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It is a time-honored radical tactic to accuse your enemies of what you do in order to convert a negative into a positive, as the master of political agitation Saul Alinsky taught.

This explains the Left’s newfound interest in the lie that the Tea Party is comprised of “terrorists.” (George Neumayr has an excellent piece on the same topic on the main AmSpec site today.)

Unless you think petitioning the government for lower spending is somehow akin to flying airplanes into buildings, you’ve got to agree with Sarah Palin, who on this issue is a voice of sanity and common sense.

As President Obama and his merry band of Marxists continue driving America off a cliff, Palin (and columnist Charles Krauthammer) have been pushing back hard against the liberal talking point that Tea Party supporters are terrorists.

Her comments came after Vice President Joe Biden, Congressman Mike Doyle (D-Pa.), and their socialist buddies at MSNBC recently breathed new life into the “terrorist” smear. Because President Obama, who himself has ties to real, live terrorists, has not upbraided the vice president, we can safely assume he agrees with Biden.

Said Palin on Fox News Channel:

Well, the president’s speech in Arizona as he asked folks to start ratcheting down the rhetoric was all talk. He wasn’t sincere in that. And that’s typical Barack Obama, unfortunately. That is typical of our president where it’s blah, blah, blah. You know, it’s all talk and no real action. Otherwise, he’d be on Biden and tell Biden to tone it down a little bit. Yeah, right. Independent patriotic Americans who desire fiscal sanity in our beloved nation being called terrorists, heck, Sean, if we were real domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us, wouldn’t he? I mean, he didn’t have a problem palling around with a Bill Ayers back in the day when he kicked off his political career in Bill Ayers’ apartment and then, you know, shaking hands with [Venezuelan President Hugo] Chavez and saying, he doesn’t need any preconditions with meeting dictators or wanting to read U.S. Miranda rights to alleged suspected foreign terrorists. No, if we were all domestic terrorists, I think President Obama wouldn’t have a problem with us.

Of course Palin, who has bigger cojones than most Republicans in Congress, is right.

It’s time for a quick refresher course on all the terrorists and terrorism supporters President Obama is buddies with.

As reported in my book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, Obama worked for ACORN, which until recently was America’s largest urban terrorist group. ACORN, along with its thug allies in SEIU who beat up opponents at town hall meetings, routinely uses violence, physical intimidation, and extortion in its long-running war against American businesses. Obama had such a mastery of agitation he taught Saul Alinsky’s subversion techniques at the University of Chicago.

Obama’s political career was launched at a fundraiser held in the Chicago home of unrepentant Weather Underground bombers Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Ayers, who to the present day refuses to renounce the use of violence to achieve political objectives, participated in a plot to bomb a military dance that would have killed hundreds of people if it had succeeded.

As I note in Subversion Inc., informant Larry Grathwohl witnessed Weather Underground leaders planning to slaughter the one-tenth of the U.S. population they expected would turn out to be “diehard capitalists” incapable of reeducation. These are the kind of people the president of the United States calls friends.

Obama and Ayers also sat together on the boards of the Woods Fund of Chicago and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge where they funneled money to ACORN and other anti-American groups.

Obama belonged to the church of Jeremiah Wright whose fiery anti-American sermons make even liberals wince. Wright blamed America for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and accused the U.S. government of inventing the HIV virus “as a means of genocide against people of color.” And under Wright’s leadership, his church’s newsletter reprinted a terrorist political manifesto by Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzook.

Obama accepted as a fundraising “bundler” Jodie Evans, a co-founder of Code Pink, a radical group that specializes in attacking wounded U.S. soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and makes no effort to conceal its ties to America-hating terrorists worldwide. Code Pink is also working with the Muslim Brotherhood which it hopes will succeed into transforming Egypt into an Islamofascist dictatorship.

Obama welcomed Cornel West, an African-American studies professor at Princeton University, to his campaign team in 2008. West denounces his native land as racist and patriarchal. He has described himself as a “progressive socialist,” and has written that “Marxist thought is an indispensable tradition for freedom fighters.” He visited Venezuela in 2006 and praised the brutal government of leftist strongman Hugo Chavez.

Obama also welcomed Robert Malley as a foreign policy advisor on his campaign staff. Malley was forced out after it was revealed that he had been meeting with the terrorist group Hamas, which has called for attacks on the United States.

Obama was a friend and frequent dinner companion of Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian-American and former Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) spokesman. Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University. Khalidi held a fundraiser for Obama’s ill-fated congressional bid in 2000.

It’s difficult to find anyone more pro-terrorist than President Obama.

* * * * * 

America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

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View all comments (22) |

MOS was 71331| 8.4.11 @ 11:53AM

As I recall the McCain / Palin campaign, Sarah Palin was the only candidate who discussed Obama's intimate connections with Bill Ayers. Obama simply dismissed Ayers' past activities as having occurred when Obama was a child, and TV news and the papers gave Obama a pass on the whole issue.

I suggested that Sarah Palin repeatedly ask "How many people does Bill Ayers have to kill before Obama will drop him from his Christmas card list?"

Al Adab| 8.4.11 @ 12:05PM

She was correct. If we were terrorists then this administration would give us due process, would seek to engage and dialogue and would negotiate our legitimate grievences.

Clearly we are the victims here of American arrogance and intransigence. As victims we are entitled to be heard and have our concerns adressed. How about it Mr. president?

simon templar| 8.4.11 @ 12:41PM

For all those conservative Tea Partiers:
You have to check this article out, it will put a smile on your face:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45290

Keep doing exactly what we are doing, do not settle for incremental, snail crawling change, keep fighting and pushing forward!

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 8.4.11 @ 2:16PM

This is nothing new and is based on many articles which highlight the fact that Eric Holder and many other top officials in the Justice Department have represented terrorists and the past. The Washington Examiner refers to them as the Al Qaeda Seven. Additionally, the Obama administration has tried to pass of Major Nidal Hassan's terrorists acts at Fort Hood as workplace violence.

Rob| 8.4.11 @ 2:20PM

Obama first gained a national audience when he gave a speech supporting John Kerry at the Democrat National Convention. Kerry was reportedly present at a meeting of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War in November 1971 at which one of its leaders proposed the assassination of supporters of U.S. defense of South Vietnam, including members of Congress. Kerry reportedly voted against the war and orally resigned from the group, and later denied having been present. http://www.tonyrogers.com/news.....nation.htm

Brandt Hardin | 8.4.11 @ 2:51PM

Sarah may be dumb as a box of rocks but hey, she’s H-O-T and that’s all that matters, right? Help Sarah help herself and keep reading and looking. She’s making millions off selling her image, because it sure isn’t her wit that’s getting her this far. You can see just how scandalous she can get at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.....in_15.html

NWBill| 8.4.11 @ 9:26PM

Oh, BH .. I just love people like you! I hope that you keep slamming Sarah with your tired old "she's dumb, she's making millions off suckers" diatribes that were proven nothing but sour grapes years ago! While you trot out the old chestnuts, she'll keep kidney-punching Obama and any liberal who crosses her path until you start crying.

It's interesting that in one statement, she completely overturns the whole "Tea Party=terrorist" crap by displaying Obama's lifelong connection with a REAL terrorist - and an AMERICAN terrorist to boot.

How does Sarah's backhand feel (and I don't mean her tennis game, either)?

dc| 8.4.11 @ 3:56PM

So, Mr./Mizz Hardin, I'm sure you'll tell us just exactly how your messiah, Il Duce Nero, got as far as he did? After all, we (maybe) know where he was born, we have no idea what his grades were or how he managed to get admitted to or pay for his multiple Ivy League schools, we don't know what his grades were there, we know he spent his formative political years associating with known, unrepentant terrorists, and we know he spent his pre-presidential political years voting "present."
But all that matters is his totalitarian ideology, right? So which part of that ideology captivates you? Which part are you helping implement? Your envy for Sarah Palin is your problem, not hers. She's far from perfect, but also far closer, I'll wager, than you are. At the very least she does love her country, which is far more than anyone can say for Il Duce Nero, or for you.
I read vomit from the likes of you and it reminds me, thank God for the 2nd Amendment. Someday soon vermin like you will be in my crosshairs.

PattyMor| 8.4.11 @ 5:19PM

Its just too rich calling the Tea Party Terrorists. The Bamster will not call the terrorists, terrorists.
To him they are misguided Muslims. No Erdogan of Turkey correctly described Islam as just Islam--there is no reformed, moderate and extreme versions. There is only one totalitarian version.

But Palin did a smart thing during her interview with Sean. She ridiculed the Bamsters as Blah, Blah, Blah. She has him pegged and will get under his skin, throwing back the Alinky method in his face.

NWBill| 8.4.11 @ 9:30PM

Wow - SARAH PALIN did a smart thing? Quick - call out the National Guard! Put the bombers on alert! Get Snooki and Tina Fey on the line toute-suite!

I burst out laughing when she did the "blah blah blah" thing! I LOVED IT!

The Republicans should make a commercial dual-screening Obama's statements with Sarah doing the "blah blah blah" thing - it would crash YouTube, and get the country laughing again!

TheRightIsAnythingBut| 8.4.11 @ 6:37PM

And this is your idea of righteous behavior?
Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, has been accused of attempting to suppress Democratic voter turnout in the Wisconsin Senate recall elections.

Patch.com reported that Charles Shultz, a Democrat who lives in the 10th Senate District, received an absentee ballot application form last week from AFP that contained incorrect information on it. The form instructed him to mail it back to the wrong location by Aug. 11 -- two days after the recall election in his district between Sen. Sheila Harsdorf (R) and Shelly Moore (D) is set to take place, on Aug. 9.

Politico obtained a copy of the AFP mailer, which was also distributed to voters in the 2nd District.

The Wisconsin Democratic Party filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the state's Government Accountability Board over the issue, accusing AFP of "falsely representing the time frame" for the upcoming August 9 recall election. Shultz filed his own complaint with the GAB on Saturday.

AFP may also be getting involved in the increasingly heated ad wars that have been leading up to the recall elections. According to One Wisconsin Now, AFP has reportedly purchased over $150,000 in television ad time in the Green Bay, Madison and Milwaukee areas.

J.C.Eaton| 8.4.11 @ 8:44PM

If true, bad business. Pales by comparison to the New Black Panthers, etc, etc, etc.

victor| 8.4.11 @ 9:27PM

The RightBlaqhBlahBlah:
"Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, has been accused..."

Has Been Accused!
Accused?
How about being found guilty, eh?

To you Leftists, accusations ARE proof.

Going after the Kooky Kapitalist Koch Boys again, eh?
Let's put them into perspective, shall we?

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php

13 of the top twenty are UNIONS!
3 are Capitalists!
and 3 give to both sides.
The Koch Brothers are way, way, way, down the list at 87TH Place!

The money the give, legally, of course, is dwarfed by all of the UNION MONEY!

MWBill| 8.4.11 @ 9:33PM

When you tell me your people are willing to discuss and deal with the New Black Panthers, then we'll talk about this. Otherwise, pipe down, and see how it feels when someone dismisses YOUR thoughts about voter fraud!

Occam's Tool| 8.4.11 @ 8:26PM

Over and over, I have mentioned that Obama got his start in a Terrorists' home, that Paul accepted campaign contributions from a Nazi, etc.

Some people are vermin, no matter how you try to pretty them up.

victor| 8.4.11 @ 9:28PM

Not sure about Nazis, but he gladly accepts money from White Nationalists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Black_(white_nationalist)

Clint| 8.4.11 @ 10:02PM

Get Lost Russkie Israel Firster Victor-Margie-Sybil.

victor| 8.5.11 @ 2:10AM

Deal with it, Clintie
"In a 1998 interview for the alternative weekly newspaper Miami New Times, Black is quoted as saying "We want to take America back. We know a multicultural Yugoslav nation can't hold up for too long. Whites won't have any choice but to take military action. It's our children whose interests we have to defend." In December 2007, Black gained attention for donating money to Ron Paul's 2008 presidential run."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22.....premacist/

Big Rally in Valley Forge:
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t141368/

Wass you der, Clintie?

Clint| 8.4.11 @ 10:01PM

Let's See Here Israel Firster Fanatic Screwball Tool Job.
Republican Candidate Ron Paul was the second most successful fundraiser left in his party, after McCain. In that January he raised $4.4 million, bringing his total to $32.6 million.Paul set records for single-day fundraising totals despite being one of the lesser-known candidates.
This dude, Doug Black gives The Paul Campaign an "Unsolicited" $500.

Soooo, an unsolicited campaign donation of $500 of $32.6 Million in Paul campaign donations comes in and What ?

Hmmmm Israel Firster Smear Artist Agendist Tool Job ?

You're Up Little Fixated Smear Merchant ,Tool Job

victor| 8.5.11 @ 2:12AM

Aaaannnnddd he takes M$O$N$E$Y from WHITE NATIONALISTS and KEEPS IT!

MOS was 71331| 8.5.11 @ 11:40AM

Any WHITE NATIONALIST, black nationalist, or nationalist of any other color who wishes to send me m$o$n$e$y to KEEP, please let me know how to contact you.

Delta Zelda| 8.7.11 @ 12:06PM

brandt hardin, So Sarah is not "making it with her wit." How is your boy doing? Showing his ignorance every time he opens his mouth. Sarah knows that 50 states make up the USA. Your boy thinks there are 57. Which one has no wit?

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