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.
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."
Sounds like a less than artful blackmail offer. But when we weigh this for how relevant it is to the present contest, Ayers, et. al ARE relevant indicators of Obama’s choice of friends, whereas McCain laid it all bare when he was nominated, even telling the world that his North Vietnamese captors “broke him”, meaning he gave in to torture and revealed secrets wished he hadn't.
I would think that on a scale of relevance, to a person who was raised in a military family, the latter failure ranked right along with his admitted “failure of his first marriage”.
McCain has inoculated himself from these attacks by telling the truth in advance, while Obama can't even tell the truth slowly. In BHO’s case, what passes for truth today is a lie yet undiscovered.
It has been 40 years since I returned from Viet Nam and ran into the anti-war, Pro Hanoi goons. Then there was the Democratic Convention in Chicago that summer. I have made a point to go to war with the Left ever since. Bill Ayers along with his wife Bernardine Dohrn are true believers and I just can not believe that BroBama doesn’t share every one of their views including Ayer’s view on 9/11. As the Drive By Media defends BroBama I can only assume they do also.
Damn them all to hell.
Thanks so much for your service.
Stern (Obama)’s threat is silly. McCain is old school. If you punch him, he is going to hit you back twice as hard. I say let’s start this little rumble sooner rather than later - I want McCain smokin’(but in control) for the next debate.
They[re trying to preempt any coming attacks.
McCain ought to suggest the television media find Ayers and Dohrn and conduct sand-bag interviews. They do it regularly and these two are not hiding in Afghanistan mountains.
(The Times article said both terrorists refused interviews. So it's up to television.)
Proves that:
To be a Friend of Obama HUSSEIN, One Must be a Sleezeball Crook and a Chicago Thug in good standing with the Machine.
Next from Richard Stern: THE RICHARD RAMIREZ I KNOW
It is pretty obvious that Ayers and Obama have been “pal”ing around SINCE 1983!
They were in New York at school within a quarter mile of each other for two years at least. They may even have lodged together off campus. They had mutual acquaintances, you think they never met?
Then last week in the Debate, the only specific scheme Obama mentioned that he still wanted to expand despite the crimping cost of the bailout was”Early Childhood Education” (his words)
Now go check out what Ayers’ has TWO degrees in.....Early Childhood Education...
Obama is the front PUPPET of William Ayers,doing and saying whatever Ayers demands!
Saul Alinsky says the end justifies the means. Have no doubt, what Stern quoted will come out because Obama is an Alinsky organizer.
I say drop the bomb and expose Obama’s 20 years of Black Liberation Theology and its nutcase inventor James Cone. For 20 years he practised a wacko “religion” invented by a guy that sounds like a munchkin. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1X5sZ6Q4Fw] Obama either actually holds these wacko radical beliefs, or his judgement is so bad that it took him 20 years to realize that Black Liberation Theology is wrong.
Taxpayers will be very uncomfortable with someone with such radical views as the President. Any other 30 years in the past McCain mini-scandal will be dwarfed by Obama’s Black Liberation Theology problem.
That's OK. America will.
Let's revisit the sixties -- and this time, the good guys win.
We may have to build a couple of hundred more Leavenworths, I guess.
Cheers!
The New Republic
23.07.2008
Obama’s Jump Shot for the Ages
Now we know why Barack Obama spent so much time in the gym those last days in Chicago before taking off for Afghanistan. He was practicing jump shots, preparing for the sensational 25 footer he sank in the Kabul gym in front of cheering US troops.
All practitioners prepare. Professionals are defined as much by preparation as practice. Great professionals practice as Obama does, their focus on key moments, striking, often unexpected occasions and opportunities. (”Photo ops” is the vulgar phrase.) The great practitioner takes a longer view than the people around him. The fine, diligent New Yorker piece by Ryan Lizza about Obama making his slow, challenged way to political office in and through Chicago shows him learning the ropes and continually abandoning them for other ropes, other learning, other modes of advancement. The same goes for his negotiating with University of Chicago law deans and professors who wanted to recruit this brilliant, attentive young man, one going so far as to tell him after a political defeat that he had no future in politics but might well have a great career in the academy and then perhaps as a public intellectual, a la Judge Richard Posner. Obama accepted an office, a stipend, and some lecturing on constitutional law, but nurtured his political career, his long view, as he wanted.
(snip)
Richard Williams and the even more eloquent Barack Obama may never express their knowledge of what surrounds or nurtures them as richly or poetically as Lampedusa’s Gattopardo, but I think each understands the obstacles before them with some of the same profundity and originality. This is some of what underlay both this year’s Wimbledon women’s final and the wonderful three-point shot which Barack Obama made before the troops, the American voting public, and history this week in Kabul.
—Richard Stern
(excerpt)
"But we're so high-minded that we would never even mention any of that dirt..."
As Bill Cosby would say, "Riiiight!
It would be very interesting, indeed, if they took this tack. If they only would, I would predict a landslide...against BO.
In fact, I am SO curious, I am interested in knowing the relationship between Ricky Stern and the unrepentant terrorist, Bill Ayers, and why Ricky thinks that it is a jolly ol' thing to be a domestic terrorist & communist. Tell me all about it.
"What's up?"
We are on the right track it seems.
Is it true that Ayers wrote Obama’s first book?
This being from TNR not withstanding, how can I possibly take this writer seriously when he doesn't even know how to spell Tony Rezko's name?
Well, maybe if it was bad poetry...
Obama's Real Bill Ayers Problem by Sol Stern (April 23, 2008)
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Milt Rosenburg, WGN Radio, audio clip of show May 5, 2008 on Obama's Ayers connection
Milt talks with Sol Stern of the City Journal, Ed Lasky of the American Thinker, and Herb Walberg of the Hoover Institute, about the attempted radicalization of the education system. Milt and his guests also discuss Bill Ayers, who has been at the forefront of the radicalization effort. (5/5/2008)
Ah, but they forget that McCain confessed repentence for his actions, and then never repeated them.
Also, you can’t chose your relatives.
Ayers never repented, and Obama never repented. In fact, the extreme MoveOn types were behind Obama’s campaign, including stealing the caucuses from Hillary.
I know Freepers hate Hillary but I was aghast when I reviewed the vote count of the primaries: It was even, and if you removed the caucus votes, Hillary won...
But the organized left hijacked the caucuses, which gave a disproportionat number of votes to Obama...
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