I used to identify with the right wing media of this country. However, as I have gotten older I have slowly gravitated away from that Identity. Alot of it was because of changes in my life but a huge part is the right wing media. In the first few weeks of the President Elects days all I have been hearing is outlandish comments. Like hes a communist, socialist, terrorist, etc. Its almost as if, and I believe this to be true, that they have nothing to talk about so they resort to celebrity trash talk. With Obama they dont have much to attack. They are straining at a nat. Now, what gets me is when they get on their nationally syndicated talk shows and say Obama is a terrorist or he palls around with them. This is just a bent statement. Considering there are no facts to back that up but "Bill Ayers." So the right wing media hangs on to it because thats all they got. Well what about Rev. Wright? Well, of course that in my book was a poor decision on Obama's part to attend his church. They try to paint him as a racist? What? I was thinking last week about the fact that 4 of our Presidents have been killed. One of them shot but survived. Not to mention Bobby Kennedy and MLK. Many leaders have fallen to some crazed nut that has an agenda that is un-human. I am neither a Republican or a Democrat. I usually am a centralist but I do believe the right wing needs to be careful with its base. You fuel the fire of those who are crazy enough to try and take the presidents life. With the anniversary of Jonestown upon us it makes you think. Is there still one more crazy nut out there that may try and do the unthinkable? Well, 9/11 tells us its possible. I just think the statements that are being said are irresponsible and in poor taste. On the flip side though I dont agree with the censorship laws that many on the left are trying to pass. I think it to be unconstitutional.
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On March 18, after several clips of sermons by his longtime friend and pastor Jeremiah Wright surfaced (showing Wright condemning the United States with vitriolic comparisons and denunciations), Obama defended his friend stating: “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother.” After Rev. Wright delivered two more talks along the same lines as the clips that led to the March 18 speech, Sen. Obama finally denounced Wright the following month, stating: “His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate, and I believe that they do not portray accurately the perspective of the black church.” “They certainly don’t portray accurately my values and beliefs,” he said.
It strained credulity to believe Obama was unaware of Wright’s previous rants — especially after a 20-year membership in Wright’s church, especially when in February of last year Obama asked Wright not to attend his campaign announcement because he “could get kind of rough in sermons,” and especially when his church’s magazine honored on its front cover such a man as Louis Farrakhan. Nonetheless, once he ceased being a political asset and turned into a political liability, Obama dumped him.
Jeremiah Wright is, of course, not the only person close to Barack Obama who holds vitriolic anti-American views. Bill Ayers was a founding member of the Weather Underground. According to his own memoir, Ayers participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, the Pentagon in 1972. As recently as 2001, Ayers said “I don’t regret setting bombs….I feel we didn’t do enough.’’ When asked if he would engage in such terrorism again, Ayers responded: “I don’t want to discount the possibility.” When confronted with his friendship with Bill Ayers, Barack Obama dismissed the negative connections saying he is also friendly with abortion opponent U.S. Senator Tom Coburn. While Obama has never, himself, discussed his relationship with Ayers, what we do know is that Ayers hosted a fundraiser for Obama in his home and, according to the Los Angeles Times:
Obama and Ayers moved in some of the same political and social circles in the leafy liberal enclave of Hyde Park, where they lived several blocks apart. In the mid-1990s, when Obama was running for the Illinois Senate, Ayers introduced Obama during a political event at his home, according to Obama’s aides….
Obama and Ayers met a dozen times as members of the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago, a local grant-making foundation, according to the group’s president. They appeared together to discuss juvenile justice on a 1997 panel sponsored by the University of Chicago, records show. They appeared again in 2002 at an academic panel co-sponsored by the Chicago Public Library.
Ha..Guilt by association. Doesnt fly! Nothing in Obama's past has proved him to be a racist or a terrorist. Just his association with a church and a person. You can have associations with people and still not agree totally with them. This is the case here. Bill Ayers? Come on Obama was 8 years old when he did his terrorist acts. 8 years old? Playing with GI Joes or something. Its just not good enough. They talk about this stuff because it would be boring if they didnt. If they were talking about who hes going to put in his cabinet or what he should tweak in his policies no body would listen to their shows or read their stories. Money drives the talk on these shows. More listeners or viewers and the sponsors are happy. That makes more sense to me. Money being behind what they are saying rather than honesty or objectivity.
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