LA Times, release tape of Obama w/ communist terrorist & PLO spokesman
david ford
http://www.latimes.com/services/site/la-contactus,0,3944908.htmlstory
to: readers.rep [at] latimes.com
re: release tape of Obama w/ communist terrorist Bill Ayers & PLO
spokesman Rashid Khalidi
Dear LA Times Readers' Representative,
I had some "concerns about The Times' journalistic standards and
practices." The election is next Tuesday, and little is known about
the background of one of the major candidates, namely Obama. It's
disturbing that The Times is sitting on videotape of Obama at a going
away party for the PLO spokesman Rashid Khalidi, a party at which
communist terrorist Bill Ayers was also present. Individuals
concerned about the safety of Israel-- such as myself-- will be
especially interested to learn of Obama's reactions to any incendiary
comments made at that gathering. Individuals concerned about the
safety of America will be interested to learn of Obama's interactions
with Weather Underground communist terrorist Bill Ayers at that
gathering.
I urge you to release the tape, and allow the American public to learn
more about the mysterious past of Obama, before Americans go to the
polls on Tuesday. Journalism ought be about informing the public, not
covering up for one's favorite political figures.
Regards,
David
How Barack Obama learned to love Israel
by Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 4 March 2007
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6619.shtml
Over the years since I first saw Obama speak I met him about half a
dozen times, often at Palestinian and Arab-American community events
in Chicago including a May 1998 community fundraiser at which Edward
Said was the keynote speaker. In 2000, when Obama unsuccessfully ran
for Congress I heard him speak at a campaign fundraiser hosted by a
University of Chicago professor. On that occasion and others Obama was
forthright in his criticism of US policy and his call for an even-
handed approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The last time I spoke to Obama was in the winter of 2004 at a
gathering in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. He was in the midst of
a primary campaign to secure the Democratic nomination for the United
States Senate seat he now occupies. But at that time polls showed him
trailing.
As he came in from the cold and took off his coat, I went up to greet
him. He responded warmly, and volunteered, "Hey, I'm sorry I haven't
said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary
race. I'm hoping when things calm down I can be more up front." He
referred to my activism, including columns I was contributing to the
The Chicago Tribune critical of Israeli and US policy, "Keep up the
good work!"
William Ayers' forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire
October 22, 2008
http://www.zombietime.com/prairie_fire/
Barack Obama’s review of William Ayers' book
Oct 18, 2008
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=64
david ford
http://demsmoveon.blogspot.com
Ok, I want to clear my conscience a little. Hopefully you could make a
blog post to help some fellow Clinton supporters out.
I work for a campaign and can't wait for this week to be over.
I was doing it for a job. I was not a fan of any candidate but over
time grew to love HRC.
The internal campaign idea is to twist, distort, humiliate and finally
dispirit you.
We pay people and organize people to go to all the online sites and
"play the part of a clinton or mccain supporter who just switched our
support for obama"
We do this to stifle your motivation and to destroy your confidence.
We did this the whole primary and it worked. Sprinkle in mass vote
confusion and it becomes bewildering.
Most people lose patience and just give up on their support of a
candidate and decide to just block out tv, news, websites, etc.
This surprisingly has had a huge suppressing movement and vote turnout
issues
Next, we infiltrate all the blogs and all the youtube videos and
overwhelm the voting, the comments, etc. All to continue this
appearance of overwhelming world support.
People makes posts to the effect that the world has "gone mad"
Thats the intention. To make you feel stressed and crazy and feel like
the world is ending.
We have also had quite a hand in skewing many many polls, some we
couldn't control as much as we would have liked. But many we have
spoiled over. Just enough to make real clear politics look scarey to a
mccain supporter.
Its worked, although the goal was to appear 13-15 points ahead.
see, the results have been working. People tend to support a winner,
go with the flow, become "sheeple".
The polls are roughly 3-5 points in favor of Barack. Thats due to our
inflation of the polls and pulling in the sheeple.
Our donors are the same people who finance the MSM. Their interests
are tied. Barack then tends to come across as teflon. Nothing sticks.
And trust, there were meetings with Fox news. The goal was to blunt
them as much as possible.
Watch Bill Oreilly he has become much more diplomatic and "fair and
balanced" and soft. Its because he wants to retain the #1 spot on
cable news and to do that he has to have access to the Obama campaign
and we worked hard at stringing him a long and keeping him soft for an
interview swap. It worked and now he is anticipating more access. So
he is playing it still soft.
This is why nothing sticks.
The operation is massive, the goal is to paint a picture that is that
of a winner, regardless of the results.
There is no true inauguration draft or true grant park construction
going on. There will be a party, but we are boasting beyond the truth
to make it seem like the election is wrapped up.
Our goal is to continue to make you lose your morale. We worked hard
at persuasion and paying off and timing and playing the right
political numbers to get key republican endorsements to make it seem
even more like it was over and the world was coming to an end for you
all.
There is a huge staff of people working around the clock, watching
every site, blogs, etc. We flood these sites. We have had a goal to
overwhelm.
The truth is here. I could go on and on, but you get the picture.
I am saying this because I know HRC was better for the country, and
now realize this. I was too late by the time I connected to her.
To me Barack was just a cool young dude that seemed like a star. I
didn't know him or his policies, but now I understand more than I care
to and I realize his interests are more for him, and the DNC and all
working like puppets with dean.
I always thought a president wanted the better good for the country.
The end result I see is everyone dependent on the government, this
means more and more people voting for the DNC. This means the future
is forever altered. I don't see this as america, so I am now
supporting John Mccain.
Sarah Palin is a huge threat, and our campaign has feared her like you
can't imagine. If it seems unfair how she has been treated, well its
because she has had a team working round the clock to make her look
like a fool.
this is a big conspiracy and I am so shocked that its not realized.
We released a little blurb the other day that the Obama campaign was
already working on reelection and now putting our efforts towards
2012.
This was to make it seem like it was above us to continue caring about
2008. Trust me, its a lie. David is very smart, but its a sticky ugly
not very truthful kind of intelligence.
Its not over yet, but I think the machine is working. And its a hill
to climb.
I will be quitting my post on nov 5th and my vote will be for John
Mccain. Fortunately, my position has been a marketing position and I
don't feel I had any part of anything I would feel guilty for. But I
look forward to getting out of this as the negativity and environment
upsets me.
I wish you all well, and goodluck.
PS my name is not really sarah. but I am a female and I understand
your plight.
david ford
http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=4803
Limbaugh read item 4:
After a long and careful consideration of all the implications and
possible consequences of my actions today, I have decided to go
through with this in the hope that our country can indeed be guided
into the right direction. First, a little personal background… I am a
female grad student in my 20's, and a registered Democrat. During the
primaries, I was a campaign worker for the Clinton candidacy. I
believed in her and still do, staying all the way to the bitter end.
And believe me, it was bitter. The snippets you've heard from various
media outlets only grazed the surface. There was no love between the
Clinton and Obama campaigns, and these feelings extended all the way
to the top. Hillary was no dope though, and knew that any endorsement
of Obama must appear to be a full-fledged one. She did this out of
political survival. As a part of his overall effort to extend an
olive branch to the Clinton camp and her supporters, Obama took on a
few Hillary staff members into his campaign. I was one such worker.
Though I was still bitterly loyal to Hillary, I still held out hope
that he would choose her as VP. In fact, there was a consensus among
us transplants that in the end, he HAD to choose her. It was the only
logical choice. I also was committed to the Democratic cause and
without much of a second thought, transferred my allegiance to Senator
Obama.
I'm going to let you in on a few secrets here, and this is not because
I enjoy the gossip or the attention directed my way. I'm doing this
because I doubt much of you know the true weaknesses of Obama.
Another reason for my doing this is that I am lost faith in this
campaign, and feel that this choice has been forced on many people in
this country. Put simply, you are being manipulated. That was and is
our job – to manipulate you (the electorate) and the media (we already
had them months ago). Our goal is to create chaos with the other
side, not hope. I've come to the realization (as the campaign already
has) that if this comes to the issues, Barack Obama doesn't have a
chance. His only chance is to foster disorganization, chaos, despair,
and a sense of inevitability among the Republicans. It has worked up
until now. Joe the Plumber has put the focus on the issues again, and
this scares us more than anything. Being in a position to know these
things, I will rate what the Obama campaign already knows are their
weak links from the most important on down.
1 – Hillary voters. Internal polling suggests that at best, we are
taking 70-75% of these voters. Other estimates are as low as 60% in
some areas – particularly Ohio and western PA. My biggest problem
with this campaign's strategy was the decision NOT to offer Hillary
the VP slot. She was ready and able to take this on, and would have
campaigned enthusiastically for it. This selection would have also
brought virtually all of her supporters into the fold, and the Obama
campaign knew it. Though I have no way of knowing this for certain,
and I do admit that I am relying on internal gossip, Senator Obama
actually went against the advice of his top advisors. They wanted him
to choose her, but the only significant opposition to this within the
campaign came from Barack and Michelle Obama. In short, he let
personal feelings take precedence over what was the most logical thing
to do. Biden, by the way, has been a disaster inside the campaign.
Everyone cringes whenever he gives an interview, and he creates so
many headaches as the campaign has to stay on their toes in order to
disseminate information and spin whatever it was he was trying to say.
2 – Sarah Palin. Don't believe what the media is telling you about
how horrible a choice she was. Again, our internal polling suggest
that though she has had a minimal impact on pulling disaffected
Hillary Democrats to McCain, she has done wonders in mobilizing the
base for McCain. Another thing – we were completely taken by surprise
with her pick. In my capacity in the research department, I looked
into the backgrounds of Leiberman, Romney, Pawlenty and Ridge, and
prepared briefs. I don't mind bragging that we had pretty good stuff
on all of them. With Leiberman, the plan was to paint him as an
erratic old-timer who didn't have a clue as to what he was doing
(pretty much a clone of McCain). In Romney, we had him pegged as an
evil capitalist who cut jobs. Pawlenty was going to get the "Quayle
treatment", or more precisely: a pretty face, with no valid
experience. Tom Ridge was going to be used to provide a direct link
from McCain to Bush. As you can see, we were quite enamored of all of
them. Then the unexpected happened – Sarah Palin. We had no clue as
to how to handle her, and bungled it from the start. Though through
our misinformation networks, we have successfully taken some of the
shine off. But let there be no doubt. She remains a major obstacle.
She has singlehanded solidified "soft" Republican support, mobilized
the McCain ground game, and has even had some appeal to independents
and Hillary voters. This is what our internal polling confirms.
3 – Obama's radical connections. Standards operating procedure has
been to cry "racism" whenever one of these has been brought up. We
even have a detailed strategy ready to go should McCain ever bring
Rev. Wright up. Though by themselves they are of minimal worth,
taken together, Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Father Pfelger, and now,
Rashid Khalili, are exactly what the campaign does not need. The more
focus on them, the more this election becomes a referendum on Obama.
The campaign strategy from the very beginning was to make this
election a referendum on Bush. Strategists have been banging their
head on how successfully McCain has distanced himself from Bush. This
has worked, and right now the tide is in his favor. People are taking
a new look at Barack Obama, and our experience when this happens tells
us this is not good news at all. When they take a look at him, one or
more of these names are bound to be brought up. McCain has wisely not
harped on this in recent weeks and let voters decide for themselves.
This was a trap we set for him, and he never fully took the bait.
Senator Obama openly dared him to bring up Ayers. This was not due to
machismo on the part of Obama, but actually due to campaign strategy.
Though McCain's reference to Ayers fell flat in the last debate,
people in the Obama campaign were actually disappointed that he didn't
follow through on it more and getting into it. Our focus groups found
this out: When McCain brings these connections up, voters are turned
off to him. They'd rather take this into consideration themselves,
and when this happens, our numbers begin to tank.
4 – The Bradley Effect. Don't believe these polls for a second. I
just went over our numbers and found that we have next to no chance in
the following states: Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina, Florida, New
Hampshire and Nevada. Ohio leans heavily to McCain, but is too close
to call it for him. Virginia, Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico and
Iowa are the true "toss up states". The only two of these the
campaign feels "confident" in are Iowa and New Mexico. The reason for
such polling discrepancy is the Bradley Effect, and this is a subject
of much discussion in the campaign. In general, we tend to take a -10
point percentage in allowing for this, and are not comfortable until
the polls give us a spread well over this mark. This is why we are
still campaigning in Virginia and Pennsylvania! This is why Ohio is
such a desperate hope for us! What truly bothers this campaign is the
fact that some pollsters get up to an 80% "refuse to respond" result.
You can't possibly include these into the polls. The truth is, people
are afraid to let people know who they are voting for. The vast
majority of these respondents are McCain supporters. Obama is the
"hip" choice, and we all know it.
As part of my research duties, I scour right wing blogs and websites
to get somewhat of a "feel" as to what is being talked about on the
other side. Much of it is nonsense, but there are some exceptions
which give the campaign jitters. A spirited campaign has been made to
infiltrate many pro-Hillary sites and discredit them. A more
disorganized, but genuine effort has also been made to sow doubts
among the unapologetically right wing sites such as redstate.com.
Don't you guys get it? This has been the Obama campaign's sole
strategy from the very beginning! The only way he wins is over a
dispirited, disorganized, and demobilized opposition. This is how it
has been for all of his campaigns. What surprises me is that everyone
has fallen for it. You may point to the polls as proof of the
inevitability of all of this. If so, you have fallen for the oldest
trick in the book. How did we skew these polls, you might ask? It all
starts with the media "buzz" which has been generated over the
campaign. Many stories are generated on the powerful Obama ground
game, and how many new voters were registered. None of this happens
by coincidence. It is all part of the poll-skewing process. This
makes pollsters change their mixes to reflect these new voters and
tilt the mix more towards Democratic voters. What is not mentioned or
reported on is not the "under-reported cell phone users or young
voters" we hear so much about. What is underreported is you.
I changed my somewhat positive opinion of this campaign during the
unfair and sexist campaign against Sarah Palin. I will never agree
with her on the issues and will probably never vote for her, but I am
embarrassed of what has happened. I can't ignore our own hand in all
of this. What I do know is that I will not be voting for Obama this
time around. Treat that as you will.