October 8, 2008
My Friends, This Race is Over! (Bill Press)
My friends, I hope you watched the second presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama. Because, if you did so, my friends, you saw the clear choice facing voters on Nov. 4.
My friends, there were two very different men on the stage last night. One of them, my friends, answered every question. The other rambled on and on, like the confused old man that he is.
One of them, my friends, laid forth his agenda as president: on energy, on education, on Iraq, on fixing the economy. The other took cheap shots at his opponent, and made several lame attempts at sophomoric humor.
One of them, my friends, talked about the future. The other talked about nothing but hanging out with his old pals Lieberman, Kennedy and Feingold during his 26 years in the Senate.
In sum, my friends, one looked like our next president. The other looked like a ghost from the past, repeating himself over and over and over again.
My friends, let’s face it. McCain needed a knockout punch in his second debate, but he couldn’t deliver it. Unless something drastic happens between now and Nov. 4, McCain missed his last chance. This race is over.
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Well, but one is a Marxist terrorist sympathizer with huge gaps in his record and the other one a known quantity-type that's been around for a while and served the country heroically, and that makes all the difference.
Comment by Igor R. — October 8, 2008 @ 1:43 pm
LOL! Your post will likely generate plenty of vitriol from those who can't bear the thought of President That One.
Comment by Melissa — October 8, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
Last nights debate was a farce. Tom Brokow pick the questions, made sure they covered the agenda of the bias NBC media, which favors Obama. A true town hall formate allows the voters to raise their hand and be picked at random, without the moderater looking at the question before hand, and being the one who chooses the questions.
Comment by jp,michigan — October 8, 2008 @ 1:50 pm
LOL…excellent post Bill.
Comment by Theard — October 8, 2008 @ 1:55 pm
What surprises me is that while people beat around the Bush, and talk about McCain's erratic behavior and his snap judgements, risky behavior, and the anger always just under the surface, nobody has the guts to come out and say that McCain has all the classic symptoms of bipolar illness.
After spending ten years working with people suffering from this illness, this is NOT what we need in a President.
In fairness, I recognize that many people so afflicted are able to function normally with medication, but for the majority, they do not accept that they suffer from the illness, do not take medication, and continue wreaking havoc on their own lives and the lives of those around them.
McCain has a history of crashing planes and banks. He is a very risky choice to be in the White House.
Comment by smilinjack — October 8, 2008 @ 2:16 pm
Jp;
Brokaw was in the tank for McCain. The fact that McCain couldn't hack it wasn't Brokaw's fault, it was McCain's.
Comment by Mike Coleman — October 8, 2008 @ 2:21 pm
The Bill Ayres story is sticking and gaining momentum. Very interesting.
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MTgwZTVmN2QyNzk2MmUxMzA5OTg0ODZlM2Y2OGI0NDM=
We already know a good deal about Obama’s service at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. That information paints a disturbing picture, and one sharply at odds with Obama’s claim that Bill Ayers was just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” A number of bloggers, including, for example, Tom Maguire, at Just One Minute, have done excellent work on the CAC issue. (See here and here.) But the key reporting on the Obama-Ayers connection via the Chicago Annenberg Challenge has been done by Steve Diamond, at Global Labor and Politics. (See especially this important post of June 18, 2008.) Sad to say, the mainstream media has almost entirely ignored the issues so powerfully raised by Diamond, and discussed at length by various bloggers, even though Obama’s service at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge raises serious questions about the veracity of his account of his relationship with Ayers. Access to the CAC records promises to provide a treasure trove of documentary evidence fronting on this and many other critically important issues, from Obama’s policy views, to his political-ideological alliances, to his leadership abilities.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — October 8, 2008 @ 2:45 pm
More required reading to clear your brainwashed minds.
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/23/bill-ayers-and-the-subversion-of-education/
As we all know by now, Bill Ayers, unrepentant Weather Undergound leader and terrorist, is a Professor of Education. Funny, how Barack Obama called him a Professor of English. Obama certainly knows what Bill Ayers teaches, since he has been in his company during campus presentations. I guess Barack thought a Professor of English isn’t quite as dangerous to young minds as a Professor of Education can be. I mean, Mr. Ayers educates future educators–who in turn shape young peoples’ minds.
It has already been shown that the Ayers-Obama relationship is far closer than Barack Obama’s lie casual rendition of a friendship that goes back further than a decade.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — October 8, 2008 @ 2:46 pm
Seen the latest electoral map on Pollster? I wonder if McCain is feeling "the blues"…
Obama: 320
McCain: 163
Ouch! LOL
http://www.pollster.com/
Comment by Melissa — October 8, 2008 @ 2:58 pm
McCain Sat on the board of a Nazi and terrorist supporting organization that hated Jews for years.
Palin is married to man and supported a group that wanted to tear a star from our falg. Made a Video for them.
Polticians living in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Comment by Donaldd — October 8, 2008 @ 3:50 pm
The hell with Bill Press's astute observations, I want to know more about this Annenberg Foundation-University of Illinois terrorist conspiracy!
Comment by Barry Schwartz — October 8, 2008 @ 4:08 pm
RR;
While you and your fellow wingnuts harp about Ayers, America is going in another direction. You can pull out all teh NRO articles you want but it was your party that drove this country into a ditch and that BS you're peddling ain't going to cut it. You see Bill Ayers was a white terrorist and not the scary brown ones that you folks are so afraid of so unless you can come up with something scarier than an old white guy, McCain has lost.
Comment by Mike Coleman — October 8, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
Ayers or no Ayers, that is the question!
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/mccain_campaigns_muddled_selfc.php
McCain apparently has his own ties to Ayers, he listed Annenberg's wife as one of his supporters-the same guy who funded the nonprofit that Ayers and Obama sat on.
Melissa, check out Nate's take on the status of the race
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com
"I'm short on time today, so let's keep this on point: John McCain is in deep trouble. In spite of some incremental gains that McCain has made in some of the national tracking polls, the set of state polling that follows is so strong for Obama that he continues to hit record marks in all three of our projection metrics. We are now projecting Obama to win the election 90.5 percent of the time, with an average of 346.8 electoral votes, and a 5.4-point margin in the national popular vote"
His site is a bit technical but very conservative in their projections.
Comment by Theard — October 8, 2008 @ 4:21 pm
Igor, the person you depict as a Marxist terrorist sympathizer appears to be the choice of the American people. Obviously, not everyone sees him the same way you do. I understand that there's still a remote few that believe the sun revolves around the earth but the majority of folks think you're, well, full of crap and they're no longer buying into your fear mongering and failed philosophies.
Comment by andy42302 — October 8, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
Barry, this was a breathtaking enterprise: turn the US educational system into a radical training machine. The brain behind the scheme: old terrorist Bill Ayers. The implementer: Barack Obama. Brilliant! As Dick Morris said, the big question is not what Obama saw in Ayers, it's what Ayers saw in Obama.
Comment by Igor R. — October 8, 2008 @ 5:00 pm
Mike Coleman: You sound like a certified racist. Someone white hurt your feelings at some point in your angry hate filled life? Clue us in.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — October 8, 2008 @ 5:31 pm
Other "domestic terrorist"
Sons of Liberty, led by Samuel Adams. December 16, 1773
http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/history.asp
THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING http://www.aish.com/holocaust/overview/he05n27.htm
The attempt to somehow associate Obama, who was 8 at the time that William Ayers was a member of the Weathermen is completely foolish.
The man is now a well respected contributing member of society.
Look back at history to see what has altered the course of history. People saying I'm Mad as He** and I'm not going to take it anymore!
Luckily, a number of people have used less violent means to get peoples and governments attention.
Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. are two fine examples.
But if all you can dig up on Obama is that he sat on some committees with Ayers when he was a University Professor, and Ayers held a fundraiser at his home for Obama. You are definitely reaching!
Comment by Phyllis — October 8, 2008 @ 5:40 pm
More liberal drivel…. Remember that Gore and Kerry were "winning" in the polls right up until elections time. The liberal press will do their best to sway the outcome of the election, as they always do, but to no avail. The quiet majority will be out in full-force in November.
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Comment by DeeInHouston — October 8, 2008 @ 5:55 pm
Let's hope America is not going this direction from one wing nut to a whole bunch more. Keep in mind it is never over until it is over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYEiwR2KklM
Try focusing on what really is at stake and not what the above drivel keeps saying. Actually it was the absolute failure of the Democratically controlled Congress and their impediment when they has a filibuster proof presence in the Senate which put us in this Financial Crisis dragging the whole world in. Bush had nothing to do with it, and in fact both his appointed Fed Chairman and Secretary of Treasure pointed out the impending failure of Pelosi's and Frank's, Reid's and Dodd's led Congressional program started by Carter, embellished by Clinton and driven into the ditch by Reno which McCain echoed and the Messiah Obama denied. And NObama and the Democratically controlled Congress are going to fix it. Right.
Comment by JEdgarSwoop — October 8, 2008 @ 6:16 pm
Well I agree that the election certainly looks to be an Obama victory. But the statement that he answered every question is not entirely true, while Obama did answer it was with the same answer over and over again; McCain is Bush II, tax cuts for those less than $250,000. At one point when asked about Social Security and Medicare he went on and on about his tax cuts and raising them on the rich, not once giving an answer to the question posed to him, McCain did answer. Both candidates took shots at one another and Obama will probably win but the mindless cheerleading must stop from both sides. Please!
Comment by Winfield — October 8, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
Rosencranz:
This idiotic drumbeat about Ayers seems to revolve around the fact that they served on the boards of a few charities at roughly the same time. Barack Obama has served on the boards of charities.
What charaties has John McCain served on and who else served with him. Funny thing; sounds to me like John McCain's life story is basically about building a political career.
Comment by pghremodeler — October 8, 2008 @ 9:50 pm
The Baby Jesus Obama is risen.
Comment by Peter — October 8, 2008 @ 10:59 pm
Very good post, Bill. I see it the same way. Senator Obama is so cool and calm and knowledgeable about the important issues. I thought Obama was better on foreign affairs last night than McCain. Senator McCain's true colors are becoming known to all as he is quite disrespectful. He even has his wife going after Obama on being against funding the immoral war in Iraq. That's typical macho McCain; get the women [Palen AND Cindy] to do your dirty politicking.
The electoral map is looking real good for Senator.'O'.
Comment by Joyce — October 8, 2008 @ 11:01 pm
It's hard to take Bill Press seriously anymore. His clown-like behavior as cheerleader for community agitator is puzzling, attributed mostly to lower than average IQ because his trying to fit in with Obama followers.
How can a pundit declare "race is over" when mostly worthless, homeless bums voted in Ohio?
How can "The Hill" pay Bill Press salary to post this primitive nonsense?
Comment by Misha — October 9, 2008 @ 1:16 am
RR #16;
No one has hurt my feelings but it looks like I stuck a pin in yours. I read what you, Igor, Misha, Jedgar and a few others write. Igor, MIsha and you are scared that Obama, a black guy, will win and your writings reflect that. I just pointed out that Ayers is not some scary brown guy that George W. Bush has made you afraid of, he's white. When people open their quarterly statements, what do you think they are going to worry about more, Ayers or their ability to send their kids to college, afford their mortgage, health care or gas for the car. You can be worried about Ayers along with Igor, Misha and the rest but I don't think too many are going there with you.
Comment by Mike Coleman — October 9, 2008 @ 9:45 am
#13 Theard,
Thanks for the info. In return, here's a glimpse into a McCain/Palin audience, where ignorance is apparently a virtue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E
Comment by Melissa — October 9, 2008 @ 10:07 am
Coleman,#25
It may come as surprise to you and your people, but for many personal and political freedoms along with security of our country is more precious than 401K reports.
Comment by Misha — October 9, 2008 @ 10:40 am
I saw that video, you want to laugh but you can't. Its actually quite sad.
Thank God for YouTube and the progressive blogs, otherwise this would never be reported in the MSM.
Nov 4th cannot get here fast enough and afterwards, these knuckledraggers can all move to a Wasilla commune and worship their Caribou Barbie to their hearts content.
They call us fanatics?…LOL
Comment by Theard — October 9, 2008 @ 11:14 am
Like cornered helpless animals, the republicans will put forward any lie or smear to keep from accepting their responsibility for almost a generation of failed ideas and philosophies. While it is obvious that Obama will win, his victory will not be enough to finally crush right-wing hatred, bigotry, stupidity, and ignorance. For that reason alone, I almost wish McCain had won. I think America deserves some real punishment to help them see the moral bankruptcy of every conservative idea that has ever been advanced.
Comment by Don — October 9, 2008 @ 12:31 pm
Don-29
Cornered animals are extremely dangerous and vicious. John McCain will win because when voters get into that booth, they will not be comfortable enough to pull a lever for that one. Then, we'll crush your left-wing hatred, bigotry and ignorance. There is nothing we can do about stupidity, it's in the genes of most Obama's supporters.
Comment by Metamucil — October 9, 2008 @ 1:00 pm
Mike Coleman: Let's just hope your father is not a judge like John Murtagh's father. That way you won't have to be bombed like they tried to bomb his house.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — October 9, 2008 @ 1:50 pm
http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0430jm.html
During the April 16 debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, moderator George Stephanopoulos brought up “a gentleman named William Ayers,” who “was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, and other buildings. He’s never apologized for that.” Stephanopoulos then asked Obama to explain his relationship with Ayers. Obama’s answer: “The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense, George.” Obama was indeed only eight in early 1970. I was only nine then, the year Ayers’s Weathermen tried to murder me.
In February 1970, my father, a New York State Supreme Court justice, was presiding over the trial of the so-called “Panther 21,” members of the Black Panther Party indicted in a plot to bomb New York landmarks and department stores. Early on the morning of February 21, as my family slept, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at our home on the northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked neatly under the gas tank of the family car. (Today, of course, we’d call that a car bomb.) A neighbor heard the first two blasts and, with the remains of a snowman I had built a few days earlier, managed to douse the flames beneath the car. That was an act whose courage I fully appreciated only as an adult, an act that doubtless saved multiple lives that night.
I still recall, as though it were a dream, thinking that someone was lifting and dropping my bed as the explosions jolted me awake, and I remember my mother’s pulling me from the tangle of sheets and running to the kitchen where my father stood. Through the large windows overlooking the yard, all we could see was the bright glow of flames below. We didn’t leave our burning house for fear of who might be waiting outside. The same night, bombs were thrown at a police car in Manhattan and two military recruiting stations in Brooklyn. Sunlight, the next morning, revealed three sentences of blood-red graffiti on our sidewalk: FREE THE PANTHER 21; THE VIET CONG HAVE WON; KILL THE PIGS.
For the next 18 months, I went to school in an unmarked police car. My mother, a schoolteacher, had plainclothes detectives waiting in the faculty lounge all day. My brother saved a few bucks because he didn’t have to rent a limo for the senior prom: the NYPD did the driving. We all made the best of the odd new life that had been thrust upon us, but for years, the sound of a fire truck’s siren made my stomach knot and my heart race. In many ways, the enormity of the attempt to kill my entire family didn’t fully hit me until years later, when, a father myself, I was tucking my own nine-year-old John Murtagh into bed.
Though no one was ever caught or tried for the attempt on my family’s life, there was never any doubt who was behind it. Only a few weeks after the attack, the New York contingent of the Weathermen blew themselves up making more bombs in a Greenwich Village townhouse. The same cell had bombed my house, writes Ron Jacobs in The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground. And in late November that year, a letter to the Associated Press signed by Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers’s wife, promised more bombings.
As the association between Obama and Ayers came to light, it would have helped the senator a little if his friend had at least shown some remorse. But listen to Ayers interviewed in the New York Times on September 11, 2001, of all days: “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Translation: “We meant to kill that judge and his family, not just damage the porch.” When asked by the Times if he would do it all again, Ayers responded: “I don’t want to discount the possibility.”
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — October 9, 2008 @ 2:36 pm
#30 and #31; You guys are really reaching!!! I guess the prospect of an Obama win has you mad as hell! Well, the rest of us have been mad as hell for the last 8 years!
Comment by Joyce — October 9, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
Phyllis, the freedom fighters you bring up fought against dictatorships, Ayers fought against democracy. That's a crucial difference.
In a normal society Ayers should not be a university professor. The man who said on 9/11, 2001 "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough." does not deserve any respect. His "contributions" are to the destruction of this society. Even what he had Obama spending money on was training radicals in public schools at public expense. Obama was the head of the foundation Ayers started. That's not "sitting on some committees", that's taking Ayers' radicalism and putting it into practice. I just don't understand this desire to white-wash anything that relates to Obama.
I want McCain to win. Yet I despise several things about him I criticized in the past. People who support Obama refuse to criticize ANYTHING about him. Remember this moment. If he wins, you will think of it as 1933 when Germany elected Hitler. There may not be as many deaths as a result, but the loss of freedom will be the same. Wake up before you're enslaved to this evil man and his ideology.
Comment by Igor R. — October 9, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
#32 RR
That group of people did so much damage around this country. I never heard about that incident. At the time, I was young too, and caught up in my own life like many students were. Wholesome students that is.
Many other disastrous events connected with the Weathermen, were performed in the 1980's as well, and event those have found a hiding place in the backs of the minds of many have been long forgotten. But now that the cobwebs have been shaken many of us are reawakened to the news of those dark days.
For me it was in 1981 the Brinks Robbery, in my own back yard. That tragic day left my 7 year old basketball team-mate fatherless. He was an African-American Police officer gunned down mercilessly along with his partner an Irish-American police officer who together left behind a total of 6-children.
Wm Ayers raised the child of Kathy Boudin the getaway driver of those terrorists, anti-american murderers. Hmmm.
That family moved away, but I do recall the deep sadness and tears I felt, when I occasionally dropped this young child off at home knowing there would be no daddy coming home for brighten her day. It broke my heart. There was no mercy.
It was not a mistake that those officers and the security guard died that day. They were holding their guns down and then ruthlessly murdered in cold blood.
For what? A bunch of anti-american's low-life wast-products of society. Bill Ayers crew.
Are we suppose to forget about those people, who are now fundraisers for Obama.
I think Not.
Comment by JFK-HRC — October 9, 2008 @ 4:04 pm
The reason Obama has gotten this far is because he is black. No one can say anything bad about him and if they dare - they are called racist. We are fighting two wars. Do you really want someone that has no military experience to lead this country? Do you want someone that believes it is a right to have medical care? This election has turned into a bad joke. America will never be the same if he wins. Everything that our forefathers fought for will be lost. There are some many negative facts that are true about Obama but the press will never say them. Do you really want a president that is above criticism? If Obama losses the election it will be blamed on race.
I just don't understand how any one could support him. I don't say the economy because he and little sub prime friends are to blame. You don't lend money to people that can't pay you back; I don't care what color they are.
Comment by johngalt — October 9, 2008 @ 5:23 pm
Igor, in response to your comment # 34, you and I have argued who the true terrorist really are several times.
You're comparing an Obama win to a Hitler win and you say that there "may not be as many deaths as a result, but the loss of freedom will be the same". I've repeatedly said that the Bush/Cheney regime is the closest thing to terrorism we'll see in our lifetime. How many innocent people have died due to GWB? How much of this "goddamn piece of paper" constitution has been trampled on by GWB? How much of the rest of the world has lost all respect for us? How many people in this country have demanded an impeachment of this administration?
While you're searching for minute issues to justify your claim that Obama might remotely be a terrorist, your heroes have succeeded in the elimination of the middle class, the profiteering of Haliburtin et al., the negligence of the Darfur victims, and the most secretive White House in history. I can only think that if there's any regrets of the Bush regime, it's that they were unable to shift Social Security over to Wall Street in time. That's a sad government. People are no longer interested in supporting their own demise with the status quo. What part of this do you not understand?
Comment by andy42302 — October 9, 2008 @ 5:33 pm
JFK-HRC, that was quite a story! There is nothing like a personal connection that you have with the unspeakable evil that Ayers, the evil Charles Manson admirerer Dorn, and by extention Obama represent. When Obama's friends do what they like to do, people die and children are left fatherless. Obama's dreams originally came from a bitter man who left him fatherless twice. Later they came from those who left other children fatherless. How ironic.
Comment by Igor R. — October 9, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
To all my wingnut friends;
I have a bet going on now. Beer and pizza if John McCain brings up Ayers to Obama's face. Any takers.
Comment by Mike Coleman — October 9, 2008 @ 6:06 pm
andy, I don't like the secretive behavior of Bush and especially Cheney. I also particularly hate Bush's inability to explain any of his actions in a way that makes sense. If you notice though, the vast majority of his alleged violations of the Constitution have to do with "the big war". In reality, there has not been any measurable loss of freedom for any American citizens who are not strongly suspected of being Islamic terrorists. Even if someone is listening to your conversations and making jokes about you, unless you have a real chance of being arrested or otherwise punished you have not lost any freedom.
Andy, it's my belief, and you have to grant me that any belief about the future in a complex situation is a guess, hopefully based on the analysis of the past, but it's my belief that Obama's Presidency will significantly limit personal freedoms of millions of Americans in two significant ways: the voices of those who criticize him with abandon will be silenced and the incomes of many who fall into "non-preferred categories" will be dramatically reduced. I'm in particular concerned about the former because the latter can be fixed with an election and a passage of time. It is also my firm conviction that if Obama is elected and left to his own devices, there will never again be a fair election in this country due to the loss of media freedom, ACORN-like voter fraud, and the injection of millions of formerly illegal aliens into the political process.
Comment by Igor R. — October 10, 2008 @ 3:49 pm
post # 37: Umm, "the most secretive White House in history". That would be the Clintons. You know, to date, the War In Iraq has been SHORTER than the time it took Hillary to turn over the Rose Lawfirm billings?
Comment by jasonfm — October 10, 2008 @ 5:01 pm
If Ayers is a terrorist, why is he now a professor at a university? This would then suggest the university supports terrorists, and he teaches terrorism. You right wing nut jobs make no sense. Yet, Palin has questionable ties and judgement. And of course McCain — sitting on a board with a nazi sympathizer. And never denouncing racist republican nutbags like Jesse Helms. Also, McCain rallies now look more like a KKK event, with shouts of racism and terrorist rants.
Comment by Raul the Puppett — October 11, 2008 @ 10:19 am
Raul the Puppett, when I first got here with a deep hatred of Marxism, I ran into a Marxist Professor at a major university. Does that mean that that university supported Marxism? No it doesn't, universities like diversity and they are highly liberal.
Terrorism is a tactic. Ayers' goal was not "terrorism" but radical change. He is working from his university platform to create this change through the education system. Change we can believe in.
Comment by Igor R. — October 11, 2008 @ 6:55 pm
polin talks so much bull throwin stones an she lives in a glass house she should try to take care of her own house before she trys the white house cant work for her too many times gettin ppl fired that shew dont like the goverment should send her some rubers lol
Comment by toma — October 21, 2008 @ 1:39 pm