Obama’s Big Three-Year Ayres Lie

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o we know Obama and Ayres worked together and knew each other, yet Obama continues to slither away from big negatives from the association. In fact, if we’re to believe the MSM, the Obama/Ayres meme may actually have hurt McCain among some voters who merely see it as “negative campaigning” – or who may actually like the idea of having a president who likes hanging out with terrorists.

But there are two ways to tell this story that McCain hasn’t pursued. One he’s had a long time to develop – that Obama and Ayres share a radical approach to education that should raise fears with any parent. And two, a story that’s still developing, the depth of lying Obama has foisted in order to minimize his friendship with the unrepentant domestic terrorist.

The lying meme got a big boost recently from Verum Serum, which tracked down documentation that the two shared an office for three years – a level of familiarity far beyond Obama’s “guy in the neighborhood” lie.

Bill Ayers and Barack Obama shared an office. Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop, the one Obama directed all that money to is located at 115 S. Sangamon Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607 [Note the link is to a year 2000 version of their website]. Here’s a screen grab from the website’s footer:

In 1998, the address for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where Obama presumably worked, was 115 S. Sangamon Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607. Here’s a copy of their 1998 tax return with that address:

The CAC moved to a new address sometime in 1999 or 2000, but the shared office probably persisted for at least three years. I can’t say for sure because 1998 is the earliest tax information available online. [Correction: I can say for sure that they shared the same building for the years 1995-1998. Here is a 1995 progress report from the CAC with the same address.] …

I’m going to suggest that two guys working in the same building for a period of years probably crossed paths pretty often. For all we know, they had lunch together on a daily basis. Maybe, in an effort at conservation, they were even carpool buddies. After all, Ayers is a guy from Obama’s neighborhood.

The message here is simple and devastating: You just can’t trust what comes out of Obama’s mouth.

hat-tip: What Bubba Knows

A Li’l Coffin For Li’l Kim?

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orth Korean officials are planning a big announcement for tomorrow … just a few hours away, now. Could it be a long-rumored announcement that the Beloved Leader, Li’l Kim Jong-Il, has died? Reports out of Japan fuel the rumor:

The Sankei newspaper said there was speculation within Japan that the announcement could be about Kim’s death or a change in government brought about by a coup.

The 66-year-old Kim disappeared from public view in mid-August and failed appear on two important national holidays, leading to speculation that he was seriously ill.

United States and South Korean officials said he had suffered a stroke and had undergone brain surgery, but North Korea has denied that he is unwell. …

The Sankei report came a day after Japan’s biggest-selling Yomiuri daily said North Korea had ordered its diplomats abroad to be on standby for an important announcement. (Sky News)

Of course, there’s nothing new in rumors about the demise of the hard-drinking, porn-addicted, brain-muddled leader of the North Korean leader; they’ve been around for years:

He doesn’t appear in public very often so it’s difficult to verify but there are allegations today that North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Il has in fact been dead for five years.

A Japanese expert on North Korea is claiming that the role of the “Dear Leader” has instead been played by a group of doubles since 2003, when he says the President died of diabetes. (ABC News/Australia)

We’ll know more tomorrow, perhaps. But don’t expect much from big announcements out of Pyongyang. Still, Li’l Kim’s death might explain NoKo’s recent return to the six-party talks.

Chinese Lessons In Food Safety

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ore trouble for the reputation (what reputation?) of the Chinese food production business:

Japan yesterday ordered retailers to pull frozen beans from China off the shelves after a woman fell ill eating a product which had 34,500 times the legal limit of pesticide, officials said. Japan’s health ministry instructed retailers and importers nationwide to suspend sales of frozen green beans from a Chinese supplier.

The beans follow another recent case of bad food from China:

Ten people suffered pesticide poisoning in December and January, and thousands of others reported feeling sick after eating frozen dumplings imported from China. One girl went into a coma before recovering.

China remains unready for prime time on the global scene.

(source)

Shutting Down Gay Marriage Before It’s Too Late

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f the confused look on the faces of these little boys who got dragged to their teacher’s lesbian wedding doesn’t make you supportive of California’s Prop 9 sanctity of marriage initiative, what will?

For those opposing Prop 8, the picture will have no impact, of course. They ask, why should we oppose letting those nice gay couples get married if we let not so nice straight people do it? Sometimes it’s hard to answer the question without getting into religion and morality, which just doesn’t move a lot of people.

Fortunately, the San Diego Union Tribune gives us some real-world reasons to supplement the compelling other-world reasons:

In Massachusetts recently, parents of a second-grader learned that their child had been introduced to gay marriage during story time at school. His teacher shared a book about two princes meeting, kissing, marrying and becoming a “King and a King.” When the parents questioned the teacher’s choice of story, they were rebuffed. When they filed suit over the matter, the courts ruled that parents have no right to be consulted, no right to opt out, and no voice in opposing school curriculum that introduces gay marriage in a state where it is legal.

Freedom of religion is another fundamental right in America that has already taken a back seat to the “protected” rights of gay couples. In New Jersey last year, a United Methodist Church property was selected as a possible setting for a double lesbian wedding. The Methodist Church regularly held worship services and taught school at the site selected by the couples, and reserved the right to use the building for activities in keeping with its beliefs. When the lesbian couples complained to the state, New Jersey honored their rights over the religious rights of the church.

The United Methodist Church was punished and its tax exemption for the property removed. The consequences of permanently legalizing gay marriage need not be imagined, they are already here.

With a real war to fight and a presidential campaign to wage, we don’t hear about the culture wars that often. But they are still waging, and the No on 8 coalition of gays, secularists, teachers and anti-religion activists is praying … no, vibing … for a big victory in November.

As you can see from the polling data, they’re close to their goal … but the lesbian wedding field trip was a real set back for the anti-religious, anti-norms factions.

“I See Dead Republicans,” AP Says

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P today reports on a lobbying effort by Freddie/Fannie directed at Republicans, obscuring throughout Dem leadership of the efforts that drove the firms into government receivership.

In Mortgage Firm Arranged Stealth Campaign, a $2 million lobbying effort by a GOP lobbying firm, DCI, is detailed, laying out successful efforts to stop the Fannie/Freddie regulation McCain signed onto in 2005. The story paints a picture of GOP culpability in the failure because a majority of GOP Senators were for the bill, and for more controls.

That’s right. AP brushes that off and instead focuses on DCI’s campaign targeting GOP senate leadership, succeeding in keeping the bill from coming to a vote. It barely mentions the Dem reaction to the bill, saying only:

In the end, there was not enough Republican support for Hagel’s bill to warrant bringing it up for a vote because Democrats also opposed it and the votes of some would be needed for passage.

How did the Dems come to oppose the bill so strongly that not even a few could be peeled off? Was there not a similar, even stronger, lobbying effort directed at them? AP doesn’t bother to tell us.

The article also includes this scurrilous line:

McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, or his lobbying firm has taken more than $2 million from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac dating to 2000.

“Or?!” There’s no “or” to it. Davis’ firm got money, but Davis did not. As structured, this sentence isn’t just namby-pamby non-objective, it’s a flat-out lie.

Still, Obama’s campaign will be able to grab on this handy tool and use it to obfuscate their party’s primary complicity in the economic downturn.

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Latest Palin Slam: Men Like Her

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he NY Times has found a new way to criticize Sarah Palin: by criticizing the men who like her. In today’s Palin-bash, Among Fans of Palin, Dudes Rule, we find that she can’t be worth anything, they reason, if the men she attracts to her rallies aren’t metro, intellectual and deferential. (Note the picture for a moment – with the exception of the “maverick” dudes, at least half of the men in the picture are wearing sportscoats and are hardly the men characterized in the story, who are described thusly:

“You rock me out, Sarah,” yelled one man, wearing a red-checked hunting jacket as Ms. Palin … He held a homemade “Dudes for Sarah” sign and wore a National Rifle Association hat. …

“You tell ’em baby,” a man yelled out at a rally Wednesday night on a high school football field in Salem, N.H. …

Her recent events drew scruffy high-schoolers in backward baseball caps, tank-topped bikers in bandanas and long-bearded veterans in berets.

“Marry me, Sarah,” a man implored in Weirs Beach, N.H. … She ignored, or didn’t hear, the proposal, but signed the dude’s ratty baseball cap.

The writer, Mark Leibovich, is a racist, since he refers to these people as “the Joe Sixpacks in her crowds.” As you recall, Palin was called a racist for mentioning Joe Sixpack and hockey mom in her speeches. And Leiovich can’t even get his racist epithets right – immediately after referring to Joe Sixpack, he quotes an insurance agent – definitely not Joe Sixpack material.

If the NYT hadn’t set up to conjure up another hit piece on Palin, it would have dropped all this silliness and lead with this portion of the story:

But some male fans do seem to feel a deeper connection to Ms. Palin. To a surprising degree, they mention the unusual nature of her candidacy, the chance to make history, break the glass ceiling.

“They bear us children, they risk their lives to give us birth, so maybe it’s time we let a woman lead us,” said Larry Hawkins, a former truck driver attending a rally late Thursday at Elon University in North Carolina. Mr. Hawkins said he would rather vote for Ms. Palin than for “McCain and Obama combined.”

Men have done plenty to mess up the country, he said. “The sexual drives and big egos of male leaders have gotten in the way of politics in this country.” Mr. Hawkins said he talked to fellow truckers, and a lot of them feel the same way. “They think it’s time for a woman, too,” he said. “This one. Palin is our kind of woman.”

There is a kind of “conservative feminism” here, and several men cite the appeal of Ms. Palin as a can-do caretaker. She can be glimpsed lugging an overstuffed bag of books, papers and baby supplies onto her plane and bottle feeding her infant son, Trig.

“I love the idea of someone like her being allowed into the White House,” said Matt Cude, who drove three-hours to Weirs Beach from Jericho, Vt. It would be “absolutely fantastic,” he said, both for women and for the country.

What is this? Conservative truck drivers honoring a woman more than liberal men, and especially liberal women, do? Brawny men saying it’s time to take the leadership away from the dudes? That, my friend, is the story, but since it’s the NYT, it was a few paragraphs tagged onto the end of the piece.

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