I've got a bad feeling about this.

I hope those along the Gulf coastline are in the process of packing up and heading out, especially those in New Orleans. There will be no shelters of last resort; the Superdome will be locked down.

It doesn't matter where you hide...

Fragments of the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Katrina

...storms this size don't leave much behind.

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This is an interesting find. Charles Johnson does the rundown, showing that Sarah Palin Supports Gay Rights and Obamadefense.com share the same IP address of 74.208.74.232.

Copy and paste that into your address bar, and guess where you end up being redirected? Obama campaign Web site, Fight the Smears.

Johnson also notes that other pro-Obama and anti-McCain web sites trace back to the same IP address. Are there IP sleuths out there who can conclusively run down the ownership of these sites?

If Barack Obama's campaign is associated with these sites (not yet proven by any stretch, I hasten to add), the campaign would seem to be in direct violation of campaign laws.

Are there any campaign law attorneys out there who could speak to this possibility with more authority?

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You try to find pictures of one of ours in scandalous beachwear, we'll find one of yours in a mankini.

That's the "Chicago Way."

Update: Connery's character Zed pre-plagiarized Obama in this 1974 film... or perhaps anticipated his campaign's reaction to Palin's wiping him from the news just hours after his coronation in Denver:

Stay behind my aura!

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The sewer elves of the Daily Kos—the same "progressives" that wanted to "out" Chief Justice John Roberts' four-year-old son Jack—are back in the slime, trying to claim that new Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin's son Trig isn't hers.

They're trying to claim Palin's eldest daughter is actually the mother of Palin's youngest child.

They just can't seem to accept that people unlike themselves might actually chose to bring a Down's child into this world, instead of terminating it as an inconvenience... or as Obama might call it, a punishment.

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Just the kind of integrity-free poison we've come to expect:

In Dayton, OH today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) will announce that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be his vice presidential running mate. Palin, who entered office in 2006 after running as a reformer, is touted by conservatives as being “a politician of eye-popping integrity.”

But Palin’s reformer image took a hit last month when she was accused of attempting to get a state trooper fired. That state trooper was her former brother-in-law who had gone through “a messy divorce” with her sister. After the trooper’s boss wouldn’t act on the governor’s request, she fired him. Though Palin says she doesn’t “have anything to hide” and she “didn’t do anything wrong there,” an investigation has found that one of her aides pushed the firing:

Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday revealed an audio recording that shows an aide pressuring the Public Safety Department to fire a state trooper embroiled in a custody battle with her sister.

Palin, who has previously said her administration didnÂ’t exert pressure to get rid of trooper Mike Wooten, also disclosed that members of her staff had made about two dozen contacts with public safety officials about the trooper.

Of course, there is nothing that has suggested Palin had any direct involvement with pressure brought against her former brother-in-law, and it was her aides that were accused of wanting the state trooper fired.

And perhaps part of the reason the governor's aides wanted this trooper fired wasn't because he was part of a divorce, but because he shot a cow moose... out of season.

It could also have been because he was caught driving drunk... in a patrol car.

May be it even might have had something to do with the fact he tasered his 11-year-old-son.

Of course, Think Progress leaves that all out.

It doesn't help the smear they're trying to create.

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• Unlike Dick Cheney, who shoots small birds with a 28-gauge shotgun, Sarah Palin hunts moose. When she shoots a lawyer, they'll stay down.
• Single-handedly responsible for the booming political "-ILF" industry.
• Husband Todd Palin's name is actually Yup'ik Eskimo for "Russell Crowe."
• Palin's son Track is so tough that when joined the Army it was decided that he will be deployed to Iraq... as an MRAP.
• A, combat pilot John McCain knew how to flew aircraft. A bush pilot, Sarah Palin knows how to land them.
• Unlike Barack Obama, whose basketball skills consist of losing pick-up games, Sarah Palin was a state championship point guard... and won it playing on a broken foot.

Add your own in the comments, and we'll "promote" the best.

Update: I surrender.

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1 When asked about alternative energy in lights of the current crisis, Palin said, "I'd be more than happy to drill in Pelosi's head to power the country on hot air."

Posted by: Lord Nazh at August 29, 2008 10:22 AM (/fqeh)

2 CY,that was way to funny,but I couldnt agree more.A 30.06 is just alittle bit more intrusive dont ya think.

Posted by: 1903A3 at August 29, 2008 11:16 AM (0JFRo)

3 Did you know she's a creationist?

Posted by: Dinsdale at August 29, 2008 11:30 AM (M0tVn)

4 Ooooo...spooky. A creationist vice presidential candidate. Darwin knows that's never happened before... Heck, I'm practically a militant atheist and I don't care. More important are her views on tax law and foreign relations.

Posted by: Urban Scorpion at August 29, 2008 11:42 AM (brXvC)

5 It is a great day, for the country, for the GOP and for the cause of women in our Republic...

Posted by: Carlos Echevarria at August 29, 2008 12:01 PM (CsNoJ)

6 sorry to delete the comment you were responding to, Urban, but I don't care for lies. The only direct comment she's made about creationism is this: "Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information. "Healthy debate is so important and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both. "And, you know, I say this, too, as the daughter of a science teacher. Growing up with being so privileged and blessed to be given a lot of information on, on both sides of the subject — creationism and evolution. "It's been a healthy foundation for me. But don't be afraid of information and let kids debate both sides." She supports a free exchange of ideas so that people can decide on their own which they want to believe? What a scary idea, this concept of intellectual and religious freedom. I guess to fanatical atheists, that freedom is close enough to creationism for them to go on a bender, but it isn't intellectually honest. Full disclosure: I'm not a creationist, but I'm offended by them, either.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at August 29, 2008 12:13 PM (HcgFD)

7 I only hope she influences some of McCain's policies. This definitely cinches my vote for McCain as I was hoping he'd pick a real conservative for VP. She doesn't believe in global warming, but McCain seems to certainly believe there's an anthropogenic element to it. I'm curious as to how that will play out.

Posted by: Skeptic at August 29, 2008 01:58 PM (+oENr)

8 Palin has the power to make liberals' heads asplode. She is going to really make this an interesting race. I wager we're going to see sexism from the Left so extreme that it will surpass anything they ever accused the Right of perpetuating. I'm still trying to mentally diagram that last sentence... I think it came out correctly.

Posted by: Russ at August 29, 2008 02:09 PM (5fmXL)

9 Russ, the construction isn't the problem, its the philosophical yoga required for the media to avoid the fact that it's coming. Disavowal is their only choice, not even Chuck Norris (now I must run to the ends of the earth and hide for using the Name), could kick the sexism hard enough to spin it.

Posted by: Gus Bailey at August 29, 2008 02:31 PM (LZarw)

10 Palin, So tough Chuck Norris is too scared shoot hoops with her. (Apparently her nick name on the high school basketball team was Sarah "Barracuda" Palin)

Posted by: grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr at August 29, 2008 04:00 PM (gkobM)

11 Sarah Palin saw that there was oil and natural gas in her native Alaska, and there is! She felt the winds blow, and knew they could generate electricity, and they can! She knows that the greatest impediment to our Nation being self-sufficient in energy is the Federal Government, and it is! Sarah Palin, Truth and Change We Can Believe In!

Posted by: Tom TB at August 30, 2008 09:57 AM (MY2ut)

12 All of this delicious contempt and bitterness oozing from the libs' heads over Sarah Palin makes a wonderful popcorn topping. The aroma of lib defeat and fear is an unexpected enjoyment (schadenfreude anyone?). Hollywood is reported to be self-medicating and entering therapy for PTSD (post-traumatic Sarah disorder). The fall tv season and expected holiday movie releases may be postponed due to celebrity dysfunction. Ronald Reagan reruns will be used to fill the schedule. McCain/Palin for '08 & 8!

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Oops, sorry. This one.

I guess we'll know soon enough, won't we?

Update: Mark Levin makes the case for the Alaskan Governor:

Palin is by all accounts a principled conservative and government reformer who can contribute mightily to the decision-making that occurs in the White House. She has more executive experience in her two years as governor than Obama, Biden, and McCain combined. She is a mother of five in what appears to be a loving and functioning family. And she is someone Republicans, conservatives, and others can rally behind in the future.

From a purely tactical aspect, Palin would knock the legs out from under Obama's monopoly hold on "change." And attacks on her "inexperience" will only highlight one of Obama's greatest vulnerabilities — and he's at the top of the Democrat ticket. And because Hillary Clinton spent months telling women voters that they are being dissed by Obama, some percentage of women who normally would not vote for McCain will take a second look if Palin's on the ticket. There is no question that a Palin selection would cause the Obama camp headaches.

Bill Kristol , MSNBC, and the Chicago Tribune just called it for Palin according to their sources as well.

Is it true that Palin is McCain's Veep pick, or an elaborate head-fake?

We'll now within a few hours, but if it is Palin, I think Levin is right... providing she doesn't have any significant skeletons in her closet, she's going to be a huge problem for Obama on a number of fronts. Check out her Wikipedia biography. It has to terrify Obama's camp.

All the major networks are now quickly confirming. Over at Hot Air, they are dancing in the comments.

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I pledged my time last night to watching a dedicated, talented African-American man build his dream. Of course, I'm talking about Ice Cube in "Are We Done Yet?"

Having read Tom Maguire's analysis of Obamamessiah's warmed-over populist platitudes, I strongly suspect watching the dollar-rental movie was a much better value.

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Firedoglake's resident shrieker David Neiwert has his underoos in a bunch because of what his addled mind considers a racist double standard regarding how various morons have been treated after threatening presidential candidates:

It seems there may be a reason federal law-enforcement officials are not interested in pursuing serious charges against the white-supremacist tweakers who were caught this week in Denver: The man making the decision is a Republican operative. And when it came to a threat against John McCain by a black man, he had a completely different approach.

The AP story describing the official pooh-poohing of the threat gives us a clue:

"We're absolutely confident there is no credible threat to the candidate, the Democratic National Convention, or the people of Colorado," U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said in a statement.

But when a black man in prison sent John McCain a threatening letter containing baby powder, it was another story altogether:

The man accused of sending a threatening letter to John McCain through McCain's Colorado headquarters office detailed the contents of his letter in an exclusive interview with 7NEWS Friday.

Marc Ramsey, an inmate in the Arapahoe County Jail, admitted that he sent the letter.On Friday afternoon, the US AttorneyTroy Eid announced Ramsey will be charged with knowingly threatening to harm or kill through the U.S. mail. The charge is punishable up to five years in federal prison and up to $250,000 fines.

"We won't stand for threats of this kind in Colorado," Eid said. "A death threat is not a legitimate form of political expression," Eid said.

Hmmmm. Let's see: Men with rifles, a caches of other guns and ammo, all talking about killing Obama ... they're not a "serious threat." But a man in jail sending baby powder, well, that's a "serious threat."

Lighten up, Francis.

Despite the injustices seen in the black-helicopter rantings of Neiwert, reality is something quite different.

Marc Ramsey, the black inmate, managed to successfully send the MCCain campaign the following letter, laced with a white powder.

Senator McCain,

IF you are reading this then you are already Dead!
Unless of course you can't or don't breathe.
There are numerous substances which are deadly for humans to inhale.
There are just as many time periods for signs of illness to show, by which time it's to late.
Who expects to develop cancer 40 years after Vietnam?
Only those that knew the risk and side effects of Agent Orange.
DoD, DOW, Diamond Shamrock, U.S. Surgeon General
You're out of time.
Allahu Akbar

Akeem Ramsel El

For the threat, Ramsey faces up to 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The three morons that Neiwert thinks is getting off lightly? They're only doing so in Neiwert's bizarre community-based reality:

Shawn Robert Adolf, age 33. Adolf is charged with one count of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, one count of possession of body armor by a violent felon, and one count of possession of Methamphetamine.

Nathan Dwaine Johnson, age 32. Johnson is charged with one count of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, and one count of possession of Methamphetamine.

Tharin Robert Gartrell, age 28. Gartrell is charged with one count of possession of Methamphetamine.

If convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, the defendants face not more than 10 years in federal prison, and up to a $250,000 fine. If convicted of possession of body armor by a violent felon, the defendant will face not more than 3 years in federal prison, and up to a $250,000 fine. If convicted of possession of Methamphetamine, the defendants face either 2 years in federal prison, or up to 20 years, depending on the amount of Methamphetamine possessed.

Adolf faces a sentence ranging up to 15 years and up to a $500,000 fine, or up to 35 years if he was arrested with enough meth.

Johnson faces a sentence ranging up to 12 years and up to a $250,000 fine, or up to 33 years if he was arrested with enough meth.

Gartrell, the high-on-meth driver that started this whole mess with a traffic stop, faces 2-20 years in prison.

And yet in Dave Neiwert's fantasy world, it is these guys are getting off lightly compared to the self-described terrorist sympathizer's potential sentence of up to five years.

That's some racist double standard.

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Get ready for Barack Spears and the Temple of Duh:

As if a Rocky Mountain coronation were not lofty enough, Barack Obama will aim for Mount Olympus when he accepts his party's nomination atop an enormous, Greek-columned stage - built by the same cheesy set team that put together Britney Spears' last tour.

[snip]

"We've done Britney's sets and a whole bunch of rock shows, but this was far more elaborate and complicated and we had to do it in far less time," said Allen, of RDA Entertainment.

"The biggest challenge has been making sure we don't damage the playing field underneath."

Asked who is harder to satisfy - the Democrats or Britney - Allen replied: "I better not answer that."

Honestly? I just hope Obama remembers his underwear.

(h/t/ Hot Air)

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As the overwhelming majority of Americans who aren't political junkies begin to get to know Barack Obama, it becomes increasingly obvious why first-term Senators with exceedingly thin resumes rarely ever run for President.

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Instead of making a good-faith effort to explain his 21-year working and personal relationship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, Barack Obama has chosen another route in an attempt quell the building controversy; he's having his campaign incite his followers to shout down his critics.

Obama's campaign has previously threatened broadcasters who would carry an ad linking Obama to Ayers, and has also asked the Department of Justice to shut down the group that made the ad.

The intense campaign to silence dissenting voice has also included a recent campaign email asking Obama supporters to deluge Chicago-based broadcaster WGN with complaints to pressure the radio station to cancel an appearance by Stanley Kurtz, a writer with National Review who is researching the documents of the Chicago Annenburg Challenge.

The Challenge, co-founded by Ayers and chaired by Obama, took tens of millions dollars in grant funds and public and private matching funds with the stated goal of increasing the quality of education in Chicago. The program was utterly ineffective, and some critics are suggesting that the challenge was little more than a slush fund for left-wing radicals. At least $175,000 was funneled to Ayers' friend, SDS radical, Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (CPML) chairman and Barack Obama supporter Mike Klonsky's Small School Workshop.

I wrote earlier this week:

Barack Obama wants to convince us that it shouldn't matter that Bill Ayers, Ayer's dead terrorist bomber girlfriend, his terrorist wife and their cronies declared war on the United States and murdered its citizens. The murders, the treason, the bombings of American targets in a war they declared... all distractions.

I was dead wrong. The Barack Obama campaign doesn't want to convince us of anything. It simple wants to threaten and bully critics into silence.

Freedom of speech is nice, if you can keep it. As a blogger, I wonder how much we'll have left if ever faced with a Justice Department run by the Silencer in Chief.

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"Even by the still-falling standards of the degenerate conservative movement, this was a disgusting post."

Degenerate, disgusting, whatever.

What he doesn't and can't call me is wrong.

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1 Heh. When someone cites you as an example of the degenerate conservative movement, and describes your post as 'disgusting'? 'Wrong' is sorta assumed. But hey, nice chesty rhetoric, complete with italics. Who knows? It might even have sounded convincing when you practiced it in the mirror this morning. Well. Probably not.

Posted by: Miles Archer at August 27, 2008 09:52 AM (/zhOT)

2 you know you're over the target when you start taking flak.

Posted by: HKpistole at August 27, 2008 10:00 AM (/j9KS)

3 Miles, I think not. The reason Sully did't outright call him wrong was because he couldn't. He knows CY is right, and hates that fact, so he resorts to the one pathetic avenue left to him: Insult. No leg to stand on, resorting to poop-flinging? Kinda y'alls thing, ain't it?

Posted by: HKpistole at August 27, 2008 10:15 AM (/j9KS)

4 No one can say your statement is wrong. If I were to say that John McCain is secretly a Muslim, you can't PROVE that I'm wrong... You can say I'm over the top and that I'm so partisan that I've lost perspective and a good deal of logic... and you'd be right. I'm not left, I'm not right... I'm center, and I lean conservative in most of my views, but seriously Sir, this kind of partisan crap is what turns people off of politics. If you want to attack Obama's policies, high taxes, economic worldview, and lack of experience... Fine... Those things are all tangible and stated. But seriously, when you hit the point where you start speculating on the inner thoughts and motives of the other guys... you are in the wrong place. Does it get you attention? Yes. Are you part of the problem? Yes. Don't put yourself in the same category as Kos and Moore...

Posted by: Josh at August 27, 2008 10:24 AM (Mk6i+)

5 i guess you never took a logic course at east carolina univeristy, did you? it shows

Posted by: you stink at August 27, 2008 10:54 AM (CoymV)

6 You're a dangerous lunatic. Positive speculation about the assassination of a presidential candidate borders on treason, in my book. Oh, but you weren't thinking it, hoping for it. "The left" is. Sure, asshole. I came here expecting a retraction and apology. Instead, I see gloating. Fucking odious.

Posted by: MAX HATS at August 27, 2008 11:29 AM (Gr6ja)

7 Have you noticed that Sullivan has still not corrected his post that falsely asserted that a member of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was now attacking McCain? (The newspaper article he linked to clearly said that the individual was a Kerry supporter.) Just goes to show that you can get a degree from Oxford and still be a shameless liar.

Posted by: pst314 at August 27, 2008 11:34 AM (OA547)

8 Why would anybody pretending to intelligence read Andrew Sullivan, much less comment on what she said and try to drive traffic to her?

Posted by: Larry Sheldon at August 27, 2008 11:42 AM (OmeRL)

9 People, do not even dignify this post by commenting. Yuck!

Posted by: tim at August 27, 2008 11:48 AM (E+vDR)

10 Yeah - unlike the failing standards of the liberal movements own depraved vile delusional paranoid just plain vicious left wing whack jobs called " 9/11 Truthers" who are too ghoulish to be taken seriously by anyone-- except liberals!

Posted by: Huntress at August 27, 2008 12:03 PM (Qn9iF)

11 Can someone clear up for me what a "Malkin Award" is? The last I seriously read Sullivan was back when he was handing out the "Derbyshire Award" in 'honor' of John Derbyshire at NR (not long after that I stopped reading Sullivan when he kept on proclaiming that there was a priest sex abuse scandal because celibacy, apparently, makes people sex-mad rapists and not because the priests involved were, based on the grossly disproportionate amount of abuse directed at adolescent males, homosexuals).

Posted by: ECM at August 27, 2008 12:26 PM (q3V+C)

12 ahhh man... what happened? Now we got trolls everywhere!!!

Posted by: Big Country at August 27, 2008 12:51 PM (niydV)

13 We all know the only thing the left has is ad hominum attacks. They can't and won't try to refute the facts because they can't. That's exactly why they love the courts so much, they know damn well they can't get their agenda approved by the voters.

Posted by: Capitalist Infidel at August 27, 2008 01:40 PM (kNqJV)

14 I wonder how many of the moonbat commenters here have actually read Michelle Malkin's book Unhinged, which documents the tolerant, peaceful, enlightened, progressive, left's actual violence against those who have the misfortune not to share the same ideas ( I forgot, they can't read Malkin, she's a monster, they have to criticize her without reading her.). Dave Neiwert gleefully fantasizes about right wing nutjobs lurking around every corner waiting to do harm to patriotic leftists and other real Americans. Projection is something the left has been teaching in liberalism 101 and it shows in the comment section today.

Posted by: daleyrocks at August 27, 2008 01:52 PM (i/fLn)

15 "Projection is something the left has been teaching..." Ah, so when CY developed super powers that let him see into places liberals don't talk about and discover this unmentionable "truth", he wasn't projecting there, he was given a true gift to look into the psyche of all liberals and determine what they truly fantasize about...nothing more than tossing red meat to the masses... The problem with stereotyping (all liberals do this, all conservative do that) is that its neither right or wrong. Stereotypes turn out to be more of the exception than the rule. Obama probably gets death threats every day in the mail, most high profile politicians do. Suggesting that anyone wants their own leader to die in order to make them a martyr is degenerate and disgusting. The fact that he didn't state it was wrong is because by default, making a disgusting remark is wrong. But hey, if conservatives think spewing disgusting and degenerative ideas are the way to distinguish themselves from liberals to those independent voters, by all means keep at it...(please note the sarcasm here...)

Posted by: matta at August 27, 2008 03:02 PM (RKMVD)

16 matta - Read Malkin's book.

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Someone should ask Barack Obama point blank: at what point during his 21-year relationship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers (and to a lesser-documented but no less real extent, Ayer's terrorist wife and Charles Manson fan, Bernadine Dohrn) did Ayers and Obama discuss Ayer's involvement with the Weather Underground, and what was said?

In over two decades of knowing each other and running in Chicago's political cauldron of aging New Left radicals, SDS leftovers, graying Weatherman, Marxist-Leninists, angry activist priests and fringe religions, the "glory days" of the 1960s and 70s must have come up in conversation.

Did the bombings ever come up in conversations at one another's homes? Did they ever have side conversations before or after the official business of their many working relationships in the ABCs Coalition, the Woods Fund, and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge?

Mr. Obama owes us an explanation.

For his part, a three-year-old interview in a current Ayer's story fills in part of the puzzle:

In the interview, conducted three years after the September 11 attacks, Ayers argued the U.S. government had carried out "many other acts of terror ... even recently, that are comparable," and claimed he and his bomb-planting comrades were "restrained" in their actions.

Ayers, now a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, served with Barack Obama on the board of the charitable Woods Fund of Chicago for three years and helped launch Obama's political career in Illinois by hosting in his Hyde Park home an informal campaign event for the future state senator in 1995.

Ayers claimed the Weathermen were driven by "hope and love," not despair, and said he did not think the group's violent acts, targeting federal officials and local law enforcement officers, were "a big deal."

What a very interesting psychological profile Mr. Ayers must have.

Was it "hope" or "love" that led his fellow Weathermen to purchase two cases of dynamite, lengths of pipe, and roofing nails to build anti-personnel bombs?

Ayers was the boyfriend of fellow Weatherman bomb-builder Diana Oughten. Oughten was thought to be constructing massive pipe-bombs that used roofing nails for shrapnel in a Greenwich Village townhome, when they accidentally went off.

The target of those bombs wasn't to be a statute in an empty park at night.

It wasn't a federal building targeted at a time when most employees would have gone home.

The anti-personnel bombs she and other Weathermen were constructing were designed expressly to take the greatest human toll possible, and they were to be placed at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey, targeting young soldiers, their wives, their girlfriends.

The multiple bombs were built to cause as much loss of life as possible, similar what Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold tried to do with their failed propane bombs at Columbine.

But the Weathermen never made it to their target of choice. The bombs they meant for innocents detonated as they were being assembled in a townhouse basement, killing terrorists Oughten, Ted Gold, and Terry Robbins.

Perhaps they would be happy to know that the bombs worked as designed, if prematurely. From the pieces of Oughten they were able to collect after the blast and other evidence, they think Oughten was standing over one of the bombs, perhaps with her hands on it, when it went off.

If the Weathermen had been successful in detonating multiple nail-filled bombs a dance filled with off-duty soldiers and their dates, would Bill Ayers still claim that the bombings of his group were " no big deal"?

Bloody taffeta and lace and the images of shocked, mutilated survivors would have changed that equation.

Just because the Weathermen were spectacularly unsuccessful in their attempts to prepare for mass murder doesn't make them any less vile.

Nor does it excuse Barack Obama from consorting with them for over 20 years.

Update: Andy McCarthy runs very much a parallel route, Bill Ayers: Unrepentant LYING Terrorist.

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1 IMO, Ayers is going to become very prominent in the election soon after BHO is nominated as the Democrats' candidate. And a lot of the Americans that are undecided are going to seriously question BHO's judgment and choice of acquaintances. You can't pick your family, but you can pick your friends.

Posted by: Penfold at August 27, 2008 09:31 AM (lF2Kk)

2 Well, it took William F. Buckley 48 years to repudiate his support of segregation, Bull Connor and the mobs defending their "folkways and mores" by attacking blacks. So Ayers still has a few years to beat him to the punch.

Posted by: nitpicker at August 27, 2008 11:59 AM (8NiWI)

3 What I cannot figure out is how Obama can possibly qualify for a Top Secret security clearance. The questionable associations, relatives, and overseas involvements must combine to make him highly ineligible to obtain a top-level security clearance. As such, he should immediately be disqualified from serving as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

Posted by: Lone Ranger at August 27, 2008 12:13 PM (wrZV5)

4 nitpicker: Even if what you state wasn't a bald-faced lie (re: Buckley), but the fact that, even in light of what Ayers did, you can't just condemn the man, and his associates, speaks volumes about your (lack of) character. You can chalk your post up to just one more in the long line of liberal "well, your guys did something bad so so can mine so who are we to judge, nyahnyahnyah" reasoning.

Posted by: ECM at August 27, 2008 12:14 PM (q3V+C)

5 He didn't think the violence was a "big deal?" Um....I bet Sergeant Brian V. McDonnell would disagree, well, he would if the "Weathermen" hadn't killed him. What a bunch of scumbags!

Posted by: Capitalist Infidel at August 27, 2008 01:45 PM (kNqJV)

6 I've met Ayers before. He's polite, follows academic decorum, and was not carrying explosives as far as I could tell. If you met him, you would think he was just another 60s radical turned professor. I think Barry just didn't pay attention to him beyond the obvious.

Posted by: OmegaPaladin at August 27, 2008 04:11 PM (pT/QE)

7 I was in college in the 1960s and I witnessed the SDS movement which morphed into the Weathermen then the Weather underground. Bill Ayers, Diana Oughten and Bernadette Dohrn weren't sympathetic figures. They were hard, ruthless criminals who terrorized the country. When their Ft Dix bomb detonated prematurely, Diana Oughten got the Darwin award but most of the others wanted to press on. One guy emerges as a tragic figure - Mark Rudd. Rudd was a young radical who realized they had gone too far. He teaches at a Jr College in California and realizes that the Weathermen were wrong and says so. I hate him for his terrorism but I respect him for realizing what they had done. Ayers and Dohrn are human waste.

Posted by: arch at August 27, 2008 05:14 PM (fKThr)

8 I tend to agree with Omegapaladin. He probably felt that Ayers was just talking tough about his glory days. Ayers sounds like a sociopath. Since he felt that he hadn't gone far enough, did he perhaps think a White House invite might give him a chance to go further? Clearly, this is an example of poor decision making on Obama's part. I think Obama just doesn't believe people actually do bad things in the burbs.

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Barack Obama coverup attempt fails:

At issue is Obama's opposition to Illinois legislation in 2001, 2002 and 2003 that would have defined any aborted fetus that showed signs of life as a "born alive infant" entitled to legal protection, even if doctors believe it could not survive.

Obama opposed the 2001 and 2002 "born alive" bills as backdoor attacks on a woman's legal right to abortion, but he says he would have been "fully in support" of a similar federal bill that President Bush had signed in 2002, because it contained protections for Roe v. Wade.

We find that, as the NRLC said in a recent statement, Obama voted in committee against the 2003 state bill that was nearly identical to the federal act he says he would have supported. Both contained identical clauses saying that nothing in the bills could be construed to affect legal rights of an unborn fetus, according to an undisputed summary written immediately after the committee's 2003 mark-up session.

The choice of a temple theme for Obama's stage now seems even more appropriate, as his nomination is indeed turning out to be a Greek tragedy.

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Progressive university town that Chapel Hill is, they'll probably have some there protest the decision which resulted from Taheri-Azar's attempt to kill UNC-Chapel Hill students in The Pit with a rented SUV.

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There are a lot of people who have hopes of Barack Obama being the target of an assassination attempt during the Democratic National Convention this week in Denver, and not all of them are his enemies. The arrest of a four drug users with stolen weapons and a single outlandish assassination claim has made that all too clear.

Local news reporters see the possibility of a career-enhancing national story. National news reporters in mass market liberal enclaves see an opportunity to once again push a meme they've been hammering at for over a year, of a racist American heartland. This meme, of Americans as violent backwards yokels, is a meme that smug Europeans dearly love as it helps them maintain the delusion of continental sophistication in the face of their own cultural decline.

Of course, none of this would be possible without the unhinged few in a nation of 300 million that would like to see Obama dead, including thus far a halfwit bail-bondsman wannabe, a Charlotte, NC man suffering the lingering effects of a brain injury, and now a quartet of meth-addled idiots with rumored ties to white supremacists and outlaw bikers.

As you may well imagine, bloggers pounced on the story as the local news did, taking shreds of information and trying to determine just how serious of a threat Barack Obama faced.

As it turns out, not much at all:

A half dozen federal security officials have told The Mouth that the supposed plot to assassinate Barack Obama during his Thursday acceptance speech in Denver by four armed dope suspects was considered a bunch of hooey.

Tharin Robert Gartrell, 28, and several other drug suspects linked to white supremacist groups were busted Sunday after Aurora, Colo., cops saw him driving a rented pickup erratically.

"What's in plain view? Guns and a bulletproof vest," a federal agent assigned to the Democrats' Denver nominating convention told The Mouth. "One rifle had a scope sighted in at 750 yards. But he said they werent his guns."

Cops went looking for Gartrell's pals at two hotels. At the second hotel, their knock on a door prompted a suspect to leap out his sixth-story window and break his ankle in the fall, sources said. During interrogation, one of the suspects dimed out a buddy for allegedly threatening to kill Obama, officials said.

"They all had meth with them. There is no evidence of a plot other than one guy's word, and meth heads aren't that reliable (with the truth)," the federal agent said.

Meth heads aren't exactly known for being a member of any reality-based community, and so the story might have flown completely under the radar as so much drug-addled hot air were it not for the fact that weapons, ammunition and a spotting scope were recovered during the initial arrest.

But what of the weapons, and the plot alleged by a single suspect? Police have not released much in the way of detail about the weapons or any plot, but as no key details have been released to the contrary, it seems likely the scope rifles were likely factory deer rifles and conventional commercial scopes, details which authorities are expected to release in a press conference later today.

The claim of the rifle being sighted at 750 yards is simple hearsay repeating of the suspect's claim; one cannot determine wher a weapon is zeroed with any certainly by simply looking at the weapon's scope. If the police haven't fired it, they simply don't know if it is sighted at 750 yards, or if it has even been sighted at all. One must also take into account that the weapons were plain view with no protective case in the suspect's pickup truck when confiscated, and the jarring of a moderately-sized pothole could easily render a scope's zero worthless at all but close range.

There is little chance that those arrested posed any serious threat, or even had a plan at all.

An average shooter with a scoped rifle can hit a man-sized target at 100 yards with regularity. An average shooter who has been practicing can make the same shot at 200 yards with no discernible change in point-of-aim. A good shooter who knows his gun, ammunition, and wind conditions can make the shot at 300 yards most of the time, but much beyond that, wind drift, ballistics, shooter experience, imperfections in trigger control and limitations of the weapon and ammunition make such shots improbable even on a stationary target with plenty of time to prepare and fire.

Simply put, there is very little chance that anyone outside of a highly trained team of a well-trained precision long-distance shooter and a equally competent spotter could make such a shot as one at 750 yards, nor even any verified opportunity that Obama would present himself as a target in any venue at that sort of range.

Many leading liberal bloggers, of course, aren't waiting around to determine if there was an actual threat to Obama. A possibility of a threat, however non-viable, is all the excuse they need to blame the racist and ideological hate that liberals just know is at the core of every Republican's soul, and even claim that McCain needs to denounce such morons, as if he had any role, knowledge, or ties to a group of no-account meth users.

I could of course point out that these same liberal bloggers and their ideological kin have been silent in recent years as Andrew Mickel, a radical left-wing progressive Indymedia contributor, earned a spot on death row for assassinating a police officer because of his exposure to radical left wing ideologies. I could just as easily point out they've turned a blind eye time and again to video games, tee shirts, "art," and left wing hate speech which has advocated violence again conservative political figures, authority figures, and the the military. Hell... even Barack Obama himself includes among his friends of many years left-wing terrorists and murderers.

But perhaps the most sinister undertone is the hint of hopefulness among a certain element of the left wing that perhaps someone will succeed in assassinating Barack Obama.

Such a tragedy would serve as a confirmation of their firmly held beliefs that conservatives are evil, and could possibly trigger a backlash that would fill the anarchists among them with glee. At the same time, an Obama death would provide progressives with a martyred hero in place of what troubles many of them the most; deep-seated and well-placed fears that Barack Obama is precisely what his record suggests, a shallow, vain, and arrogant opportunist who has created impossible expectations with little possibility that he capable of coming close to meeting those impossibly inflated expectations.

In places liberals don't want to talk about, they'd rather have a martyr than a failure. That is the reason they pounce upon even the remotest possibility of Obama's untimely end with such fervor.

The audacity of hope, indeed.

Update: Druggies never posed a threat.

Three men who authorities initially feared were plotting to assassinate Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention are facing only gun charges — signaling they never posed a real threat.

A federal law enforcement official in Denver said the three men and a woman also arrested on Sunday are not expected to be charged with making threatening statements, conspiracy or other national security-related crimes.

[snip]

The likelihood of an assassination attempt on Democratic presidential candidate Obama was downplayed by law enforcement officials in Colorado and Washington.

"We're absolutely confident there is no credible threat to the candidate, the Democratic National Convention, or the people of Colorado," U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said in a statement.

Another AP account offers telling information, including statements that could reasonably be interpreted as clues that the weapons may have been small caliber, perhaps rimfire rifles.

"The capability and their opportunity and what they had for their weaponry — I don't see that they would have been able to carry it out," the official said on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

Nearly any centerfire rifle would have to be assumed as at least a somewhat credible threat as an assassination weapon out to several hundred yards at a minimum, but the official seems to indicate that the weapons recovered were not viewed as a significant threat with his remarks about the capability of those arrested and their weaponry. While rimfire rifles can indeed be lethal at close range, they fire tiny bullets at relatively low velocities, severely limiting their effective range.

This seems to be further hinted at in concluding paragraphs:

Law enforcement officials were also investigating whether the men were linked to vandalism shootings that targeted at least two federal buildings in Denver over the past two weeks. Windows were shot at the U.S. Custom House and the U.S. Military Entrance Processing Station on the same street in Denver's downtown Federal District.

Additionally, a bullet was recovered from a Hertz rental car that was hit on Aug. 15, and authorities are now looking to see if it could have matched the guns seized from the men.

If shots fired into federal buildings are only considered vandalism, it once again seems to indicate rimfire weapons. Additionally, most centerfire bullets, rifle or pistol, will either complete penetrate through the sheet metal and glass of cars, or shatter upon impact, in most cases not leaving behind much to recover. A rimfire bullet fired into a vehicle, however, could very well not have enough escape the vehicle or fragment, meaning that authorities could recover a bullet and potentially link it to other attack via the rifling marks left on a bullet.

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1 "Barack Obama himself includes among his friends of many years left-wing terrorists and murderer" What murderer are you talking about?

Posted by: Nikolay at August 26, 2008 11:08 AM (lgv3U)

2 "Barack Obama himself includes among his friends of many years left-wing terrorists and murderers" What murderers are you talking about?

Posted by: Nikolay at August 26, 2008 11:09 AM (lgv3U)

3 I agree that it wasn't much of a plot. I do take exception to your analysis regarding how difficult a shot might be. When I was in the army we were expected to hit a pop-up at 300 yards without a scope. We did regularly and we were not graduates of any sniper school. probably never woul

Posted by: Seth at August 26, 2008 11:55 AM (ym9Ho)

4 Seth, Thanks for your comment - I was beginning to wonder if the Army was training supermen based on what we need just to qualify. Note: any average person with zeroed mechanical sights (not a scope) should be able to knock off the 50 and 100 meter targets all day long from a supported position. The 200s and 250s should also be regularly hit. The 300... well, I tended to save those bullets.

Posted by: SGT Jeff (USAR) at August 26, 2008 12:22 PM (yiMNP)

5 Nikolai, where do we start? PM Raila Odinga of Kenya, first cousin of Barack, is a bloody Marxist hybrid, who wants to impose Sharia against the wishes of the US backed government...Barack flew to Kenya and supports him wholeheartedly!!! BTW, Odinga's son is named Fidel, probably one of your heroes, Nikolay! We know that Che Guevara posters were placed in Obama's Houston campaign office. We know of his association with William Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn. We know of his associations with Muslim radicals in Chicago who have funneled money to Hezbollah and Hamas. We know of his desire to meet, without pre-conditions, Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez, Kim Jong Il, Ahmedinejad, Assad, etc. We know he thinks we can't lecture the Russians about Georgia, because we are an invading force throughout the world. We know his muse in Hawaii was Frank Marshall Davis, an unrepentant communist. I can go on and on....

Posted by: Carlos Echevarria at August 26, 2008 12:25 PM (WTS66)

6 Look for Dave Neiwert at Orcinus to get all lathered up about this one. He's about the number one fabulist on right wing hate groups and conspiracies. Thet're right around every corner for Dave. It's a wonder he can sleep at night.

Posted by: daleyrocks at August 26, 2008 12:31 PM (i/fLn)

7 Hey Carlos! Since you seem to believe every email that you've ever received, I've got some money in a Nigerian bank account that I'll let you keep 20% of. Just send me your bank account info and I'll be sure to wire it to you.

Posted by: Nuff Ced McGreavey at August 26, 2008 01:17 PM (U1V8D)

8 Carlos, even by the non-existent standards that you guys enjoy, he asked for the murderers of Obama's acquaintance. You mentioned people who freak you out, but ideology you don't agree with does not a murderer make. Nice try with Bernadette Dorn though. Actually, not. It's pathetic. Really. But let's play the stupid game: Do you know that George Bush met -- and fell in love with -- Russian KGB butcher Vladimir Putin? You guys scrape whatever it is that's 20 yards beneath the barrel.

Posted by: Jay B. at August 26, 2008 01:18 PM (x7Shh)

9 IIRC, when I served we zeroed our M-16s at 25 meters. Given the trajectory this also meant they were zeroed at 250 meters. Like Seth, I regularly hit the 300 meter pop-up silhouettes and I'm no professional sniper.

Posted by: Itchy Brother at August 26, 2008 01:19 PM (mYJgW)

10 What murderers are you talking about? Barack Obama's fundraiser hostess Bernadine Dohrn, in specific, who is believed to have to have both built and placed the bomb at a San Francisco's Park Police Station. FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl said Bill Ayers told him Dorhn was responsible for the blast. San Francisco Police Sgt. Brian McDonnell died two days later, and is the only bomb death in the SFPD's long history. * * * Regarding the ability to hit the target at "x" distance, I see that many of you are citing your military marksmanship experience, where M16s with open sights are used in slow fire prone to what, 500 yards? I'm not saying that folks can't hit such targets by any stretch of the imagination and perhaps should have phrased things much more specifically, but that they have to be trained shooters, especially if you're only going to get one shot, firing at a target on a different vertical plane. When you get ranging shots, on horizontal targets at known distances, effectively using previous misses to dial follow-up rounds on target, of course you can hit the target. It's when you have one shot, and one shot only at unknown distances on different planes where it gets very difficult to make the longer shots with one bullet.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at August 26, 2008 01:41 PM (xNV2a)

11 Barack Obama's fundraiser hostess Bernadine Dohrn, in specific, who is believed to have to have both built and placed the bomb at a San Francisco's Park Police Station. FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl said Bill Ayers told him Dorhn was responsible for the blast. San Francisco Police Sgt. Brian McDonnell died two days later, and is the only bomb death in the SFPD's long history. You'd think that armed with hearsay evidence from an FBI informant, they'd have been able to at least arrest Dorhn and charge her with murder. But they didn't. Were the cops that inept? The feds? Hmmm.... Why they even opened the case up again in 1999 -- and no indictments, no indictments were handed down. So what's the proof you have that EVERYONE else didn't have back in the day?

Posted by: Jay B. at August 26, 2008 02:05 PM (x7Shh)

12 The Left's Obama Assassination Fantasy Cracker...please.

Posted by: Foreigner at August 26, 2008 02:08 PM (slCOz)

13 The Feds was that inept... if you want to Google it, they screwed up a lot of prosecutions with illegally obtained evidence via COINTELPRO. It is hardly surprising that cases that have their primary evidence compromised of ten result in failed prosecution, and even less surprising that lacking such evidence, a grand jury convened almost two decades later couldn't find enough additional evidence to prosecute. There is a difference between having evidence, and having legal evidence, just as not being convicted doesn't mean people aren't guilty as Hell... right, O.J.? As Ayers himself once famously said regarding his own treasonous, terrorist acts: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country."

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at August 26, 2008 02:15 PM (xNV2a)

14 Not to mention, on all Army down-range feedback lanes, the target only needs to be nicked to get scored a hit. I recall during my qualifications, hitting the berm on the 200 meter target, still recording a "hit" because the ricochet hit the target or kicked up debri enough to still score on it. Drill Sgt was laughing and said "Grace of god, private!"

Posted by: Jimi at August 26, 2008 02:17 PM (YoMR0)

15 All down-range feedback lanes in Army qualifications require only a "nick" to score a hit. I recorded a hit on a 200 meter target when my round struck the berm right in front of the target, the ricochet or debri kicked up by the round still managed to knock down the target (which I didn't see) while my drill sgt was yelling "Grace of God private!" behind me. My spotter/scorer had to tell me WTF he was yelling about afterwards. I'm lucky it was my practice qualifcation cause his laughter caused me to miss my next target.

Posted by: Jimi at August 26, 2008 02:30 PM (YoMR0)

16 >>There is a difference between having evidence, and having legal evidence So, where's your evidence, peckerwood?

Posted by: Notnowjohn at August 26, 2008 02:50 PM (yx2x9)

17 Let's see: six goofballs in New jersey hatch a half-baked plan to storm a major army base with rifles. That's a major terrorist plot that justifies the war on terror. Four goofballs in Denver hatch a half-baked plan to assassinate a presidential candidate with rifles. That's a paranoid liberal fantasy bordering on macabre desire among liberals to see it actually happen. Hmmm...

Posted by: LostSailor at August 26, 2008 03:44 PM (D8XQ+)

18 "...a racist American heartland. This meme, of Americans as violent backwards yokels...." You and most of your commentors have proved the meme to be true. You are a hateful, ignorant bigot.

Posted by: tommo at August 26, 2008 03:48 PM (xViDH)

19 Do you know that George Bush met -- and fell in love with -- Known murderer Laura bush? Regarding this, though: There are a lot of people who have hopes of Barack Obama being the target of an assassination attempt during the Democratic National Convention this week in Denver, What the fuck is wrong with you?

Posted by: Duros62 at August 26, 2008 03:58 PM (ZJxZ3)

20 Was this whole bit a "sympathy ploy" for his Obamaness or something? As if a geeked up crank head could hit the broad side of a bark an a real good day. JEEEESH!

Posted by: Tonto (USA) at August 26, 2008 04:24 PM (Qv1xF)

21 Back in my day every Marine had to qualify at 200, 300 and 500 yards with non-scoped M-16s. I can hit a much smaller than man-sized target 100 yards out today with an iron-site lever action rifle. While I agree with the rest of your analysis I think you pretty badly under-estimate weapon range and accuracy.

Posted by: Cowboy is a compliment at August 26, 2008 05:07 PM (KtP6p)

22 So you're saying that Lee Harvey Oswald couldn't possibly have killed Kennedy? That's comforting.

Posted by: Shygetz at August 26, 2008 05:14 PM (Gl3TQ)

23 Oswald, a Marine Corps-trained sharpshooter, fired his first shot at JFK at just 58 yards, and his final shot at 88 yards.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at August 26, 2008 05:35 PM (HcgFD)

24 Shygetz, Oswald was a Marine-trained marksman who once certified as a sharpshooter. The shots he fired at JFK were between 58 yards for the first shot, and 88 yards for the longest.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at August 26, 2008 05:42 PM (HcgFD)

25 I see that many of you are citing your military marksmanship experience, where M16s with open sights are used in slow fire prone to what, 500 yards? 500 meters actually, prone position, slow fire, open sites. 10 out of 10 in the black on a man sized target, April 1982. I was dished one miss in the 300 offhand position though. 236 out of 250 possible including the (supposed) miss. I paid attention to the range instructor though.

Posted by: DaveW at August 26, 2008 05:44 PM (mfNJm)

26 A rifle sighted for 750 yard shots in the hands of a meth user is less dangerous to the intended target than the surrounding bystanders. Several years ago when I shot silhouettes fairly regularly, I had to give up coffee for 5 days prior to going to the range in order to even place the crosshairs on the 500 yard ram long enough to have a chance of hitting it. A meth addict would be shaking so severely that it would be highly unlikely that s/he would ever find the target in the view window of the scope at 750 yards, even using bench bags.

Posted by: Boss429 at August 26, 2008 06:09 PM (JP9Jo)

27 I will note that though the autorities are playing down the actual threat level to Sen. Obama these dorks aren't being released. Some expressed their desire to kill him and had weapons. As drugged out and stupid as they likely are, they are going to get the full course of federal law. And that will not be fun for them. Threat to a presidential candidate: yes. Capable of pulling it off: unlikely. Length of likely stay at Club Fed: the maximum. My reaction: Give 'em the max that can be done. They should have stopped at cow-tipping.

Posted by: Mikey NTH at August 26, 2008 06:14 PM (TUWci)

28 They should have stopped at cow-tipping. BWAAAAAHAAAAHAAAA!!!!! "It's funny because it's true." ~Homer J. Simpson

Posted by: dixiechiken at August 26, 2008 07:05 PM (V4FvP)

29 Interesting. Real people with guns making threats=liberal fantasy. Rumors, innuendo, and no indictments=conservative open-and-shut case. Nice sock puppet show you got running here.

Posted by: BogBear at August 26, 2008 08:11 PM (MndNs)

30 ...that smug Europeans dearly love as it helps them maintain the delusion of continental sophistication in the face of their own cultural decline. Ahh, the redneck cultural critique--always devastating...and hilarious. ...I think you pretty badly under-estimate weapon range and accuracy. So, after all the weapons wankery over the years, CY, it turns out you know as much about firearms as everything else you opine on. Quick, how many briquettes does it take to barbecue four breasts, broil two thick sirloins and braize a boat of brats, simultaneously? Truly, CY, think about all of the beds you've wetted at the first mention of what turned out to be ne'er-do-well terrorist wannabes. Were you merely fantasizing?

Posted by: Dolf Fenster at August 26, 2008 11:35 PM (Dsy5m)

31 As Ayers himself once famously said regarding his own treasonous, terrorist acts: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country."He talked about being guilty of bombing buildings, not about murdering people. If fact, he is quite emphatic that he never killed anyone.

Posted by: Nikolay at August 27, 2008 03:52 AM (RNpZs)

32 Frankly, if you can't hit something consistently and repeatedly at 250+ yards with only adjustable iron sights, then you're not a shooter. Apparently the Confederate Yanker needs a scope as surely as he needs the little blue pill.

Posted by: nitpicker at August 27, 2008 07:56 AM (8X9tr)

33 Sweet Christ, you right wing nuts really are... nuts. You really live by the notion that if you say something enough, it actually becomes true. The good news is that Obama WILL be the next president, whether you nutjobs like it or not, and we can begin to move away from your insane thinking. Your time is over, boys.

Posted by: Tony at August 27, 2008 09:43 AM (GLZ/C)

34 Where are these lefties hoping Obama gets assassinated? I live in NYC and I've never met any. I think they must be a figment of your fevered imagination.

Posted by: Robert S. at August 27, 2008 09:45 AM (ocFg6)

35 Thanks for pointing out how well you know LIBERALS. Your capacity for personaly empthy is astounding. Obviously, all of us LIBERALS would like to see Obama murdered. That would be great. In fact, that's why we voted for the guy in the first place. Because we're as conniving and craven as you wingnuts are. Sarcasm aside, George Bush is the most successful murderer in recent world history. McCain is friends with him. Kind of invalidates your whole point about Obama's friends, don't it?

Posted by: Reed at August 27, 2008 09:54 AM (bmgov)

36 You are a fucking PIG.

Posted by: Chaz at August 27, 2008 09:55 AM (fEVvj)

37 This is the most idiotic post I've ever read, and anyone who takes anything you say seriously is worthy of a straight-jacket, as are you...

Posted by: edsbowlingshoe at August 27, 2008 09:57 AM (X9LlJ)

38 This is really a hateful site. I am a fiscal conservative and social tolerant. My politics are much more Goldwater with a few exception, than anything else. I left the party in the 90's with the rise of the Rush Limbaugh and evangelical movement. These people are nothing but opportunists looking to make a buck and don't give a damn about the country. If you want an example of empty hype you need look no further than our current administration. Anyone who took a single class in world history or even had a passing interest in the last 60 years of middle east history knew we were being sold a bill of goods. I grew up lower middle class but succeeded to make an income in the top 2% or so. I am not even the group that this administrations policies help. They are geared to the top .1% or so. Obama is not a bad man. He is a self made man. He comes from a modest background and through his own talents and work made it to his current position. The Democratic party is the worst we have with the exception of Republicans. The best of the Rep party have left. I would have loved to see a Hagel/Bloomberg ticket (in that order) but given our choices of a man stuck in the last century and showing clear evidence of mental decline and Obama, that is easy. Obama is not that liberal. He is left center and very pragmatic in many ways. I long for an America where science and reason rule the day and stupid superstitions and sound bytes and transparent talking heads are seen for what they are.

Posted by: dabouv at August 27, 2008 10:12 AM (UfWP5)

39 "Such a tragedy would serve as a confirmation of their firmly held beliefs that conservatives are evil" Well, no -- but this post is a confirmation of my deeply held belief that conservative bloggers are idiots.

Posted by: dpoyesac at August 27, 2008 10:13 AM (JRxps)

40 Steadfastly reaching for new lows in journalism on a daily basis

Posted by: Mike at August 27, 2008 10:21 AM (1e2Ga)

41 RE: associations with murders It's interested to hear that people concerned with Obama's associations with terrorists. Are you also concerned with Bush's association with terrorist sympathizers such as Elliot Abrams, Otto Reich, John Negroponte - men who participated in supporting terrorists throughout Central America, men who do not believe in democracy in the United States (their participation in the Iran Contra scandal was expressly illegal) or elsewhere (evidenced by their support for dictators in El Salvador and Guatemala)?

Posted by: steelcity at August 27, 2008 10:25 AM (WbBEJ)

42 John McCain is friends with liars and degenerates posing as "conservatives". His friends presented false evidence to the UN to defend an invasion of Iraq. His friends issue illegal signing statements on laws - indicating they are above the law. His friends worked with the global ELITIST to destroy the American economy in just 8 years.... so the rich could become richer ... and the middle class would be willing to accept their scraps. The wealthy elite are waging war on the middle class because they want MORE. Pure Greed. John McCain stands proud with this group of Neo-Cons... That is real. John McCain is supported by the Christian Taliban who want to turn FREE AMERICA into a theocracy. John McCain is friends with White Supremists. John McCain is friends with Gay Bashers. John McCain has all these people supporting him - so by the "logic" of this article - he is friends with them. Fight back the evil of America's true ELITIST - the one working to turn the middle class into their wage slave. No How. No Way. No John McCain. Obama 2008

Posted by: RJP3 at August 27, 2008 10:31 AM (AxGir)

43 This is not journalism --- this is Right Wing Propoganda on a blog. True twisted evil = degenerate faux Conservatives

Posted by: RJP3 at August 27, 2008 10:32 AM (AxGir)

44 Do you ever just sit back and read what you've actually written. I mean, this is literally insane. I hope you catch a bullet in your dome while your family watches. Oh, and I'm voting for McCain.

Posted by: Stacy at August 27, 2008 10:34 AM (jwPlH)

45 Dear Confederate Yankee, Your post is so funny, that I actually feel a mixture of pity and contempt for you. The brutal and sad truth is that, deep down in places you don't want to talk about or admit, you know in your heart of hearts that George W. Bush always was an ignorant empty suit who would never been a Texas dog-catcher if not for his dad's last name. Can you say Lucky Sperm Club? The GOP nomination of the moron known as George W. Bush was the last full-throated gasp that revealed the dark, rotton underbelly of the ignorant Confederates who are still living in 1864 and still trying to fight Lincoln and his "war of Northern Aggression."

Posted by: T.G. at August 27, 2008 10:35 AM (x06XD)

46 A rifle sighted for 750 yard shots in the hands of a meth user is less dangerous to the intended target than the surrounding bystanders. That's comforting. I guess the cops should let them go, then, if all they're going to do is kill innocent bystanders.

Posted by: Mike at August 27, 2008 10:41 AM (dPk0t)

47 The only left wingers who hope Obama gets killed are the ones that you made up in your head to hide from yourself the fact that YOU are the one who wants to see him killed and you don't have the guts to say it. Your lack of honesty and hiding behind imaginary people makes you a coward.

Posted by: bakum at August 27, 2008 10:43 AM (CC2q9)

48 Please tell me this post is a put-on. Right? I mean, as depraved and as vile and as delusional and as paranoid and as just plain vicious as the whack-job right wing can be sometimes, this is just too ghoulish and obscene to be taken even remotely seriously. So, it's got to be just a rather lame and pathetic and not terribly funny attempt at a joke, right? Right?

Posted by: John at August 27, 2008 10:45 AM (qHF5N)

49 A conservative who calls himself "Confederate Yankee" is miffed because some liberals smell racism on Republican breath. Thanks for today's laugh.

Posted by: Tom Turley at August 27, 2008 10:54 AM (Y+8F7)

50 I see a lot of Sullivan readers found their way over here.

Posted by: Lee at August 27, 2008 11:07 AM (TxTIh)

51 Israel is the problem. Not Obama. Let Israel go to the dogs. They have corrupted our body politic and need to be scraped off as the scab they are. LOL

Posted by: Hiyam Lanksy at August 27, 2008 11:10 AM (pgibz)

52 How soon will you be doing the talk-radio circuit for interviews? You know, Limbaugh, Hannity, Michael Savage, etc. America needs to hear your wisdom.

Posted by: T.G. at August 27, 2008 11:19 AM (x06XD)

53 And people want to chastise Obama as being un-patriotic. Look at the comments here, this is open discussion about a political motivated murder. What do you think terrorism is? Its politically motivated violence used against innocents in order to bring about political change. This is America, not Zimbabwe. You are not dignified to salute the stars and stripes

Posted by: Matthew at August 27, 2008 11:41 AM (ElXdQ)

54 What a contemptible fuckstain this "Confederate Yankee" is. He probably throws a party every year on the anniversary of the murder of Martin Luther King. The best thing Yankjob can do for the world is crawl up Michael Savage's ass and die.

Posted by: MoeLarryAndJesus at August 27, 2008 11:53 AM (7BKoM)

55 Fuckstain writes: "FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl said Bill Ayers told him Dorhn was responsible for the blast. San Francisco Police Sgt. Brian McDonnell died two days later, and is the only bomb death in the SFPD's long history." Yeah, and FBI informants never lied about anything that happened in the 60s. You're an ignorant fucking tapeworm.

Posted by: MoeLarryAndJesus at August 27, 2008 11:55 AM (7BKoM)

56 You are a disgusting disgrace of an American.

Posted by: RKF at August 27, 2008 11:58 AM (jEQvl)

57 "I mean, as depraved and as vile and as delusional and as paranoid and as just plain vicious as the whack-job right wing can be sometimes, this is just too ghoulish and obscene to be taken even remotely seriously" John, you mean like the depraved vile delusional paranoid just plain vicious left wing whack jobs called " 9/11 Truthers" who are too ghoulish to be taken seriously by anyone-- except liberals!

Posted by: Huntress at August 27, 2008 12:00 PM (Qn9iF)

58 "I see a lot of Sullivan readers found their way over here." You think? Did the overwrought essence that says "internet drama queen", except with extra estrogen, give it away?

Posted by: RW at August 27, 2008 12:47 PM (mHiW8)

59 Huntress: Uh, no, not really. From what I have been able to discern, most of the "9/11 Truthers" defy easy political categorization. They're just nuts. But, if anything, they more closely resemble the kind of conspiratorial, paranoic, "black helicopter" types that populate various right-wing survivalist web sites than they do your typical lefty.

Posted by: John at August 27, 2008 01:00 PM (qHF5N)

60 damn, Confederate Yankee, looking at these trolls' comments, I gotta say it again: "You know you're over the Target when you start taking Flak"...

Posted by: HKpistole at August 27, 2008 01:10 PM (/j9KS)

61 "they screwed up a lot of prosecutions with illegally obtained evidence via COINTELPRO." We'll be seeing this very same line about why all the supposed terrorists in Guantanamo were release. You would think that Conservatives would be the first to learn from history since they want to live in the past, but hey, wanna try a shortcut with a little torture and cruel and unusual punnishment...you are gonna see the exact same results. Idiots.

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62 Confederate Yankee, Go fuck yourself.

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69 Which part is too vile disgusting and repusive to talk about? Is it the meth-heads, the lefties or the notion of assasination in general? Before you answer, read the links.

Posted by: Pablo at August 28, 2008 06:06 AM (c9oNH)

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This attempt by Barack Obama to minimize the murderous acts of his long-time terrorist friends is pathetic.

Allahpundit notes:

His argument is so weak that it doesn't really qualify as an argument: Yes, we're friendly, but it's ancient history and I denounced what he did, so what’s the big deal about socializing with, um, an unrepentant terrorist? As for the submoronic point about Ayers's crimes having been committed when Obama was eight — a staple of the left's feeble defense of him on this subject — imagine what the reaction would be if Bobby Jindal, say, had struck up a chummy pen pal correspondence with Charles Manson while in his late 20s.

Charles Manson, you say? Yes we can.

On the morning of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, along with a million other readers of the New York Times (including many who would never be able to read the paper again), I opened its pages to be confronted by a color photo showing a middle-aged couple holding hands and affecting a defiant look at the camera. In retrospect, the article's headline could not have been more flesh-crawling: "No Regrets for a Love of Explosives." The couple pictured were Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, former leaders of the 1960s' Weather Underground, America's first terrorist cult. One of their bombing targets, as it happened, was the Pentagon.

"I don't regret setting bombs," Ayers was quoted in the opening line of the Times' profile. "I feel we didn't do enough." In 1969, Ayers and his wife convened a "War Council" in Flint, Mich., whose purpose was to launch a military front inside the United States with the purpose of helping Third World revolutionaries conquer and destroy it. Taking charge of the podium, dressed in high-heeled boots and a leather miniskirt -- her signature uniform -- Dorhn incited the assembled radicals to join the war against "Amerikkka" and create chaos and destruction in the "belly of the beast." Her voice rising to a fevered pitch, Dohrn raised three fingers in a "fork salute" to mass murderer Charles Manson, whom she proposed as a symbol to her troops. Referring to the helpless victims of the Manson Family as the "Tate Eight " (the pregnant actress Sharon Tate had been stabbed in her womb with a fork), Dohrn shouted: "Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim's stomach! Wild! "

Oh, yes, kids.

The lovely Ms. Dohrn, Mrs. Bill Ayers, is not just the hostess of Barack Obama's first fundraiser, but an enthusiastic fan of the way Charles Mason's cult murdered a woman who was almost nine months pregnant. Dorhn is suspected of multiple terrorist acts, including building and planting the bomb that detonated at San Francisco's Park Police Station, killing one police officer and blinding another.

Bill Ayers admits directly being involved in attacks on New York City Police Headquarters, the Capitol building, and the Pentagon.

Fellow Weathermen had 100 sticks of dynamite and boxes of roofing nails they were making into pipe bombs to massacre revelers at an non-commissioned officers dance at Fort Dix. Ayer's girlfriend at the time, Diana Oughton, was building one of the nail-filled bombs when it went off in her hands. Instead of unsuspecting soldiers and their innocent dates, these terrorists killed only themselves, that time.

Dohrn worked at the law firm of Sidley Austin thanks to Ayers family connections with the firm. Other famous lawyers at Sidley Austin you might know include summer associate Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson, later Michelle Obama.

Funny, how the incestuous circle ties itself in knots.

Barack Obama has been involved with the Ayers clan since 1987, when Obama led the Developing Communities Project, a component of the ABCs Coalition coordinated by Bill Ayers and led by Ayer's father. The Woods Fund, the Chicago Anneberg Challenge... Barack and Michelle Obama has a paper trail with the Ayers clan and Bernadine Dohrn that goes back more than two decades, and appears to be not just professional, but personal. Obama felt comfortable having his first fundraiser at the home of well-known terrorists, and I wonder; did the Obama's ever return the favor, having Dorhn and Ayers as guests in their mansion? Does Barack Obama's "judgment to lead" include exposing his elementary-aged daughters to cold-blooded killers in their own home?

Barack Obama wants to convince us that it shouldn't matter that Bill Ayers, Ayer's dead terrorist bomber girlfriend, his terrorist wife and their cronies declared war on the United States and murdered its citizens. The murders, the treason, the bombings of American targets in a war they declared... all distractions. And I was eight.

The simple fact of the matter is that though he has been given numerous chances, Barack Obama will not refute his terrorist friends. Instead, he just attempts to minimize their crimes.

Americans have every right to question why.

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Unity, Obama style:

When talking with the Sun-Times, the Hillary Clinton steering committee member had a word to say about sell-outs:

Taking a final shot at Jones, Cobb said, "Calling me an 'Uncle TomÂ’'is beyond the pale, especially considering where he is [close] with Mayor Daley and with [Gov.] Blagojevich, I am hardly the Uncle Tom here."

Identity politics — it's what's for dinner in Denver. Can anyone doubt that this same kind of political tactic took place all over Chicago and the US? The fact that it’s still happening now says that Denver may turn out to be a meltdown — if not in front of the cameras, then off-stage.

If Team Obama wanted a show of unity from the Pepsi Center, this indicates that they haven't achieved that goal, probably because they've never set the example. For a campaign that promised post-racial politicking, its candidate and surrogates haven't been above race-baiting at the drop of a hat. This goes hand in hand with Obama's repeated baseless smears of John McCain as a racist. Emil Jones just followed Obama's lead, as Obama has followed his.

Post racial = everybody is a racist, so the word no longer has any meaning?

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