Posted on 10/04/2008 7:17:44 PM PDT by mathprof
Edited on 10/04/2008 8:09:52 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The political word today is that the Republicans will return to personal attacks on Obama and Biden to draw attention away from McCain's erratic performance during the days before the passage of the Great Rescue/Bailout/U.S.-as-Sweden bill. We are supposedly to hear again about the Reverend Wright, the unreverend Tony Lezko, and William Ayers, the unrepentent Weatherman.
Of these three Chicagoans, I know only the last. I've been to three or four small dinner parties with Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, once hailed as the Weathermen's fiery, beautiful muse. (Incidentally, I never heard the word "Weatherwoman.") Dohrn is still attractive, while Ayers maintains an adolescent fizzle in his sexagenarian bones. Dohrn is more subdued than Ayers, uninterested in fame. She told me that her husband wanted to pursue movie interest in their story, but that she wasn't interested. "They only care about the sex and violence." Once, Ayers was about to tell the four other people at dinner how they'd gotten Eldridge Cleaver from a California prison to a Moroccan haven, but Dohrn skillfully buttoned his lip.
I did not know them back in the late sixties and early seventies. The excitement at the University of Chicago centered around the refusal to grant tenure to Marlene Dixon. Angry students occupied the Administration Building, formed
improvisatory theater groups, passed out material about such professors as Daniel Boorstin and held rallies. I attended
one of these and believe I learned more about revolution there than I'd learned from Carlyle or Barnaby Rudge. The radicals were led by Weatherman Howie Machtinger. He conducted the meeting masterfully, a young Lenin or, to take an example I'd witnessed in the French parliament, the Communist leader Jacques Duclos. My own contribution to the U. of Chicago uprising was a series of satiric poems published in the student newspaper--site of the warring opinions--which earned a denunciation in which Machtinger called me a [expletive deleted by Mod].
At dinner, thirty-eight years later, Ayers and Dohrn did not seem to hold the poems against me, and I didn't hold their fiery and criminally violent behavior against them. As in Chekhov's wonderful story "Old Age," time had planed down the sharp edges and brought one-time antagonists into each others' arms. As far as I know, Ayers and Dohrn are loyal to the selves
which led both of them to jail (though not for long), but they were busy doing other things, useful things, Ayers as educator, Dohrn as a legal counselor. They'd raised the child of a weatherman who'd been jailed, they were taking care of Bernadine's ill mother, they were doing many things educated community activists were doing. Apparently one of these things brought at least Ayers into contact with another, much younger community activist, Barak Obama. (I had met him once, when he visited our block party the year he was running against--and losing to--our congressman, Bobby Rush. I didn't get his name, but delighted in the charm and intelligence of the young man who sat with a few of us for twenty or thirty minutes.) Hyde Park is a splendid, rather intimate community, and such contacts are no small part of what makes it splendid.
If Democrats want to deal in an ugly way with McCain, they can talk about the jail sentence served by Cindy McCain's uncle and the suspended sentence her father "served," in connection with illegal activities in their beer distribution business. They can revive the stories of his wildness, his adulterous relationship with Cindy when his first wife (mother of some of his children) was disfigured in an auto accident, his inappropriate senatorial activity on behalf of Charles Keating, and perhaps his not very glorious, pre-prison record in the naval air force. Let's hope that this doesn't happen,and let's hope we've
heard the last of William Ayers, Tony Rezko, and Jeremiah Wright.
It is probably good that the left wing press feels the need to start circling the wagons, rather than ignoring the Obama/Ayers relationship.
I wonder what's up.
The other shoe hasn't dropped yet but it will, it will!
http://americanissuesproject.org/
Here is the BILL AYERS ad, pass it around.
I heard an interview with someone from this project last night, it was absolutely CHILLING.
They spent a big chunk of money on lawyers to even get this produced, all of it is true, Obama’s high priced liberal inside D.C. lawyers were all over them before they even released it. They are being intimidated with CRIMINAL prosecution for a political ad.
What is going on with Obama is pure Stalinist tactics. In Missouri, as he said the threat of being CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED for not telling the truth about Obama is enough for 95% of people to Shut Up.
They were threatening CRIMINAL prosecution if you disagreed that 95% of people would get a tax cut with Obama’s plan.
Please also watch this video too and pass it around.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094322/posts
Our only way to fight back is to educate people, about 20-25% of the people are lost in this country, we will win this election.
Boy the last few sentences sure do sound like threats, don’t they?
William POS Ayers BUMP!
Do Ayers and Dohrne wear rings presented to them in Canada by the Vietnamese composed of metal from downed U.S.planes? If so, I think they should be tried for treason [giving aid and comfort to the enemy during time of war] At a minimum they should be stripped of citizenship and permanently banned from the country. Personally, I think such a treasonous offense is worthy of capital punishment.
This TNR guy probably isn't in the loop either.
I see a perp walk very soon ~ , or, maybe they'll save it just in case Obama wins. That way the director of the FBI can blackmail Obama ~ allegedly the same way J. Edgar Hoover did several other presidents.
People already know those stories. Old news. Many are still clueless about Hussein Obama. Those people need to be brought up to date. McCain held strong against our enemies. Obama rubs elbows with them.
That’s what I thought, too. Then I remembered that the Left are harmless little fuzzballs full of sweetness and light and they only wish good for all mankind (person kind?).
I wonder how many years will have to pass before osama will be forgiven by obama worshipers... or have they already?
“If Democrats want to deal in an ugly way with McCain, they can talk about the jail sentence served by Cindy McCain’s uncle and the suspended sentence her father “served,” in connection with illegal activities in their beer distribution business. They can revive the stories of his wildness, his adulterous relationship with Cindy when his first wife (mother of some of his children) was disfigured in an auto accident, his inappropriate senatorial activity on behalf of Charles Keating, and perhaps his not very glorious, pre-prison record in the naval air force. Let’s hope that this doesn’t happen,and let’s hope we’ve
heard the last of William Ayers, Tony Rezko, and Jeremiah Wright.”
A total threat and I say, bring it on! The McCain stuff is old news and NONE OF IT WAS BECAUSE HE HATED HIS COUNTRY...jerks. This author is certainly in contact with the Obama camp and it was nice of him to highlight what their line of attack will be now.
TNR has a little problem distinguishing between family associations, skeletons which are a bit unavoidable, and free association with radicals whose avowed goal is the destruction of a “helpless” America. This is not a discussion of Obama’s personal character. It is a discussion of his agenda.
It's rather interesting just how low some on the Left will stoop in order to silence Obama's critics.
What people like Stern don't understand (or refuse to accept) is the American people are owed just as much, or if not more scrutiny of an individual who is seeking the highest office in the land than his opponent's running mate. Just moments ago my dad sent me a forwarded email titled "Election 2008: I'm A Little Confused, Let Me Get This Straight", in which Sarah Palin is being compared to Barack Obama!
Unfreaking believable! But this is the very poison that has gotten into the well of Journalism, which as Sean Hannity declared, as we now know it, is dead. Therein lies the rub, Mr. Stern.
Admittedly I'm a little burned out on Wright at this point, but more is surfacing from Rezko. I want to hear more about Ayers. That was serious stuff. They tried but didn't succeed. I guess it took someone like Timothy McVeigh with a high and tragic body count to raise eyebrows. Ayers and the Weathermen would have done the exact same thing if they could have pulled it off.
From that NYT article in 2001: "So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? 'I don't want to discount the possibility,' he said."
Just WOW!
The personal attacks they speak of regarding McCain are either already well-known and dealt with or are of a totally different nature than Ayers et al. Obama’s drug use would be more comparable to the things listed here. That your wife’s uncle did whatever is not relevant. Bring it.
None of what they are threatening Mac with even remotely compares to cosorting with those who have been involved with terrorism against your own country. He is a traitor and should be hung, but no, he’s having tea partys in Chicago with his Indonesian friend and stomps on the flag for fun in his spare time.
Oh and let’s not forget that O believes that if a woman goes in a clinic to get a dead baby, by God that’s what she should get, if the little sucker survives, well that’s just too bad. So much else, so little time to harp on it, but I guess that’s just not interesting or relevant to people anymore, boooorrring. He is pure evil.
In what Alice in Wonderland world is this equated with blowing up buildings, killing cops and saying "we should have done more?"
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