Fondly Remembering Obama – 2/14/2017

6 thoughts on “Fondly Remembering Obama – 2/14/2017”

1. May I make a request? Could you post your next picture in this fascinating series of Obama and unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers as they met in his living room to kick off Obama’s political career? That one would definitely dispel any semblance of arrogance or buffoonery on his behalf, don’t you think?

2. Thank you, T. Paine.

   I don’t know that one exists. I have looked at the public record, however. You may want to do the same:

   Mr. Obama was introduced to Mr. Ayres in the living room of a Republican supporter. They also served on some public service committee at the same time.

   Bill Ayres had indeed been a weatherman bomber decades before. He and some friends blew up a statue in the dead of night.

   Barack Obama was six years old at the time.

   Which would make Mr. Obama a very, very young arrogant buffoon, wouldn’t you agree?

3. For the further edification of T. Paine:

   You are parroting something entirely irrelevant, as well as false. You are also applying “guilt by association”. The Right loves putting the words “Obama” and “terrorist” in the same sentence. The same is true with “Muslim”, “foreign”, “Marxist”, “arrogant” and “buffoon”.

   Chicago Magazine reported that “just before the September 11th attacks,” Richard Elrod, a city lawyer injured in the Weathermen’s Chicago “Days of Rage,” received an apology from Ayers and Dohrn for their part in the violence. “[T]hey were remorseful,” Elrod says. “They said, ‘We’re sorry that things turned out this way.

   Can TP find remorse and withdraw his false accusation?

4. Ayers is a terrorist and Obama enlisted his support to kick off his political career. If Trump had started out his political career in the living room of David Duke, it would matter GREATLY to you Dave, as well it should! But your sad argument on your blog is that Ayers isn’t a REALLY BAD terrorist like Timothy McVeigh. If a politician of any party was seeking the help or endorsement of McVeigh or ANY terrorist, I would be apoplectic towards that person too. Ayers ran with the Weatherman underground and even in later years refused to apologize for his actions. In fact, the bastard said he wished they had done more. The fact that his group didn’t kill anyone was largely due to their incompetence, it would seem. THIS is who President Obama stood beside as he began his career in politics. THAT seems like a far more egregious sin than even the vulgarity and sexual assaults Trump boasted of. (But I suppose that is a racist statement to you too.)

   http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/167989/bill-ayers-unrepentant-lying-terrorist-andrew-c-mccarthy

   1. I suppose it is possible to come somewhat close to a fair test of your theory, T. Paine.

      Doesn’t bother me much that Donald Trump’s father was an ally of the Klan or that he was once arrested for attacking police officers during a violent Klan demonstration. I figure Donald couldn’t control what happened years before he was born.

      Of course, that is not a precise match with Obama. You can’t control your parents, despite conservative attempts to apply a different standard to Obama.

      A closer match would be John McCain before the 2008 campaign. McCain was a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Council for World Freedom along with white supremacists, death squad organizers, and Nazi collaborators. He allowed these folks to use his name on their letterhead from 1984 to 1986, when he asked them to remove it. They insist he never made that request, but I find it easy to believe Senator McCain over these thugs.

      As I recall, Obama supporters were not so unethical as to use that sort of guilt by tenuous association against McCain. Sadly, some conservatives lack that simple ethical standard.

      Present company excepted, of course, Mr. Paine.

5. TP,

   THAT seems like a far more egregious sin than even the vulgarity and sexual assaults Trump boasted of. (But I suppose that is a racist statement to you too.)

   Racist? No. Sexist? Yeah, very much, and almost cruelly indifferent to the victims. I wonder how many women would agree with your, um, values, that tolerate sexual assault over innocent association with a remorseful ex-criminal.

   I don’t quite know what else to call it.

Comments are closed.