A Question of Barack Obama's Character

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A Question of Barack Obama's Character
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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 9:41am

I know most all of the 0bama supporters on here have already drank the kool-aid, but come on, doesn't this give any of you pause when pulling the lever for him?

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 4:26pm

ITA

And it seems that the same people who were screaming because they didn't know enough about Sarah Palin are totally OK with the brush offs Obama gives regarding any of these issues. I forget how many different "explanations" he gave regarding Jeremiah Wright before he finally swept him away. Same pattern we're seeing just recently with Ayers:

"I was only eight years old,"
"He's just a guy from my neighborhood,"
"We just worked on a couple projects together,"
"We served on a couple boards together,"
"I didn't know his history,"

And now today:
"I thought he was rehabilitated."

What about the campaign kickoff fundraiser held for Obama in Ayers livingroom?? What about the endorsement Obama gave for Ayers' book??

If Obama is truly innocent in this "aquaintance" why didn't he give full disclosure from the start?

Obama supporters... why do the changing explanations not bother you? Why does the Ayers connection not bother you?

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Registered: 10-25-2006
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 4:49pm

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers

"Ayers is currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education. His interests include teaching for social justice, urban educational reform, narrative and interpretive research, children in trouble with the law, and related issues."

The fact that he did some bad things as an anti-war activist back in the 1960s, before Obama ever knew him, is irrelevant today. Many of us did things in our early adulthood of which we're not particularly proud, and then we changed to become caring, productive adults.

It's as simple as that.

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Registered: 03-31-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 5:08pm

Your kidding, right? Some "bad things" back in the '60's?

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Registered: 01-12-2007
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 5:19pm

Back in the 60's?


In 1970...


Alleged Victim of Weather Underground Attack Speaks


VAN SUSTEREN: John, take me back to 1970. How old were you then?


MURTAGH: I was nine, about six-months older than the Senator.


VAN SUSTEREN: What was your father's occupation?


MURTAGH: My dad at the time was a New York state trial court judge here in Manhattan.


VAN SUSTEREN: Those two questions are very relevant. Tell us now, what happened back in 1970.


MURTAGH: At the time, Greta, my father was the trial judge on a case called the "Panther 21." Members of the Black Panther Party were on trial for allegedly plotting to bomb a number of landmarks and department stores here in New York City. On February 21, 1970, at about 4:30 in the morning, William Ayers Weather Underground frankly launched an attack on about four different sites here in New York. They attacked two military recruiting installations in Brooklyn, the attacked a police institution in the lower Manhattan, and then they attacked my family home with us sleeping in our beds, with three separate bombs.


VAN SUSTEREN: I'm going to ask you in a second why you think it was the Weather Underground, because the trial was for the Panthers 21. But I want to have you describe a little more--what happened?


MURTAGH: I was sound asleep in bed, our entire family was sound asleep. Two bombs were detonated in the front of the house. The third bomb, today, 38 years later, we call it a car bomb. They placed an explosive device under the gas tank of the family car near the back door in the garage. The first thing I remember is waking up, no doubt from the sound, my mother coming into the room, pulling me out of bed. I remember standing in the kitchen with my mother and my family. We could see flames to the window.


But, quite frankly, my parents did not know whether to leave the house or not because we did not know what was outside. We were stuck in a burning house, but did not know if it was safe to leave.


VAN SUSTEREN: I take it that was in those old days, when people had their address in the phone books, even judges, right?


MURTAGH: I guess so.


VAN SUSTEREN: You think it's the Weather Underground, but the Panther 21 was the trail your father was father was actually trying at the time. How do you connect those two?


MURTAGH: Quite simply because over the years that is who has been credited with the attack. They threatened additional bombing is to come. Every history of the Weather Underground since that time documents the fact that the assault on our home and our family, the attempt on our life, was by the Weather Underground.


VAN SUSTEREN: It changed your life?


MURTAGH: Clearly. At the age of nine, for anybody to experience that sort of thing, it is a life changing experience. And the Weather Underground continued its attacks, as you documented, on the Pentagon, on the Capital, on any number of buildings.


Indeed, about a month after the attack on my family, they blew themselves up in a bomb making factory in Greenwich Village as they preparing bombs to attack a military installation in New Jersey.


   

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Registered: 04-04-2003
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 5:30pm

At this point I question McCain & Palin's character - as well as some of their supporters.

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Registered: 09-18-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 5:32pm

>>> Really, I do have to wonder what spell 0bama has over

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Registered: 10-25-2006
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 5:42pm

<> WRONG!

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Apparently you haven't listened to the trash coming out of YOUR righty candidates' mouths lately.

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 5:45pm

I know you didn't ask me this, but I must respond.

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WOW! The ONLY one running who has really fought and sacrificed for his country. In ways we can't even comprehend. Ummm, yes, I believe his sincerity for the betterment of this country - my concerns included. In fact, as a conservative I wish he'd back OFF the "bipartisan" effort spiel.

And what the heck does multimillionaire have to do with anything? Good grief!

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Registered: 08-31-2003
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 5:46pm

I agree that calling Obama a "terrorist" or yelling "treason" when his name is mentioned is out of line.

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 6:13pm

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They've become vile & downright nasty with their comments & accusations - a real turn off and poor judgement of character.>>

It shouldn't have come to McCain and Palin having to point these associations out. Where has the MSM been? Had this been McCain having ties to an unrepentant abortion clinic bomber who just a few years ago said he should have done more... AND sat under a right wing racist pastor for 20 years...

He wouldn't have even got the nomination - and rightly so.

The MSM has given Obama an easy ride and if you don't believe me, ask Hillary.

I don't think these are smears - they are facts that we the public should have been informed about long ago. These things matter.

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