Yeah And It Ain't McCain

Can McCain win on the tax issue alone? Hard to say but I doubt the media even lets him make the case. I guess McCain doesn't really care about black people after all. He's perfectly willing to allow inner city race baiting go on to the detriment of poor blacks without taking it on.

They can wear t-shirts calling Palin a cxxx. But McCain cares about civil debate? Real smart, John.

Loser. Win or lose, at least when this is over I get to stop pretending that I actually support this clown. Thank God it isn't another town hall tonight. I kept picturing him in a robe and slippers as he wandered aimlessly around the stage in the last one they had.

“McCain felt it would be sensed as racially insensitive,” the official said. “But more important is that McCain thinks that the bringing of racial religious preaching in black churches into the campaign would potentially have grave consequences for civil society in the United States.”

Conservatives who want McCain to focus on Wright contend that the omission is another sign of a campaign that is unwilling to play tough enough with the Obama juggernaut.

As the top Republican official said: “There is a future beyond this election.”

Yeah, and it ain't McCain. Thank God!

Comments

[mary]

The more I think about the "why didn't he ask me to my face comment" the more I think that comment is some sort of trap for McCain.

What bomb is BO going to drop the moment that McCain gets in his face about it?

McCain already said by making the comment he has assured that McCain will bring it up. But, everything BO does, everything is part of a perfectly choreographed dance and production. There has to be a reason why he baited McCain and my sixth sense tells me it can't be good.

[Fred Beloit]

This one's for that PhD in physics from MIT, LOL:
See how sneaky the NYT can be as it slides into third-class newspaperism. Notice the article is the same, only the dates of publication are different. I don't give a s--- about the NYT except that the article says the Canadian health care system is unpopular. LOL on another thread says it is popular and we are all dumb.

The NYT, reduced to reprinting an article it first printed in 1983. Check the dates. Check the words. Or is this some kind of techy glitch?

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9F04E1DE153BF936A25751C0A965948260
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E1DE153BF936A25751C0A965948260&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=1

[Fred Beloit]

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E1DE153BF936A25751C0A965948260&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=1

[Soulblighter]

"McCain already said by making the comment he has assured that McCain will bring it up. But, everything BO does, everything is part of a perfectly choreographed dance and production. There has to be a reason why he baited McCain and my sixth sense tells me it can't be good."

Maybe Obama will whip out that photo of McCain meeting with the President of the dreaded terrorist group AQORN. Whoops! (Just like Rumsfeld and Saddam - what IS it with these guys and sleeping with the enemy?)

Maybe Obama will point out that Bill Ayers has atoned in every possible way for the actions of the Weathermen - I don't guess anyone here actually watched the documentary "Weather Underground", but Ayers repeatedly stressed that they were horribly wrong and nobody should try to emulate them. After all, unlike this guy (Fact: On his radio show, McCain praised Liddy's "adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great")...

"During the 1990s, Liddy reportedly instructed his radio audience on multiple occasions on how to shoot Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents and also reportedly said he had named his shooting targets after Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Liddy has acknowledged preparing to kill someone during the Ellsberg break-in "if necessary"; plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a "gangland figure" to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings Institution; and plotting to kidnap "leftist guerillas" at the 1972 Republican National Convention -- a plan he outlined to the Nixon administration using terminology borrowed from the Nazis. (The murder, firebombing, and kidnapping plots were never carried out; the break-ins were.)"

...Ayers never served a day in jail. He's also a respected expert on education.

As for Reverend Wright, LOL, that's dead in the water for how many months now? Call him an Arab while you're at it. Hey, did you hear that his wife hates whitey, too?!?! And call him HUSSEIN! Yeah, that's the ticket!

You guys really ought to be thankful that McCain doesn't listen to your insane advice, he'd be losing 80-20.

[templar knight]

"He's also a respected expert on education."

Respected by whom? The Communist Party. Tell that to the schoolchildren of Chicago who were the recipients of his and Obama's "expertise". I seem to remember a Chicago Congressman trying to take an entire school of children out of the Chicago Public Schools and put them into a neighboring school district. That happened this school year.

If you had said that Ayers was an expert on Left-wing propaganda and indoctrination, you might have had something. Otherwise, you're just another liberal shill.

[hdtv]

"why didn't he ask me to my face comment"

That could be a play on the claim that McCain would not and did not have eye contact with Obama during the first debate. I'm sure Obama has prepared answers. Who wouldn't? Of course, if McCain wants to bring up something from the 70's, it will leave him open to the claim that he is not concentrating on the issues of today. I would think Obama would give a one or two sentence response to McCain's claims and just quickly move to economic plan details or whatever. I think that an aggressive McCain will backfire. The moderator has already claimed he wants details on plans and that he will keep the discussion on track. It may not look good if the moderator has to keep McCain in line and besides every minute McCain uses to bring up the past is every minute he can't discuss details.

[Fred Beloit]

Who made this "documentary", Mike Moore?
"Maybe Obama will point out that Bill Ayers has atoned in every possible way for the actions of the Weathermen - I don't guess anyone here actually watched the documentary "Weather Underground", but Ayers repeatedly stressed that they were horribly wrong and nobody should try to emulate them."

What are these atonements, teaching young children how to become radical community "organizers"?
"Billy Ayers ... Himself (also archive footage) (as Bill Ayers)"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343168/

An example of objective film making, Bill Ayers becomes "Billy" Ayers, more folksy and cuddly, no?

[Fred Beloit]

Check out this endorsement of the film by someone who could be Rev Wright or Obama Jr.:

"I suspect that such a defiance of stereotype is why I, who am college educated and a leftist activist type, never knew the names of the Weathermen, while I knew the names of the most prominent Black Panthers, like Eldridge Cleaver and Bobby Seale. It is a movement almost entirely ignored, even by leftist academics. As the film wraps up, one thing that is telling is that none of the featured Weathermen sold out and became capitalists like so many members of SDS. They're all currently doing things for the good of society even if they're no longer bombing buildings. Also, we learn from the film that people didn't simply lose interest in the left and anti-war/anti-capitalist activism, preferring to embrace the glorious consumerism of Reagan's America. The government beat it out of people. Particularly, the government killed the Weathermen's effectiveness when they forced them underground. Maybe the reason we don't have mass uprisings in the U.S. as in other countries is because our government is the most effectively repressive, it being the most powerful in the world."

Note this revealing sentence by this outstanding film critic: "They're all currently doing things for the good of society even if they're no longer bombing buildings." What a wackhead. What a clown. A real sicko (Thanks Moore)

[richard]

Hi Dan. Presume you saw Thomas Franks' piece in today's WSJ? All of you need to read it. Here, I'll give you a snip:

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Bill's got lots of friends, and that's because he is today a dedicated servant of those less fortunate than himself; because he is unfailingly generous to people who ask for his help; and because he is kind and affable and even humble. Moral qualities which, by the way, were celebrated boisterously on day one of the GOP convention in September.

Mr. Ayers is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where his work is esteemed by colleagues of different political viewpoints. Herbert Walberg, an advocate of school vouchers who is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, told me he remembers Mr. Ayers as "a responsible colleague, in the professional sense of the word." Bill Schubert, who served as the chairman of UIC's Department of Curriculum and Instruction for many years, thinks so highly of Mr. Ayers that, in response to the current allegations, he compiled a lengthy résumé of the man's books, journal articles, guest lectures and keynote speeches. Mr. Ayers has been involved with countless foundation efforts and has received various awards. He volunteers for everything. He may once have been wanted by the FBI, but in the intervening years the man has become such a good citizen he ought to be an honorary Eagle Scout.

I do not defend the things Mr. Ayers did in his Weatherman days. Nor will I quibble with those who find Mr. Ayers wanting in contrition. His 2001 memoir is shot through with regret, but it lacks the abject style our culture prefers.

Instead I want to note that, in its haste to convict a man merely for associating with Mr. Ayers, the GOP is effectively proposing to make the upcoming election into the largest mass trial in history, with all those professors and all those do-gooders on the hook for someone else's deeds four decades ago. Also in the dock: the demonic city (Chicago) that once named Mr. Ayers its "Citizen of the Year." Fire up Hurricane Katrina and point it toward Lake Michigan!
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Forgiveness, guys, forgiveness. It's what Jesus would do, no?

Read the whole article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122402888900234543.html

[Lala]

When did Ayers atone?

Obama and His Weatherman Friends
by Allan H. Ryskind
04/29/2008

“No Regrets for a Love of Explosives,” ran the New York Times’ breezy headline in its “Arts” Section nearly seven years ago. The newspaper was carrying a profile of Weatherman Underground leader William Ayers, whose “memoir,” Fugitive Days, was hot off the press.

Unfortunately for Ayers, the Times’ story came at a bad moment for supporters of domestic bombings: It appeared the very day Osama bin Laden’s lieutenants were hurling “suicide” planes at the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, murdering some 3,000 people.

It’s unclear whether Ayers secretly sympathized with those explosions, but he certainly enjoyed the ones he and his fellow revolutionaries had set off to protest American “imperialism” and the war in Vietnam. “I don’t regret setting bombs,” Ayers merrily told the Times. “I feel we didn’t do enough.”

[Lala]

As that old saying goes "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".

[North Dallas Thirty]

"Forgiveness, guys, forgiveness. It's what Jesus would do, no?"

Perhaps you're not very familiar with the Bible, but Jesus's point was that, in order to be forgiven, you had to repent of what you were doing wrong in the first place.

Since Ayers insists that what he did was right, that there was nothing wrong about it, and that he wishes he had done more of it, why should he be extended forgiveness?

Furthermore, Thomas Frank is lying when he babbles that he "does not defend" what Ayers did. If he weren't defending Ayers's behavior, he would have never written that article in the first place. He's merely a typical Obama whore, who defends and supports an "education" professor who firebombed childrens' houses, who set pipe bombs to kill policemen, who was building nail bombs to kill hundreds of US troops and civilians, and whose racist belief that whites were all "pigs" and that white babies should be put in the garbage demonstrates quite nicely his views towards children.

[North Dallas Thirty]

"Forgiveness, guys, forgiveness. It's what Jesus would do, no?"

Perhaps you aren't very familiar with the Bible, but Jesus was more than willing to forgive those who repented of their sins. Those who refused to do so were condemned.

Meanwhile, let's talk about why you and Thomas Frank support a man who advocated murdering children because of their skin color and in fact firebombed a house in which children were sleeping -- and then put him in charge of training teachers.

Is it because you share Ayers's racist beliefs, as well as his willingness to resort to violence? I can't see any other reason why you would let such a person be around children.

[Mr DeBakey]

"whose racist belief that whites were all "pigs" and that white babies should be put in the garbage"

"a man who advocated murdering children because of their skin color"

You know that Bill Ayers is Caucasian?

http://rwor.org/i/billayers.jpg

[seekeronos]

"--- Perhaps you're not very familiar with the Bible, but Jesus's point was that, in order to be forgiven, you had to repent of what you were doing wrong in the first place. ---"

Well spoken.

Moreover, if there is no repentance, and no profession of guilt and a need for forgiveness... there can be no forgiveness of sin.

Jesus did die on the cross for our sins, and rose again that we might receive life: but unless we are willing to admit that we are but desperately wicked, vile sinners in the sight of a Holy and Righteous God - then are we without any hope in this life or in the next.

We must believe in, and receive, and confess the salvation which is in Christ alone.

I am not Bill Ayer's judge (but he does have One who will Judge him righteously)... but if he has not repented of his sin and made a confession of the Lord Jesus Christ his Saviour -- proven by his words and deeds, he will not have brought forth the fruits of repentance.

And as for Ayer's hatred for his own race... and his desire to see innocent babies disposed of in garbage cans... that is perfectly in line with Obama's apparently low view of human life, or the disposableness of youth.

This they have in common also with a certain Führer as well.

[Lala]

Ayers is a white-hating white man. Yes, we know.

[seekeronos]

"--- Win or lose, at least when this is over I get to stop pretending that I actually support this clown. ---"

I never cared for the useless liberal curmudgeon whose feckless presidential campaign makes Fred Thompson's sleepy primary campaign look like a masterpiece of campaigning strategy.

I'm certainly pulling for Chuck Baldwin, or Bob Barr should they be available as write-ins here in NY... and if they are not, the only reason I'll yank the (R) row for president will be on account of Gov. Sarah Palin.

After all, since Obama has this "selection" sewn up thanks to George Soros and David Rockefeller (and likely the Rothschilds as well)... we might as well just give Obama the 400+ EVs he is slated to earn, and let him wreck the country if that will wake the bulk of the retarded, sheeplike electorate after four years of economic hell.

[Mr DeBakey]

"and let him wreck the country"

There's still stuff to wreck?

[seekeronos]

Oh, the Bush and the 108th/109th (R) Congresses combines won't be a patch on the untold havoc to be wrought upon us all by the 111th DemCong plus Obama.