How in the hell is Barack Obama going to get a Top Secret Security Clearance with his association with William Ayers?
Security clearances are super-stringent. Top Secret Clearances are even more so. In your clearance investigation, they dig into EVERYTHING. A friendship with someone who has repeatedly and unapologetically bombed government buildings and targeted law enforcement officers would be a huge red flag and, I assume, would earn an instant rejection.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Guilt by Association?
Let's say that you are desperate for a babysitter. Your neighbor has a 20 year old daughter. She's always seemed like a nice kid but you know for a fact that some of her closest friends are bad apples. One of them has committed some violent acts and pledged to wreak anarchy on society and the other is a racist who believes the government invented H.I.V. as a tool of genocide. Now as nice as the neighbor girl seemed to you, wouldn't you be wary of her being around your child? Wouldn't you, simply because of her associations, assume that this girl had a few screws loose?
Here are Barack Obama's loose screws:
1) William Ayers, Founder of the 60s terrorist group "The Weather Underground" - In the 60s and 70s, American radical William Ayers founded "The Weathermen" and "The Weather Underground" to protest "American Imperialism".
"The group’s members assumed clandestine identities and began detonating bombs at courthouses, correctional facilities, police stations, the Capitol and the Pentagon. Between October 1969 and September 1973, the Weather Underground claimed credit for some twenty bombings across the country." (FoxNews, August 26, 2008) This homegrown terrorist and his wife escaped federal terrorism charges on a technicality - improper surveillance techniques by investigators. (Chicago Sun-Times, April 16, 2008) Many years later, Ayers is a professor at the University of Illinois and still unrepentant. In a 2004 interview, "Ayers claimed the Weathermen were driven by “hope and love,” not despair, and said he did not think the group’s violent acts, targeting federal officials and local law enforcement officers, were 'a big deal.' ".
Barack Obama has been friends with William Ayers for over 13 years. Ayers launched Obama's political career in Illinois by hosting one of Obama's first campaign events at his Hyde Park home in 1995.
As passionate and even crazed as William Ayers is, do you think that he would support (and host events to launch) the political career of someone who didn't share at least some of his radical beliefs?
2) Reverend Jeremiah Wright - former pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago: An inflammatory speaker, Rev. Wright has stated that "the government gives [black people] drugs and "treats them as less than human." (ABC News, March 13, 2008)
"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," Rev. Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001. "We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost," he told his congregation 5 days after September 11th. (ABC News, March 13, 2008) Wright has also claimed that US scientists engineered the AIDS virus.
"An ABC News review of dozens of Rev. Wright's sermons, offered for sale by the church, found repeated denunciations of the U.S. based on what he described as his reading of the Gospels and the treatment of black Americans." (ABC News, March 13, 2008)
Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been Barack Obama's pastor for over 17 years. Not only did Wright marry Barack and Michelle, he also baptized both of Obama's daughters and is even credited for coining the title of Barack's autobiography, "The Audacity of Hope."
"In a statement to ABCNews.com, Obama's press spokesman Bill Burton said, 'Sen. Obama has said repeatedly that personal attacks such as this [one on Rev. Wright] have no place in this campaign or our politics, whether they're offered from a platform at a rally or the pulpit of a church. Sen. Obama does not think of the pastor of his church in political terms. Like a member of his family, there are things he says with which Sen. Obama deeply disagrees. But now that he is retired, that doesn't detract from Sen. Obama's affection for Rev. Wright or his appreciation for the good works he has done.' " (ABC News, March 13, 2008)
Clearly Barack agrees with what Wright has to say, he's stuck with him for over 17 years! The Obamas are so close to Wright that he married them and baptized both their children - if you think your pastor is off his wad, you don't ask him to participate in every facet of your religious life - or name your book after one of his sermons.
3) Tony Rezko - indicted slum-landlord and Obama's friend, neighbor and fundraiser. Too much to type. Read this article. Or this one.
Here are Barack Obama's loose screws:
1) William Ayers, Founder of the 60s terrorist group "The Weather Underground" - In the 60s and 70s, American radical William Ayers founded "The Weathermen" and "The Weather Underground" to protest "American Imperialism".
"The group’s members assumed clandestine identities and began detonating bombs at courthouses, correctional facilities, police stations, the Capitol and the Pentagon. Between October 1969 and September 1973, the Weather Underground claimed credit for some twenty bombings across the country." (FoxNews, August 26, 2008) This homegrown terrorist and his wife escaped federal terrorism charges on a technicality - improper surveillance techniques by investigators. (Chicago Sun-Times, April 16, 2008) Many years later, Ayers is a professor at the University of Illinois and still unrepentant. In a 2004 interview, "Ayers claimed the Weathermen were driven by “hope and love,” not despair, and said he did not think the group’s violent acts, targeting federal officials and local law enforcement officers, were 'a big deal.' ".
Barack Obama has been friends with William Ayers for over 13 years. Ayers launched Obama's political career in Illinois by hosting one of Obama's first campaign events at his Hyde Park home in 1995.
As passionate and even crazed as William Ayers is, do you think that he would support (and host events to launch) the political career of someone who didn't share at least some of his radical beliefs?
2) Reverend Jeremiah Wright - former pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago: An inflammatory speaker, Rev. Wright has stated that "the government gives [black people] drugs and "treats them as less than human." (ABC News, March 13, 2008)
"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," Rev. Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001. "We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost," he told his congregation 5 days after September 11th. (ABC News, March 13, 2008) Wright has also claimed that US scientists engineered the AIDS virus.
"An ABC News review of dozens of Rev. Wright's sermons, offered for sale by the church, found repeated denunciations of the U.S. based on what he described as his reading of the Gospels and the treatment of black Americans." (ABC News, March 13, 2008)
Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been Barack Obama's pastor for over 17 years. Not only did Wright marry Barack and Michelle, he also baptized both of Obama's daughters and is even credited for coining the title of Barack's autobiography, "The Audacity of Hope."
"In a statement to ABCNews.com, Obama's press spokesman Bill Burton said, 'Sen. Obama has said repeatedly that personal attacks such as this [one on Rev. Wright] have no place in this campaign or our politics, whether they're offered from a platform at a rally or the pulpit of a church. Sen. Obama does not think of the pastor of his church in political terms. Like a member of his family, there are things he says with which Sen. Obama deeply disagrees. But now that he is retired, that doesn't detract from Sen. Obama's affection for Rev. Wright or his appreciation for the good works he has done.' " (ABC News, March 13, 2008)
Clearly Barack agrees with what Wright has to say, he's stuck with him for over 17 years! The Obamas are so close to Wright that he married them and baptized both their children - if you think your pastor is off his wad, you don't ask him to participate in every facet of your religious life - or name your book after one of his sermons.
3) Tony Rezko - indicted slum-landlord and Obama's friend, neighbor and fundraiser. Too much to type. Read this article. Or this one.
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