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http://blog.heritage.org/2008/10/20/oba ... n-critics/

Obama’s friend and advisor, the terrorist Bill Ayers, is a great fan of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. One of the political tactics of Chavez is to use the police power of the state to silence critics. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Do you agree with the political views of everyone you have ever known or worked with?

Bill Call wrote:http://blog.heritage.org/2008/10/20/obama-moves-to-silence-all-acorn-critics/

Obama’s friend and advisor, the terrorist Bill Ayers, is a great fan of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. One of the political tactics of Chavez is to use the police power of the state to silence critics. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Bill

Probably not, after all Sen. McCain was a keynote speaker at one of their conventions.


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Bill Call wrote:http://blog.heritage.org/2008/10/20/obama-moves-to-silence-all-acorn-critics/

Obama’s friend and advisor, the terrorist Bill Ayers, is a great fan of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. One of the political tactics of Chavez is to use the police power of the state to silence critics. Be afraid, be very afraid.

I pity the fools who only get their news from conservative think tanks such as the one you quoted above or left leaning sources such as the Huffington Post and are seemingly unable to separate news from opinion.

I also find it amusing when someone actually thinks a blog entry is unbiased info.

It is almost as bad as actually listening to the opinion of news people and using this as a source of fact.

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If it were a crime to criticize ACORN, then every right-wing blog would be up on charges. There's no action suggested against those who 'discuss' the possibility of vote fraud.

The letter in question, from Obama counsel Robert Bauer to AG Mukasey asked for a probe into whether the Bush administration coordinated with McCain campaign in raising these allegations timed specifically to affect the election, using the DoJ for partisan purposes. I hardly think anyone needs a reminder that there's already an independent investigation underway regarding the US attorney firings under Alberto Gonzalez, including one who was fired for (allegedly) not bowing to pressure to bring charges against ACORN immediately prior to the 2006 elections. The attorney, David Iglesias, knew there wasn't a case and refused to further the prosecution and was fired for it.

If Mukasey accepted the challenge and found there to be some collusion between the Bush administration, the McCain campaign and the DoJ in bringing up these suits, that'd show a serious breach of ethics. It'd mean serious consequences for those involved, but it would in NO case mean that 'critics of ACORN' would be legally 'silenced'. Furthermore, I know of no legal action suggested that would stop the investigation into ACORN itself.

Everytime you (or the National Review) try to bring up this cockamamie notion that an Obama DoJ would be a 'thugocracy', it only reminds and reinforces in peoples' minds the autocratic trends of the current administration, which McCain and Palin have shown (primarily by the McCain campaign's interference with the TrooperGate investigation) they'd continue.

I'd invite anyone to read the letter itself (PDF) and come to their own conclusions whether the Obama lawyer was asking the DoJ to 'suppress criticism' or to 'investigate potential lawbreaking'.

Bill----Once again you've hit it on the head!!!!

Can you spell "enemies list"?

And, oh, by the way the creator of that is the same Republican Party regime that McCain/Palin want to perpetuate.

I'll leave the revived McCarthy tactics that Palin is employing for somebody else to discuss.Be afraid, very afraid.

Stan

you got to give Hugo Chavez some credit. He did call GWB the devil.

This is a reference to Jerome Corsi's book.

Would someone explain to me what kind of individual spends his retirement years writing books defaming the character of people about whom he disagrees with politically?

Think about this:

"Grampa, what do you do do with your time now that you're not working? You must play a lot of golf."

"Actually Joey, no, I write books trashing the reputations of people who have different opinions than I do. I trashed the reputation of John Kerry, and Im hoping to do the same to Barack Hussein Obama."

But I suspose the usual suspects will accuse the "left" of hate.

And now the other side of the story that Billo forgot to mention. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#27313459

Bill Call wrote:http://blog.heritage.org/2008/10/20/obama-moves-to-silence-all-acorn-critics/

Obama’s friend and advisor, the terrorist Bill Ayers, is a great fan of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. One of the political tactics of Chavez is to use the police power of the state to silence critics. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Actually, Chavez has a reputation for allowing more freedom of the press than most of his predecessors. If anything, Chavez has a problem with not-censoring: He proclaims he chews the coca leaves. While President Bush II, when asked if he has used cocain, merely claimed the statute of limitations for some provisions of federal employment had run out in regards to cocaine use. Chavez's predecessors had a reputation for disappearing people, and censorship. Chavez rose to power because his predecessors were such terrible leaders. However, his predecessors were good friends of north american oil corporations. They got enough kickbacks to insulate themselves from the country for a few decades, get very rich, and then get booted out. This is summarized in a chapter of the book Oil on the Brain by Lisa Margonelli.