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Gaffetastic:
Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
Obama using legal threats again to pull a 527 ad
First it was the American Issues Project’s provacative ad exploring Obama’s relationship with unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Now, Obama’s lawyers are getting in on the act again, this time not via the Department of Justice but instead through a letter written to TV stations who are airing the truthful NRA ad that BO claims “lies” about his record (hat tip: HA).
It goes without saying this is a deeply disturbing pattern with Barack Obama. As I mentioned in the prior paragraph, there was the request for the DOJ to get involved in pulling the Ayers ad off the air, but there’s also been the near-militant style tactics Obama HQ have used in order to try and silence vocal critics of Barack Obama, like NRO’s Stanley Kurtz and David Freddoso.
I think back to all the numerous times I’ve read (and we’ve all read) about how the far left has pitched fits and waged aggressive campaigns over what they feel has been Bush’s intention to “silence” his critics via not allowing them to get too close to him at campaign stops and official visits, speeches, etc. Not a word came from these same people when Democrats in Congress tried to shut down the unflattering-to-Bill-Clinton docu-drama Path to 9-11 via threats to ABC, and not a word has come from those same people in response to Obama’s continuing attempts at stifling dissent. The hypocrisy from these people is simply breathtaking.
Semi-related to all this, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley made a veiled threat earlier this week to target McCain’s family in an ad after McCain supposedly “targeted” his:
Mayor Richard Daley teed off Tuesday on Republican presidential candidate John McCain for including Daley’s brother in a negative ad about Barack Obama’s Chicago political roots.
The TV ad claims that Democratic presidential candidate Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois, was “born of the corrupt Chicago political machine.” The commercial seeks to link Obama to four power-brokers: the mayor’s brother Bill, convicted former fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko, Obama mentor and Illinois Senate President Emil Jones and embattled Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
“People get desperate in their political life,” the mayor said when asked about the ad. “My theory about politics and government: You build yourself up. You don’t have to tear people down.”
Daley also warned that McCain has his own vulnerabilities, noting the Arizona senator’s involvement in the “Keating Five” influence-peddling scandal that involved his ties to banker Charles Keating Jr., a poster boy for the savings-and-loan meltdown.
“If people start throwing dirt and mud—remember, it comes back and hits you right in the face,” the mayor said. “I think, to put my brother Bill there . . . they want to put me there, fine, they put me there all the time anyway.”
The ad described Bill Daley, a former U.S. Commerce secretary, as a “lobbyist” and “the mayor’s brother.”
“First of all, my brother is not a lobbyist. He’s not a lobbyist. He’s not a lobbyist. He’s never been a lobbyist,” the mayor said.
In fact, Bill Daley was a key Washington lobbyist for top U.S. and foreign companies, and President Bill Clinton picked him to lobby Congress for passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement. When he was president of SBC Communications Inc. in 2003 he coordinated lobbying campaigns to sway both state and federal lawmakers.
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“People love money. Some love sex. Some love drugs. Some love power. It’s human frailties,” Daley said. Asked whether he is suggesting a Keating Five ad, Daley shot back: “It would be a great ad. People lost their life savings. Life savings, their own homes, for a guy named Keating out of Arizona.
“You want to get tough in politics, I can get tough in politics as anyone else,” Daley said. “When you start throwing mud, mud is going to be thrown at you and it’s going to be sticky.”
When Obama quips, “I’m skinny but I’m tough. I’m from Chicago” we all know what that means, and none of it is good. And thanks to him, we know dirty tricks, underhanded tactics, and attempts at silencing the opposition in Chicago doesn’t start and stop with the Daleys. Obama’s carrying on that tradition on a national scale all by himself.
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Ummmm someone might want to tell Mr. Daley, of all that were brought forth on that Keating deal, Mr. McCain was the only republican, as I understand it, in the group, and the only one acquited.
So his throwing mud would be lies, and more lies. Obama’s all but said he’s part of Chicago politics, and yes. We all know what that means.
This was a Monthy Python sketch, right?
Sir John Cunningham: “There is no cannibalism in the British Navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount. More than we’d care to admit.”
Why am I flashing back to old images from The Untouchables TV series?
Paging Eliot Ness!
The MSM has pissed off Mainstream America with their Anti-Sarah Goebbels propaganda, and that means Fast Barky is gonna lose…
If Barky was gonna win, do you think Bill and Hillary would be soooooo hesitent to support him? They’d be sucking up to him…
When Jeremiah Wright comes out with his book in the end of October, watch Fast Barky run for cover; and come Nov 5th, Hillary will shrug her shoulders and say, “I Toldjah So!”
This is what he does.
He got elected to statewide office by using lawyers to disqualify all his opponents. He got elected to the senate by getting a judge to unseal and publish sealed divorce action documents. He told his legions to overwhelm the phone lines of a Chicago station interviewing David Freddoso so they couldn’t do the show properly. He threatened McCain supporters with legal criminal DOJ action.
He’s a classic bully, and, like a classic bully, when anybody stands up to him he starts blubbering and crying for him mommy or, in his case, the New York Times.
Yes, Obama is a Chicago Democrat… Many outside of this state don’t understand what that means, however.
It is time that all of this was made clear, to the public.
This by far is the biggest collection of scary links that I have seen in quite some time.
Someone on a list I subscribe to talked about how McCain got a slap on the wrist for his involvment in the S&L Crisis. She posted a wikipedia link. I happened to follow it to the Keating 5 link. Here’s the entry:
Glenn and McCain: cleared of impropriety but criticized for poor judgment
The Senate Ethics Committee ruled that the involvement of Glenn in the scheme was minimal, and the charges against him were dropped.[36] He was only criticized by the Committee for “poor judgment.”[38]
The Ethics Committee ruled that the involvement of McCain in the scheme was also minimal, and he too was cleared of all charges against him.[37][36] McCain was criticized by the Committee for exercising “poor judgment” when he met with the federal regulators on Keating’s behalf.[7] The report also said that McCain’s “actions were not improper nor attended with gross negligence and did not reach the level of requiring institutional action against him….Senator McCain has violated no law of the United States or specific Rule of the United States Senate.”[39] On his Keating Five experience, McCain has said: “The appearance of it was wrong. It’s a wrong appearance when a group of senators appear in a meeting with a group of regulators, because it conveys the impression of undue and improper influence. And it was the wrong thing to do.”[7]
Regardless of the level of their involvement, both senators were greatly affected by it. McCain would write in 2002 that attending the two April 1987 meetings was “the worst mistake of my life”.[40] Glenn has described the Senate Ethics Committee investigation as the low point of his life.[8]
Sounds to me like he got a slap on the wrist so that they could make it look like Republicans were somehow involved.