Old, Older and Even Ancient News

That Won't Likely Make the Headlines
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I wrote the first half of this post early this morning and the second half later this evening. The first TV screen below is video footage from a few months ago now seen for the first time. We know of Obama's long relationship with the Reverend Wright and his friends, Father Michael Pfleger and Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. Voters understand that liberals need to appear moderate to be politically palatable. We know why Obama must feign distance from these early influences on in his life. We know, too, that these two stories will get brief mention if any in the main-stream media, but watch with me this weekend to see if instead some negative McCain/Palin story doesn't get more press. See if these two developments aren't swept aside like every other bump in Obama's road to the White House.

When you consider the closing paragraphs of the previous post and the civil but cautious discussion in the comments that followed it. This clip sheds new light on a concern many people quietly share--not about race, no way, Obama's race is one of his most appealing factors in my and many of my friends' opinions--nor is it about "guilt by association." No, there is something much deeper that is very disturbing: it's this messiah complex, this sense that Obama is not running for President of the United States but for President of the World... that's is the gut level discomfort that a growing number of people sense but can't explain. The feeling becomes even more visceral as the global nature of the current crisis becomes understood, and as Obama begins to orchestrate his role and please his followers in a new world order.
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Now watch the video (if it doesn't get pulled from Youtube) and imagine for a moment that anything remotely like this had just been caught on a camera not in Chicago but up in Alaska about Sarah Palin. How would the media treat that?

Oprah used similar language in her endorsements of "the one."

And now on to the other concern raised in the previous post: Obama's connections to Bill Ayers. That's him there standing on the American flag in a photo taken in 2001 for Chicago Magazine. You may recall it was Hillary Clinton who first brought this man up to Obama's face during the primaries. I believe it was what the Clinton machine new about this man and truth about his ties to Obama's Chicago political career that made Hillary stay in the race so long, waiting for the shoe to drop, the shoe that she said made Obama "unelectable."

Well, the truth about Ayer's ties to Obama has been trying to raise its head like a "Whack-a-mole" at Chucky Cheese's, but the media keeps whacking it down in the hole as if to say, "Hey, our candidate said he barely knows the guy and we know he wouldn't lie so we're going to whack that truth-mole down every time it raises its head."

Then this past weekend the New York Times wrote a small article about Ayers in hopes of raising and dismissing the issue for the final time. The McCain-Palin ticket started talking about the Times piece, and how does Obama respond? With an honest explanation? Nope, they released an on-line Keating Five documentary (professionally made weeks ago but held for this moment) as if to say, “'You’ve got your troubles; I’ve got mine.' If you bring up my long connections to a former but unrepentant domestic terrorist who is still a radical communist trampler of traditional American values, I'll remind everyone that 20 years ago you were found innocent of charges that stuck to the four other Democrats involved in the Keating S & L mess of the '80s. One of those Dems, John Glenn, now serves on my campaign team. I'll remind everyone that your proven innocence followed Senate hearings and in-depth discovery and reporting of the media and mud-slinging by the Dems in control of both houses, the same parties that now sweep my ties to Aires under the rug.” No, he didn't say that. Instead he went on the air with Charles Gibson and told the same lame "he's just a guy in the neighborhood--I was only 8 at the time" smoke screen. And Gibson bought it... again.

But finally, a network beyond Fox is paying attention. A couple nights ago, CNN released this report.

You may be saying, "Who cares, Tom. So he has political ties to a man who was photographed standing on an American flag just a few years ago for a Chicago magazine? (Not when Obama was 8 but when he was 40.) So Obama's political career started in that man's home. So what if they sat on small boards together through his Chicago career. So what if Ayers secured millions of dollars for Obama to spend on pet projects connected to radical groups in Chicago. Who cares?"

I do for one, and I think millions of other un-polled voters will, too. To me the issue is not about whether Obama espouses Ayer's terrorist past--who would--it's about the fact that he espouses his more recent attitudes about education and "activism.". Obama spent over 100 million on "education reform" with Ayers. I think we need to know about those programs, but he's not talking because he knows they "flopped" and are so far from what mainstream America would consider a proper use of money, he dare not let his "Ayers years" be known. Truth is Obama benefited from their professional and political relationship for many years, yet he now tries to pass him off as Mr. Rogers... just a guy in the neighborhood.

There's a pattern here. There's another "guy" in Obama's newer Chicago neighborhood (2005). He helped occupy Obama when he first came to Chicago: Tony Rezko, his long-time cohort who lives across the street from the house he helped Obama purchase. [He's not there now, but he will be once he's out of prison]. One story here and another story. Hillary talked about it but was ignored). The more we know about those who groomed him for their purposes, and those who indoctrinated him for 20 years... the more we see Obama distancing himself (to feign electability) from the very people who made him what he is.

Let me bring all this discussion to the thread of these posts about my father's influence on my teen years. When a man is raised without a father, this does not disqualify him for anything in life, but it does make it all the more important to see what kind of men shaped his life and help mentor him along. What kind of men gave "a leg up" if you will. As Aesop says, “A man is known by the company he keeps.”

Sure the economic meltdown is hitting us all, but as we decide who to put our trust in to fix it, what will we hear about all weekend? Troopergate! As if it's equally newsworthy to the concerns alluded to in links above. I've heard three different reports so far tonight about Palin's "abuse of power," but beyond the false headline, the stories tell us that Alaska's Governor Palin was found innocent of the bogus charge her Democratic opposition trumped up. Yes, they officially admitted that she did not wrongfully dismiss anyone in her cabinet, BUT since after all this hoopla they figured they had to sling some sort of mud, they tacked on an accusation that she abused her power by not using the authority of her office to stop a citizen (her husband) from expressing concerns about a rougue state trooper who was reported twice for drinking while driving his patrol car, shot a moose out of season, tasered his step son, and threatened to put a bullet in his father-in-law (the governor's father) if he came over during a domestic dispute. Whoa, hold the presses! Citizen files repeated concerns about an unlawful, drunken law officer.

So again I'll ask the question: if footage and facts one-tenth as damaging as the ignored Obama stories above were discovered about Sarah Palin, what would all the networks be talking non-stop?
Which only goes to prove... It's good to be the chosen one.
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The chapter about Dad's Bridge is on its way!

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