what’s he so askeert of, anyway?
Something is spoiling The One’s moment in the Son sun today: the specter of Bill Ayers.
Although Obama actually launched his political career at an event at Ayers’s and Dohrn’s home, Obama has dismissed Ayers as just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” and “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” For his part, Ayers refuses to discuss his relationship with Obama.
...With Obama heading up the board and Ayers heading up the other key operating body of the Annenberg Challenge, the two would necessarily have had a close working relationship for years ...
Stanley Kurtz of NRO [quoted above] was on WGN radio to discuss his frustrated attempts to examine the documents from the Annenberg Challenge—one of Uh-bama’s and Ayers closest ties.
Uh-bambi’s Chi-Town-style reaction? Call out the flying Bama’tards!
Weak, Barry. Very weak. Well, that’s what happens when ya have the judgement to select a Plouffe* for your manager.
In addition, the minute the McCain campaign oh, wait… It was an independant 501(c)(4) entity, American Issues Project that raised the Ayers issue.
The B-rock’s response was to, again, call out the Flying Bama’tards.
Obama has responded to the ad the way liberals often react to free speech that they don’t like: he is trying to shut it down… Obama’s spokesmen didn’t explain what about the ad is false, let alone despicable or outrageous. Every word in the ad is true. I suspect that “despicable” and “outrageous” are synonymous with “effective.”
Then he pulled out the Big Guns.
“We reiterate our request that the Department of Justice fulfill its commitment to take prompt action to investigate and to prosecute the American issues Project, and we further request that the Department of Justice investigate and prosecute Howard (sic) Simmons for a knowing and willful violation of the individual aggregate contribution limits,” [Obama general counsel Bob Bauer*] wrote.
[clearly not related to Jack...]
And we thought Hillary!’s FBI files were discomfiting… There wasn’t as much reactionary flopping about for the Jeremiah Wright tapes. Those were a lot more “sound-bite-able” and therefore accessible to the average voter. So why the Panic about the Ayers connection which requires a lot longer attention span to even make sense? Buried treasure? Or Distraction from *something else*?
So the QOTD is BarryBoy, whatchew so askeert of?
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Way more here: Global Labor
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*Plouffe—rhymes with “fluff”—a strange, yet common political bird.
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 08/28 at 03:44 PM •
(10) Say it, don't spray it... • *link*
