Here are some questions the media should be asking and did not ask throughout the long primary season, abdicating its responsibility. Imagine what would have happened if the media had fully vetted Obama and practiced journalism as they should have done.

1. When did Barack Obama first meet Bill Ayers? Was it in New York City? Under what circumstances? Was it at Cooper Union when Ayers was a graduate student there and Obama at Columbia? Was it at Columbia when Ayers was at the teachers’ college?
2. Did Ayers play any role in Obama coming to Chicago as an organizer in 1985? Did the Ayers influence the Woods Fund in any way to subsidize through the Gamaliel Foundation Obama’s job? (The Woods Fund was created by the family of the Safari Coal Company, a major supplier of Commonwealth Edison, whose CEO was Thomas Ayers.)
3. Did Ayers introduce Obama the organizer to his family, his father Tom and brother John? Did they involve Obama in the school reform movement they led in Chicago?
4. Did the Ayers family help Obama become a summer associate at Sidley Austen, the father’s company’s law firm?
5. Did Bernardine Dohrn know Michelle Robinson when they both worked at Sidley at the same time? Did she or Ayers introduce Michelle to Barack at Sidley?
6. Did Dohrn, who attended the University of Chicago Law School with Judson Miner, play any part in helping Obama get a job at the Davis Miner law firm?

UPDATE: It was 40 years ago today that William Ayers was arrested at the Democratic national convention — just like the “Recreate68″ extreme-left protestors at this convention:

It was forty years ago today that Barack Obama friend and political ally, and unrepentant terrorists, William Ayers was arrested while protesting the DNC proceedings. William Ayers set no bombs that day, but he was only working his way up from petty criminal to domestic terrorist. And of course this was long before Barack Obama and he struck up the friendship that would lead Ayers to launch Obama’s political career at his house.

Still, the McCain campaign would take this opportunity to remind voters that those responsible for the violence in 1968 have since been incorporated into the party they once protested, and have been revered even by the likes of Barack Obama, and this despite the failure, in the case of Ayers, to ever apologize for the violence he committed against the American people. (Read all.)

The media had better start asking these questions, and demanding answers.

Keep up the good work! You old hippies who are still on the bong, and you left overs from the Communist party may have bad backs now, but you sure still know how to rile up a demonstration. Thanks for your help!

Now, you had better look out for the ipods of those kids you suckered punched into getting arrested for you. If their ipod gets cracked, they will leave. Oh and when can we expect to see your Body Hammer tricks from your Self Defense Manual? Very cool! (Readers, do not miss the chance to click that link).

Did you happen to tell those kids who are into all this cool days-gone-by excitement that, back on those days, sometimes the National Guard showed up and it wasn’t pretty? Just asking. I suggest you text everybody and let them know, mmmmkay?

Oooooooooo! Is that a Che Guevara poster I see???

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Here’s a video gang. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D74Xs1VuYAE]

As many of us have already noticed, the link to Recreate68 , adorned with the Power Fist icon, has been popping up more and more frequently in places on the internets. It suggests a plan to take a trip down memory lane to the most unsettled era of the last century. Recreate68 intends to descend upon the Democratic Convention in Denver, and God knows where else once the excitement gets into their blood.

The late sixties and early seventies was not a romantic time folks. I somehow envision Bill Ayers being a super-duper advisor to this newly formed bombastic battalion of angsty kids with iPods, whose parents busted their butts to pay for their college education, only to find them moving back home so that they might appear “upscale” via supplemenation from their parents’ rapidly shrinking retirement funds.

I find it more than a little amusing that I have listened to Obama supporters tell us ad nauseum that they don’t want to go back to the 90s and the Clinton Years (a time my financial portfolio sorely misses, I might add), but they have no problem bragging on wanting to go back to the 60s and early 70s. Somebody needs to explain this to me.

It was recently when a poster showed up at No Quarter and wrote “REMEMBER KENT STATE”. This caught my eye because, yes, I DO remember. Innocent young people died, not the angsty rebels who attracted the National Guard to begin with. It was not romantic nor was it very cool. Nor did 2008 seem like a very timely year to address it….again. I know this because, unlike so many of today’s Obama supporters, I didn’t just read a book about that era, I was there. I was one of those spoiled brats on campus at the time. So you will excuse me if I find it odd that a board poster would think that the year 2008 was very timely in bringing it up, unless of course you were looking to bring back the “old days” of violence.

The poster went on to tell us how he had an SDS Safe House back in those days and how three of his friends died. He almost sounded as if he was wearing a badge over it and just plain wasn’t finished. Like Bill Ayers, he felt he hadn’t “done enough”. I envisioned him, something we all can’t help but do when we are interacting on an anonymous forum: Once a hippie, now older and balder, and what is left of the hair on the back of his head is hanging down long and stringy. I imagined that his life had been dull, tumultuous and without much joy, mostly because he had spent most of it living in 1970. Excitement for him meant moving backward not forward. What concerned me most was that his content seemed so much in keeping with some of the behaviors I have seen in this election season. A red flag, so to speak. Recreate68 seemed right up this guy’s alley. He would be one of the aged hippies who would show up and turn peaceful demonstrations into dangerous disasters.

Recreate68 presumably plans to do what was done at the Democratic Convention in 1968, which was in Chicago of course. There was all kinds of excitement. The disruptions were discussed around dinner tables all over America. I mean Dan Rather, looking about 12 years old at the time, even got punched in the stomach. You see, the behavior of the demonstrators was getting out of hand and all kinds of security descended upon them and everybody else.

1968 was already a particularly painful and tumultuous year, bringing us the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. The last thing America wanted to watch was a bunch of spoiled brats demonstrating at a convention, even in the face of a useless war that practically nobody in his right mind wanted to continue. In short, the youth of America that year frightened Americans more than the war did.

I’m not too sure the young angsty left-of-the-left-cliff Democrats were very successful in 1968, unless you call giving us Richard Nixon as President a success. You would think one would learn from history. Nope. They behaved badly again during the 1972 election year again, only they– myself included–were even more arrogant. loud, pushy, elitist and nasty, thus forcing humiliated Democrats all over the country to watch George McGovern and the Democrats get their asses handed to them on a plate - by Richard Nixon…. again.

In ‘68 and ‘72 they were called “Eggheads”. Today we call them Latte Drinkers, Obamabots, and the currently well-documented “Elitists”. They are the same people basically, just older, stuck in a time warp, recruiting younger people to do what their own old backs won’t tolerate any longer, and trying really hard to screw up the Democratic Party again by scaring the crap out of the entire electorate. I am more than reasonably certain that the McCain campaign will totally adore all of this, because they understand history and know that the “silent majority,” who will be horrified by all the disdain heaped upon them in 2008 by what they perceive to be elitist snobs and wayward childeren, will vote for McCain in November.

While their main web page suggests peaceful demonstrations on every subject save for the price of rice in China, Recreate68 seems to be gearing up for a bit more than that for some odd reason. They apparently are considering the potential of someone getting hurt. Gee, ya think? In preparation for their own protection, they now have a “Shieldbook”: BodyHammer: Tactics and Self Defense For the Modern Protestor, Version 1.1.

I would imagine there will be other versions of this manual once they figure out that, should they decide that Bernardine Dohrn was right about non-violent protest being useless, the National Guard tends to pay a visit when rowdy crowds make everyone feel a bit threatened. Somebody is feeding these young people all the tripe of excitement and forgetting to remind them that people die sometimes when things get out of hand–and things can get out of hand. If I were a parent of one of these people, I would be very very worried. You see, I Remember.

I thought you might be interested in seeing some of the examples set forth in the BodyHammer manual. Imagine how excited they all feel about creating their own body armour and how cool they think they will all look if they get too rowdy and some cop clubs them over the head or busts up their iPod or cell phone or something.

Their parents will be so proud. I know Bill Ayers is.

Take a look at these photos from the Manual and then let me know if you still want to enter the DNC’s Raffle for free tickets to the Denver Convention. I mean, where else can you get all this excitement for $25?

“I will force my body to be my weapon and my statement so…”

“Quick to construct, easy to transport…” ” Using inflatable shields gives the disarming appearance that the police are busting up a beach party”.

(Uppity Note: Somebody needs to explain to these impressionable captives that the 1960s was no beach party. And thanks to Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, the early 70s were even less of a day at the beach).

“Some protestors that have seen this shield employed maintain that it has a disarming affect on police psychology.

The police officers who are unable to see the individual in front of them seem to lose their sense of personal rage against individuals.”

“For personal protection a solid helmet is probably the most important thing one can bring to a demonstration after a gas attack.”

“The ultimate option although quite conspicuous in transporting (ya think?) are military helmets. Modern helmets are made from Kevlar and meant to stop a bullet. These are extremely costly and not necessary.”

“Metal inter-locking barriers are the typical means of blockading marches by the police.”

“When a shield wall approaches a barrier, it must be opened or knocked down prior to penetration by the wall.”…. “If Police resist the movement of a barrier persons in the shield wall should try to advance so that their shields extend over the barriers[sic] protecting hands that are pulling it down and knocking away those of the police.”

Ooops! How did this get in here?

I was reading an article this morning about how one of Obama’s advisors had to resign because of his connections to Hamas. Pretty serious stuff, wouldn’t you think? I mean, considering his other Middle Eastern affiliations of dubious intent and criminal status, you would think that an Obama supporter would at least be somewhat alarmed. Nope. Here was an Obama supporter’s comment:

All I have to say is keep crying like broads on a rag. You all lost face it…Cowards…..

Posted by: The Oracle in MD May 10, 2008 10:24 AM

This is just one of scores of messages I have read and captured from Obama pigs–with links captured for posterity, deleted or not. I do hope that young women who swoon for this man at least understand that self-respect demands respect from others. I shall be using these comments well throughout the election season.

On behalf of millions of Clinton supporters who have made it very clear that we will vote for a cockroach before we vote for Barack Obama, I would like you pieces of Obama crap to know that you can kiss our asses. We will collectively do everything in our power to see to it that you and that mysogynist, bigoted, race-baiting pig you worship, the fraud who has already set gender and racial relations back thirty years, goes down in flames in a big way. And there are millions of us. Millions. The kind of millions that brought his type down before from the voting booth.

Our goal is to make Barack Obama lose by an even bigger margin than George McGovern, and he got 38% thanks to his ill-behaved savage followers. And you guys are worse! And George was actually a gentleman with some brains, unlike Barky Obama. He didn’t even do the rap on camera and give people the finger. His nutcase followers didn’t even have the internet where they could make comments about slitting Hillary Clinton’s throat and tossing her into a river like you guys do at my.barackobama. But, there is one huge simlilarity. Like his crackpot followers, you folks are the reason that the Democratic Party has only elected only two Presidents in thirty years. And only one of them served two terms. Guess why? Because he was a moderate instead of a crackpot Marxist hanging off some radical cliff.

So who are all these people who will bring Barack Obama and you down?

They are The Women who fought for rights and recognize sexism and misogyny when they see it; women who will fight you with every fiber of their beings.

They are the Italians who would like you to know that their Garlic Noses are going to shove it up your asses in November.

They are the gays and lesbians who understand why Barry Obama refused to have his photo taken with San Francisco’s Mayor. The people who remember that a blank white page occurred in a magazine in the area that was supposed to contain Obama’s interview.

They are the Irish who watched that raving, crazed maniacal America-despising, white-hating “reverend” insult them on national television.

They are the Catholics who love Hillary Clinton and have a huge allergy to people who go to churches with preachers who act like whackjobs.

They are the Latinos who have received the same kind of unfair treatment from African Americans that African Americans have long resented themselves.

They are in Michigan. They are in Florida. No sense of hiding it. They know.

They are the Seniors, who are old enough and wise enough to recognize an empty suit peddling bullcrap when they see it.

They are the “Hicks” with guns and blue collar and service workers in those badly needed Swing States.They provide your smug arrogant asses with silly things like food, products and services you would be screaming about if they weren’t there. Now, Barry might pick himself a Vice Presidential candidate from one of these states, God knows he has plenty of swing states to choose from where he needs help badly. As a matter of fact, he needs to pick about four VPs to run with him. I’m sure if it can be done, they will allow Barry special dispensation to do it, right?

They are all the marvelous feminist men, the real progressives among you imposters, who are horrified at your behavior toward women.

They are the elderly and disabled who couldn’t caucus. They are the working people, including nurses and police officers and firefighters on shift who couldn’t caucus and tell you what they really think–because they were too busy keeping your arrogant asses safe.

They are the Baby Boomers who aren’t still on the bong, who recognize exactly what Recreate68 means. They won’t let you force us back to that vile time. They remember Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn too. Get it?

They are the Jews who recently had to hear Hamas say on the Day of Mourning for those killed in the Holocaust –that the Holoucaust was created by Jews to get rid of their own weak people. That was right after they had to hear Hamas endorse Barack Obama with a wink-wink.

And most of all, they are people who recognize ability, experience and knowledge as easily as they recognize an empty-suited media creation with a resume the size of a postage stamp, who is handing out Needful Things ala Leland Gaunt.

That’s who they are folks. Good luck with that.

So kindly don’t bother trying the Nicey-Nicey. We are not your wives you can beat the crap out of and later come back and get back together with. You are so vile you give yourselves away by the third comment, so really it’s a waste of time. You don’t even know you are offensive because it’s in your DNA or something. So really, there’s no sense of stressing yourselves trying to hide your disdain for us. It’s not necessary. We hate you even more than you hate us and all of you only serve to solidify our resolve. And when Barry Obama goes down in November, kindly remember why. Or don’t remember why. Nobody cares.