Obama's Buddy List

"John McCain is a good man. He's an American hero. We honor his service to the nation. But he's made some bad decisions about the company he keeps." This magnanimous pronouncement from Barack Obama in February sounded noble at the time it was uttered. The country should reject Senator McCain not because of his biography, he argued, but because of his questionable associations—many of whom are wicked right-wingers like President Bush. With his remark, Obama unwittingly constructed a new standard of judgment that can, and should, be used against him mercilessly in the general election. An alarmingly large portion of the company Obama keeps seems to be a ragtag posse of unreformed leftists, race baiters, and blame-America-first polemicists. Although none of these individual associations will singlehandedly derail his candidacy, when considered in the aggregate, they will give many Americans reason to pause before pulling the lever for the unvetted freshman senator.

Countless columns have already been devoted to the subject of Obama's twenty year relationship with his crackpot pastor and spiritual adviser, Jeremiah Wright. Now Obama's "friendly" ties to unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers are emerging as another headache for his campaign. After all, voters may be curious as to why Obama countenanced a political friendship with a man who in 2001 told the New York Times, "I don't regret setting bombs...I feel we didn't do enough." Meanwhile, a procession of Obama aides have been forced to issue public apologies or resignations over controversial comments. Samantha Power's not-so-off-the-record denunciation of Hillary Clinton as a "monster" comes to mind. As team Obama seeks to shrug off these setbacks, the hits just keep on coming. New rhetorical fires seem to flare up every few days—and Obama is starting to get burned.

Last week Sen. Jay Rockefeller, an official Obama surrogate, told the Charleston Gazette that John McCain didn't sufficiently understand the human costs of war. "McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they (the missiles) get to the ground? He doesn't know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues," he pontificated. Bear in mind that the highlight of Rockefeller's own military record appears to be employing an inaccurate timeline of laser-guided missile technology while slandering someone who actually served. How courageous. Rockefeller was eventually shamed into offering a weak apology, asserting that he "profoundly respects" McCain's record of blindly bombing civilians for fun. The Obama campaign also issued a brief statement expressing Obama's disagreement with Rockefeller on the matter. Lame.

Left wing hack, radio host, and Obamite Ed Schultz has also been busy fending off criticism for his own verbal bombshells. Schultz ought not to be confused with fellow intellectual titan, Randi Rhodes, who recently parted ways with Air America radio after refusing to apologize calling Hillary Clinton a "f—ing whore." No, Schultz's message was far more nuanced: He accused McCain of being a "warmonger." He did so initially at an Obama campaign rally, then repeated the charge all over the talk show circuit. That McCain was brutalized and permanently scarred in North Vietnam does not dissuade Schultz from his studied analysis. The warmonger label still fits, he insists. The fact that McCain's own son is serving in a war that his father helped to "monger" also leaves Schultz unfazed. Following a public outcry, an Obama spokesman offered a characteristically tepid statement distancing the senator from Schultz's comments. Obama himself has remained mum on the issue.

In recent days, Obama has also added a powerhouse name to his long list of celebrity backers. Chalk up the coveted Jane Fonda endorsement to Senator Hope. Fonda, who infamously provided aid and comfort to the enemy during the Vietnam War, simply adores Barack Obama. This should come as no surprise; after all, Obama is a left-wing antiwar Democrat running against a Vietnam Vet—a group that Fonda once referred to as a bunch of "hypocrites and liars." While Fonda was posing for photographs and disseminating communist propaganda on behalf of America's enemy, McCain was fighting on behalf of the American people. Throughout the conflict, Fonda sided with McCain's captors and torturers—an act of treachery that remains thoroughly odious all these decades later. Although Hanoi Jane has no formal role with the Obama campaign, it is still telling that someone of her ilk is attracted to his candidacy. We're still awaiting word on whether Senator Obama will reject Fonda's support as he begrudgingly did with Louis Farrakhan, upon whom Obama's pastor bestowed a lifetime achievement award.

Barack Obama claims to be an agent of change who rejects the outmoded politics of personal destruction. Yet as St. Barack traipses across the country flaunting his political halo, his surrogates—official and otherwise—are launching vicious, shameful attacks on Sen. McCain. Obama has responded weakly (or not at all) to these smears. He implores Americans to judge McCain by the company he keeps. Fine, but his standard cuts both ways. Between the ranting reverend, the wannabe Che Guevara, the slanderous senator, the tasteless talker and the Tinseltown traitor, Obama's buddy list does not inspire confidence. "Guilt by association!" his supporters will bellow. Indeed. But Obama opened that door himself by questioning McCain's connections and constantly boasting of his own exquisite judgment. Two months ago, Obama taunted McCain about the awful company he keeps. Little did he know that this line of attack would open the floodgates of criticism that may ultimately doom his presidential aspirations.

Good stuff! In the recent past I have stated that I would prefer that we face BIAPS in the general election because if the D nominee is B Hussein O, each and every remark directed at his persona, experience, et al will be met with screams and howls of RACISM! Every race-baiter of any stature, with the aid of the MSM, will be in full throat for months. Political Correctness will force a lot of people out of the discussion and probably out of the voting booth, a true shame.

But as this post states, B Hussein O is sowing the wheat of his own demise. He and his raging wife are showing their true positions regarding this republic, patriotism, and their far, far left political positions.

And people are beginning to notice.

One should begin to see the vast chasm that exists between the deeply held convictions of “Americans”....

One should also recognize that the veneer of “peaceful coexistence” between these groups of “Americans” is very thin and being worn through in many places......most especially between white and black Americans...

Leftists, Racists, Islamists, illegal aliens and various scalawags are all stirring up old animosities — and the nation has become a tinder box awaiting a match...

Once ignited — there is more than enough fuel and oxygen to build a HUGE conflagration...

I would hope our “politicians” and “lawmakers/law-keepers” are smart enough to avoid CWII....
I doubt it.

The ascendancy of Barack He Whose Middle Name May Not Be Spoken Obama is the realization of the efforts of all the Cultural Marxists whose ideas were nurtured by the Gramcians who set up the Frankfurt School and spawned cultural radicals like Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodore Adorno. Their intellectual progeny are thoroughly ensconced in the MSM, academia, Hollywood, and most importantly in the George Soros directed modern day Democratic Party which is the nest for all the Vipers on the left, the racial identity determininists, the radical feminists, the sexual deviationist lobby, the “watermelon” environmentalists, the open borders crowd and the anti-war seditionists who seek to steal from our magnificent armed forces the victory that they have earned with their blood and valor in the SAME MANNER as they stole our hard earned victory from those of us who are Vietnam vets.

Their apotheosis is the religion of Obama, the Lucifer deceiver who would lead this great nation to Fabian Socialist HELL!!!

Should Barack He Whose Middle Name May Not Be Spoken Obama get a compliant Democrat Congress and Senate, the damage done to this country and to liberty as we have known it, would be incalculable. He is the most dangerous presidential candidate since Henry Wallace. Please check this link. It will tell you all that you need to know. There is credible info that could lead one to believe that his Indonesian stepfather to him to Mosque with the intent of making him Muslim. His own campaign said in a LA Time article that he was never a REGULARLY practicing Muslim, leading one to infer that he was an IRREGULARLY practicing Muslim. That is enough for the Muzzies to convict him as an apostate or to accept him as one of the faithful deceiving the dhimmis. Check the years 1971-1973 at the link below.
http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm

Your signal is 5 by 5 — and absolutely on target.

There must be something come over grunts of our era — gives us a clearer vision of a politician’s character and “trustworthiness” and erases the racial animosities which seem the order of the day for many if not most of those non military young fools out there..

Perhaps - seeing that we all bleed red and call for our mothers when we know there is little hope, explains the realization that in spite of our differences we are in fact brothers who must stand together to survive.
There is no place on this planet that men of every race more comfortably stand together as brothers as upon the battlefield...

Why must it take war, and the presence of death to teach us the truth?

Obama’s campaign scares me ..... but the size of his support and the identity of those who support him or make excuses for his questionable history and veracity - scares me even more...

My prayer now - is that our generation doesn’t lose the Republic so many fine men and women have died to bequeath us....

My Army service and my tour of duty in in Vietnam was the most valuable education of my life. It was there that I learned that the measure of a human being is character, conduct, and belief. Accordingly, I will never again ascribe positive or negative attributes to ANY person based upon racial charecteristics. Nobility and ignominy are widely distributed amongst all races. My memories of almost all my comrades are fond ones, even as I remember the squabbles and fights with them, because I cannot recall anyone who was not prepared to hazard himself in support of me or his other “brothers.” The term “Band of Brothers” is not a cliche. It is the literal truth in combat.

“Why must it take war, and the presence of death to teach us the truth?”

Many of us as do you , know the truth. Unfortunately, the Dems choose to employ class warfare and ignore or deny this truth, as they attempt to seperate us into warring sub-groups clamoring for our piece of the Marxist/cum Fabian Socialist pie. The concept of liberty is alien to them, as is the understanding of what causes fighting men to sacrifice for one another and their nation.

We must do all we can to defeat this threat to our republic.

Think about it brother....

The Government Schools, spending $20,000 +/-? per year per student — and a greater amount spent each year on prison inmates — can not teach what can be taught by the exposure to violent death while in the company of men who will fight by your side to prevent that death.....

Why can not a sophisticated society, with the common self interest in preserving the most liberating and free living society the Earth has ever seen — teach THAT to our youth for the fortune currently being spent to “educate” our young in the Public School Systems?

The answer lies in the PEOPLE we have allowed to become teachers, school administrator and politicians.......and sadly, parents.

The LEAST qualified to teach our youth the values we cherish, and the LEAST qualified to write our laws, enforce our laws and defend our constitution and Nation.

Stay safe brother - and be grateful we have perhaps experienced the best times America had to offer.

It appears we may have failed to preserve the Republic as we should have for our children and grandchildren...
The next few years will determine that....

Stay safe...

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