Posted on 08/27/2008 12:49:54 PM PDT by freespirited
The Barack Obama campaign has now sent a second letter to the Department of Justice calling for the prosecution of one of American Issues Project’s donors for his role in funding a political advertisement in full compliance with all election laws.
“Having failed in its attempts to get our legal, factual and fully-supported ad off the air, Barack Obama’s campaign now wants to put our donors in prison for exercising their right to free speech," said Ed Martin, American Issues Project’s president. “These over-the-top bullying tactics are reminiscent of the kind of censorship one would see in a Stalinist dictatorship, with the only difference being that those guys generally had to wait until they were in power to throw people who disagreed with them into jail.”
In addition to two letters sent to the Department of Justice asking the government to investigate American Issues Project, its officers, board of directors, and donors, the Obama campaign has been contacting stations running American Issues Project’s ad in an unsuccessful attempt to compel them to pull the spot. With no success on either front, the campaign has also begun running its own ad in response. Notably, this ad fails to dispute a single fact in the American Issues Project’s initial ad.
American Issues Project is a 501(c)4 organization, similar in structure to NARAL and the League of Conservation Voters, two liberal organizations that have claimed status as “qualified nonprofit corporations” for two decades. In accordance with federal law, American Issues Project only solicits and accepts contributions from individuals and not from any business corporation. The FEC also sets out specific regulations for the activities of a qualified nonprofit corporation, which American Issues Project follows.
The American Issues Project’s ad began airing Thursday, August 21, and will continue through the Democratic Convention. An electronic version of the ad and full documentation of all statements made are available at American Issues Project’s website: www.americanissuesproject.org.
Did you see where they listed Democrat donors? Michelle Malkin’s web site has the letter.
Hey Barry, what are you so afraid of?
Yes, it certainly does. Why not just counter the ad? That’s the American way of dealing with political ads you don’t like. (I know the answer to that question.)
You lie with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
Ayers, Rev Wright...Obama has more fleas than my dog.
A not-so-sneak preview into life in America under an Obamessiah dictatorship. “The peasant class has full authority to say anything I happen to agree with. Offenders will be prosecuted.” And where is the outrage on the part of our constitutionally protected media? Hahahahahahahah!
I think Obama is even more dangerous then his cousin. He adores the praise the liberal media gives him, but; anyone who opposes him must be destroyed. He tries to kill every messenger of bad news. Look what tried to do to Corsi and Expat. This jerk is a bona fide mental patient. Certainly a narcisstic person.
This is the REAL Barack Obama. This is a good example of how the dirty, rotten SOB would act as President.
Stalin? No need to reach that far back. Putin closed down media outlets that criticized him using various legal and extra-legal tactics.
I like these (AIP) guys.
The ad is all facts and no innuendo. It simply uses Obama’s own history, associations and deeds to make the case.
They also sound like they have a rather stiff spine and aren’t liable to be bullied by Obamessiah or his campaign.
Good for them!
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