Posted on 10/19/2008 5:49:18 PM PDT by ameagle
i missed the whole thing. will it be reran later? did he bring up odinga? we are SO close to the wire! i noticed some of my friends, that are dems are wising up. i got a email yesterday from one as a mass mailing (her whole contact list) it was of all the quotes from obamas books. she is WAY behind on what obama is about, but it was enough to scare her. there may be a mass exodus from obama in the last weeks. i sent her a few youtubes on the economy and odinga. have not heard back lol.
You and me both. I can't stand to hear his swarmy, elitist voice anymore. I swear, if (GOD forbid) he does win there will be a 4 yr TV news blackout at my house.
I agree. He also needs to discuss Odinga and Kenya. So much to cover and so little time.
What about Bernardine Dorhn?
Some strange links on the net on this name. I had never heard of Sekou Odinga before today. But now it does make me wonder about the connection of Bill Ayers and his Weather underground group in NYC.
From : http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/1981-new-york-city-just-a-bizarre-coincidence/
This was mined from another blog on the net but it gets you thinking about Obama’s years in New York City. Did he meet Ayer’s and Dohrn while there?
My money is that he did.
It’s 1981, New York City. Barack Obama is residing two blocks away from Weather Underground leader William Ayers. We know very little about Obama’s life in NYC during that period; supposedly he transferred from Occidental College and completed undergraduate studies at Columbia University. Obama’s academic records and, in fact, the records of his life from those years in New York are lost. [See references at end.]
At Occidental, Obama belonged to Students for Economic Democracy (SED), a radical socialist “cousin” organization to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), of which the Weather Underground was an off-shoot. Did Obama continue his SED membership at Columbia? (I read recently that Columbia was a major SDS center.)
In 1981, former Weather Underground members along with a few former Black Panthers are arrested in association with the robbery of a Brinks armored truck 20 miles north of Manhattan. A guard is killed and the driver is wounded. $1.6 million is recovered.
One of the Weather Underground members arrested for the Brinks crime is Kathy Boudin, along with her boyfriend David Gilbert. Boudin is sentenced to 20 years-to-life. Boudin and Gilbert leave behind a 14-month-old son, Chesa Boudin, who ends up being raised by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn while his parents live in prison.
One of the former Black Panthers arrested in connection with the Brinks robbery is Nathaniel Burns, a member of the Black Liberation Army. Burns is also known as Sekou Odinga. Burns/Odinga is sentenced to 25 years-to-life for attempted murder of a police officer. (ODINGA, sound familiar?)
Obama and Ayers later end up collaborating on several controversial projects in Chicago. They work together to grant funds to Rashid Khalidi, Trinity United Church of Christ, and ACORN, among other “worthy” recipients. Ayers and Dohrn host a soirée at their home to launch young Barack’s political career. (But we’re now to believe that Barack did not know that Ayers and Dohrn created and starred in the Weather Underground, for which they were tried as criminals.)
As we often see in Obama’s history, here again there are a few degrees of separation that cause curious and intelligent people to ask: Is this just another set of odd coincidences?
I believe that Obama knew Ayers in New York City, and that he’s hiding the association with Ayers, among others, in refusing to provide information about his life there.
Obviously Obama’s campaign is lying (and insulting our intelligence) when it audaciously claims that Obama knew nothing of Ayers’ affiliation with the Weather Underground, up until…when?..(I must have missed that part of Axelrod’s explanation. When does he claim that Obama learned about Ayer’s lifelong project, the WU?)
In any event, accepting Axelrod’s explanation would require us to conclude that Obama is stupid. Really stupid, which sort of flies in the face of the magna cum laude thing from Harvard, right?
Everyone knows that the REAL questions are:
When did Obama first learn about Ayers?
When did he first meet Ayers?
What were his “off-campus” activities in New York?
Perhaps if Obama were open about his life, and did not go to such extreme lengths to cover up fundamental facts of his existence, we would not be forced to outline such events as the 1981 Brinks robbery.
This is just plain in your face as to being in the same city and the same time. Barack Obama needs to open his records from Columbia so we can see he actually was even a student there at that time. If you want Americans to vote for you Barack you need to be completely transparent. What a fraud the Democratic party has given America.
That is probably why listed as I and II.
It is easier to have a III if it becomes possible to clear more information. Lawsuits-lawsuits!
That is so funny!I said the same thing today!
Anyway both officers were great guys. Knew Sgt. O'Grady better than Officer Brown. Unsung hero Det. Keenan, knew him better than either.
I too think that the Davis relationship could have been covered more completely. Part III?
AMBUSH: THE BRINKS ROBBERY OF 1981
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/1.html
1. The Explosion
2. The Weathermen
3. Chipper, Ed and Pete
4. The Robbery
5. Ambush
6. “He Shot Him! I Didn’t Shoot Him!”
7. “Freeze! Don’t Move”
8. The Links Are Uncovered
9. Shot Dead in Queens
10. The Investigation
11. The Wheels of Justice Turn
12. Brown and Boudin
13. Dragnet
14. Twenty Years
15. The Agony of Parole
16. Bibliography
Off topic - I’ve been searching by title and link to see of an article was included in FR around Oct. 12. is there another place I can look?
It was on Oct 12th article where Soros said the end of the economic crisis is near.
I want to know where Obama and all of these cohorts of his got the means to travel all over the world and talk to these nefarious scoundrels? Where did Ayers and his wife for example get all of this money and how was Obama able to travel around the world so much when he was much younger and not supposedly doing senatorial duties?
Convicted terrorist Susan Rosenberg
Involved with several terrorist groups in 1970s and early 1980s, including the Black Liberation Army, the Weather Underground, and The Family
* Indicted for driving the getaway car in the October 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored car carrying $1.6 million, a robbery in which two policemen and an armed guard were murdered
* After having served 16 years of her 58-year sentence, she was pardoned by President Clinton in January 2001, just days before Clinton left office.
Thanks for that info. I read a lot on FR but missed that, too.
I know, we’re all scared for this great country, which means we all need to go out and work and encourage friends and family to vote for McPalin. I’ve been reading a couple of PUMA sites - basically, 1 in particular. And, they are working like crazy to get McCain-Palin elected - phone banks, door-to-door, rallies, donations, blogging, letters to the editor, etc., etc. - - I sure hope that helps.
This link appears to be down and as the story is breaking google news have not yet reported it but I’ll get a better one as soon as poss.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/Obama_member_Black_Panthers
In college Obama was a member of the Black Panthers
by Mark Russean
Associated Press
While in his first two years at Columbia University in 1979-80, presidential candidate Barack Obama was a member of the Black Panthers, as discovered by the Associated Press. Recently disclosed documents from the organizations rosters has shown that Obama was a member for two years before leaving the organization.
Obama was not an officer in the organization but he did attend Panther meetings on average of once a month. The Black Panther organization did not maintain an office on the premises of the university but was located about 1.5 miles from the campus in a small house in nearby Southern Harlem. The notes from one meeting entitled “beat the crackas at their own game” has Obama’s signature at the bottom of the meetings’ logs.
The Obama campaign has not returned questions on this breaking story, but we expect a reaction soon as more details on this story emerge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DQAOZlNrO8
http://www.ballot.com/hotwire/21611-breaking-news-obama-was-black-panther.html
Hard to believe that we are seeing all this in the news again because of someone who is running for President.We could not have dreamed this in a million years and it must be such a heartache for those wonderful families.
You’re right - I forgot about the pesky vetting/lawyer stuff - but they absolutely need to do it, especially given the fact that 0bama has made snide comments about FNC at least several times this week.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109867/posts
Andy Martin Report from Hawaii: The truth is found
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