Archive for October, 2008

McCain releases web ad exploring Obama’s ties to unrepentant domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers

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HawkEye
on October 9, 2008
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The McCain campaign has released a web ad looking closely at the ties of Barack Obama to Weather Underground founder and domestic terrorist William Ayers. It shows how dishonest that Obama has been over his relationship with the terrorist. The ad is introduced with the following:

Today, McCain-Palin 2008 released its latest web ad, entitled “Ayers.” The ad highlights Barack Obama’s long-standing relationship with unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. From his political introduction at Bill Ayers’ house in 1995 to their service together on two boards, Barack Obama has long known Bill Ayers but has not been straightforward with the American people. This is an issue of judgment and candor and Barack Obama has not told the American people the truth.

Watch the ad below:

Here is the full release from the McCain campaign.

CNN nails Obama on the Ayers connection and his lies over it!

Published
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HawkEye
on October 7, 2008
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I’m incredibly grateful that CNN has finally issued an honest look at Obama’s ties with unrepentant American terrorist, Bill Ayers, a member of the radical terrorist group The Weather Underground. While it’s been obvious to many that Obama has been less than honest about his relationship with Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn. The CNN piece looks closely at Senator Obama’s and Ayers dealings on the board of the Annenberg Challenge Project and a how Obama was aided by Ayers in his rise within Chicago politics as an outsider:

For Obama, the chairmanship of the $100 million Annenberg board helped vault him from a South Side lawyer to political player. And there, too, is an Ayers connection.

In 1995, months after the little-known Obama became Annenberg chairman, state Sen. Alice Palmer introduced the young lawyer as her political heir apparent. The introduction was made over coffee at the home of Ayers and Dohrn. Two people who attended the event told CNN the introduction of Obama included a solicitation for campaign funds.

Watch the entire piece below:

McCain ready to fight! It’s about time that the Maverick set the record straight on Fannie and Freddie.

Published
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HawkEye
on October 6, 2008
in 2008 Presidential Election and Give Me Liberty
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It’s being reported everywhere that Senator John McCain is starting to make the valid case of attaching blame of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacles squarely where it belongs. Today in New Mexico McCain clearly stated that he coauthored legislation to reign in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while the Democrats fought it in effect killing the bill in committee while the rookie Obama remained silent.

I applaud the decision for McCain to press this important issue that speaks to judgment and experience – two things that Senator Obama lacks.

From around the conservative blogosphere, the news is being met with excitement. Here are few examples:

Michelle Malkin:

Don’t go wobbly now, McCain.

Don’t stop.

Take your own advice: Stand up and fight.

Ace of Spades:

The debate is the second-to-last chance to raise these concerns with 50 million Americans at once.

Merely making tough remarks at campaign appearances isn’t going to help.

But perhaps he’s finally heard the alarm bells.


Redstate:

In a statement obtained by RedState, Sen. John McCain today will lay plain the crisis on Wall Street - not to mention Main Street - firmly on the narrow shoulders of those who caused it in the first place: the Democratic Party in general, and Senator Barack Obama in particular. He’s going to talk about it all. Here’s a taste:

Senator Obama has accused me of opposing regulation to avert this crisis. I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed. But the truth is I was the one who called at the time for tighter restrictions on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that could have helped prevent this crisis from happening in the first place.

Senator Obama was silent on the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and his Democratic allies in Congress opposed every effort to rein them in. As recently as September of last year he said that subprime loans had been, quote, “a good idea.” Well, Senator Obama, that “good idea” has now plunged this country into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

To hear him talk now, you’d think he’d always opposed the dangerous practices at these institutions. But there is absolutely nothing in his record to suggest he did. He was surely familiar with the people who were creating this problem. The executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have advised him, and he has taken their money for his campaign. He has received more money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac than any other senator in history, with the exception of the chairman of the committee overseeing them. Did he ever talk to the executives at Fannie and Freddie about these reckless loans? Did he ever discuss with them the stronger oversight I proposed? If Senator Obama is such a champion of financial regulation, why didn’t he support these regulations that could have prevented this crisis in the first place? He won’t tell you, but you deserve an answer.

To our lurkers: that’s John McCain calling your guy a gutless, two-faced coward who lets others do his fighting. Which, by the
way, is perfectly correct.

What just Happened? A video every American voter should watch.

Published
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HawkEye
on October 6, 2008
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Watch this before you decide who will receive your vote in November:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exxVZTKq1vA

Senator Shelby lambastes bill and all the Chicken Littles — votes no

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HawkEye
on October 2, 2008
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Michelle Malkin has listed the telephone numbers of each US Representative who opposed the Paulson “crap-sandwich” bill earlier this week.

Please call your representative and tell them to follow Senator Richard Shelby’s lead in voting no. I watched Shelby’s speech last night on C-SPAN and was blown away by his thoughtfulness and warnings to not make a hasty decision. Heck pass along his speech to your rep.

CNSNews has coverage of it here.

Update:

Here is a video of Shelby on Lou Dobbs discussing the bill yesterday:

Ifill must step down as moderator of debate

Published
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HawkEye
on October 1, 2008
in 2008 Presidential Election and Expose Liberal Media Bias
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With her pro-Obama book set to come out on Inaguration Day, PBS journalist Gwen Ifill must recuse herself as the moderator of the VP debate between Governor Sarah Palin and Obama’s running mate since she stands to profit personally from an Obama Presidency.

Furthermore, it is in the opinion of this writer, that Ifill’s decision to accept the position of moderator is shameful and implies that she has put her self interest ahead of an honest debate. The mere appearance of inappropriate motivation is a more than sufficient cause for her removal from the debate.

Understand this would be different if this conflict of interest was diclosed fully to all parties early in the process, but since it was not, I call on the Ifill to make the correct call and step down. And since that may not happen, I call on the debate commission to remove her to at the very least remove the appearance of impropriety.

Here is what other are saying about this:

Michelle Malkin:

But there is nothing “moderate” about where Ifill stands on Barack Obama. She’s so far in the tank for the Democrat presidential candidate, her oxygen delivery line is running out.

In an imaginary world where liberal journalists are held to the same standards as everyone else, Ifill would be required to make a full disclosure at the start of the debate. She would be required to turn to the cameras and tell the national audience that she has a book coming out on January 20, 2009 – a date that just happens to coincide with the inauguration of the next president of the United States.

Little Green Footballs:

Gwen Ifill should step down as moderator of the vice presidential debate

NewsBusters:

In addition to her portrait of Obama, Ifill will also investigate Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a close friend of Obama’s; Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who Ifill describes as “very charismatic” in the video; and Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama. “They all chose to get into politics for the most upstanding of reasons, and they all have achieved much more than their parents could have hoped.” It doesn’t hurt that it’s made Obama a mega-best-selling multi-millionaire author.

Ifill presents Obama and the others as the idealistic successors of Martin Luther King: “This book is about a generation of people who took seriously the achievements that their parents fought for. They knew that Martin Luther King did what he did so they can do what they’re doing, and they decided to follow through.”

RedState:

Note that neither Ms. Malkin nor I am suggesting that Ms. Ifill stop moderating the debate; merely that she let the viewing public know right from the start that it’s in Ms. Ifill’s long-term financial interest that Senator Obama win the Presidency. They call it “transparency:” it’s quite the coming thing. The media should try it sometime.

Amanda Carpenter:

“I confirmed for us here on GretaWire: the McCain campaign did NOT know about Gwen Ifill’s book,” Fox anchor Greta Van Susteren reported on her blog, GretaWire, a day before the debate is scheduled to occur.

Conservative websites were on fire Wednesday morning after it was discovered moderator Gwen Ifill was planning to release a book about Barack Obama’s impact on race and politics on January 20, 2009.