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With Friends Like These

Tom Skypek — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:12:57 +0000

Today, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Sen. Barack Obama’s “friend” and “colleague,” pled guilty to felony obstruction charges. He will serve four months in jail and pay a $1 million fine. Kilpatrick dragged out the inevitable for seven months at significant cost to Michigan tax payers. Michigan can do better than Kwame Kilpatrick. This provides Republicans with an opportunity to grab Michigan’s 17 electoral votes this November.

Remember, Sen. Obama said this about his friend Mayor Kilpatrick:

And he [Kilpatrick] is a leader not just here in Detroit, not just in Michigan, but all across the country. People look to him. We know that he is going to be doing astounding things for many years to come.

And so I’m grateful to call him a friend and a colleague. And I’m looking forward to a lengthy collaboration in terms of making sure that Detroit does well in the future.

Sen. Obama’s judgment is questionable. His personal associations with terrorist William Ayers, slum lord Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright and Kwame Kilpatrick highlight this important point. You can often measure an individual’s character by the company he/she keeps. Sen. Obama has chosen to associate with these individuals. This is not judgment fitting of a commander-in-chief.

American Issues Project Launches New Ad

Tom Skypek — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:18:01 +0000

The legendary Spanish poet and author Miguel de Cervantes said, ”Tell me what company you keep and I’ll tell you what you are.” Well, the company Sen. Obama keeps is downright troubling. Of course, the mainstream media has neglected to cover Sen. Obama’s lesser points and so the stories of his associations with anti-American terrorists like William Ayers have gone largely untold. But the American Issues Project launched a new ad examining the relationship between Sen. Obama and unrepentant terrorist William Ayers.

Supported by over one hundred pages of back-up documentation and historical accounts, the American Issues Project is using this ad to shed light on Obama’s friendship with Ayers, the former leader of an American terrorist group known as Weather Underground.

Remarkably, Ayers’ group claimed responsibility for the bombings of a New York City Police headquarters, the US Capitol Building, and the Pentagon in the 1970s. Years later, Ayers proudly claims his group “didn’t do enough.”

“Given the real time news cycle we live in today, many important issues and controversies that impact our country simply do not receive the time and examination they deserve,” said Ed Martin, president of the American Issues Project. “We are in this for the long haul and look forward to engaging in a broad range of issues well beyond the campaign. The launch of our immediate advocacy effort is a direct response to Obama’s rejection of public financing, which will allow the liberal 527s and other leftist organizations to dramatically outspend conservatives this election cycle.

Sen. Obama’s personal and professional associations speak volumes about his character. It goes to show you just how far we’ve fallen when a man with these types of associations is given the honor to run for President of the United States.

With Friends Like These

Tom Skypek — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:50:15 +0000

Garth Brooks has a famous song called “Friends in Low Places.” The Obama campaign may want to consider adopting it as their official campaign song. Sen. Obama’s associations with characters like Rev. Jeremiah Wright, unrepentant terrorist William Ayers and the “Hip Hop Mayor” Kwame Kilpatrick are telling. They highlight a history of poor judgment. Here’s another reminder of Sen. Obama’s close association with convicted felon and slumlord Tony Rezko:

Stanely Kurtz, who’s been researching Sen. Obama’s association with William Ayers, has run into problems. The Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have refused to release the documents. Kurtz explained

Unfortunately, I don’t yet have access to the documents. The Special Collections section of the Richard J. Daley Library agreed to let me read them, but just before I boarded my flight to Chicago, the top library officials mysteriously intervened to bar access. Circumstances strongly suggest the likelihood that Bill Ayers himself may have played a pivotal role in this denial. Ayers has long taught at UIC, where the Chicago Annenberg Challenge offices were housed, rent-free. Ayers likely arranged for the files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge to be housed in the UIC library, and may well have been consulted during my unsuccessful struggle to gain access to the documents. Let me, then, explain in greater detail what the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) records are, and how I have been blocked from seeing them.

Can the United States afford a president with friends like these?