http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/wright/ en-us Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:31:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102919/posts As John McCain's campaign hits hard at some of Barack Obama's past associations, one person closely tied to the Democratic candidate is conspicuously absent from the attacks: the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. It is an omission that some Republican strategists and McCain supporters find puzzling and frustrating. In advertisements, in Web videos and on the campaign trail, McCain repeatedly heaps scorn on Obama for his ties to convicted Chicago financier Antoin "Tony" Rezko and to William Ayers, a former member of the Weather Underground, the violent 1970s radical group. The Republican nominee never mentions Wright, the controversial black minister... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102919/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:31:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102899/posts America has since its birth been a place where men and women from around the world could come and have 'a chance' to reach their individual desires. It has never been a place freeloaders would seek because real effort was normally required to obtain personal dreams and vision. Until the relatively recent past, the Public Schools tried very hard to teach and make clear the reasons that people were seeking America. American History and Civics were requirements for graduation and were understood to be the foundation for creating a good citizen. (Personal responsibility was also expected in the schools.) A... Australia.to http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102899/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:40:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102754/posts You two have been very popular lately. The most important presidential campaign ever in history revolves around you and some unanswered questions about your interactions with Barack Obama. But not a peep from either of you. Why hide? Do you not consider yourselves highly gifted, able to understand with a level of intelligence unreachable by most? Do you not think your ideology absolutely essential to the establishment of order in this world? Be men! Don’t hide like little girls. (I don’t know, maybe you guys want to be little girls. But never mind that.) Ayers—surely your propositions are worth more... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102754/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:45:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102108/posts Have the mainstream media been fair in their coverage of Barack Obama's associations with radical elements of the American left? Here is a useful guide for answering that question: What if John McCain had similar associations with the radical right? Barack Obama's political career was launched in the home of William Ayers, a left-wing terrorist who spent the 1970s running from the FBI. Ayers was a co-founder of the Weather Underground, a domestic terror organization that bombed the Pentagon, police departments and the homes of government officials. In a 2001 New York Times interview, Ayers said, "I don't regret setting... Manchester Union Leader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102108/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:58:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102099/posts WASHINGTON -- Convicted felon Tony Rezko. Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. And the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It is hard to think of any presidential candidate before Barack Obama sporting associations with three more execrable characters. Yet let the McCain campaign raise the issue, and the mainstream media begin fulminating about dirty campaigning tinged with racism and McCarthyite guilt by association. But associations are important. They provide a significant insight into character. They are particularly relevant in relation to a potential president as new, unknown, opaque and self-contained as Obama. With the economy overshadowing everything, it may be too late politically... Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102099/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:16:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102037/posts WASHINGTON -- Convicted felon Tony Rezko. Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. And the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It is hard to think of any presidential candidate before Barack Obama sporting associations with three more execrable characters. Yet let the McCain campaign raise the issue, and the mainstream media begin fulminating about dirty campaigning tinged with racism and McCarthyite guilt by association. But associations are important. They provide a significant insight into character. They are particularly relevant in relation to a potential president as new, unknown, opaque and self-contained as Obama. With the economy overshadowing everything, it may be too late politically... Real Clear politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102037/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:43:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101958/posts Transfixed by the two-candidate "horse race," maybe we didn't focus precisely on what happened in the home stretch of the last Democratic debate when Barack Obama tried to pick and nuance his way through a straight-ahead question from MSNBC's Tim Russert. Q: Do you accept the support of Louis Farrakhan? The question arose because the longtime racist and anti-Semitic leader of the racist and anti-Semitic Nation of Islam had delivered a two-hour speech devoted mainly to praising Obama's candidacy. Here is Obama's answer: "You know, I have been very clear in my denunciation of Minister Farrakhan's anti-Semitic comments. I think... Jewish World Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101958/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:41:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101812/posts Here. Okay...I use the word "discovered" a bit loosely--the way one might "discover" a Big Mac at McDonald's. But now that I have your attention, the point is that most voters don't have a clue that Obama writes in his memoir that the very first time he attended Trinity United Church, he heard Rev. Wright rant that "white folks' greed runs a world in need." As you may recall, Obama said, following Rev. Wright's infamous press club appearance in April, that "The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago." The racist Rev. Wright... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101812/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 23:49:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2101547/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2101547/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:25:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101452/posts Interesting 2 minute video sent to me today, sort of says it all. Good song as well. Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101452/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:44:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100995/posts For 20 years he sat in the pews of Jeremiah Wright church. For 20 years he listened to the Reverend of hate, racism, and anti-Americanism. For 20 years he called Wright a friend and a mentor. Even when the Reverend that asked God to damn America was exposed Barack Obama still could not disown him more than he can disown his white grand mother as he said in this ridiculous speech he gave in March 2008. Obama and his liberals believe that they are going to fool America and win the Presidency. The media gives us dozens of biased polls... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100995/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 01:46:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100985/posts There is nothing dishonorable about drawing attention to Barack Obama’s ties to Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, or Bill Ayers. In each relationship, Obama displayed a willingness to tolerate corruption or radicalism if it helped him get ahead in politics. The mainstream media is usually quick to detect this kind of pattern in ambitious pols, but they’ve been too preoccupied painting halos around Obama’s head to notice it in him. Let’s take them one by one. Obama joined Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ in the late 1980s, during his community-organizer days. National Review’s Byron York has reported that Obama... nationalreview http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100985/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 01:31:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2100782/posts Three debates, moderated by three well-known left-wing Democrats, have taken place and regardless of their overt efforts to provide cover for Mr. Obama’s radical life of ill-advised associations, his nuanced incoherent lies and empty résumé, the American voter can still draw the right conclusions on the basis of information Obama refuses to provide. ABC, NBC and CBS want to keep Obama’s secrets (this list is really much longer) Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2100782/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 20:56:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2100445/posts "The independents don't like negative attacks." Isn't that the line we hear? You know, I can think of negative attack they will like even less - Obama's oblivious naivete allows Iran to slip a nuke to al Qaeda, who promptly wipes Denver off the map. But McCain has decided to leave his most powerful ammo at home. From Politico. After days of attempts to persuade voters that Obama’s ties to ‘60s radical Bill Ayers are a crucial character issue, McCain didn’t mention Ayers’ name during the 90 minutes of Tuesday’s forum. His top aides suggested afterward that, going forward, the... The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2100445/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:37:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2100213/posts Obama either didn't know or didn't care that his friend and fellow partner on several Chicago community organization boards and in whose home he launched his political career, William Ayers, was an infamous and unrepentent radical leftwing terrorist who boasted about planting bombs and killing people in this country. Obama either didn't know or didn't care that his close friend, Frank Marshall Davis, whom he wrote about with such admiration in his book "Dreams Of My Father" was a radical member of the Communist Party USA, an ardent Stalinist and a outspoken supporter of the 60's Black-Power movement. Obama... Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2100213/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 05:12:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2100182/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2100182/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 04:23:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099942/posts I wanted to post a follow up to today's column. Ross Douthat over at the Atlantic was kind enough to mention it today. He writes: Jay Cost makes the strongest possible case for campaigning on Ayers, Wright et. al. in the waning weeks of the election. He thinks that an issues-based campaign, pegged to McCain's bipartisan brand, made sense before the bottom dropped out of the economy; now, though, it's character or nothing. He notes that the sharpest, steepest drop in Obama's favorable numbers all year came during the initial wave of Wright-related coverage, and argues that this is the... Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099942/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 22:33:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099508/posts Critics of Senator Barack Obama make a strategic mistake when they talk about his “past associations.” That just gives his many defenders in the media an opportunity to counter-attack against “guilt by association.” We all have associations, whether at the office, in our neighborhood, or in various recreational activities. Most of us neither know nor care what our associates believe or say about politics. Associations are very different from alliances. Allies are not just people who happen to be where you are or who happen to be doing the same things you do. You choose allies deliberately for a reason.... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099508/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:59:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099287/posts First Obama's racist pastor was exposed. Obama's response: "I might not know him as well as I thought." Then Obama's buddy, Tony Rezko, went to jail. Obama's response: "This isn't the Tony Rezko I knew." And now Obama's friend, William Ayers, is being scrutinized. The response from Obama's camp? Obama "didn't know the history." The Neocon Latina http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099287/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 03:49:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099125/posts The Obama campaign has come out saying that Barack Obama was unaware of former Weather Underground member William Ayer's past when the two met more than a decade ago (when Obama kicked off his Illinois political carrer in Ayer's living room). When Rev. Wright went on a tirade before the National Press Club, Barack Obama came out and said "This is not the man I knew." When Tony Rezko was being exposed as a crook, Barack Obama came out and said "This is not the Tony Rezko I knew." Is America dumb enough to believe that Barack Obama was clueless... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099125/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:24:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099146/posts CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin expanded her attack on Democrat Barack Obama's character Monday to include his relationship with an incendiary former pastor as well as his ties to 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers. In the process, Palin toned down her description of the Obama-Ayers relationship after her weekend remarks were criticized as exaggerated, but at the same time she embarked on a discussion of Obama's relationship with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., which Republican presidential candidate John McCain had signaled he did not want to be a part of his campaign. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099146/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:41:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2098997/posts I can't possibly understand why know one has asked this question. Obama has said that he never heard any of bad stuff said by Reverend Wright. Ok, so for us to believe that, we have to believe that Obama did not go to church the Sunday after 9/11. This was the Sunday after the most vile, visious attack in this nation's history. And Obama didn't go to church to seek guidance or pray for this nation. If that doesn't deserve a trip to church, what does? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9HUdF9OZa8 Either way, we would have to quesiton his judgement. MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2098997/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 21:50:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098825/posts As someone who has written critically of John McCain on a host of issues, including the Keating Five, none of it compares to the life that Barack Obama has led and his belief system. Obama is not merely associated with domestic terrorists, Palestinian radicals, Marxists, and black liberation ideologues — he was their favorite candidate. They groomed him. They befriended him. He befriended them. He socialized with them. In other words, these people saw Obama as representing their views and aspirations and he saw them the same way. I am not among those who raise Obama's associations but add "of... NRO's The Corner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098825/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:19:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098807/posts (FORT MYERS, FLA.) On the day when the McCain campaign released a new attack ad not-so-subtly titled “Dangerous,” Sarah Palin made a concerted effort to use words like “fearful” and “afraid” to describe Barack Obama, signaling her campaign’s decision to make the election a referendum on Obama’s character, rather than the issues facing the country. “I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way that you and I see America—as the greatest source of good in this world,” Palin said at a rally this morning in Clearwater, Fla. “I’m afraid this is someone... CBS (Fake, but accurate) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098807/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:59:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098739/posts Good grief. Lieberman: McCain draws the line at using Rev. Wright. "Wallace asked Lieberman if McCain would bring up Rev. Jeremiah Wright after condemning state Republican parties for running ads criticizing Obama for his relationship with the controversial figure." "Lieberman responded: “He [McCain] didn’t like that approach. Senator McCain feels that same way about bringing up Reverend Wright through his campaign. And that’s the kind of line drawing that I think John McCain is all about.” "Later on Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume said the McCain camp would be “out of their mind” to not bring up Obama’s relationship with... Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098739/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:31:33 GMT