Could it be that democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has yet another personal friend in trouble with the Feds? The answer is YES! According to reports, the FBI raided the offices of Obama's friend, Illinois state senator Larry Walsh, on Wednesday morning. Walsh has been a long time friend of Obama and even Obama's chief of staff Matt Ryan. The Feds didn't disclose what they were looking for but did remain in the office for about an hour. Mr. Walsh, who served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2005, was endorsed by Mr. Obama in his county executive election bid. With the support of some of Mr. Obama's U.S. Senate volunteers, he easily defeated incumbent Republican Joseph Mikan. For more information go to http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/03/fbi-raids-obama-friends-office/

 

 

                                                            

 

How many of Obama's relationships have to be called into question before the American people wake up to the fact he is nothing more than a product of corrupt Chicago/Illinois politics? Apparently he is not only a man of questionable and limited experience but also a man incapable of making smart critical judgements about the people he associates with.

Its difficult to put into words the thought that we are on the brink of a Barack Obama presidency. Just how a man with so little experience, questionable associations, and radical views for America and the world, has arrived at the doorstep of the White House is beyond me. I can say without a doubt, Obama is receiving more help from the media than any candidate in the history of our great nation. I could only imagine if John McCain had the same associations, radical views, and gaffes that have followed Obama but have been down played by the mainstream media. The fact is, you would never see the end of the coverage.

 

McCain has thus far given the media very little to run with as far as gaffes. The Obama campaign has seized on some of McCain's advisors previous jobs as lobbyists in a few campaign ads but the same could be said about many of Obama's advisors if only McCain would lose the countenance of clean politics and etiquette. The political world is harsh and all out war. Those who have a point to make need to make it, drive it home, and hound your candidate at the debates about the issue. Put Obama on the spot and bring up his questions of judgement, his lack of experience in all things political, and the hypocrisy concerning many of his views. For example; If I have to hear Obama talk about saving American jobs in one breath and in the next say he is in favor of raising the corporate tax rate thus removing a company's ability to compete globally without McCain jumping all over him, I am going to scream. This very issue was brought up in the first debate but was essentially fumbled by McCain. Whether it was an oversight or McCain playing the "better man" role, he blew a chance to make Obama look foolish. And this is just one of many views McCain should jump all over. The American people are mad and fed up, and they are looking for a candidate who will make sense of the issues confronting the country not only by putting forth their ideas and being able to defend them, but also by blowing holes in their opponents views and positions. The best way to make up any ground is to attack Obama and to use any means necessary. I am not advocating dirty politics as Obama has given the McCain campaign plenty of ammunition without having to resort to lies. But McCain better realize time is slipping by and he is running out of time. He better open up both barrels on the junior Senator from Illinois or McCain will find himself still the senior Senator from Arizona come inauguration day.

Most people are like me when  it comes to those mass emails asking you to forward it to as many people as possible in the next 5 minutes so you can have two years of good luck, they delete them. But I was taken aback by one I received this morning over coffee that needs to be shared with the American people because after a little digging I found out its 100% true. It was about a family in Pennsylvania who has a child with down syndrome. The family decided to attend a McCain/Palin campaign rally and what happend there is well.......unbelievable! I will let the transcript from the Rush Limbaugh show tell the story. It can be found here: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_090908/content/01125113.guest.html  and there is also a Pittsburgh news video of the event as well which can be found here: http://www.wpxi.com/video/17384228/

While Obama was out politicking this week, ostensibly itching for a debate that he’d been avoiding all summer, McCain suspended his campaign to work with Republicans in Congress, outlining conditions for an agreement that would both protect the American taxpayer and thwart a meltdown of the U.S. economy. So, “Country First” is not just a campaign slogan... - Courtesy of patriotpost.com

Here is the prophetic quote of John McCain from 2005:

I recently ran across an article by "The Obama Nation" author Dr. Jerome Corsi in which he claims the 40 page rebuttal to his book was completely unfounded. Corsi has issued a rejoinder to the 40 page offering from the Obama campaign claiming Obama proved nothing and only shows how accurate his book truly is. But Corsi would like to shed some light on the issues on which the Obama campaign ignored and did not refute in their 40 page rebuttal. They truly are powerful points and are worth mentioning here. What you see below are excerpts from Corsi's article. The entire article can be found at http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75478 .

 

Chapter 3, "Black Rage, Drugs, and a Communist Mentor"

I consider the following arguments from "Black Rage, Drugs, and a Communist Mentor," the third chapter of "The Obama Nation," are now conceded as true by "Unfit for Publication":

• The Obama campaign has conceded for the first time that the identity of "Frank," Obama's mentor in his high school years, was Frank Marshall Davis, the communist poet and journalist from Chicago who retired in Hawaii.
  
  
• The true identity of "Ray" is Keith Kakugawa, the high school friend who is a convicted drug felon, now living homeless on the streets of Los Angeles. [pages 74-77]
  
  
• Obama was deeply influenced by Frantz Fanon, the African psychiatrist whose revolutionary writings were influential in shaping the revolutionary political left of the 1950s and 1960s. [pages 80-84]
  
  
• In seeking his identity during high school, Obama was strongly influenced by reading Malcolm X's autobiography, identifying with many of the more anti-white passages Malcolm X wrote in that book. [pages 90-91]
  
  
• Obama was a heavy user of marijuana and cocaine in his high school and early college years; he drank alcohol and smoked cigarettes with Frank Marshall Davis while yet in his high school years. [pages 87-89]

These points were not disputed in "Unfit for Publication."

I consider the following arguments from "The Ideology of 'Change,'" the fifth chapter of "The Obama Nation," are now conceded as true by "Unfit for Publication":

• David Axelrod, Obama's campaign strategist, was lying when he maintained Sen. Obama and William Ayers knew one another because they live in the same neighborhood and their children attend the same school. Ayers' children are grown adults and Obama's children are young girls; Obama's children and Ayers' children never attended school together. [page 119]
  
  
• In his 2001 book entitled "Fugitive Days," Ayers openly admits his involvement in the 1970s bombings and the role he played as a radical revolutionary leader at the head of the SDS Weather Underground. [page 119]
  
  
• Obama was recruited by Jerry Kellman to head the Developing Communities Project in Chicago, to be a community organizer working within the system developed by Saul Alinsky. [pages 128-130]
  
  
• "Change" was a credo developed by Alinsky in his 1971 book entitled "Reveille for Radicals." "Change," for Alinsky, invoked radical socialism and meant the redistribution of wealth. [page 130]
  
  
• Alinsky advocated creating change through a set of carefully calculated power-politics, where the ends always justified the means. [page 131]
  
  
• Alinsky's goal was to set in motion a peaceful revolution, using the ballot box, not bombs or bullets, to wrench power from the hands of capitalist elites and business leaders currently in charge. [page 131]
  
  
• "Change" was Alinsky's code word for creating a socialist revolution, even if the methodology meant radicals would cut their hair, put on business suits, and run for political office. [page 131]
  
  
• Alinsky modeled Rules for Radicals after Machiavelli, also citing Lucifer as "the first radical" in one of three epigraphs with which Alinsky opens the book. [pages 133-134]
  
  
• After endorsing Obama to take her Illinois state senate seat, Alice Palmer arranged a function for a few influential liberals in the district at the Hyde Park home of Weather Underground activists Ayers and Dohrn to kick-off Obama's political campaign. [page 137]
  
  
• In 1995, Bill Ayers co-founded the Chicago Annenberg Challenge with a $50 million grant program for the Chicago public schools. Ayers selected Obama to be the first chairman of the board of the Annenberg Challenge, a position Obama held for eight years, until 2003, a period during which Ayers remained active with the Challenge. [page 138]
  
  
• Obama and Ayers both served on the board of the Woods Fund, at the time the Woods Fund made a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network (2001), followed by an additional $35,000 grant (2002). The Arab American Action Network collaborated with the American Friends Service Committee to hold an exhibition in Chicago on "Al Nakba," translated as "The Catastrophe," meaning 1948 and the founding of the state of Israel. [pages 140-143]
  
  
• Bill Ayers was photographed in 2001 standing on the American flag; the photos were taken for an August 2001 interview with Chicago Magazine. [page 146]
  
  
• Sam Graham-Felsen, one of the official bloggers for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, was a self-proclaimed student of Karl Marx when he was an undergraduate at Harvard and proudly displayed a Russian communist flag in his dorm room. [page 148]

These points were not disputed in "Unfit for Publication."

Chapter 6, "Tony Rezko and 'The Chicago Way'"

I consider the following arguments from "Tony Rezko and 'The Chicago Way,'" the sixth chapter of "The Obama Nation," are now conceded as true by "Unfit for Publication":

• Tony Rezko, a Chicago slumlord, helped bankroll Obama in five election runs – in Obama's successful 1996, 1998, and 2002 campaigns for the Illinois state senate, in 2000 for his unsuccessful run for the U.S. House, and in 2004 for his successful U.S. Senate campaign. [page 153]
  
  
• Rezko gave Obama his first political contribution, $2,000, on July 31, 1995, when he learned Obama was going to run for Alice Palmer's seat in the Illinois state legislature. [page 154]
  
  
• Obama has known Rezko for 17 years and he relied upon Rezko to help him raise contributions for his political campaigns. [page 154]
  
  
• Rezko wanted Obama to return to Chicago after he finished at Harvard so he could hire Obama in Rezmar, the name of Rezko's community development firm. [page 156]
  
  
• Between 1989 and 1998, Rezko got more than $100 million from the city, state, and federal government, plus bank loans to rehabilitate thirty buildings in Chicago. [page 160]
  
  
• A Chicago Sun-Times investigation in 2007 found the following: six of the 30 Rezmar buildings were boarded up; 17 had gone into foreclosure, most after Rezmar abandoned them; an 19th property was being foreclosed on by the state after Rezmar walked away from it; hundreds of apartments were vacant, most in need of major repairs. [page 160]
  
  
• Eleven of the Rezmar buildings were in the Illinois state senate district Obama represented. [page 160]
  
  
• Rezko's money today is gone and Rezko seems unable to account for what happened to the millions he had been lent or granted by the city, state, and federal governments, never mind the money from private investors and banks. [page 161]
  
  
• Obama's reputation was tarnished in Chicago, not only by his friendship with Rezko and the political contributions he took from him, but also by his involvement with the legal firm representing Rezko. [page 161]
  
  
• There is no record that Illinois state senator Obama ever so much as placed a speech in the record objecting to the public-housing practices perpetrated in his district by Tony Rezko, let alone calling for investigation of Rezko and his business practices. [page 164]
  
  
• The Chicago Sun-Times reported after a March 14, 2008, interview with Obama that Rezko had raised as much as an estimated $250,000 for the first three offices Obama sought, up to and including his 2004 race for the U.S. Senate. [page 170]

These points were not disputed in "Unfit for Publication."

Chapter 9, "A Far-Left Domestic Policy"

I consider the following arguments from "A Far-Left Domestic Policy," the ninth chapter of "The Obama Nation," are now conceded as true by "Unfit for Publication":

• The National Abortion Rights Action League, which prefers to represent itself more euphemistically under its acronym, NARAL, gives Obama a 100 percent score on his pro-choice voting record in the U.S. Senate for 2005, 2006, and 2007. [page 239]
  
  
• As a state senator in Illinois, Obama supported various gun control measures, including a ban on the sale and transfer of all forms of semi-automatic firearms, a bill limiting handgun purchases to one a month, and a bill requiring manufacturers to place child-safety locks on firearms. [page 243]
  
  
• Obama intends to increase capital gains taxes, arguing that current capital gains taxes are not "fair," even though lowering capital gains taxes have proven to stimulate investment and raise tax revenues. [pages 244-246]
  
  
• Sen. Hillary Clinton has charged Sen. Obama's proposal for universal health care will not work because his plan lacks mandates. [pages 246-250]

These points were not disputed in "Unfit for Publication."

Chapter 10, "Obama's Antiwar, Anti-Israel Foreign Policy"

I consider the following arguments from "Obama's Antiwar, Anti-Israel Foreign Policy," the 10th chapter of "The Obama Nation," are now conceded as true by "Unfit for Publication":

• A contributor to Obama's "no-nukes" policy is Joseph Cirincione who has been outspoken in his criticism of Israel's attack on the alleged North Korean nuclear plant in Syria. In a September 2007 interview with National Public Radio, Cirincione argued, "certain hard-line Israelis" were using the air strike to prevent U.S.-Syrian or Israeli-Syrian dialogue. [page 264-266]
  
  
• Obama promised during the CNN/YouTube primary debate in Charleston, S.C., on July 23, 2007, that he was willing to meet separately, without precondition, with enemies of the United States, including the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea. [pages 272-274]
  
  
• Foreign policy is Obama's Achilles heel. McCain will succeed by pressing Obama on specifics, demanding Obama stop blaming George W. Bush for international problems that go back at least to the Clinton administration, if not farther into history. [page 279]
  
  
• As the Kenyan angle is investigated and Obama's interference to support Raila Odinga is understood, Obama may be seen to be inclined to pursue personal objectives in international relations, not necessarily objectives that derive from wide experience of a consistent concept of U.S. national security interests. [page 279]

These points were not disputed in "Unfit for Publication."

Given the substantive issues in "The Obama Nation" that have not been refuted by the Obama campaign, the attacks against the book have been ideologically motivated.

This has been a tough week for the senator from Illinois. First, Obama gets a slight bounce in the polls after the democrat convention, which many thought would be double digit. Second, hurricane Sarah hit Minneapolis and lead the republicans to a hugely successful convention which has team McCain/Palin, as of 9/8,  with a decent lead in most national polls. Finally third, and perhaps the most embarassing thing to happen to Barack Obama this week, comes from the senator's own mouth. It appears Obama got a little off message on Sunday when he mistakenly said "...my Muslim faith...." instead of Christian faith, in an interview with George Stephanopolous. Obama didn't catch it as he said it, but Stephanopolous did and quickly corrected the senator. You can see the disgusted look on his face as he realizes what just slipped out of his mouth. Here is the video:

 

                                                                  

 

Now, I am not saying Obama is a Muslim like some on the internet. I feel this was an honest mistake and its exactly why I look forward to the debates. Obama is a bullsh_t salesman with a mouthful of samples, and sometimes he gets so caught up in the moment he isn't aware of what he said. But even so, this clip is kind of funny if only to see him squirm. Enjoy!

Are conservative values back at the core of the republican party? It certainly sounded like they were after hearing many of the speeches given by the various speakers at the republican convention. I, for one, welcome those principles back into the party and move to hold any politician who dares put an "R" next to his or her name accountable to those same principles. One needs to remember that it was the abandonment of our core conservative beliefs that lost us Congress and threatens to give democrats even larger majorities. Quite simply, we had too many republicans acting like democrats and for that reason, they lost the base of the party.

 

What occurred in Minnesota over the last week was a resurgence of sorts and a call to return to the time tested values that have made this nation the greatest in the history of man. It is important to note, it has been conservative values and principles that built this nation, not liberal-leftist ideas of big government. Liberals have not contributed one positive idea to the spectrum of American political culture. They wrap their views in the flag and Constitution in order to appear mainstream to the American people, yet work tirelessly to tear them down while taking our founding traditions and principles with them. I look forward to a time when the people of America recapture their individuality and see liberalism for what it really is and defiantly sweep the failed ideology into the dustbin of history.

 

Here are a few quotes from the Republican convention that give me hope:

 

I have just come across a video of Barack Obama making some comments on the Bible that I have never seen before. The video speaks for itself and is a very interesting look into the character of the democratic candidate. Pay attention to what he says about the Sermon On the Mount. Didn't he say a few months back that he uses the sermon to help guide him spiritually? But here in the video, he clearly says the sermon is "too radical". What a fool! Give it a look.

                                                                  

For the last few months, the American people have heard brief snippets about a relationship between the home-grown terrorist William Ayers and Barack Obama. Ayers was a member of many radical left-wing organizations in the 1960's, culminating in his leading membership in the Weather Underground, who were responsible for more than a dozen bombings between 1970 and 1974. Considering the implications of such a relationship, one would think that Obama's political adversaries would have jumped all over the news story and brought it to the attention of as many people as possible. But the connection between the two has been largely ignored by the mainstream media which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, and the lengths at which some will go to cover up the Obama-Ayers connection is in and of itself rather radical.

 

Stanley Kurtz of the National Review decided to address the concerns and questions surrounding the relationship, and wanted to dig a little deeper to see what he could un-earth. Kurtz contacted the University of Illinois at Chicago who reportedly had 132 boxes of various documents concerning the relationship as Kurtz believes the documents may show Obama and Ayers were close—far closer than Obama has acknowledged—over oodles of foundation gifts on education projects the two worked on together. Kurtz was initially given permission to research the documents. But after having landed in Chicago, the library had changed their minds and denied Kurtz access to the documents. John Kass's article in the Chicago Tribune covers the story rather well and shows to what length Obama's Chicago cronies will go to see their man elected. His article can be found here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-kass-ayers-thurs-21-aug21,0,7140263.column  This Obama-Ayers relationship is important if only to point out Obama's extreme views for the country, his relationship with those who share the same views (terrorists mind you), and his massively flawed judgement which once again is called into question. How many associations with radical leftist ideologue's can Obama possible have without the people seeing that he himself is a radical leftist? A history of the Weather Underground and William Ayers is essential to understanding the critical nature of their relationship.

 

William Ayers radical history began with memberships in various radical left-wing groups such as the New Left and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The groups Ayers headed in Detroit and Michigan became one of the earliest gatherings of what became the Weatherman. Between the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the June 1969 SDS convention, Ayers became a prominent leader of the group, which arose as a result of a schism in SDS. In June 1969, the Weatherman took control of the SDS at its national convention, where Ayers was elected "Education Secretary".^[4]Later in 1969, Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket Riot.^[7] The blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby Kennedy Expressway.^[8] The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on May 4, 1970, and blown up again by Weatherman on October 6, 1970.^[9][8] Built yet again, the city posted a 24-hour police guard to prevent another blast.^[8] He participated in the Days of Rage riot in Chicago that October, and in December was at the "War Council" meeting in Flint, Michigan.

 

The following year he "went underground" with several associates after the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, in which Weatherman member Ted Gold, Ayers' close friend Terry Robbins, and Ayers girlfriend, Oughton, were killed when a nail bomb that was under construction exploded. Kathy Boudin and Cathy Wilkerson survived the blast. Ayers was not facing criminal charges at the time, but the federal government later filed charges against him.^[1] While underground, he and fellow member Bernardine Dohrn married, and the two remained fugitives together, changing identities, jobs and locations. By 1977,  federal charges against both fugitives were dropped due to prosecutorial misconduct.

 

It is important to understand what the Weather Underground stood for and what their ideology represented. The Weathermen were initially part of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) within the SDS, splitting from the RYM's Maoists by claiming there was no time to build a vanguard party and that revolutionary war against the United States government and the capitalist system should begin immediately. Their founding document called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements^[11] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."

 

Since his involvement in the terrorist activities mentioned above, Ayers has never apologized for or never has hinted at regretting his radical past. Much of the controversy about Ayers during the decade since the year 2000 stems from an interview he gave to the New York Times on the occasion of the his memoir's publication.^[17] The reporter quoted him as saying "I don't regret setting bombs" and "I feel we didn't do enough", and, when asked if he would "do it all again" as saying "I don't want to discount the possibility."^[10] Ayers has not denied the quotes, but he protested the interviewer's characterizations.

 

Where does Mayor Richard M. Daley play into all of this as John Kass's article suggests? Well, Ayers was tapped by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley to help found the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, that city's now nationally-renowned school reform program. In fact, when the rumblings first began about an Obama-Ayers relationship, Daley issued a statement about Ayers and how the mayor knows him personally and that Obama should not be labled guilty simply for having known Ayers. That statement and Chicago Tribune editorial can be found here: http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/daley_dont_tar_obama_for_ayers.html   And now, thanks to some shady Chicago political dealings, the true relationship between Obama and Ayers will not be known, at least until November 5th.