Once Again, Phony Cries Of Racism
by Big Dog on Oct 5, 2008 at 18:39 Political
It never fails when it comes to the left. They see racism in everything, except of course in the words of their own adherents who spout racially motivated attacks all the time. This time the focus is on Sarah Palin and her attacks on Obama’s ties to a domestic terrorist. There is no denying that Barack Obama had more than a passing relationship with William Ayers. Therefore, he has associated himself with a domestic terrorist and one who fails to repent for his behavior. In fact, Ayers said that he did not do enough.
Palin attacked Obama for his association with Ayers and the Liberal media has been running cover for The One. The major publications are saying that the association has been debunked (it has not) and that Obama was a child when Ayers targeted our country (he was) and they also report that Obama has denounced what Ayers did in the past.
The Obama Ayers relationship is very real. Ayers held a major fund raiser at his house for Obama and they served together on the board of a few charities. Ayers and Obama have a close relationship and that should make people stop and think.
It is true that Obama was a child when Ayers and his terrorist group bombed federal buildings and killed police officers. But that does not mean Obama should not be held accountable for his judgment. How do you suppose it would play out if Hitler had lived and George Bush befriended him and said “hey I don’t agree with what the guy did but I wasn’t even born when he did it.” Obama can claim that he denounces the acts of Ayers but by befriending him, Obama gives him and the cause he feels did not go far enough, legitimacy. This is the kind of legitimacy that Obama would give Ahmadinejad by meeting with him without preconditions. Perhaps Obama’s failure to make the connection with regard to Ayers is why he is so willing to meet with other terrorists.
It does not matter that Obama has denounced what Ayers did. If you had a neighbor who was friends with bin Laden and rationalized it by saying “Well, I denounced what he did” would you consider that neighbor a patriot or a traitor?
The AP reported on Palin’s comments and they concluded that she had some racist sprinklings in them.
Palin’s words avoid repulsing voters with overt racism. But is there another subtext for creating the false image of a black presidential nominee “palling around” with terrorists while assuring a predominantly white audience that he doesn’t see their America?
In a post-Sept. 11 America, terrorists are envisioned as dark-skinned radical Muslims, not the homegrown anarchists of Ayers’ day 40 years ago. With Obama a relative unknown when he began his campaign, the Internet hummed with false e-mails about ties to radical Islam of a foreign-born candidate.
Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as “not like us” is another potential appeal to racism. It suggests that the Hawaiian-born Christian is, at heart, un-American. Breitbart
Let me point out that Obama was the one who said he did not look like the other presidents. The AP is playing a word game by inferring that Palin said things she did not. The AP is helping Obama by planting these seeds. I will also say that she associated him with William Ayers who is white and bringing up the dark skinned Muslim angle is reaching well beyond the line of reality. The AP in this analysis is trying to misdirect the attention of the people. They are saying; “ignore the terrorist connections of Obama, it is a racist remark.”
Barack Obama has questionable relationships with radical and corrupt people including Ayers, Tony Rezko, and Pastor Wright. These associations have not been investigated by the media and have been largely ignored. Any attempt to bring them to light is viewed as racist which gives us a good idea as to how Obama will govern the country. “Congress failed to pass my budget because they are racists.” “How dare you criticize my foreign policies, you racists.”
Obama is a radical as is his wife who has been muzzled so as to keep her from expressing her true hate filled feelings about our country. She and her husband will do anything to get ahead in politics. Obama knew Ayers would be helpful so he allowed him to help. This is the same motivation that allowed him to join and attend a radical church for 20 years. He needed the backing in order to achieve. It does not hurt that Obama and his radical wife hold the same values as the church. Even Oprah, who is a racist, left the church.
The AP is way out of line. Obama’s associations are fair game and if the other side does not like it then too bad. Perhaps if the AP spent time actually looking at Obama’s shady past they would not have time to dream up the bogey man of racism.
Palin needs to keep hammering him on this. Attack, attack, attack. If the media will not do its job then others will have to. Regardless of what anyone thinks about this, it is a fact that Obama has a close relationship with a domestic terrorist. This should matter, and to me it does.
Tags: ayers, friends, Obama, phony racism, terrorist
Somehow it is OK for BO to be friends with an unrepentant terrorist, but, let Governor Palin have a problem with her brother in law who acted irresponsibly threatening family members and tazoring his son, one would think that Palin is terrible.
Big Dog, we are at the edge of a cliff and ready to tumble into the abyss at the blink of an eye. The left suffers from Bush Derangement Syndrome and now suffering from Palin Derangement Syndrome. I never saw so much hate come out of the “party of peace.” The Party of Peace and the Religion of Peace have one thing in common dogmatic rhetoric and delusional thinking.
I think it’s too little too late to hit Obama on this issue. Just 4 weeks until the election? The response to this is that Palin and McCain are flailing again. They’re taking a HUGE hit in the polls right now and they’re going way negative because of it. It makes them look desperate and that’s going to translate into lost votes. The McCain campaign spent too long trying to make hay of things that did not and will not stick to Obama and now that they’re hitting him where it counts there may not be enough time left for it to translate into any gains.
Bush is coming in at about 70% disapproval rating and I think the Obama campaign’s attempts to pin Bush to the shirt of McCain has worked a lot more effective than this Obama terrorist thing will. With little effort Palin and her Washington outsider talk is lined up side by side with Bush’s 2000 talk about change and new direction and that hurts.
Dramatic shifts in polling do happen but we’re in the stretch run here and McCain is dropping fast…
I fail to see dropping fast. 6-8 points depending on the poll. The electoral votes will even back out.
The thing is, Democrats were very successful at pinning their failures on Republicans. It was the Democrats who gave us this collapse.
Obama is not on his way up, he will even out and tying him to his questionable choices will play better to the whole public than it did to the lunkheads in the Democratic primaries.
Liberals and democrats play Three Card Monte very well, don’t they. The Liars Club…. 🙂
I think it’s important to note that when McCain was on the upswing he was in a convention bounce rising sometimes 10 points ahead depending on the poll. That means in the last 4 weeks he’s down 10-20 points.
And Obama is getting a bounce from the repeated lies that Bush caused the meltdown. The Democrats caused it and then played games with it for political points.
Obama is running centrist (or trying to by pretending to be middle of the road) because no Democrat wins if he runs on who he really is.
He might win. If he does he will preside over the greatest fall in our history and he can try to blame it on Bush and some morons will go along but like you libs said about 9/11 and this market problem, happened on his watch, his problem.
When the US topples, Obama’s problem. I only hope that if the terrorists use his win as a reason to attack us they attack the places that are heavily populated with liberals so the ones who voted for him can pay for it. Not that I want us to be attacked but if we are the innocent people should not have to suffer.
In Obamas book, Dreams of My Father,” he repeatedly refers to his friend Frank but fails to identify his last name. I hope this starts being brought up as well because it should as all his associates.
quote from Townhall–Jeremiah Wright wasn’t Obama’s first radical mentor. As a young man in Hawaii, Obama had a quasi-filial relationship with radical Frank Marshall Davis – an avowed member of the Communist Party of the USA. In fact, in his memoirs, Obama concedes that he attended “socialist conferences” and encountered Marxist literature. (Now imagine the outcry if a Republican presidential candidate had such ties to a Nazi).
That the People’s Weekly World – the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the USA – has rhapsodized about Obama’s presidential campaign, calling it a “transformative candidacy that would advance progressive politics for the long term”? (Think about how the press would react if a fascist newspaper heaped such praise on McCain.)
That Obama has routinely tried to intimidate his critics into silence? His political organization spearheaded a massive campaign against a Chicago radio show that invited one of his critics to appear – even after being asked (and refusing) to send a representative to balance the program, hosted by a non-partisan University of Chicago psychology professor. Worse, his campaign sought to chill free speech by establishing a “truth squad” of Missouri prosecutors and sheriffs, which threatened a “vigorous response” to any ad presenting information about Obama that they deemed to be “inaccurate.” And there are other examples.
Questions to ask the wingnuts screeching “Ayers! Ayers!”…
1. Who was David Ifshin?
2. For what act during the Vietnam War era is he best known?
3. Which current candidate for President later befriended Ifshin, and delivered a videotaped eulogy at Ifshin……