Demand LA Times Produce Video of Obama, Khalidi, Ayers, Dohrn

The Los Angeles Times is refusing to release a  2003 video of a farewell bash in Chicago at which Barack Obama, William  Ayers (and wife, and fellow Weather Underground terrorist member Bernadine Dohrn) and other PLO supporters toast lavish praise on the guest of honor, Rashid Khalidi — former mouthpiece for master terrorist Yasser Arafat.  Oops, that would be damaging for Barack Obama's campaign now wouldn't it?

Contact information for the LA TIMES here.  Demand they produce the video befove November 4.

The National Review Online report says:  It was sponsored by the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), which had been founded by Khalidi and his wife, Mona, formerly a top English translator for Arafat’s press agency ...   there's just a teeny-weenie chance that this was an evening of Israel-bashing Obama would find very difficult to explain?  ...  researcher Stanley Kurtz has noted that Ayers and Khalidi were “best friends.” (And — small world! — it turns out that the Obamas are extremely close to the Khalidis, who have reportedly babysat the Obama children.)

Contact information for the LA TIMES here. Demand they produce the video before November 4.

Here's the way the LA Times originally reported the April 2003 celebration (no bias here, right???)

CHICAGO -- It was a celebration of Palestinian culture -- a night of music, dancing and a dash of politics. Local Arab Americans were bidding farewell to Rashid Khalidi, an internationally known scholar, critic of Israel and advocate for Palestinian rights, who was leaving town for a job in New York.

A special tribute came from Khalidi's friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Sen. Barack Obama. Speaking to the crowd, Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi's wife, Mona, and conversations that had challenged his thinking.

Contact information for the LA TIMES here.  Demand they produce the video before November 4.

The O'Reilly Factor has demanded the video be produced (hat tip NewsBusters.org)

Brit Hume discusses the video (thanks to ShareRevMedia)

The McCain Camp demands the release of this video.

Comments

[cwmnvtr]

I won't be voting for Obama after seeing this site: obamaswords.blogspot.com

[Debbie]

The only reason he went to Hawaii was to seal his records.

[Mary Chamberlain]

Obama is news...Grandmother is not

once the media had milked the visit for all they could get...not one mention of how this elderly lady is doing and I have heard no member of the press ask Obama about her.

I hope we can still visits places like Right Truth after Obama becomes president. We will need a lot of facts to hang onto in the face of socialist speak.

[Debbie]

Thank you everyone for the input. I think maybe talking about this video and sharing what is on it may be enough. I doubt we will get the video before November 4.

I will check out the links provided.

Polls today are closer, within 3 points. I have high hopes for McCain.

[Aukmuntr]

I am so tired, so very tired! I feel like i am pushing wet string up a hill in this election. I have never witnessed such mass idiocy as we have today. There is no accounting for the mass hypnosis that has befallen this country.

Of course, I will continue to scream from the mountain top that the messiah is wearing no clothes despite my moments of gloom over the fawning media and the masses of lobotomized Obamatons spewing their bile laden rhetoric.

We are indeed in clear and present danger waters, and I am tired of swimming against this tide of collective brain farts.

Thank heavens I have a concealed carry permit and lots of ammunition.

[Old Atlantic]

The willing blindness of the people to the truth about Obama is Biblical. Its like embracing an evil king of old in a rush to do wickedness. If that is accurate, then wickedness will surely follow.

[MK]

I just did a post about this, i'm just dumb-founded Debbie, i'm not so concerned about the tape, i am worried about the LA Times suppressing it in the sense that they seemed biased towards Obama. Would they do the same if it were McCain.

None the less, that's not the main issue, what i don't get is, how many of these questionable characters does Obama have to be tied to before people start turning away. Heavens above, how many will it take? Is an america-hating terrorist now a freedom fighter!

[marianne]

Obama is bribing news media to withhold tapes of him getting support from terrorists.

http://obambi.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/payola3million/#comment-5538

[Skunkfeathers]

Depending on what you believe or disbelieve about the polls -- and credible,objective info from CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN is sorely lacking, in my view -- just enough "useful idiots" have been duped enough to put Obama over the top on November 4. With a stacked deck in Congress, I reckon it'll take six months for "voter's remorse" to set in, and perhaps some voter "reawakening" by the '10 elections. But the damage by then may well be prodigious and a generation in undoing.

I suspect that Carter II is going to be much worse than Carter I...

[Wakeup Call]

“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.” — Winston Churchill, 1948

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist Professors." from Obamas book

“Spread the wealth around” Barack Obama to Joe

"But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent as radical as people tried to characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution" Obama 2001

"Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you, it says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf." Obama 2001

"Finally, out of his own mouth, when you peel back the rhetoric, you get at where is mind is. He didn't mean to, but he has revealed himself in a way that coincides with his response to Joe the Plumber.

1. Reparations - Obama began with injustices to black people, and the failure to redistribute America's wealth to them after segregation.(...look at the...failures of the civil rights movement...the issues of redistribution of wealth and... issues of...economic justice...).

2. The Constitution - Obama views our Constitution, not as a document to constrain government, but as a document to enforce government. Here, as a Harvard law "lecturer", not a professor as he contends, he has somewhere missed in all of his education the fact that our founding fathers recognized the we are all inherently free, and they imposed constraints on the government to ensure that freedom. Obama views the Constitution as a means to force us to do his bidding (... the Constitution...doesn’t say what the federal government...must do)

3.The Supreme Court - In order for government to do his bidding, Obama recognizes he must go around the Supreme Court ( It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution)

4. Redistribution of people's earnings - Since the Supreme Court won't do what he wants, and the Constitution gets in his way, Obama believes that political power is the way to get around them (...I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts...). He sees the Court as inefficient at doing what he believes is just a process of passing a law and administering the transfer of earnings from one group of people to another (You start getting into all sorts of separation of powers issues... in a process that essentially is administrative...).

Obama has some serious flaws in his understanding of our Republic. Or, quite possibly, he understands it, but wants to change what has preserved our freedoms and served us well for over two hundred years. Is this the "change" he speaks of?"
Comment by Mark

Poll on the above after the voters see the Khalidi Ayers Obama video.

[PALADIN]

THIS GUY IS BAD NEWS. THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. ALL THIS STUFF IS COMING OUT A LITTLE LATE THOUGH WITH THE ELECTION BEING SO CLOSE. AT LEAST IT'S WRITTEN IN YOUR CONSTITUTION THAT IF THERE IS EVER A TYRANT THAT SEIZES POWER OR ONE IS ELECTED YOU AS CITIZENS HAVE THE POWER TO REMOVE HIM.

[rrichardson]

What's the point? More bad news today:

Obama Leads in Florida, Ohio, Must-Win Battlegrounds for McCain

By Catherine Dodge

Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama leads in Florida and Ohio, states Republican John McCain must win to capture the presidency, as voters prefer the Democratic presidential nominee's personal traits and approach on the economy and health care.

Obama, an Illinois senator, tops Arizona Senator McCain by 50 percent to 43 percent among likely voters in Florida, a Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll shows. He leads 49 percent to 40 percent in Ohio, as voters in the two states overwhelmingly rate domestic concerns as more important than national security.

Voters choose Obama, 47, as the candidate best able to handle the financial crisis and health care. And by an almost 2- to-1 margin, they say the Democrat has ``the better temperament and personality to be president.''

``Domestic issues are the outstanding issues of the day, and Obama has been owning those,'' says Susan Pinkus, the Los Angeles Times polling director. What is more, ``voters are more comfortable with him'' after his three debate performances.

Florida voters by more than 2-to-1 say a candidate's views on domestic issues such as health care and the economy are more important than positions on the war in Iraq and terrorism; voters in Ohio say the same by a 3-to-1 margin.

Crucial States

No Republican has won the White House without capturing Ohio, and Florida helped George W. Bush obtain two terms in the White House. The current U.S. electoral map, polls show, indicates it would be almost impossible for McCain, 72, to win without carrying those two states.

In 2004, Bush won 286 Electoral College votes, including Ohio's 20 and Florida's 27. It takes 270 to win and if Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee, had won either of those states, he would have defeated the incumbent president.

Less than a week before the Nov. 4 election, Obama is running ahead in all the states that Kerry won, and is highly competitive in more than half a dozen states where Bush prevailed.

There's also a gender gap in the Democrat's favor. Among women voters in Florida, Obama leads 51 percent to 41 percent; in Ohio, his lead is 54 percent to 38 percent. Obama has a small lead among men in Florida, while McCain is slightly ahead with male voters in Ohio.

Temperament

In Florida, 58 percent of voters say Obama has a better temperament to be president, compared with 30 percent for McCain. In Ohio, Obama beats McCain on that question 57 percent to 29 percent.

``I find Obama to be pretty calm under any circumstance,'' says poll respondent Donna Orcutt, 63, of Toledo, Ohio. ``In the debates, some of the zingers he got he handled pretty good. If the object was to see if they could make him lose his temper, that didn't happen.''

Orcutt, a Democrat who is retired and used to work for a house-cleaning company and as a secretary, says Obama has a better understanding of the economy because he didn't grow up in a privileged environment. McCain, she says, ``is a very nice man,'' though he has never had to worry ``about where the next paycheck is coming from.''

On the question of which candidate they trust to make the right decision about the economy, voters in Florida pick Obama over McCain by a 9-point margin, and in Ohio, the Democrat leads by 12 points.

Health Care

Obama does even better on the question of which candidate would better handle health care. In Florida, he is preferred by 52 percent of voters, compared with 34 percent for McCain; in Ohio, 54 percent pick Obama and 30 percent choose the Republican.

The Democrat also is ahead with white working-class voters, who overwhelmingly favored his opponent for the Democratic nomination, Senator Hillary Clinton of New York. Obama gets the support of 52 percent of these voters in Ohio, compared with 38 percent for McCain; in Florida, this group is almost evenly split, with a slight edge for Obama.

Even though Bush used victories in Ohio and Florida to build his winning coalition, more than seven in 10 voters in both states now disapprove of his job performance; more than eight in 10 say the country is on the wrong track.

Seventy percent of voters in Florida and 62 percent in Ohio say the recent troubles in the economy have hurt their family's financial situation.

Change Agent

Ohio and Florida voters also say the ability to bring change to Washington -- a central theme of Obama's campaign -- is more important than having the most experience, which is one of McCain's selling points.

``I truly see Obama as someone who will come in with a less political and more intelligent problem-solving approach to really trying to address the critical problems,'' says poll respondent Laurie Kadoch, 60, a Miami Democrat, who teaches at Florida International University College of Law.

Bush's record is hurting McCain in Ohio, where more than half of voters say the Republican will continue the current administration's policies. Voters also are split on that question in Florida.

As in previous polls, the bright spots for McCain are his ability to successfully handle the war in Iraq and protect the country from terrorism. The Arizona senator leads Obama in those categories in both states, the poll shows.

``He does have a whole lot more experience than Obama does,'' said Republican poll respondent Maria Lyle, 25, a stay- at-home mother from Jackson Center, Ohio. ``His ideas line up more with how I feel. With the terrorism issue, I feel we do need to have our troops over there.''

Palin Pick

McCain's choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate appears to be a drag on the ticket in both states. Less than half of voters in Florida and Ohio view her as qualified to be president. By comparison, more than seven in 10 voters in both states say Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden, a Delaware senator, is qualified to be president.

The survey of 809 registered voters in Florida -- including 639 likely voters -- and of 816 registered voters in Ohio -- including 644 likely voters -- was conducted Oct. 25-27. The margin of sampling error in both states is plus or minus 3 percentage points among registered voters, and of plus or minus 4 points among likely voters.