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  In The Tank

  http://election.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/10/06/in-the-tan...
  58 days ago in Election 2008 · Authority: 12

  In The Tank October 6th, 2008 by Mark Dillen Now that we are in the final month of campaigning, forget all the niceties.  The candidate trailing in the polls McCain ratchets up the personal attacks and the front-runner Obama tries to blunt them and
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  Sarah Palin: Barack Obama 'palling around with terrorists’

  http://theneinblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/sarah-palin-barack-o...
  58 days ago in The NEIN Blog · Authority: 24

  08 OCTOBER 2008: There's an updated link with an image in the text below directly related an article I just read by Clarice Feldman, dated 04 October and published at AmericanThinker.Com. The active link is the bold, capital-lettered word of my original text now rendered as: "WHITEWASH." 05 OCTOBER 2008: Beloved American cinema action hero John Wayne portrayed a character named "SGT Stryker" in the 1949 movie "Sands of Iwo Jima." In that movie SGT Stryker uttered a truly timeless axiom, my all-time favorite in fact: "Life is tough, it's tougher if you're stupid." Once again it seems as if real life is imitating art as the leftist global media has been very quick to pounce upon recent comments made by Republican Vice Presidential candidate (Alaska Governor) Sarah Palin where she references the "terrorist" connections of the possibly illegitimate Democrat Presidential candidate (just ask Philadelphia attorney Phil Berg) by citing the New York Times as the open source of this data. News items from the left-of-political center media bastions (aka the "MSM") like Comcast, CNN, and the San Francisco Chronicle in the United States, to the Telegraph.co.uk across the pond in Jolly ol' Englandistan. These leftist media reports, and there's more than 250 such reports on this in the past 12 hours, think they're smart in citing Governor Palin's remarks which cite Barack Hussein Obama's terrorist connections (see the official NEIN Blog Obama radical connections chart HERE) in a report from the New York Times, which the truth of the matter be told is nothing more than a complete WHITEWASH of Barrack Hussein Obama's connections to card carrying communists and both foreign and domestic American terrorists who all hate the United States of America with unbridled passion and seek to relegate our Constitution into the scrap heap of history. Bill Ayres, the man the Scott Shane of the New York Times attempted to whitewash from any enduring, long-term relationship with Barrack Hussein Obama II. Shane's article, linked above, is nothing more than a Leftist adaptation of standard Islamic deception known as al-Taqiyya. However, as SGT Stryker said, the lefty media are actually quite stupid for doing this and life will get tougher for their fellow leftist and buddy, Barack Hussein Obama. They've literally stepped in it, hip deep in fact, because they are now propagating the core truth as both the Northeast Intelligence Network, Dr. Laurie Roth (who was the true breaking news originator of the Obama-Ayres connection story) and the other conservative media and blogosphere have been propagating these truths for months now. In short, the leftist MSM is now informing the enfranchised American electorate - an electorate who are not as stupid as the media world-socialist elite believe them to be - about Obama's anti-American friends and murderous terrorist allies in ways and on a scale we could never possibly hope to achieve on our own. Gee, thanks ya leftist dolts. Life is tough, and it is tougher when you're stupid 30 days prior to an absolutely critical American election. As stated by PajamasMedia writer Clarice Feldman, this story will kill Barack Hussein Obama in American polling booths on November 4th.
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  The “pitbull with lipstick” goes on the attack

  http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=3550
  58 days ago in Israpundit · Authority: 211

  By Ted Belman Gov Palin spoke to a crowd of 16,000 in California and immediately went on the attack to the delight of the audience. She reminded them that California was Reagan country. DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, Associated Press didn’t like it one bit. I have made bold the editorializing. By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists” and doesn’t see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign. And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret. First, Palin’s attack shows that her energetic debate with rival Joe Biden may be just the beginning, not the end, of a sharpened role in the battle to win the presidency. “Our opponent … is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country,” Palin told a group of donors in Englewood, Colo. A deliberate attempt to smear Obama, McCain’s ticket-mate echoed the line at three separate events Saturday. “This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America,” she said. “We see America as a force of good in this world. We see an America of exceptionalism.” Obama isn’t above attacking McCain’s character with loaded words, releasing an ad on Sunday that calls the Arizona Republican “erratic” — a hard-to miss suggestion that McCain’s age, 71, might be an issue. “Our financial system in turmoil,” an announcer says in Obama’s new ad. “And John McCain? Erratic in a crisis. Out of touch on the economy.” A harsh and plainly partisan judgment, certainly, but not on the level of suggesting that a fellow senator is un-American and even a friend of terrorists. In her character attack, Palin questions Obama’s association with William Ayers, a member of the Vietnam-era Weather Underground. Her reference was exaggerated at best if not outright false. No evidence shows they were “pals” or even close when they worked on community boards years ago and Ayers hosted a political event for Obama early in his career. Obama, who was a child when the Weathermen were planting bombs, has denounced Ayers’ radical views and actions. With her criticism, Palin is taking on the running mate’s traditional role of attacker, said Rich Galen, a Republican strategist. “There appears to be a new-found sense of confidence in Sarah Palin as a candidate, given her performance the other night,” Galen said. “I think that they are comfortable enough with her now that she’s got the standing with the electorate to take off after Obama.” Second, Palin’s incendiary charge draws media and voter attention away from the worsening economy. It also comes after McCain supported a pork-laden Wall Street bailout plan in spite of conservative anger and his own misgivings. “It’s a giant changing of the subject,” said Jenny Backus, a Democratic strategist. “The problem is the messenger. If you want to start throwing fire bombs, you don’t send out the fluffy bunny to do it. I think people don’t take Sarah Palin seriously.” The larger purpose behind Palin’s broadside is to reintroduce the question of Obama’s associations. Millions of voters, many of them open to being swayed to one side or the other, are starting to pay attention to an election a month away. For the McCain campaign, that makes Obama’s ties to Ayers as well as convicted felon Antoin “Tony” Rezko and the controversial minister Jeremiah Wright ripe for renewed criticism. And Palin brings a fresh voice to the argument. Effective character attacks have come earlier in campaigns. In June 1988, Republican George H.W. Bush criticized Democrat Michael Dukakis over the furlough granted to Willie Horton, a convicted murderer who then raped a woman and stabbed her companion. Related TV ads followed in September and October. The Vietnam-era Swift Boat veterans who attacked Democrat John Kerry’s war record started in the spring of 2004 and gained traction in late summer. “The four weeks that are left are an eternity. There’s plenty of time in the campaign,” said Republican strategist Joe Gaylord. “I think it is a legitimate strategy to talk about Obama and to talk about his background and who he pals around with.” Palin’s words avoid repulsing voters with overt racism. But is there another subtext for creating the false image of a black presidential nominee “palling around” with terrorists while assuring a predominantly white audience that he doesn’t see their America? In a post-Sept. 11 America, terrorists are envisioned as dark-skinned radical Muslims, not the homegrown anarchists of Ayers’ day 40 years ago. With Obama a relative unknown when he began his campaign, the Internet hummed with false e-mails about ties to radical Islam of a foreign-born candidate. Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as “not like us” is another potential appeal to racism. It suggests that the Hawaiian-born Christian is, at heart, un-American. The fact is that when racism creeps into the discussion, it serves a purpose for McCain. As the fallout from Wright’s sermons showed earlier this year, forcing Obama to abandon issues to talk about race leads to unresolved arguments about America’s promise to treat all people equally. John McCain occasionally says he looks back on decisions with regret. He has apologized for opposing a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. He has apologized for refusing to call for the removal of a Confederate flag from South Carolina’s Capitol. When the 2008 campaign is over will McCain say he regrets appeals such as Palin’s? ___ Palin was right on the money. Obama is not one of us. Not because of his colour but because of his far left politics. The fact that she lablelled him un-American is hugh. Look for this theme to be played over and over again. The far left San Francisco Chronical reported it this way. With just a month to go until the election, Palin gleefully signaled the start of an aggressive new attack aimed at painting Obama as too radical to lead the country. “There is a time when it’s necessary to take the gloves off, and that time is right now,” she said, adding that her campaign adviser encouraged the move saying, “the heels are on, the gloves are off.” “Evidently, there’s been a lot of interest in what I like to read lately,” Palin said in a laughing reference to a recent interview with CBS anchor Katie Couric where she was unable to name publications she regularly reads. “Well, I was reading today a copy of the New York Times,” she said to loud boos, “and I was really interested to read about Barack Obama’s friends from Chicago.” The story in question, published Saturday, explored the “crossed paths” of Obama and Ayers, and what it characterized as sporadic links the two shared as residents of Hyde Park and as members of a nonprofit organization concentrating on Chicago schools. “One of his earliest supporters is a man who, according to the New York Times, was a domestic terrorist … part of a group which launched a campaign to bomb” the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, Palin told the Carson crowd. “These are the same guys who think that patriotism is paying higher taxes.” Supporters of the GOP ticket, including actor Jon Voight, echoed Palin’s comments - or went even further in their attacks at the rally. The actor told a pre-rally press conference that “no one’s vetting Obama at all … this fellow has a lot of very strange associations … such as his affiliation with William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist.” Voight told reporters that Ayers and Obama “worked together at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge … four years together, radicalizing the Chicago school system. That’s what their agenda was.” McCain campaign spokesman Rick Gorka said Voight “does not speak for the campaign,” but Democrats assailed the allegations made at the rally as outright lies. “That’s called throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks,” said California Democratic Party spokesman Brian Brokaw as he watched the rally from the stands. “They’re behind in all the battleground states.” Sanchez, the Obama spokesman, said the Annenberg public-private partnership was founded with the help of a Republican governor to improve Chicago schools, and that Obama and Ayers were never associates in that work. Palin, in her address, repeatedly - and to the crowd’s delight - jabbed at the media. In a reference to her interview with Couric, she said that she had been “flippant” in some answers, but didn’t think the questions were very relevant. “Oh, come on, let’s start talking to the American people about the issues that you guys want to know about,” she said to cheers. Peppering her speech with folksy sayings and references, she had the crowd chanting and cheering her on as she told the Carson audience that “our opponents take this state and all of you for granted. … But I’ve got some news … for millions of Californians, this is still Reagan country.” Palin’s speech was interrupted several times by protesters who shouted slogans and were escorted out of the arena as the crowd drowned out their shouts with “U-S-A!” But the GOP vice presidential candidate also hit hard on issues, like taxes and offshore oil drilling, even leading the audience in a chant of “Drill, baby, drill!”

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