Exposing the lie in Barack Obama’s protestations that domestic terrorist William Ayers was just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood” and “somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know,” Ayers now admits in a newly written afterward to his memoir that he and Obama are “family friends.”
Palin Gets Spotlight, Other GOP Governors Get Pissed
To look at the Republican Party in 2008 is to understand just how long the road to 2010 is. Our standard bearer until 10 days ago supports amnesty for illegal aliens, derailed our attempts to get our judges approved by the Senate and co-sponsored the law that lost him the election. Our rock star is the target of an unhinged (and sometimes flat-out deranged) media who cut her interviews, throw them in the air, and paste them together to paint her in the worst possible light. And our back-benchers are a bunch of sniveling, complaining whiners.
South Carolina Priest: No Communion For Obama Supporters
In South Carolina, a Roman Catholic priest has put his parishioners on the honor system for Communion, telling them in a letter that if they voted for the radical pro-abortionist Barack Obama they should refrain from accepting the sacrament until they’ve done Penance.
Debbie Schlussel Finds Obama Selective Service Registration Oddities
Blogger Debbie Schlussel says she’s found discrepancies in Barack Obama’s Selective Service (Draft) registration.
The most compelling evidence is the Document Location Number (DLN). On the form purported to be the original filled out by Obama in 1980, the 10-digit DLN begins with “08” (0897060632) indicating the form is a batch printed in 2008 rather than 1980 as claimed (DLNs, apparently, begin with the year issued). When inputted into the computer system, the DLN now has 11 digits (80897060632), with an “8” added to the beginning to give the impression of having been inputted in 1980.
There are also oddities with the postal stamp and the government’s willingness to release the information.
The post is long and detailed, but even if it’s true I don’t know that it matters much. This guy and his minions will be in charge of the entire government in a couple months, and the current occupant of the White House doesn’t seem much interested in investigating his successor. If the media didn’t care much about Obama’s relationships with Bill Ayers, Odinga or Khalidi, I can’t see them making much of these revelations either.
Still, it’s worth a click-through and a read.
Wake Up With Ayers On ABC’s Good Morning America
Domestic terrorist and Obama buddy Bill Ayers will appear on ABC’s Good Morning America tomorrow morning to discuss how hard it is to be Bill Ayers.
If you think just giving a national platform to this self-avowed “revolutionary communist” who dedicated his first book in part to RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan and who’s group bombed the US Capitol and Pentagon is offensive, look at how they’re already framing this Ayers Rehabilitation Tour interview.
In his first television interview since he became the center of controversy in the presidential race, Chicago activist Williams Ayers breaks his silence in an exclusive interview with Chris Cuomo on Friday’s “Good Morning America.”
Ayers, a leader of the ’60s radical group the Weathermen, became a political lightning rod because of past associations with President-elect Obama.
In his first exclusive interview, Ayers talks about the reissue of his 2001 memoir, “Fugitive Days,” and his journey from privileged youth to ’60s radical.
“Chicago activist?” “’60s radical” (twice)? How about “Eric Rudolph with a better lawyer?”
I wonder what the tone of this interview will be.
It should go without saying that anyone who feels the need to watch this propaganda should do it via YouTube rather than on television.
Patrick Murphy Eyes Senate Bid?
Courier-Times scribe David Rauch reports buzz from some lefty blogs that Li’l Pat may have his eyes on Arlen Specter’s Senate seat.
[Leftist blogger John] Morgan said he’s been “reading rumors” that 8th District Congressmen Patrick Murphy and Joe Sestak of the 7th District might run. Both just won their second terms by healthy margins “but don’t yet have the clout Allyson [Schwartz] does,” he said.
Senateguru.com apparently is on the same page with Morgan. They list Murphy, Schwartz and Sestak as “House members who I think are especially likely to be in a position to run for Senate in 2010.”
Although running for jobs for which they’re not qualified worked out well for the Democrats in 2008, the same may not be true in 2010. Historically (1978, 1994) modern mid-term elections after voters usher in Democrat Presidents work out well for Republicans. It’s like we forget how terrible Democrats are in control of the government and then get big cases of buyers’ remorse.
Having Li’l Pat run for the Senate would provide a good opening for Republicans in PA-8, provided we find a dynamic and articulate conservative candidate who can explain the benefits of small, unintrusive government and who is willing to stick a finger in the eye of Democrats every once in a while and fight on the battlefield the Democrats create.
Plenty Of Tolerance Among Obama Supporters (For Other Obama Supporters)
A 14-year old girl in Oak Park, Illinois decided to perform a tolerance experiment before the election. The unsurprising result: Obama supporters, young and old, are very tolerant of other Obama supporters but feel McCain supporters should die.
Republicans Will Sue To Overturn McCain-Feingold
Failed National Republican Committee Chairman Mike Duncan announced that the Republican Party will file two lawsuits to overturn McCain-Feingold campaign finance legislation.
“We will bring two federal suits tomorrow to strengthen the Republican Party,” Mr. Duncan told The Washington Times.
Mr. Duncan said one suit will be filed in the District of Columbia to strike down the soft-money ban that is the central tenet of the McCain-Feingold Act — formally known as the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. “Soft money” is largely unrestricted contributions from wealthy individuals, corporations and labor unions.
The second suit will be in a Louisiana federal court to strike down the limits under the law Mr. McCain co-sponsored with Sen. Russ Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat, that control coordination between parties and their candidates.
“It prohibits us from spending over $84,000 in coordination with a candidate in a congressional race,” Mr. Duncan said. “That means we have to find some group to raise and spend money but without any coordination” with the candidate, his campaign or the RNC.
“That does not allow for a unified message,” he said. “We don’t think there is anything corrupting about coordinating with a candidate.”
It occurs to me that, perhaps, the time to file these lawsuits may have been a year ago. Guess that wouldn’t have gone over too well then, when they were trying to convince us that nominating a moderate like John McCain was the only way to defeat the Democrats in 2008. Instead, his anti-First Amendment law led, in part, to his defeat.
Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Dies
The Office of Governor Rendell has announced that Lieutenant Governor Catherine Baker Knoll has died.
Mrs. Knoll, 78, had battled a rare form of cancer.
Earlier today, Mr. Rendell had reported that Mrs. Knoll remained in a rehab center and was continuing her “rough and difficult fight” against the cancer.
Mrs. Knoll died at 6 p.m. at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C., according to Mary Isenhour, executive director of the Democratic State Committee.
“This is a very emotional thing. We extend our sympathies to the Baker Knoll family in their time of loss,” Ms. Isenhour said.
Rendell has been discussed for a possible cabinet position in the upcoming Obama administration.
Joe Scarnati, the Pennsylvania Senate’s President Pro Tempore, will become the new Lieutenant Governor.
Fred Thompson May Seek Top RNC Spot
Newt Gingrich is out, Michael Steele is in, and Fred Thompson is rumored to be running to lead the Republican National Committee out of the wilderness.
Thompson’s appeal, his supporters say, is that he has no future presidential ambitions for himself — only for his party. The former actor is also an able communicator — once famously described as a “southern-fried Reagan” — in a party sorely in need of a new message and a new direction.
“The party’s going to be looking for a messenger. Here’s a guy who’s looking toward the future of the country, not looking to pad his resume,” former Thompson campaign staffer Bob Davis of Nashville said.
Thompson was my first choice in the 2008 Presidential race, but after his much delayed entry into the primary fight his performance was severely lacking. It seemed he was in it out of some sort of obligation rather than any kind of fire in the belly to actually win.
He would, however, be an excellent spokesman for the cause.
Current RNC Chairman Mike Duncan of Kentucky has expressed interest in keeping his seat, despite the party’s loss of the White House and more than two dozen House and Senate seats.
If this happens, I re-register as an Independent. There are disasters, and there is Mike Duncan. He’s his own level of calamity somewhere between Ken Mehlman and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
