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For Obama, the Truth is a Smear Campaign!

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Obama is upset that Republicans are finally pointing out that he is
unfit to be president. He thought he could intimidate them from talking
about his character by making accusations of racism. He hoped people
would never learn that his political mentor, the man who helped him get
his start, was a terrorist. Yes, a man he worked with, attended parties
with and who held fund raisers for him, tried to kill American soldiers
and their families. That's right, he specifically targeted young
soldiers and their wives. Obama hoped people would also forget about
his America hating, racist spiritual mentor, Rev.Wright. No wonder
Obama doesn't want the truth known. His political mentor is a
terrorist, and his spiritual mentor is a racist. They say you judge a
man by the company he keeps. That's why Obama thinks the truth is a
smear campaign!


Comments (72)

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Check this out folks: Sarah Palin said this yesterday.

http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/10/05/in-slip-up-palin-calls-afghanistan-our-neighboring-country/


“They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan,” she told several hundred supporters at a fundraising event in San Francisco.

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So? A simple slip made during a speech. I doubt if everything you say comes out exactly right, I know it doesn't for Obama. Remember Obama's 57 states? His 'fallen heroes in the audience'?

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Check out this Rolling Stone Mag. in depth Expose of John McCain; The Fake Maverick.

A very revealing article that exposes the real John McCain. He is worse than George W. Bush.

Click the link, and you can read it for yourselves.
Be sure to promulgate the link to all your contacts. Thanks.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23316912/makebelieve_maverick/print

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What a load of garbage. How about we run a commercial of Obama giving the "White mans greed runs a world in need" speech? It's on tape. It's more accurate than the garbage you post.

Care to put up a link to this supposed tape. Or is this another "Whitey tape?"

It's in Dreams From My Father, and Obama is paraphrasing Wright's Audacity of Hope sermon.

The full passage is:

[T]he pastor described going to a museum and being confronted by a painting titled Hope.

“The painting depicts a harpist,” Revernd Wright explained, “a woman who at first glance appears to be sitting atop a great mountaintop. Untill you take a closer look and see that the woman is bruised and bloodied, dressed in tattered rags, the harp reduced to a single frayed string. Your eye is then drawn down to the scene below, down to the valley below, where everywhere are the ravages of famine, the drumbeat of war, a world groaning under strife and deprivation.

It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, aprtheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere … That’s the world! On which hope sits.”

And so it went, a meditation on a fallen world. While the boys next to me doodled on their church bulletin, Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpesville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House


Yeah, I think that when discussing apartheid and Haiti's ruin, citing the greed of privledged westerners -- yes, white men -- is fair.

ugh, blockquotes. Last blockquoted portion is my commentary, everything unblocked ahead of there should be in the first quote box.

Post a link, you lying piece of crap.

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here you go, choke on it moron.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdLX3aRNaNk

LOL. Careful. All that one eats is Hive food. Real information will give him a tummy ache.

I'm going to put that exchange in my hall of fame.

By the way, pussy hare, go check out the comment you wanted removed from my blog.

It's gone, along with your comment "calling my bluff."

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/10/obamas-iranian-summit-blunder.php

What is really embarrassing is the way the bulldog just mauled you.

Not having much of a week, are you?

Congratulations, Billy. What a good little pantywaist. Now go give the teacher an apple and maybe she'll put a bright, shiny star on your next post. How old are you? Seven?

I'm impressed, by the way. New diapers? It's not often you screw up the courage to confront me directly these days. Usually, it's just sniping from the sidelines. Kudos to you, you fascist snitch.

What a halfwit. That's from Obama's book. He's quoting Wright. What a clueless dipshit.

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Yeah, military men always get to decide where they are deployed. Another stupid article written by someone who likely never served a day, like Obama.

Never served a day -- like Cheney. And like the racist turd you are. You aren't clever; you're a LIAR.

"The KKK is out of style: it doesn't wear colored sheets!" -- Dick Gregory.

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Point out the alleged lie, scumbag.

Your entire presentation is based upon the FALSE premise that McSlime and Palin are upstanding and competent -- and even qualified for president and VP.

Your entire premise is a FRAUD, in view of your ACTIVE spewing of hatred, while pretending that doing such is evidence of not merely morality but SUPERIOR morality.

Let me guess: you're a far-right "Christian" who is exempt from the rules with which Christians are REQUIRED to comply simply because you claim to be.

Let us know what you think of the "Rolling Stone" expose of what McCain is behind the lies AFTER you read it.

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"Pitbull Palin Mauls McCain" Frank Rich.

A great column. Read it at this link. Thanks.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/10/pitbull-palin-mauls-mccain-ano.php

Dude...Are you getting paid for spending so much time being such a moron?

Or is this like a comedy act, or what?

I think he's a moron for free.

It's effortless for him. It's his only talent.

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Sarah Palin cheated, big time, on her tax filings.

The Wall Street Journal, a right wing paper, spells out how Sarah is a big tax cheater.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/10/06/with-palins-returns-tax-profs-move-back-to-the-spotlight/

Excerpt:

"The Palins did not report as income some $43,000 that the State of Alaska paid the Governor as an “allowance” for her husband and children’s travel. Can they do that? No, most likely not.

The Palins deducted $9,000 on their 2007 return, claiming it was a loss from Mr. Palin’s snow machine racing activity. Can they do that? Most likely not, but more info could make the deduction o.k. If any of the above issues goes against the Palins they then risk getting hit with the section 6662 penalty for “negligence or disregard of rules or regulations.”

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You are so stupid it is amazing! First, I don't think her returns are public, so where is this info from? Second, since he is a professional racer and dealer of snowmachines, why would he not be able to deduct a loss? It is his profession. Third, if the allowance is for travel, it would be offset by a deduction for the expense of the travel, which should be a wash. Idiot.

Interesting that their joint income was only $170,000. We can't have people like that in the government. How will they entertain?

She also received $25,000 in "gifts" during her first 20 months as govenor.

Wow. That's almost $12K per year. Was that in addition to or part of that astounding $170K? The woman has cred on the middle class issue. And the Obamas' joint income last year was?

And Bush has military cred because he was in the air force. :)

$170k a year puts the Palins into the top 5% of US households; her $120k sole income has her in the top 10% alone -- considerably well above the $45k median income. So the question becomes what definition of middle class are we using here, and do you define cred by 'membership' or by one's economic policies?

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I assume you're part of Obama's campaign with the assignment of making
his detractors seem as unappealing as possible.

I hope I haven't blown your cover but I did want to congratulate you on a job well done.

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You are so stupid it is amazing! First, I don't think her returns are public, so where is this info from?
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Not only has Palin made her tax returns public, the fact that she has done so was a relatively big news story a few days back. So the stupidity is on your part, not the previous poster's.

Although my hypothesis here is predicated on the idea that you can read. Which is a tenuous proposition, I admit.

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Ah, crap, is it "[quote]" not "[blockquote]" on this board? I wish there was a "preview" box here.
[quote]
So the stupidity is on your part, not the previous poster's.
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Let's see if that works.

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And the comedy continues! ">" instead of "[]", perhaps?

tcBulldog is an ass.

But then, so are most Repugs.

Will either of those work? Will TPM add edit and delete functions to eliminate the need for this sort of sandboxing? Tune in and see! (Apologies for those who've had to sit through this.)

You know so much, and yet you haven't read the news that Palin released her tax returns just last week?

And we still haven't seen McSlime's psychiatric records. And we know from the Bushit criminal enterprise's uses of it that torture causes mental problems to the degreee of psychosis and suicidal depression.

Dave Ifshin ring a bell?
Hint: McCain attended his funeral a few years ago.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/04/sarah_is_hot_you_betcha/#more

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So, this anti war guy apologizes to McCain, renounces his past, and McCain accepts his apology. This equates McCain to Obama and Ayres? Are you drunk or what?

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John McCain's Keating Economics.

McCain helped create the Savings and Loans Collapse by putting in the fix for his criminal pal, Charles Keating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsI_0bV2CZo


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McCain was absolved in the Keating 5 scandal. Only dems were guilty. The prosecutor wanted to drop McCain as a defendant but was blocked by the dem controlled Senate because they needed at least one Republican to be involved.

Remind us again what crime Bill Ayers was convicted of.

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He escaped prosecution for a crime he admitted to because his daddy is a rich and powerful Chicago democrat.

I'd ask you to substantiate that but know you can't.

What IS substantiated, America-hater, is that Palin abused the powers of her office, in pursuit of a private vendetta -- while claiming to be Christian -- in violation of CRIMINAL statutes.

Or maybe you have an aboveboard defense of her flip-flopping: first agreeing to cooperate with an investigation initiated by HER OWN PARTY, then being against it, even though being pursued by the REPUBLICAN MAJORITY.

Ah, and those subpoenas! There are two ways to deal with subpoenas -- this detailed also in Alaska law: either comply with them, or violate CRIMINAL statute by ignoring them.

Tell us, Mr. Upstanding: What Todd "First Dude" Palin's concern with complying with a lawful subpoena? Fear of telling the truth? Or not know the difference between truth and lie?

Clever, Ayers was not his political mentor. How does serving on a board of a foundation founded by Republican Walter Annenberg constitute being ones mentor? How does giving $250 to the Obama senatorial campaign constitute being ones mentor? How does what Ayer's did back when Obama was 8 years old matter some 40 years later? Ayers is now highly regarded Professor and is thought highly for his work in public education by both Republican and Democrat leaders alike. So it amounts to nothing, except in your own desperate imagination.

Maybe you should read this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04ayers.html?ref=politics

How would you describe the nature of the Annenberg funded projects Obama and Ayers worked on together, JS?

I love it that you're here siding with a fucking Republican pinhead. You showed your true colors long ago, Billy, but now you're just being ridiculous.

The article seems to be a NYT whitewash. Where I think the Republicans would like to go is to how the money Obama distributed was used. Who got it and what did they do with it? That's probably a productive angle for them to take. The smear would go like this. Obama and the unrepentant terrorist distributed big bucks to radical groups that preached etc. etc.

Let's not concern ourselves with whether it's true -- you know, like, supported by EVIDENCE?

Well, the evidence would be the public record of who got the funds and how they were used. Up until now, the picture we have of Obama the organizer is he helped people in the projects get asbestos out of their buildings. If the Republicans can define his work to include giving money to "radical" groups that can tarnish that image. And they can accuse him of lying about what he did as a neighborhood organizer. That's the pot of gold at the end of the Ayres/Annenberg grant rainbow.

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It isn't a matter of what he did when Obama was 8. It is a matter of Obama associating with someone like that today, knowing what he did. He is unrepentant. Obama admits he exchanged phone calls and emails with this man as recent as 2005. Ayres held a fund raiser for him at his home, and he attended. You also ignore the fact that Ayres's father is the source of the money and political influence behind Obama in his early days. Senior Ayres is a power player in Chicago politics. He funded the community org that Obama and Bill worked for. The connections are real, despite what you want to believe.

You still have not offered any proof that Ayer's is/was a political mentor. Nor that their tangental relationship on a philanthropic board has in anyway effected Obama's opinions or leadership views.

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Their relationship was/is real. If Obama did not share his reprehensible views he would have not associated with him. The man is a murderer, a terrorist, and a friend of Obama. Just like with Rev Wright, whom he associated with for 20 years, Obama makes a habit of picking friends that are anti-American.

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Ayers never killed anybody, unlike the of men women and children killed by McCain while bombing innocent villages.

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People died as a result of bombings that he planned or participated in. That makes him guilty of murder, idiot. To equate the actions of a murderous terrorist with a member of the US military performing his duty is an outrage, but typical of you left wing scumbags.

You're a lying and ignorant ASS. The Weathermen ONLY bombed buildings WHEN NO ONE WAS IN THEM -- because they were well aware of the PR consequences of killing people.

No. Read the NYT article JS linked in. Not only did people die in the bombings and robberies, but the people who died were policemen.

The is no association between Obama and Ayers except the LIE that there's an acssociation.

We've had enough of your America-hating racist trash-talking and smears, THUG. GO AWAY.

I take it you're one of those people who doesn't understand how the American legal system works. Let me try to explain it to you: Here in our country, if someone commits a crime and does the time, we give them a second chance. And if they are never convicted, we assume the courts knew what they were doing, and we assume they are innocent. That's the law here in America. Perhaps it's different in whatever fascist society you live in. But don't post your fascist shit on our American discussion board, OK? Because we true Americans don't take kindly to fascist pieces of crap like you.

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Ayres co founded the Weathermen, idiot. That is public record. He also admitted his role in bombings. He was not convicted because of alleged police misconduct involving a wiretap, the truth is it was because his daddy is rich and powerful. He did admit it though and is unrepentant. I don't believe in giving someone a second chance when they are a terrorist murderer. Were you pushing for McVeigh to be paroled? Doubt it. Neither was I. But you support this bomber because he is a left wng piece of dirt like you.

Agree that McVeigh is the right reference. Ayres would have killed people if he could have. I think people are going to continue to dig into this relationship and this period in Obama's career. My guess is that when the nature of the projects he worked on with Ayres is understood they are going to be embarrassing in the same way Wright's statements were embarrassing. A little too radical for the middle class. At that point, if Obama has lied about the relationship, it could cost him some votes. But enough to tip the election? I doubt that. Don't you?

Who the fuck cares, Billy? John McCain is going to be the second loser you've supported. And I will have been right from Day One. You lose. America wins.

Again, ASS: the Weathermen ONLY bombed buildings WHEN NO ONE WAS IN THEM, so as NOT to kill anyone.

Why? Because -- jackass -- they were AGAINST US involvement in Vietnam, because they were AGAINST killing.

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Again, ass, you are wrong. They did kill people. Look it up.

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Do you really believe that or are you just spouting bs to win an argument? I think the court system is very imperfect and there are many examples of guilty people who get off and innocent people woh get convicted and spend time in jail. There is absolutely irrefutable evidence of the latter and overwhelmingly convincing evidence of the former.

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It is also irrelevant, since Ayres admitted his involvement.

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The Republican Ticket.

PISS/POOR 2008BC

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/K/I/2/mccain-palin-incontinence.jpg

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Her returns have been made public as required by Federial Election Laws.

The question is

The re-embersment she claims are for sleeping in her own home when she and her husband and children are away from the capital and travel for her husband and children on state business. Since neither her husband nor her children are employed by the state it is hard to understand what official state business they are traveling on.

If a Congressman travels with their spouce on government business they are expected to re-imberse the government for the cost of their spouce travel expense.

I think he's a moron for free.

It's effortless for him. It's his only talent.

My last comment on this thread because it's more than a waste of time.

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/10/embarracuda.html#more

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So a bunch of crap from some lying commie (friend of Alger Hiss) that posts nothing of substance is your last comment? Very disappointed in you. Usually you at least post a reasonable (yet faulty) opinion. This garbage from Time.com is just the rantings of a leftwing fool.

Your name-calling says more about you than about anyone else. Exactly as your America-hating smearings of Obama say more about you than about him.

Get it through your head, lying racist: the Weathermen PNLY bombed UNOCCUPIED buildings because they new that killing people is bad PR.

Otherwise, lying sack of anti-Americanism: provide EVIDENCE for ALL of your assertions -- specifically those about Ayers.

1. He was a co-founder of the Weathermen.

2. And what else is PROVEN about him? -- he DID NOT murder or otherwise kill ANYONE.

You really should take a look at the NYT article JS linked in up thread.

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He was the founder of a terrorist group. That group engaged in bombings. People died as a result (happily 3 of their own members!). They engaged in armed robbery. Two police and a guard died. That still makes everyone involved in the group legally guilty of murder (even for their own members being killed - that's how the law works). It also makes him guilty of conspiracy and a number of other crimes. He admitted he was involved, he is unrepentant. He was recently photographed stomping on an American flag, so his America hating has not changed. And he is Obama's buddy.

Your desperation amuses me!

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