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Hagel defends Obama from attacks
UPI ^ | 7/27/08

Posted on 07/27/2008 5:31:34 PM PDT by DallasBiff

WASHINGTON, July 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., Sunday defended presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama from recent political attacks.

Hagel said during an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation" that U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the likely GOP nominee, was pushing the ethical envelope by questioning the Illinois senator's motivations for opposing the Iraq war.

"I think John is treading on some very thin ground here when he impugns motives, when we start to get into, 'You're less patriotic than me' and 'I'm more patriotic.' I admire and respect John McCain; we talk often. John's better than that," Hagel said.

Hagel also criticized a new McCain campaign advertisement that makes it appear Obama spends more time at the gym than with wounded U.S. troops stationed overseas.

The advertisement also appears to suggest Obama canceled a visit such troops when he was in Germancy once he learned it would not be broadcast.

"He certainly would have been criticized, if, on a political trip, to go and be accused of using our wounded troops as props for his campaign," Hagel said on the CBS news program. "I think it would have been totally inappropriate of him, on a trip financed by campaign funds, to go into a military hospital. Based on what I know; he did the right thing."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: chuckhagel; electionads; elections; foreignpolicy; hagel; leftwingrino; mccain; nebraska; obama; obamasbigadventure; snub; traitor; turd
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Hagel sucking up for a Obama's VP slot?
1 posted on 07/27/2008 5:31:34 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

This has been the strangest run up to a presidential election that I can remember.


2 posted on 07/27/2008 5:33:40 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: DallasBiff
Hagel is whoring for Obama.



THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

3 posted on 07/27/2008 5:34:18 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: DallasBiff

Hagel cannot disappear soon enough.


4 posted on 07/27/2008 5:34:38 PM PDT by boycott
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To: DallasBiff

*laughing* Hagel is nothing more than a prop for Obama. What a fool!


5 posted on 07/27/2008 5:36:03 PM PDT by Tut
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To: johniegrad

Not to mention the longest.


6 posted on 07/27/2008 5:36:38 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: DallasBiff

Is Hagel going to the Democratic or the Republican conventions?

or both?


7 posted on 07/27/2008 5:36:52 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: DallasBiff

If I heard Hagel correctly, he also refused to say if he would vote for McCain. Of course, there are a number of Freepers saying the same.


8 posted on 07/27/2008 5:36:55 PM PDT by gracesdad
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To: DallasBiff

Hagel is the ultimate douchebag, a RINO for all seasons.


9 posted on 07/27/2008 5:37:19 PM PDT by mkjessup
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To: Diogenesis

Did you know that Hagel’s principal early backer in 1996 was none other than General C. Powell?


10 posted on 07/27/2008 5:39:34 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: DallasBiff

Upchuck is angling for something from Obama.


11 posted on 07/27/2008 5:41:11 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: DallasBiff

I don’t see Republicans throwing Hagel off any committees.


12 posted on 07/27/2008 5:41:55 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (If Islam conquers the world, the Earth will be at peace because the human race will be killed off.)
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To: DallasBiff; All
"I think John is treading on some very thin ground here when he impugns motives, when we start to get into, 'You're less patriotic than me'

"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==

From WorldNetDaily:
Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Fund's website. Obama served on the board with [Bill] Ayers, who was a Weathermen leader and has written about his involvement with the group's bombings of the New York City Police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972.
Article: Obama worked with terrorist
Senator helped fund organization that rejects 'racist' Israel's existence:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57231

From Sept 11, 2001, New York Times article/interview with Obama associate and friend, William/Bill Ayers.
Article title: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"

"During his fugitive years, Mr. Ayers said, he lived in 15 states, taking names of dead babies in cemeteries who were born in the same year as he. He describes the typical safe house: there were usually books by Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh, and Che Guevara's picture in the bedroom; fermented Vietnamese fish sauce in the refrigerator, and live sourdough starter donated by a Native American that was reputed to have passed from hand to hand over a century."

(snip)

"Mr. Ayers, who in 1970 was said to have summed up the Weatherman philosophy as:

'Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at,' is today distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

New York Times, September 11, 2001: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

Allies in War
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001:

ON THE MORNING OF THE ATTACKS on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, along with a million other readers of the New York Times including many who would never be able to read the paper again, I opened its pages to be confronted by a color photo showing a middle-aged couple holding hands and affecting a defiant look at the camera. The article was headlined in an irony that could not have been more poignant, "No Regrets For A Love Of Explosives."

The couple pictured were Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, former leaders of the 1960s’ Weather Underground, America’s first terrorist cult. One of their bombing targets, as it happened, was the Pentagon.

"I don’t regret setting bombs," Ayers was quoted in the opening line of the Times profile; "I feel we didn’t do enough."

In 1969, Ayers and his wife convened a "War Council" in Flint Michigan, whose purpose was to launch a military front inside the United States with the purpose of helping Third World revolutionaries conquer and destroy it.

Taking charge of the podium, dressed in high-heeled boots and a leather mini-skirt – her signature uniform – Dorhn incited the assembled radicals to join the war against "Amerikkka" and create chaos and destruction in the "belly of the beast."

Her voice rising to a fevered pitch, Dohrn raised three fingers in a "fork salute" to mass murderer Charles Manson whom she proposed as a symbol to her troops. Referring to the helpless victims of the Manson Family as the "Tate Eight" (the most famous was actress Sharon Tate) Dohrn shouted:

"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"

(big snip)

Today William Ayers is not merely an author favored by the New York Times, but a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

His Lady Macbeth [Bernardine Dohrn] is not merely a lawyer, but a member of the American Bar Association’s governing elite, as well as the director of Northwestern University’s Children and Family Justice Center.
[it's true! see: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/aclu/]

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09

The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference

[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]

April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm

"In July 1969, [Bernardine] Dohrn, Eleanor Raskin, Dianne Donghi, Peter Clapp, David Millstone and Diana Oughton, all representing 'Weatherman', as Dohrn's faction was now called, traveled to Cuba and met with representatives of the North Vietnamese and Cuban governments."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"FBI files from 1976, recently made public under the Freedom of Information Act, confirm the connections between Weatherman, Havana, and Moscow. Weatherman leaders like Mark Rudd traveled illegally to Havana in 1968 to engage in terrorist training. There, camps set up by Soviet KGB Colonel Vadim Kotchergine were educating Westerners both in Marxist philosophy and urban warfare."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

July 27, 1970: The United States Army base at The Presidio in San Francisco is bombed on the 11th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. [NYTimes, 7/27/70] :
Chronology of Weather Underground attacks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Chronology_of_events

Weather Underground Organization linked to North Vietnamese and Cuban governments, KGB
[420 pages in all on pdf]

Source: FBI, via Freedom of Information Act:
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/weather.htm

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
March 6, 1970: "three members of the Weather Underground accidentally killed themselves in a Manhattan townhouse while attempting to build a powerful bomb they had intended to plant at a social dance in Fort Dix, New Jersey -- an event that was to be attended by U.S. Army soldiers. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plot been successfully executed."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

"The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
The bomb was packed with nails to inflict maximum casualties upon detonation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Chronology_of_events

Bill Ayers TODAY (April 6, 2008), from his own red communist star-headed website, begging to debate communism vs capitalism with Sean Hannity and STILL calling for revolution!

"Imperialism. I’m against it, and if Sean Hannity and others were honest, this is the ground they would fight me on. Capitalism played its role historically and is exhausted as a force for progress: built on exploitation, theft, conquest, war, and racism, capitalism and imperialism must be defeated and a world revolution—a revolution against war and racism and materialism, a revolution based on human solidarity and love, cooperation and the common good —must win.

We begin by releasing our most hopeful dreams and our most radical imaginations: a better world is both possible and necessary.

Source: http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/page/2/

'Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,' he [Ayers] said."
August 2001, Chicago Magazine (article: No Regrets)

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/

13 posted on 07/27/2008 5:42:10 PM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my FR home page)
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To: DallasBiff

UPI is still an operating company? Who would’ve guessed?


14 posted on 07/27/2008 5:46:50 PM PDT by spyone
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To: DallasBiff

I wish these publications would stop referring to Hagel as a Republican or conservative. Call him what he really is-a first class ass.


15 posted on 07/27/2008 5:47:22 PM PDT by NoobRep
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To: DallasBiff
Hagel sucking up for a Obama's VP slot?

Sure sounds like it. But why not. Hagel has been off his rocker since the Iraq invasion. Some contaminating experience from VN most likely.

16 posted on 07/27/2008 5:47:25 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Tut

Well, we see the Democrat talking point emerging anything that McCain says about Obamao’s lack of experience is a “attack and beneath McCain”.

Hagel is such a low grade moron of a politico, sucking up to the Obamao and being used like a talking puppet is simply stupid.


17 posted on 07/27/2008 5:49:26 PM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Romans 10.10/Eze 11.2)
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To: DallasBiff
Obama could have gone and seen the troops covertly, then no pics and Obama’s would hot have had any media coverage, but would have supported the troops. Obama is a media whore period, product of the media and lives and dies by the media!!
18 posted on 07/27/2008 5:50:41 PM PDT by carcraft (The Obamalator, sold on TV, very expensive,doesn't work , is a cheap copy of the original Caterlator)
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To: DallasBiff

Why is it you almost never see Democrats criticizing their own (with the notable exceptions of Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller)?


19 posted on 07/27/2008 5:50:56 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: DallasBiff
‘makes it appear Obama spends more time at the gym than with wounded U.S. troops stationed overseas’

Excuse me upChuck but Obama DID spend more time at the gym than with wounded troops! Obama’s supporters lie and lie and lie for him. The MSM never holds any of these sycophants accountable nor their leader the Obamessiah.

20 posted on 07/27/2008 5:52:14 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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