Friends of Obama
May 7, 2008
From Bill Ayres
”I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. ”I feel we didn’t do enough.” Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970’s as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago. The long curly locks in his Wanted poster are shorn, though he wears earrings. He still has tattooed on his neck the rainbow-and-lightning Weathermen logo that appeared on letters taking responsibility for bombings. And he still has the ebullient, ingratiating manner, the apparently intense interest in other people, that made him a charismatic figure in the radical student movement.
Now he has written a book, ”Fugitive Days” (Beacon Press, September). Mr. Ayers, who is 56, calls it a memoir, somewhat coyly perhaps, since he also says some of it is fiction. He writes that he participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, the Pentagon in 1972. But Mr. Ayers also seems to want to have it both ways, taking responsibility for daring acts in his youth, then deflecting it.
From Glenn Beck
Andrew McCarthy prosecutor in the 93 Trade Center Bombings: McCARTHY: Yeah, I used to hear that when I was a prosecutor, too, you know. They used to say you can’t — that’s just guilt by association to which, you know, usually before people got convicted, I would say, well, you know, try proving conspiracy without association, you know. I mean, it’s sort of an element that’s of some importance. And obviously we don’t condemn somebody simply because of who he associates with but, you know, people are drawn to each other for a reason, and I think there’s a theme that runs through all of these troublesome connections that Obama has and frankly he’s somewhat lucky, I think, even though you — if that’s a strange way to put it, that so much of this analysis has been infected by the racial element of right because I think the racial component is actually the least important of the things that strings this altogether.
Beck:I was amazed at this guy that he is allowed to be — or that he’s, not allowed, that he’s so accepted by the people in Barack Obama’s company.
More Wright/wrong
May 7, 2008
The Sour Puss and the Hopeful Beacon of Change
May 7, 2008
Nothing new accept the audience in Obama’s message. He is singing to the regular I will buy anything Stalin part of the Democratic party. (Here is a clue how Left he is, Gore has not endoresed him).
The National Journal rates him the most Liberal President ever if he wins.
Meanwhile as part of the Obama package we will get a 1st Lady who shows a glimpse into what we are getting for our money. A sour puss of an attitude about this country. While her husband decries, Yes we can”, she says she has never ben proud of this Country until now. (Bush is still President Mrs. Obama, you might wait until you win. Unless you love the stuff he is doing).
At Hugh Hewitt, they counter the pride thing with some pretty good stuff about AMerica:
Home ownership increased from 55% of Americans in 1955 to 66% of the country in 2000. The percentage of the population 25 years or older with a college degree went from 6.2% in 1950 to 24.4% in 2000. The percentage of Americans living in poverty has been cut in half in the last 50 years. The country’s population increased by 80% between 1950 and 2000, but the most basic of American indicators of possibilities and opportunities –car ownership– soared by 383%!
The experience of the African-American population has not been that of the rest of the country, though significant progress has been recorded within that demographic as well, but so too have significant problems especially when it comes to family structure. The marriage rate for African Americans has been dropping for more than 30 years, and many other measures point to a general disadvantage among African Americans vis-a-vis the rest of the population.
And as mentioned in an earlier post Hitchens said she put together a less than impressive Doctorate paper that despite its poor read may put into perspective why the sour face.
And on the good judgement theme…first there was Wright and then Jesse Jr.
Change Yes He Can
May 6, 2008
What is the most unique aspect of Baroq Obama if he becomes President?
He will be one of the most unqualified, er inexperienced Presidents in history.
From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate. That’s how many days the Senate was actually in session and working.
After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan.
Hitchens on Mrs.Obama
May 6, 2008
http://www.slate.com/id/2190589
Hitchens questions Mrs.Obama’s writing ability,or lack thereof, and reminds us of Farakhans hints at a hit on MalcomX.
Mrs. Obama’s 1985 thesis at Princeton University. Its title (rather limited in scope, given the author and the campus) is “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.” To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be “read” at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language.
Putting Wrights Comments back into Context
May 2, 2008
You tell your kids you are who you hang out with. Here is the full audio of Wrights Palm Sunday sermon. Not out of context as he claims. Obama has tryed to seperate from this quack that he has befriended for 20 years.
Coulter had this to say:
Whew! I’m certainly glad to hear the “snippets” from Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons “in context.” ..In the famous B. Hussein Obama speech that sent a tingle down Chris Matthews’ leg, Obama dismissed the clips of Rev. Wright being played on TV as mere “snippets.” He claimed the media were highlighting Wright’s “most offensive words,” complaining that they had been played endlessly, as if repetition were the problem with the statement: “GOD DAMN AMERICA!”
It’s absolutely unheard of to repeat passages from famous speeches. In fact, I have a dream that we will not do that. Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask that the media stop replaying “snippets.” All we have to fear is repetition itself, because we are the people we’ve been waiting for to tear down that wall of endless repetition.
Rev Wright in the written word..
March 29, 2008
White supremacy controls the economic system in America,the healthcare system in America and the educational system in America. Hurricane Katrina has pulled the blinders off of all Americans and shown us what white supremacy means at its ugly core and what it has done to the fabric of these “still-yet-to-be-United States” (to use Maya Angelou’s term). That is what I see when looking back during the month of May.
The PDF from the Trumpet, the church website.
We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian… Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain “true to our native land,” the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community.
The Pastor as well as the membership of Trinity United Church of Christ is committed to a 10-point Vision:
- A congregation committed to ADORATION.
- A congregation preaching SALVATION.
- A congregation actively seeking RECONCILIATION.
- A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA.
- A congregation committed to BIBLICAL EDUCATION.
- A congregation committed to CULTURAL EDUCATION.
- A congregation committed to the HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN DIASPORA.
- A congregation committed to LIBERATION.
- A congregation committed to RESTORATION.
- A congregation working towards ECONOMIC PARITY.
Number 10 sounds Marxist.
About Trinity Church by Trinity Church
Obama didn’t know about Wrights comments?
March 29, 2008
I played the clip from Obama’s audio book in which he recounts the very first sermon he heard Pastor Wright preach, a sermon that Mickey Kaus noted yesterday included a denunciation of “white man’s greed.”
Obama by Obama
March 29, 2008
Hugh Hewitt broadcast pieces of Obama’s book read by Obama. This is the possible future President talking about High School sports, white boys, N word, getting high, drinking, while peppered with f bombs.
My comments: This book on his life up to his going to Harvard Law.
This is an interesting real /honest assessment of his young life. One thing you have to give him is that he lays it out. Although it is kind of like someone who feels that telling the truth means giving you every single detail without an ability to edit oneself.
His judgement is again called into mind as he goes into details about his indescressions. Things that perhaps most young men experience to one degree or another, but do not neccesarily publisize, and I wonder for what reason? I have only heard this recording so I am not sure if there is a point or resolution to this. But as a Christian and certaily as a political aspiree, his judgement is begged to be questioned in making public something unbecoming of a possible leader. Especially a possible leader of the free world.
Comments from call ins to the show:
“defining the culture down”
“asamed of being a mixed race”
“as a follower of Christ he would not say this”
“honesty is conforting…still won’t vote for him”
“brings him down to being one of the guys…..I do not want my commander in Chief to be one of the guys…I want to say Sir and mean it”…(you will recall the Military turned away from Bill Clinton and would not salute him.)
We Deserved 9/11 Obama?
March 29, 2008