It gives us cover this next month to blast his campaign out of the water, with a smile.

His past sucks with conflict. He’s trying to drag McCain into the fire. Don’e laugh. Emrace it and bring moe heat. He wants this debate. Lets have it. Thanks Barry.

I have wondered for a while when this would come up. But you have to wonder, didn’t the McCain campaign wonder if it would? And if they did, why didn’t we innoculate ourselves against this? We could have used this as a talking point to point out his growth, but it’s been hushed over until now.

I fear this may get ugly…

n/t

Obama is trying to protect his nuts (ACORN).

And he doesnt want his extremisms exposed.

This is the art of distraction.

If Obama didnt have $200 million AND the entire media on his side, he’d be toast.

BTW, the polls will close. Obama knows it. He got a free ride for 3 weeks.

Well, one line, in particular: near the end of her twenty-minute speech, Sarah Palin told the audience that out on the hustings one comment from supporters has dominated, in frequency, all others: tell people about the real Barack Obama. She said this quietly, without drama. But: thunder, hoots, an ovation. It was the one real firework in her stump speech; yet from the cadence of the speech one could tell that it was not intended thus.

It will hurt Obama bad.

It’s a pandora’s box.

People will see the contrast between McCain/Keating and Obama/Rezco.

McCain helped Keating even to the last end of Keating’s life when all Keating’s Big Democrats beneficiaries ostracized him. Obama dissed Rezco so badly.

McCain’s participation was at the end of S&L fiasco, trying to save his constituents from imminent collapse. That’s where McCain came from. Obama’s friends made Fannie/Freddie as milking cow.

S&L collapse made 3 Democrats guilty of the crime. Obama’s Friends and Democrats Frank and the Dodd are all off-the-hook in the Fannie/Freddie scam.

What more to say?

It will turn out bad for McCain? It will how beautiful the character of McCain is…. compared to Obama’s dark character.

if their new website was sitting on the shelf just waiting for McCain to make the first move, or if they threw this together over the past couple of days.

And while I think it’s mostly a counter attack to the threatened Ayers offensive that McCain is promising, I really think it’s more a reaction to the “swiftboating” of John Kerry. Obama’s team is going to try and “confuse” the media, because now the media will report both stories and there will be a natural tendency for the media and the low educated voter to see them as equivalent and that they cancel each other out.

And it might work, at least partially. If nothing else McCain will have to explain why Ayers matters but Keating doesn’t, potentially muddying up his message.

PUMA here praying for a mac win. Obama is a fraud.

it’s not just ayers this is opening up, it’s the entire cast of characters and missing info on barack. hannity wove it all together tonight in a special. no records on columbia and many more in the mix well beyond ayers. who IS this guy barack? why so much missing? what is with the palestinian ties? how did this happen?

IMO that is why the hairtrigger response.

New hour long special detailing all of barky’s associations and missing info in one hour-long package. it has run twice tonight so far. will run again at 2 am EST. i imagine it will be running for a few more weeks with additional information added.

there is so much missing info on barack i don’t know how he gets away with it.

When you are hustling on the street there is a very appropriate axiom that fits here. Think long think wrong.

Forget what Obama is going to do. Hit that SOB and hit him hard. Hit him early, hit him late, and do not give him room to breathe.

McCain either hits hard, fast and furious or he loses there is no other out for him.

This is what I think the Obama campaign is trying to accomplish.

My 88-year-old father has been back and forth, back and forth on McCain. The problem is, he thinks McCain is too old, and he is not impressed with Palin’s readiness.

But he’s not crazy about Obama. He is not enlightened as far as racial prejudice goes, and he has preferred Republicans since Reagan.

However one of his most painful memories is the period when he feared that he would lose deposits made with savings and load institutions during the “Keating Five” scandal. And of course, my father is currently watching the value of his stock market investments plummet and rise daily on Wall Street.

This is not a good time to associate McCain with those bad memories.

On the other hand, most current voters don’t have vivid memories of the savings and loan failure. They are not that old!

But on another hand, it’s a complicated thing to explain, and few voters seem to have the interest or attention span to absorb the complexities. They may be vulnerable to the sound bytes.

Another problem is that the Ayers connection has already been highlighted by the McCain campaign. It’s not going to get much attention unless there is new evidence. And ironically we have the same problem as the Democrats. Ayers was a long time ago!

I was startled a few days ago to hear that my father had no idea who Ayers was. When I explained, he didn’t care. He was all about the bottom line.

I don’t believe for a moment that the number is accurate. CBS and CNN are constantly padding the Democrat’s numbers, and conservatives are starting to believe those numbers are accurate because they seem them so often.

it’s going to get back to some other characters, including that lovable rev wright. i don’t care what the mccain campaign says, we are going there and i hope they take it all the way. barky sat over 20 years listening to that antiamerican spew and did NOTHING. that is WHO barky is. a do NOTHING.

I have a private blog…most of my readers are PUMA…ex-democrats…women and men who have voted all their lives dem straight ticket who are NOW voting GOP, some for the first time in their lives, and they are thrilled to do so. I have about 300 readers and would have more but I had to go private because of obot intimidation and harassment on my blog. We are loving Sarah and we want to see Mac go harder on the fraud. Most of us are more on the centrist side anyway, but the point is, this is just a small sample on my blog of a lot of folks who are ticked off at what the fraud did using the DNC. My blog represents masses of life long dems who have gone unaffiliated officially and many who may keep their dem affiliation for now but will vote GOP. We are also ticked off at the treatment Palin has received, even though we do not agree with all of her views. She hs been treated as subhuman and we have no doubt barky just winks about it. go mcpalin!

McCain must tie the dems in congress and Obama to this economic mess. Wall street will sell off from now until the election. With Obama and a liberal congress what possible motive is there for investors to invest? higher taxes? socialist government? etc.

While Ayers and Wright and Rezko are good targets, MCcain must tie Obama to the Wall Street sell off. He can do this with Schumer( indymac) and Reid (insurance giant), Frank (Fannie and Freddie) and Pelosi (save the earth, no drilling).
The economy is taost for the next year 18 months at least. It will not go away the MSM will not let it. McCain must attack Obama’s strength and make it a negative.

I hope the GOP stomps barky as hard as possible. This experience has opened many eyes to what “liberal” means.

I used to watch CNN and MSNBC. I used to watch Bill Maher….all of that. Now I watch Fox. I used to think Fox was evil.

Several million of us out here doing the same thing. World turned upside down. Heck no, we don’t want more taxes. NO, no we don’t want barky telling the world we are sorry we are Americans. We do want better healthcare somehow, but not at the expense of disgracing America with someone like barky.

There is a backlash out here and most of us are quiet about it because of the intimidation factor. Some of us have to work with the obots and live with them. We have to be careful. Is THIS America????? No, America is Sarah Palin saying ya know, Joe…..and what about that Ayers!!! It’s freedom of speech and freedom to live.

Ok, I’ll stop now. Had to say it.

I think Gov Palin should start saying she isn’t impressed with a potential President that goes around and calls professional women in the media “sweetie”.

Just a thought.

–MJ

have his cake and eat it too. If he really thinks that character assassinations by past associations are totally out-of-line for a presidential campaign, I don’t want to hear anything about the Keating 5.

If he does bring it up, he can’t (or shouldn’t be able to) say anything about the Ayers, Wright, ACORN, etc. stuff.

You can’t stay above the fray while doing the same things you denounce.

Many of the Obamatons are very young- younger than the scandal. That, combined with the lefty need to make everything equal, means they are hoping their base will simply conclude that their guy made a mistake, but so did McCain when he was younger.
The other is that the media is now a well trained lap dog. They are simply repeating Obama talking points without fact check. They are hoping to put McCain on the defense by his vicious attack on a school reformer, and force him to re-defend his Keating 5 experience, even though he was exonerated.
McCain needs to take the battle back to Obama completely- brush it off by pointing out the fact he was cleared by the special prosecutor and immediately turn it back on Obama for his career achievement of participating in the destruction of our mortgage system to his personal benefit, and his hiring of the ring leaders from FNMA and FMAC to his campaign.
And then toss in a question about just why he has refused to open up his campaign finance system even though he promised to run a clean campaign.

the press will push this meme all day…then later this afternoon or sometime tomorrow Obama will make a formal statement to be carried an all the news networks that these stories aren’t true and he’ll call on Democrats not to engage in this because we need to rise above old style politics and embrace hope and change.

This is all about insulating himself from questions about Ayers and Rezco…the story from the press will then become how high minded and honorable the Golden Child is all the while they’ll paint McCain as losing and desperate and his calling Obama’s character into question nothing more than Republican Swift boating and old style politics.

It’s so predictable it’s sickening

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

There is somethign very special between Ayers and Obama. He has thrown literally everyone else under the bus. Ayers- a very unsympathetic, pathetic wanker, he defends utterly.
I say keep digging.
NPR still says the lie that there is no evidence of a relationship beyond casual between Ayers and Obama.
There is fire in the Ayers smoke.
But the real fire is FNMA and Raines and the $$$$Obama got from both, and the bad loans he helped ACORN inflict on America.

Obama Sued Citibank Under CRA to Force it to Make Bad Loans

Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank

Plaintiffs filed their class action lawsuit on July 6, 1994, alleging that Citibank had engaged in redlining practices in the Chicago metropolitan area in violation of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), 15 U.S.C. 1691; the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. 3601-3619; the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; and 42 U.S.C. 1981, 1982. Plaintiffs alleged that the Defendant-bank rejected loan applications of minority applicants while approving loan applications filed by white applicants with similar financial characteristics and credit histories. Plaintiffs sought injunctive relief, actual damages, and punitive damages.

U.S. District Court Judge Ruben Castillo certified the Plaintiffs’ suit as a class action on June 30, 1995. Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank, 162 F.R.D. 322 (N.D. Ill. 1995). Also on June 30, Judge Castillo granted Plaintiffs’ motion to compel discovery of a sample of Defendant-bank’s loan application files. Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank, 162 F.R.D. 338 (N.D. Ill. 1995).

The parties voluntarily dismissed the case on May 12, 1998, pursuant to a settlement agreement.

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I think these MSM polls are heavily weighted in favor of Obama,just as they were for Kerry in 04.If Obama is up by 10 more the weekend before the election then it will be time to worry.

The inability of Redstate conservatives to correctly analyze the immediate political situation continues. And using layman’s psychology here continues the inaccurate analysis.

If you are winning with a month to go in the race you cannot afford to let the opponent use attacks to peel off any voters. So you immediately counter. Certainly Obama had this Keating 5 stuff ready for months, but was holding it for the right moment.

And your layman analysis says that the Akers connection for Obama is more damning than McCain’s old Keating 5 news. Sure this is the case for the committed folks on the Right, but that’s not who the campaigns are after. If you really think about it — the public is thinking about the economy NOW, so McCain’s connections to Keating are much more important to the deciding voters than Obama’s connections to Akers.

If you hit people with the right stuff at the right time the impact is much bigger. The Akers stuff is great red meat for the folks at Palin’s rallies, but middle-of-the-road voters just won’t much care right now. On the other hand, the Keating 5 attacks are aimed at the undecided voter, and what is that voter thinking of right now? Fiscal irresponsibility. In that way the timing for the Keating 5 attack is perfect.

The trail of corruption in obamas past is building day by day, but with the press in the tank it may not matter if it doesn’t get air time. but it may spell trouble for an Obama administration in the end. once elected he will have a small grace period and then all the pidgeons come home to roost. when the public get a taste of obamanomics and his healthcare plan is exposed for the fairytale it is adding a possible major recession a President Mccain will look very good. but it will be to late and we will look like a third world govt when all his appointees are in the open. maybe a foriegn affairs post for william ayers and a presidential pardon for tony rezco so he dosen’t talk.then you can always give his old buds at fannie mae or freddie mack the secretary of treasury job. Rev wright will handle all his christian affairs at home, and louis farekan will be his mideast Islamic envoy. and then all his pals at ACORN get appointed to the comission of oversight of presidential elections because after all they know a fraud when they see one. last but not least secretary of defense will go to Sen Barney Frank if he could’nt see the fannie mae and freedie mac scandal being chairman of oversight for the two Govt agencies from within he’d be perfect at not seeing any threat from outside the US.Don’t laugh it is very plausable considering he picked say it ain’t so Joe Biden for V/P or could you say minnie me.Walt

WASHINGTON, February 13, 2008 — Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid disclosed today that a hugely expensive bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Democratic Senator Barack Obama, was quickly passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. Kincaid said that the major media’s cover-up of the bill, which makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations, demonstrates the media’s desire to see Senator Obama elected to the presidency.

In a column posted on the AIM web site, Kincaid noted that Senator Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was trying to rush Obama’s “Global Poverty Act” (S. 2433) through his committee without hearings. The legislation would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends. It was scheduled for a Thursday vote but was moved up a day, to Wednesday, and rushed through by voice vote. Kincaid learned, however, that conservative Senators have now put a “hold” on the legislation, in order to prevent it from being rushed to the floor for a full Senate vote.

The House version (H.R. 1302) was suddenly brought up on the House floor last September 25 and was passed by voice vote. House Republicans were caught off-guard, unaware that the pro-U.N. measure committed the U.S. to spending hundreds of billions of dollars. Kincaid’s column notes that the official in charge of making nations comply with the U.N. Millennium Goals, which are prominently highlighted in the Obama bill, says a global tax will be necessary to force American taxpayers to provide the money.

What a joke they both are, but they may get in through the fear factor. people are scared GM is all but days from bankruptcy FORD is TItering on the edge of the abiss. HOPE and CHANGE are very afradiesiac in thier affect as words. these guys are betting the farm and spending fortunes to force thier message on joe and jill undecided millions to be exact buying airtime on ABC (absolutly Crap)NBC (Nobody Cares) CBS (can’t believe S—-!) MSNBC Morons suporting Nobody Cares!) Well They even had $800,000 for ACORN so they could stuff the ballot boxs and keep the election mess going for days. the list of companies lining up for failure is emmense to include service industry giants too. if they are true to thier words the obama/biden vooodo obaminamics statistics of manipulate the numbers till they tell you what you want. look don’t believe me i just see the storm coming with the first two of the three stooges running the country MOE , LARRY will give us the big “D” and drag the rest of the capilist world with them, after all Obamas OWN WORDS WE CAN”T MESS IT UP ANY WORST THAN THE LAST GUY, HE”S THE SAME FELLOW THAT SAID 18 billion DOLLARS IS NOT A LOT OF EARMARKS !!! MAYBE NOT IN WASHINGTON BUT IT IS ON MAINSTREET!!! but don’t take my word follow hope and change and you’ll hope you have change for a cup of soup! Walt

HE’S A well trained Pork administrator why should we expect any other response.Walt