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DEL.ICIO.USPalin’s Troopergate scandal was fabricated by Bill Ayers — really, read it here first!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Palin Troopergate report will be made public later today, once the folks in Alaska wake up.
And no, that’s not a political comment, although I guess it could be.
Now, I know how our conservative friends will respond to that news: “Oh yeah, why don’t you tell the truth about Bill Ayers? How come the mainstream media never write the truth about that, huh!”
Indeed, the right-wing blogs and email networks are all abuzz this morning with the latest theory on that front, the claim that Ayers and Obama are so close that Ayers, not Obama, actually wrote the senator’s best-selling memoir “Dreams From My Father.”
The claim originates here, and it’s based in large part on the notion that the book is too well-written for someone of Obama’s obviously limited talent and intellect:
“The public is asked to believe Obama wrote “Dreams From My Father” on his own, almost as though he were some sort of literary idiot savant. I do not buy this canard for a minute, not at all. Writing is as much a craft as, say, golf. To put this in perspective, imagine if a friend played a few rounds in the high 90s and then a few years later, without further practice, made the PGA Tour. It doesn’t happen.”
Of course, we in the MSM have known this all along. The fact that Ayers wrote Obama’s autobiography and has masterminded his career was on the top-secret list of things we are never allowed to talk about. I have that list right here, printed on special Dharma Initiative stationary.
However, since the truth is now out and the reporting ban has been breached, I might as well tell you about some other things on the list. If I get fired for this, so be it. Maybe Fox will take me in.
Are you ready? Here goes:
1.) Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. The mysterious Man with the Umbrella was actually William Ayers. And if you look closely in the Zapruder film, you can see a two-year-old black child holding what the FBI has long dismissed as a toy gun. Don’t believe it. That second shot had to come from somewhere — those evil madrassas teach kids to shoot before they’re even potty trained.
If you want more proof, remember who “covered” the JFK assassination for CBS, who just “by coincidence” happened to be nearby when it happened? That’s right — Dan Rather. Need I say more?
2.) You think it’s an accident that the TelePrompter had already been in use for more than 50 years when Barack Obama came along? As his dismal performance in the debates has proved, Obama could never have gotten this far without it. Knowing that, Bill Ayers invented the device back in the ’50s just to throw off suspicion.
How could that be true, since Ayers was himself a child back then? Two words: Time machine.
3.) You know who was responsible for those butterfly ballots down in Florida that got George Bush elected president? Yup. Bill Ayers again. It was all part of the master plan: To elect Obama, they first had to put somebody in as president who would run the country into the ground and thoroughly discredit modern conservatism.
You don’t think this all happened by accident, do you?
There’s more, but I fear I’ve revealed too much already. Those of you who care for the truth should do an immediate screengrab on this post, because it won’t stay long once Ayers gets wind of it.
And if you never hear from me again, you’ll know why.
Comments
By "The Corporal"
October 10, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this
How about something on the DemAcorns and Acorngate?
By nobama
October 10, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this
Here you go again, Jay. But at least you finally admit in print that Obama can’t survive without a teleprompter! There is no doubt that obummer and ayers have been close for years, and your feeble attempt along with the rest of the liberal media goons to try and deny it is just sickening. The obummer camp knows it’s true and have been trying to hush it up for days now.
Palin has the guts to expose obummer in any way neccessary and the fact that the libs just can’t handle it obviously gives it even more weight. Wake up the real reality that she would be a truly great benefit to this country.
By BDAtlanta
October 10, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this
Hehehe. Thanks. I needed a good chuckle this morning.
So, number 3 isn’t true?
By Paul
October 10, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this
Jay
Yesterday you started quite a discussion when a religious person offered a prayer - what - imploring God for a McCain victory, saying how God was for lower taxes and all that. Lots of fun, really.
Had to happen, On the other side of the great divide we have another religious leader offering, not a prayer, but an assertion that Sen Obama is an instrument of God and to those who work for his election, Sen Obama is the Messiah (a word with powerful connotations in several religions, one of which is as God).
See? The farleft and farright aren’t all that dissimilar!
Link: The Messiah is Absolutely Speaking
By lovelyliz
October 10, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this
The neo-cons are every bit the crybabies over the mere possibility that they will lose this presidential election as they’ve ever accused the rest of us of being.
By lovelyliz
October 10, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this
I can see it now, Bill Ayers wrote it with Bill Clinton as a guest writer.
By Paul
October 10, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this
Jay
I got to the fifth paragraph and thought “haven’t these guys ever heard of a ghost writer? There are plenty of people who make very good livings writing drafts for ‘authors’ - particularly celebrities and politicians.”
But the rest of your post strikes me as more of the “ridicule the messenger rather than discredit the message” type. I know, I know, you must get weary of repeatedly discrediting many of the Ayers assertions and want to have a bit of fun. You may be interested - last night your buddy BOR had a guest who was making the “Ayres” assertion. BOR responded with his usual comeback (cut off by the guest - Laura Ingram, I believe) that Sen Obama was introduced to, and used, the power brokers in the Illinois political power structure, got what he needed and moved on in his ascent to the national level. It’s a practical, dismissive argument that does not sit well with many of the guests (or viewers, judging by the letters).
By Original Rick
October 10, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this
I have also spent a lot time investigating Ayers.
The most amazing thing that I have uncovered is that, in the 60s, along with his Weatherman activities, he also was an undercover Viet Cong operative. It was actually Ayers who was operating the weapons who shot down McCain’s airplane.
If yo look really carefully at current pictures of Ayers, you can still see that the surgery to take the “slant” out of his eyes was not totally successful. He still has that little squint.
By BDAtlanta
October 10, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this
Have you seen some of the McCain and Palin rallies? Conservatives are freaking out. Like rabid dogs.
I wouldn’t suggest anyone put Obama bumper stickers on their cars or signs in their yards as you might be opening yourself up to real physical assault from these fruit cakes.
By Joey
October 10, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this
Cute, Jay.
But you are right to take the path of deflecting truth by using humor. Choosing the path of facing the truth, honestly, would be destructive to your personal campaign for Democrats.
Not just the Ayers and Wright truth, but the Freddie and Fannie truth.
And you did reveal much, maybe too much. Panic in the Democrat Streets. Justified Panic.
By lovelyliz
October 10, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this
I can see it now, Bill Ayers wrote it with Bill Clinton as a guest writer.
Either that or Osama bin Laden. Never mind that it isn’t true and that such well debunked gossip is the stuff of playgrounds.
By Taxpayer
October 10, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this
Thank you, Jay. I needed that pick-me-up. Your theories do remind me however of some tall-tales that I have heard myself from our exalted Republicans. The most common culprit behind all that ails us was, for years, the aliens. Yes, the aliens, in all their beady-eyed splendor, came here illegally and left a life of luxury and excesses in order to wrought pain and agony on the populace of these fair-skinned southeastern states (while ignoring the dark-skinned ones because they looked remarkably like distant relatives) for the pure pleasure of seeing us watch them rob us of our jobs in chicken processing plants by offering to work for mere dollars per hour and even refusing to accept so much as a single dollar’s worth of health care benefits, paid sick days or even vacation days. THEN, yes, it gets even more dastardly, THEN, these illegal aliens turn around and send their ill-gotten gains back to their home worlds without so much as paying a single penny in payroll taxes toward their own social security number. HOW DARE THEM. AND, there’s even more but I’m just too distraught to go on. Oh, the horror stories I could share with you and I have those open and caring Republicans to thank for passing on these otherwise untold tragedies.
By paisana
October 10, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this
This doesn’t work as satire, JJ , because Republicans have been lampooning you guys for years for making similar charges against Karl Rove . Himmel! Don’t you volk have any original ideas?
By lrd
October 10, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this
Mix of Spy Magazine and Yellow Journalism. Classic..
You are missing the real story. Ayer is Professor of Education. So logically one would say he has taught hundreds if not thousands over the year. They in turn have taught hundreds if not thousands of others. And over 10yrs of him teaching others, and then his pupils teaching, that the REAL headline should be Ayers Army of Loyal Followers are poised to take over America!
But for some reason the media is not picking up on that story!!
By Bosch
October 10, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this
Jay,
And I’ve also heard Bill Ayers kills fuzzy baby kittens and puppies and sells them for farm food to support his evil agenda of world dominance.
Have you heard that one?
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 10, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this
Let’s look at Ayer’s positive contributions
It was Bill Ayers who first got chocolate on my peanut butter!
He put 8 great tomatoes in that itty bitty can.
He wrote the book of love!
He put the bop, in the bop she bop she bop, he put the ram in the ram a lama ding dong.
By "The Corporal"
October 10, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this
Jay
And while you’re at it check out the Washington Times today and Seditiongate.
Negotiating with a foreign government during a time of war in an attempt to thwart the Constitutional duties of the executive branch is dispicable and in my opinion seditious.
By Paul
October 10, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this
Jay
If I may modify my 9:18 - I’ll retract my “ridiculing the messenger” comment and say you were wearily having a bit of fun with the topic.
By hillbilly ragger
October 10, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this
Jay make, how you say, the funny, too!
I know we should be focusing on the horrendous economic news. And heck, we should try to think about the long game, wherein we extend a hand of friendship to the exploited, wayward Americans who’ve fallen prey to extremist Republican ideology.
But for now, it’s just too much fun to mock and bait these sad, dwindling band of McCain supporters, isn’t it?
By jane
October 10, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this
You poor fool…
By BDAtlanta
October 10, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this
Jeez, some readers are doing their own research into the Ayers thing? Don’t you think maybe, just maybe, that if there was something there that it would have been uncovered during the past two years of campaigning?
Did Repub operatives just wake up this Monday and decide “Oh, Ayers…maybe we should look into that…”?
There is no “there” there. But if you are that freaked out and can’t find something better to do with your time to help MCcain win the election then, by all means, have at it.
Obama is going to walk away with this thing unless Republicans commit voter fraud (which is very likely considering their history.)
By T
October 10, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
By TN Gelding
October 10, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this
To me, and I suspect most of us, all this Ayers stuff is irrelevant. It seemed to be working a little bit tho until McCain had to take the stage in the last debate. I’m amazed the way the zealots have embraced it and Palin. Don’t they see how ridiculous they look to anyone with the slightest bit of insight?
By BOO
October 10, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this
Be Scared, lrd. Yes, HE taught your teacher who taught you and now all that is left is for you to be activated by the use of that special code word. Be Scared. Really scared.
By ByteMe
October 10, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this
Some people love a good conspiracy theory.
Another one on Jay’s list: Obama called all the Jews that worked in the WTC towers on 9/10 and told them not to go to work the next day. He was tipped off to the plot by Ayers.
Heh.
The Obama-Ayers book thing is being picked up by people who really don’t understand what they’re reading and are accepting at as gospel just because they really want something to be wrong with Obama that’s as petty as they are.
I actually spent a little time reading through the article and investigating the “evidence” in Cahill’s arguments and had a good laugh as I realized how much of it was just junk thrown at a wall to see what would stick. Things he asserts as facts in there — if you do a little research — don’t stand up to scrutiny.
It’s all just a distraction pushed by Republican weasels who are seeing their party crumble around them.
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 10, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this
CORPORAL
Perhaps the Times should have interviewed Republican Chuck Hagel…
By hillbilly ragger
October 10, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this
The seagulls fly at five thirty.
Repeat: The seagulls fly at five thirty.
By Bosch
October 10, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
TN Gelding,
“Don’t they see how ridiculous they look to anyone with the slightest bit of insight?”
AHHHHHHHH, there in lies the problem.
By T
October 10, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this
No one look at their 401k.
By Vulcan
October 10, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this
“And if you never hear from me again, you’ll know why.”
I’m now Ayers biggest fan.
By BOO
October 10, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this
The…..sea…..gulls……fly…….must…….open…….secret…….vault….
By getalife
October 10, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this
She is busted on troopergate but there is no accountability in this country. They should open up the prisons. Justice and liberty for all has fallen like capitalism.
Markets are crashing but at least oil is dropping.
Short trading is back so that should help.
By N-GA
October 10, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
Paul,
Jay doesn’t need to ridicule the messenger. For the most part they bring ridicule upon themselves. I’ll provide the rest.
This is the same type of pathetic creature who thinks that McCain fathered a black child.
This is the same kind of brain-dead denier of science that thinks the world was created less than 6,000 years ago.
This is the same type of self-rightious hypocrite that thinks that only saved Christians are going to be saved.
The list is almost endless. And they give me pause to consider that their insidious lies should suffice for taking away their voter registration card.
By Taxpayer
October 10, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
The loyal Republican base is pressuring McCain to get more aggressive with Obama. At their rallies, they are even offering up handguns and hand grenades to McCain and Palin from their own private stashes.
By getalife
October 10, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
At least, they stopped blaming President Clinton.
By David
October 10, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this
BDAtlanta,
I had this discussion with a friend about Obama stickers, signs, etc. I’ve been accustomed in the past two elections to nutcases tailgating, giving the finger, one old guy in a truck looking like he was having a stroke while he was yelling and cussing through the window, all because I had the Democratic sticker on my car.
Allowing yourself to be influenced into hiding or inaction by all these actions is the real danger.
It is a constant reminder of the “First they came…” poem by Pastor Martin Niemöller about the German people’s inaction as the Nazis gained power.
“First they came for the Communists, - but I was not a communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, - but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, - but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”
By Taxpayer
October 10, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this
Bush did want his place in the history books. I’d say he’s got a real good chance at getting it now. Poor old John. He so wanted to be the one in the White House but Bush robbed him of that chance.
By E
October 10, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this
Jay - too, too funny!
But haven’t you heard? The McCain campaign did its own investigation into all charges against Palin and the First Dude and found that they are absolutely innocent of any wrong doing!
I’ll bet this is why the McCain campaign is failing so miserably… they’ve been busy doing a statewide investigation!
After all, they are a justice oriented bunch. Ha!
Obama/Biden ‘08
By hillbilly ragger
October 10, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this
I guarantee you none of the resident righties have the balls to read this piece, that investigates just how much contact Obama had with Ayers back in the day.
Nor will they accept the words of a Republican former representative. So I will paste them here. Have at it, righties.
#It was never a concern by any of us in the Chicago school reform movement that he had led a fugitive life years earlier,” said former Illinois state Republican Rep. Diana Nelson, who worked with both Obama and Ayers over the years. “It’s ridiculous. There is no reason at all to smear Barack Obama with this association. It’s nonsensical, and it just makes me crazy. It’s so silly.”
Nelson says her fellow Republicans “might snort when they hear the name Bill Ayers, because they know he comes from a wealthy family, they know he became a radical activist early in his life … but beyond just snorting, I don’t think anyone gives it another thought.”
“I don’t remember ever hearing anyone raise concerns or questions or concerns about [Ayers’] background,” says Anne Hallett, who has worked closely with Ayers on the Annenberg Challenge grant and with Obama on education and other community and legislative matters. “And that included everybody I was engaged with,” including prominent Republicans, and corporate and civic leaders in Chicago, Hallett adds.
Hallett calls this attack on Obama’s association with Ayers and the Annenberg Challenge by further association, “a smear campaign. It’s a political diatribe that has no basis in fact. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was an extremely positive initiative. It was well-vetted, thorough, and the fact that it is now is being used for political purposes is, in my opinion, outrageous.”
By lrd
October 10, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this
Seagulls have flown Vault is open The beast walks at noon
By Ray
October 10, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
OK, Bookman, now to something serious. ACORN…. you still ignore this issue and dance around this subject. Make yourself look credible and address this issue. Do it sometime before Nov 4th. Does it scare you or would your keepers object to some objectivity in reporting some of the real issues in this campaign? You glorify sending hundreds of sharks to Wasilla to turn over every rock they can find but you continue to ignore some of the main events that run the Annointed One’s campaign train. Luko drives cars over cliffs, Tucker objects to praying for our future and you are just lost in some kind of liberal fog that ignores basic problems with this clown. And you call that credible journalism. What a joke!!
By hillbilly ragger
October 10, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
dammit Ird, now I gotta kill you.
By Danny the red
October 10, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this
Says an attendee at a McCain rally of Obama’s rise:
““Why is Obama where he’s at? Everyone in this room is stunned.”
Welcome to what liberals have been feeling for eight years, buddy!
By Bosch
October 10, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this
Ray,
That might be news if we hadn’t heard similar accusations before in every damn election I can remember. It’s old news.
Yawn.
I think last election is was all the illegal immigrants who were registering to vote.
By Mr Snarky
October 10, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this
Jay, you forgot the biggest one of all! Obama is actually an immortal who regularly engages in Swordfights with other immortals in a massive tournament to determine who is “the one”. They call him the SouthSider.
By Bosch
October 10, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this
hillbilly ragger and ird,
What the hell are y’all talking about?
:-)
By BDAtlanta
October 10, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this
David at 10:09,
Good point.
By Greg Mendel
October 10, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this
Is Bill Ayers on the Terrorist Watch List? Anybody know? Or is he only on McCain’s “grasping for straws” list?
Financial markets around the world are dropping like rocks, and a failed hippie is the hysteria du jour.
To paraphrase Bob Dylan, you don’t need a weatherman to know which party blew it.
By Taxpayer
October 10, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this
I have yet to see any Republicans explain exactly what it is that the Republican party has delivered unto them over the last 8+ years that they want more of. Is it more trickle down economics. Is it more of that small government philosophy. Is it more wars. Is it a need to cut capital gains taxes more. Is it more deregulation. What. What is it.
By Taxpayer
October 10, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this
Bosch,
I may have contributed with my teasing as “BOO”. The devil made me do it.
By Mr Snarky
October 10, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this
Oh yeah…and Bill Ayers (also known as “He who shall not be named”) is actually behind the whole Global Warming propaganda scheme. Isn’t it so obvious when you think about it?
By hillbilly ragger
October 10, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
Danny @ 10.32, to be fair, I’m pretty sure Bush was NEVER where Obama is in the national tracking polls or in the statewide polls. Certainly not in 2004.
Ray @ 10.21, you seem very concerned about this ACORN “voter fraud” business. Tell me, out of all the isolated examples of phony names getting into the registration rolls, can you show me any examples of where these phony people actually voted, anywhere?
I’m sure you’ve got something. After all, the Bush Justice Dept. spent millions investigating this stuff for a half-dozen years.
Got anything, Ray?
By Ray
October 10, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this
Bosch,
If ACORN was a far right leaning organization out.registering all of the drunks on the street and pulling names off tombstones, there would not be enough room on this blog for all of the blather that Bookman would post, especially if it’s headquarters was in Wasilla. Don’t you see the point? I know it happens every election but your ignoring it and making it seem common says a lot about your integrity and what you stand for. We know what Bookman stands for but I hope he hasn’t pulled all of you to the dark side yet. It’s called credibility and honesty, something that Bookman has a lot of trouble understanding.
By Bosch
October 10, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this
Ray,
I’ll let hillbilly’s comments speak for me as well.
I see the point, but you speak in hypotheticals, much like the other blabber about voter fraud. The GOP has been screaming voter fraud this and that for years.
It’s a boo scare tactic of the desperate right-wing.
By Bosch
October 10, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this
Ray,
I’ll also add that the feds are investigating this, and if something is legit, I’m sure we’ll all hear about it.
But from what I’ve read regarding the “scandal” it’s pretty minor stuff.
By getalife
October 10, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this
All about Acorn today.
Our wingnuts are squirrels.
Voter caging and purging will offset.
Give it a rest.
By N-GA
October 10, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this
Let me be the first to start the “unconfirmed” rumor that ACORN is infested with ex-Swift Boaters trying to undermine legitimate efforts to register Americans to vote!
By Mr Snarky
October 10, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this
Bill Ayers is also the puppet master behind ACORN. It’s all unraveling!
By Danny the red
October 10, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this
Hillbilly,
You mean Bush was never in as commanding a position as Obama now is?
That’s true, but I don’t trust these numbers too much right now. They can still fluctuate, esp. after they start hurling everything else they’ve got (e.g., Wright). Plus, you’ve got the Bradley effect, which I expect to shave off 2-4 pts. at least (I agree w/Herbert of NY Times on that one).
By Bosch
October 10, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this
Ray,
Here’s a good article if you’re brave enough to read it:
ACORN rallies its troops
Not trying to be all testosteron-y - that’s not my style, but it does explain alot.
One thing that stands out that I didn’t know is that in many states, the ACORN workers are required by law to turn in all voter registration forms, even the ones they know to be fraudulent.
By hillbilly ragger
October 10, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
Ray @ 10.44, I’m trying hard to empathize, really I am. If I knew of a right wing organization that had done, routinely, what you accuse ACORN of doing (and I think that’s unfair—ACORN performs a very valuable service and has for 38 years, but I’ll use your hypothetical) I would at first be outraged. Then I’d learn something about the right wing organization. I wouldn’t rely soley on left-wing echo chamber info; I’d read up-the-middle news accounts, and some RW defenders, and I’d certainly pay a visit to the organization’s site to get a feel for how they present themselves to the world.
I’d consider how important a threat to the process this really was. Is it trivial? I make a few snarky comments, maybe, accusing Rwers of hypocrisy. But I’d drop it. Is it major? Then I harrass columnists like Wooten to own up to the problem. I write to my congressman, I bring it up in conversation in real life with real people. That kind of stuff.
Point is, I’d have some idea of where this is going. I don’t think you do. I don’t think you’ve really thought through what these scattershot allegations of “voter fraud” (really registration fraud, a very different thing) amount to. If you cry “wolf” every time some trivial matter comes up it’s kind of hard for those hearing the cry to get real worked up about it.
(Just something to chew on. Sorry I’m rambling like this.)
By Bosch
October 10, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
N-GA,
You make a good point - those “organizers” turning in those fraudulent voter forms could just as easily be wingnuts doing that on purpose to throw suspicion onto ACORN - especially since many of the states that ACORN operates in REQUIRE ALL voters registration forms to be turned in - even the problematic ones.
OOOOHHHHH, that’s brilliant, if true.
By Bosch
October 10, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this
Danny the Red,
I had a thought about the Bradley Effect - what if the opposite is true. What if many people - especially here in Georgia - say they are going to vote for McCain and instead vote for Obama.
Think of all the quite little housewives who live with big Bubba boy husbands - do you think they’d admit to them they like Obama?
It could actually go both ways.
By ByteMe
October 10, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this
Bosch and Ray: Yeah, like leftwing nuts really know the names of all the Dallas Cowboys players.
Ok, that was obscure, even for me.
By getalife
October 10, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this
“According to a new report, thanks to the Patriot Act, the government has been listening into phone calls from troops in the middle east, and passing clips of them around the office.”
Support the troops by passing around clips of them having phone.
Sick gop perverts
By Kriddl
October 10, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this
Thank you for your enlightning blog. But I miss on more evidence: Ayers has first to bring Elvis out of line, because Elvis would be a more capable challenge for run to the presidentship. So Ayers has to bring first the King to Roswell.
By BDAtlanta
October 10, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this
Good article:
“John has made a pact with the devil,” says Lincoln Chafee, the former GOP senator, who has been appalled at his one-time colleague’s readiness to sacrifice principle for power. Chafee and McCain were the only Republicans to vote against the Bush tax cuts. They locked arms in opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And they worked together in the “Gang of 14,” which blocked some of Bush’s worst judges from the federal bench.
**"On all three - sadly, sadly, sadly - McCain has flip-flopped," Chafee says. And forget all the "Country First" sloganeering, he adds. "McCain is putting himself first. He's putting himself first in blinking neon lights."**http://www.truthout.org/100508A
By Bosch
October 10, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this
ByteMe,
The only one I know is Tony Romo because my son told me about him the other day. I’m clueless about football (the American kind, that is).
OH, and speaking of soccer, and since we are discussing conspiracy theories and baseless accusations:
I have also heard that if Obama is elected, football, basketball, and baseball will all become banned, and SOCCER will become the national sport.
How’d ya’ like that, huh?
By tcoach
October 10, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this
I don’t think some of you all get it. I cannot speak for all an I am only speaking for myself, because I have seen the stupidity posted by both conservatives and liberals. There is not any concern on my behalf about Bill Ayers. He is a guy that I find to be rather shady and morally lacking. Bill ayer is not the issue with me. I do think that if a person wants to be president they are judged by the company they keep and then the reaction they give for hanging with them, or being associated with them. The issue of Ayers by itself are a non-issue. When you combine that however with other associates of his and the intentionally misleading and outright untruthful responses he gave as to his affiliation with some of these people it is a concern.
Obama has only had a political career for about 13-14 years. In that time he has managed to either work with or list as an advisor some very controversial, at best, individuals. There is not any proof of actual collaboration between the parties for teh most part, it is teh association that is unnerving.
Am I the only person that feels it is not the individuals tehmselves, it is a pattern of surrounding himself and establishing a consistant issue of radicalism. That to me goes to make a statement of judgment and how he would react in undefined situations. More importantly, who from his history are the likely candidates Obama would ask to help solve the undisclosed future problems of the nation.
Remember- During the Bush Gore election, Katrina was not a topic, 9/11 not a huge concern, no war in Iraq, and no economic crisis.
What are going to be the unknowns and has Obama always been truthful and forthcoming about his past associates and mentors?
I feel he has not.
By Jane
October 10, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this
The protesting from the liberals about Ayers is funny, in a way. I’m surprised they haven’t already made a saint out of this terrorist in their headlong efforts to help Obama.
By AmVet
October 10, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this
I always suspected my fascination with the second gunman on the grassy knoll was misdirected and part of the great left wing conspiracy contrived by the liberal mainstream media!
Now I realize it was actually the man with the umbrella!
And further research has corroborated that he shot from Ayers Street while disguised as a large acorn. He reportedly said on his death bed that “we had to fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.”
By E
October 10, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this
McCain touts Palin as the “energy expert”.
Hmmmm.
At a townhall event in Wisconsin on Thursday, Palin was asked by a concerned questioner whether it was true that the United States was shipping 75 percent of its Alaskan oil overseas. She responded by proclaiming it impossible, since Congress had put strict bans on the amount of oil and gas that America could export.
Not so. As the Associated Press reported:
No Alaska oil has been exported since 2004, and little if any since 2000, according to the Energy Information Administration and the Congressional Research Service. And Congress has never imposed outright bans on oil exports. Congress prohibited exports of Alaska oil in 1973 when the Alaska oil pipeline was built. But that ban was lifted in 1996 when there were large volumes of Alaska oil coming down from the North Slope and U.S. demand was soft.
The Alaska ban has never been reinstated.
Now what’s that again, McCain? You say Palin’s the “energy expert”?
Obama/Biden ‘08
By Bosch
October 10, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this
tcoach,
Just so you know, I am not one bit inclined to read any post that starts off with “I don’t think some of you all get it.”
It’s an insult to my intelligence for whatever that’s worth, and such arrogance for one’s opinion as being the end all really bugs the sh!t out of me.
I get alot of things - except taxes, I don’t get taxes except I have to pay them.
By demwit
October 10, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this
In hopes of gaining progressive support, perhaps I will try domestic terrorism. And hey!! Just image all the international support I could get by default too..
By AmVet
October 10, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this
Today is a good day for a little levity, so here goes:
Vote Republican - Its the White Thing To Do
In clinical studies, the most common side effects of voting Republican (reported in at least 10 percent of patients and at least twice as often as with placebo) were constipation, dizziness, dry mouth, insomnia, loss of appetite, nausea, nervousness, sexual side effects, sleepiness, sweating, and weakness.
Republicans: We’re so pro-family, we think everyone should have at least 2!
Republicans - Between Iraq and a hard place
Vote Republican: Keep FEAR Alive!
Republicans - Adultery with Dignity
Republicans - 1000 Points of Spite
Republicans - Moraler Than Thou!
Neo-Cons- We isn’t as Stupid as You Think
By Chris Salzmann
October 10, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this
An interesting letter to the Times: The lead prosecutor on the Ayers case, William Ibershof, doesn’t buy the current McCain attacks.
“I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child.
Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.
Because Senator Obama recently served on a board of a charitable organization with Mr. Ayers cannot possibly link the senator to acts perpetrated by Mr. Ayers so many years ago.
I do take issue with the statement in your news article that the Weathermen indictment was dismissed because of “prosecutorial misconduct.” It was dismissed because of illegal activities, including wiretaps, break-ins and mail interceptions, initiated by John N. Mitchell, attorney general at that time, and W. Mark Felt, an F.B.I. assistant director. “
ADDING TO THIS: Who funded the School Project Board that Ayers and Obama shared a seat on? The Annenberg Family of Chicago who have endorsed and contributed to the max to the McCain Campaign. So, using the McCain/Palin logic, is McCain taking money from “Terrorist sympathizers”???
Of course, to expect logic in this argument is a stretch.
By ByteMe
October 10, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
Bosch: Obama likes basketball, so that’s likely not to get banned.
Jane: who says “liberals” are protesting anything other than rampant “straw-grasping” on the part of the rightwingnuts?
tcoach: was Bush’s drug dealer an issue for you in 2000? It’s well-known that Bush was drunk or stoned for much of his 20’s. Did his “associations” with drug dealers bother you or is this only a recent thing? Couldn’t drug pushers be considered “domestic terrorists” for all the harm they do to society?
It’s all a distraction. He surrounds himself with smart people like Warren Buffett. McCain surrounds himself with lobbyists. What is really the bigger danger here and what is really just a distraction?
By Lostie
October 10, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
I don’t agree with what you say in the article, but your reference to the Dharma Initiative got me laughing. :)
By Ryan
October 10, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
I have to say I throughly enjoyed this article! The satrical humour was great and honetly I could actually see this coming out of McCain’s or Palin’s mouth.
For those of you who are on about Bill Ayers I encourage you to throughly research him. The man made some very bad choices and he is a little nuts but can anyone in here honestly say they do not have a friend or family member who is a black sheep.
For the love of god they worked together on a charity board, unlike McCain who served on the U.S. Council for World Freedom. Research it please, linked to Nazi collaberators and responsbile for more civil disturbance than Bush.
Ayers was active in the 60’s Obama was 8. To assume he is a terrorist is shear ignorace. This new tactic was also one that McCain detested and said would not be used.
McCain makes rash decsions and I am sorry I am a registered republican but the party has gone dumb this year and I will not support an angry, tempermental old fool who young power hungry second has been the governor of a state with the smallest population and requests more earmarks per capita than ANY other state. Thats how we control spending no?
By Abomi Nation
October 10, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this
This whole Ayers thing dates back to the Clinton years. Ayers had great influence on the White House and became good friends with Hillary. Why? Ayers knew Hillary’s secret.
As you may know Hillary is responsible for the murders of as of many as 47 people. Hillary couldn’t have killed that many people without the help of a black man. That black man would turn out to be Mr Ayers himself.
James McDougal, Vince Foster, Ron Brown, and 44 others were murdered by Hillary and Ayers.
Why were these people, all friends of Hillary killed? They knew Hillary’s secret too.
Hillary of course has strong ties to Chicago. She also had a 11 year affair with a young Chicago Democrat named Barack Obama.
Barack and Hillary persuaded Barack’s good freind Ayers to help out. The tragic ending of 47 young lives was next. They were sacrificed. All silenced to keep the secret and her future as President of the USA safe. Hillary had no choice but to eliminate her friends that knew here secret.
Hillary promised Barack a prominent place in her cabinet, but Obama got greedy, he wanted it all. After a deep depression following their ugly breakup Obama decided to get even, he would steal the election from Hillary and himself become President.
The icy relationship that currently exists between Obama and Hillary is not from a bruising election campaign. It exists because of a bad breakup and the strain of a big big secret, murder.
This is going to be huge people. I think this could be the October surprise. Now you know why Hillary had her friends murdered. Wow.
By mike hussein smith
October 10, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this
Jay, you failed to mention the worst Obama secret: Most people don’t know this, but Obama actually sounds like Tiny Tim when he speaks. James Earl Jones makes recordings of speeches, and Obama lip syncs to them when he goes before the public. How else could a literary idiot savant with a law degree from Harvard speak in perfect English and complete sentences?
Wow, bush might as well have quoted Mel Brooks: High Anxiety — whenever you’re near, High Anxiety — it’s you that I fear. My heart’s afraid to fly, it’s crashed before. But then you take my hand, and my heart starts to soar Once more…
By GayGrayGeek
October 10, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this
jane @ 11:27 - Suffer from projection much, dear? The only folks “protesting” Ayers in these or any precincts are wingnuts and paleocons who all seem to be trying to win a hobbyhorse race from Atlanta to Macon.
By tcoach
October 10, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this
Bosch note the use of teh word some that is a word used to indicate less than a majority. Sorry if you did not like the message and attack me becaue it goes against your political views. What would lead you to the inclination that I have nor will I ever care what bugs you. Ihave read your hate filled musings and how you continually discredit anoyones post if it does not agree with you and then you attack them on a personal basis, never taking the time or teh effort to understand their point of view much less discredit it or even debate it. So I could care less if you are mad, if you are tough I hope I ruin your day as you have ruined the days of many others on this blog.
Read what is written and gain a grasp of teh english language and a recognition for the word some. So attack me if you want, could care less but you cannot atack my post it is a matter of public record. Get over yourself, you nor your opinions are all that smart.
By Peadawg
October 10, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this
To all you Libs who defend Ayers and Obama, how about Rev. Wright? Try and defend him…you’re just as un-patriotic and racist as Rev. Wright is if you defend him.
By Chris Salzmann
October 10, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this
Abomi Nation wrote: Hillary promised Barack a prominent place in her cabinet, but Obama got greedy, he wanted it all. After a deep depression following their ugly breakup Obama decided to get even, he would steal the election from Hillary and himself become President.
The icy relationship that currently exists between Obama and Hillary is not from a bruising election campaign. It exists because of a bad breakup and the strain of a big big secret, murder.
This is going to be huge people. I think this could be the October surprise. Now you know why Hillary had her friends murdered. Wow.
CHRIS: DUDE, GET ON PROZAC. I SUPPORTED OBAMA OVER HILLARY BUT THIS CRAP ABOUT HILLARY IS….WELL, CRAP. YEAH, IF YOU BELIEVE THIS CRAP THEN YOU REALLY, REALLY NEED HELP. SERIOUSLY.
By Chris Salzmann
October 10, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this
An interesting letter to the Times: The lead prosecutor on the Ayers case, William Ibershof, doesn’t buy the current McCain attacks.
“I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child.
Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.
Because Senator Obama recently served on a board of a charitable organization with Mr. Ayers cannot possibly link the senator to acts perpetrated by Mr. Ayers so many years ago.
I do take issue with the statement in your news article that the Weathermen indictment was dismissed because of “prosecutorial misconduct.” It was dismissed because of illegal activities, including wiretaps, break-ins and mail interceptions, initiated by John N. Mitchell, attorney general at that time, and W. Mark Felt, an F.B.I. assistant director. “
ADDING TO THIS: Who funded the School Project Board that Ayers and Obama shared a seat on? The Annenberg Family of Chicago who have endorsed and contributed to the max to the McCain Campaign. So, using the McCain/Palin logic, is McCain taking money from “Terrorist sympathizers”???
Of course, to expect logic in this argument is a stretch.
By Say What?
October 10, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this
I have reduced the upcoming election to the following formula:
Bush = Our Economy
Bush = McCain
Therefore,
McCain = Our Economy
Game, set, match to Obama. By double fault.
By mike hussein smith
October 10, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
Nobama Nobraina writes: There is no doubt that obummer and ayers have been close for years Well, show me the damn money. Wingnuts obviously think that repetition of a lie makes it truth regardless of the lack of any evidence whatsoever. I want to see dated photos of the pair — one taken Monday, one taken the next day and one taken the next day — for at least 2 weeks before I will bow to the stupidity of the Wrong Wing. I repeat, SHOW ME THE DAMN MONEY!!!!!!
By tcoach
October 10, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
Sorry Byteme, Bush’s drug dealers bother me no more than the ones Obama was buying his supply through.
But to answer your question respectufully, No Bush’s drug dealers nor Obama’s bother me alone and by themselves. If either was also working on committee and appointing one as an advisor then that would begin to display a pattern of behavior and choices. Then that pattern of choices and selection of associates would be troubling.
2 things to add to that.
Voted for Gore in 2000(I was 19 and liked clinton alot, didn’t inform myself very well)
I was totally unaware that Bush was running for office again, that is a shock. ( I know Cindy Mccain had a drug issue as well, but Michelle Obama had a white people issue so I don’t think either is worth discussing about their wives)
I hope I answer that to your liking and tried to keep it free from partisan opinion.
By Chris Salzmann
October 10, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this
By Peadawg: To all you Libs who defend Ayers and Obama, how about Rev. Wright? Try and defend him…you’re just as un-patriotic and racist as Rev. Wright is if you defend him.
CHRIS: MCCAIN HAS GONE OUT AND SOUGHT ENDORSEMENTS FROM THE VERY FOLKS HE USED TO CALL “THE AGENTS OF INTOLERANCE”. YOU KNOW, THE KIND OF FOLKS WHO SAID THINGS LIKE THAT AMERICA DESERVED 9/11 FOR ITS SINS, GAYS/LESBIANS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR 9/11, JEWS ARE BAD, ETC, ETC, ETC. WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT MCCAIN?
THAT SAID, I DON’T JUDGE MCCAIN ON THIS BUT ON HOW HOW BELIEVE HE WILL LEAD THIS COUNTRY. HIS REACTION TO THIS FINANCIAL DEBACLE HAS NOT BEEN PRETTY AND HAS CERTAINLY NOT HELPED HIS CAUSE.
By Chris Salzmann
October 10, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this
By Peadawg: To all you Libs who defend Ayers and Obama, how about Rev. Wright? Try and defend him…you’re just as un-patriotic and racist as Rev. Wright is if you defend him.
CHRIS: MCCAIN HAS GONE OUT AND SOUGHT ENDORSEMENTS FROM THE VERY FOLKS HE USED TO CALL “THE AGENTS OF INTOLERANCE”. YOU KNOW, THE KIND OF FOLKS WHO SAID THINGS LIKE THAT AMERICA DESERVED 9/11 FOR ITS SINS, GAYS/LESBIANS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR 9/11, JEWS ARE BAD, ETC, ETC, ETC. WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT MCCAIN?
THAT SAID, I DON’T JUDGE MCCAIN ON THIS BUT ON HOW HOW BELIEVE HE WILL LEAD THIS COUNTRY. HIS REACTION TO THIS FINANCIAL DEBACLE HAS NOT BEEN PRETTY AND HAS CERTAINLY NOT HELPED HIS CAUSE.
By GMAN
October 10, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this
Damn! I can’t hear a think for all that whining coming from John “Mr. Magoo” McCain, Sarah “Elly Mae” Palin, and the rest of the wingnuts. Here’s a pack of rice crackers and a round of brie to go with that whine!
Bush/McCain - Gambling with your children’s future… and losing!
By AJC/DNC Management
October 10, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this
By hey douchebag October 10, 2008 8:13 AM to AJC/DNC and demagogues of talk radio and Fox News: it is pathetic, but not the least bit surprising, that you have been reduced to one last blast of scary Barack Hussein Obama / Bill Ayers talk. don’t you have anything better than that?
douchebag: Why, yes, in fact I do, thanks for asking:
At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn’t be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval.-Washington Times
By ByteMe
October 10, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this
tcoach: please provide citations about Obama’s issue with “white people”. I already know about Cindy’s pill issue, and don’t care about that either, since she’s not running for office.
You already knew Bush isn’t running, just wanted to see how far your “outrage” extended when it came to Republicans.
And you need to explain why any of this matters and where Wikipedia got it wrong when it says:
Bill Ayers and Barack Obama at one time lived in the same neighborhood in the city of Chicago, and both had worked on education reform in the state of Illinois. The two met “at a luncheon meeting about school reform.”[41] Obama was named to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Project Board of Directors to oversee the distribution of grants in Chicago. Later in 1995, Ayers hosted “a coffee” for “Mr. Obama’s first run for office.”[42] The two served on the board of a community anti-poverty group, the Woods Fund of Chicago, between 2000 and 2002, during which time the board met twelve times.[42] In April 2001, Ayers contributed $200 to Obama’s re-election fund to the Illinois State Senate.[41] Since 2002, there has been little linking Obama and Ayers.[42]
How exactly does this “association” that you’re claiming look like anything other than smoke being blown at you by your friends the Republicans?
By mike hussein smith
October 10, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this
Peadawg: The Rev. Wright thing just doesn̵