RNC Launches Obama/Ayers Ad: "Guilt by Association"
It never stops...just when you think they can't get any lower, they dredge a little more slime out of the pond. Politico:
The Republican Party on Monday morning will make a new push to convince voters that distant ties between Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former radical William Ayers are somehow disqualifying for the presidency.
The Republican National Committee plans to e-mail “an audience of tens of millions” the link to a new video on the subject called “Guilt by Participation” and encourage recipients to forward it to friends and family, aides said.[..]
The 80-second video ends with a new slogan, a variation of one Republicans have used in the past: “Barack Obama: Career First. Country Second.” The slogan is likely to be used again, officials say.
The video flashes garish lettering like “WANTED BY FBI” and “DON’T REGRET SETTING BOMBS.”
The Obama campaign on Sunday released a roundup of media quotes headed “McCain's Strategy of Distracting From the Economy ... How's It Playing With Republicans?”: “In case you missed them, below are stories across the country voters are reading and hearing about McCain’s closing strategy, even conservative pundits, Republican officials and Republican voters are rejecting it."
Among those quoted was Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, who said on “Fox News Sunday”: “[T]he main thing to say about these negative ads, which, I don’t think — almost none of them has been across the line — they haven't worked. Obama's favorable rating is as high as it's been in three months. It's actually gone up in the last month. So it's a stupid campaign.”
Hear that, guys? It's not working...McCain's numbers are sliding further and further down. So then it has to be asked: WHY would the RNC be launching an ad campaign not helpful--indeed, detrimental--to their candidate? If they're not interested in saving McCain's campaign, are they laying the foundation for four years of smears and distraction to an Obama presidency?
Politfact gives McCain (and now, the RNC) the official "Pants On Fire" seal for his attempt to tie Obama to Ayers.
That's far from the only slime coming out of the pond!
The Republican party is now utterly indistinguishable from the Ku Klux Klan.
I hope that John seeks the help he obviously needs soon. Its sad to watch him give away any class and dignity that he had in earlier days.
Open your eyes. To make a statement like that shows how narrow mided your.
You sound like a Bush Voter... McCain Supporter??
Palin = Lindsey Grahm = Phil Gramm = McCain = Lieberman = Republican Congress = Bush= Rove = Stolen Election 2000 = Jeb Bush = Florida = Katherine Harris = US Supreme Court = Stolen Election 2004 = Ohio = Kenneth Blackwell = Cheney = Halliburton = Oil = Iraq = Iran = Ronald Reagan = Casper Weinberg = Contras = Israel = Oliver North = Liars, Cheater, Traitors, Thieves. Please fell free in add to this list.
did they darken barack's face as well.
So shouldn't the DNC return the favor by releasing a TV commercial linking mcgramps to boosh?
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus
the DNC should respond by associating McCain with Strom Thurmond, who was a member of the KKK... then pan to McCain refusing to talk to Obama or even look at him at the first debate, and refusing to shake his hand at the 2nd... and accuse McCain of racism.
the RNC wants to play hardball, the DNC should be willing to play harder ball...
And the terrorist Dick Cheney who responsible for the deaths of over 4000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians so he could steer no bid government contracts at our expense to Halliburton as his stock increased 8 million. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Cheneys_stock_o... doing a complete 180 from his 1994 position http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnV4tMvI0ME&fe...
The GOP is the party of terrorism for personal political and financial gains.
The DNC needs to release ads of McCain's recent ties to conservative terrorist of BushCo and the war he supports
John McCain, who supports his campaign by accepting donations from, and appearing on the radio show of, G. Gordon Liddy, one of America's most prominent domestic terrorists. Mr. Liddy, a convicted felon who served four years for crimes against the state during the Watergate scandal, has admitted being prepared to kill during the break-in, plotting to assassinate journalist Jack Anderson, and plotting to kidnap (and if necessary kill) 'leftist guerillas' at the 1972 republican convention in Miami. More recently Mr. Liddy has counselled listers on his radio show to murder ATF agents ("shoot the bastards") and advised them how to do it ("head shots, people. They'll be wearing vests").
Far from denouncing Mr. Liddy, senator McCain refers to him as "my good friend," says he is "proud of him," and asserts that Mr. Liddy "represents the values that make this country great."
But of course he's a republican, so all that's okay.
Paul Krugman has won the Nobel Prize for Economics.
It's a well-deserved honor for Professor Krugman, and a real kick in the eye for conservatives, who have now been shown twice in recent years how out of step they are with the rest of the world, which respects the work of American liberals and thinkers like Krugman and Al Gore.
As for guilt by association, the Obama campaign needs only to link McCain with the Keating 5 (many voters DO remember this debacle) and Palin with those right-wing Alaskan extremists and witch-hating terrorist pastor. Voters recognize Obama was not Ayers's friend "till death do us part," as Keating wrote to McCain, but a casual acquaintance who had one fundraising event for Obama and otherwise served with Ayers on a committee formed by Reagan buddy Annenberg. And I thought Palin was a Christian. Doesn't she believe in redemption for Ayers, who is a university professor named Chicago Citizen of the Year in the 1990s'? You betcha not!
Exactly!
It is so interesting how people who are guilty of sins and crimes usually try to project them on to their opponents. In this case it is perfectly legitimate to remind people of Palin's ACTUAL links to extremist groups and McCains PARTICIPATION in the Keating Five Savings & Loan scandal. Indeed, the Keating 5 scandal was a precursor to the mess we are in today. It is our responsibility to remind the citizenry of this!!
Scar was losing his mind over Krugman getting the Nobel Prize. Kramer was his guest, and was equally insane. Andrea Mitchell was the lone voice of sanity, refusing to guffaw and laugh it up with the two, noting with a very flat affect that well ya know, he does have a PHD in economics, and happens to be a Professor at Princeton University.
Joe, you just stink.
It's because Krugman doesn't yell over people or try to belittle them.
Scar has Kramer. Olberman and Maddow have Krugman.
That says a lot.
(Although, while I think Kramer is a bit of a dolt, I loved his bit in the "Iron Man" movie... that was priceless, but that's about the only good thing I can say.)
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
McCain's slimeball tactic of claiming that Obama is a terrorist is backfiring because it doesn't square with the Obama that millions of people saw on TV during the debates: an intelligent, compassionate man with an even temperament and strong character.
I figure these ads - in fact, the whole racist, fear-mongering approach that McCain has taken the last couple of weeks - is just an effort to ensure that the hate-filled Republican base turns out on Nov. 4, and a way to con some last-minute contributions to pay his massive campaign debt.
Do these people really think Obama is going to strap on a bomb vest and run into Congress shouting "Praise to Allah"? Or Crash Air Force One into the Pentagon?
There are far easier ways to hurt America than to spend a decade or more of your life clawing your way up the ladder (with the odds stacked against you) to the presidency.
Its another clear case of Projection from the party of fear. "He's going to abuse his position of power to get americans killed, destroy the economy and further his own goals!"
Remind me, what did your guy Bush do again?
Logic took a permanent vacation in Wingnutland...
indeed. i'm just glad that more and more people are able to actually watch obama, see him for themselves, and make their own judgment.
i think that for those who are willing to take a reasonable look at this man, they'll see that he is indeed intelligent (which is important given the complex issues simultaneously affecting your country, the united states, and the world), of even temperament, and someone who speaks to the concerns of a majority of americans.
the terrorist insinuation is crude, and appeals to the ugly side of human nature. it's actually rather sad to see it being used so aggressively, especially when your country is facing some truly serious problems.
"Comment pending approval"......gee, I wonder if mine will be approved. :eyeroll:
I'm 40. I've never voted. I've never even registered to vote. I had no intention of registering or voting in this election. Because of McCain's strategy of running a campaign of race-baiting, hatred and lies, I registered to vote for the first time in my life just to spite McCain. I hope their are millions more like me.
I wish you would have said 'for a better country'.
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
Two questions:
1. Why are these ads even being aired and not investigated by the FCC or elections commission?
2. Why are their makers not being arrested for slander and defamation of character by the justice department?
Answer to both: Because both are stacked with political appointees who are only interested in obeying the party line. Career first, country second.
The more they slime, they become the slime. People can see straight through their disgusting tactics - that's why there's a 10 point lead in almost every poll.
Let them "slime away" - the only ones they're besmerching in the long run are McCain and Palin.
Slime away and further convince americans that the McCain campaign is nothing but a bunch of filthy losers.
All Obama and Biden need to is permit the RNC slime machine to slit it's own throat the the throats of their candidates. This ad will cinch it for any Independent sitting on the fence who will make or break this election.
The RNC has two candidates who have been "cited" for abuse of power - the first time ever in the history of this country.
The RNC has two candidates who have been shown to be unqualified and impotent by THEIR OWN ACTIONS.
The RNC has two candidates who have nothing positive to present to the american people because one is tied to Bush at the hip and the other is "Bush in drag".
So what else can they do? Slime and hope it works. It isn't and it won't - which they will soon discover.
Those 10 point leads in the polls will be 15 point leads following the Slime Machine of the RNC this week as well as the debate.
Obama will deal the TKO to McCain on Wednesday and all that will be left is the 'cryin' and the mopping of right wing extremists' tears.
Well, the FCC is not getting involved because there was not one exposed breast in any of these ads!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
LMAO!!!
NOBODY 2012
Where are the ads sliming Palin and McCain?
So..... New
Mon, 10/13/2008 - 07:00 — VietVet67 (not verified)
Where are the ads sliming Palin and McCain?
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Here ya go
http://www.mst3ktemple.com/images/green_slime...
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Yay!!!! Green Slime!
I'd like to see the "There would have been no Keating 5 and their bank scandals without McCain... they would have been the Keating 4" ad...
Looks like Miss Moosey has a few other little ethical issues rearing their ugly head....right out of the Rove/Bush "playbook".
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/...
Palin and The Case of the Missing Emails!
courtesy of Lewis Carroll and the great political philosopher, Humpty Dumpty:
If at first you don't succeed, shout louder.
If the dems haven't learned something from the HELL the re-THUG-lics put America through during the Clinton presidency -- then THEY. ARE. GARBAGE.
Wait a minute - let me try that again . . . .
... If dems can't protect America from the re-THUG-lic's agenda then they are ... wait - that didn't work either.
Just look at the way Obama has been running his campaign - in specific - how he had responded to their smears. That should help.
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I'll give the McCain campaign credit for one very important thing, the ability to stand in front of the camera and declare an end to negative attacks while on all of the major news channels disgusting attack ads run on an endless loop. They need only pay for one airing since the "liberal haha" media will continue to run the ads til they are imbedded in the american psyche.
It never stops...just when you think they can't get any lower...
Oh, this is going to get much worse. The next three weeks are going to be filled with reprehensible Republican muck.
reminds me of a blood-sucking vampire who's been stabbed in the heart and as he falls to the ground grabs the tablecloth from the table, taking all of the dishes and glasses to the floor with him.
RNC is a tainted brand; Now they've added McCain to their tainted hell hole.
This is all they have. Scare the populace. Such a "nothing issue", but they have nothing else to sway the voting public with. They know full and well that their ticket is pathetic and their vision for the future is just more of the pathetic same.
I'm hoping that in two weeks we can say "The Futures So Bright, I Have to Wear Shades?
VietVet67 ... I think Obama is trying to stay "above" the fray. He seems to be doing a good job at it.
I watched the foreign markets hours ago and they were in a buying frenzy, then this evening I see the American Markets also opening in a buying mode. Word ... anything can happen.
Run ads connecting G Gordon Liddy and McCain. Some real doozies there.
What the he77 has my country turned into???? The rovian slime machine is going to get Obama killed for crying out loud!!! These uneducated Faux noise biggots haven't a clue to reality and yet they firmly believe the lies!!! The worst part is THEY WANT TO! I pray that Senator Obama and his family stay safe but I'm getting a very, VERY bad feeling about all of this. Carl Rove, you should be tarred and feathered in a public square for your lies, deceits and manipulations. All the redneck voters who honestly think that Obama's a terrorist arab all need some prozac and some deprogramming. Our country's on the verge of another Civil War and Carl Rove and the RNC are directly responsible for it! Sheeshe!
Bill Ayers is a respectable college professor which, incidentally, is more than John McCain (graduating 5th from the bottom of his class) can ever hope to achieve. The fact that this is "all they have" at this point is so pathetic that it's become pretty laughable.
When I see each attack ad about Ayers, I see another confirmation of the fact that the Republican brand is tainted and corrupt, lacking integrity and dishonorable - all of the things which once made McCain attractive to americans - his level of integrity and honor. This has all been stolen from him now as his reputation (even his war hero status) is being calling into question.
Each ad adds another nail in the coffin of the McCain campaign.
Does this man have any positive insight? Does this man represent hope for the future? Evidently, not with the tone and tenor of their ads.
Their ads are 100% negative and have presented nothing of the strengths or qualities which would make an american vote for this man.
Their ads are continuing to clinch american votes for Obama. We know nothing of John McCain and what he's accomplished at this point in time - some 3 weeks from the election. So I presume that their message of focus on the other candidate clearly means that they have nothing they can present about this man which is positive, altruistic or meaningful??
Each ad makes this fact clearer and clearer to more americans. McCain is an empty shell with nothing left to his character.
I especially like this part from the politifact review:
"Had Kurtz chosen to accuse Obama of carrying water for the conservative Annenberg, he might have written: "CAC disbursed money to various business-friendly entities, such as the Museum of Science and Industry and the Commercial Club of Chicago."
See how easy it is?"
There are millions of folks (my age and a little younger, within 5-7 years, say, down to 55-57) who are STILL pissed that the sexual revolution missed them back then. Bill Ayers was one of the leaders of the student revolt of the time. Got more ass than a toilet-seat, back in the day. They still envy him.
That's the whole explanation...
Forget Ayers, Wasn’t that McCAIN Embracing a Commie Radical?
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=3763
The clear message which americans are inferring from their continued attack ads is that they feel that their candidate has already lost and now all they can do is to try to tear down his opponent?
That's the message every american I've spoken to has received.
The Early Word: McCain to Deliver Underdog Speech
New York Times - 47 minutes ago
By Michael Falcone Senators John McCain, seeking to both acknowledge and change the narrative that has begun to dominate the presidential campaign, plans to unveil a retooled stump speech today.
McCain: Here's the backseat driving MSNBC
Independents split evenly between Obama and McCain The Associated Press
...
I wonder what those voices in the background are saying ever so softly? At first sounds like a police radio, but is it more?
Is that sarah in the background whispering sweet nothings in my ear?
John McCain's Make-Up Date with Letterman
People Magazine - 2 hours ago
By Caris Davis Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is set to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman Thursday - less than a month after controversially canceling his last appearance at the last minute, the Associated Press reports.
McCain, After a Cancellation, Will Visit Letterman’s Show New York Times
McCain set for makeup appearance on Letterman show Reuters
After two weeks of scathing remarks by Letterman, this fool thinks that appearing there now will somehow help? Letterman has already gotten the job accomplished of showing McCain to be a liar. It's a waste of McCain's time at this point. People's minds have been made up.
It's a waste of Lettermans time, not McCains.
The Republicans really don't want to be playing that guilt by association game. It might just come back to burn them.
This is all the RNC knows how to do. They've become (as we so well know) a gang of criminal thugs who have no nadir or "low" they will stoop to. This group of "has beens" are struggling for survival and in November the people will not only reject these two frauds but they will forever put an end to the disgusting tactics of the RNC in the process as well.
In that story they say that independents are evenly split between Obama and McCain with Obama having a slight edge. They say McCain has to target white, independent voters to gain that back because Democrats are coming out in much larger numbers. I'm a white independent voter and I am solidly in Obama's camp and so is another white independent voter that I know. McCain's attack ads won't work on us. In fact, his ads could just as easily apply to him. Especially since he pals around with right wing death squads.
"Facts" eh?
There is no basis for this report other than pure propaganda coming from the RNC and McCain Camp of Desperados.
Do your own research. This has been confirmed as a bogus report and total propaganda.
I don't even need to see McCain's ad. Its always attacks with absolutely no facts. Like I said, I'm firmly in Obama's camp and have been for a good long while now. I oughta be, I just voted for him via mail in ballot just a few days ago.
At this time in the campaign the Palin/McCain ticket should trying to appeal to the independent voters. To the people who are still undecided. It is known that independent voters do not like name calling and attack campaigning. They want to be informed about what the candidate is going to do. Independent voters are thinking people who analyze the campaign on the issues. They watch the news. They want the truth. Because they are informed they know what the truth is. They have been following the campaign for months and months and months. The independents and undecideds that McCain is trying to convince see what Palin and McSHAME are doing and what they are saying. Palin/McCain are not appealing to the independents. This is another reason they are going to lose. And lose BIG.
That ad is incredible.
To counteract it, Perhaps all the Democratic Party really needs to do is put out more pictures of McCain and other vile repubs... like Dick Cheney, Tom Delay, Newt Gingrich....
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
McCain has lost the Presidency. He knows it, the RNC knows it.
Now, its about preventing a 60 seat Dem majority in the Senate. All of this is red meat for the base to get them to turnout and save Saxby Chambliss, Norm Coleman and other Republican Senators in suddenly close races.
It's all about the Senate now for the RNC.
Sometimes it's important to speak out, in this case it's necessary.
http://www.ronnierayjenkins.com/topics/deathi...
will be praising and plugging Obama soon.
I really wish that Ayers' university colleagues and the Democrats and REPUBLICANs he's worked with in Chicago would speak out against the way he is being used to smear Obama. All the good the man has done in recent years is being completely ignored in an effort to attack a candidate with whom he has slim ties. It has got to stop.
I wonder how the RNC explains the "Citizen of the Year" award that Chicago bestowed on Ayers in 1997? It's confusing isn't it? Is he a unapologetic terrorist or an asset to the community?
The RNC keeps repeating the failed message because that's the Rovian mantra. Repeat preposterous lies until they become accepted truisms.
It worked for Karl in SC 2000 against McSame. It worked for Karl with the swiftboatliars in 2004 against Kerry. They figure it'll work again & other than this they got nuthin' but an eccentric, erratic old man who would just as soon invade Russia and Iran as decide which of his 11 houses he will spend the next weekend at.
I'm still thinking McCain/Palin might be just one final distraction-decoy so the Robber Barons-Pirates can completely clean us out before riding off into the sunset with a "Thank you suckers" smile and wave.
What do you think the whole bailout was about? One last orgy of looting before the next administration shows up and gets stuck with the check.
When are WE going to get to see about McNuts "PAST" just how many Tapes did he make for the Vet Cong. Why were they classified. Why do they not want the American people to see them. Again the "REALMcCain"http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain
link
Fixed it for ya.
And I've been wondering the same thing. We already know he gave away sensitive information that led to other American fighter pilots being shot down -- approach/exit paths, altitudes, etc... It's hard not to wonder what else he's been covering up at the expense of other POW/MIA troops.
That Obama helped Ayres set bombs back when he was 8 years old?
Isn't that defamation of character or something?
Elections Must Be Near
here's how UNinformed my 30yr old nephew, lives in chicago, works at the Trade, is... from a recent email:
Additionaly, Mr. Obama has had ties to Louis Farrakhan and the infamous weathermen of the 1970's. In particular, Bill Ayers, who himself acknowledges being a member of the weathermen and also ties with Mr. Obama. Bill Ayers is currently a professor at the Univ. of Illinois in Chicago. I have an MBA from that university, and it truly irritates me that a public university, none-the-less one that I attended, would allow such a man to saturate the minds of young men and women. Trust me, my fellow graduates and myself are working on getting this poor excuse for a human being fired from his position at the university.
that last part is the worst... i'll have to ask about his brown shirt collection when we meet again at xmas...
this is laying the groundwork to attack the obama presidency from day one
i think the entire rnc should be arrested for treason...under the patriot act that they pushed through
That would be one reason why we also need to keep in mind that electing as many Dems as possible to the House and Senate is necessary. I'm going to vote for my Dem Rep even though I'm not too fond of her (her brain seems not to function very well at times).
That's also why I give Obama credit for being a most courageous individual - even if he wins, he may lose.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
The Republicans don't seem to understand that if you field an old player to throw s*^t at a younger, nimbler, brighter opponent; the chances are the old bloke is going to have more s*^t stuck to him at the end.
When sarah palin shows up on SNL, they should have surpise guest, Al Gore, give her one of his patented tonsil rattling kisses.
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I know everyone thinks Fey is the best and obvious palin, but from the second I saw Palin for the first time 2 months ago (along with %90 of the country) I though Julia Louise-Dreyfuss (elaine from seinfeld) would have been the best.
Even when playing a ditz like Palin, Fey comes off as way too competent. You need and actress that can play someone who is clearly in way over her head.
Whoa! I noticed that too. Every time I see Palin, in fact. "Whoa, Julia Louis-Dreyfus really let herself go. Oh, wait..."
Her character on Arrested Development wasn't a far cry from Palin, come to think of it.
I'm betting the Oil Party will get gas down to $2.75 a gallon before polling, gambling that your memory will be poor enough you'll overlook which party has out-socialized, self-employment taxed, and warred us into financial ruin. Nice of is to bail out insurance companies and banks for 'em, though...
Now any true blooded Republican will recognize that as an opportunity to go out an buy that 10,000 gal personal gasoline tank to install in the back yard and fill up and top off.
That is possible but I think people will have $4.00 a gallon gs on their mind for a long long time.
I think it's time for President Obama to continue the BIG spending GOP (becasue we have to point put that the congressional Republicans have voted for BIG government)meme. At this point we are trying to win the Senate with a 60 vote majority.
MkKKain Campaign Support Unmasked... Yep, they have sunk even lower in their campaign efforts with pictures of Obama and nooses... This is the second time this particular image has surfaced.
McCain lived with communists for years, therefore he is a communist.
What about all the republicans and conservatives that also worked on that board? Didn't Ayres get appointed to that board by a current campaign staffer with the McCain camp?
McSmeagle wants his precioussssssss. Tricksey Obama wants to take it from him. McSmeagle hates them, he doessssssss.
We loves the bailout!
...We HATES the bailout! *hiss*
Next thing Jerry Springer will be hired as an evening news anchor.
This is just one more example why the rightwing and Republicans need to be crushed in the wake of the election.
From the Washington Post via RNC website: "Other Obama supporters have threatened critics with criminal prosecution. In September, St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce warned citizens that they would bring criminal libel prosecutions against anyone who made statements against Mr. Obama that were "false." I had been under the impression that the Alien and Sedition Acts had gone out of existence in 1801-'02. Not so, apparently, in metropolitan St. Louis. ...
These attempts to shut down political speech have become routine for liberals. ..."
What in hell are they worried about if they made no 'false' claims?
Go have me arrested if I killed anyone.
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
I bet...
Bill Kristol also said the McCain campaign strategy is "stupid...pathetic...flailing" which fits McCain/Palin like a glove. Hard to imagine that person speaking truth. Next year he'll lay the economy on Obama and the Dems.
If you think Ayers is a "radical" read this from Media Matters.org and learn about Mc Cain's association with G. Gordon Liddy, a convicted criminal and genuine radical:
www.mediamatters.org/items/200810100015?f=h_top
How strange the MSM propaganda machine isn't running a 24/7 continuous loop about this association.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
and refusing the answer subpoena's.
Time to put the neocon strategy out to pasture, there end has come.
November 4th, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will be the President Elect and Vice-President Elect. Better get used to that pubbies, it's going to be a long LONG, VERY LONG eight years before anyone in your party has the chance to 'steal' the election again!
Honorable men ?
If you recall the congressional testimony during Oliver North Iran Contra hearings, one thing that conspicuously stood out was so many Republican "character witnesses" incessantly referring to North as an "honorable man." Yesterday it was widely reported that John McCain stood up for Barrack Obama in like manner when some woman at one of his rallies assailed Obama as an "Arab." McCain, pulling the microphone from her hands, declaimed that Obama was an honorable man, or some words to that effect. Well now, it seems that the old saw "it takes one to know one" perfectly applies in this case. McCain, after all, dumped his ailing crippled wife for a young beer heiress and then went on to choose a ex-beauty pageant Governor as his running mate. Why wouldn't such a man admire how Obama parlayed his many years long connections with the Ayers family into a successful run for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination, all the while keeping it at arms length. What was it that Roosevelt said about Joe Kennedy?
people it's okay to just be recreational shoppers plying the Target store aisles for scented candles and home accents?
While I detest negative campaigns, the data shows that they do indeed work. That's the sad reality. I'm sorry to say that but it's true.
It's a good tactic on McCains part because he doesn't "control" the Republican party, nor does he control 527 like Freedom's Defense or any other organization outside of his campaign. That being said, The GOP and it's 527 affiliates can sling mud and McCain can say "I'm now running a clean campaign. I cannot control these groups. They are outside of my domain of influence."
See, it's a win-win for McSame. He can abdicate his campaign from the negativity while the dirty work continues. I wouldn't be surprised if Al Franken sees this same thing in has race. Norm Coleman quite the mud slinging but the GOP might not.
Also, we might see the tactic as McCain driven, that doesn't mean the fence sitters (How the hell can you be an undecided this year???? it boggles the mind) see proxy attacks as detrimental to McCain.
On Sunday's Chris Matthews show David Ignatius said that McCain could "lose his soul" if his campaign continued down the path that they were on. This comment silenced the panel and Chris Matthews.
Seems like McCain is more than willing to "lose his soul" or all ready has
long ago sold whatsoever 'soul' they might once have possessed to some campaign contributor...
Or any of those other Delusional Asshats is already steeped in Slime, so this is no surprise.
Here is the comment and transcript from Sunday's Chris Matthews show. The panel was addressing the McCain campaign's efforts at inflaming the situation.
http://www.thechrismatthewsshow.com/html/tran...
"Mr. IGNATIUS: I think if McCain uses these very nasty character references,
he risks losing his soul. This is what he said he wouldn't do in this
campaign.
MATTHEWS: Wow. Thanks to a great roundtable: Gloria Borger, Howard Fineman,
Cynthia Tucker and David Ignatius."
Where did they fetch the figure of 7 deaths ?
I was under the impression that the only deaths linked to WU were 3 of their own members..
"After the Greenwich Village explosion, no one was killed by WUO bombs."
"We were very careful from the moment of the townhouse on to be sure we weren't going to hurt anybody, and we never did hurt anybody. Whenever we put a bomb in a public space, we had figured out all kinds of ways to put checks and balances on the thing and also to get people away from it, and we were remarkably successful."
—Bill Ayers
anyone know who's ass they pulled this figure out of ?
The RNC maybe preparing to distract the nation with 4 years of smears, like they did with Clinton only this time it will be different. It will take a minimum of 2 years at the best to turn this economy around and Americans won't have time to think about nonsense if they are out of job.
Or facing the next four holiday seasons driving frantically around in search of another job, which the odds are against you find finding.
The Gubberment is going to save us
No kidding. How does one get into the position of being within an eyelash of becoming President of the United States? Answer. Connections.
who backed the corruption of the past eight years, do that and they cannot steal another election, not in 4 years, not in 8, not even in 40 or 50 years!
Bush & Cheney & Rove & Co. need to be made examples of, for all of history to remember why we do not tolerate criminal elements in our government.
Impeachments, Treason and War Crimes, that is what the bushies will be remembered for.
If this doesn't happen, will the Dems be held accountable, or will their supporters make the same excuses Rethugs have been making for more than 8 years?
i think the left needs to make a bigger deal of the fact that the hippie radical commie Walter Annenberg was the guy that put Ayers on the same board as Obama. I always knew Annenberg was commie-symp instead of a Republican Hack.
See how long the republicans take that association. it's a slap at one of their patron saints.
Watch for it.
mcgramps is going to come out with "his" economic solution within a few days.
There's already been leaks that the Democratic congress plans on massive rebuilding of our infrastructure, which needs it, and hope it help creates jobs.
What do you bet mcgramps tries to beat them to the punch? Only he'll claim to do it with less taxes.
Or will propose more military/defense contracts to create work.
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus
You know it's lies when the dishonest people at rnc have comments turned off. Appears everything is turned off, I tried to flag it for misleading text and it wouldn't allow it. Maybe Youtube is another republican puppet.
You know it's a lie when their mouths (or fingers on a keyboard) are moving.
Nixon had the southern strategy
Bush 41 had willie horton
Bush 43 had the swiftboaters
McCain has Ayers
The GOP are political terrorists and the number threat posed to American bar none.
McBush is at Cape Fear Community College today.
Cape Fear, how appropriate.
They make it more and more difficult to stay on the high road. Dispicable.
I saw on YouTube that the dems already have an ad in Spanish that does link McGramps to the Shrub.
I'd really like to see the beauty queen linked to Vogel and have some of HIS quotes splattered all over TV.
But I hope Obama continues to try to take the high road. I think people are sick of the mud slinging. Here's hoping McCain is just helping to sink his own ship.
Everything's fair game now. Cindy's drug use. McCain's family values by dumping his first wife. McCain near flunking out of the academy and crashing 3 planes. Todd Palin's ties to would be domestic terrorist the AIP. Sarah's been fair game all along because McBush put country last with that political choice as a running mate and because she's a liar, a crook, a relgious zealot and an idiot, so hit that b*tch even harder!
Everything's no the table. Grind these bastards into the mud they sling!
apparently you forgot about mccain starting the conflagration on the flight deck of the uss forestal that killed 150 sailors
...then instead of accepting responsibility and staying to help fight the fire he started which could have helped save the lives of his fellow American service members, McScamper ran off and hid no doubt thinking of ways Daddy Admiral was going to get him out of this mess.
Don't forget Bob Allen
Read the 1989 Article explaining the connection between the criminal Keating, John McCain, Cindy McCain AND Cindy McCain's Father!
http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/mccain...
Wasn't the Dude from the Big Lebowski also a founding member of the Weather Underground?
Then that rationale makes it plausible for President Bush and his staffers to be homosexuals. Jeff "Military Escort" Gannon and Matt "Dirty" Sanchez.
Since they want to play that game.
I was hoping they would do this. It is definitely good for another 2-3 points in the polls. Now if we can just get them to pull the trigger on the Wright stuff we can get this election over with. With the response to Ayers by the voting public, Wright has to be worth at least 5 points positive in the polls for Obama.
Nobody wants to hear about this. The media, who has to push any of these stories for them to stick isn't interested in last Spring's news. Notice although all last week people were talking about Wright as a possible next move by McCain, they were never accompanied by any of the video of Wright (A natural thing for the producers to put on as background for the conversation). They just are not interested in it.
I disagree. The RNC is now doing the dirty work so McSame has plausible deniability. The McCain camp isn't saying that bad things---other people are.
This lends tactic lends itself to to McCain by allowing him to use very broad pronouns such as "some" and "many".
An Example:
McCain to group of followers: "Some people have linked Obama to Bill Ayres..."
McCain doesn't have to use the term terrorist because the RNC is and that frees McCain/Palin to simply use Ayres name. It looks less dirty on McCains part but the message is still out there. Bush never had to question Kerry's service. The swiftboaters did that for him. Bush only had to mention things about the incidents to raise the issues the swift boaters made up.
This is Rove's tactic. Bush didn't do a lot of the dirty work in his campaigns, others did. Bush only had to make a quick --- non-negative or non-threatening comment about the connection to get people to draw the conclusion their selves.
This is how we got the Hussein == Osama meme. Bush never said that. He implied it. Proxies said Hussein = Osama and the country bout the crap hook line and sinker.
I don't think that anyone separates the statements of the RNC and those of McCain at this point in time.
Your points are all valid, but I do not think it negates the blow-back we have seen on McCain's negativity. I really truly believe at this time that Ayres and Wright will help Obama at this time if the RNC/McCain camp keep trotting them out.
The only way they may help is if they motivate more dispirited Republicans to come to the pools. They are poison to the Independents.
"The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows Barack Obama attracting 50% of the vote while John McCain earns 45%. That’s a bit closer than numbers from a week ago when Obama enjoyed an eight-point advantage, his largest lead of the year."
There could be a hundred reasons why Obama lost 3 points in a week; however, there might be only one reason --- dirty politics.
Mud slinging works. There are few cases when/where it doesn't work. This pisses me off because it shows how uninformed the US voting public is...
If McCain can separate himself from the mud then he looks better, yet the slime-ball RNC can do what they want and still bring Obama's numbers down.
Why does McCain not bring up the others who sat on the Board with Ayers and Obama and why are they not being met with the same smears? I think the Press needs to bring up their names and see what they have to say about their ties to Ayers. Aren't they also "friends" of Ayers by their association on the Board with him?
"Why does McCain not bring up the others..."
Well DUH!!! Doing so would not make Obama look as bad...
Listen to the investigation in Palin's PARTICIPATION and PARTNERSHIP with the radical and violent seperatist movement AIG
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/13/max_bl...
Remember, these are the kinds of NUTS who bombed the Oklahoma Federal Building
Don't forget about conservative domestic terrorist Eric Rudolph and the 100 or so Americans he killed and injured. The DNC needs to come up with an ad linking McCain's position on choice with the terrorist Eric Rudolph.
William Charles "Bill" Ayers cofounded the radical left organization the Weather Underground in 1969.
In 1976 , filmmaker Emile de Antonio created a movie titled ‘Underground’ ...a documentary about the Weather Underground.
Emile de Antonio was a director and producer of documentary films, usually detailing political or social events circa 1960s - 1980s...he appeared in a 1965 Andy Warhol film titled ‘Drink’.
Warhol painted celebrity portraits—including Rolling Stone Mick Jagger’s
In Fox T.V.’s ‘The Simpsons’ episode entitled "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation", Homer goes to a Rock and Roll camp run by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. They have a class conducted by Lenny Kravitz, and he gets asked by Apu about crotch stuffing. Kravitz says, "I personally don't do it, but Kenny Loggins does". At which point there is a shot of Kenny Loggins yelling, "I trusted you!" and running away in embarrassment.
Kenny Loggins sang the title track for the 1984 film ‘Footloose’
‘Footloose’ starred Kevin Bacon....
Help me out here, I am just a old experienced photoshop liberal hippie.
Is it just me or have they shaded Obama about 12 shades closer to #000000 - RGB BLACK in this video?
Am i imagining this.? mmm i dont think so.
Obama Al Jolson
Mammy How I love Ya MAMMY oh MAMMY.
I'm no fan of Politico--and I admit I don't even read it unless someone posts something interesting to me.
Picked this up over at the WaPo message board this a.m. It's a photo (and story) of McCain as the keynote speaker at an ACORN function in 2006.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/A...
Uh, won't he burn in hell for this?
It may be a dog-whistle message to trigger something in a crazed loner.
Because, as Rush Limbaugh likes to say about the left, they're like Communists and they just believe that the truth about Ayres hasn't been "done right" yet, and if they just keep hammering away on it from different angles, the public will eventually see the light and adopt it as the truth.
If we are going to play this stupid game....
Palin = Lindsey Grahm = Phil Gramm = McCain = Lieberman = Republican Congress = Bush= Rove = Stolen Election 2000 = Jeb Bush = Florida = Katherine Harris = US Supreme Court = Stolen Election 2004 = Ohio = Kenneth Blackwell = Cheney = Halliburton = Oil = Iraq = Iran = Ronald Reagan = Casper Weinberg = Contras = Israel = Oliver North = Liars, Cheater, Traitors, Thieves.
Please fell free in add to this list.
[Deleted. Flamebait. BTW, it's "You're". Ironic, ain't it? Site Monitor]
First, your is possessive. What you meant was you are or the contraction you're.
Now SOCIALIST???? Have you seen what's been going on in the banking sector??? The US is buying stakes in mortgage companies, financial institutions, insurance agencies and you're (note the correct usage) worried about socialism. Get over it.
Now, I don't have to break out the old Ti-89 to do the math. Economist have done that for me and they have said that Obama's financial plan is superior and will lead to a large cut in my taxes while not ballooning the deficit as fast as McCains plan.
Terrorist... Hmmmm, the Contras were terrorist and McCain has direct links to them. Lets not cast stones when we live in fragile glass houses.
How much did Bush spend last year? This year? The total 8 years? How much will McCain spend? I guess this goes back to you calculator comment (you obviously didn't get yours (note the correct usage of your again) before prodding us to do so.
I'm done stroking the troll.
Eric Rudolph became a folk hero to many anti-abortionists. I wonder how many of these same people denouce Obama's "ties" to Ayers?
William Ayers: Funded by Republicans
The Annenbergs-- Republicans. Bankrolled William Ayers with $50 million
But Walter and Leonore weren't just giving money to educational foundations started by William Ayers. They were also giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Republican National Committee and various other Republican groups, as well as to a whole host of Republican candidates, including the following:
George W. Bush $4000
Mitt Romney $5000
Strom Thurmond $1000
Fred Thompson $500
Rick Santorum $3000
Rick Santorum-- former Republican Senator. Received $3000 from Ayers' backers.
Why would billionaire Republican philanthropists give millions of dollars to a program that was working with William Ayers? Why would George W., Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson and all those other Republicans accept money from the people who were funding this William Ayers-associated group? Why won't McCain discuss these connections between the Republican Party and Ayers?
Here's the icing on the cake: just yesterday, the McCain campaign put out a press release bragging about the fact that Leonore Annenberg has endorsed him for president. Yes, you heard it-- a McCain backer bankrolled William Ayers with millions of dollars.
McCain's campaign has changed politics. We've gone from chosing the lesser of two evils to chosing the person best able to smear the other person. Wow, McPalin! Thanks for all that you do Country First.
Grand Old Politics
What about the witch from Wasilla and her husband belonging to a group that wants Alaska out of the United States? She attended their convention last March and told them they were doing great things for Alaska. Why no corporate news on this??
Remember the Keating Five and Mr. Mc Cain's part in 20,000 elderly and disabled losing their life savings? The ethics committee said he used "poor judgment". He's still doing the same thing but no corporate media coverage. What about McCain being involved with the killer of a doctor who did abortions? No corporate media about that either.
We don't care what Obama was doing when he was 8 years old and the republiKKKon party is going off the rail with their lies. Let's talk about the Witch from Wasilla and McBush's buddies. Some of their buddies are more anti American than any Arab country.
She is a witch. How appropriate she's been wearing black of late. All that's missing is the broom stick and the pointy hat. I wish somebody would throw a bucket of water on her.
The USSR used to dispense justice with "guilty by association." So did the Nazis and the the KKK.
Obama is talking about helping American citizens while mcslimer is busy sliming Obama and trying to crush him with lies. Where is my America?
McCain and Enron
Throughout his career, McCain has been an enthusiastic champion of financial industry deregulation as a member of the Senate Commerce Committee from 1997-2001 and 2003-2005. McCain voted, according to a Washington Post financial columnist, with his “campaign’s general co-chairman and domestic policy adviser, former Texas senator Phil Gramm. The Politico’s Lisa Lerer reports that not only did Gramm author the 1999 legislation that repealed Glass-Steagall, the New Deal law restricting the speculative activities of banks, but after Gramm left the Senate, he lobbied Congress on behalf of the Swiss bank UBS when the banking lobby wanted Congress to overturn state laws restricting predatory lending and the issuance of mortgages to prospective home owners who could not afford them.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte… McCain, like Gramm, has been a supporter of the “Enron Loophole” that allowed Amaranth Advisors hedge fund, a commodities futures trading company, to attempt in 2006 to corner the natural gas market, a criminal violation for which the fund was recently handed a $300 million fine. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/051908a…
McCain also has a direct connection with Enron, having received money in campaign contributions from Ken Lay’s Death Star. “We’re all tainted by the millions and millions of dollars that were contributed by Enron executives,” John McCain told CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday. McCain then acknowledged receiving $9,500 from Enron in two campaigns. http://www.time.com/time/business/article/… Gramm’s wife, Wendy, was on the Enron Board of Directors, and Gramm was the architect of much of the “reform” while he chaired the Senate Banking Committee, including a move to exempt electronic trading of electricity from regulatory oversight. According to Time Magazine, Gramm and his wife were at the forefront of many of the illicit practices that led to the firm’s massive ripoffs and ultimate collapse:
On Jan. 14, 1993, in the final days of the first Bush administration, Wendy Gramm – as chairwoman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission – pushed through a key regulatory exemption removing energy derivatives contracts and interest-rate swaps from federal oversight.
That was a major financial boon to Enron, where Wendy Gramm landed five weeks later as a member of the board of directors. She also became a member of the audit committee that signed off on another one of Enron’s fraudulent schemes, partnerships that hid the company’s growing debt.
McCain claims that his role in Keating was merely to help out a local constituent in dealing with Washington bank regulators. McCain, his current wife, and father-in-law were, in fact, Charles Keating’s business partners in a Phoenix shopping mall, received in excess of one hundred thousand dollars in campaign contributions from Keating, and accompanied Keating on his private jet to his private resort in the Bahamas on multiple occasions, gifts which McCain did not report until they were discovered. Yet, McCain, hand-picked as Barry Goldwater’s successor, got a slap on the wrist from the Senate Ethics Committee when this came out in the Keating-Five inquiry.
A second Senate panel wasn’t so sanguine. The 1992 Kerry Commission report concluded that the Keating affair was far more serious than a mere domestic banking scandal: “the financial dealings of BCCI directors with Charles Keating and several Keating affiliates and front-companies, includ(e) the possibility that BCCI related entities may have laundered funds for Keating to move them outside the United States.” http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/b… Out of the five Senators accused, only McCain and Glenn ever ran again for office, with McCain the sole survivor.
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The McCain camp just released a statement that when Obama was 9, he passed a note in class.
Do YOU want a president that passes notes??? :-D
Common/Sense '08
NOBODY 2012
I bet that this will come to a shock for most of you but, your comment on that YouTube page needs to be "Approved" before it gets published. I guess Republicans aren't into the whole "free speech" thing.
...has never been right about anything. I think we should be concerned when he says the ads aren't working.
If the association goes:
Ayers was on the board of directors,
Obama was on the board of directors
Therefore they re both sullied by Ayers history
the bigger question remains:
Why did REPUBLICAN Walter Annenberg put Ayers on the board of directors in the first place....Annenberg MUST be a terrorist too.
Well i see now why people are going to vote for obama. It must fun just following the trend. " Oh we dont wnat four more year of someone spending all of our money" Really....well if you open your eyes and you see that by 2010 if Obama becomes our pres....( i cant say it) he will have spent over 1 trillion dollar in office. Wow that impressive. I mean terroist mombed pour country and our president now spends a little dough over there and the country goes crazy. I really dont understand any of you. Please open your eyes to see who you are acutally voting for. How much change can our economy and country really handle. I mean are you ready for flat out communisum because im sure not. Obama is going to won you and everything you have by the time he is impeached and no one is going to be able to get us out of it. So how bout we all turn off our trying to vote for obama cause its cool and people say its the right thing to do attitude and think for once on how none of his plans add up and will never work. Educate yourself....Think about it.
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