This is a non-story that plays only to the base. No one else is listening. Every time you do this, you drive swing-voters towards Obama.

You speak the language of defeat with fluency. Get a message that speaks to people, or we lose.

Jacob is right, if all the Obama stories are bunk, why not do the politically wise thing and let the Republicans destroy themselves? That is Politics 101.

Zimzo, To use a Stone-ism, when are you going to retract your head from your ass? You SO fooled me (and all Republicans), wow.

Edmund – Your one liners are so inspiring. For the 3rd time, defend your candidate. We all know you have problems with the Republican Party, tell us why Obama is so stinkin fantastic. Inquiring minds want to know.

The level of protest is a clue.

Obama’s past is only now seeing the light of day.
Connect the dots on this guy and you have a whos who of leftists nitwits.
It would be one thing if the Pope of Hope used these people to forward his political march and disposed of them as useful idiots. however, this guy is a believer. He will not admit it, but the truth is coming out and his candidacy is beginning to unravel.

Based on the proof of this mans past associations and his core beliefs God help us if he manages to get elected.

You are correct, Leej. Why? Because liberals do not care who their candidates are, or what they do. Only winning matters.

How do you know that “Obama could not even get a security clearance to work at the FBI or CIA, because of his many ties to radical extremists” or are you just making stuff up? And please name Obama’s “many ties to radical extremists” besides sitting on a board with Ayers that was chaired by Ronald Reagan’s friend Walter Annenberg.

Also, supposedly Obama had an Indonesian passport until just recently, having been adopted by the Muslim man his mother married in Indonesia. Some blogs have published copies of that passport. On his last trip to Pakistan he used his Indonesian passport. Was he a dual citizen? I do not know, but why would he have an Indonesian passport? He will not say who he met with in Pakistan on that last trip. Also, there are rumors that Arab money paid for Harvard, and that his record at Columbia has been sequestered, because his grades were so poor (too much marijuana and cocaine?) Nothing he published or wrote (his required senior essay at Columbia) or anything as Editor of the Harvard Law Review have ever been published? Why? radical ramblings? Who is elected Editor of a law review, who never even wrote to get onto the law review? very strange…

Thanks for compiling all of the batsh– insane email rumors that have been concocted about Obama in one place, Sally.

Your tinfoil hat is very shiny, Sally, now if you will just follow the nice men in white coats they will take you to a very pretty place where you can get some rest.

Sally, Sally,

What on earth did you put in your coffee this morning?

I don’t believe one gets accepted to Harvard Lawschool without very good grades and I DEFINITELY do not believe that one becomes Editor of the Harvard Law Review without extremely high qualifications. There’s something called competition. It’s not handed to just ANYone on a silver tray.

Lovisa, I’ll disagree with you later, but how was your trip? What did you hear overseas about our Country’s elections and financial crisis?

sally.

I have “a good friend” who married “someone”….

Yes, get into Harvard on parental contributions, OK, (case in point some Kennedy folk), but to get into Harvard LAW SCHOOL I believe is different.

As for your other allegations, that’s just what they are, ALLEGATIONS.

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Thursday, October 09, 2008
Obama-Khalidi-Ayers and the MSM
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 8:47 AM
The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza is a regular and very welcome guest on the program. Prompted by Ace of Spades, I asked Chris on Tuesday prior to the presidential debate about MSM’s treatment of Joe Biden’s serial misstatements at last week’s VP debate. The transcript is here.

At the conclusion of the interview I inquired if Chris knew of Rashid Khalidi, and Khalidi’s friendship with Bill Ayers and Khalidi’s long association with Barack Obama. Chris didn’t, which didn’t surprise me as I hadn’t know about it either until an interview with Stanley Kurtz on Monday.

Khalidi is a Columbia professor and strong advocate for the Palestinians. He is a man of the left, and he is close to Obama and Ayers. Obama’s friendship with Khalidi would be unsettling to many supporters of Israel –if it was well known, which it isn’t. How close have Obama and Khalidi been? Here’s the opening of a Los Angeles Times article from 2007:

It was a celebration of Palestinian culture — a night of music, dancing and a dash of politics. Local Arab Americans were bidding farewell to Rashid Khalidi, an internationally known scholar, critic of Israel and advocate for Palestinian rights, who was leaving town for a job in New York.

A special tribute came from Khalidi’s friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Sen. Barack Obama. Speaking to the crowd, Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi’s wife, Mona, and conversations that had challenged his thinking.

His many talks with the Khalidis, Obama said, had been “consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases. . . . It’s for that reason that I’m hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation — a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid’s dinner table,” but around “this entire world.”

Today, five years later, Obama is a U.S. senator from Illinois who expresses a firmly pro-Israel view of Middle East politics, pleasing many of the Jewish leaders and advocates for Israel whom he is courting in his presidential campaign. The dinner conversations he had envisioned with his Palestinian American friend have ended. He and Khalidi have seen each other only fleetingly in recent years.

And yet the warm embrace Obama gave to Khalidi, and words like those at the professor’s going-away party, have left some Palestinian American leaders believing that Obama is more receptive to their viewpoint than he is willing to say.

Their belief is not drawn from Obama’s speeches or campaign literature, but from comments that some say Obama made in private and from his association with the Palestinian American community in his hometown of Chicago, including his presence at events where anger at Israeli and U.S. Middle East policy was freely expressed.

What Kurtz explained to me is that Bill Ayers and Rashid Khalidi are very close:

HH: Tell us about Khalidi. Tell us who he is and his role in Obama’s life.

SK: Rashid Khalidi is really, in a sense, the American successor of Edward Said, a very strong advocate for the Palestinians, extremely radical in his views and his opposition to American foreign policy. He was a friend and colleague of Obama. Apparently they used to get together and discuss world affairs. And he’s practically the best friend of Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers features Khalidi in some of his books about how to politicize the teaching for students. So actually, the more you look into it, the more you see that this is not just people running into each other. And again, I object to the idea of just simply counting the times people were together in a room. When you fund Bill Ayers education projects, with hundreds of thousands of dollars, when you as Bill Ayers publish Rashid Khalidi’s essay in your book of collected essays, they might have gone on. That’s a lot without meeting once.

What all of this suggests is that the Hyde Park community of hard left intellectuals was tightly knit, and that Obama was at the heart of it. MSM’s indifference to this community and its impact on Obama is nothing short of astounding, like leaving Harvard and Hyannis Port out of story after story on Kennedy’s run for the presidency in 1960, or his Vietnam experiences out of Kerry’s bio in 2004.

ACTivist,

What should it tell me? That I could into Harvard with any grade or IQ?

Princeton gave Dubya a degree.

I guess you’re right, ACTivist – those high falluting universities are up for sale.

My husband went to grad school at Harvard, but that was on the GI bill, which meant that you had to qualify. Seems like almost everything has deteriorated, doesn’t it?

OK, jacob, Yale, Princeton – what’s the difference?

“2. he went to the school as Kerry” As Kerry???

3 & 4. Guess it means that Dubya is only really, really dumb while Kerry is really, really, really dumb.

BTW – I don’t feel that you commented on what I wrote at all.

McCain does not want this to dissolve into allegations of race, which is what Obama has been trying to do with questions about his friends, and history. There is a great deal of worry about violence if Obama does not win. McCain does not want to have riots if he wins. He is sure he will win, just on his centrist ideas, and has not wanted to attack on these other issues, for fear of racial violence. The crowd boo’d him when he tried to say we do not need to fear Obama. The truth is many Americans are afraid, and we have the right to know the answers to these questions. Many are angry that McCain is not pushing this issue, and these questions that they have had, which the liberal press ignores. We should not be afraid to ask a black man the same questions we would ask any other candidate, because the push back with be to have race thrown in our face. And for your Jesus comment, apparently Farrakan has preached that Obama is the “Messiah”–something else that is very terrifying to your average American. Not only are Obama’s far left agendas corrupt and wrong, but his friends have wanted to destroy America…McCain is down playing it, but many Americans are rightfully very afraid. I am disgusted that the Obama campaign gave $800,000 to an entity not identified as ACORN, and only after scrutiny was forced to acknowledge the $800,000 was made to ACORN. WHat is he hiding? His “friends” will do anything, break any law, cause any damage to our system to accomplish their leftist agenda. Americans are and should be afraid of Obama.

From another blogger: “It’s like that serial killer from Kansas named Dennis something. He worked a normal job, was president of his church congregation, and then on weekends went out and murdered people.
Or Sarah Jane Olson. Hung with murderers and then married a doctor and pretended to be a normal person for a couple decades until she got caught and sent to prison (and then accidentally got released early and sent back to prison.)
Or Bill Ayers. Spoiled rich kid of fantastically wealthy parents, goes on a killing spree and then dad buys his freedom and some university hires him.
From Obama’s book, Dreams of My Father: “I choose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors.” Rezco (claims he did nothing, but is a convicted felon, Ayers (“rehabilitated”), Ferrakan, Wright (who said “God Damn America”)….ACORN….

they are lost years all the same. for a different analogy, it seems fair to keep bush’s ‘lost years’ off limits and not use it as a rationale of whether or not to vote for him. i’m not a fan of the man but his behavior during his youth was not an indicator of how he has perform as president. i think obama’s been fairly forthcoming. i don’t believe the ayers stuff at all, but really, who holds a position at a university and doesn’t know a marxist or a 60’s radical. i had a professor say that nat turner’s statue belongs on the dc mall one time and my college was relatively conservative.

jacob, there are clear policy differences and problems as you pointed out. i think there should be more of an effort convincing your fellow repubs, including your nominee, obama isn’t an enemy of the state.

I’m not sure which is worse. Sally spreading her paranoid hateful crazy smears without presenting a shred of evidence or the conservatives on this blog who aren’t embarrassed by her. Even John McCain is beginning to fear people like Sally that his campaign has unleashed.

William Ayers is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with whom Barack served on the board of an education-reform organization in the mid-1990’s. According to the Associated Press, they are not close: “No evidence shows they were “pals” or even close when they worked on community boards years ago …” (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93KD6Q00&show_article=1)
But the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called “somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.”Barack has publicly denouncedAyers’ radical actions from the 1960’s (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/02/obamas_weatherman_connection.html):

Senator Obama strongly condemns the violent actions of the Weathermen group, as he does all acts of violence. But he was an eight-year-old child when Ayers and the Weathermen were active, and any attempt to connect Obama with events of almost forty years ago is ridiculous.

fugazi,

It isn’t that he is connected with events when he was 8, but the kind of people with whom he associates on a regular basis in the recent past, and his public record. The people with whom you associate says a lot about who you are. If their was only one extreme person in the sphere in which Obama moves, it would not be that big a deal. The problem Obama has is that he has surrounded himself with extreme views.