— Who, you know, launched the political career of our President (and maybe even had a hand in crafting the “autobiographical” narrative that transformed Barry in “Barack Obama”). After having previously led the Weather Underground. And having fought his entire adult life to overthrow “the system” in one way or another — whether from without, by way of explosives, or from within, by way of poisoning the institution of pubic education.
Guilty as sin, free as a bird — and another in a string of radical political mentors to the moderate, independent-minded, pragmatic President so many of the “sane” set bought into in 2008.
But hey: it’s unfair — not to mention unhelpful — to judge a man’s political beliefs by the ideological company he keeps. Or was trained under. Or by the czars he appoints. Or by the way he’s actually always voted.
In fact, it’s borderline racist.
So shut up, they cautioned.
(thanks to geoff b)
Ayers:
Dohrn:
Solidarity dude, solidarity.
Ayers and Dohrn are throwing a fit are throwing a fit that military personnel are first to board planes and are thanked for their service (clip at weasel zippers).
Astonishing that these two scumbags live high on the hog and run around free spouting their garbage. The concepts of free speech and ‘second chances’ somehow become obscene where they are involved.
I suppose if they don’t like it they can always blow some shit up, maybe take out a few pigs and soldiers. Right?
Hugh Hewitt e-mailed to say this bringing up this subject isn’t helping Romney with indispensable independents like Althouse.
Honestly? Had somebody merely bitchslapped Ayers years ago, he’d be a whimpering little malcontent leftist blogger now, nothing more.
Ayers ‘n’ Dohrn embody Ann Richards’ silver-spoon set better than GHW Bush. Bush accommodated himself to the problem. Ayers and Dohrn can never.
Incidentally, Obama likes to joke about how all that Ayers radical stuff happened when he himself was a mere tyke. But look at the original positions and goals of the Weather Underground and match them to what Ayers is saying today.
Nothing has changed. This is his last shot at seeing his life’s work play out unveiled, and he’s going for it. Because somewhere inside he must have an inkling of fear that there really is a God, and there really is a Hell, and the latter is waiting for him with the barbed cocks of a trillion Nixon voters hungry for his commie squeakhole.
See, that just proves how sublimely likeable and normal Obama is. He get’s along with everybody —racists and terrorists included!
Today they are playing the part (at least in their own minds) of those 1930s CPUSA guys who put the New Left back together as the Community Organizers after the splintering of the 70s-80s. The “been there bombed that, who are you punk to question my radical rep.”
They will outsource all the violence. Gotta keep those hands clean for now. Can’t spend daddy’s money if you’re dead or in jail.
Ayers could see the end of capitalism if he wanted to. He could always relocate to Cuba.
Plus, the healthcare there is really outstanding. Or so I hear. I don’t understand why more people don’t want to live there.
As much as I absolutely love that, I don’t think I’m going to be able to casually work it into polite discussion and claim I thought of it myself.
And then there’s this:
You’re making us look kooky, Lee.
Unhelpful. Moderates and independents can only handle optimism and sugar-coated lies.
Sorry, it’s what we hobbits do, kooky unhelpfulness.
So who’s condescending to whom? Or is the political elite just a circle jerk of self-regard?
And what does that say about the bloggers who would enable them?
Bill Ayers needs to have the harsh light of the public spotlight shined on him. Of course, the last time that happened, he called the
PIGSpolice to protect him! What a loser.I’ve kept up with that douche and his wife for about 25 years now and someone needs to do a comprehensive investigation of the two of them and their band of merry malcontents. An expose of a film, perhaps for those who can’t be bothered to crack a book.
It’s not like I’m not well aware of, and grounded in ,reality. From my parents through my time in the USMC and beyond, I followed the lessons that taught me to deal with things as they are, not as you wish they were , think they should be, or other such distractions. And to make your plans accordingly.
But I am often amazed at the state of things, and how such things could have came to be. The Ayers/Obama connection- and the near total lack of accountability and questions of character, judgement, and motives that should have been assigned to Obama because of it- is one such source of never ending marvel to me. How could such a man, with such associations and radical beliefs, even be considered for any serious position, much less POTUS?
For me, the alarms and red flags screamed ” something is seriously fucking wrong here!”; but it never seemed to approach ‘big deal’ status. Instead, we got John “Let’s be nice, my friends” McCain, and the media telling us we should ‘move on’.
I would hope that these things are revisited in the upcoming campaign – maybe by Breitbart’s old crew?- but with Romney already making statements that make him sound like McCain the sequel, I’m not holding out much hope on that front.
Shelby Steele had the most succinct answer. But I don’t have time to find the quote right now.
Something about white people being stupider than he thought.
So much for that white skin priviledge (of the doubt).
Moderates and independents can only handle optimism and sugar-coated lies.
Don’t forget a federally mandated minimum wage indexed to inflation, continued progressivity in the tax code, and a sugary safety net that needs a-fixin’.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/opinion/thomas-sowell/10788-romney-index-minimum-wage-to-inflation
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/02/limbaugh-questions-romneys-comment-on-fixing-safety-113192.html
http://blog.american.com/2012/03/romney-speaks-my-qa-with-republican-presidential-contender-mitt-romney/
Weasel Zippers delivers again.
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/04/04/video-journalists-give-obama-rousing-standing-ovation-sit-for-romney/
“If I didn’t know better I’d think the press is biased towards Obama.”
white people being stupider than he thought.
its more of a proggtard thing.
Just a guy from the neighborhood! (and his little dog, too)
But to a committed Marxist, a little dog is quite bourgeois, and Comrade Ayers would never …… oh, I see what you did there.
Remember, Romney is the guy that lost to the guy that lost to Obama. This ain’t a sequel, it’s worse.
This is the Ritz Brothers’ remake of The Three Musketeers — more faithful to the original than the John Wayne version, but still a farce.
Argh. Someone, please, find a bright spot here for me.
At least it’s not Ishtar?
Well that’s something—I guess.
At least it’s not Ishtar?
There’s your bright spot, Leigh. Any port in a storm.
The Duke in a Three Musketeers serial?
Next you’ll be telling us John Wayne played a singing cowboy
or co-starred with Roy Rogers and Gabby Hayes!
Anybody know how to get the italics and other thingies to work? It looks like I was stealing McGehee’s ‘Ishtar’ comment.
Which I wasn’t.
Although I wish I could take credit for managing to put ‘Ishtar’ in any sentence.
Best way to set off a quote: <blockquote>Use the blockquote tag.</blockquote>
Makes it look
Google html.
Just don’t ask me how I make the pointy brackets appear at will. It could get endlessly recursive.
Thanks, McGehee. Was having some problems on other sites. Just chalked it up to ‘my computer hates me’.
Shoot, even I can be trained.
If you want to just do italics, substitute i for blockquote.
A hoodie in the WH-hood. Meanwhile in Congress a hoodie-resolution. Trayvon say…!!
Do you use Firefox? Get this.
Argh. Someone, please, find a bright spot here for me.
Sigh.
Every time the other Lee points out an obvious truth, I wanna jump out a 3rd story window.
The fall won’t kill me, but with all the compound fractures and such I’d at least feel a different type of misery.
Or I could just get back together with a cheating ex-girlfriend during the General Election.
I think I’m onto something with this “distraction pain” thing.
Or I could just get back together with a cheating ex-girlfriend during the General Election.
At least you’ll know the warning signs with that option and can have a little fun until she takes off on some other guys’s motorcycle.
Anybody know how to get the italics and other thingies to work?
mc4ever59:
Use old school html formatting. Google or Bing HTML formatting tips and use the less than and greater than signs instead of brackets on this platform.
Thanks to all for the help.
It’s been a good day for my edumacation.
And very helpfully, for twenty-three years the State of Illinois paid Ayers a salary to wake up every morning and work to end capitalism, work for revolution. And the spoiled brat grand-children of some dead free-marketer kicked in tens of millions to help make that happen too.
who won the annenberg challenge?
In one sense it’s obvious; in another, who indeed?
poor peeps in chitown won nothing. i hate illinois communists.
How can you tell ’em from the Illinois Nazis?
they (the commies) drive priuses (’cause bill ayers dad was head of the elec. power monopoly)
I’ve never been to Chicago, not even to O’Hare airport. I’ve driven through Southern Illinois a few times and it looks like any other state that has a lot of tiny towns and grows a lot of corn. And prisons.
Nazis drive Ford F-150 trucks.
Kurtz’s Radical in Chief should be filmed. Jaleel White probably isn’t too busy.
nazis drive pintos
Nazis drive Ford F-150 trucks.
Hey! I have a Ford F-150.
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I’ve got an F150 and a Mustang convertible. And I’m still not a Republican.
Nazis drive Volkswagens, btw.
I’ve got the F-150, a Lincoln Mark VII, a Toyota Tacoma and a Nissan Pathfinder.
I have convertible Mustang envy now. Especially since we sold the Harley.
Oh! Hubby has a 20 foot Javelin fish ‘n’ ski with a 200hp Evinrude that really shits and gits. If only we could afford the fuel at $3.89 a gallon.
Pablo, I’m registered Republican – but only because RI doesn’t have an Atilla the Hun party. And I buy big frickin’ Jeeps.
RI has a Republican party? Even after Chaffee?
commies buy gm
True dat. Friends don’t let friends drive Chevys.
ok since its vehicular confession, I have a Prius and a old Landcruiser…what does that make me besides yotacentric?
I think I might be Cool Moose. I fully embrace Robert Healey’s “Elect me Lt. Gov. so I can shut that useless office down” message.
Yeah, but the last one was pre-bailout. I’m going to be mightily conflicted next time. And Pablo, not really. But they try.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Steve Laffey.
It’s ‘cuz you’re a nazi. You hate clean air, clean water, mother earth, and probably small children unless there’s ketchup. Beyond a doubt racist, too.
I bet Mr W a million dollars he would never get a good commie like Mrs Obama to put her name on a Ford F-150, even for a million bucks.
Good commies like the Obamas have bullet proof limos flown where ever they are, as a kind of shuttle service. Only a nazi would drive a capitalistic exhaler of CO2’s and death, like a gas powered pick-up truck.
Why do you hate?
Why?
Ford Explorer, Grand Cherokee, Wrangler Sahara, Grand Cherokee LTD/Hemi. Because I hate Mother Gaia and I need 4-wheel drive up north in the snow and mud. And because I’m a h8ter.
I actually have a ’94 Dodge ram 4X4 with 330,000 miles that I still love and regularly drive.
I may as well be burning a big ol’ pile of coal in the front yard to hear the environmentalists tell it, I’m sure.
I love those Ram trucks, which are also, obviously driven by Nazis.
I hope you leave your 4×4 running in the driveway in the mornings when it’s cold before you go to work.
Oh and to make all you Blue Staters jealous, we can still burn leaves and trash here in my hick Red State.
Lotsa trucks, huh?
Now I know who to call next time I move.
I may as well be burning a big ol’ pile of coal in the front yard
tire fires gets the gits
I tried to burn leaves(on a burn day) a few years ago, and before the pile was gone a fella from the Air Resources Board(or some such horse shit compliance officer) threatened me with a 2k fine. Took my name and told me if he had to come back, I was getting the ticket. Seems an ag burn permit needed to be issued, there was rules and paperwork and fees. And regardless the permit, you can’t burn just leaves anyway.
Fucking commies…
Back in the mid ’60s we burned leaves in the street up against the curb anytime we chose. And that was only 14 miles from the Washington Monument.
Then “Earth Day” came.
I’ll burn extra just for you next time, Lee. The only trouble we’ve had here (and that was instigated by our asshat neighbor) was pushing debris around our lakefront with the tractor to pile it up to burn. Evidently, you’re not supposed to do that even though everyone does and you’ll get fined by the lake commitee if you don’t keep your part of the lakefront cleaned up.
We have a wood burning fireplace, too. I think in parts of California (maybe all of it?) you aren’t even allowed to use your fireplace to warm your house.
please review at your convenience:
“A Time for Choosing” by Ronald Reagan
RI Red is the Republican party in RI.
Seeing this video reminds me why I particularly enjoy the first chapter of Stephen Hunter’s book “I, Sniper”. I was an Army NCO in 1969 (although on the other side of the globe) when Ayer’s gang plotted blowing up the Fort Dix NCO club, and my son is there for his first week of four years of active duty now. So reading about even fictional bad karma coming Bill and Bernadine’s way brings a smile to my face.
“RI Red is the Republican party in RI.”
Well he and Pablo make it a party of two. Of course after taxes their’s not much left for “partying” in R. I.
I forgot Pablo lived there too.
I used to drive a Ford F-250. So: Nazi + 100.
So Ayers wakes up every morning thinking “I want to make a difference” and every day that option is available to him. Just roll down to the southside, buy a glock from a kid in a hoodie, drive home; shoot that crazy commie La Pasionara bitch Dohrn and stick the glock in his own lying mouth and take a dirt nap in hell with Stalin, Lenin, Uncle Ho, Pol Pot and every other commie pos that have darkened the history of the world.
Every morning after a second cup of cheap coffee and a bowl of oatmeal I withdraw to the pot and take an Ayers.