Don't have any proof of rage-filled bigots at McCain-Palin speeches, even though you just know in your shriveled little heart that they have to be there?

Never fear. You can always just make it up.

The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled "kill him" when presidential hopeful Barack Obama's name was mentioned during Tuesday's Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.

The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd and mentioned Oabama's[sic] name a man in the audience shouted "kill him."

News organizations including ABC, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly and MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann reported the claim, with most attributing the allegations to the Times-Tribune story.

Agent Bill Slavoski said he was in the audience, along with an undisclosed number of additional secret service agents and other law enforcement officers and not one heard the comment.

"I was baffled," he said after reading the report in Wednesday's Times-Tribune.

He said the agency conducted an investigation Wednesday, after seeing the story, and could not find one person to corroborate the allegation other than Singleton.

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Senator Government: Spend, spend, spend.

Senator Blinky: You can't spend your way into prosperity.

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The warm tinging sensation in Chris Matthews' leg after this?

Leaky Depends.

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Did I say "Obama" and "all networks?" I meant "Bush" and the Fairfax Times:

A man in possession of a Chinese passport and an AK-47 was arrested in a Fairfax hotel Sept. 30 for sending threatening messages to President George W. Bush and former Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.

According to an Oct. 5 search warrant affidavit filed in Fairfax Circuit Court, the United States Secret Service contacted Fairfax police on Sept. 30 after tracking a man named Charn-Chen DAI to an Extended Stay America hotel on Lee Jackson Memorial Highway in Fairfax. Both agencies questioned DAI at that time.

He's only the current President, not The One, so I guess it only qualifies as a local interest story.

h/t Snapped Shot

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Michelle Malkin has the story put together by Palestra (video here) concerning an attempt by a bunch of Democrats to use a street address in Ohio to vote from out of state and influence that state's election.

If Barack Obama's supporters truly think they have the election in the bag, then why do they keep resorting to voter registration fraud and voter fraud and similar schemes?

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If this is what Democrats consider voter outreach, Barack Obama is in for a rude surprise come November 5.

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While the sale prices on parts and ammunition, are nice, what kind of message are they sending?

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Know who was at least part of the reason we are in such dire financial straits?

As Allah notes, the ad is highly effective among both Democrats and Republicans because of its accuracy.

John McCain should focus on the fact that Barack Obama is an economic nightmare, and that he will make the lives of Americans worse if elected, and not just for the short term, as our children are going to shoulder the debt of moe than a trillion dollars in new spending.

Let blogs hammer Obama for consorting with terrorists and racists, and have the campaign hammer Obama's dangerous economic plans and abject lack of experience.

Despite what the media would like for us to believe, the race is far from over, and we still have a good chance of defeating Barack Obama's trainwreck economics.

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Joe Biden has funneled more than $2 million in campaign funds to his family over the years.

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. has paid more than $2 million in campaign cash to his family members, their businesses and employers over the years, a practice that watchdogs criticize as rife with potential conflicts of interest.

The money largely flowed from the coffers of Mr. Biden's failed presidential campaign during the past two years to a company that employs his sister and longtime campaign manager, Valerie Biden Owens, according to campaign disclosure filings.

If revelations like this keep breaking against Obama/Biden, we might see them indicted shortly after the election.

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The New York Times could save some money if they fired fired the middlemen and simply let the Obama campaign post directly to their blogs.

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Today.

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Why an Iraqi-style Awakening movement in Pakistan is destined to fail.

My latest at PJM.

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She's not happy with those who aren't marching in lock-step with the demands of blind racial loyalty:

Accusing API of colluding with American internet bloggers in an effort to bring down her husband, Mrs Obama said she decided to call API because of what she termed, API's help to spread rumours created by American bloggers and other racist media outlets in their efforts to damage a black man's name, saying she hopes African Media was mature enough to be in the front to give unwavering support to her husband, a man Africans should identify themselves with.

When API told her that our online news media was only relaying what the American Bloggers and other media outlets had discovered through their investigations, Mrs Obama was angered and she came out loud with the following: "African press International is supposed to support Africans and African-American view," and she went to state that, "it is strange that API has chosen to support the racists against my husband. There is no shame in being adopted by a step father. All dirt has been thrown onto my husband's face and yet he loves this country. My husband and I know that there is no law that will stop him from becoming the president, just because some American white racists are bringing up the issue of my husband's adoption by His step father. The important thing here is where my husband's heart is at the moment. I can tell the American people that My husband loves this country and his adoption never changed his love for this country. He was born in Hawaii, yes, and that gives him all the right to be an American citizen even though he was adopted by a foreigner; says Michelle Obama on telefon[sic] to API."

This is a shocking rant, even for someone as extreme as Michelle Obama.

She honestly believes that the African Press should offer "unwavering support to her husband" simply because he has African roots?

Those that criticize her husband, or are concerned about his background are all "racists"?

And it gets worse.

Michelle Obama's caricature in the New Yorker as a black nationalist suddenly isn't so funny.

The Obama Camp is pushing back hard, but for now API—whoever they are—is standing behind their story.

Take it for what it's worth.

Update: I'll let this play out as it will, but will point out one thing that should be self-evident that some anti-Obama sites can't seem to grasp as they look at this API post. Some are claiming that it adds credibility to the claim that Obama doesn't have U.S. citizenship because he was adopted.

This is easily the dumbest claim on the internet today involving Obama. A child cannot lose the birthright of his citizenship merely because he is adopted by a foreigner. It's moronic, logically inconsistent, and most importantly, not legally supportable. If Obama was an adult and refuted his citizenship that would be another matter entirely, but as he hasn't done so, this claim is entirely bogus.

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Plumber Joe Wurzelbacher is not happy with Barack Obama's plans to punish him for his hard work.

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From The Hill:

The Obama campaign has failed to release the names of donors responsible for approximately half of his campaignÂ’s $426.9 million: those
who have contributed less than $200.

In addition, press reports allege Barack ObamaÂ’s presidential campaign has accepted illegal online campaign contributions from this category of donors, which include funds allegedly donated by foreign nationals.

The Obama campaign appears to be selectively complying with campaign finance laws. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) should immediately investigate allegations of foreign campaign contributions made to the Obama campaign possibly corrupting this presidential election.

What... you thought those Palestinian phone banks were really calling long distance?

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Isn't it encouraging to know that Obama has promised to have ACORN help engineer his Presidential agenda?

More, from Jennifer Rubin:

It is almost inconceivable that Barack Obama should not have been grilled on this –either by his opponent or the media. (The latter is just beginning to cover the story.) Obama’s ties are deep and extensive with an organization that embraces goals and tactics well outside the political mainstream and that has engaged in a pattern of illegal activity usually seen only in RICO indictments. ACORN’s present involvement in coast-to-coast fraud is jaw-dropping and should raise the issue as to whether an Obama Justice Department would vigorously investigate and, if warranted, prosecute this entity and all involved.(A helpful compilation of ACORN’s suspect activities is here.) Put simply, Obama worked for and helped funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to a fraud-infested, corrupt organization and has yet to explain himself, let alone apologize for the same.

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Stanley Kurtz has been digging through the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and has discovered that the group created and ram-rodded by domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and fronted by Barack Obama was funneling grant money to anti-American afro-centric extremist groups filled with men just like Barack Obama's racist minister Rev. Jeremiah Wright—and as a matter of fact, some of those men spoke at Wright's Church during the time Barack Obama attended.

How culpable is Obama is funneling money to these racist indoctrination efforts?

Given the precedent of his earlier responses on Ayers and Wright, Obama might be inclined to deny personal knowledge of the educational philosophy he was so generously funding. Such a denial would not be convincing. For one thing, we have evidence that in 1995, the same year Obama assumed control of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, he publicly rejected "the unrealistic politics of integrationist assimilation," a stance that clearly resonates with both Wright and Carruthers. (See "No Liberation."

And as noted, Wright had invited Carruthers, Hilliard, and like-minded thinkers to address his Trinity congregants. Wright likes to tick off his connections to these prominent Afrocentrists in sermons, and Obama would surely have heard of them. Reading over SSAVCÂ’s Annenberg proposals, Obama could hardly be ignorant of what they were about. And if by some chance Obama overlooked HilliardÂ’s or CarruthersÂ’s names, SSAVCÂ’s proposals are filled with references to "rites of passage" and "Ptahhotep," dead giveaways for the anti-American and separatist ideological concoction favored by SSAVC.

We know that Obama did read the proposals. Annenberg documents show him commenting on proposal quality. And especially after 1995, when concerns over self-dealing and conflicts of interest forced the Ayers-headed "Collaborative" to distance itself from monetary issues, all funding decisions fell to Obama and the board. Significantly, there was dissent within the board. One business leader and experienced grant-smith characterized the quality of most Annenberg proposals as "awful." (See "The Chicago Annenberg Challenge: The First Three Years," p. 19.) Yet Obama and his very small and divided board kept the money flowing to ideologically extremist groups like the South Shore African Village Collaborative, instead of organizations focused on traditional educational achievement.

So Barack Obama either supported funding the racist indoctrination of schoolchildren, or is grossly incompetent as an executive, or both.

This is part of a frankly disturbing pattern of behavior from the man who would be President.

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Somehow I missed this when it was published in August in the U.K. Telegraph:

Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama's half-sister, told the Associated Press recently that her grandfather had seen Mr Davis was a "point of connection, a bridge if you will, to the larger African-American experience for my brother".

In his memoir, Mr Obama recounts how he visited Mr Davis on several occasions, apparently at junctures when he was grappling with racial issues, to seek his counsel. At one point in 1979 Mr Davis described university as "an advanced degree in compromise" that was designed to keep blacks in their place.

Mr Obama quoted him as saying: "Leaving your race at the door. Leaving your people behind. Understand something, boy. You're not going to college to get educated. YouÂ’re going there to get trained."

He added that "they'll tank on your chain and let you know that you may be a well-trained, well-paid nigger, but you're a nigger just the same."

It has also been established that Mr Davis, who divorced in 1970, was the author of a hard-core pornographic autobiography published in San Diego in 1968 by Greenleaf Classics under the pseudonym Bob Greene.

In a surviving portion of an autobiographical manuscript, Mr Davis confirms that he was the author of Sex Rebel: Black after a reader had noticed the "similarities in style and phraseology" between the pornographic work and his poetry.

"I could not then truthfully deny that this book, which came out in 1968 as a Greenleaf Classic, was mine." In the introduction to Sex Rebel, Mr Davis (writing as Greene) explains that although he has "changed names and identitiesÂ…all incidents I have described have been taken from actual experiences".

He stated that "under certain circumstances I am bisexual" and that he was "a voyeur and an exhibitionist" who was "occasionally mildly interested in sado-masochism", adding: "I have often wished I had two penises to enjoy simultaneously the double – but different – sensations of oral and genital copulation."

The book, which closely tracks Mr Davis's life in Chicago and Hawaii and the fact that his first wife was black and his second white, describes in lurid detail a series of shockingly sordid sexual encounters, often involving group sex.

One chapter concerns the seduction by Mr Davis and his first wife of a 13-year-old girl called Anne. Mr Davis wrote that it was the girl who had suggested he had sex with her. "I'm not one to go in for Lolitas. Usually I'd rather not bed a babe under 20.

"But there are exceptions. I didn't want to disappoint the trusting child. At her still-impressionistic age, a rejection might be traumatic, could even cripple her sexually for life."

He then described how he and his wife would have sex with the girl. "Anne came up many times the next several weeks, her aunt thinking she was in good hands. Actually she was.

"She obtained a course in practical sex from experienced and considerate practitioners rather than from ignorant insensitive neophytesÂ….I think we did her a favour, although the pleasure was mutual."

On other occasions, Mr Davis would cruise in Hawaii parks looking for couples or female tourists to have sex with. He derived sexual gratification from bondage, simulated rape and being flogged and urinated on.

I only found this Telegraph story after a new commenter named "Krys" dumped the text of this current National Enquirer story in the comments of an unrelated post.

This story has been known by the U.S. media for almost two months now, but I can find no evidence that any network or cable television news outlet, newspaper, syndicate, or magazine has reported on this. Does anyone believe for one second that if John McCain or Sarah Palin were mentored by an self-admitted child rapist and general pervert that it wouldn't be the singular focus of multiple news cycles, questioning how such a relationship was damage their delicate and emerging psychologies, rendering them too unreliable for the Presidency, or perhaps darkly suggesting that the candidate might have been abused by such a mentor themselves?

Instead, they buried the story, until once again the Enquirer shows itself to be the only U.S news organization with enough integrity to report a story detrimental to a Democratic Presidential candidate.

That doesn't mean the Enquirer has suddenly become more credible. It just serves to show you how partisan and unreliable the American news media is today.

Barack Obama's list of known mentors now includes child rapists ("Uncle Frank" Marshall), racists (Rev. Jeremiah Wright) and terrorists (Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn).

When is someone going to question how these associations must have warped Obama's views and render him unstable, and unsuitable for the Presidency?

Update: Duncan Black, apparently not the sharpest child-safe pumpkin-carving tool in the liberal drawer, deliberately misrepresents or ignorantly misreads this post to declare that I've decided "a rumor that Obama as a young child may have been (as in, in his fapping imagination) molested disqualifies him from being president."

I said nothing of the sort.

In linking the U.K. version of the story first told in August, I noted that the U.S. media has buried this story for almost two months, and that had there been a similar pervert close to the McCain or Palin families, the media would have used it against the candidate. I also noted that Davis was yet another of Barack Obama's mentors that has a radical past, including terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, and his racist mentor minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

At no point do I state that Obama was molested, or even may have been molested. Frankly, the thought never crossed my mind.

Black owes me an apology, though it remains to be seen if he has the integrity to issue one.

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1 Does it strike anyone else as kind of pathetic that the British media knows more about the man that's likely. . .unfortunately. . .about to be elected President of the United States than the American media? Well, more than the American media lets US know, anyway. Someone save me a good seat in re-programming class, will you?

Posted by: TheGonz at October 13, 2008 02:26 PM (HoHg+)

2 Uh, take a real good look at a picture of Frank and a pic of Barack Sr. and then another of Barack Jr candidate for President. Is Uncle Frank the kinda guy who would have scruples about hitting on his buddy's granddaughter? "Uncle Frank" uh, yeah, sure.

Posted by: Rocky's Pal at October 13, 2008 02:59 PM (ywSvi)

3 Well, the Brits, knowing all this, still prefer Obama, so... there's no surprises there. Meanwhile, just mentioning this guy Davis and his association with Obaaa!ma is just full.of.hate. Hate! How dare anyone quote the British media? Buncha Anglo-supremists around here. )

Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at October 13, 2008 03:25 PM (eDdOG)

4 The thing is that this was a childhood association -- one that was set up by his grandfather. Although this glues together some pieces of the puzzle, I don't think Obama's association with FMD should be put on the "bad choices" pile like Ayers. It should be on the "creepy" and "daddy issues" piles. The bigger story is the media bias story. Why have we not had one TV documentary on "Who is Frank Marshall Davis?"

Posted by: AmishDude at October 13, 2008 03:59 PM (T0NGe)

5 What a bunch of nice people old Barack hangs out with.

Posted by: Capitalist Infidel at October 13, 2008 04:20 PM (vuXJQ)

6 So when I went to college I was being trained to be a "good n*gger?" Damn. How about all the other white guys? People like Davis are so blind that it makes them stupid. Like all conspiracists, every tiny detail in the universe is another piece in the grand puzzle. A sparrow farts, and it's irrefutable proof of racism. Is he where Obama learned his infinite sense of self, his insatiable narcssissm?

Posted by: Steve Skubinna at October 13, 2008 04:26 PM (Vcyz0)

7 It continues to amaze me how many times the National Enquirer gets stories right, and then people report on their accurate story by saying 'The National Enquirer is not credible source.'

Posted by: Kevin at October 13, 2008 05:41 PM (KO6dP)

8 "This isn't the Frank Marshall Davis I knew."

Posted by: Obama's Wall Street Contributions at October 13, 2008 06:00 PM (WfSvm)

9 Well, The One did say he was different from all those other presidents on the currency. I do not recall Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, or Grant having their own pedophile racial awareness guide. Son of a Hippie, mentored by Davis about how to be "authentic" in his racial attitudes, associates with Angry Left folks, runs as a Deocratic Socialist and wants to "spread the wealth around". Sounds like a veritable flag and apple pie candidate to me.

Posted by: Teleprompter Messiah at October 13, 2008 06:23 PM (+L1YR)

10 And you call yourself a Christian. You've sold your soul to what? A candidate? A need to win? You come very cheap.

Posted by: patriotboy at October 14, 2008 02:14 AM (RKr2d)

11 Maybe now people will listen to Larry Sinclair. An abused child often carries on the sexual behavior in adulthood. As a counselor to abused children, it would not suprise me to learn that Marshall and Obama had a sexual relationship. Does anyone really think that someone with Marshall's history would not have tried to seduce Obama? If so, my sympathy is with Obama. No wonder he took to drugs.

Posted by: truthseeker at October 14, 2008 03:41 AM (z7ZWJ)

12 Nearly all of Obama's formative relations were with pathological individuals and toxic ideas. Frank Marshall Davis eagerly indulged himself with a 13-year-old girl in his charge. He had wide-ranging sexual appetites without scruples, and describes himself as bisexual. Is there any reason to believe he would have restrained himself from indulging in a handsome teenaged boy in his charge? For nearly two decades the Catholic church hemorrhaged hundreds of millions of dollars on the premise that sexual predation by grown men on teenaged boys permanently damages those individuals. The media reveled. They damned the church for willful blindness and covering up. But of course, this would be different.

Posted by: lyle at October 14, 2008 03:50 AM (aiizS)

13 When you look at a young man's 'father figures', you see his role models. You see who he really is. Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremiah Wright, and Bill Ayers are morally unhealthy human beings. They molded Barack's character. They informed his worldview. They nurtured him on their poisonous ideologies. There's no sign that he ever rebelled, or even sought out less contemptible exemplars. On the outside, Barack may be smooth and sonorous. On the inside, he is a toxic stew of Davis, Wright, and Ayers.

Posted by: lyle at October 14, 2008 04:11 AM (aiizS)

14 On the inside, he is a toxic stew of Davis, Wright, and Ayers. Evidence? For many years he's led a public life and has appeared calm and decent. Many wonderful people came from broken and miserable homes, or had parents who were felons or even Nazis. It is a testament to the human spirit and the power of love that a person can transcend their environment and grow to be a splendid person. To hear you call a decent man a "toxic stew" is appalling and totally unfair. And deeply un-Christian. Shame.

Posted by: richard at October 14, 2008 05:26 AM (Ri06X)

15 richard, Evidence? His behavior. Did he adopt Frank Marshall Davis' worldview? Apparently so. In his memoir, he reveres the despicable 'Frank' and quotes him approvingly. Did he adopt Bill Ayers' worldview? Yes, he did. Obama joined Ayers on the Woods Fund. Ayers made him chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Obama funded Ayers and his radical associates via the CAC. They worked together on radical education policy and squandered 160 million dollars together. Obama's first political fundraiser was hosted by Bill Ayers. He only distanced himself when it became politically necessary. Did he adopt Jeremiah Wright's worldview? Yes, he did. According to Obama, he sought out a spiritual mentor and a church where he felt at home. He found both at Trinity. For twenty years he sat in the pew as his 'pastor' spewed anti-American, white-hating filth. Obama brought his wife and kids. The only religion he ever exposed his children to was Marxism with a thin veneer of religion. Would he have done so if he didn't agree with it? Have you heard the adage, "You know a man by the company he keeps"? How about "Birds of a feather flock together"? That's evidence. "Appeared calm and decent" isn't evidence. It's weak-minded bullshit. Shove your ignorance and pretentious fake-Christian piety back up the hole they came from.

Posted by: lyle at October 14, 2008 06:04 AM (aiizS)

16 Richard: "Those, then, are friends to whom the same things are good and evil; and those who are, moreover, friendly or unfriendly to the same people; for in that case they must have the same wishes, and thus by wishing for each other what they wish for themselves, they show themselves each other's friends." (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book II, Chapter) Apply that to the people that Senator Obama has hung around with most of his adult life. Or, you can show yourself to be a partisan lefty hack and denounce Aristotle as a racist. Your move.

Posted by: C-C-G at October 14, 2008 07:13 AM (kbd0j)

17 In addition to his acceptance of the worldviews of the various thugs and perverts above, you also have OBama's self-proclaimed "moral compass," the race-bating lynching advocate, anti-Semite, and Louis Farrakhan fan Father Michael Pfleger, who has been Obama's mentor of 22 years. Among Obama's acts, you can look to his work for the corrupt ACORN as a trainer and his recent attempt to slip them more than $800,000 in money through a front group, suspected millions in illegal foreign contributions, add to that Obama's attempt to subvert the Constitution by corrupting legal scholarship in an effort to run a sophisticated con on the U.S. Supreme Court, and his morally vacant support for infanticide. Richard asks for evidence that Obama is psychologically a "toxic stew." What more do you require, for his to be caught in bed with a live boy or dead girl? Both? The men he sought out as mentors is evidence of Obama's internal issues. The three men who have been constants the longest in his life have been a terrorist (Ayers, at least 21 years, perhaps as long as 27 if they met when Obama was at Columbia), a cult-leading racist (Wright 21 years), and the aforementioned Pfleger. He chose as his spouse someone who has racial inferiority issues severe enough she tries to work through them in her thesis, but obviously failed, as she was only able to recently become proud of her country as a grown woman... and only then because of a personal benefit afforded to her husband, suggesting her pride was merely bought. Barack Obama's mind must provide for one hell of a couch trip, and the forces that made him no doubt shaped him into an excellent cautionary tale. But what I find particularly interesting that the same people on the left who so hate George W. Bush for being an "extremist" look at the extremism that shaped Barack Obama, and twist that in their own minds to be a good thing. If he manages to win the White House, the various pathologies imparted into him through this lifelong mentoring of racists, terrorists, radicals, sexual deviants and various flavors of communist and socialist extremists will only sharpen in the pressure cooker of the Presidency, and he will make increasing bad decisions. We one thought Barack Obama might be the second coming of Jimmy Carter, but that was before we began to get a better understanding of the forces that shaped him. You might be wiling to endanger your children's future by trusting that a man with such a deviant background can overcome a lifetime of corrupting anti-American influences, but I can't.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at October 14, 2008 07:36 AM (HcgFD)

18 ichard, Evidence? His behavior. Did he adopt Frank Marshall Davis' worldview? Apparently so. In his memoir, he reveres the despicable 'Frank' and quotes him approvingly. You have no evidence Obama was molested by "Frank." He was ten years old. You realize how nuts this sounds? Yankee, about "the extremism that shaped Barack Obama" - all I ask is, what are you talking about? How do you know this is what shaped him? How do you know about other, nourishing and loving people he knew who might have shaped him? It is all conjecture, what you want to believe, but there is no proof. It is scary and also dangerous, to build up such strong hatred against a man all based on association, when you have no idea how closely he was even associated with these people and what the effect of that association was. He's been in the public eye for four years (and actually far longer). How has he managed to hide even the faintest trace of this horrible toxic stew? Do you believe once he's sworn it it will pop out like in Alien? With all due respect, that is plain looney. You can find associations and experience in everyone's life and come up with reasons why anyone would be unfit for power. But it's not based on any reality except that of your own making. In other words, it's pure, unadulterated nonsense.

Posted by: richard at October 14, 2008 08:06 AM (Ri06X)

19 richard, How deep in denial would you like to remain? Barack Obama's life has been defined by serial associations with anti-American left-wing extremists. I certainly hope that the freshman Senator has had nourishing and loving people and his life, but that does not in any way excuse the fact that Barack Obama chose as his mentors the most extreme elements of the American left. He has not hidden "even the faintest trace"--obviously, we're talking about it now, and in some detail, and his supporters are doing their level best to suppress discussion of these troubling extremes that make up his record. Granted, you and your fellow apologists have done all you can to make that discussion nearly impossible by chanting "racist!" anytime anyone has had the temerity to point out these proven and problematic associations, but that attempt to stifle debate doesn't make his extremist views and choice of mentors any less real. Nothing is "popping out," instead, it's been trickling out over the past year, story by story, as a handful of reporters with intellectual integrity have sought to vet the candidate that most of the media would rather anoint than explore. You do make one valid point that you can come up with reasons that anyone would be unfit for command if you try hard enough, but the fact of the matter is that extremism of association and deed are the constant in Barack Obama's life, and normal American views and associations are far fewer and farther between, and tainted. I can understand how someone such as yourself may so swept up in the celebrity of Obama and the firsts he represents that you would will upon him suitability if you could, but the simple fact of the matter is that Barack Obama has a lifetime of associations with extremists, some of which are dubious legally and morally, and lacks any measurable leadership experience or any record of being able to work substantively on matters that require bi-partisanship. You've spent considerable energy trying to minimize Barack Obama's decades of associations with racists, terrorists, radicals, and a child rapist, but you haven't done anything to examine or explain those associations. Perhaps, sir, it is time you stop for a moment and try to understand why you can't bring yourself to face what made Obama head-on. Like many Obama supporters, I suspect you'd rather minimize his problematic associations and positions than explore them, because if you look too closely, you'll find out that you can in no way support him, either.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at October 14, 2008 08:29 AM (HcgFD)

20 richard, There's plenty of evidence of long-term toxic associations. Perhaps you could point to an instance where he refused or rebelled or rose above those associations. He prospered within one of the most corrupt political machines in the United States. Did he ever denounce or protest the corruption? Perhaps you could ask criminal slumlord and close Obama associate Tony Rezko. Rezko helped Obama buy property, and Obama directed millions in state funds to Rezko. What could possibly be wrong with that? Perhaps you can point to the moment when an indignant Obama confronted his racist pastor? Or a moment when he told his ACORN friends, 'Vote fraud just isn't right.' Or the time when he said to Bill Ayers, 'I won't have anything to do with a man who engaged in acts of terror against my country.' Or when he turned to Bernadine Dohrn and said, 'How on earth could you celebrate the Tate-Lobianco murders?' Here's a lesson in common sense. You know a man by the company he keeps. Show me an example where Barack Obama demonstrated that he wasn't like the people he has chosen as his friends.

Posted by: lyle at October 14, 2008 08:32 AM (aiizS)

21 Lyly, you've really drunk the Kool Aid. How do you know what Obama said to Wright or to Acorn? All innuendo, all smoke - and where there's smoke, surely there's fire. McCain spent some of his impressionable years holed up in the Hanoi Hilton surrounded by communists. Maybe that rubbed off on him, too, and makes him unfit for office. But only a deranged fool would ever say something like that, because McCain has proved he's a decent man (until recently), a caring man and a rational man. We must form our judgments on what IS, on what a man actually does and says and stands for, and not on what our inner demons whisper to us.

Posted by: richard at October 14, 2008 09:22 AM (Ri06X)

22 richard, I didn't think my point was so difficult to understand. We know for a fact that Obama has chosen these associations for his entire adult life. He only ditched them when they conflicted with his self-interest. Can you try real hard and think of a way in which Obama's chosen friends and mentors are different from McCain's wartime captors? Come on, think. Really, really hard.

Posted by: lyle at October 14, 2008 09:58 AM (aiizS)

23 And Pete Sampras's childhood mentor was later convicted of pedophilia. Did that disqualify Sampras from being a great tennis player?

Posted by: David at October 14, 2008 11:23 AM (f+i0J)

24 God, you wingnuts are pathetic losers! Nothing you say or do can hide the fact that John McCain was brainwashed by in North Vietnam by the Communist Chinese and was sent back to the USA to subvert democracy.

Posted by: crave at October 14, 2008 11:28 AM (Pzb2z)

25 John McCain was in a POW camp for 5+ years. Who knows how many times he was ass raped. Who knows how many times he ass raped a fellow prisoner. It would be irresponsible not to ask.

Posted by: Jane Addams at October 14, 2008 11:32 AM (ltcEL)

26 I"m shopping a title -- I was hoping you might have some contacts at Regnery. The working title is: Poo on the Helmet: The John McCain Story The other title is Ass Rapist or Not: The John McCain Story". I think it's irresponsible not to ask

Posted by: Jan Waddams at October 14, 2008 11:43 AM (ltcEL)

27 This is theonion.com, right?

Posted by: Harvey Bushel at October 14, 2008 11:44 AM (XD/dH)

28 And the complaint is what, exactly, Yankee? The GOP is the party of pedophilia and other moral degeneracy, this should win Obama more voters.

Posted by: The Third Policeman at October 14, 2008 11:52 AM (UNKLT)

29 I'm reading Dreams From My Father, and I am a Democrat. And let me tell you, "Frank" is not glamourized, and his thinking is thinking Obama grows to reject over time. We see many sides of people over time, but never all of them. In one important anecdote, Frank talks about the distance between his friend, Barack's white grandfather, and himself, suggesting that there are elements to his personality that Frank hid from him. In terms of plausibility, let's sit down for a second and consider this: Obama's judgment, being questioned her, would be that of a boy, who was being brought around by his Grandfather to different places. What kind of ludicrous notion is it for a kid like Barack Obama to determine the future effect on his political campaign nearly forty years hence? The Republicans are demanding superhuman powers of foresight and precognition here. And why not? Why bother to play a fair game if winning is what matters most?

Posted by: Stephen Daugherty at October 14, 2008 11:59 AM (nlIIc)

30 Pure genius here, guys! A 10-year old who had the audacity to receive counsel from an adult pedophile? Clearly that kid should never be within eyesight of the Presidency! But lying about pretty much anything and everything? Spending a career fighting for deregulation and then, in a flash, pretending it was someone else? Picking a VP candidate who can speak in tongues and whose husband advocated secession from the good ole USA? Now that's a candidate we can believe in!

Posted by: The Founding Fathers at October 14, 2008 12:13 PM (tB7Z3)

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Michael Yon's latest dispatchfrom Afghanistan is posted, in which he meets with Afghan fighters, and obtains clues about those fighters that ambushed and killed ten French soldiers in August.

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The left keeps wanting us to ignore Barack Obama's ties to domestic terrorists (plural) Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. That is understandable, even if we chose to buy the explanation offered up by Obama himself that he shouldn't be held responsible for attacks by the Weathermen that occurred when he was eight.

I agree. Barack Obama shouldn't be held responsible for domestic terror attacks that took place in America when Barack Obama was an eight-year-old student in an Indonesian school half a world away.

What Obama knew at eight isn't relevant.

What he knew at 20 is.

The Weathermen and the Black Liberation Army murdered police officers and a Brinks armored car guard just 22 miles from Obama's apartment in New York when Obama was 20 years old at Columbia University.

Fake IDs used to rent the vehicles used in the robbery were tied to the store that Ayer's wife and Weathermen co-founder Bernadine Dohrn worked in at the time, and she went to jail for seven months for refusing to testify about her role to the grand jury.

Obama and Ayers developed a long and radical partnership in Chicago afterward.

How long has Barack Obama know Bill Ayers was a terrorist?

A lot longer than he's willing to admit.

Update: Rick links in the "just a guy in my neighborhood" video at Brutally Honest where Hillary Clinton rips into the Obama-Ayers relationship.

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