Unless the national polls are off by a mile, and I think they may prove to be in the long run (that’s a topic for later), Obammy has been the benefactor of an apparent Teflon coating.
Despite a long, long, long (long) series of hateful, unsavory, embarrassing, un-American, undeniable and inexcusable associations, and a storied history of political debauchery, Obama has somehow avoided the fate a more discerning electorate would deliver him. John Edwards dips his pen in the company ink and he’s not invited to the big show. Obama hangs with terrorists and mobsters and anti-American hatemongers and he’s neck and neck with John McCain.
Another day, another controversy but this time Obama’s posse is pleading with the feds to come to his aid. Dude, chill. What’s the big deal Obammy? What are you afraid of?
Why don’t you want us to see this video?
…and what don’t we know about Obama’s past and more importantly, his true ambitions?
Sen. Barack Obama is warning TV stations and asking the Justice Department to intervene in an attempt to block the airing of an ad by a non-profit group that links him to an unrepentant domestic terrorist.
The spot by the American Issues Project questions Obama’s ties to William Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground organization who boasted of a series of bomb attacks at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago.
Now everyone is going to go find that ad, and even if Oback Barama is successful in getting stations to pull the (quite relevant) ad off the air, a great many voters will find it on the web any way.
Obama campaign lawyer Robert Bauer wrote to station managers, the AP said, warning: “Your station is committed to operating in the public interest, an objective that cannot be satisfied by accepting for compensation material of such malicious falsity.”
Well there you have it. It can’t be true. Obama’s lawyer says so.
Documents released Tuesday by the University of Illinois at Chicago shed some light on Barack Obama’s relationship with William Ayers, a founding member of the 1960s and 1970s radical group the Weather Underground.
Obama’s association with Ayers, who now teaches at the university, has become an issue in the Illinois senator’s presidential campaign. The Weather Underground took credit for several nonfatal (does that mean it’s okay?-JR) bombings on targets that included the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, and critics accuse Obama of rubbing elbows with an unabashed 1960s radical.
Obama has said that, although he knew Ayers as a professor involved in community outreach efforts in Chicago, he doesn’t share Ayers’ extreme views.
To be fair, putting Obama and Ayers in the same room and on the same agenda doesn’t implicate Obama in a meaningful way in and of itself. However, when you couple this association with a myriad of related events and associations including the Reverend Wright debacle (I went to the church for twenty years but don’t share his views), the Tony Rezko controversy, Michelle’s early and telling slip ups, and Obama’s questionable (let’s call it heritage), what should be troubling for all Americans is the pattern that is emerging.
How the hell does an operative of this ilk get this far in our electoral process?
Americans have succumbed to such low expectations so as to expect politicians to be slippery; to be beholden to lobbyists; to be evasive, and have affairs. What they aren’t prepared for is a President that harbors extreme radical beliefs coupled with a career is not marked by accomplishment but rather unabashedly for political gain; a would-be Manchurian Candidate.
Cross-posted at Shot in the Dark. Comments welcome.
