Obama’s “palling around with terrorists,” yes he is:
Because a real American would’ve planted his platform right smack in front of the Liberty Bell, yes he would.
This isn’t to say I’m still waiting for the folks who attack Obama for his connection to Ayers to acknowledge that the man who financed the Annenberg Challenge—a.k.a. Annenberg—was a close, personal friend of Ronald Reagan. Because they won’t, you know.
Wouldn’t suit “the narrative.”
The fact that it’s Annenberg who gave Ayers the $50M these folks claim is proof of Obama’s ideological kinship with the Weather Underground is irrelevant, because, well, because. Reagan was a patriot. Played “Born in the U.S.A.” at every—I mean, it’s not like that guitar-totin’ fellow in the picture knows jack about Philadelphia—
—Obama is a terrorist, alright? Just vote for McCain already and I’ll shut up. Ain’t that motivation enough?
UPDATE: In retrospect, maybe he should’ve gone with “Columbia” instead of “America”:
The rest of the videos from the rally can be found here.
17 comments
October 4, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Josh
Nonononono, you don’t understand. *Annenberg* didn’t give Ayers the $50M, his *foundation* did, and the foundation was clearly taken over by leftists.
(I’ll dig out an actual link to someone making this argument if I really have to.)
October 4, 2008 at 8:37 pm
SEK
THAT STILL COUNTS! (When dealing with that sort of logic, of course. The fact that Annenberg was alive and personally overseeing all grants at that time IS TO BE IGNORED BECAUSE IT IS INCONVENIENT.)
October 4, 2008 at 8:41 pm
urbino
But Annenberg was a Jew. (And not the good Israeli kind.)
October 4, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Rich Puchalsky
America September 2008
It’s always ahead, but you know what I’ve heard:
What happens to a dream deferred?
A dream that’s a lie is an endless return
And each of us whispering yearn, baby, yearn
October 4, 2008 at 11:03 pm
kathy a.
October 4, 2008 at 11:27 pm
ben wolfson
Technically, having written a song nominally (literally nominally!) about the city does not mean that Springsteen knows jack about Philadelphia.
October 4, 2008 at 11:36 pm
kathy a.
i stand by the city of new orleans, though.
October 5, 2008 at 10:19 am
SEK
Technically, having written a song nominally (literally nominally!) about the city does not mean that Springsteen knows jack about Philadelphia.
Well, duh. Especially when you think that it wasn’t about real Philadelphians, but only the gay ones.
October 5, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Walt
Didn’t Springsteen grow up an hour from Philadelphia?
October 5, 2008 at 12:19 pm
SEK
An hour and thirty-seven minutes, it seems.
October 5, 2008 at 3:39 pm
William Neal
What’s all this yammering any way? Okay. The guy can/can’t sing. You like him or not. You say or don’t that, okay, all these politicians take money from “EVERY-WHERE”, and every where is this that and the other in “extreme” as it were. Some is for the write off, some thing legal, and some is for changing policy if they can…so, jew or not, money given…so what? Donated. Who gives a f-? I don’t. Know this, If Obama gets in, he may rue the day he voted in the “bail” out. Because that was bull-shit…because the next administration is bound to it and will surely suffer mightily from it. Oh well. The business of politics, your Reagans or whatnot as that, they’ll all come and go, just like the McGoverns and Obama’s, etc. Same with the Musicians. Who gives a rat’s ass where they sing or what they sing about? You know Faulkner (Originally Falkner, even he changed the name.) said: Gettysburg, you wouldn’t understand it. You’d have to be born there. No duh. But it doesn’t mean you can’t kindly assist art or politics.
October 5, 2008 at 4:07 pm
SEK
I’ll respond to the only bit of that I could follow, Mr. Neal:
so, jew or not
Jew.
October 5, 2008 at 8:15 pm
tf smith
…and I still believe in a Promised Land.
October 5, 2008 at 8:18 pm
urbino
After reading Mr. Neal’s comment, I feel like somebody carved a six inch valley through the middle of my skull.
October 6, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Jason B
feel like somebody carved a six inch valley through the middle of my skull.
Sorry, that was me. I was trying to dig a grave for Sarah Palin’s political future, and I . . . erm . . . missed.
October 6, 2008 at 1:16 pm
dana
I’m not gonna let you guys have the chisels no more if’n you keep this up.
October 6, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Jason B
Sorry. Thought I had a good read on the turf. Who knew urbino’s head was there?