Friends & Associates of Barack Hussein Obama
Posted on 10/14/2008 10:27:52 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
“This much is clear: Barack Obama and William Ayers were friends before that relationship became a political embarrassment for the Illinois Senator–Obama did pal around with a terrorist. According to his campaign, Barack Obama no longer believes Ayers has been rehabilitated. And William Ayers did target his own country. So what part of Governor’s Palin’s remarks are ‘beyond the pale.’ Perhaps Mr. Plouffe does not like Governor Palin’s inference that Barack Obama palled around with Ayers because Barack Obama has a different view of America than most of us. Yet the Obama campaign has offered no alternate explanation–they have not conceded that the relationship was simply the result of a serious error in judgment.
“The only thing ‘beyond the pale’ here is the Obama campaign’s failure to explain how it is that Barack Obama carried on a decade long friendship with a man who sought to topple the U.S. government through violence.”–Michael Goldfarb, McCain-Palin Spokesman
(Excerpt) Read more at thepage.time.com ...
Said he will mention it in the debate. I'm hoping Schieffer brings it up.
Yes!
I like the forced choice Obama is getting cornered into...
a) I pal around with terrorists
b) I have poor judgement
I’d like to add one more
c) Both a and b.
go go go
great argument from McCain camp for a change!!!!!
stay focused please on the triple A:
Ayers Abortion Acorn
forget the rest its too late to build a narrative.
The other Triple A:
Appeasement
Abortion
Allah
(borrowed from a Fellow Freeper)
Add in a little Jermey Wright. Would You, John?
Obama's Red Mentor was a PervertHe can't deny this association with an admitted communist. Also see:Davis, who was investigated by the FBI and various congressional and official inquiries, was a CPUSA member. In fact, as AIM has documented, Davis was involved in the CPUSA or its front activities, before, during and after World War II, and became a member of a secret communist apparatus in the 1950s after the CPUSA in Hawaii was reorganized on an underground basis.
AIM had confirmed that Obama’s white grandfather, Stanley Dunham, picked Davis because Obama’s black father had abandoned the family and Dunham thought Obama needed a black father-figure. AIM also confirmed that Davis was Obama’s mentor during the critical years 1975-1979.
Harnden claimed in a preceding article that Obama was introduced to Davis in 1970 when he was only nine years old. This would mean that Davis was an influence over Obama for about nine full years, until Obama was 18 and went off to college.
Harnden quotes Dawna Weatherly-Williams, a friend of Davis’s, as saying that Stanley Dunham brought Obama to meet Davis in the autumn of 1970. She “was chatting with him [Davis] that late autumn afternoon as Dunham and Barry [Obama] approached,” Harnden reports.
Harnden also reports that Davis and Dunham smoked marijuana together. Dawna Weatherly-Williams said that “Frank never really did drugs, though he and Stan would smoke pot together,” the paper said. Obama, of course, also admits that he used marijuana and cocaine in his youth.
Citing passages from Obama’s own book, Dreams From My Father, which was published in 1995, Harnden demonstrates how Obama went to “Frank” for advice about racial issues, college, and other matters at critical periods in his life. Clearly, the relationship between them, as concluded by many observers, was strong.
National Enquirer: Obama Sex Perv Scandal
Frank Marshall Davis, alleged Communist, was early influence on Barack Obama
Link to Frank Marshall Davis FBI Files and a Briefing on Obama’s Communist Ties
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
Together, Obama, Ayers, and their radical friends at ACORN and the DNC (abetted by the MSM) intend to steal this election if they cannot win it...and they are afraid that they certainly will not win it.
JOIN THOSE INVOKING GOD'S BLESSINGS ON OUR NATION THIS 2008 ELECTION
I'm not buyin' the push polls, which are heavily weighted in their sampling to the dems...and neither should anyone else. They are simply an attempt for the most part, IMHO, to supress the GOP vote.
On the ground, the crowds that Sarah is drawing now (30,000 in FL, 24,000 coming in Indiana, etc.), tell the real stroy...and the DNC, MSM, and Obama's campaign know it.
SARAH PALIN DRAWING HUGE CROWDS ALL ACROSS AMERICA
...and then there is this:
Yeah but McCain has been very dissapointing lately. I heard him defending Obama’s character. McCain is going to have to make up his mind. Is he running agains Obama or not.
This is exactly why I demanded a refund of my donation from McCain.
Their refusal to mention Rev. Wright (to say he is “off-limits”) is mind-boggling.
They are sending my contribution back to me. I will not finance an impotent campaign.
It is McLame’s duty to mention Obama’s associations, and he has been derelict in doing so.
I’m sure Obama, who seems to allow for heavy coaching for these debates, will have canned answers for any scenario in regards to Ayers.. I hope McCain is ready for any possible retort from Obama..
my understanding McCain does very little prep for the debates.. and it shows.. I hope he does more prep for this last chance debate.
I've been disappointed too!
I think he is trying to gain the "mushy" moderates by not being "partisan".
Please stop posting this reply to me. The mods already deleted your attempt to post this “refund suggestion” as a thread starter. Next time I hit the “Abuse” button.
"Critics of Sen. 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 counterattack 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 to be doing the same things you do. You choose allies deliberately for a reason. The kind of allies you choose says something about you.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, William Ayers and Antoin Rezko are not just people who happened to be at the same place at the same time as Barack Obama. They are people with whom he chose to ally himself for years, and with some of whom serious money changed hands.
Some gave political support, and some gave financial support, to Mr. Obama's election campaigns, and Mr. Obama in turn contributed either his own money or the taxpayers' money to some of them. That is a familiar political alliance - but an alliance is not just an "association" from being at the same place at the same time.
Mr. Obama could have allied himself with all sorts of other people. But, time and again, he allied himself with people who openly expressed their hatred of America. No amount of flags on his campaign platforms this election year can change that...
The story of Mr. Obama's political career is not pretty. He won his first political victory by being the only candidate on the ballot - after hiring someone skilled at disqualifying the signers of opposing candidates' petitions, on whatever technicality he could devise.
Despite his words today about "change" and "cleaning up the mess in Washington," Mr. Obama was not on the side of reformers trying to change the status quo of corrupt, machine politics in Chicago and clean up the mess there. Mr. Obama came out in favor of the Daley machine and against reform candidates.
Sen. Barack Obama is running on an image directly the opposite of what he has been doing for two decades. His escapes from his past have been as remarkable as the great escapes of Houdini.
Why much of the public and the media have been so mesmerized by the words and the image of Mr. Obama, and so little interested in learning about the factual reality, was perhaps best explained by an official of the Democratic Party: "People don't come to Obama for what he's done; they come because of what they hope he can be..."
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Obama is lying about not being aware of Wright’s hate filled rhetoric. Rev. Wright was quoted in a NYT article, stating that he sent Barack Obama to Harvard with a full set of tapes of Wright’s sermons to study his speaking style. The article is entitled Barack Obama’s search for faith, published April 2007.
Driving into work this morning, I caught the Obama rebuttal/innoculation ad on Ayers (the one that starts by mentioning that Ayers is a university professor and that Obama and him sat on the board of a Republican’s - Annenberg -not for profit).
The ad was run on 92.5 FM from Winchester VA. The ONLY reason why they would run that ad on that station is because they’re scared the Ayers connection is going to resonate and have traction ... and feel the need to preemptively raise it themselves as innoculation.
McCain’s spokespeople will say the right thing. But, so far, McCain hasn’t. And I don’t believe he’ll say the right thing in the debate. He’ll whimp out. I hope I’m wrong but it’s probably too late anyway.
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