Ayers and the Teflon Man
Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 05:50:14 AM PDT
Everyone knows that George Stepalloverus took talking points from Sean Hannity prior to the Worst.Debate.Ever.
Rick Ayers, brother of the Weather Underground member, Bill Ayers, had this to say on HuffPost about Hillary.
The fact that she would drag up this pathetic red herring about Obama's alleged ties to so-called terrorist Bill Ayers (my brother!) brings her right down to the level of Fox News and the National Enquirer (which also suggested that Obama had murdered his gay lover). Obama needed to call this tactic for what it is: McCarthyism. This is the most base version of McCarthyism: Did you know this communist? When were you last with this communist? Did you denounce this communist? When did you stop beating your wife?
John Ridley just wrote a very disturbing piece on HuffPost as well, where he said, "In Wednesday's debate Senator Clinton gave a preview of what to expect from conservatives come the general election should Obama take the nomination: accusations that Obama's cozy with radical liberals. There's not much the Clinton machine can do with the accusation seeing as President Clinton commuted the prison sentences of a couple of WUO members. Conservatives will try to do considerably worse, and they'll have a lot to work with."
I say disturbing because the Conservatives have nothing to work with, despite Ridley's shilling....
Ayers did bad things 40 years ago.
Ayers gave a couple hundred bucks of "support" to Obama.
Ayers and Obama sit on the board of an "organization" together.
Therefore, Obama wants to do the same 40-year-old bad things to you!
WTF?!?
Every Obama supporter should read Jeffrey Feldman's diary on the violent framingof Barack Obama. This issue will need to be addressed forcefully in the General.
The Republicants have been watching with great interest what will stick and what will not stick in the GE.
His middle name and father's religion suggest he's a Muslim.
Well, it's hard to be a Muslim if he's also got a crazy Black preacher saying, "God Damn America." :-)
What about that crazy preacher dude?
Nope, that led to one of the greatest political speeches in history. That slime didn't work.
"Bittergate"?
Nope. People agreed with his assessment....
So what else is there?
The Republicants are really worried that nothing seems to stick on Teflon Man Obama. They may actually have to debate POLICY rather than Flag Pins, for once. :shudder:
While I know that Barack wants to stay above the fray, he's going to have to come out strong against the Republicant machine in Fall. He simply cannot allow the Republicants to plant violent frames into the American consciousness.....
Rick Ayers' advice of how to handle Clinton applies equally well with McCain. And I cannot wait until this happens in a debate.
There's only one way to confront McCarthyism. Obama should have taken a page from Joseph Welch when he confronted the red-baiting senator during the Army-McCarthy hearings. He should have said, "Senator Clinton, are you really going to go there? Do you have no shame? Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty, or your recklessness. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty, I would do so. I like to think I'm a gentle man, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me. Have you no sense of decency, ma'am, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" That's the kind of language that Welch used to reduce McCarthy to the sputtering idiot he was.
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