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May 17, 2012

Update: Ricketts Backs Away From Wright Ad
— Ace

All Democrats need do is cry "hatred" and everyone falls into line, like good little conditioned monkeys.

Posted by: Ace at 10:19 AM | Comments (146)
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1 I still say it was a brilliant move by Ricketts and the PAC.

Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at May 17, 2012 10:20 AM (PH+2B)

2 Um...ace....have you seen Drudge?

Posted by: Tami at May 17, 2012 10:21 AM (X6akg)

3 Conditioned monkeys, obey.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 17, 2012 10:21 AM (9XXaj)

4 Meh. Maybe so, maybe it was just a trial balloon. Do a post about the headline at Drudge and we'll see how long that one lasts too.

Posted by: Mr. Wolf at May 17, 2012 10:21 AM (RD7QR)

5 ace, drudge....

Posted by: willow at May 17, 2012 10:21 AM (TomZ9)

6 That's just too funny. They seem to have taken to the "it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission" mentality.

I like it. Fire is sometime battled well with fire.

Posted by: © Sponge at May 17, 2012 10:21 AM (UK9cE)

7 We certainly don't want to be associated with hate. [flings feces]

Posted by: Conditioned Monkey at May 17, 2012 10:22 AM (RD7QR)

8 It will come back up. I'm not worried at all. This President will finally be vetted and it will just be too much. Just an avalanche of negative information that people won't even remember a detail but an overall impression of simply, "No more."

Posted by: Tommy V at May 17, 2012 10:22 AM (iJ5jJ)

9 Conditioned Monkees.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 17, 2012 10:22 AM (9XXaj)

10
I hate fucking monkeys.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 17, 2012 10:22 AM (G/zuv)

11 I'm going with Drudge on this one...

Posted by: minutemen for Mitt (formerly trainer) until the JEF is gone at May 17, 2012 10:22 AM (DGxyd)

12 And I really, really should get some work done.

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at May 17, 2012 10:22 AM (RD7QR)

13 Pssst....ace....Drudge....Breitbart.......

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 17, 2012 10:22 AM (UOM48)

14 Get a karaoke backup for Lennon's "Imagine" and start writing new lyrics, beginning with . . .

Imagine no Oh Bah Mah . . .

It's easy if you try . . . .

Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at May 17, 2012 10:23 AM (PH+2B)

15 We pretty much already beat this revelation into the ground downstairs.

Posted by: mama winger at May 17, 2012 10:23 AM (P6QsQ)

16 I hate fucking monkeys.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 17, 2012 02:22 PM (G/zuv)

You should keep your pants on around them, then.

Posted by: © Sponge at May 17, 2012 10:23 AM (UK9cE)

17 so let me get this, the DEMS can absolutely throw the most rauncy of crap at typical americans or GOP, but we are saupposed to say , "Hey thank you for keeping us the party of nice?"

Posted by: willow at May 17, 2012 10:23 AM (TomZ9)

18 I hate fucking monkeys. Stop fucking them, then.

Posted by: blaster at May 17, 2012 10:23 AM (7vSU0)

19 Ace, I think you're missing it here.

Ricketts' and Romney's hands are clean and the story is now out there. I'm please to know that Romney didn't take the bait.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 17, 2012 10:23 AM (piMMO)

20 ...aaaaaaand BOOM goes the dynamite.

Screw the Rev. Wright stuff. Obama's head just got handed over on a silver platter.

FINISH HIM.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, New Caprica City DMV at May 17, 2012 10:24 AM (GBXon)

21 Uh, Ace, there's a really cool website called The Drudge Report
It's http://drudgereport.com/
He's been known to link Breitbart, which is also a website.

Breitbart has entertaining articles.

Posted by: jwb7605 at May 17, 2012 10:24 AM (Qxe/p)

22 Pssst....ace....Drudge....Breitbart.......

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 17, 2012 02:22 PM (UOM4

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Interesting to see that as late as 1991 Obama was passing himself off as a Kenyan, eh?

Posted by: mama winger at May 17, 2012 10:24 AM (P6QsQ)

23 I hate fucking monkeys.

Not what you said last night.

Posted by: gibbon that wants his turn on top at May 17, 2012 10:24 AM (z9HTb)

24 I never found Rickles to be funny.....

Posted by: Truck Monkey at May 17, 2012 10:24 AM (jucos)

25 It seemed like Drudge was giving Obama a (relative) pass for quite a while. That kinda changed in the past week.

Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 17, 2012 10:24 AM (fkBYD)

26 still blown away by the drudge thing.

Posted by: willow at May 17, 2012 10:24 AM (TomZ9)

27 Elvis: "Release the monkeys."

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 17, 2012 10:25 AM (9XXaj)

28 12 Dimensional Chess, Ace.

Posted by: toby928© at May 17, 2012 10:25 AM (NG097)

29 Axelrod may be trying to get Romney to disavow Rev Wright ad in order to innoculate against Wright's allegations in Klien's book "The Amateur". They are not the same thing.

Posted by: thunderb at May 17, 2012 10:25 AM (Dnbau)

30 Rickett got his story out without spending a dime.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 17, 2012 10:25 AM (HrBwt)

31 Have no fear, Ace. Beck, Hannity and Rush are going to keep the Wright thing going.

Ed Klein is going to be on Beck's radio show tomorrow with more little gems.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 17, 2012 10:25 AM (UOM48)

32
Obama needs a crisis, stat!

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 17, 2012 10:25 AM (G/zuv)

33 mama, but, he was a wee -wee-lad at the time. and He didn't eat a dog then did he?

Posted by: willow at May 17, 2012 10:25 AM (TomZ9)

34 Umm, dude's are saving 10M - they got the story out there. And got the Dems in a frenzy about it - if there is nothing wrong with Wright, then nothing wrong with "linking" him to Obama. Right?

Posted by: blaster at May 17, 2012 10:26 AM (7vSU0)

35 Obama meant he was born in Kenya the way Elizabeth Warren is Native-American.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at May 17, 2012 10:26 AM (UCR1O)

36 Well we made it to 500 on the old thread.

Posted by: Vic at May 17, 2012 10:26 AM (YdQQY)

37 The notion that maybe someone opened up Hillary's oppo-research files and is leaking them out is intriguing though.

Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 17, 2012 10:26 AM (fkBYD)

38 so why was OBama even asked to write a book anyway? what had he done so great?

Posted by: willow at May 17, 2012 10:26 AM (TomZ9)

Posted by: gibbon that wants his turn on top at May 17, 2012 02:24 PM (z9HTb)

Sloppy seconds?

Posted by: Red Butt Baboon at May 17, 2012 10:26 AM (fgJMi)

40 As tempting as it is to bring up a lot of the stuff that got buried by McCain and the media in 2008, I think its a mistake to go back to those issues.

We need to make this about the economy, the budget and competitiveness. We need to make Obama run on the last 4 years, not the 40 years before that. Worse thing we can do to him is make him run on his record, and keep the distractions to a minimum.

Posted by: Kazinski at May 17, 2012 10:26 AM (HPhbp)

41 29 So maybe he was born in Hawaii but claimed he was born in Kenya to get more AA, Multi-Culti, Progressive goodies ala Fauxcahontas.

Posted by: runninrebel at May 17, 2012 02:25 PM (N/1Dm)

Yup yup yup. Probably couldn't get where he got without some multi-culti cred.

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at May 17, 2012 10:27 AM (RD7QR)

42 so let me get this, the DEMS can absolutely throw the most rauncy of crap at typical americans or GOP, but we are saupposed to say , "Hey thank you for keeping us the party of nice?"

*****

Not nice, smart. They were taunting and baiting Romney hoping that he'd be unlike McCain and get into the mud with them. He didn't, and the story will still be told.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 17, 2012 10:27 AM (piMMO)

43 Obama meant he was born in Kenya the way Elizabeth Warren is Native-American.

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Exactly. Another fraudulent admission to Harvard. Exposed.

Posted by: mama winger at May 17, 2012 10:27 AM (P6QsQ)

44 ------
Interesting to see that as late as 1991 Obama was passing himself off as a Kenyan, eh?

Posted by: mama winger at May 17, 2012 02:24 PM (P6QsQ

Yep. Breitbart: drip-drip-drip-drip until November.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 17, 2012 10:27 AM (UOM48)

45 Yeah, born in Kenya to sell books.
Born in Hawaii to rule the planet.
Nice thing about play-dough, so easy to mold.

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at May 17, 2012 10:27 AM (Qxdfp)

46 That whole born in Kenya/raised in Hawaii thing is so 1991. We've all moved on. Forward!

Posted by: Barack Soetoro Obama at May 17, 2012 10:27 AM (c3mby)

47 41 so why was OBama even asked to write a book anyway? what had he done so great?

For liberals, writing a book is all about getting a huge advance for something that no one will ever read.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 17, 2012 10:28 AM (e0xKF)

48 Eh, the bribery story is much more potent than another kenya story that doesn't even amount to much.

Posted by: booger at May 17, 2012 10:28 AM (HI6wa)

49 Kenya is my Spiritual Birthplace.

Posted by: president killed bin laden at May 17, 2012 10:28 AM (NG097)

50 Talk about DNC perpetuating A Fraud on the America populace.
Hey Nanny Pelosi, did you actually verify everything? or just spend tons of money hiding his past exploits in fib telling and free scholarships?

Posted by: willow at May 17, 2012 10:28 AM (TomZ9)

51 Posted by: Tommy V at May 17, 2012 02:22 PM (iJ5jJ) It's like the finger in the dyke,,, I mean the revenge of Hillary.

Posted by: madamex at May 17, 2012 10:28 AM (iII4e)

52
Well we made it to 500 on the old thread.

But two hundred comments were about Zero candy bars.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 17, 2012 10:28 AM (G/zuv)

53 29 So maybe he was born in Hawaii but claimed he was born in Kenya to get more AA, Multi-Culti, Progressive goodies ala Fauxcahontas.

Posted by: runninrebel at May 17, 2012 02:25 PM (N/1Dm)

And Breitbart is "supporting" that claim. Add that to Fauxohantas and you've got distraction² for the Dems all summer long.

Posted by: jwb7605 at May 17, 2012 10:28 AM (Qxe/p)

54
Mr Romney.... care to comment ????

MITT: Why yes. Ive always accepted that the President was, in fact, born in Hawaii. You are going to have to ask The President why, at certain times in his life, he has passed himself off of as born in Kenya.

Now, if you please..... Id really like to talk about last weeks first time unemployment claim revision.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 17, 2012 10:28 AM (C8hzL)

55 Which one of you is manly enough to open a beer bottle....

with a chainsaw?

http://youtu.be/KZ-slvv_ZT4

Posted by: Feynmangroupie at May 17, 2012 10:28 AM (oI744)

56 Obama pulled a Warren.

Posted by: mama winger at May 17, 2012 10:28 AM (P6QsQ)

57 Rickett got his story out without spending a dime.

****

The fact that Axelrod and his minions have been outsmarted must be burning a hole through them.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 17, 2012 10:28 AM (piMMO)

58 We are from France.

Posted by: Beldar Conehead at May 17, 2012 10:29 AM (NG097)

59 Barry's entire life is one huge fabrication.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 17, 2012 10:29 AM (UOM48)

60 49 That whole born in Kenya/raised in Hawaii thing is so 1991.We've all moved on. ~~Forward~~ Fore!

Posted by: Barack Soetoro Obama at May 17, 2012 02:27 PM (c3mby)

FIFY.

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at May 17, 2012 10:29 AM (RD7QR)

61 Obama is only claiming 1/32nds Kenyan decent, so it's ok. Whatever could make him worldly, sophisticated and able to be box-checked at the time. At this point, I have absolutely no idea where this son of a mother***** was born. Think about it. Why would he approve (and you know he knew about this prior to its going to print) this mini bio on himself? It was also printed about him when he was a state senator. He's got a more fragmented tale about his life such that that nobody can really discern where he's from. Everything about him is sinister and not right.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 17, 2012 10:29 AM (vOMX+)

62
Mrs Clinton: Do you have a comment?????

Hillary: Dont ask me. I was too busy dodging sniper fire in Bosnia at the time.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 17, 2012 10:29 AM (C8hzL)

63 But two hundred comments were about Zero candy bars.

*****

Still not proper tribute.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 17, 2012 10:30 AM (piMMO)

64 We need to make this about the economy, the budget and competitiveness.

That's easy enough to pivot over to in the last three months of the campaign. If enough skepticism, loathing, and distrust are planted now, economic arguments will be a lot easier to sell down the line.

Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 17, 2012 10:30 AM (fkBYD)

[Ricketts' and Romney's hands are clean and the story is now out there. ]

Yep. "The jury will disregard that statement!"

But you can't un-hear what you've heard.

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at May 17, 2012 10:30 AM (SCcgT)

66 Another fraudulent admission to Harvard. Exposed.

Posted by: mama winger at May 17, 2012 02:27 PM (P6QsQ)

Check-the-box.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 17, 2012 10:30 AM (HrBwt)

67 I went to a cockfight in the D.R. once. Had a lot of fun.

Cool thing about a rooster fight is that it typically goes back and forth, one besting the other, looks really uneven, the loser looks like it could be dead, then BOOM!, and a huge violent flurry of feathers occurs, and the loser bashes the shit out of the winner, and the fight goes the other way. The almost-dead blood-covered loser is now on top.

Unlike in horse races, the betting happens throughout the fight, and before and after these wild turnarounds, the betting in the stands gets really furious. And a lot of beer gets drunk.

This campaign is looking like that right now.

Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at May 17, 2012 10:30 AM (PH+2B)

68 He sealed his records because he didn't want us to see which boxes he had checked.

Posted by: mama winger at May 17, 2012 10:30 AM (P6QsQ)

O/T

I was at Boortz.com yesterday and learned that the SCOAMF acronym is used by Neil. I thought it was only used here

Posted by: steve at May 17, 2012 10:30 AM (G/EiC)

70 Maybe Obama will let the Israelis hit Iran now, with tanker support.

Posted by: Jimbo at May 17, 2012 10:31 AM (O3R/2)

71 73 I went to a cockfight in the D.R. once. Had a lot of fun.

Barry went to those all the time at Man's Country.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 17, 2012 10:31 AM (e0xKF)

72 29
So maybe he was born in Hawaii but claimed he was born in Kenya to get
more AA, Multi-Culti, Progressive goodies ala Fauxcahontas.

Posted by: runninrebel at May 17, 2012 02:25 PM (N/1Dm)

Yup yup yup. Probably couldn't get where he got without some multi-culti cred.

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at May 17, 2012 02:27 PM (RD7QR)

So basically the scoamf was lying his all through his life just to get ahead.

Posted by: Red Butt Baboon at May 17, 2012 10:31 AM (fgJMi)

73 I hate fucking monkeys. Posted by: Soothsayer at May 17, 2012 02:22 PM (G/zuv) Have you tried girls?

Posted by: CoolCzech at May 17, 2012 10:31 AM (niZvt)

74 Niedermeyer,
uh hmm.

Posted by: willow at May 17, 2012 10:32 AM (TomZ9)

75 oops!

Posted by: YIKES! at May 17, 2012 10:32 AM (fgJMi)

76 Watch out, folks. It's wag the dog time.

Shit's gonna get real.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 17, 2012 10:32 AM (UOM48)

77 So basically the scoamf was lying his all through his life just to get ahead.

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He's 1/32nd part Warren.

Posted by: mama winger at May 17, 2012 10:32 AM (P6QsQ)

78 So basically the scoamf was lying his all through his life just to get ahead. It's the custom among my people.

Posted by: president say stuff at May 17, 2012 10:32 AM (NG097)

79 2 Um...ace....have you seen Drudge? Posted by: Tami at May 17, 2012 02:21 PM (X6akg) ************** This is a paragraph from the Breitbart article- The errant Obama biography in the Acton & Dystel booklet does not contradict the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate. Moreover, several contemporaneous accounts of ObamaÂ’s background describe Obama as having been born in Hawaii. "the born in Hawaii" is a hyperlink to a 1990 NYT piece about the Harvard Law Review appointment of Obama-- First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law Review By FOX BUTTERFIELD, Special to The New York Times Published: February 06, 1990 Correction Appended SIGN IN TO E-MAIL PRINT SINGLE-PAGE The Harvard Law Review, generally considered the most prestigious in the country, elected the first black president in its 104-year history today. The job is considered the highest student position at Harvard Law School. The new president of the Review is Barack Obama, a 28-year-old graduate of Columbia University who spent four years heading a community development program for poor blacks on Chicago's South Side before enrolling in law school. His late father, Barack Obama, was a finance minister in Kenya and his mother, Ann Dunham, is an American anthropologist now doing fieldwork in Indonesia. Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/06/us/first-black- elected-to-head-harvard-s-law-review.html ***** At Brietbart--"contemporaneous accounts" is also a hyperlink but I cannot get that to load.

Posted by: tasker at May 17, 2012 10:32 AM (r2PLg)

80 Gotta say that Ace is in danger of going Full Retard on this issue. He's wrong, and most of the commenters here are right.

Ace, you are mistaking your own interest, which is driven by a partisan sense of aggrievement over Obama's easy ride by the MSM in 2008, for something that will actually help Romney win in November. Which is more important, getting your political rocks off or pushing SCOAMF out of office? I think you know the answer to this question, as it's one you asked a lot of angry GOP primary voters over the last few months.

Now you're falling into a similar trap. Not only will Americans not care about this, it will hurt Romney for two reasons. Firstly, because every single day that the focus of this campaign isn't on the economy, spending, and jobs is a LOST DAY. But secondly, because people on the fence really, actually, don't give a shit and think these attacks are vaguely nasty. Do I think they're out of line? Fuck no. But I'm a wild-eyed conservative Obama-loathing partisan. Nobody needs to work for my vote.

The swing voters, and moderates, and reachable center-left guys, however? Don't piss them off by pushing something completely unrelated to their concerns. Spending time relitigating 2008 and Jeremiah Wright when there is so much else to talk about, namely 3.5 years of sheer failure, just comes off as desperation. If Romney or the Super-PACs spent time pushing this angle, they would give off the vague stench of loserdom.

Posted by: Jeff B. at May 17, 2012 10:32 AM (xAJql)

81 Wouldn't be surprised if another, non-LA Times copy of the Rashid Khalidi tape surfaces. And Romney can disown this. But the Super Pac can still air the ads. SCOAMF always had surrogates sling his turds. Why not Mitt? And these turds are gold.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 17, 2012 10:32 AM (noo6E)

82 Oh looky here what Affirmative Action hath wrought. I am just glad that the country is not suffering as a result.... what, what?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at May 17, 2012 10:32 AM (jucos)

83 He sealed his records because he didn't want us to see which boxes he had checked.
Posted by: mama winger

yep, who knows what else.

Posted by: willow at May 17, 2012 10:32 AM (TomZ9)

84 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at May 17, 2012 10:32 AM (8y9MW)

85
A properly wagged dog actually tenderizes the flanks, making for a more succulent fondu.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 17, 2012 10:33 AM (C8hzL)

86 yeah, the goddamned hourly news update on the radio was breathless about it, the tone as if we backed away from nuclear warfare. As if attacking Obama about his asshole preacher was a big deal, ugh.

Posted by: joeindc44 says come on, guys, no tough questions at May 17, 2012 10:33 AM (QxSug)

87 Sorry, just back from reading that Aaron Worthing post Ace Linked to.

Talk about candidates for TL;DR.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at May 17, 2012 10:33 AM (8y9MW)

88 He should have said he is only 1/32 Kenyan. Dumbass.

Posted by: Lizzie Warren at May 17, 2012 10:33 AM (N2yhW)

89 If obama got any Federal MOney under the guise o f being a foreign national that is FRAUD.

Posted by: nevergiveup at May 17, 2012 10:33 AM (05RcU)

90 The good thing about the Democrats getting their panties in a bunch about Wright is that the media will now act as a check when Democrats start floating Mormanism as a cult stories. The media will be forced to expose the Democrats craven political hypocrisy.

God I crack myself up. I'll be at the airport Mariott all week.

Posted by: Shtetl G at May 17, 2012 10:33 AM (thj04)

91 Nude thread.

Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at May 17, 2012 10:33 AM (U08Mg)

92 Maybe Obama will let the Israelis hit Iran now, with tanker support.

I'm not sure even that would be a big enough distraction.

Probably would take something on the order of a nuclear detonation in a major world city to deflect the shitstorm they're swirling in right now.

Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 17, 2012 10:34 AM (fkBYD)

93 But two hundred comments were about Zero candy bars.

*****

Still not proper tribute.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 17, 2012 02:30 PM (piMMO)

Of course you know we will cause a run on Zero candy bars tomorrow and the price will go up.

Posted by: Vic at May 17, 2012 10:34 AM (YdQQY)

94 Is anyone else worried about what Preznit Training Pants is going to say about Iran at his presser this afternoon?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at May 17, 2012 10:34 AM (jucos)

95 Somebody has to get a hold of that Application to Occidental College. Did he claim to be a foreign student? Did he get a scholarship designated for a foreign student? Is he the same kind of fraud that Lieawatha is?

Posted by: Jimbo at May 17, 2012 10:35 AM (O3R/2)

96 If it were not for this kerfuffle over Elizabeth Warren, I might have not known how sensitive Harvard was about admitting "aggrieved populations". I might have not connected the dots to Barry and His Magic Bio. Thank Liarwatha.

Posted by: mama winger at May 17, 2012 10:35 AM (P6QsQ)

From Gallup:

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John Kerry (60%) and Bob Dole (57%), who -- like Romney and Clinton -- faced incumbent presidents in the election, had higher favorable ratings after they became the presumptive nominees for their respective parties.

John McCain had the highest favorable rating of any recent nominee -- 67% in March 2008.

----------------------------------------

Thus proving that this "favorability" stuff is generally a bunch of useless garbage.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at May 17, 2012 10:36 AM (uAfus)

98 "The Holy Koran" "My Muslim Faith"

Posted by: Jimbo at May 17, 2012 10:36 AM (O3R/2)

99 Ricketts stuff on CNN now...

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 17, 2012 10:36 AM (9XXaj)

100 Interesting to see that as late as 1991 Obama was passing himself off as a Kenyan, eh?

Posted by: mama winger at May 17, 2012 02:24 PM (P6QsQ)

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He was still doing it when he ran for US Senate. .....In a debate with Allan Keyes, Keyes brought it up.....and Barky replied that he was "running for the Senate, not for President".

Posted by: wheatie at May 17, 2012 10:38 AM (dHMPi)

101 So maybe he was born in Hawaii but claimed he was born in Kenya to get
more AA, Multi-Culti, Progressive goodies ala Fauxcahontas.

I think that B.O. was born in Hawaii, too.

But (at this point) every single Birther has a "get out of the loony bin" card.

A-mazing.

Posted by: Meiczyslaw at May 17, 2012 10:38 AM (bjRNS)

102
B-b--b-bb-b-b-bb-ut..... you Wingers got all wrong......

I said "' 'Can ya' help me get some finacial aid?"

How Kenya got on my application is beyond me.....

Posted by: fixerupper at May 17, 2012 10:38 AM (C8hzL)

103 Obama can clear this whole thing us easily. A DNA test will prove that Frank Davis, the American Commie, is his father. Ipso facto, Obama IS a natural born citizen.

Posted by: Jimbo at May 17, 2012 10:39 AM (O3R/2)

104 Of course you know we will cause a run on Zero candy bars tomorrow and the price will go up.

******

The marketing folks are going to be aflutter trying to figure out the uptick in sales. Won't they be surprised when their search leads them here?!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 17, 2012 10:39 AM (piMMO)

105 this may be battlespace prep for the general ... the left has now defined just what is acceptable in ads ... will make it difficult for them to try and pull any "Romney was a bully in high school" ads in the general and if they do then the Wright ads are qued up to hit back ...

Posted by: JeffC at May 17, 2012 10:40 AM (A3tpD)

106 He was still doing it when he ran for US Senate. .....In a debate with Allan Keyes, Keyes brought it up.....and Barky replied that he was "running for the Senate, not for President".

*****

really?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 17, 2012 10:40 AM (piMMO)

107 103 Somebody has to get a hold of that Application to Occidental College. Did he claim to be a foreign student? Did he get a scholarship designated for a foreign student? Is he the same kind of fraud that Lieawatha is?

Which reminds me... weren't all of Bambi's roommates at Occidental foreign students from places like India?

How exactly does one end up with only foreign roommates when you're not going someplace like a tech school with a 75% foreign population?

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 17, 2012 10:41 AM (e0xKF)

108 A man who'll eat Lassie is capable of anything.

Posted by: Right wing Jackelope of DOOM at May 17, 2012 10:42 AM (E55AK)

109 So basically the scoamf was lying his all through his life just to get ahead.

Yes

Posted by: Jimbo at May 17, 2012 10:43 AM (O3R/2)

110 All Democrats needed to do was cry "harassment" without any proof and the pragmatic right turned on Cain. Why would anyone expect different behavior now?

Posted by: cranky-d at May 17, 2012 10:47 AM (JWd0O)

111 Someone is "concerned": @BuzzFeedBen Americans Don't Know Anything About Romney's Religion http://t.co/92mVHnI4

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at May 17, 2012 10:48 AM (d6QMz)

112 117 He was still doing it when he ran for US Senate. .....In a debate with
Allan Keyes, Keyes brought it up.....and Barky replied that he was
"running for the Senate, not for President".

*****

really?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 17, 2012 02:40 PM (piMMO)

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Yeah. Really. .....Allan Keyes has been screaming about this for years. But people just dismiss him as being a 'birther'.

Posted by: wheatie at May 17, 2012 10:48 AM (dHMPi)

113 There must be a new thread up. All of a sudden, I can keep up with this one.

Posted by: Jimbo at May 17, 2012 10:48 AM (O3R/2)

114 Yes following john mccains campagne strategy is definitely the way to go.

Posted by: Infidelswine at May 17, 2012 10:49 AM (DbRWG)

115 I think Wright is a distraction and will come off as old news. Stay on message. Obama is a terrible president no matter if he's a black liberation Christian or an evangelical like Carter.

Posted by: Xuyee at May 17, 2012 10:50 AM (saEWa)

116 they're saving it for late October.....

Posted by: the Butcher at May 17, 2012 10:52 AM (8g9qq)

117 Death by a thousand cuts.

Posted by: Mississippi at May 17, 2012 10:52 AM (G+Wff)

118 Ricketts got the story in the news cycle and demonstrated media bias without spending a dime. He should be applauded, not derided.

Posted by: Chris R, red in NY-9 at May 17, 2012 10:52 AM (NFcOS)

119 41 so why was OBama even asked to write a book anyway? what had he done so great?

Posted by: willow at May 17, 2012 02:26 PM (TomZ9)

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He was born with black skin. Isn't that enough?

Posted by: PC police at May 17, 2012 10:57 AM (/sohm)

120

So "hate" = telling the truth about Democrats.

Got it!

Posted by: Jay at May 17, 2012 11:02 AM (3LaGb)

121 Just keeping the rumor going regarding the possibility of a Wright ad will be sufficient to keep the Obama campaign chasing ghostsÂ….. with little or no cost to the GOP. If KlienÂ’s recordings are anything to go by, Wright has a bit of a grudge that will only grow with AxlerodÂ’s hysteria. Wright wants to be relevant not considered a diversion. Keep it going long enough, and Wright will implode very publicly all by himself.

Posted by: 2nd Amendment Mother at May 17, 2012 11:04 AM (L4CWX)

122

So "hate" = telling the truth about Democrats.
Got it!

****

When I found out the truth about the Donks, that was about all it took to get me to hate them.

Posted by: WalrusRex at May 17, 2012 11:06 AM (jUZRg)

123 Whiffs of McCain's way of campaigning is permeating the air. I'm not saying they should or shouldn't run this, I am saying this needs to be a knockdown drag out election.If Obama's preacher of 20 some odd years defines in any way the man that Obama is today then go with it. Fug the statesmanship garbage.

Posted by: Drider at May 17, 2012 11:06 AM (HaJD9)

124 Please tell me I'm wrong, but it's looking like Willard pulled a McCain.

Posted by: WalrusRex at May 17, 2012 11:07 AM (jUZRg)

125 The 1940s era candy saving the endangered AGW victims even then.

http://is.gd/lahT3Z

Posted by: Vic at May 17, 2012 11:09 AM (YdQQY)

126 Embracing Ricketts would have been bad for Romney. Independents don't care about this shit and it gives Obama a "shiny object" in which to use against him. The story was injected into the news cycle, Romney has clean hands, and not a dime was spent. There are some severely dumb fucks in this thread.

Posted by: Chris R, red in NY-9 at May 17, 2012 11:09 AM (NFcOS)

127 Nice baseball team you got there...
The Chicago way wins again.

Posted by: OxyCon at May 17, 2012 11:29 AM (ur8o6)

128 Like it or not there are comparisons between Romney and Obama on how they governed.Low hanging fruit like Rev. Wright is perfect for distinguishing the differences between the men. Going in on ideas will be a much, much tougher fight for Romney to win.Just can't wait for the health care comparisons. DEFINING who and what Obama is, is what is needed 24/7/365.He got a free pass the first time out, if he gets another free pass then the R's will snatch defeat from a sure victory.

Posted by: Drider at May 17, 2012 11:31 AM (HaJD9)

129 Please tell me I'm wrong, but it's looking like Willard pulled a McCain.

****

Gladly. You are wrong.

Axelrod and company were taunting and baiting Romney with the McCain bullshit to try and drag him into the muck. Romney didn't bite.

Had he taken the bait, it would have taken Romney off-message and made him (to the average voter) appear to be dragging out attacks from the 2008 campaign. Most voters are not as astute as those here at AOS. This would have added to the Romney is a meanie meme.

As it is, Romney stayed above the fray while still saying, hey, there's mud over there, I just won't roll around in it.

The genius here may be Ricketts. It appears that he may have outsmarted Axelrod without ever spending a dime. Now the story is out there and Romney can continue to focus on the economy while looking presidential.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 17, 2012 11:37 AM (piMMO)

130 Oh, and to complete the thought. WE can attack at will. Stories such as these are perfect for the blogosphere and for the few willing MSM participants.

The story is out there.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 17, 2012 11:38 AM (piMMO)

131 I just skimmed through the only Keyes v. Obama debate that I could find, and there is nothing in that transcript with that particular interaction. Keyes may be a birther, but I can't find anything on his website that indicates that allegation.

http://www.keyesarchives.com/transcript.php?id=367

Posted by: Feynmangroupie at May 17, 2012 11:40 AM (oI744)

132 Try bringing up any reference to Mormonism now, Axlerod.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - kicking back on a beautiful day at May 17, 2012 11:45 AM (hLRSq)

133 I disagree, Ace. This was a smart move. It's like the equivalent of an attorney bringing up inadmissible evidence at trial, then having it stricken from the official record, but nevertheless having the information get out there into the jurors' subconscious minds.

Posted by: logprof at May 17, 2012 11:46 AM (ykSKg)

134 Mittens can now turn in his testicles on the way out,, Newt where are you..?

Posted by: clemenza at May 17, 2012 11:56 AM (Epz9+)

135 Maybe the big shots have to back away, but we don't.

Twitter enables us to Cry Havoc, and Let Slip the Dogs of War

Posted by: kbdabear at May 17, 2012 11:59 AM (Y+DPZ)

136 I gotta say: I hope the Israelis do NOT attack Iran in October... Because, unfortunately, that crisis would trigger a Rally Around the Flag & President effect in America, and get the SCOAMF reelected.

Posted by: CoolCzech at May 17, 2012 12:28 PM (niZvt)

137 Anyone who thinks that the Dems/Media will not run ads about Mormonism, polygamy, Mitt "bullying" some gay guy in HS, is naive. Of course it will be done, ad nauseum.

The only way to stop it is to fight back. HARD. With Rev. Wright. I want to see Rev. Wright NOW, ranting about how he hates Whitey, with Obama applauding and cheering in reaction shots.

Politics aint beanbag. Unilateral disarmament = defeat. See John McCain.

Hit back, hard, and then hit HARDER. Destroy Obama's "likeability" and make Obama seem like a lying, White-hating radical (which in fact, he is). Romney will never "win" the likeability contest, that's not the point. The point is to destroy Obama's "Blackness advantage" (Black men have a tremendous advantage socially, as people pencil in via TV propaganda for decades greater charisma, intelligence, integrity, and the like) by revealing the nasty Obama underneath the "Preezy" charade.

Yeah, that's not nice, its ugly, what do you think a fight is? America is worth fighting for, and fighting hard. Nothing ought to be off limits. For no other reason than DETERRENCE WORKS. Reagan understood that.

Posted by: whiskey at May 17, 2012 12:34 PM (L03mw)

138 Fucking pussified GOP.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at May 17, 2012 12:49 PM (1rHeD)

139 Puff Ho/DNC tips their hand: "Campaign manager Jim Messina took aim at the report earlier Thursday, ...accusing Romney of falling "short of the standard that John McCain set." Now THAT was a standard we need to aspire to.

Posted by: JewishOdysseus at May 17, 2012 01:00 PM (wyHbU)

140 Looking at the details behind this Ricketts super-pac "plan," I'm starting to see the wisdom in Mitt's posture. Breitbart and Beck are doing the work of a dozen super-pacs these days, why even lift a finger? Just let the cash build up, and wait for a lull in the calendar to pulverize Ogabe, like one of those old WWI barrages.

Posted by: JewishOdysseus at May 17, 2012 01:08 PM (wyHbU)

141 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at May 17, 2012 01:13 PM (7W3wI)

142 Occidental is rumored to have his entry application in the "foreign exchange student" category. Exchange students records are sealed

Posted by: Can of Raid, and truth teller at May 17, 2012 01:16 PM (7WDxS)

143 Juxtapose speaking clips of Thomas Monson, the LDS leader, with Wright. No.Contest.

Posted by: gnatsandcamels at May 17, 2012 01:53 PM (66k2+)

144 This was a smart move. We've known for some time that Romney was going to get the "weird religion" treatment. By taking a pass on Wright, he's inoculated himself--well, as much as one can--against Democratic smears of his own faith. Sure, they'll go after his Mormonism anyway, but at least he can claim that it's a one-sided, mean-spirited attack. He chose not to go after Obama's church, after all. I know, I wouldn't hang my election chances on it, either, and it's not a serious win, but had he gone after Wright (which meant next to nothing in 2008, anyway), it would've opened howls from the Dems about "his own religious affiliations." Savvy, I'd say.

Posted by: General Zod at May 17, 2012 05:04 PM (2+bRt)

145 For every time Romney gets attacked about his weird religion, Reid gets a pass for his own, the very same, weird religion. If you look up hypocrite in the dictionary, the word DEMOCRAT is there in all caps.

I'll put on the tin foil hat for the moment and indulge in a little conspiracy theory; what if the revelations about Warren's admissions frauds are a shot across the bow of somebody else who has a problem with admissions records..?.. just sayin'

Posted by: Carmelita at May 17, 2012 07:31 PM (Y/2U4)

146 "All Democrats need do is cry "hatred" and everyone falls into line, like good little conditioned monkeys." No. Everyone doesn't fall into line. Ace and Hot Air and Powerline certainly do, but some don't. National Review does for the most part. Those that don't are called unhelpful and stupid, and offered condescending lectured to by those who do fall in line. Then they are disowned for not falling into line. Eat it. Or put your fingers in your ears and blame it on the loud mouthed craziness of Sarah Palin's hillbilly cult. Maybe you can make a Ron Paul Joke or tell us how Santorum was going to pope away all of our rubbers. Tell me that pointing this shit out AGAIN is helping Obama. Who the hell cares anymore? Mitt for 2008 PART-II: Even MCCainier. Now with less TEA.

Posted by: Cackfinger at May 17, 2012 11:33 PM (CCHli)

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