Watercooler Buddies
Almost sounds like palling. Gateway wanders over to the University of Illinois Chicago and finds a hotbed of dangerous radicalism … with Bill Ayers and Obama in offices on the same floor of the same building for years. Small neighborhood, Gateway notes.
WPost/ABC poll finds 60 percent of Americans don’t care about Ayers. Maybe because 90 percent of the nation’s major media organizations have been telling them not to. They’ve barely been allowed to know about the dangerous radicalism, the murder, etc. I bet most of them don’t even have a clue about the lying.
I mean Obama’s. But then there’s major media orgs, which aren’t just looking the other way. They’re scrubbing like mofos. Patterico on the LA Times re Obama’s career launch:
On Thursday, the L.A. Times claimed that there is “no recorded basis” for John McCain’s statement that Obama launched his political career in Bill Ayers’s living room. That same day, I wrote a post that proved them wrong. I linked a January 27, 2005 blog post by Maria Warren, a political liberal who attended the function. In that post, she said:
When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the livingroom of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. They were launching him–introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread.
… Yesterday I sent the link to the L.A. Times as part of a request for a correction of the error in their editorial …
Now it’s Monday, and this blog entry — which had been around since January 27, 2005 — is suddenly gone.
You’ll recall AP’s failure to note the murder part.
Inspite of which, Obama’s slide in the polls continues. Still waiting on the reports of campaign panic, disarray, desperation … never mind, who am I kidding? Gateway with the day’s polling/key endorsement roundup. Apparently it isn’t over yet:
Investor’s Business Daily/TIPP polling, the most accurate pollster of the 2004 campaign season, has McCain making a 2 point gain today on Barack Obama’s lead.
Obama still holds a slight lead at 46.6 to 42.5 over Senator John McCain.
11.9% of registered voters are still undecided.
That undecided number has to concern the Democrats.Drudge linked to the Real Clear Politics average today where Obama holds a 4.8% lead over John McCain in an average of all the polls at 48.8% to 44% for McCain.
Meanwhile… Hamas gave Senator Joe Biden the the thumbs up.
Topics: Obama
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:27 am Comments (5) on Monday, October 20, 2008
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October 20th, 2008 at 11:19 am
@ “Meanwhile… Hamas gave Senator Joe Biden the the thumbs up.”
Never underestimate the malevolence of the enemy, or overestimate the intelligence of Joe Biden.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:41 am
TIPP and Rasmussen show the race tightening slightly. I think that both also show that the best hope for McCain is to knock Obama’s favorability rating down a percent or two.
That’s what the Ayers/ACORN connections are all about. I’ve seen complaining from Obama supporters, and even some conservatives, that McCain should be focusing more on issues and less on this kind of thing. What they don’t seem to realize is that Obama’s falsely earned credibility is giving him an unearned boost on issues. His move to the center is given credibility because people don’t know how deep his associations with the radical left really go. Exposing those associations will make people doubt his sincerity. I have absolutely no doubt that his support among undecideds would plummet if they knew about the organizations and people that he worked for and with. If they understood the goals, tactics, and strategies used by these organizations, they would not longer support Obama, or trust his non-stop commercials.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the – Web Reconnaissance for 10/20/2008 A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I just hope these media geniuses don’t realize before Nov. 4 that they’re no longer necessary.
October 20th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
WPost/ABC poll finds 60 percent of Americans don’t care about Ayers.
That may be true of Americans who were too young or not yet born when Ayers and Dorhn and their ilk were committing crimes. But those of us who can remember the late 60s and early 70s have definitely not forgotten the bombings and murders and bank robberies, all supposedly justified in the name of “liberation”.