As Australian MSM calls Obama out for links to terrorists (plural), US MSM keeps its head in the sand…
October 13, 2008 by PUMA Pundit
Very interesting article to say the least. There is nothing new in it, but the fact that it was published speaks volumes about how the world is gradually coming around to calling Obama what he is; a man whose judgment is extremely questionable to say the very least…
I don’t know why the MSM is hell bent on bringing Obama in against all odds, but it is safe to say that if he is ever elected President his track record is not one that augurs well for this country’s growth and development.
I mean, how can a mainstream presidential candidate even think it is ok to associate with people who believe urban guerrilla warfare is an acceptable way to bring about change in the United States?
PUMA Pundit
A few excerpts, actually, to heck with excerpts, here is pretty much the whole article:
THE seemingly inevitable ascent of Barack Obama to become US president has hit a hurdle, as he is forced to confront accusations, supported by a hard-hitting television ad campaign, that he had a long-time association with two of America’s leading terrorists from the 1960s, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, one-time leaders of the Weathermen (also known as the Weather Underground).
It is not in dispute that Obama began his political career in 1995 at the home of Ayers and Dohrn, when his sponsor (herself on the far left of the Democratic Party and a champion of the Soviet Union as late as 1986) arranged for him to meet some influential leftists and potential campaign supporters and contributors who could launch his career.
Subsequently, “the record shows that connections between Obama and Dohrn have actively continued since Obama launched his political career in their living room in 1995″.
For example, Michelle Obama and possibly also Barack Obama worked at the same law firm at the same time as Dohrn in 1984-88, while in 1995 Ayers co-founded the Chicago Annenberg Challenge using a $US50 million grant and selected Barack Obama to be the first chairman of the board of the project, a position that Obama held for eight years. Obama and Ayers also served together on the board of the philanthropic Woods Fund for three years after Obama joined the board in 1999. Obama also served on the Leadership Council of the Chicago Public Education Fund with Ayers’s father and brother.
These facts cast doubt on the recent claims by Obama’s campaign manager that Obama knew Ayers only slightly and only because they lived in the same neighbourhood and their children went to the same school. Apart from the above connections, Ayers’s children are much older than Obama’s.
Equally unlikely is the claim that Obama knew nothing of Ayers and Dohrn’s terrorist past. As Corsi remarks, people familiar with Chicago politics “wonder how Obama can think we are so gullible as to believe Obama was the only person in Chicago who did not know Ayers’s bomb-throwing terrorist fame”.
But even if there was a long-term association between Obama and Ayers and Dohrn, is that necessarily a bad thing?
The answer requires a brief review of the turbulent time of the 1960s when Ayers and Dohrn were leaders of the Weathermen and signatories of the ultra-radical manifesto You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows, released at the national convention of the revolutionary Students for a Democratic Society in June 1969.
This 20,000-word manifesto called for a communist revolution in the US; the victory of communist North Vietnam in the Vietnam War; and the creation of “two, three, many Vietnams” designed to consume all of America’s military resources. It denounced all police as “pigs” and detailed strategies to defeat them; and advocated a vanguard role for black people, supported by university students and young people, in the revolutionary overthrow of American society.
The Weathermen advocated urban guerilla warfare and terrorism and undertook an intense campaign of bombings, violent demonstrations, riots and jail breaks from 1969 into the early ’70s, beginning with the Days of Rage, held in October 1969, to correspond to the trial of the Chicago Eight. In 1970, the group issued their Declaration of a State of War against the government of what they dismissed as AmeriKKKa.
Ayers participated in 30 bombings in this period, including attacks on the New York Police Department headquarters in 1970, the US Capitol in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972.
Ayers had gone underground as a terrorist following a lethal mistake in a Greenwich Village townhouse, in which three members of the Weathermen were killed (including Ayers’s then girlfriend) when a nail bomb being constructed as an anti-personnel device exploded.
In 1970, Ayers (whose father was a wealthy chief executive of a large telecommunications company and later obtained his son’s freedom from prison) described the Weathermen’s message: “Kill all rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.”
Similarly with Dohrn. After the Charles Manson-led Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969, Dohrn enthused: “Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!”
Bizarrely, in September 1970 the Weathermen were paid $20,000 by a psychedelics distribution organisation called The Brotherhood of Eternal Love to break out of prison the leading advocate of LSD, Timothy Leary. Leary escaped to Algeria, where he joined the Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver in exile.
Ayers published his autobiography Fugitive Days: A Memoir on September 10, 2001, and was quoted in The New York Times on 9/11 as saying: “I don’t regret setting bombs” and “I feel we didn’t do enough”. When asked if he would “do it all again”, he responded: “I don’t want to discount the possibility.” A month earlier he was photographed for a magazine interview standing on the American flag.
In November 2007, during a speech given by Ayers at a reunion of SDS members, Ayers was recorded as praising the group’s spirit of rebellion and quoted communist revolutionary heroes in support of his views, while Dohrn referred to the US government as the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world” and complained that life in America involves living in “the belly of the beast” and at “the heart of the monster”.
Obama was, of course, only about nine when all this started, and wasn’t directly involved in the Weather Underground. However, in his autobiography Dreams From My Father (2004), he makes it clear that he was seeking in his youth to construct an identity as an African-American activist, drawing inspiration from Malcolm X, the radical face of the Nation of Islam, and other radicals from the ’60s.
Indeed, in his second book, The Audacity of Hope (2006), he declares himself to be a pure product of the ’60s and specifically distinguishes the “pre-1967 liberalism” of his mother with “its sweet-natured romanticism”, from his own radical political outlook based in the hard-core revolutionary currents of 1968 and the other violent years that followed.
He described how his vision of the ’60s was shaped by images of Black Panther leader Huey Newton, the fierce battle between police and demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic national convention, the ignominious last-second escape of defeated US personnel from Saigon, and the Rolling Stones concert at Altamont where Hells Angels bashed a young man to death.
Starting college in 1979, Obama describes how he chose his friends carefully: “The more politically active black students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performers.”
He describes how they discussed “neo-colonialism, Frantz Fanon (the Black Power hero and apostle of cleansing violence), Eurocentrism, and patriarchy”; and how he read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness “to help me understand just what it is that makes white people so afraid … Their demons.”
Obama concludes: “Despite a 40-year remove, the tumult of the ’60s continues to drive our political discourse.”
,blockquote>The question that the American people may have to ask themselves is how much this extremist milieu still drives Obama’s political outlook and how much it will guide his decisions, policies and appointments throughout the federal government system as the next president of the US.
Spread this around if you get a chance and think this is absolutely unacceptable as I do. At the bottom I have also added a list of documentation that Obama refuses to reveal to the general public. I wonder why???!!!
From Dreams of My Father:’I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.’
From Dreams of My Father : ‘I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.’
From Dreams of My Father:’There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.’
From Dreams of My Father:’I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa , that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.’
And FINALLY the Most Damning one of ALL of them!!!
From Audacity of Hope:’I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
I hope you remember the Columbo series on television many years ago. He was such a goofy stumbling detective but he always got his man. Be sure to read to the end.
Subject: FW: Columbo and Obama
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> Columbo still scratching his head.
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> Ah . . Sorry to bother you Mr. Obama, Sir
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> Excuse me Mr. Obama, I mean Senator Obama, sir.
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> Um . . . know you are busy and important and stuff. I mean running for
> president is very important and . . . ah . . . I hate to bother you. I
> will only take a minute ok, sir?
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> See, I have these missing pieces that are holding me up, and I was
> wondering sir, if you could take time out of your busy schedule and
> help me out. You know, no big deal, just some loose ends and things.
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> Hey, you have a nice place here! The wife sees houses like this on TV
> all the time and says boy she wishes she had digs like this you know?
> Is that painting real? Really? Wow. I saw something like that in a
> museum once!
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> Oh, sorry sir. I didn’t mean to get off the track. So if you could
> just help me out a minute and give me some details, I will get right
> out of your way.
> I want to close this case and maybe take the wife to Coney Island or
> something. Ever been to Coney Island ? No, I didn’t think so. .
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> Well, listen, anyways, I can’t seem to get some
> information I need to wrap
> this up. These things seem to either be “locked”
> or “not available’. I’m
> sure it’s just some oversight or glitch or something,
> so if you could you
> tell me where these things are . . . I . . . I . . . have
> them written down
> here somewhere . . . oh wait. Sorry about the smears. It
> was raining out.
> I’ll just read it to you.
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> Could you help me please find these things, sir?
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> 1. Occidental College records — Not released
> 2. Columbia College records — Not released
> 3. Columbia Thesis paper — “not available”
> 4. Harvard College records — Not released
> 5. Selective Service Registration — Not released
> 6. Medical records — Not released
> 7. Illinois State Senate schedule — “not
> available”
> 8. Law practice client list — Not released
> 9. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate — Not
> released
> 10. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth –
> Not released
> 11. Harvard Law Review articles published — None
> 12. University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
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> 13. Your Record of baptism– Not released or “not
> available”
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> 14. Your Illinois State Senate records–”not
> available”
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> Oh hey listen! I know you are busy! Is this too much for
> you now? I mean
> tell you what. I will come back tomorrow. Give you some
> time to get these
> things together, you know? I mean, I know you are busy, so
> I will just let
> myself out. I will be back tomorrow.
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> “Who wants to know these things?” asked Senator
> Obama.
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> Columbo answered: THE PEOPLE
Barack Obama told a tax-burdened plumber over the weekend that his economic philosophy is to “spread the wealth around” — a comment that may only draw fire from riled-up John McCain supporters who have taken to calling Obama a “socialist” at the Republican’s rallies.
Obama made the remark, caught on camera, after fielding some tough questions from the plumber Sunday in Ohio, where the Democratic candidate canvassed neighborhoods and encouraged residents to vote early.
“Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?” the plumber asked, complaining that he was being taxed “more and more for fulfilling the American dream.”
“It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too,” Obama responded. “My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
Obama’s remarks drew fresh criticism on the blogosphere that the Illinois senator favors a breed of wealth redistribution — as well as a rebuke from the McCain campaign.
“If Barack Obama’s goal as President is to ’spread the wealth around,’ perhaps his unconditional meetings with Hugo Chavez, Raul Castro, and Kim Jong-Il aren’t so crazy — if nothing else they can advise an Obama administration on economic policy,” McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb said in a written statement to FOXNews.com. “In contrast, John McCain’s goal as president will be to let the American people prosper unburdened by government and ever higher taxes.”
Obama frequently rails against what he calls a Republican concept that tax breaks for the wealthy will somehow “trickle down” to middle-class Americans.
Sparky,
You have “out-authored” yourself! I loved the Columbo piece…you really captrured the essence of the method, the dialogue, and the character. 14 unaswered questions. 14 gaps in the identity and persona thrust among and upon us. 14 more reasons not to vote for Obama.
As a side note, I was struck by Obama’s quote that “..the tumult of the ’60s continues to drive our political discourse.” Sigh! All those idiots voting for “change” are going back to 1960. “The One” surely has done his best to sow the seeds of dissension, racial discord, and gender inequality. Anyone looking back at his history and his campaign can at least believe that he will “take us back to the ’60s.” I guess this is one instance where he told the truth. Better go dig out my old Beatles music, my bell bottoms, and my buffalo sandals.
Yes, if there is a ‘Grand PUMA’, it’s Sparky!
I saw the video on YouTube, great stuff. The market was up almost 1000 points today! YAY!!!! And hopefully it will keep going up. We absolutely need for that to happen for BO to be defeated. The tidbits of truth about the messiah are coming out, albeit in a trickle, and so long as the market doesn’t plunge again before Nov. 4, and McCain doesn’t f- up in the debate, it really is going to be close, polls be damned. I don’t think it’s any accident that ‘W’ is out right before the election, but “An American Carol’ is also out, so at least this time, both sides are represented. btw, there is a good article from the WSJ by Dorothy Rabinowitz on Obama v. McCain and the issue of ‘patriotism’. I found it on pajamasmedia.com. I really believe it will not be over until Nov. 4 at poll closing time. (let’s cross our fingers for the people who are uncovering the ‘truth’ about BO, that it gets into the sights of the ‘undecided’. (btw, what the hell do they still need to know?)
p.s. sorry, I didn’t reference it…the ‘video’ I was referring to was the ’spread the wealth around…plumber’ video of BO. (BUSTED ON VIDEO!)
here’s a video that could flip votes in West Virginia, Virginia, etc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdi4onAQBWQ
Obama speaks very clearly to those he knows are of like mind. he wants to intentionally bankrupt the coal industry with taxes - families and workers be damned.
now I’m an environmentalist, but he just sounds like he doesn’t care about these people - or unspoken, he’ll take care of them like this lady…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ikOxi9yYk
Obama will take care of you… no worries
some of this stuff needs to go viral - fast.
frightening…
Israel Insider and Atlas Shrugged is presenting some evidence that Obama may be Malcolm X’s son.
http://israelinsider.ning.com/
Considering his reluctance to reveal his REAL Birth Certificate, and only a highly suspect Certificate of Live Birth, anything is possible.
So, why allow the State of Hawaii to reveal that they are in “possession” and have “sealed” the REAL Birth Certificate that should be available the same way McCain and every other Presidential candidate have had to make theirs available to the F.E.C.???
What more are you hiding, Obama?
FactCheck.org which “verified” the suspect Certificate of Live Birth, and is run by Bill Ayers and Obama’s former employer Annenberg Foundation, may have slipped up when they stated that Obama held duel citizenship with Kenya and the U.S. Oh, really! OOOPS!
That all by itself opens up a whole new can of worms!
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/does_barack_obama_have_kenyan_citizenship.html