posted October 7, 2008
Sara Palin.....
To stoop to the attacks she made this weekend - Obama as a terrorist - shows the desperation of the McCain campaign. Notice the lack of any meaningful discussions of the collapsed economic structure of our nation, the high energy prices despite the falling costs of crude oil, the misery of people without health insurance, and on and on and on and on.
This county yearns to have in its leadership a President and Vice-President of unapproachable dignity and integrity.
After eight years of the failed and criminal policies of W and Darth Cheney, you would think the Republicans would know better.
Robin R. Flores
Attorney-at-Law
Chattanooga
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Ms. Flores, with due respect, everything you've said is either factually incorrect, or comparing apples to oranges.
No one said Obama is a terrorist - just that his bud, Bill Ayres, bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol Building and the New York City Police Department. ....that's all. Ayres and Obama
planned his first run for the Illinois state Senate in Ayres' living room.
This junk of Obama being only eight years old at the time is disinformation. No GOP figure has made this assertion. A child has little accountability, but an adult does.
If that's not an issue to you, put yourself in the socks of the folks Ayres tried to kill. Wanna be there? And do Americans want to entrust the nation to an administration where the leader is steeped in so many radical nuts? He's a Marxist, plain and simple.
John R. Smickle
Chattanooga
jsbottomfeeder@juno.com
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With all due respect to you, Robin R. Flores, referring to the current Vice-President of the United States as “Darth Cheney,” is not a very “dignified” comment.
It is perfectly reasonable to raise questions about Sen. Obama’s judgment and associations. If he does indeed have the “good judgment” to govern our Nation, I find it very disturbing that Senator Obama’s campaign adviser David Axelrod said, Sen. Obama "Didn't know the history" of admitted terrorist Bill Ayers' activities.
Really? If that is the truth, then it concerns me that Sen. Obama did not know that the man throwing him a fundraiser for his first state Senate run bombed the U.S. Capitol. That seems like something a man with sound judgment should have figured out.
If that is not the truth, then I am even more concerned that Sen. Obama would not only knowingly associate with a domestic terrorist, but would lie about it for political gain.
For someone who wants the toughest job in America, these questions should be answered more clearly. The current explanation doesn’t cut it.
Considering the amount of responsibility Sen. Obama is asking us to give him, I do not feel comfortable handing the keys to our nation to him, when a man with the experience and proven judgment of John McCain is asking for the same job.
Jeremiah Cook
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It may have been prudent for Sarah Palin to check her sources on this issue. The fact is William Ayres, an extreme radical, has never been convicted of so much as setting off a firecracker, much less bombing anything. The fact is, Ayres, a college professor, serves on the board of two major charities in Chicago. Obama also served on one of those boards. Also, being a major Democratic supporter in Illinois, Ayres held a fund raiser for Obama when he first ran for state office. So, Obama is guilty of what?
How about Sarah Palin's husband being a member of a group in Alaska that wants to secede from the United States? The leader of that group has said that he hates America. Is Sarah Palin a secret secession proponent because of that association? Of course not. But, using the same logic she uses in calling Obama a closet terrorist, dictates that she is too.
What about McCain's ties to the Iran-contra dealings? He can be directly tied to the selling and smuggling of arms to Iran. Would anyone consider him to be an enabler to Islamic terrorist? You would really have to be a space cadet to believe that.
Fact of the matter is that any public servant has had ties, in one way or the other, with someone of unsavory character. So let’s cut the kids games and start legitimately discussing the things that affect the public welfare. Our economy is in a nose dive and there are those that want to just play mind games. I would think the American public’s interest would be above that.
By the way, I think describing Cheney as "Darth Cheney" is an affront to Darth Vader's reputation.
Rod Dagnan
Hixson
roddagnan@comcast.net
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The fact that no one wants to acknowledge is that the associations of Barrack Obama would disqualify him from the most basic security clearance in the federal government. If he were applying as a field agent for the FBI or CIA he would be booted right out.
The real scary thing is as President he doesn't have to be cleared at all, he just gets the highest clearance.
Keith Roberts
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I agree with Mr. Flores. If you look at the fact checker and do your homework, you will know that the McCain Palin duo are spouting lies. You would think the people wouldn't want to be taken for such fools or have their intelligence insulted. But the Republican base doesn't hear or see anything but what they want.
I heard Obama being called a terrorist by someone in the crowd at one of their meetings, and what was said by the campaign prompted the comment. Whether it was planned or not, the campaign didn't act surprised or appalled, and certainly did nothing to correct it. Someone should let them know what integrity means.
Even though Tennessee has been Republican, it is not hard to see that most of the country is for Obama. Oh but wait, unless you watch Fox.
Wake up and smell the freedom people. Or just let the machine of mass-control whisk you away.
Deborah Williford
deborahdtw@hotmail.com
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Forty-five years ago last month, some despicable cowards in Birmingham placed a bomb in a church that detonated and killed four beautiful, young black girls who were simply looking for a place to worship. Can you imagine the uproar today if John McCain had not only associated with this group but had kicked off his initial political campaign in the living room of one of them?
Yet 40 years ago two despicable cowards named Bill Ayres and Bernardine Dohrn were members of a radical group that bombed police stations and government buildings. And they did associate with and host the political coming out of one Barack Hussein Obama in their Chicago living room. The aforementioned Mr. Obama is now the Democratic nominee for President.
So, where is the outrage?
Douglas Jones
Chattanooga
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To Mr. Dagnan and others:
The excerpt below is directly from Wikipedia, maybe Ayres didn't bomb a building, but planting a bomb at a public statue is still reprehensible....
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Ayers became involved in the New Left and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).[7] He rose to national prominence as an SDS leader in 1968 and 1969. As head of an SDS regional group, the "Jesse James Gang", Ayers made decisive contributions to the Weatherman orientation toward militancy.[5]The group Ayers headed in Detroit, Michigan became one of the earliest gatherings of what became the Weatherman. Between the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the June 1969 SDS convention, Ayers became a prominent leader of the group, which arose as a result of a schism in SDS.[5]"During that time his infatuation with street fighting grew and he developed a language of confrontational militancy that became more and more pronounced over the year [1969]", disaffected former Weatherman member Cathy Wilkerson wrote in 2001. Ayers had previously become a roommate of Terry Robbins, a fellow militant, Wilkerson wrote. Robbins would later be killed while making a bomb.[8]In June 1969, the Weatherman took control of the SDS at its national convention, where Ayers was elected Education Secretary.[5] Later in 1969, Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to riot police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket Riot confrontation between labor supporters and the police.[9] The blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby Kennedy Expressway.[10] (The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on May 4, 1970, and blown up again by other Weathermen on October 6, 1970.[11][10] Rebuilding it yet again, the city posted a 24-hour police guard to prevent another blast.[10]) Ayers participated in the Days of Rage riot in Chicago in October 1969, and in December was at the "War Council" meeting in Flint, Michigan. Larry Grathwohl, an FBI informant in the Weatherman group from the fall of 1969 to the spring of 1970, thought that "Ayers, along with Bernardine Dohrn, probably had the most authority within the Weatherman".[12]
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He may be a University of Chicago professor today, but he was obviously very radical in his past, and not someone you would usually expect a presidential nominee to be rubbing shoulders with.
The truth shall set you free.
Charles Graham
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Maybe Sarah Palin and her crew should be charged with inciting possible violence against their opponent. Their supporters calling for the death of a candidate? If this was someone from the Democratic side the media would be running wild with it.
This is an excerpt from ABC news website. Quote: "At rallies this week where Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made sinister insinuations about Obama, attendees yelled out "Treason!" "Terrorist'" and "Kill him!" in reference to Obama. At a Florida rally for Palin, a supporter used a racial epithet to attack an African-American member of the media."
You know, there might have been only one hand on the trigger that killed President John Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but there were many invisible fingers on that trigger as well that encouraged it. One doesn't have to be in physical contact with a weapon to be just as guilty when it's fired. Many already know they have such dedicated followers that all it takes is a rumor, a whisper, the assassination of ones character, fear, anger, bigotry, hatred and someone in the crowd will listen and take action.
Brenda Manghane~Washington
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I',m not going to ask you to vote for any certain candidate. I will say I'm not worried all that much about Obama being associated with such rogues as Wright and Ayers. But what really worries me, and, frankly, has me upset is the millions of Americans who don't see anything wrong with a man that might be our President being involved with these type people.
Think about it, Americans, there should be enough voters in the service and veterans to keep this man from becoming President of the greatest nation in the world.
We all know right now is some tough times for our economy. If we all just pull together and hold on, America will be OK. I know there are going to have to be some changes, but not the liberal way. It's got to be the American way. God bless America.
Ken Bowman
Chattanooga
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