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(Code Pink)Obama Bundler Jodie Evans: Osama Had A Valid Reason to Attack the United States
No Quarter ^ | June 10, 2008 | Charles Lemos

Posted on 06/10/2008 5:06:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

On June 3, 2008, Jodie Evans, the founder of Code Pink and an Obama Bundler went on the Conscience of Kansas Radio Show with Paul Ibbetson. During the interview, Jody Evans noted that Osama bin-Laden had a valid reason for attacking the United States on 9/11.

From the interview:

Jodie Evans:…”We were attacked because we were in Saudi Arabia, that was the message of Osama, was that because we had our bases in the Middle East, he attacked the United States.”

Paul A. Ibbetson: “Do you think that’s a valid argument?”

Evans: “Sure. Why do we have bases in the Middle East? We totally violated the rights of that country. Why do we get to have bases in the Middle East?”

Here’s the audio from the Paul A. Ibbetson June 3, 2008 radio programme: Conscience of Kansas Radio Program, June 3, 2008. The interview is the second half of the programme.

Here are more highlights from the interview:

Jodie Evans also note that Code Pink’s goal is to “undermine the war effort.” Ibbetson called that “treason.” It’s civil disobedience in my view so I don’t have a problem with it per se, though I think some of Code Pink’s members resort to vandalism and that’s a different story.

As part of that effort, Evans said Code Pink was trying stop recruiting for the Armed Forces because “you can’t go to war if you don’t have any soldiers.” Evans denies being anti-military, saying she come from a military family. Again some of their protesters have crossed the line but generally they are just citizens expressing their view points. Here are photos from March 22, 2008 demonstration in Berkeley, California from Zombietime. Zombietime also profiled Obama’s visit to Billionaire’s Row where he made his “bittergate” comments.

With regard to Saddam Hussein, Evans said she would prefer that Saddam Hussein still ruled Iraq, as does “every Iraqi I know.” She probably hasn’t to talk to many Kurds, still no doubt the US invasion and occupation of Iraq has been a disaster but we can’t just get up and go now. The Colin Powell Pottery Barn dictum applies –”we broke it, we own it”– that’s the difference I have with the radical left on Iraq. I opposed the war because I am a Westphalian not a Hobbesian but I am also a realist and in international political theory, realism dictates that you don’t leave countries in a vacuum. We last did that in Somalia and it is still a mess. We broke it, we have to find a way to fix it. Hillary Clinton knows how, pity that we will have to wait until 2012 to start that process now.

She also called Hugo Chávez, “a very nice, jovial sweetheart of a guy…I love Hugo Chávez. . . an amazing person.” She cites that under Chávez Venezuela has cut its illliteracy rates from 30% to under 2%. She has her facts wrong. The literacy rate in Venezuela in 1990 was 96%. It’s true that it is now 98% but the illiteracy rate in Venezuela was last 30% in the 1960s. That’s the problem with the radical left and shared with the radical right, they make up facts. And the fact that Chávez has supported the FARC doesn’t seem to bother her. It bothers me.

She also denied backing Barack Obama. She noted that she gave money to several candidates including Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, and John Edwards not just Barack Obama. That’s true, she did give $2,300 to each of the aforementioned. But she only bundled money for Barack Obama. That she chose to omit.

Here is her page on the Barack Obama website:(AT LINK)

Senator Obama is about to have another problem. These radical associations that Obama has so front and center in his campaign will haunt him through the campaign.

I profiled Jodie Evans and her bundling for Obama back on May 12, 2008. Here is that post: Bumbling for Obama — Code Pink’s Jodie Evans. Jodie Evans, the founder of Code Pink, has gathered at least $50,000 from friends and associates and donated it to Obama’s presidential campaign, according to information compiled by the nonpartisan watchdog group, Public Citizen.

Evans and her son, a student who lives at her Southern California address, each also gave the maximum individual allowable donation of $2,300 to Obama’s campaign.

The donations will again raise questions about Obama’s association with the more radical elements of his base. Code Pink has harassed, vandalized and impeded military recruiters across the United States in a campaign it calls “counter-recruitment.” The group also gave $600,000 to the families of Iraqi terrorists in Fallujah, whom it called “insurgents” fighting for their homes.

I wonder will Obama return Evans’ bundled donations and distance himself from this anti-military group of saboteurs?

Here’s a story from the Washington Times that I think will be rather common come the the Fall. For some more background on Jodie Evans and Code Pink, please visit Code Pink’s Sugar Mommy: Jodie Evans.


TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 2008; codepink; election; elections; enemieswithin; gatheringofeagles; goe; iraq; obama; peacecreeps; wot
Uh oh!
1 posted on 06/10/2008 5:06:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jodie its time to deport you, you vile cur!!


2 posted on 06/10/2008 5:15:40 PM PDT by DarthVader (Liberal Democrats are the party of EVIL whose time of judgement has come.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; kristinn

Glad to see this is getting out!

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3 posted on 06/10/2008 5:16:48 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Osama is a lunatic. But then, so are the members of Code Pink. So it should come as no surprise that they are in agreement.

Code Pink should have been investigated by the Justice Department long ago, assuming we are serious about fighting this war.


4 posted on 06/10/2008 5:21:22 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Evans: “Sure. Why do we have bases in the Middle East? We totally violated the rights of that country. Why do we get to have bases in the Middle East?”

What a completely ignorant and vile wench! I cannot say what I think, and will beg for forgiveness.

5 posted on 06/10/2008 5:23:21 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: Calpernia; xzins; SandRat; Cannoneer; Ragtime Cowgirl; stockpirate; Darksheare; Cannoneer No. 4; ...
PING!
6 posted on 06/10/2008 5:27:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only the Marxist Obama can!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hope she keeps talking....


7 posted on 06/10/2008 5:35:31 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Liberals learning curves are pretty flat,)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here's a good article on Evans from 2003...

Jodie Evans: Activist in Pink
By John Perazzo
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, December 08, 2003

excerpt:

"Evans rose to prominence via her role in Code Pink for Peace, a self-described “grassroots peace and social justice movement” formed just one year ago to organize public protests against America’s impending war in Iraq. Though its leaders benignly present themselves to the public as ordinary, concerned women who would simply rather 'wage peace' than go to war, this group was in fact founded by four experienced activists and hardcore communists – Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin, Diane Wilson, and a radical Wiccan activist calling herself Starhawk. Code Pink works closely with United For Peace and Justice, whose leader Leslie Cagan is a longtime devotee of Fidel Castro and the Socialist Party USA."
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=BCDA4B32-1A38-4131-926D-66075EA20C23

8 posted on 06/10/2008 5:56:12 PM PDT by ETL
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To: All

I should have added that United for Peace and Justice is co-chaired by Judith LeBlanc. LeBlanc is vice chair of Communist Party USA. Leslie Cagan, another longtime communist, is the org’s national coordinator. Cagan not only helped found UFPJ, she also founded the org Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. CCDS is an old offshoot of Communist Party USA. If only the moron right-wing talk show hosts would tell their audiences these kinds of things. I think they’re afraid to.


9 posted on 06/10/2008 6:08:58 PM PDT by ETL
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
On June 3, 2008, Jodie Evans, the founder of Code Pink and an Obama Bundler... noted that Osama bin-Laden had a valid reason for attacking the United States on 9/11... "We were attacked because we were in Saudi Arabia, that was the message of Osama, was that because we had our bases in the Middle East, he attacked the United States... Why do we have bases in the Middle East? We totally violated the rights of that country. Why do we get to have bases in the Middle East?" ...With regard to Saddam Hussein, Evans said she would prefer that Saddam Hussein still ruled Iraq, as does "every Iraqi I know." She probably hasn't to talk to many Kurds... She also called Hugo Chávez, "a very nice, jovial sweetheart of a guy…I love Hugo Chávez. . . an amazing person." She cites that under Chávez Venezuela has cut its illliteracy rates from 30% to under 2%. She has her facts wrong. The literacy rate in Venezuela in 1990 was 96%. It's true that it is now 98% but the illiteracy rate in Venezuela was last 30% in the 1960s... And the fact that Chávez has supported the FARC doesn't seem to bother her... She also denied backing Barack Obama. She noted that she gave money to several candidates including Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, and John Edwards not just Barack Obama. That's true, she did give $2,300 to each of the aforementioned. But she only bundled money for Barack Obama. That she chose to omit... Jodie Evans, the founder of Code Pink, has gathered at least $50,000 from friends and associates and donated it to Obama's presidential campaign, according to information compiled by the nonpartisan watchdog group, Public Citizen... Code Pink... gave $600,000 to the families of Iraqi terrorists in Fallujah, whom it called "insurgents" fighting for their homes.

10 posted on 06/10/2008 10:30:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hay, thanks for posting this.

To make it clearer to my foggy mind, I'm going to post the article with the links, etc included from the point where it cornfuzed me a little.

Here’s the audio from the Paul A. Ibbetson June 3, 2008 radio programme: Conscience of Kansas Radio Program, June 3, 2008. The interview is the second half of the programme.

Here are more highlights from the interview:

Jodie Evans also note that Code Pink’s goal is to “undermine the war effort.” Ibbetson called that “treason.” It’s civil disobedience in my view so I don’t have a problem with it per se, though I think some of Code Pink’s members resort to vandalism and that’s a different story.

As part of that effort, Evans said Code Pink was trying stop recruiting for the Armed Forces because “you can’t go to war if you don’t have any soldiers.” Evans denies being anti-military, saying she come from a military family. Again some of their protesters have crossed the line but generally they are just citizens expressing their view points. Here are photos from March 22, 2008 demonstration in Berkeley, California from Zombietime. Zombietime also profiled Obama’s visit to Billionaire’s Row where he made his “bittergate” comments.

With regard to Saddam Hussein, Evans said she would prefer that Saddam Hussein still ruled Iraq, as does “every Iraqi I know.” She probably hasn’t to talk to many Kurds, still no doubt the US invasion and occupation of Iraq has been a disaster but we can’t just get up and go now. The Colin Powell Pottery Barn dictum applies –”we broke it, we own it”– that’s the difference I have with the radical left on Iraq. I opposed the war because I am a Westphalian not a Hobbesian but I am also a realist and in international political theory, realism dictates that you don’t leave countries in a vacuum. We last did that in Somalia and it is still a mess. We broke it, we have to find a way to fix it. Hillary Clinton knows how, pity that we will have to wait until 2012 to start that process now.

She also called Hugo Chávez, “a very nice, jovial sweetheart of a guy…I love Hugo Chávez. . . an amazing person.” She cites that under Chávez Venezuela has cut its illliteracy rates from 30% to under 2%. She has her facts wrong. The literacy rate in Venezuela in 1990 was 96%. It’s true that it is now 98% but the illiteracy rate in Venezuela was last 30% in the 1960s. That’s the problem with the radical left and shared with the radical right, they make up facts. And the fact that Chávez has supported the FARC doesn’t seem to bother her. It bothers me.

She also denied backing Barack Obama. She noted that she gave money to several candidates including Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, and John Edwards not just Barack Obama. That’s true, she did give $2,300 to each of the aforementioned. But she only bundled money for Barack Obama. That she chose to omit.

Here is her page on the Barack Obama website:

Jodie Evans

Senator Obama is about to have another problem. These radical associations that Obama has so front and center in his campaign will haunt him through the campaign.

I profiled Jodie Evans and her bundling for Obama back on May 12, 2008. Here is that post: Bumbling for Obama — Code Pink’s Jodie Evans. Jodie Evans, the founder of Code Pink, has gathered at least $50,000 from friends and associates and donated it to Obama’s presidential campaign, according to information compiled by the nonpartisan watchdog group, Public Citizen.

Evans and her son, a student who lives at her Southern California address, each also gave the maximum individual allowable donation of $2,300 to Obama’s campaign.

The donations will again raise questions about Obama’s association with the more radical elements of his base. Code Pink has harassed, vandalized and impeded military recruiters across the United States in a campaign it calls “counter-recruitment.” The group also gave $600,000 to the families of Iraqi terrorists in Fallujah, whom it called “insurgents” fighting for their homes.

I wonder will Obama return Evans’ bundled donations and distance himself from this anti-military group of saboteurs?

Here’s a story from the Washington Times that I think will be rather common come the the Fall. For some more background on Jodie Evans and Code Pink, please visit Code Pink’s Sugar Mommy: Jodie Evans.

Now any of us readers can see and click on the links if we care to.

One reason I did this is because everytime I clicked on the URL for No Quarter it froze everything I had open and I had to start all over.

Again, thanks for the post. Very good info about seditious traitorous anti-American liar Jodie Evans.

Jodie Evans:…”We were attacked because we were in Saudi Arabia, that was the message of Osama, was that because we had our bases in the Middle East, he attacked the United States.”

Excuse me Jodie, but Saudia Arabia WANTS our bases in the middle east so they don't go down in flames like Kuwait and Iraq almost did.

What a lamebrain...

11 posted on 06/10/2008 10:39:28 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: Syncro
“Senator Obama is about to have another problem. These radical associations that Obama has so front and center in his campaign will haunt him through the campaign.”

He's gonna need a bigger bus to throw people under soon.

12 posted on 06/10/2008 10:45:57 PM PDT by decal ("You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.")
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To: Jeff Head; Beckwith; Fred Nerks; jazusamo; Candor7
A Saddam Hussein sympathizer and human shield is now a bundler for Obama.

Jody Evans noted that Osama bin-Laden had a valid reason for attacking the United States on 9/11.

and

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029832/posts

13 posted on 06/11/2008 8:02:22 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

That’s makes two of them now, Jodie and Osama Mama Murray.


14 posted on 06/12/2008 12:27:45 PM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Jodie Evans also note that Code Pink’s goal is to “undermine the war effort.” Ibbetson called that “treason.”

I dare call it treason too. I have been calling it treason. It gets me right here that these people are still on our streets. They should be locked up or exiled.


15 posted on 06/27/2008 5:47:11 AM PDT by do the dhue (They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
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