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Thursday, October 09, 2008
Let Me Get This Right
Posted by: Amanda Carpenter at 10:00 AM
There's so much fire coming out right now against Obama that  the MSM will never put together, so I wanted to do a quick blog post on this to get my thoughts in order.

You never know when you might get the chance to fire off on it when it matters.

Okay, here goes:

The guy who is currently ten points ahead in the presidential polls worked as a community organizer for a fraudulent, corrupt GOTV operation called ACORN, pushed fringy educational reform issues and secured money for a known terrorist to create a UN-like "Peace School" in Chicago, lies outright about his record on infanticide, attended a radical church for 20 years that spews anti-American hatred and we're supposed to look the other way?

We're supposed believe he has the judgment and character needed to appoint a whole Executive Branch worth of quality, reasonable people if he becomes president?

Obama says it's a "distracting" tactic of "guilt by association." Yes, it is guilt by association. Totally. Obama hung out with these people and accepted them and never spoke a word against their terrible deeds. That makes Obama guilty.




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American Sweetheart  writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 10:27 AM
I feel the same way Amanda
This is the most baffling case of serpent tongue I have ever seen.

He just says "Oh not true" and everyone just accepts it! He denies things that he has written and said that there is evidence of (obviously in written record and video and audio evidence) and people STILL turn their heads the other way!

I shudder to think of whom he would appoint to his cabinet and the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court one actually probably scares me more. That's a life long job and he has already stated he won't pick people who practice judicial restraint.

You simply DO NOT hang around people you have NOTHING in common with, don't agree with ANY of their views, and work on projects with them when you do not share their ideals.

Birds of a feather. He sat in Rev Wright's church for over 500 surmons and we are supposed to accept that in those 500 surmons he NEVER ONCE heard Rev. Wright spew out any of this hateful rhetoric?

UGH! I could go on forever about this!
Pasadena Phil writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 10:27 AM
Amande
McCain had the chance to say that to his face Tuesday. He didn't. Either take it to "the man" or drop it.
animalgirl writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 10:29 AM
money and truth
Walter Annenberg, close friend of Ronald Reagan, gave Ayers the money to start the Annenberg Challenge.

Was Annenberg also 'palling around with terrorists'?

The majority of people on the Annenberg Challenge Board (which was large) were Republicans.

Conservatives are showing their true poverty of ideas. All they have left is mud-slinging. I hope this is all they talk about in the next debate, because that will truly ensure a landslide for Obama. Obama wants mcCain to bring it up to his face, because McCain will never be able to recover.
NeroDavola writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 10:30 AM
DESPERATE
Amanda is becoming as shrill as Hannity on this one. Trying the "guilt by association" schtick has backfired - even Grampy won't go near it when face to face with Obama. Why? Because he KNOWS that the tiny pistol the McCain camp is packing against Obama with debunked accusations regarding Ayers and ACORN can't begin to measure up against the nuclear warhead the Obama campaign is aiming at McCain for just such a moment.

THINK, Amanda, THINK!!

McCain is tied to Iran/Contra and the resulting al qaeda terrorists. He's tied to corruption BIG TIME with Keating Five - something his admission of guilt back in '86 can't possibly lend favorably to denial or charges of "smears" now. He is SURROUNDED by lobbyists - 84 who were directly involved in the current financial crisis as pro-deregulation special interest. He took money and endorsements from his own domestic terrorist, G. Gordon Liddy, and he is on the side of Domestic Terrorists who have killed and brutalized doctors and staff of abortion clinics.

Palin also has ties to nutjobs and terrorists of her own. She of the Witch Doctor laying on hands to help her win her a Governorship, and rid her of "demons" [good luck with THAT]. She is tied to the Alaskan Seditionists group whose leader denounced America. She is tied to an anti-semite who promotes a philosophy to bring Jews to Jesus so as not to be "doomed" when the rapture comes. And for goodness sakes, she's shot a ton of caribou on a hunting trip that were standing around in a feeding ground - bringing to mind Cheney's customized quail hunts where the birds are "set up" for his disposal. Yuck. How "sportsmanlike".

Face it, Amanda. Your candidates reek.
NeroDavola writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 10:33 AM
Good point, animal girl
The Annenberg's are political allies of the GOP. Guilt by association would implicate them as well.

Again, the rightwing and their bullhorns seem pretty desperate these days.
American Sweetheart  writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 10:35 AM
yeah and that money
was supposed to be used to help with education, not radicalize it and teach children to kill their parents!
Ana Mus writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 10:38 AM
not one person who has ever known Obama
from his early years not only in Hawaii but when he went to Occidental, Columbia, Harvard? No records anywhere to even prove he went other than a few photos from Harvard where he got the Law Review editor's job due to affirmative action and the politically correct pressure to have a "minority" as the editor.

I would predict most people who knew or know Obama have contacted his campaign and said they would spill the beans but got paid off by Obama's big money handlers like Soros et al to keep quiet.

We are to believe that prior to Michelle, Obama only had one girlfriend who just happened to be white and because he didn't want to be immersed into "white" society he broke up with her? There's a LOT being hidden and any other candidate who has run for POTUS has had their life exposed like an open book.

Obama - all blank pages.
theghost writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 10:39 AM
Nero ...
to ignorant for words ...
theghost writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 10:40 AM
Associating with the guilty ...
Not guilt by association but associating with the guilty ...
LLR writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 10:44 AM
IF
If Obama gets into office, it will be the fault of the blind sheep following him, it will be voter fraud, it will be because people fear being marked as Racist! America wake up, you don't have to vote for Obama, open your eyes, come out of your Johnny Appleseed Slumber, and get your brains in gear!
The only difference between Obama and other presidents for you people who fear voting, is his skin is darker, he doens't put his pants on any different, doesn't have magical powers. He is just a man with a lot of baggage that only cares for HIM not about our country.
The racist crap needs to stop! Wake up and vote for the man who can run this country and I don't mean run it into the ground!
American Sweetheart  writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 10:45 AM
Fundraising for Khalidi
Let's see...he also helped fundraise money for Rashid Khalidi, who like Ahmadinejad is calling for the destruction of Israel (and Obama is supposed to be "a friend to Israel").

A man who also wants illegal immigrants to have driver's licenses and free education.

Excuse me but I was BORN here and can't get a free education! What makes people who SNUCK into this country entitled to ANYTHING?

Who on EARTH hangs around people like this and doesn't share their world view? Everyone Obama is tied to hates this country. I try to make it a point not to hang out in the livingroom or sit down to dinner at a terrorist's house (both Ayers and Khalidi). This shows POOR JUDGEMENT if not a complete lack of judgement...or maybe the shoe just fits and Obama is ONE OF THEM.

This is a pattern. And a pretty extreme one.

As a parent, would you hang around in the house of a man whom has been quoted saying that children should "go home and kill their parents."???
rushshambula writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 10:45 AM
Pin the tail on OBAMA!!!
How on earth any honest American could allow this double standard to exist in electing our president is an outrage.

Angry, hell yes I am angry because the MSM wants to talk about our VP's 17 y/o daughter and calls talking about the direct associations of the DNC candidate RACIST!!! Ayers is white, his association with Obama is very important

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGcflYXBuCQ&feature=related
Virginia Patriot writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 10:46 AM
Too Bad McCain Is The Candidate
Against Obama, almost anyone else would be winning. McCain can't get people who normally vote GOP to vote for him, that's the problem. Running a traditional Democrat as the GOP nominee just doesn't work.
NeroDavola writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 10:52 AM
the ghost
it's "too" ignorant for words, ghost - and I think you illustrated that quite nicely.
NeroDavola writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 10:59 AM
ana mus
Your hit man, the debunked and demoralized Corsi, went on an anti-Obama junket to Kenya, spreading money around to find anyone in the poorest neighborhoods who would sell out the Senator. And now he's cooling his heels in immigration prison there while they consider what do to with him.

*KARMA*

I'd think you guys would JUST GIVE IT UP. Especially considering how well this kind of "lynching" is doing for you in the polls. And let's get this straight: what the Reichwing is doing here equates to lynching, and like with Corsi's fat, lying rump - Karma has a way of equalizing.
Gunlock Bill writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 11:00 AM
V Pat.
DNC Joe says that Mac is the only one that can beat Hillary!!

DNC Joe says that if you don't vote for Mac you are not a real conservative!

DNC Joe says that Mac is losing because Romney isn't working hard enough for Mac. It is all Romney's fault.

(Has anyone told Romney that he is the problem with the McCain/Palin ticket and that he should resign?)

V Pat. you are NOT putting your trust in DNC Joe, he knows all. Now repent and be converted and vote for Mac and shut the H#LL up!!!
(sarc off)
Pasadena Phil writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 11:01 AM
There is another facet of Ayers
He is the scion of a wealthy family. How many more of these idiot sons of wealthy families use family ties to stay in the game? Ayers is NOT just a gutter snipe, he's connected. Ted Kennedy got away with manslaughter. His father was a smuggler and Nazi sympathizer. Henry Ford, another Nazi sympathizer who was first to introduce violent thugs into labor negotiations. Kennedy Foundation, Ford Foundation,...

Ayers is just another example of how politics makes strange bedfellows. Just drop the naive notion that politics would be a noble and honorable profession if we could only get rid of a couple of bad apples. The vast majority of politicians are nothing more than ambitious mealy-mouthed weasels who would be in prison were they not elected officials.
christianlib writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 11:07 AM
lets fact check mccains backround
John McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing organization, it was the U.S. Council for World Freedom, it was chaired by a guy named John Singlaub, who wound up involved in the Iran contra scandal. It was an ultra conservative, right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981 when McCain was on the board, said this about this organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League – the parent organization – which ADL said “has increasingly become a gathering place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.”
Ex-tex writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 11:12 AM
Let us not forget Michelle...
...who, for the first time in her adult life, is finally proud of America- Yet desires to be our First Lady.

And I would like to know more about Barack's time at Columbia, time as Harvard Law editor, and the letters of warning and statements of warning that he claims to have made re: Fannie, Freddie and the economy.
LB writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 11:20 AM
He's not ahead 10 pts.
Everyone needs to calm down and do all they can to get out the vote for McCain. Some polls give Obama a huge lead because they are oversampling democrats and black people. Zogby and several other polls still have it very close and remind us not to believe the hype. I still have faith that many Americans will realize by election day that they cannot vote for someone so steeped in mystery. Just do everything you can to get out the vote and if Obama is elected, then we can panic!

Patrick writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 11:20 AM
Obama leftist kool aid drinkers
For all of you leftist out there screaming that the GOP has it wrong I feel sorry for you. Should Obama win this election I feel that you will all be the first victims. You see those of us who believe in this country would not have friends like this. I see alot of leftist's on here that do not know fact from fiction. Obama and company will only destroy this country. So yes it is important that we look at who Obama has had relationships with. It is simple Obama is the far far far left. I am voting for McCain / Palin. Any sane American would, its about saving the country from a power hungry lookout for myself Obama.
Kevin writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 11:37 AM
Either Guilty or Clueless
Either Obama is guilty of hanging with his lefty, radical, America hating chronies or he is clueless about people and doesn't know how to choose good associates. Let's assume he is not like these people. He is just a victim of being around people who are so radical as to be dangerous to the American way of life. If that is true, then what is to say he won't mistakenly put them in his cabinet and fail to look into them as he works with them to bring about his agenda and then they will hijack his agenda to achieve their own. Which one is it? If he's an America hater then he will seek to destroy the country by so radically changing it that we won't recognize it. If he's just a victim of not know about their radical views, then he might make this mistake for a fifth time when its time to appoint people to his administration or the bench.
Elisa writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 11:47 AM
Radical connections
Obama does have alot of questionable connections. And it's very important for America to know about the people he's associated with. Why doesn't the liberal media talk about his connection to Khalid al Mansour? Just because he "talks" a good game doesn't make him Presidential material. It seems to me alot of my fellow Americans have turned into sheep. Following and believing a man with no substance. Maybe I should buy stock in Kool-Aid, since many out there are drinking it.
Sherry writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 11:56 AM
It's working!
I don't care how much the liberal and democrat media are trying their hardest to counter these character issues or ignore them all together, IT IS WORKING!!!!
Go McCain - take Obama down!!!1
Paul writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 12:10 PM
Guilty of bad judgment......
Senator Obama's association with Ayers makes him guilty of bad judgment. NOTHING ELSE. Senator McCain has had many bad judgment moments in his life. Get over it!!! Focus on the issues! While this ridiculous discussion is going on my kids just lost 4 semesters out of their college fund!
Give Me A Break writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 12:32 PM
LB
Your not only dumb, you're dumber with math. Oversampling because of oversampling blacks. They only make up 12%, do you think they have or are sampling all blacks for that to happen. Give it Up....its almost over. Jeez
American Sweetheart  writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 1:00 PM
Elisa
Buy stock in Koolaide and in Kleenex (my sinus infection is bound to make that stock go up by tomorrow morning!)

Two great investments right there.
Mrs Ramsey writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 2:21 PM
Amandita
deary.

These associations speak volumes of this candidate. I believe we havent begun to scratch the surface. There are years between the time he graduated from School to the time he entered the university still unexplained. What about his drug days, did he finally provide a true residence for where he was living or was he out dealing drugs and therefore had no home address for his home was the street. Anyone as ruthless who supports infanticide should be disqualified from running from President. Who bets these people. How can he be trusted with this nation's security if he is a security breach. Makes you think.
Give Me A Break writes: Thursday, October, 09, 2008 2:54 PM
Mrs. Ramsey
What about this what about that, What about when he breaks between Senate sessions and goes the the boys room he could have time to conspire, what if on the way home from McDonalds he could be planning a bombing run, what if Micehlle gets mad at her hair dresser the pentagon looks attractive now. Makes you think you are silly and dangerously dumb.
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