Obama's unrepented terrorist connection

[jreeves]

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Now, how does Obama state that Ayers is a non-issue? When in fact he launched his political career from Ayers home, along with several other connections?

 

[busara]

i believe he is using the typical politician defense of "it happened a long time ago"

 

[Dr Grump]

George Bush

 

[bigdaddygtr]

Now, how does Obama state that Ayers is a non-issue? When in fact he launched his political career from Ayers home, along with several other connections?

The same way you right wingers seem to just ignore Bush's BS. His family connections, Chaney's straight up evil ways, and the fact that Bush sleeps with Saudi royal family, who, if I'm not mistaken, are in charge of the country that had 15 of the 19 members who committed 9/11. But, you know, who gives a damn about that, lets spend 50 million dollars to find out Bill Clinton got a blowjob.

The hypocracy of the Republican party is beyond hilarious

 

[Reality]

http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/ap_bush_saudi_080115_mn.jpg

 

[Shadow]

Now, how does Obama state that Ayers is a non-issue? When in fact he launched his political career from Ayers home, along with several other connections


Oh it's an issue alright, or Obama and his campaign wouldn't be launcing an all out thug brigade to shut down all talk about this subject.

Obama Campaign Tries to Shut Down Chicago Radio Show | NewsBusters.org

Copy of email from Obama campaign asking ,minions to help silence political speech.

Obama's e-mail about WGN-AM -- chicagotribune.com

 

[jreeves]

The same way you right wingers seem to just ignore Bush's BS. His family connections, Chaney's straight up evil ways, and the fact that Bush sleeps with Saudi royal family, who, if I'm not mistaken, are in charge of the country that had 15 of the 19 members who committed 9/11. But, you know, who gives a damn about that, lets spend 50 million dollars to find out Bill Clinton got a blowjob.

The hypocracy of the Republican party is beyond hilarious

Bush isn't on the ballot in '08, the lunacy of Democrats over Bush is extremely amusing to watch....

 

[AllieBaba]

This is one of those topics that Obama and the lefty press have determined is OFF LIMITS, and he just doesn't have to address it.

 

[Ninja]

George Bush

Great point, kiwi-brains.

 

[Chris]

This is one of those topics that Obama and the lefty press have determined is OFF LIMITS, and he just doesn't have to address it.

Why should he?

It's a non story.

Some guy that used to live in Obama's neighborhood that was on some panel years ago who is now an educator was a radical in the 1960's etc...

Talk about grasping at straws!

I really feel sorry for you guys.

 

[bigdaddygtr]

Bush isn't on the ballot in '08, the lunacy of Democrats over Bush is extremely amusing to watch....

Oh, I get it, lets not deal with the person in office that has committed crimes that are beyond comprehensible, lets just deal with whose running now? Is that really your rational? Well, there are 4500 families who have lost a loved one in the BS war that I think might differ. Oh, and there is also 100,000 Iraqi people who are civilians that have lost their lives and their families, I think, care about this but your right, lets forget about that.

Again, your hypocracy is unbelievable transparent and you don't even see it

 

[DiamondDave]

Why should he?

It's a non story.

Some guy that used to live in Obama's neighborhood that was on some panel years ago who is now an educator was a radical in the 1960's etc...

Talk about grasping at straws!

I really feel sorry for you guys.

Try the person helping and coaching Obama during his political career... serving on the same board as Obama.... who Obama calls a "friend".... thus bringing into question the judgment of Obama... considering he (and his supporters) says to judge him on his character and judgment, because his experience is not relevant....

 

[chapstic]

Try the person helping and coaching Obama during his political career... serving on the same board as Obama.... who Obama calls a "friend".... thus bringing into question the judgment of Obama... considering he (and his supporters) says to judge him on his character and judgment, because his experience is not relevant....

when it comes to kirk and a few others, it doesn't matter who 0bama associates with, they don't believe it, or the buy whatever 0bama has to say about it no questions asked.

0bama could of been betting on dog fights with michael vick, kirk and the rest of these brainwashed people would still find a way to not care, be blind to it, and still support 0bama.

 

[AllieBaba]

Why should he?

It's a non story.

Some guy that used to live in Obama's neighborhood that was on some panel years ago who is now an educator was a radical in the 1960's etc...

Talk about grasping at straws!

I really feel sorry for you guys.

You won't when we win the election. Then you'll be sobbing and making up stories about the election being rigged, crooked justices, imaginary policemen keeping the masses away from the voting booths...then you'll slip into a depression, drink too much, quit working, and eventually have to get the state to pay for a psychiatrist for your sorry ass.

Which is exactly what happened to losers like you after the LAST election we won.

Obama did more than attend a few meetings with this guy. You need to research your darling, and see what he was up to after college, dumbass.

 

[Annie]

Why should he?

It's a non story.

Some guy that used to live in Obama's neighborhood that was on some panel years ago who is now an educator was a radical in the 1960's etc...

Talk about grasping at straws!

I really feel sorry for you guys.

Not true, not by half. Lots of links, this one especially relevant:

Obama Needs to Explain His Ties to William Ayers - Michael Barone (usnews.com)

Conclusion, it's not like Ayers hid his past or even denounced it. Obama didn't care, it was another insider move. It would be not worth mentioning if some 'friend' hid his 30 year old past and recognized the means were wrong, not so Ayers. Welcome to Chicago doesn't begin to explain:

....For Obama, the outsider who gained the trust of the insiders, the position is different. He was willing to use Ayers and ally with him despite his terrorist past and lack of repentance. An unrepentant terrorist, who bragged of bombing the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon, was a fit associate. Ayers evidently helped Obama gain insider status in Chicago civic life and politics—how much, we can't be sure unless the Richard J. Daley Library opens the CAC archive. But most American politicians would not have chosen to associate with a man with Ayers's past or of Ayers's beliefs. It's something voters might reasonably want to take into account.

 

[AllieBaba]

Yes indeed. He schmoozed him, knowing what he was.

 

[AllieBaba]

Not only that, when he was first questioned about it months ago, he minimalized Ayers' terrorism...even though Ayers had said the DAY AFTER 9/11 that he wished he had set more bombs himself.

 

[Gunny]

The same way you right wingers seem to just ignore Bush's BS. His family connections, Chaney's straight up evil ways, and the fact that Bush sleeps with Saudi royal family, who, if I'm not mistaken, are in charge of the country that had 15 of the 19 members who committed 9/11. But, you know, who gives a damn about that, lets spend 50 million dollars to find out Bill Clinton got a blowjob.

The hypocracy of the Republican party is beyond hilarious

Wow, but aren't you original. Is there a book y'all memorize, or what?

 

[jillian]

Wow, but aren't you original. Is there a book y'all memorize, or what?

don't have to memorize it... facts are what the facts are....

 

[greenpartyaz]

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Now, how does Obama state that Ayers is a non-issue? When in fact he launched his political career from Ayers home, along with several other connections?

How does Bush state that his family's wealth was made on the backs of the Nazi's? How many gold tooth fillings do you think Prescott Bush had in those Swiss lock boxes???

The Bush Crime Family
George Walker, GW's great-grandfather, set up the takeover of the Hamburg-America Line, a cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in the United States. In Germany, I.G. Farben was most famous for putting the gas in gas chambers; it was the producer of Zyklon B and other gasses used on victims of the Holocaust. The Bush family was not unaware of the nature of their investment partners. They hired Allen Dulles, the future head of the CIA, to hide the funds they were making from Nazi investments and the funds they were sending to Nazi Germany, rather than divest. It was only in 1942, when the government seized Union Banking Company assets under the Trading With The Enemy Act, that George Walker and Prescott Bush stopped pumping money into Hitler's regime.

Prescott Bush, the president's grandfather. According to classified documents from Dutch intelligence and US government archives, President George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush made considerable profits off Auschwitz slave labor. In fact, President Bush himself is an heir to these profits from the holocaust which were placed in a blind trust in 1980 by his father, former president George Herbert Walker Bush. On the 20th of October, the government commenced action against the company under the trading with the enemy act. After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal. In 1952, Prescott Bush was elected to the U.S. Senate, with no press accounts about his well-concealed Nazi past.

George Herbert Walker Bush, the presidents father. Bush, as director of the CIA, had funneled enormous amounts of cash to drug runners including Manuel Noriega and helped in the destabilization of Argentina. Bush utilized his own connections to help fund drug runners from Laos to Panama. Most shocking was the so-called "cocaine coup" in Bolivia in June 1980, masterminded by fugitive Nazi Klaus Barbie, "The Butcher Of Lyons." Barbie, who had been previously secreted in Latin America by the CIA, began working closely with the Argentines and used drug money to finance a neo-Nazi cabal, one that succeeded in overthrowing the government. The troops swept through the capital wearing Nazi armbands, according to former DEA agent Mike Levine. George H.W. Bush later facilitated the Iran-contra affair, employing many of the same methods: secretly selling Central American cocaine in America and weapons to Iran while using the profits to fund the contras and to overthrow democratically elected socialists in Central America. As the head of the CIA and later as Vice President, toppled democratically elected regimes in South and Central America and began propping up a dictator by the name of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Although forbidden by congress to do so, he continued to sell chemical and biological weapons to Saddam even after he used them on villages of innocent civilians. A decade later The United States had to go to war against him and the Bush family again, made millions from it.

Jonathan J. Bush, the Presidents uncle. Jonathan Bush's "Pioneer Profile" in "George W. Bush's $100,000 Club" cites him as the "head" of the Riggs Investment Management Co.; "Bush’s uncle Jonathan ... founded its subsidiary, J. Bush & Co., of which he is chair. He also is an ex-chair of the New York Republican State Finance Committee. Bush credits the investors sent his way by this banker uncle as a key to his 'success' in the Texas oil industry in the early ‘80s."

Jonathan J. Bush, is a top executive at Riggs Bank, which this week agreed to pay a record $25 million in civil fines for violations of law intended to thwart money laundering. Jonathan Bush, who is a major fundraiser for his nephew, was appointed in 2000 to run Riggs Investment Management Co. His association with Riggs began when he headed J. Bush & Co., a New Haven, Conn., company he created in 1970 and built to offer advice on money management.

According to the 5/14/04 New York Times, Federal regulators fined the Riggs National Corporation, the parent company of Riggs Bank, $25 million yesterday for "failing to report suspicious activity, the largest penalty ever assessed against a domestic bank in connection with money laundering. The fine stems from Riggs's failure over at least the last two years to actively monitor suspect financial transfers through Saudi Arabian accounts held by the bank." The 5/14/04 Wall Street Journal reported that of particular concern, Riggs failed to monitor "tens of millions of dollars in cash withdrawals from accounts related to the Saudi Arabian embassy," including "suspicious incidents involving dozens of sequentially numbered cashier's checks and international drafts written by Saudi officials, including Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan." According to the 4/18/04 Washington Post, Saudi Prince Bandar's wife, Princess Haifa al-Faisal, "may have used a Riggs account to donate money to a charity that then gave some of it to the Sept. 11 terrorists."
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According to the nonprofit Texans for Public Justice, Jonathan Bush is the President and CEO of Riggs Investment Management - a major arm of Riggs Bank. He is also the uncle of President George W. Bush. The President "credits the investors sent his way by this banker uncle as a key to his 'success' in the Texas oil industry in the early '80s." According to Public Citizen, the uncle Jonathan was a Bush Pioneer, having raised more than $100,000 for his nephew in 2000.

Neil Bush, the president's brother. Central player of the 1980's savings and loan scandal, he ran a savings and loan into the ground while shoveling millions of its taxpayer-backed dollars into the pockets of two deadbeat partners. Neil served as a director of Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan in Denver, Colorado, from 1985 until 1988. During that time, the now-dead thrift made over $200 million in loans to Neil's two partners in JNB Exploration, Neil's abysmally unsuccessful oil company. Federal regulators determined that, while Silverado was pumping loans to Neil's two associates, Neil was completely dependent on the two men for his income. The failure of Silverado -- its closure delayed until after the 1988 election -- cost taxpayers about $1 billion. After Silverado failed, Neil started a new oil company, Apex Energy. This time, his money came from a $2.35 million loan through a Small Business Administration program. When news of this reached the press in March 1991, the SBA discovered that the companies through which the loan was approved were technically insolvent, and it gave them up to thirty months to "self-liquidate." This meant that Apex would have to repay its SBA-guaranteed loans. Neil took this as his cue to move on, and he left Apex -- and its debts -- for others to worry about. Neil Bush made $171,370 in one day. The fact that he was a former consultant to the company whose stock he dumped is just a coincidence

Marvin Bush, the president's brother was on the board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines, according to public records. The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family. The security company, formerly named Securacom and now named Stratesec, is in Sterling, Va.. Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the company had a ``completion contract" to handle some of the security at the World Trade Center ``up to the day the buildings fell down." The suite in which Marvin Bush was annually re-elected, according to public records, is located in the Watergate in space leased to the Saudi government. The company now holds shareholder meetings in space leased by the Kuwaiti government there.

Jeb Bush, the president's brother. After graduating from The University of Texas, Jeb Bush served a short apprenticeship at the Venezuelan branch of Texas Commerce Bank in Caracas before settling in Miami, in 1980, to work on his father's unsuccessful primary bid against Ronald Reagan. Shortly after arriving in Miami, Jeb was hired by Cuban-American developer Armando Codina to work at his Miami development company as an agent leasing office space. A couple of years later, Jeb and Codina became business partners, and in 1985 they purchased an office building in a deal partly financed by a savings and loan that later failed.The $4.56 million loan, from Broward Federal Savings in Sunrise, Florida, was granted in such a way that neither Codina's nor Bush's name appeared on the loan papers as the borrowers. A third man, J. Edward Houston, borrowed the $4.56 million from Broward and then re-lent it to the Bush partnership. When federal regulators closed Broward Savings in 1988, they found the loan, which had been secured by the Bush partnership, in default. As Jeb's father was finishing his second term as vice-president and running for the presidency, federal regulators had two options: to get Jeb Bush and his partner to repay the loan, or to foreclose on their office building. But regulators came up with a third solution. After reappraising the building, regulators decided it wasn't worth as much as was owed for it. The regulators reduced the amount owed by Bush and his partner from $4.56 million to just $500,000. The pair paid that amount and were allowed to keep their office building. Taxpayers picked up the tab for the unpaid $4 million.

He also rigged an election that you may have heard about. Thousands of eligible voters were disallowed the right to vote in predominantly democratic regions. Between May 1999 and Election Day 2000, two Florida secretaries of state - Sandra Mortham and Katherine Harris, both protégées of Governor Jeb Bush- ordered 57,700 "ex-felons," who are prohibited from voting by state law, to be removed from voter rolls. (In the thirty-five states where former felons can vote, roughly 90 percent vote Democratic.) A company now owned by ChoicePoint of Atlanta, was paid $4.3 million for its work, replacing a firm that charged $5,700 per year for the same service.Two of these "scrub lists," as officials called them, were distributed to counties in the months before the election with orders to remove the voters named. Together the lists comprised nearly 1 percent of Florida?s electorate and nearly 3 percent of its African-American voters. Neither DBT nor the state conducted any further research to verify the matches. DBT, which frequently is hired by the F.B.I. to conduct manhunts, originally proposed using address histories and financial records to confirm the names, but the state declined the cross-checks.

George W. Bush, second appointed president of the United States.

• 1979-83: Fifty Bush family investors and friends, led by uncle Jonathan, a New York Republican Party official and an investment manager, fork over $4.7 million to set up young Bush in a company called Arbusto. It's a flop, and in 1982 gets a new name: Bush Exploration.

• 1984: Spectrum 7 Corporation, an Ohio oil exploration outfit owned by Dubya's Yalie pal William DeWitt Jr., buys out Bush Exploration, setting up young Bush as CEO at $75,000 a year and giving him 1.1 million shares of the firm's stock. Another flop. The company's fortunes soon sink, with $400,000 in losses and a debt of $3 million.

• 1986: In the nick of time, Bush and partners merge the failing Spectrum with Harken Oil, a Dallas exploration company, with a $2 million stock purchase. Bush puts up about $500,000 and gets a $120,000 annual consulting fee along with $131,250 in stock options. Harken is a small outfit, looking for oil opportunities within the U.S. Then out of the blue comes Harvard Management Corporation, an investment adviser for Harvard University's endowment portfolio. It pumps millions into the venture.

• 1990: Although Harken has no international expertise, it gets the attention of the Bahrain National Oil Company, which unexpectedly appears on the scene and bypasses big oil's Amoco and Chevron to sign a production agreement with the little Texas concern. The contract grants Harken exclusive rights to what seems to be a promising offshore area squeezed between two productive tracts owned by Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Wall Street Journal speculates Bahrain was trying to cozy up to Daddy Bush, who was plotting an assault on Iraq after Saddam Hussein seized Kuwait.

Bass Enterprises Production Company finances the Bahrain drilling with $25 million, and Harvard Management raises its investment. A couple of members of the Fort Worth Bass family have places on Team 100, an elite business group contributing to the Republican National Committee.

In June, Harken drills two dry holes in Bahrain. The future looks bleak. Dubya dumps two-thirds of his Harken holdings (212,140 shares), for $848,560. He uses some of this money to buy into the Texas Rangers baseball club. This is a lot of stock to dump on the market all at once, and brokers say it was purchased by an unnamed institutional investor.

That August, Harken posts a loss of $23 million.

• January 1991: Daddy Bush attacks Iraq.

• February 1991: Dubya, as the official in charge at Harken, reports his big stock sale to the SEC—eight months late.

• April 1991: The SEC begins an investigation into Harken dealings. Chairman Richard Breeden, who had been appointed by the senior Bush and served him as an economic policy adviser, hails from Baker & Botts, a big Texas oil law firm where he was a partner. Inside the SEC, James Doty, general counsel and the official in charge of any litigation that might come out of the Harken investigation, is another alumnus of Baker & Botts. And as a private attorney, before joining the government, Doty represented the younger Bush in matters related to Dubya's ownership of the Rangers.

• 1993: The SEC ends its Harken investigation following perfunctory interviews.

The good people of Baker & Botts continued looking out for Shrub. Since 1993, Breeden, Doty, and other lawyers there have given him $182,050 for his various political campaigns, making the firm one of his biggest supporters.

Upon appointment as president, Bush appoints 6 Iran-contra defendants to his staff, fills the upper levels of the White house and pentagon with senior members of the PNAC including his speech writer, chief advisor, secretary of defense, and vice president. Uses the terrorist attacks of 9-11 to illegally invade and occupy Iraq under the false pretense of imminent threat and reaps billions for Cheney's Halliburton, Rumsfeld's Bechtel, and his own family's Carlyle group.