pled guilty to criminal charges related to the violent
Days of Rage in Chicago in 1969 and received three years probation. She later refused to testify in front of a grand jury convened to investigate a bank robbery carried out by former comrades of Dohrn’s from the Weather Underground. Currently a clinical faculty member at Northwestern University School of Law, she told the New York Times that she thought grand juries were “illegal” and “coercive.” She served seven months in jail.
Because of the criminal convictions Dohrn, who received a law degree from the University of Chicago in 1967, was refused admission to the New York bar. Nonetheless, she was hired as a legal clerk by Sidley and Austin, a major Chicago law firm, in their New York office in 1984. Howard Trienens, then managing partner of the firm, recently told the
Chicago Tribune that he arranged the hiring of Dohrn as a favor to his fellow Northwestern University trustee and classmate, Tom Ayers. Tom Ayers’ firm, Commonwealth Edison, has used Sidley as outside counsel for many years. She later worked in their Chicago office when she and Bill Ayers moved back to Chicago in 1987. She left Sidley in 1988.
Barack Obama left Chicago in the fall of 1988 to attend Harvard Law School. In the summer after his first year at Harvard he became an associate in the Chicago office of Sidley and Austin.
4) A hard rock miner:
Chicago lefty lawyer and Dohrn classmate Judson Miner hires Barack Obama out of Harvard.
Barack Obama returned to Harvard after his summer at Sidley and Austin in the fall of 1989. That fall he was elected the president of the Harvard Law Review, the first black person to hold the position. Although Obama could have returned to Sidley or perhaps clerked for the United States Supreme Court, a natural step for Law Review officers, he chose instead to work for Judson Miner, a partner in a small civil rights law firm in Chicago. Miner had been counsel to Chicago’s late black mayor, Harold Washington. Miner was also classmates with Bernardine Dohrn at the University of Chicago law school in 1967 where they were both were involved in anti-war activity.
5) Rising to the Challenge:
Ayers is named Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge founded by Bill Ayers
In late 1993, Bill Ayers, now an associate professor of education at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus, organized a team to put together a grant proposal to secure nearly $50 million from the Annenberg Challenge. The money was to be used by Ayers and co. to bolster the radical Local School Councils reform project that Ayers and Obama had championed back in 1988 through the ABCs.
The grant application was successful and in early 1995 Barack Obama was named chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Ayers was named co-chair of the Challenge’s operative and strategic body, the Chicago School Reform Collaborative. Ayers and Obama work together for the next five years on raising an additional $60 million in matching money from local foundations and corporations and using the money to intervene in the governance of the Chicago public schools.
The Challenge through a multi-million dollar Leadership Development Initiative intervened in the School Council elections in the middle of what was known as the Chicago School Wars. At the same time Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was pushing, successfully, to gut the power of the Councils.
6) In the Palmer of his hand:
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn host Obama’s state senate kick-off in their Hyde Park home
In the fall of 1995 Barack Obama began his first electoral campaign to replace State Senator Alice Palmer who was attempting to run for Congress. Palmer accompanied Obama to the Hyde Park home of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn for an introduction of Obama to the Hyde Park left. Unnamed Obama campaign aides told the
New York Times that this was the first time that Obama met Ayers and Dohrn, part of the campaign’s effort to minimize the relationship between their candidate and the two authoritarian leftists. Of course that was wrong, as clearly Obama and Ayers had already met well before this “meet and greet.”
7) The “lost years”: Ayers and Obama to the rescue of troubled youth
In 1997 Bill Ayers published a book that criticized the treatment of juvenile defendants in the criminal justice system including the practice in some states of trying these individuals as adults. Barack Obama
praised the book as a “searing and timely account” in the Chicago Tribune.
In late 1997 and 1998 a bill to impose “blended” sentencing on certain juvenile offenders was proposed in the Illinois legislature where Obama was now a state senator, representing the south side Chicago district that included Ayers and Dohrn’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The bill would have allowed parallel juvenile and adult sentences with the adult sentence held as a threat to be imposed if serious offenders violated terms of their juvenile conviction.
Obama, Dohrn and Ayers opposed the bill. Michelle Obama, now working at the University of Chicago in Hyde Park, organized a panel discussion there in late 1997 as the new bill was gaining momentum, to discuss Ayers’ book. Barack Obama and Ayers were on the panel and Obama was described in the event’s press release as ”working to block proposed legislation that would throw more juvenile offenders into the adult system.”
The “R” word:
Obama advisor promotes a reparations approach to education reform; Ayers endorses it
In 2006 Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings of the University of Wisconsin, the then president of the American Education Research Association (AERA), the nation’s leading School of Education professional association, proposed a new policy to tackle the problems of America’s public schools: the repayment of centuries of “education debt” that allegedly is owed to people of color as a result of slavery and discrimination. She rooted the concept in the literature supporting reparations for slavery.
In 2007 Linda Darling-Hammond, a prominent and respected professor at the Stanford University School of Education, endorsed the same idea in an article in
The Nation. In late 2007 Darling-Hammond was named an education advisor to the Obama campaign. In February 2008 Darling-Hammond issued a blueprint for education reform by the next President that set as its #1 priority the repayment of the “education debt,” as proposed originally by Ladson-Billings.
Bill Ayers has endorsed the idea of repayment of the “education debt.” Ayers is now a Vice President-elect (Division B: Curriculum Studies) of the AERA.
A chapter called “Education for Democracy” by Darling-Hammond appeared in a volume co-edited by Ayers called A Light in Dark Times. A chapter co-authored by Ladson-Billings on “racing justice” appeared in a book co-edited by Ayers called Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader. Ladson-Billings wrote the foreword to Ayers’ book, To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher. Ayers and Ladson-Billings are co-editors of City Kids, City Schools: More Reports from the Front Row just published. Ladson-Billings contributed a chapter in a book edited by Bill Ayers, Rick Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and Jesse L. Jackson called Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment published in 2001.
More fundamentally, Bill Ayers introduced the concept of “white supremacy” as America’s original sin within the new left group SDS as part of his effort, together with his future wife Bernardine Dohrn, to hijack the student-led antiwar movement for his still-to-come terrorist actions as a leader of the Weather Underground.
Ayers argues that the fundamental issue in American life is “white skin privilege” - that white Americans benefit from being white at the expense of blacks.
Ayers himself wrote on his website in a January 19, 2008 essay on school reform:
“The dominant narrative in contemporary school reform is once again focused on exclusion and disadvantage, race and class, black and white. ‘Across the US,’ the National Governor’s Association declared in 2005, ‘a gap in academic achievement persists between minority and disadvantaged students and their white counterparts.’ This is the commonly referenced and popularly understood ‘racial achievement gap,’ and it drives education policy at every level. Interestingly, whether heartfelt or self-satisfied, the narrative never mentions the monster in the room: white supremacy….Gloria Ladson-Billings upends all of this with an elegant reversal: there is no achievement gap, she argues, but actually a glancing reflection of something deeper and more profound—America has a profound education debt. The educational inequities that began with the annihilation of native peoples and the enslavement of Africans, the conquest of the continent and the importation of both free labor and serfs, transformed into apartheid education, something anemic, inferior, inadequate, and oppressive. Over decades and centuries the debt has accumulated and is passed from generation to generation, and it continues to grow and pile up.”
Obama has several times during the campaign suggested that the kind of reparations he is for is increased spending on education.
9) A toast to the maoist:
Bill Ayers long time comrade Mike Klonsky blogs for Obama
One of Bill Ayers’ and Bernardine Dohrn’s comrades in the late 60s Students for a Democratic Society was Mike Klonsky. When Dohrn and Ayers moved in one direction toward the violent tactics of the Weather Underground, Klonsky, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, dropped the pro-Russian communist politics of his parents and became a committed Maoist. As leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) in 1977 he travelled to Beijing and was toasted by the senior Beijing leadership.
When the crazy left of the 70s died in the 80s, Klonsky went to graduate school in education in Florida and then moved to Chicago. While driving a cab there he was recruited by his old friend Bill Ayers to head up a new project called the Small Schools Workshop in 1991. It’s offices were in the Department of Education building at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus where Ayers taught. In 1995 the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge headed by Ayers and Obama gave the Workshop a grant of $175,000. The Annenberg Challenge also had its office space in the same building as Ayers Department and the Workshop, rent free courtesy of the University.
In 2008 Klonsky ran a blog on the official Obama campaign website on education policy and “social justice” teaching. When discussion of the Klonsky blog emerged in the blogosphere, it was promptly shut down by the campaign and all of the posts made by Klonsky were removed from the site.
10) The Great Debate: George v. Barack
There is little publicly available information on the precise relationship between Obama and Ayers today. I have been told by Linda Darling-Hammond that Ayers does not have any role in the campaign, although I do wonder how Ayers’ buddy Mike Klonsky could blog on the Obama website unless Ayers had a hand in it. Obama himself did not exactly eliminate any doubts on this score when asked about his relationship with Ayers during a debate with Hilary Clinton by
George Stephanopoulos of ABC News.
Obama said that Ayers was a professor of English (not Education) and was just a guy who lives in his neighborhood. Well, clearly not “just,” as we now know. But then Obama said that he does not exchange ideas with Ayers “on a regular basis.” Whatever that is supposed to mean (they debate the future of the world on an “irregular basis”?) it certainly fails to put the issue to rest.
Great post. This (and all the other “crap” in BO’s past needs to get out soon. If not now it will come out after Denver—the Republicans will make sure of it!
On a side note—-click on my name and go to my blog to see what happened to me yesterday when I purchased The Obama Nation.
Yikes, That is a very disturbing story. I would definitely report it to COSTCO management. If for no other reason to let them know the rudeness of the clerks. Costco is considered a Blue company so probably a donor to Obama but it will put them on notice. My guess they will pull the books off the shelves but maybe not.
If they pull the books off of the shelves then I think they will have a bigger problem on their hands!!!!
Exactly!
ALEGRE’S CORNER
We’re not finished folks - not by a long shot!
ACTION: Ask Pollsters to Include Hillary
by: Alegre
Mon Aug 11, 2008 at 23:46:08 PM EDT
This is something a lot of other blogs are asking you to do and we’ve mentioned it before, so you already know why it’s important. I just got the following reminder from Ricki Lieberman in tonight’s Electability Watch blast-out. Check it out…
POLLING FOR HILLARY: Scott Rasmussen was quoted as saying that he is receiving lots of inquiries about adding Hillary’s name to the polling match ups.
Please continue to call or email and insist that major polls include HRC in polling data for President, now!
Rasmussen Reports, LLC
Phone: 732-776-9777
Email: info@rasmussenreports.com
Quinnipiac University
THE POLLING INSTITUTE
203-582-5201
pollinginstitute@quinnipiac.edu
Gallup
Sarah Van Allen
877-242-5587 or 202-715-3030
Fax: 202-715-3045
sarah_van_allen@gallup.com
We’re making a difference so keep on sending out those emails and make some more calls.
Just do it - do it now. Contact them with an email before you log off tonight and then follow up with a phone call in the morning.
Or as Ricki would say…
GO!
GO!
GO!
Alegre :: ACTION: Ask Pollsters to Include Hillary
I read your post. I would have called the manager over right then and there and made a scene in front of their customers.
I have started to ask missionaries for Obama how it feels to support a candidate that gave millions to his slumlord buddies.
I know exactly how you feel. In my area, the leftists just can’t understand why Obama is not polling better against McCain. They are bewildered! Of course, when your only source of news include MSNBC, the CNN, and the NY Times, such confusion is easy to understand. Today, the local far-left newspaper ran an article basically blaming the Russian invasion of Georgia on the U.S.!
The song ‘Blinded by the Light” comes to mind.
that was a pretty cool song!
Wrapped up like a douche among the foremen of teh night.
Look what is in store for the GE and the USA.
Monday, August 9, 2004 Posted: 9:08 AM EDT (1308 GMT)
International team to monitor presidential e
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A team of international observers will monitor the presidential election in November, according to the U.S. State Department.
Thirteen Democratic members of the House of Representatives, raising the specter of possible civil rights violations that they said took place in Florida and elsewhere in the 2000 election, wrote to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in July, asking him to send observers.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/08/international.observers/index.html
good we need help
Well, maybe we do and maybe we don’t. The UN sent someone here to check into American racism right at the end of the Primary. No one cared about sexism, just racism.
Most likely they will push the racism and not election fraud. I hope they will be fair, but nothing is what it should be this year. Up is down, left is right, right is wrong, I’d say black is white, but that would be racist!
well at the very least if they are covering it and WE are covering it there is bound to be LOTS of tape!
The more eyes on it the better imo. WE need election reform!
Before BOTH sides start gaming it. You really don’t want the DEMS to start acting like PUGS because they are way too emotional!! It would get very ugly, very fast.
jmo
Just as long as the Diebold machines aren’t programmed with Obama’s name already, he should be a big loser.
I think all voters should be asked for identification also. Some places don’t even ask. What is to prevent Obama’s gang going from place to place and voting for him?
Looks like another website has been hit! You cannot go to http://www.pumaparty.com anyone with any info?
Obama has GOOGLE owners in his pocket and there’s an article link that says Dean. Obama and Google hoined forces in 2004 and that many anti-obama and pro-Hillary blogs were shut down.
The link is on Allegre’s blog. sorry I don’t have it on hand.
http://www.seriously-angry-democrat.org/
long article but this info is about half way down
Do you think they’re trying to disrupt PUMA efforts to organize in Denver?
An aside - I was listening to Bill Bennett’s radio show this a.m. on the way in to work. The host made reference to The Denver Group and some other PUMA group’s plan to rally in Denver. The host (not Bill today) opined that it looks like the Democratic convention may not be a coronation after all.
Folks - it has percolated up into conservative talk shows. There is no way that intra party (Dem) strongarming can put a lid on you guys.
I’m saying this by way of encouragement.
in the middle of nowhere in Nebraska
Just think of your interaction with them as provocative art. Personally, I would have embarrassed the gophers.
Your story about Barry Soetoro’s thugs masquerading as check-out clerks illustrates why Costco was given such prominent mention in the movie “Idiocracy.”
You should have reminded the a-hole at Costco that “The Obama Nation” is #1 on New York Times bestseller list (nonfiction), as well as several other lists.
I had to find my copy, on it’s first day of release, buried deep under a pile of Huff/Reid/Obama fantasy novels at Barnes and Noble in Hackensack, NJ. In all fairness, though, I saw it prominently displayed at the B & N at the Palisades Mall in Nyack, NY a few days later.
This culture of censorship and false accusations of racism by these creeps has got to stop NOW. What a mean-spirited, unproductive “debate” I had with Christina Baker at yestodemocracy last night. Bitter, angry, misinformed … and as transparent as the Obamessiah. They intentionally perpetuate racism, in the guise of being against it. How else do you defend the One?
I assume that you notified Costco Corporate Office?
Looks like I’ll have to buy the book when in shows up in a Costco outside of the Seattle Area.
These people are scary — reminds me of the caucuses — the young had absolutely no idea what they were talking about — the only thing they “loved” Obamaling and hated Hillary.
That is a great post if by great post you mean that it was a great waste of keystrokes and that you proved nothing. You brought forth no new information. I tried to find an honest account but you have added nothing to our collective intelligence. You should have just said that I hate him cause he is pretty and saved us all the bother of reading. Giving half-truths that hint at wrong doing is just …. so…. Rove-like. Have a nice day!
thank you ……. the silence from the world has been deafening about BO’s misinformation, fraud, lies, and correct speak.
How in hell he got elected is beyond me. Here’s a guy , if he was not black, would have been laughed back to Chicago.
* no experience, racist, fraud, funded by sleazes, does drugs, takes bribes.
I am embarassed for us. God help us now ……. get ready for the entitlement government for anyone who wants a handout.
Colorado Democrats Threaten Delegate’s
DENVER, Colo. — An e-mail sent from the Political Director of the Colorado Democratic Party threatened the status of a national delegate, alleging she made “disparaging public remarks” about Sen. Barack Obama.
Sacha Millstone of Boulder told CALL7 Investigator John Ferrugia that her comments were critical, but they were not public.
Millstone acknowledged she was frustrated over how the Obama campaign was treating delegates who supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and told a fellow delegate, in what she believed was a private e-mail exchange, that she was not sure she could vote for Obama at the Democratic National Convention later this month
The other delegate apparently filed a complaint with the state Democratic Party suggesting Millstone lose her status as a delegate.
Apparently the Political Director of Colorado’s Democratic Party, William Compton, took the suggestion very seriously and told Millstone via e-mail, “You are directed to come in to the Party Headquarters and explain your comments and why you should remain a national delegate…”
Millstone, who worked on the campaign for Hillary Clinton, considered the e-mail a threat.
“I think that one of the reasons I got this letter was to intimidate me,” said Millstone. “It sounded very totalitarian. I thought it sounded undemocratic and I was completely shocked.”
http://countusout.wordpress.com/
Read The Rest Maybe We Can Send Emails To The News Station
What in the f*ck is going on with these people? This stuff has gone too far. Way too far.
They did this to the WI delegate, and they cannot be allowed to do this again.
We need to get the word out to the larger media about the blatantly fascist tactics that are being used by the Chicago crew and their acolytes. This stuff must and will stop.
Send out a link to this story to media outlets. I am going to do that right now. If they want to play these games, the whole world will know what they’re up to.
1984 anyone?? Gosh almighty!
see it’s those mid level goat herders for bambi that will be throwing all the monkey wrenches into the gears from here in out
THEY are the LEMMING HEADS
It is madness. I just pinged the story out to some favorable media outlets including FOX and Lou Dobbs, as well as some other spots who I know will listen.
There’s no way we’re standing for this bunk. As the McCain camp shut down Barry’s race card play, this garbage needs to be shut down.
Obama Posse: We know you’re scared to death of the convention and an open nomination.
Too bad. That’s what happens when you lose the vote and you’re selected and not elected. Every convention since ‘68 has had an open nomination and that convention didn’t only because LBJ was an incumbent.
You guys are even stupider than you look, and that is saying a lot.
Unity is over, if you want it.
Morons.
What you are saying to the majority of the party, and to America is this: “We cannot win unless we game the system. Ask Alice Palmer. We do not believe Barack Hussein Obama can stand on his own two feet and thus we are reduced to thug ploys and caucus fraud.”
We hear you loud and clear.
Everyone does.
PAUL and they don’t care.
They feel justified after the LAST 8 yrs!!
They will continue to make excuses for themselves and just like the race cared issue it will be hard to argue with them w/out a “well you did it first” or “if you didn’t lie us into Iraq” or “if your stupid supremes didn’t pick W against the will of the people none of this would be happening”
and they would be good arguments but empty and out of space & time
IT’s too LATE TO FIGHT 2000 or 2004 and you can’t imitate the R’s and call it pay back.
The Older, Wiser, more rational, honest citizens of America will NOT play your reindeer games! NOT a tit for tat. Not a repeat of the same mistakes but just a different side of the coin & a different space in time.
NO, no, no, no!! Just like you can NOT make the DAY turn into NIGHT w/out TIME
you can NOT make BAMBI right w/out TIME - and this is clearly NOT his time
quit trying to force it
RISE HILLARY
Sie werden zu kommen, in der Parteizentrale und erläutern Ihre Kommentare und warum sollten Sie weiterhin auf nationaler Ebene delegieren…”
From another era….
OT a bit, but worth knowing. Re George Cloony supports Obama
“It’s a very risky relationship. His hope of becoming America’s first black President depends heavily on winning over conservative voters and it would be suicidal for him to be perceived as a tool of a Hollywood Leftie, which is how they regard George.
‘But they text and email each other almost every day and speak on the phone at least a couple of times a week, often more.’
The acquaintance added: ‘He has tried to keep the true extent of their involvement out of the Press because he is frightened of alienating voters.’
The star has never tried to hide his liberal views and last week announced he is making a £15million film about the lawyer who defended Osama Bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Hamdan, on terror charges.”
http://www.drudgereport.com/co.jpg
cozy picture eh? makes me kinda squemish.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1043164/How-Clooney-offers-good-friend-Obama-advice-issues-body-language-Iraq.html
If I were MO, I would be more jealous of George than Scarlett. But marrying closet Republican gays is not my thing. It’s best left to the Michelles and Ariannas of this mean, ignorant country. Bet the real problem with Scarlett was just polling.
You wonder if Michelle knows the straight scoop about the Larry Sinclair hookup, you know?
I’m sure she does. No wonder she calls Barry ‘pathetic.’
Tragic stuff.
Hey, if you’re orientation is towards your own gender and you’re Bambi, you could do a lot worse than Clooney.
But doing 8-balls with Larry Sinclair?
Michelle, you said Hillary’s house wasn’t in order?
Better check the mirror, girlfriend.
This is important. There have been too many personal attacks on delegates that are Hillary Clintons. The Obama democrats have really gone too far. They think by demanding your vote as a delegate or you are thrown out for supporting Clinton will ensure that Obama has no problems. What are they so afraid of? They have been attacking PUMA websites.. another one down today. It is really sick to think they must cheat and steal and make death threats in the name of Obama. This just makes us stronger. We will not vote for him. Please follow this link and see the latest Delegate Problem. Please air these attacks and make it public. We have never seen McCain Supporters or Bush or even Bill Clinton supporters use these tatics to try and win an election. I think maybe America should fear a President Obama based on these tatics being used to silence Hillary Clinton Supporters. It is not right. And someone needs to speak out about it publicly! This is begining to feel like a war in the party. http://www.pumaparty.com is the blog that was hit today.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/call7investigators/17163668/detail.html
No wonder she calls Barry ‘pathetic’.
Let me count the ways…..UG
George is inviting Barry over to play in his Genevean Leather Room.
What two self-loathing bottoms are up to I leave to you.
WOW Totalitarianism! Simple and Plain.
It never ends with this clown
The John Edwards scandal may have just landed flat onto Barack Obama, regardless of whether Edwards is his running mate or just a bad memory. Jake Tapper at ABC notices that Fred Baron, the man who sent money to both Edwards’ mistress and the supposed father of her child, has been raising money for Barack Obama as well. One has to wonder whether his duties at Team Obama are anywhere near as extensive:
The Dallas Morning News over the weekend profiled Fred Baron, the chairman of Sen. John Edwards’ campaign finance committees in both his 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns.
Baron also, as you may know, has been paying significant lumps of cash to Edwards’ former mistress Rielle Hunter, and others involved in the scandal.
Baron claims Edwards knew nothing about it, and Edwards told ABC News Friday the same.
The article states that Baron is currently “raising money for nominee-to-be Barack Obama.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/08/11/is-edwards-conduit-to-hunter-working-for-obama-too/
YO yo yo hush money from Obama maybe. Sounds like BLACKMAIL.
FINALLY I read someone ELSE saw a RED flag when THAT comment bolted forth from his lyin lips!
It’s also disappointing for me to realize that MOST of the world has no clue about all of this although I knew MOST of it. Like MOST here I would presume.
I hope the MSM reads this since they are too damn LAZY to investigate anything themselves these days with the 24/7 news cycle!
They would never (could never) keep up the pace of a Military Journalist. No rest for the weary! ONLY the lazy MEDIA we’ve grown so friggen dependent on! HA!
not
thanks for this! thanks for reminding me of the IGNORANCE of the dnc to just let this shit go w/out REAL investigating!
Barry is running for CIC you stupid bambi bots OTHERWISE it would NOT matter who his FRIENDS ARE and WERE !!! Why don’t you GET IT???
Wright, Pfleger, Moss, Meeks, Ayers, Rezko, etc, etc, to infinity literally EVERY one that has EVER pushed for him is SUSPECT now!!!
We need to keep this MSM thing in perspective. Do you really think they love Obama? I do not. Seriously, when has the media ever not thrown someone under the bus for great ratings? Never. They are just biding their time, waiting until he is the nominee and the DNC can’t replace him on most states ballots less than 60 days before the election so come 9/4/08, the slaughter begins. It will be a slow and painful process, but it will be a convergence of all media outlets on the attack. They love this just as much as the GOP. It is starting. There are subtle hints on all MSM stations if you pay attention and know about Obama. The thing is that Obama supporters will get this out of the blue. Sometimes it is just a word or they mention Indonesia and the hair on the back of my neck stands up. I’m telling you, it’s coming! they do not really love him. Why would they? They are jealous of someone who didn’t have to work hard to get where he is when they all had to work their butt off for years. The bonus for them was destroying the Clintons .
It’s the pack mentality.
When the pack sees the leader is for someone, or something, they all head in that direction.
Well, now the pack senses there’s a change in the leader’s direction. How will the MSM ever make nice with Hillary, though, after what they did to her?
I have no doubt that MSNBC (as it is now) will stay OBOTOMIZED.
AND at least HALF of CNN as well.
Of course the HEADS of the networks will do their masters bidding and either fire or let go the anchors that don’t follow the immediate RULEZ.
I really do think MANY of them are brainwashed Susan. YEP.
Not all for sure.
sorry not Susan but Smellslike
Baron also, as you may know, has been paying significant lumps of cash to Edwards’ former mistress Rielle Hunter, and others involved in the scandal.
Baron claims Edwards knew nothing about it, and Edwards told ABC News Friday the same.
Oh please! How stupid do they think people are? Why would Baron being paying this woman huge chunks of money without Edwards’ awareness and approval? It’s preposterous.
Thanks Steve…..Keep thoses hits comin….
**** OBAMA IS A FASCIST AND UNFIT FOR ANY ELECTIVE OFFICE ****
Ayers also mentions in his book his bi-sexuality. Maybe another connection between Ayers and Barack??
OK now THAT I never read!
Ur kiddin???? roflol! Well, that sure is a co-inky-dinky!
HA
Google Bill Ayer’s book and you’ll find the bisexuality references.
Bill Ayer’s bisexuality will get you there.
This is probably significant and normally I do not care a fig about who is doing what to whom. However, the big problem with closet secrets — blackmail.
Obama was an unknown — had no background in education or management yet HE was put in charge of the major educational experiment (which failed — duh).
The ones the Obamabots are trying to shut down — these are the ones that may be telling the truth. Anymore I’m thinking anyone who has the guts to stand up to the Obamabot thugs — SHOULD be listened to and given the benefit of doubt.
ANYTHING that Obama says or claims — needs verification from a reliable third party. Obama is a lying sack of sh*t.
He has lied to the American people repeatedly — the biggest lie was to stonewall his relationship and knowledge of who Ayers is. That was an outright lie — those of us who knew the facts knew Obamaling was lying (AGAIN).
PUMA
Dawnelle, that crazy movie with Tom Cruise and all of those orgies and people in masks and such comes to mind. I can’t think of the name of it!!!
“Eyes Wide Shut” — Stanley Kubrick
EXACTLY RIGHT!!! I just remembered! Maybe when BHO, Ayers, Dohrn, Michelle My Belle, (Oprah? dare I say) and such get together, there’s a whole lot of love in the air. lmao
Hey Sugar!!
Didn’t Barney Frank have a party like that?
SEriously I hate people getting into other peoples personal lives.
It even makes me queezy when it’s politicians (but I totally understand if you want to RUN you better be prepared to open your mouth and say AHHHHHH! Nothing down there!)
lol
but the personal relationships should be kept private (unless they involve black mail or illegitimate babies) in most cases.
that’s jmo
and totally up for debate (lol)
Yeah, but as Obama has tried to paint himself akin to Evangelical Christians and such, if he is a “switch-hitter”. No offense to anyone here. That flies in the face of his pandering to them. You see, I don’t care what politicians do in their private time either, but don’t try to make yourself something you KNOW you are not!! He tries to paint himself as some Bible toting and reading mand of gawd who believes as the Evangelicals believes, but he’s a liar.
maybe he was conned into believing that BLT is somehow any relation to actual Christianity?
After all he grew UP in an atheist background with some pandering to the Muslim brothers in Indonesia until he could get the hell out of there and live (easy) with his well to do Granny and WHAT about his GRANDFATHER?
I have not heard MUCH about how HE Felt about his Grandson.
You are right about grandpa. Not much at all. Hmmm….
So was Frank Marshall Davis his “mentor” Davis had a intimate friend, also homosexual who lived in CHICAGO named Richard WRIGHT. Both Davis and Wright were communists as was Obama’s father. Wonder if Richard and Jeremiah Wright were kin? Another note in passing is this. After the pastor flap the Illinois Communist Parties blog, ran an article saying how Rev Wright had been crucified. Just a whole lotta dots here to connect.
There’s something about ‘unity’ and ‘control’ that some males in sub-cultures use sex to cement loyalty. (I’ve often wondered if members of Skull and Bones do that)
In Jim Jones cult he regulary had sex with his male followers “out of love’ was his explanation. There’s a great documentary film about the Jones Temple that talked about that. But it seems to be a tactic that many controllers use for whatever reasons.
ewwwwwwwwww really?
oh jez, well that just made my breakfast of left over pizza come back up the WRONG way!!
tyvm
grr (gulp)
I heard Skull and Bones members cum on one another’s faces, and golden showers are rites of passage. Preppy guys are gay.
Well considering that they have ‘blackmail loyalty’ nothing would surprise me if that is true.
In prisons sex is used for domination and control etc.,
This male on male sex has been a historical fact in many cultures.
It’s like some kind of rite of passage or at least that’s the excuse many ‘heterosexual’ men use.
sigh (shaking my head)
yea if you can’t be honest with yourself (
Bambi,Barry, Barack)you can’t expect AMERICA to believe a word you say
why should they?
Ayers..bisexual?
I’m going to puke..
Jonah Goldberg:
Obama without his script
Judging by his reaction to the Georgia-Russia crisis, Obama’s make-believe presidency isn’t ready for prime time.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-goldberg12-2008aug12,0,6742318.column
……………
Even his ‘Presidential Seal’ couldn’t help him without a written script. Goodness me…
The only difference now between Candidate Bambi and (soon X) Pretzeldent Bush is that Bambi can pronounce most of the words someone ELSE writes for him.
THAT’s NOT MUCH!
Except for MassaTOOsets.
lmao Sugar!!