Will MSM Challenge Obama Assumption That Bill Ayers Was 'Rehabilitated'?

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Did you know that there is no longer any reason to make a fuss about Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers? He was rehabilitated. At least that is the absurd assumption by Barack Obama that he claimed he had in a radio interview with Philiadelphia radio talk show host, Michael Smerconish. You can listen to the audio from Politico and here is the coverage of that radio interview (emphasis mine) via Jake Tapper's Political Punch blog at ABC News:

In an interview with conservative Philadelphia radio talk show host Michael Smerconish today, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said his relationship with William Ayers is being questioned and his middle name is being invoked at events for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to distract voters from the economy.

"This is a red herring," Obama said of the Ayers story," because people don't want to talk about the fact that economy over the last eight years has been mismanaged to the point that we're teetering on a really, really bad situation.

...Smerconish said his callers wanted to know about Obama's trip to Ayers' home in 1995 to discuss his pending state senate run: why go to his house to begin with?

"I moved to Chicago," Obama recalled. "I didn't grow up in Chicago. And graduating from law school I was involved in a whole bunch of civic activities.

"The gentleman in question, Bill Ayers, is a college professor, teaches education at the University of Illinois and that's how I met him, was working on a school reform project that was funded by an ambassador and former close friend of Ronald Reagan's and I was sitting on this board along with a whole bunch of conservative businessmen and civic leaders and he was one of the people who was on this board. And he lives in the same neighborhood.

"Ultimately, I ended up learning about the fact that he had engaged in this reprehensible act 40 years ago, but I was eight years old at the time and I assumed that he had been rehabilitated.

"So, you know, the central point this is not somebody who advises my campaign, it's not somebody who is part of my, you know, inner circle in any way. This is somebody I've worked on some projects with, the latest is school reform. And I've strongly condemned his actions.

Rehabilitated? If Obama really believed this then he was one of the very few people in this country who did. There has never been any remorse expressed from Bill Ayers himself over his role in the terrorist Weather Underground and the wave of bombings they participated in back in the 1970s. Didn't Obama even see the photo (above right) of Bill Ayers stomping on the American flag in an article in the August 2001 edition of Chicago Magazine. A month later, ironically on September 11, 2001, Bill Ayers was quoted in the New York Times about his attitude over his terrorist activities: ''I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough.''

Some rehabilitation but will the mainstream media call Obama on this? The MSM can ignore this but it appears that many readers of Jake Tapper's blog aren't buying Obama's lame excuse about Ayers:

Obama assumed Ayers had been rehabilitated. yea right! If you believe that one I have a bridge for sale.

Obama thought Ayers was rehabilitated? Really? Obama then needs to argue that he doesn't read the newspapers, and didn't see the Chicago Sun Times article on Ayers in August of 2001 with a picture of Ayers stomping on a US flag or the NY Times article "No regrets" published on 9-11-2001.

Can somebody please tell me how a Terrorist can be rehabilitated?

I guess he wasn't the Bill Ayers he thought he knew. Is Obama the most clueless person in America? He seems totally in the dark about all of his radical friends, jobs with Acorn etc.

Please. First story was Obama didn't know him except as someone in the neighborhood, then he didn't know at the time of his fundraiser that Ayers was a domestic terrorist now he thought he was rehabilitated! Rehabiliatated from what if he didn't know Ayers was a terrorists. 

Good point on the last comment but don't hold your breath waiting for the MSM to pick up on it.  

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.


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Bottom line...

Obama could go to the next debate, drop his pants and dance around the stage, and the MSM would find no problem with that. In fact we would be told that it was "refreshing" and "signs of real change".

The muscle of information has been flexed with reguard to the MSM's treatment of "The One". And it has been flexed in a filterous way as to minimize any bad light being shown on "The One".

Unless someone has a video of Ayers and Obama palling around... This issue will not win the election. 

However, Videos of Democrats telling us how great sub-prime mortgages are and how regulation of them sucks and is racist will will this election.

Yup

No matter what Obama does, he will always get a positive spin by the MSM. 

This love affair between hollywood, MSM, and Obama is very disturbing!!!

Look what future holds under an Obama presidency, more government...government  banks, government healthcare, and so on...

Welcome to the New World Order...

Obama/Ayers

I just hope this isn't too little too late.
McCain was foolish to not be bringing this up all along. The associations say a lot about the man and Obama has some bad ones. McCain is also foolish to not have been jumping on the fannie freddie deal immediately.
These are winning arguments.

McCain's too busy staying

McCain's too busy staying "above the fray" and being a get-along guy, trying to appeal to everyone.  For some reason he thinks raising legitimate questions about Obama and the Dems is "mean."

Trouble is, he's not going to change the minds of Obama voters, he's not giving Undecideds any reason to vote for him, and he's back to alienating Conservatives who have never been too happy with him.

A few weeks ago when he brought Palin on board it seemed a lot of Conservatives went from seriously considering staying home to having a reason to get to the polls.  I think he's diluted a lot of that enthusiasm by not putting up much of a fight.

You must have missed his

You must have missed his rally in Wisconsin yesterday. McCain NAMED NAMES!!  He was awesome. I am checking Youtube for footage of it. If you are Rush 24/7 there are a bunch of audio clips of it around the second hour.

McCain was freaking IMPRESSIVE!

 

"We just want truth, we want fairness. We want that balance." ~ Sarah Palin (re: hypocricy of the press)

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

OK I could not find

OK I could not find footage, but here is Rush's transcript. I would say it's worth the $6.95 24/7 subscription price to actually hear it! http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_100908/content/01125110.guest.html

Mccain speaking:

"And it is already a matter of record that Democrat members of Congress fought against reform, and it's a matter of record and hearings that they said everything was fine.  Senator Obama, a year ago, said, these kinds of subprime loans are, quote, "fine with him."  And the fact is that the same people that are now claiming credit for this rescue are the same ones that were willing coconspirators in causing this problem that it is, and you know their names, and you will know more of their names.  Congressman Barney Frank and Senator Chris Dodd are two of them." (wild applause)

I have written to johnmcccain.com/contact to tell them "I approve this message". We all need to! McCain did it - the media ignored it. We need to make sure that he KEEPS doing it!

 

"We just want truth, we want fairness. We want that balance." ~ Sarah Palin (re: hypocricy of the press)

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

You Are Correct

McCain can only blame himself for not challenging the associations prior to our economic disaster. Back in the spring NC republicans ran an ad linking Wright and Barack Hussein which McCain dismissed. It's like being at Gitmo and handing your gun over to the terrorist, what an idiot. What difference would it have made if the attack had begun 5 months sooner? 

JDW


DAILY WAVE

'Hey Chuck, Stand Up!'

Is the Community Reinvestment Act part of free enterprise?

The same thing happened in

The same thing happened in Va. and McCain bebuked them.  He should have kept his mouth shut and let Va. run with it.  It wasn't coming from his campaign so he had some distance.  What a mistake!

Dirty Campaigning

Ayers (terrorist), Rezko (convicted felon), Wright (race baiter). 

Whenever McCain raises the issue, admittedly late, the Messiah media screams dirty campaigning and racism.

Barack Hussein Obama sat in Wright's church, on Ayers education board, and participated in Rezko property deals. At the time, when did he ever consider them illegitimate? 

JDW


DAILY WAVE

'Hey Chuck, Stand Up!'

Is the Community Reinvestment Act part of free enterprise?

don't forget

Saul the "radical" Alinsky, that helped start groups like Acorn.  (and was one of th reasons Obama joined them) Black Nationalist communist Frank Marshal Davis, who Obama writes about in his book.

This guys closet is so full of skeletons that he's leasing space at the storage shop down the street to store the skeletons he's thrown under the bus.  The medias ignorance, is complicit. 

 

Of course they won't

Of course they won't challenge that assumption, but when this ACORN connection comes out there will be no stopping it, and that Ayers-Obama-ACORN-Fannie Mae connection still exists.  They've honed their tactics over the years - that's the only difference...

Notice in the picture of Ayers standing on the flag

Notice in the picture of Ayers standing on the flag is in a dark alley. He is too much of a coward to stand on the flag in the street for fear of someone witnessing his photo shoot. I seen another picture from this photo shoot where he was actually jumping on the flag. Pretty disgusting. This was taken while Ayers was friends with Obama.

No wonder Obama doesn't like the U.S. Flag pin, hand over his heart  and had the U.S. Flag removed from his "Obama One" plane that actually stinks. This should be brought up as well.

 

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

Ayers

The Ayers argument is only useful because it gets the big BO on the defensive and he says things like...

'"This is a red herring because people
don't want to talk about the fact that economy over the last eight
years has been mismanaged to the point that we're teetering on a
really, really bad situation."

The Congress has been controlled by the Dems for the last two years and since they have taken over the sh*t has really hit the fan, why aren't we focusing on that...who's failed policies caused the problem? 

Bush can only sign what crosses his desk and what has crossed his desk is driven by Congress...who is responsible then?

PAL

 

This goes back so much

This goes back so much further than 2006 it's really scary.  This goes directly to Carter, Clinton,  Bill Ayers, Obama and ACORN.

This disaster was started by Carter's Community Reinvestment Act and ACORN's use of it - with the help of Bill Ayers and Barack Obama - expanded by Bill Clinton and protected by Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and others, including big time millionaire Obama supporters Warren Buffet and Franklin Raines. 

If McCain had any synapses working, this would be the focus of his campaign from now on.

True, matt, and even if not

True, matt, and even if not Obama, Joe Biden has been in the Senate the entire time!  Why wasn't he raising the alarm years ago?

people don't want to talk

people
don't want to talk about the fact that economy over the last eight
years
has been mismanaged to the point that we're teetering on a
really, really bad situation.
(emphasis added)

Well, Senator Obama, where have you and Sen. Biden been while the economy was going to hell in a handbasket?  Why didn't you raise the issue two years ago, or four, for that matter? If it was as bad as you say, weren't you complicit in the deterioration for not speaking out? Why weren't you suggesting remedies then?  Or were you hoping for what has happened: a collapse just before the election, that you could run on?

These are the same democrats

These are the same democrats that disregarded, derided, and denied Republicans sounding the warning about Fanne Mae?  If the administration was wrong the past 8 years then why did the democrats not act on this in 2005? 

This is really obnoxious

Ayers committed those crimes when Obama was 8... Therefore it's okay to hang out with a terrorist who hates America!

Really did anyone predict that in 2008 we'd be THIS close to electing a friend of a terrorist?

That we'd be this close to electing someone who will enact the 60's socialism into our country that the radicals wanted?  If either of the candidates is a product of the past, it's Obama trying to enact marxism and 60's radicalism. 

Palin has accomplished great things, while Obama has continued to make empty promises that the world owes you a living.

I'm sick of that

I'm sick of that line.

Well, Sen. Obama, you weren't even born when slavery was going on.  Would you associate with someone who thought blacks didn't have it so bad then?

I'm sick of that line too.

Ayers committed those crimes when Obama was 8...

That's not the point and the MSM knows it.  The man is an unrepentant terrorist and Obama, at the very least, associated with him over a period of years.

 

Really did anyone predict that in 2008 we'd be THIS close to electing a friend of a terrorist?

 

This is really incredible when you think about it.  Friend of terrorists, racists, socialists, etc.  I just don't know how people could possibly vote for him.  It really makes me so sad.

That's not the point and the

That's not the point and the MSM knows it.  The man is an unrepentant terrorist and Obama, at the very least, associated with him over a period of years. 

 Oh totally!  I have two points of opinion on this:

1) They are complicit and don't care either.  They want to also bring America down.

2) They realize how dangerous Obama is but disclosing this now, would make people realize just how un critical they were of Obama over the last year!  They are covering their ass.

It's either one of the two or a combination of the two.

This is really incredible when you think about it.  Friend of terrorists, racists, socialists, etc.  I just don't know how people could possibly vote for him.  It really makes me so sad.

It makes me angry and sad.  Either:

1) People have let themselves be tricked by the MSM about how moderate this radical marxist is.

2) People DON'T CARE.  This option is TRULY SCARY.  If this is the case our nation is lost. 

Palin has accomplished great things, while Obama has continued to make empty promises that the world owes you a living.

Somewhere buried in that garbage is truth

Obama wasn't from Chicago and went there to launch his political career. Since he was doing this by being a "community organizer" I'm sure people pointed Ayers out as a radical left "celebrity" that could provide the unknown with some clout. 

Obama is a racist

I came across this intensely researched background of Obama. I have not fact-checked every issue, but it looks like the author did some amazing research. It shows that Obama has a history of "angry black man" radicalism that goes back to his childhood. http://colony14.net/id41.html

"High school friend Keith Kakugawa relates later that Obama “…made everything out like it was all racial.” After Obama complains about being picked on at the basketball court because of his race, Kakugawa’s father tells Obama, “No, Barry, it’s not because you’re black, it’s because you missed two shots in a row.”

Why won't he release his theses from Columbia and Harvard? My husband brings that up at least once a day. And with good reason, I think. What were his topics? Was his writing style at all like his books? (I read an article on American Thinker that makes a strong case that Obama did NOT write his books, and - going a bit out on a conspiracy limb here - that his book sounds an awful lot like Bill Ayers book!) http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html

 We all "feel" like Obama is a fraud, is a danger, is a marxist, etc.. etc.. etc.. I am past that "feeling" stage. I KNOW he is.

 

"We just want truth, we want fairness. We want that balance." ~ Sarah Palin (re: hypocricy of the press)

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Cojlony 14 Article

I thought there was reason to be scared of Obama before...this shows he is no Bambi...quiet the opposite...a long read but worth it. I have never seen anything to this date compiled so well and it also lets you know when there are possible suppositions so this helps with crediability. If only 1/4 of it were true it would be enough to disqualify him...lol

 

Thanks for this information

 

Colony 14 Article

I thought there was reason to be scared of Obama before...this shows he is no Bambi...quiet the opposite...a long read but worth it. I have never seen anything to this date compiled so well and it also lets you know when there are possible suppositions so this helps with crediability. If only 1/4 of it were true it would be enough to disqualify him...lol

 

Thanks for this information

 

Dancing fast as he can

Stanley Kurtz has the definitive point-by-point debunking of Obama' excuses. Well worth reading.

Smerconish is as conservative as David Gergen. He uses that description merely to get on TV, then he basically trashes conservatism to please his hosts.

Hmmm. I'm trying to think of some other example of a presidential candidate who consistently obfuscates his past ... offers slim or laughable explanations about whatever he's accused of, but then claims that "this has already been hashed out" ... and gets his friends in the media to attack the accusers and claim that the country wants to Move On. This sounds so familiar ... it'll come to me ...

Great article, KC! Now if

Great article, KC!

Now if we could just get people like Charles Gibson, Brian Williams, et al to read it, that would be terrific!

Couldn't agree more about

Couldn't agree more about Smerconish.  He is the definition of a RINO.  What a fraud.


It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Robert Anton

I am a product of the 60's

When I was a senoir in high school in '69 my girlfriend was a freshman in college. She came home one weekend telling me how cool this Marx fellow was. I began reading the Communist Manfesto. I mentioned one night at the supper table how cool Marx was. Big mistake. My dad, who was career Army, let me have it. I didn't get any supper that night. I grew out of my fascination with the commies mighty fast.

 

People like Ayers and his wife have not. He is still a commie bastard today. Unfortunely the MSM will not report that. It only takes a little reading of articles he worte and continues to write to see when he is coming from.

 

Most of us here know that Obama has been influenced by these commies like Ayres, Frank Marshal Davis and Alanski (?). Let's do what Obama said. Get in the face of someone that wants to agrue and give them a copy of the Socialist Party Platform.

 

 

 

 

"The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still" A.W. Tozer

blowing smoke? and bitter clingers

Obama said he was a whistleblower on the financial crisis, but I have yet to see the evidence.

At the next debate McCain should mention the bitter clingers quote and ask Barack Obama to explain it (because the MSM never will). I think McCain will get more mileage out of that because the quotation not only involves Obama's judgement, but his feelings toward the American middle class.

     regarding Barack Obama's tax plan - I never received a job from a poor person.

 "Kill all the rich

 "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents—that's where it's really at."

                                                                 -Bill Ayers

This is the loving guiding light of socialism that Barry-O wants us all to embrace. If you don't like your parents "kill your parents". If you don't have money and are envious of those who do "kill all the rich people". I would be interested to know how such a dashing young revolutionary has come to live the life of the wealthy elite in the circles of acedemia. Bill you are everything you claim to hate. So take a little advice from your younger self. Kill the rich, kill yourself. Go drown in you double skim latte. A-hole.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
   

 "Kill all the rich

 "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents—that's where it's really at."

                                                                 -Bill Ayers

This is the loving guiding light of socialism that Barry-O wants us all to embrace. If you don't like your parents "kill your parents". If you don't have money and are envious of those who do "kill all the rich people". I would be interested to know how such a dashing young revolutionary has come to live the life of the wealthy elite in the circles of acedemia. Bill you are everything you claim to hate. So take a little advice from your younger self. Kill the rich, kill yourself. Go drown in you double skim latte. A-hole.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
   

Just doing my part here -

Just doing my part here - this YouTube video needs to be mailed to everyone you can think of! It is awesome! http://www.youtube.c...

"We just want truth, we want fairness. We want that balance." ~ Sarah Palin (re: hypocricy of the press)

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

That is great Mazzi, I will

That is great Mazzi, I will send it to all my friends and family.  Especially to my sister who is an Obama supporter.  Don't think it will change her mind but one can hope!

Short answer is....NO!

The MSM first tried to cover it up and ignore it. Now they have an 'out' to say that it's already been answered.

We also now have credible evidence that Obama willfully interfeared in US foreign policy while in his Senate office by coordination and advising Raila Odinga of Kenya in his bid for President of that country. We also have proof that he interfered with US foreign policy by secretly trying to influence the Iraqi government while they were in the middle of negotiations for the future of US troop disposition in Iraq.

But the MSM will not care about any of this and do their utmost to ignore it. And failing that, they will try and obfuscate, minimize and excuse this behavior that borders on treason.

You want change? Give me a dollar.

Radical Sabbatical!?

Well ... since Obama's long time associate hasn't bombed for decades, and he only teaches radicalism today at a college; by the MSM, leftist, "freedom fighter" low set of ethics & standards  ... No.

slowly but surely the Ayers/Obama connection is coming out

And, of course, his connections to other shady characters and radical extremists.  These associations need to be hammered home because they hit right at the heart of his judgement and his ideology.

There is some evidence that Ayers might have ghostwritten Obama's first memoir.  The prose is strikingly similar to Ayers' own Fugitive Days. I examine Jack Cashill's work here. http://www.theminori...

Cashill's original work is available here. http://www.cashill.c...

Why is this important?  Because it demonstrates what we all have come to suspect. Ayers and Obama had a long and intimate relationship over a number of years. Obama knew who Ayers was, and did not care, because they shared the same radical ideology.

We all knew that Obama's

We all knew that Obama's past had been sanitized and the balance swept under the rug. Even with what's been exposed, I suspect his past was a lot more radical than we even know about. That's why I keep saying that his association with Ayers just doesn't merely show 'bad judgement" - it helps reveal just where his core political philosophy comes from. Once he's in office, I'm sure his "moderation" will drop away as easily as it was donned and we'll see just how radical he really is.

McNotObama '08

Here is a new [?] twist for Obama, he is denying any ties with..

Here is a new [?] twist for Obama, he is denying any ties with ACORN [and/or changing his story, again]. I
hope the reader is familiar with the acronym, SOP. It stands for
Standard Operating Procedure. It is just the way law enforcement looks
at criminal activity and are then able to determine that the same
person or persons are committing (or have committed) a crime. So have
we heard Obama and/or his surrogates deny any association with anyone
or a specific group before?

  • He was in the church listening
    to Reverend Wright spew his hateful anti-American sermons, but he never
    was there when the reverend said anything controversial, until he then
    admitted that he had not been there when the particular sound bites we
    have all heard were said.
  • He only knew that William Ayers
    was someone who lived in the neighborhood and when they met he had no
    idea about his terrorist activities, until today, when he admitted that
    when he met Ayers he "assumed that he had been rehabilitated."
  • He
    has based his entire political career (called running for president for
    two years) on the 'experience' he had as a "Community Organizer." Until
    now when he tells us he had/has nothing to do with ACORN.
  • He
    'promised' to reject public financing for his campaign, until he
    realized that he was making so much money he decided it was better for
    his campaign if he just continued to have his 'donation bundlers' and
    elite liberals continue to send him money.

I am sure you could
provide me with a lot more for this list without even breaking a sweat.
My only (well one of them) regret is that I didn't start a daily post
on just this issue. A daily 'Flip-Flop' or 'I unequivocally deny' wait, 'I admit just a little,'
wait, I'm ahead in the polls and there is only three weeks left until
the election, I admit full culpability, but no one will believe I said
that and I can call it a lie if asked, or I just won't answer the
question.

If you are truly on the fence in this election (not
just saying that because it is politically correct), then I suggest you
really take a good look at this issue. Above all I believe this one
issue speaks more to his lack of character than any other. If we cannot
believe any of his promises, then what makes you think he will keep any
of them. Remember, not all 'fairy Tales' begin with "Once Upon a Time,"
some actually begin with "If Elected I Promise." ---JohnMatyi.com

Is the "one" just flat out lying, just wondering-------

Just wondering what the outcome of Barack being caught in a bold-faced lie, what would that prompt. Will the MSM treat him any different, or will they find it in their hearts to question his character. What if his association w/Ayers goes back further than Chicago, maybe back to NYC and his time at Columbia. Ayers is said to have been in "the neighborhood" attending another nearby college. There's no proof yet they knew one another at this point,  but what-if both Ayers and Barack are captured in a photo during this period giving the "black power salute", how will the MSM react to it.---- Just wondering.

Barry and Michelle are on

Barry and Michelle are on the spin tour now...

I love how the both lie through their teeth with their... oh so intellectual calm above us all voices...both must put in so many ahhh's that I cannot stand it any more than the phrase my friends...

...My friends.

 "America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Ahhh

Ahh is code for: I have to think about the answer you want to hear instead of showing you my true self.

"The devil is a better theologian that any of us and is a devil still" A.W. Tozer

I reccommend OJ and Ayers enter Rehab together - I'm not waiting

No ones waiting on the MSM anymore. Investigative Reporters MISSED this FINANCIAL CRISIS... MIA for sure.
The MSM preached Recession for Six months. . Now they may have a REAL ONE. . .caused by "THAT ONE "
The Republican Revolution will not be Televised

Sorry, BHO

 Like a leopard can’t change its spots - once and Anarchist ALWAYS an Anarchist.

Just ask Pete Seager or Peter, Paul, and Mary.

HIS HANDLERS SAID HE DIDNT KNOW HE WAS A TERRORIST

Now he says he did know, but rehabilitated

MSM

Maybe, just maybe, when we have the Obama presidency and AlJazeera television (only one voice allowed) people will get upset and do what's right about reporting truly and accurately the facts of the nation, no matter how ugly. That's freedom, my friend, and it ain't free.

Even if you don't care Ayers was a bomber twice over

then care about his stands on truthfulness.  This started out as "he was some guy in my neighborhood" and after repeated stories he has spun have been beat down (he was only eight years old is another thigh-slapper) he now arrives at this mendacious story.

We can't tolerate a President who can't tell the American people the truth the first time, every time. 

And before the Bush-bashers say it, I will: you can't tolerate Bush because he lies is your claim.  Even setting aside the question, I will then ask why should you then support someone who has changed his story with every adult relationship about which he has been asked?    Are you so hard up to win the Presidency that you can tolerate a man who cannot tell the truth, who has two stories (one for San Francisco and one for Southern Ohio) and who has no leadership experience beyond grass-roots organizing and running a Senate office where men out-earn women (men make about 25% more:  see http://www.cnsnews.c...

 

"What experience and history teach is
this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history,
or acted on principles deduced from it."


G. W. F. Hegel

"I will not run for

"I will not run for president, I will finish my term as senator."

"Check that, I will run for president, but I will use federal matching funds to keep big money out of politics."

"Check that, I will  rake in as many millions as I can get my hands on, but I must have missed Reverend Wright's hateful sermons."

"Check that, I heard them, but I don't think Reverend Wright is a controversial figure."

"Check that, Reverend Wright can be controversial, but I could no more distance myself from him than I could my uncle."

"Check that, I disown Reverend Wright, but I Ayers was only a casual aquaintence."

"Check that, I worked with Ayers, but I didn't know he was a terrorist."

"Check that, I knew he was a terrorist, but I thought he was rehabilitated."

"Ok, so he wasn't rehabilitated, but I was only 8 years old because my parents made this baby during the Selma marches."

"Ok, so I was born BEFORE Selma,  but my white Grandmother would cross the street when she saw blacks coming and she would say racist things."

"Ok, I didn't mean to throw grandma under the bus, but she's just a typical white person."

When asked if he went to war with Iraq  to derail the impeachment vote:  “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).

" . . . . Bill Ayers was 'rehabilitated"

Um, does Bill know that he was rehabilitated?

Hello PJ

You asked how terrorists can be rehabilitated. Their only problem is their equilibrium is off. the only cure is the installation of a one-half ounce lead weight behind the left ear. the most efficient installation tool is a 1911 gov. 45.

Hello PJ

Deleted double again. need more coffee.