John McCain: It Sure Looks Like There's A Lot of Sunshine on Obama's Underground Man

Chicago's best writer newspaper columnist since Finley Peter Dunne, Chicago Tribune's John Kass blows more sunshine on Senator Barack Obama's ties to domestic terrorist Billy Ayers. More importantly, Kass floods Billy Ayer's bolt-hole from Underground Man to Distinguished Professor at University of Illinois -Chicago Campus by asking the tweedy partisans just how an unrepentant bomber of America got a job in the first place.

A few years later, Ayers got his job as a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. And Dohrn was employed at the Children and Family Justice Center affiliated with Northwestern University's School of Law.

I've always been fascinated as to how the radical underground stop running and get jobs in academia. Is there a Terrorist Patronage Office for Rich White People? And how did a convicted Dohrn get hired to teach at a law school?

"I am afraid I don't know an answer to that," NU spokesman Alan Cubbage said. "The person who was the dean at the time is no longer with the law school. And the person who was the president at the time is no longer the president. So I just don't know."

Cubbage did not mention that Ayers' late father—Commonwealth Edison boss Thomas Ayers—was an NU trustee and former board chairman. UIC spokesman Mark Rosati couldn't help either, but suggested I file a Freedom of Information Act request to find out how terrorists get hired by taxpayers.

"It's nothing personal," Rosati said.

How amusing. They don't want to explain how terrorists were hired, so they know nothing.

It might work now, but it won't work in the fall, when Broadway Baby opens for a run, in a campaign commercial near you.

Nothing personal. Mark, I take the weather personally. I have a warm and fuzzy feeling that John Kass just loves a snotty crack from an Ivory Tower aparatchik. Expect a journalistic tune-up shorty. Nothing personal - business - the Nation's business.

Click my post title for more from the great John Kass.

Senator Obama Pal Bill Ayers 'Just Neighborhood Guy' - Like Ken Hansen.

If domestic terrorist Billy Ayers can be equated to Senator Tom Coburn, does it follow that Billy Ayers can be equated to child murderer and Helen Brach conspirator Ken Hansen? University of Chicago Professor Cass Sunstein poses the root neighborhood gambit - we meet all kinds in our neighborhoods.

The New Republic gave University of Chicago's Cass Sunstein an opportunity to talk about Billy Ayers, domestic terrorist and UICC tenured professor of Education, as a neighborhood guy. The neighborhood is Hyde Park, nestled along the strip of land detailed and designed with parks and the fabulous Midway by Daniel Burnham and home to Rockefeller largess planted University of Chicago - where intellectual nativism the American Protective Association flourished at the start of the last century. Academic Arcadia. Mors -et in Arcadia ego!

Doc Sunstein has this to say about the neighborhood bomber and Senator Obama's relationship:

Ayers is one of numerous people, in the Chicago area, whom Barack Obama has run across. Obama has much closer relationships with numerous conservatives on the University of Chicago faculty, many of whom have given money to Obama's campaign, and many of whom have talked to him at length and been at social occasions with him.

I know for a fact that Obama has actually played basketball with Richard Epstein, a libertarian on the law school faculty who has written some pretty controversial things on property rights and government regulation. I also know that Obama has had a number of conversations with former law school dean Daniel Fischel, a Reagan Republican who has written some pretty controversial things on corporations and government regulation.

True, Ayers apparently had a small party for Obama back in 1995; true, Ayers gave some small sum of money to one of Obama's campaigns; and true, Ayers and Obama simultaneously served, for a time, on a board of a local organization, the Woods Fund, which helps disadvantaged children. But there was nothing even vaguely like a close relationship between them; and it would be easy to identify countless people, since 1995, with whom Obama has had much closer associations.

Now, Let's say that an ambitious young politician from Mount Greenwood neighborhood in Chicago, made a bid for the Illinois Senate in the early 1990's and was invited to a meet and greet at the home of . . . let's say Ken Hansen*. Impressed the aging and reclusive man and accepted a $200 campaign contribution; later, served on a Mount Greenwood Park Board with Old Ken and had his picture taken with Old Ken and learned that Ken was friendly with the horsey set up in Gurnee - fabulous Jayne Brothers e. g.. Old Ken went underground, but, unlike Billy Ayers, didn't have friends in Philanthropy or Academia.

Oh, I suppose that some folks might have raised an eyebrow or two. That might have been the subject of a series of news accounts: unless, of course, Ken Hansen had been named a Distinguished Professor of Pop Culture at some Hansen Endowed University.

I wonder how many Nazi rocket scientists who helped Werner Von Braun develop the Buzz Bombs and V-2s that dropped on London got comfortable and neighborly in an insulated Academic 'Hood? Or do they call them NeighborCowls over there?


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In the summer of 1994, Mr. Hansen sensed the investigation was closing in on him, Mr. Rotunno said.

“He was asking a neighbor, ‘Are there any police around watching my house?’ ” recalled Mr. Rotunno, adding that Mr. Hansen had even packed a suitcase to leave town when Mr. Grady arrested him in August of that year.

He was arrested on an arson charge in a 1972 fire at a suburban Chicago stable and charged later the same day with killing the boys.

During Mr. Hansen’s trial, prosecutors contended that the three boys were hitchhiking when they were picked up by Mr. Hansen, 22 at the time, who took them to the stable where he worked. They said he sexually abused at least one of them and strangled them all.

Mr. Hansen was convicted in 1995, but the Illinois Appellate Court overturned the conviction five years later after determining that the jury should not have heard evidence that Mr. Hansen had cruised the streets, picking up boys for sexual relations.

Mr. Hansen went on trial again in 2002 and, after deliberating a little more than two hours, a jury found him guilty again. Mr. Hansen was sentenced to 200 to 300 years in prison.

John McCain: Michigan Fats Rolls out for Obama Calling Straight Talk Express "The Death Train"

Flint's own heavyweight, Michael Moore, galumphed onto the national stage with his rhetorical corpulence! He endorsed . . . John Mc . . .had you there, Senator Barack Obama!

On eve of the Pennsylvania Primary, Michigan Fats, gives a shout out to Keystone Kos-ovoans with his usually jolly aplomb-pudding - figgy-pudding:

But the question I keep hearing is... 'can he win? Can he win in November?' In the distance we hear the siren of the death train called the Straight Talk Express. We know it's possible to hear the words "President McCain" on January 20th. We know there are still many Americans who will never vote for a black man. Hillary knows it, too. She's counting on it.

Deathtrain - boy, that sure sure puts the Nazi sprinkles all over this dish - didn't Bill Maher do the Third Reich to some concern only last week? Mach Nicht, Lefties love it! Unless, of course Liberal Fascism gets spooned into the sundae.

Thin gruel, Hungry Mike, for most Americans; but, emaciated pasty dopes like Bill Maher, bloated wind-bags like Olbermann and Mannish Boy Maddows ( 'The Lion I shoot!')wolf it down.

Flint's Round Mound of Retro-Revolution, Moore gets a few digs in at the Pope in his Old Country Buffet plateful of progressive prosing, which makes sense for a guy who found the Easter Sunday domestic terrorists in Chicago who attacked worshippers with fake blood at Holy Name Cathedral righteous good fare! He ate it up!

Big Britches filled to capacity!

Click my post title for Moore Dinty Stew!

John McCain: Senator Obama's Friends Draw His Lines in the Sand

Click my post title for Erik Ericson's report on Obama Change Agent Larry Lessig's oafish testimony for before the Senate Commerce Commission - all the links are there.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3785260.ece



Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore Roosevelt


The DNC has lacquered the Barack Obama Campaign with every 'reform' movement in this country and beyond:

Here's pretty impressive list of reformers and others:
Social and political activists
Liz Abzug, co-founder and director of the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute and daughter of Bella Abzug[561]
Luis Alejo, Watsonville Planning Commission[562]
Joan Baez, singer, peace and human rights activist[563]
Tom Bernstein, lawyer, businessman and human rights activist[96]
Rev. Claude Black, Jr., civil and human rights activist[564]
Ellen Bravo, feminist activist[565]
Maria Buell, district director of League Of United Latin American Citizens[562]
Shepard Fairey, street artist and activist[566]
Jane Fonda, actress and political activist[567]
Tom Hayden, anti-war activist, former California State Senator[568] Rev. Joseph Lowery, minister and leader in the American civil rights movement [569]
Omar Mercado, deputy district director of League Of United Latin American Citizens[562]
Kate Michelman, pro-choice activist, former head of NARAL[570]
Eric Stern, gay rights activist.[497] Carlos Ramos, voting-rights activist and President of the Monterey chapter of the League Of United Latin American Citizens[562]
Michael Ratner, human rights lawyer, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights[571]
Juan Uranga, director of the Center for Community Advocacy[562]
Naomi Wolf, co-founder, American Freedom Campaign[572] [edit] Political groups
Alabama New South Coalition[573]
American Hunters and Shooters Association[574]
Asian American Action Fund of Greater Chicago[575]
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now[576]
Texas political blog Burnt Orange Report[577]
California Legislative Black Caucus[197]
Cook County Democratic Organization[578]
Houston GLBT Political Caucus[497]
Democratic Party of Illinois[578]
Mexican American Political Association[579]
MoveOn.Org[580] Virginia political blog Raising Kaine[581]

[edit] Foreign political leaders
Wouter Bos, Minister of Finance and deputy prime minister of The Netherlands[730]
Michael Ignatieff, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada[731]
Toshio Murakami, Mayor of Obama, Japan[732]
Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden[733]
Ségolène Royal, former French Socialist presidential candidate [734

These lists are from Wikepedia and the emphasis my own. Senator Barck Obama is beginning to make clear his vision for America. That is not a vision that I happen to share. If Bil Maher thought that I was a pretty good guy, I'd be worried; but, that's just me.

The more Americans ask questions of his campaign, the more this clear distinction between the Democratic National Committee's vision and that of the rest of the country will be more evident, as it was when Senator Kerry was in Senator Obama's shoes. Those Florsheims are getting pretty scuffed and cracked about now.

The British foreign press is getting it.

This is from the Times On-Line of the UK:

The Obama attacks over the weekend followed his weak performance in Wednesday’s TV debate with Mrs Clinton when he struggled to answer some barbed questions. Mrs Clinton scorned his subsequent complaint that she had sought to “twist the knife” in him, saying that if he did not like the heat “he should get out of the kitchen”. Aides to Mr Obama privately acknowledge that they have at times struggled to find the right balance between the “hope agenda” and the need to demonstrate that he is robust enough to withstand a Republican onslaught in the election in November.

They are playing down his prospects of winning Pennsylvania in tomorrow’s primary, suggesting the advantages that Mrs Clinton has with older and white working-class voters means that Mr Obama will do well to keep her margin of victory to single digits. His lead in delegates means that he should still win the Democratic nomination whatever the result.

If she loses tomorrow’s vote, both sides acknowledge that Mrs Clinton will come under enormous pressure to pull out of a race which many Democrats fear is beginning to damage their White House prospects. But a victory for Mrs Clinton could reinforce emerging doubts about Mr Obama.

John McCain, the Republican nominee, seized upon renewed controversy over Mr Obama’s friendship with William Ayers, an “unrepentant terrorist” from the Weather Underground. He said what was “really bordering on the outrageous” was Mr Obama’s comparison last week of Ayers with the Republican Senator Tom Coburn – a doctor “who brings babies into life” rather than a man who is on record as wishing he “had bombed more”.

The choice of John McCain was clear to me some time ago.

John McCain: WSJ Takes Up Obama/Ayers/WoodsFund Network

The question about Senator Obama's association with Bill Ayers is being taken up by the Wall Street Journal.

Sen. Clinton is almost certainly right. The Internet already has numerous references to Sen. Obama and Mr. Ayers. Sean Hannity, the conservative host of Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, has devoted more than one show recently to the subject.

Sen. Obama puts up no argument. "That was the rollout of the Republican campaign against me," Sen. Obama said Thursday of the debate, pledging to a North Carolina audience to respond "sharply and crisply" when it does arise.

But first Sen. Obama has begun with Sen. Clinton, noting during the debate that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, during the last days of his administration, commuted the sentences of two Weather Underground members, including Susan Rosenberg, who was involved in the 1981 heist of a Brinks armored truck in New York that left two policemen dead.

In a conference call with reporters Thursday, Howard Wolfson, communications director for the Clinton campaign, sidestepped a question about whether Sen. Clinton approved of her husband's pardoning Ms. Rosenberg and Linda Sue Evans, a Weather Underground member implicated in several bombings in the 1980s.

Sen. Clinton is correct that Sen. Obama once served as a director for the Woods Fund and that Mr. Ayers continues to; the post pays a $6,000 annual salary. The charity which is funded by an endowment valued in 2006 at $72 million, dispenses roughly $3 million a year to about 80 Chicago-based charities, most of which are involved in neighborhood development or education initiatives. The president of the charity is Deborah Harrington; a current board member said the charity decided recently that she alone would field calls from the press. Ms. Harrington was out sick Thursday and was unable to comment, her office said.

The charity was set up in the 1950s as an offshoot of one operated by a Lincoln, Neb., telephone executive and his family.

Mr. Ayers is by far the most controversial figure on the board; most of the current and former members of the panel are prominent business leaders or businessmen.

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It appears that this story has legs like Cyd Charisse. John Rubery of Marathon Pundit has been doing the heavy lifting on this story, since well before Senator Obama put in his bid for the White House.

Ayers/Obama/Woods Fund has surfaced in the hot story of the fighting taking place in Columbia with focus on Ayers' active participation in this matter.

The Dangerous Scene On The Colombo-Ecuadorean Border (Time) #
Sat Apr 19 13:58:08 UTC 2008The Colombo-Ecuadorean border is probably Latin America's most dangerous, (although the Colombo-Venezuelan border must be a close runner up) and it was in this area that the Colombia army struck at FARC chieftain Raul Reyes on March 1. A Time reporter went and explored the place, and though it is little more than travelogue, gives the feel for what it is like. Having been there once, we think it's accurate. It presents a nuanced picture of all that is going on over there on both sides.

The Ayers connection is only now getting underway and it is a matter of much more pith and moment than the Obama Campaign suggests.

MSNBC - Keith Olbermann - Borrow A Pair

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Hi C? Nope. Capri Sun? Damn tasty! Keith Olbermann? Now, your talking Margaret! America's Number One Juice Bag!

Keith, borrow a pair from your twin, my God! Last night's laugh track snit about George Stephanapoulos asking pointed questions of Kid Hope on Tuesday Night was a hoot.

Borrow a pair, not glasses you had them on for effect, something most guys have and know what their for - no not cuff-links.

Here, Juice Bag ( You are # 1. Absolute and Undisputed), let me explain things to you - not that you'll read this, but rather for my three readers who cling to their faith in my rock-solid support for core American values, tasty back ribs, Green River Lime Soda, University of Chicago Football, the intrinsic goodness of most American and the need to pull the pants down on loud-mouth phonies - like most of the crew at MSNBC.

I fear no man, but Rachel Maddow scares the bejabbers out of me - she's got a neck on her John Matuszak, in robust good health, and could probably pop a pour spout into a big can of Quaker State faster than Janet Guthrie in the old days. Keith, keep a leash on your twin. That was some great commercial back in the 1970's, Janet Guthrie, the race car Driver (pre-NASCAR) probably had muscles in her poop, for Crissakes.

Now, to the facts:

1. John McCain's sins, which are blacker than a wad of chewed old Black Jack Gum spit on a roasting Chicago blacktop roof in August, are out in Full Public View.

2. Everyone, but my 18 year old son, who can recite the entire NFL roster including taxi-squads, knows about them. Wikipedia has them all; McCain wrote about them himself - we got it. Barack? All first time issues for Americans.

3. Barack Obama has allowed his Campaign to do what John Kerry's Campaign did - they made him unelectable - oh, he'll win the Democratic Nomination barring any new revelations before Tuesday's Pennsylvania Primary - by the majority of Americans, because he has fruitcakes like you, Rachel, Catholic Hater Bill Maher, Kid Nepotism Dan Abrams of The Tool Shed MSNBC, Arianna Huffington and her Hollywood Squares shilling for him.

4. John McCain is one of us. He's an American. A good guy - and that is what is alien to you sponge cakes. We do not give a fat rat's ass about his sins, peccadillo's, temper, associations or wardrobe, because we already know him. He is out in the full public eye.

5. Barack Obama - Barry We Hardly Knew Ye, is another tale of a far different cat and what we are learning about Barack deserves great scrutiny.

6. John McCain will win in November by the largest margin of any President in modern times. Stay tuned, but have someone who works for a living explain it you.

7. You are coming unglued, boy - Not that I give full, furious, flatulent firestorm.

8. Borrow a pair, like I said. Marbles. Practice, Practice, Practice and you might hit something. Try not to lose them . . . too late!

John McCain: Obama Needs Careful Scrutiny From Democrats - He's OK with DNC

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families - more than seventy million people - whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971]. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don't encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let's not let it happen by default.."[2]

Saul Alinsky - Rules for Radicals


A politician does what he can. Barack Obama is a hard-working politician. The people involved in politics, Republican, Democrat, Green, Communist, or any of the manifestations of what is called Libertarian, adopt a mantle of values.

The Democratic Party that I grew up with is the old Party of Al Smith, FDR, Truman, KFK and Johnson. That Party was scuttled in 1972 in Miami by the left wing of the Party, that had tried to undo Harry Truman, failed and waited.

This wing controlled the Democratic National Committee, it seems to me, but depends upon the Old Guard to get votes. Barack Obama, like any ambitious and talented politician adopted the extreme Left point of view and courted the Illinois Grandees of that Wing. He would depend upon the Old Guard to effectively garner votes, but would and did distance himself from the Old Guard, once he achieved national prominence.

Street Sweepers, plumbers, cops, fireman, school teachers ( not PACs), civil servants, and housewives are ignored and activists, radical fund-raisers, boards of directors, and tax-salaried labor leaders have his heart and ear.

It makes perfect sense to associate with Bill Ayers. Ayers is an unrepentant radical terrorist made ' wholesome' by dint of his personal wealth and inherited influence. Ayers is an enemy of America - I believe that - but that is just my opinion. Ayers is more of help to Obama than street sweepers, plumbers, cops, firemen, schools teachers (not PACs, civil servants and housewives who vote.

Wealth matters most to those who purport to redistribute wealth, because in the words of Saul Alinsky, 'Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future.

I believe that Senator Obama truly reflects ideals of the Democratic National Committee, but not the political traditions of Al Smith, FDR,Truman, JFK, or LBJ. Democrats, those of us characterized as 'clingers' by Senator Obama, find John McCain to more than reflect those values. That is why McCain appears to have such problems with the extreme Right in his Party.

I am voting for John McCain, because he represents the political ideals that formed me: self-reliance, commitment, service, and optimism.

This is not gotcha Senator. This is the path that you have taken. That is why there are other points of view in an election. You need to stand with your words, your associations, your beliefs, and your values. They just do not happen to be mine.



Click My Post Title for Marthon Pundit's Study of Bill Ayers

John McCain" Que Keyser! Obama/Ayers and Hugo! Caracas Chronicles Billy Obama Bacon!

Well I'll be dipped and rolled! That Woods Fund Velcro snags Senator Obama and Board Bomber Billy Ayers to El Jefe Hugo!

The Caracas Chronicles links and networks the Chicago politician and Presidential aspirant's ties from Bill Ayers to . . .thusly:

Barack Obama ... sat on the board of the non-profit Woods Fund of Chicago with '60s radical and University of Illinois professor Bill Ayers, a friend of the Bolivarian Revolution and father of...

Chesa Boudin, a Rhodes scholar, one of the founders of chavista think-tank and PSF echo chamber Centro Internacional Miranda, who has an office in Miraflores Palace and is a key advisor of...

Hugo Chávez, autocrat extraordinaire.

In fact, if Ayers himself has a personal relationship with Hugo Chávez, then that's one degree of separation.

Kevin Bacon, my Auntie Deluvian! Click my post title to the Caracas Chronicles Follow the links provided to the page with the Cenrto Internacional Miranda Directoria:
Presidencia
Luis Bonilla Molina
Directorio
Haiman El Troudi
Maximilien Sánchez A.
Gilberto Giménez
Héctor Navarro
Pedro González
Edgardo Lander
Asesores
Marta Harnecker
Michael Lebowitz
Juan Carlos Monedero
Victor Ríos
Algunos Cooperantes Internacionales
Bill Ayers
Peter Mclaren
Theotonio dos Santos
Nathalia Jaramillo
Eva Golinger
Jorge Gantiva
Ezequiel Ander Egg
Paulo Padilha
Chesa Boudin
Al Campbell



Hat Tip to IBD Editorials

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/Blogs.aspx

Billy Ayers CUBA Jersey - Profound Apologies to all Cub Fans!

Two Happening Dudes!


Unrepentant Rebel - because he never had to face any consequences for his actions - Billy 'The Trust Fund Bomber' Ayers is sporting a nifty Cuba jersey and not as pointed out to me by White Sox Fan and American Hero, Marty Tully. CPD (ret.) Two Tour Green Beret Vietnam Veteran a Cubs Jersey.

Profound apologies to all Chicago Cub Fans! Bill Ayers is a Cuba Fan.

Chicago Police Take Down Wild Rodent - No, Not Flint Taylor!

Expect Media Outcry and Yuppies with Twisted Thong-Binders! Take the children out of viewing. Death Naked! Threat to Nuts Everywhere!

Special Tactical Response Units of the Chicago Police Department took down a very, very, large rodent. No it was not G. Flint Taylor, Jon Loevy, or any of the other Lawsuit Lotto Lawyers.

The Bushy Tailed Critter was big - huge, Man! Bigger than Chicago's Homicide Figures - thanks two metaphorical rodents like G. Flint Taylor, Jon Loevy and other Lawsuit Lotto Lawyers.

St. Xavier University will remain open despite the action.

Click my post title for more from Chicago's WildLife! Thanks again CPD! How do you women and men make it through a day with all the manure loaded on your backs? God Bless You!

photo: Mike McQuade - San Francisco, CA. Vietnam Veteran and Patriot

John McCain: Sen. Obama Hits the Canvas: Ayers Like Coburn?

Words Matter and so do the things that we do. In last night's debate, Senator, you said that Senator Tom Coburn was like a domestic terrorist and punk.

Senator Barack Obama - On the Left -The aging Cub fan, with happening ear jewelry, is domestic terrorist Bill Ayers; the punk in the mug-shot knowing Daddy has the bail, juice and lawyers to get him off is a domestic terrorist bomber Billy Ayers; the Doctor holding the Baby is Senator Tom Coburn.

Hillary didn’t let him off the hook, either, not when it came to Crackerquiddick or on the Wright Stuff. Noting that “you choose your pastor, not your family,” Hillary once again pounded Obama for not doing anything about Wright when he had the chance. She also jumped at the chance to note that former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers was more than just a “neighbor”, as Obama described him. Hillary pointed out that Obama and Ayers worked on a foundation together for years, even after 9/11, even after Ayers said publicly that he didn’t regret his terrorism.
And what was Obama’s response? He compared Ayers to Senator Tom Coburn, who opposes abortion. Of course, Coburn hasn’t bombed abortion clinics, but Obama can’t tell the difference between a Senator and a terrorist. That won’t help him in Middle America either, and Coburn may have a few words for Obama after this night.

Hot Air 04/17/2008

You may say. Senator Obama could have peeled this spud a year ago, when Chicagoans like John Rubery, Anne Leary, John Powers, Tom Roeser, State Rep. Jim Durkin and about 88.6% of the Police, Fire, F.B.I., A.T.F, Cook County States Attorney Officers and Agents who live in my part of town were all talking about Billy Ayers and Obama. Jesus, I live near the former Cook County Sheriff, many of his officers, most of the Area 2 Violent Crimes Detectives, and waves of retired law enforcement professionals. These folks remember the number of fouls Evergreen Park Mayor Jimmy Sexton took from 1966-1970 while he shot the nets off of baskets at Little Flower Community Center. Don't you think that these women and men would remember a punk who bombed public buildings and had his old man 'reach out' - it's that old politics, Senator - to get the mixed up kid out of the jackpot?

Senator Obama, Billy Ayers is nothing like Senator Tom Coburn. He's not even like Stewart Levine or Tony Rezko. Bill Ayers is not even like his Old Lady - she did some time anyway. As far as similes go - I'd say that your campaign is about as done as Grandma Donahue's Pork roast - when it's smoking it's cooking; when it's burning it's done!

Here's what Tom Coburn is like - pretty good guy - which Bill Ayers is no where near.
http://coburn.senate.gov/public/


UPDATE - Apologises to Cub Fans - Billy Ayers is Sporting a CUBA team jersey!

John McCain: The Only Pro Choice President for 2008 - Choice in Schools

Choice begins in Education -choosing a favorite toy, book, song, subject, and friends. Choices get more confusing. People calling themselves educated adults are a big cause of that confusion. One guy training teachers in Chicago, Bill Ayers, chose to be an enemy of America, during his college years and chose to be a domestic terrorist bomber. Choices are tough - or should be. Barack Obama chose to be friends with Bill Ayers, as well as indicted political fixer Tony Rezko - whose friends with am Iraqi arms dealer. Some choices, those.

Choice in PC America has become a euphemism for the right to kill an unborn child. Pro Abortion candidates Senators Clinton and Obama cling to a woman's right to decide to unburden herself of a life that she he helped create. Fair enough.

I believe in Choice, but not in any one's right to kill an unborn child. I believe that tax-payers have a right to choose a school that performs as it should, is safe, offers solid values that produce competitive and dedicated American citizens.

Only one candidate running for President of the United States offers real Choice in Education. I can say Choice. I do not believe that Planned Parenthood has an exclusive lock on the use of the word. Choice needs to be an option.

John McCain is the only Pro Choice candidate. He has my vote. Here's what John McCain has to say about Choice:

John McCain believes our schools can and should compete to be the most innovative, flexible and student-centered - not safe havens for the uninspired and unaccountable. He believes we should let them compete for the most effective, character-building teachers, hire them, and reward them.


If a school will not change, the students should be able to change schools. John McCain believes parents should be empowered with school choice to send their children to the school that can best educate them just as many members of Congress do with their own children. He finds it beyond hypocritical that many of those who would refuse to allow public school parents to choose their child's school would never agree to force their own children into a school that did not work or was unsafe. They can make another choice. John McCain believes that is a fundamental and essential right we should honor for all parents.

As president, John McCain will pursue reforms that address the underlying cultural problems in our education system - a system that still seeks to avoid genuine accountability and responsibility for producing well-educated children.

John McCain will place parents and children at the center of the education process, empowering parents by greatly expanding the ability of parents to choose among schools for their children. He believes all federal financial support must be predicated on providing parents the ability to move their children, and the dollars associated with them, from failing schools.

Click my post title for more on John McCain - The Pro Choice Candidate.

BTW - John McCain is dead set against Abortion.

John McCain: Joe Biden - He was Better Bald

I like Joe Biden as much as the next guy - Tommy Ward? How do you like Senator Joe Biden of Delaware?

'Can't Stand him.'

Why?

'He's a phony and a liar?'

'A Liar, Tommy he's Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee - You saying this because of Biden's lifting of Neil Kinnock's speech ten years ago or so?'

'No. As a Millwright that bothered me, but because he wears a weave.'

Really?

'Didn't you just ask me, Hickey? Yeah, Really. Man your attention span sucks these days. I think he's a phony because he's bald and wears a weave.'

'What were we talking about? Oh, Yeah Joe Biden. Biden the DNC Bridesmaid of Presidential Timber is on John McCain. People got tired of the Howler Duck -Howard Dean and so now Biden who has gravitas, the Millwright from Bohola, County Mayo notwithstanding, and is a widower, takes the train to work and seems fairly decent.
Any Democratic mouthpiece will get their butts handed to them trying to bad-mouth McCain. McCain is the Real Deal. Here's what's Biden's Beef:

"When it comes to Iraq, there is no daylight between John McCain and George W. Bush. They are joined at the hip," Biden said Tuesday in a speech at Georgetown University.

"When it comes to Iraq, there will be no change with a McCain administration ... and so there is a real and profound choice for Americans in November."

McCain, the certain Republican presidential nominee, backs Bush's policy in Iraq and favored last year's increase in U.S. troops in the country.

"John McCain remains wedded to the Bush administration's myopic view of a world defined by terrorism. He would continue to allow a tiny minority to set the agenda for the overwhelming majority," Biden said.

To which John McCain replied on Hardball at Villanova:

McCain pointed out he had fought against the policies of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for four years, but now sees progress in Iraq under Gen. David Petraeus.

“I’m always pleased to get Sen. Biden’s advice and counsel,” McCain said evenly. “The present strategy is succeeding in Iraq and I respect the view of those who don’t agree.”

McCain further tried to distance himself from Bush on global warming, saying he does believe it exists and is a problem. Even if he did not believe it existed, McCain added, what harm could there be in trying to improve the environment for the next generation?

But McCain also said he still does not think setting a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq will do anything more than create chaos and a more dangerous climate for troops on the ground, adding that polling shows a majority of Americans trust him to better handle that war than his Democratic opponents.

He was less clear on Iran, however. When Matthews pressed him to define whether the ability to create nuclear weapons or the actual “weaponization” of the country would be the “red line” for action, McCain said he didn’t know.

As one student pointed out, the senator has famously called for a “rollback” or “rollover” of democracy through certain “rogue states,” such as Iran, and asked if he still believes that is necessary.

“I think at the end of the day, we can’t allow them to have nuclear weapons,” said McCain, who has also proposed creating a “League of Democracies” separate from the United Nations and a new Office of Strategic Services to deal with those “rogue countries.”

“I think we have a lot of challenges in the world,” he said. “I think the overriding challenge is radical Islamic extremism. I think it’s an ideological struggle at the end of the day — not that much different in some ways from our ideological struggle with Communism and the Soviet Union — but I also think with the proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, we have to do what is necessary to try to prevent those countries from acquiring those weapons which could destroy us.”

Straight talk and no Weave.

Tommy Ward is on to something.

http://www.dailylocal.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/Daily;!1132915844?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pg_article&r21.pgpath=%2FDLN%2FHome&r21.content=%2FDLN%2FHome%2FTopStoryList_Story_1901366

St. Xavier: 'Be Prepared to Die 4/14' - And Lo, It Came To Pass!

The Threat scrawled at St. Xavier University came to pass. Thank God it was the Four legged one!

Well Done Chicago Police Officers!

Photo of the Cougar Services - Viewing Brief: Not at Donnellan's, Blake-Lamb, Sheehy & Sons, Gatlings, or McGann's. Thanks to Second City Cop: Chicago's Most Accurate Source of News, Weather, Sports and Fashion.

John McCain: Cook With Me -Huffpo's David Weiner & Bitter Clinging Peaches Ragout!

'Dave quit wiggling!'




David Weiner one of Arianna Huffington's trained purse puppies, squeaks that Cindy McCain lifted recipes from the Food Network!!!!!

Click my post title for Weiner World!

On a section of McCain's site called "Cindy's Recipes," you can find seven recipes attributed to Cindy McCain, each with the heading "McCain Family Recipe." Ms. Handel quickly realized that some of the "McCain Family Recipes," were in fact, word-for-word copies of recipes on the Food Network site.

Boy, that alliterative 'S' sound - Cs Ss and Sthuch - really pops off the paragraph!

Sounds like steam escaping!

Dave grip it. I'll bet that Cindy McCain's book shelves, at times, contained books from the Public Library.

Dave - Cindy McCain is . . . she's a woman Dave; one of them Female Girls. The kind that marry men. I married one them myself. They are strange creatures. They follow recipes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cindy McCain, Senator John McCain's Easy On the Eyes Better Half, has done what every American Woman has done - she has stolen recipes from someone else. That is what women do, Dave. Every American woman, from the time the first Winsome Wench of the Prairies snitched pages of the Farmer's Almanac on 'Black Kettle Biscuits and Gravy from One Ounce of Fat Back Bacon for Five' has taken recipes from Nana, Busha, Grannie, or Aunt Gert, you know the one who acts and looks like Jane Addams, or Louie Anderson, snatches snack synopses.

On the other hand, John McCain and the balance of American Men cook, roast, dice, chop, saute, stew and boil from the heart.

Bam! What's in the Ice Box Kids? Step off! I'll Holler when it's done!

Today,

Dave Weiner & Bitter Cling Peaches Ragout

Wash Your Hands! Yeah, I know you wiped 'em good, but wash the damn mitts. quit pouting - it's healthy. Now . . .

Take Weiner and toss - good and hard - on the cutting board. Pound - repeatedly -about eight minutes - no reason, just do it. It is from the heart and not some purloined recipe, after all.

Take Bitter Cling Peaches - Bitter -like most Americans Cling -to Faith, Guns, Each Other and Peaches 'cause I likes them! Bitter Clings can be found all over the country - not just parts of Pennsylvannia.

With dull knife, make a incisions into the Weiner - no reason. Then Chop, Dice and Mince.

Heat oven to 425o - Take 18" Frozen Home Run Inn Pizza from the Ice Box. Place frozen Pizza on center rack, directly; do not use the dip-shit pizza pan with holes that Aunt Joan gave me for Christmas in 1990. Place directly on rack - Oh, for really dumb guys - place the pizza and not the cardboard in the oven. You'll need the cardboard circle to cut the pizza. Set timer for seventeen (17) minutes - no more; no less! Let cool.

Now~!

Mix Dave Weiner thoroughly with Bitter Cling Peaches and toss into a metal bowl. Take it three doors down and feed it to the perpetually pissed off German Shepherd owned by the retired school teacher from CPS who peers out of the curtains every time a train passes - which is about every eight minutes in this neighborhood.

Take the Pizza from the oven - guys use oven mitts and slide the cardboard under the cooked pizza and cut into mostly rectangular sections and not Slice Wedges like a faux Brooklynite - we're Chicagoans for Crissakes! Feed the kids! Serve with Filbert's Root Beer or Green River.

John McCain could whip up a batch of David Weiner and Bitter Cling Peaches Ragout and feed it to an unhappy dog. It is what good guys do. The recipe would be in a much better place than on the pages of Huffington Post. A dog's colon is about the right fit for one of Arrianna Huffington's purse puppies.

Chicago Catholics Voice Welcome to Pope in New York Times

The New York Times On Line has a great feature that captures the attitudes of American Catholics. Some of people ineterviewed are profoundly insightful and from Chicago.

Ms. Terry Sullivan, correspondant for Chicago Daily Observer, is the most thoughtful. Other Chicagoans featured are St. Patrick's Parish Pastor Father Tom Hurley, Jim Healy, Carlos Lourenco, Oralia Mascio, and Kirk Struhart. Click my post title to hear from your neighbors.


Well done ladies and gentlemen. The best gift the Pope can get in America is Honesty.

Amanda Crumley - From Porgy and Bess

Click my post for Amanda Crumely of Mandy and the Bandits signing I Love You Porgy from the great Gershwin opus Porgy and Bess.

Later this week I will put up a link of Amanda Crumley covering the Brazilian bosa nova genius Jobin. This kid is bagging groceries at Whole Foods on the north side and could use some of you folks to hit the Googles and see where Mandy and the Bandits are playing. Take the old man out for some music; it'll undo the wrinkles in his eatin' pants.

Have fun.

John McCain: Not the Laser Guided RezkObama Bomb? Bowling for Common Change.

While Hillary worked off a couple of bumps and beers with the great folks at Bronko's in Crown Point, Indiana - home to generous and sweet-natured folks who work hard and give back to their community ( I lived in Griffith ,Indiana where many of Bronko's patrons live) and Barack Obama diagrammed the sentences that he used at the cake-eater fund-raiser in San Francisco where the Junior Senator from Illinois derailed his Campaign, John McCain spoke with the Press.

In his prepared remarks at the group's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., McCain said he has had a hard time deciding whether to support a "shield law" that would protect reporters from having to reveal confidential sources in court.

The power to use unnamed sources "is a license to do harm," McCain said, citing the New York Times' decision in 2005 to publish news of a government surveillance program. He also said it can also have positive outcomes, citing the reporting on the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

"It's also a license to do good; to disclose injustice and unlawfulness and inequities; and to encourage their swift correction," McCain said.

He also challenged newspapers to be more open about why they publish sensitive matters.

"And I would hope that when you do something controversial or something that many people find wrong and harmful you would explain fully and honestly how and why you did it, and confess your mistakes, if you made them, in a more noticeable way than afforded by the small print on a corrections page," he said.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-04-14-candidates-monday_N.htm?csp=34

Later in the day, Chicago Tribune's Rezko Reporter dropped another - oh, what would Jay Rockefeller call them? - laser guided rocket on the improperly vetted Candidate of Change. First the Rubes get him and now the Influence Peddlers:

Stuart Levine, the prosecution's star witness, said he and Obama were at a party Rezko threw at his Wilmette mansion on April 3, 2004, for Nadhmi Auchi, a controversial Iraqi-born billionaire who Rezko was trying to get to invest in a South Loop real-estate development.

Auchi, now a citizen of the United Kingdom, has faced criminal charges in Europe. He also figured in the revocation of Rezko's bond early this year after attempting to wire him more than $3 million. Upon learning of that attempt, U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve declared Rezko a flight risk and ordered him held in a federal jail in the Loop.

The Rezko party in 2004 was designed to induce Auchi to pour money into the South Loop investment. Obama's presence at the party was not previously known. At the time, Obama was fresh off a surprise win in the Illinois Democratic primary for U.S. Senate and was riding a crest of national publicity.

(emphasis my own)

Yikes! Now, that will make a guy bitter - chickens coming home to roost like that and all.

Hey, there's bowling or bumps and beers at Bronko's. Can't hurt.

BRONKO"S RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE
1244 N Main St
Crown Point, IN 46307
Phone: (219) 662-0145

Click my post title for the RezkOBomb

The Whole Campus - Pulaski to St. Louis from 103rd to 99th is Closed Due to a Threat: Fear Trumps Faith?

What happens now?

Some nutbag made a threat - 'Be prepared to Die on 4/14.' St. Xavier University closed, followed in succession by Mother McAuley, Brother Rice, Queen of Martyrs and an Evergreen Park Public School.

We should all take threats seriously and respond in kind - be vigilant. Four men were shot at the Glass House Lounge on 79th & Halsted over the weekend. No threat, that happened. Leo High School is open today.

Two Leo graduates were murdered in November due to Chicago's Thug Comfort Zone. Thugs feel comfortable enough to murder without fear of consequence. Every year on the Friday just before Veterans Day, Leo High School Honors Veterans - men who lived every day of their young lives under fire. An Honor Guard of Marines fires volleys with M1 rifles and when they do so our young men often duck, because the sounds of gunfire are all too familiar in their neighborhoods. They smile and ceremony concludes with dignity.

To err on the side of caution is understandable. To completely change directions when threatened is capitulation. The bad guys, the goofs, the terrorists win. I went to two wakes over the weekend. We are all going to die. The longer we live, the sooner we die, as the old song goes. 'We believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth and things, seen and unseen . . .' That is what we say at Catholic Mass every Sunday . . . well, most Sundays.

We believe that God has a plan for us and just maybe that plan includes an early trip to Sheehy's Funeral Home for us. We say that we believe this.

The Chicago Police Officers and the Evergreen Park Police Officers are on this threat. I wonder if we really, believe what we say. I have faith in the Police. I'm sending my daughter to school. I'll go to work at Leo. There will be eight or ten young guys waiting at the door of Leo on Sangamon Street, when I pull into the lot at 6:30 AM, only a short walk from where four men were shot at the Glass House on Halsted.

Those eight or ten young men have Faith and they will get instruction today at Leo. Thousands of young people from my much safer neighborhood will not. The person who called this retreat in the face of this threat seems to have more Faith in the words of the goof who wrote the threat, than in the words of Creed that we say by rote.

What the Hell do I know.

John McCain - The Kite Runner* Cheques on McCain? Ex-Con Check Kiter Bob Creamer at HuffPO!

Robert Creamer is a long-time political organizer and strategist and author of the recent book: "Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win," Huffington Post 04/13/2008

On March 11, 2004, Schakowsky's husband, lobbyist Robert Creamer, the executive director of the Illinois Public Action Fund, was indicted in federal court on 16 counts of bank fraud involving three alleged check-kiting schemes in the mid-1990s, leading several banks to experience shortfalls of at least $2.3 million[2]. "He is innocent," Schakowsky said in a statement [3]. In August 2005, Creamer pleaded guilty to one count of failure to collect withholding tax, and bank fraud for writing checks with insufficient funds. All of the money was repaid. According to USA Today Congresswoman "Schakowsky has not been accused of any wrongdoing." [3] Schakowsky served on the organization's board during the time the crimes occurred [4] and Schakowsky signed the IRS filings along with her husband[3]. U.S. District Judge James B. Moran noted no one suffered "out of pocket losses" and Creamer acted not out of greed but in an effort to keep his community action group going without cutting programs, though Creamer paid his own $100,000 salary with fraudulently obtained funds. [4] On April 5, 2006, Creamer was sentenced to five months in prison and 11 months house arrest [5]. Creamer served his 5 month incarceration at the Federal Correction Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana and was released on November 3, 2006. [5]

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Ex-Con Bob Creamer spouse of Illinois Congressman Jan Schakowsky ( who is begging Blago for Obama's Senate Seat)is giving John McCain a piece of his mind! With two tiny pink fists locked one on each little hip bone, Bob 'The Shank' Creamer hisses this:

McCain doesn't lack "chutzpah." Yesterday his campaign actually accused Barack Obama of being an "elitist" for saying that it's not surprising that people in small Midwestern towns are bitter after seeing their standard of living systematically destroyed over the last three decades.

Damn right they're bitter; they have good reasons to be. And most of those reasons are the economic and trade policies that have - and continue to be - championed by George Bush and John McCain.

Well hook my buttons and slam my cell . . .phone shut! Bob's worked up with Yardbird indignation. Click my post title . . .if you must for Terra Haute Bob's Beef.

John McCain did a nickel and half stretch in a Far East slammer and Bob did five months like it was falling off a log. These too jailbirds, McCain:Warrior,Prisoner of War and Bob Creamer: Self-Serving Felon, should get together. I'd pay to see that.

BTW- Bob, your book is doing just a bang up job with Obama's Campaign. I hope he too remembers you! At least Senator Obama got something from Tony Rezko. You are costing him the election and his political future.


* I believe it was the great John Rubery at Marathon Pundit who proffered the Profligate Worthy with that sobriquet.