Cubs owners step in it

[Anaxagoras]

Rahm blasts plan to attack Obama by Super PAC linked to Rickettses

A “livid” Mayor Rahm Emanuel is refusing to speak with the owners of the Chicago Cubs after their father was linked to a $10 million plan to launch an ad campaign attacking President Barack Obama by airing the racially charged sermons of Obama’s former pastor.

The New York Times reported Thursday that Joe Ricketts, father of Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts, is working with high-profile Republican strategists through a new Super PAC, the Ending Spending Action Fund, on ads that would have featured the controversial sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side.

The Cubs desperately need Emanuel’s support as they attempt to get city and state help for a planned $300 million renovation of Wrigley Field.

. . .

While Tom Ricketts issued a statement distancing himself from the plan — and reached out to Emanuel Thursday morning to tell him so — the aide said Emanuel won’t talk to him.

“The Ricketts[es] have tried to contact the mayor but he’s said that he does not want to talk with them today, tomorrow or anytime soon,” the aide said.

[Anaxagoras]

Mitt Romney distances himself from racially fueled proposal to attack Obama

The controversy surrounded a New York Times report that a group of political operatives had proposed a racially tinged $10 million ad campaign designed to resurrect a four-year-old controversy over inflammatory remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Obama’s former pastor.

“I want to make it very clear: I repudiate that effort,” Romney said at a news conference. “I think it’s the wrong course. . . . I hope that our campaigns can respectively be about the future and about issues and about a vision for America.”

[Doctor X]

Maybe Obama should not have attended racist sermons for so many years and identified the racist as a mentor?

--J.D.

[Anaxagoras]

Ditto for Romney.

[corplinx]

racially fueled proposal to attack Obama

Wow. That's a hell of a warping attempt.

A few weeks back, they launched ads directly (not a PAC), that said Mitt Romney wouldn't have killed Bin Laden. It was pretty fucking low.

Now they're all panties in a bunch about connecting to Obama to the Pastor he supported monetarily for 20 years? And its not Romney, its some PAC? Beam me up Mr. Speaker. These thin skinned weasels have taken a non-issue and turned into successful victimization claptrap.

[grayman]

Got this in an email today:

Recently Fox News reported that Sheriff Joe in Arizona found Obama’s birth certificate to be a computer generated fake. http://nation.foxnews.com/sheriff-joe-a ... te-forgery

Now today Breitbart.com released more evidence that Barack Obama was indeed born in Kenya and not in the USA. Read the story here: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government ... sia-Hawaii .

[corplinx]

"I can no more disown [Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother."

--BHO

[Anaxagoras]

"I can no more disown [Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother."

--BHO

[Anaxagoras]

Here's what they were proposing:

The Wrath of Cons -- A proposed super-PAC assault on Obama exposes the right’s rage.

The last thing Romney needs is a rogue, richly funded right-wing campaign to change the subject from Obama’s job performance to his character, particularly a rerun of the 2008 attack on Obama’s ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. But that’s what Romney will get, if Republican donors and operatives can’t control their rage.

. . .

The ad campaign proposal begins with a problem for Republicans: Voters “still aren’t ready to hate this president.” The word ready makes clear that this is where the plan’s authors eventually want to go. The dilemma with regard to voters and Obama, they write, is “how to inflame their questions on his character and competency, while allowing themselves to still somewhat ‘like’ the man.” The plan’s stated challenge is an emotional tension in the electorate. But the tone conveys an emotional tension among the authors: how to express their contempt for Obama in a way that doesn’t alienate the public.

Revulsion oozes from every frame of the video script, though the authors try to pin the hatred on Obama. “Week after week, year after year, he heard the hatred,” the script says of Obama’s attendance at Wright’s sermons. It says Obama “attacked and inflamed,” leaving us a world “wracked with hate-filled passions.” At one point, the script depicts Obama pushing a gurney (symbolizing Obamacare) past a family whose “eyes follow him with disgust.”

Why must we hate Obama? Because he hates America. The insertion of Obama’s middle name in the title of the video script booklet—“The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama”—signals the message. Beside a picture of Obama with Wright, the script alleges, “There’s simply a fundamental difference between his view of America and ours.” It adds: “He was taught for years that America WAS the problem, so how could he ever believe that America could be the solution?”

Beneath the hatred, humiliation boils. “Our plan,” the authors write, is to show how Obama and his left-wing mentors “brought our country to its knees.” Accompanied by images of Obama bowing to foreign heads of state, the script asks: “How can our president stand up for America when he’s bowing, begging, kneeling and apologizing for America?” Later, it repeats that Obama “compulsively bowed and apologized to foreign leaders.” Even on the economy, the script says Obama “brought us to our knees.” A caption placeholder calls for an image of a struggling American “literally on his knees in shame.”

. . .

They’re angry at McCain, too. They blast him for refusing to use Wright against Obama in 2008. They call McCain “a crusty old politician who often seemed confused.” Freed from his good judgment, they look forward to fulfilling their urges: “Our plan is to do exactly what John McCain would not let us do.”

[Doctor X]

Ditto for Romney.

He was born into it . . . and they allowed black people to exist a few decades ago.

--J.D.

[Pyrrho]

This woudn't be as much of an issue if Rahm Emanuel wasn't the Mayor of a Democrat Vote Machine.

[Doctor X]

Yup.

Chicago invented the "machine" in "Machine Politics."

--J.D.

[gnome]

Got this in an email today:

Recently Fox News reported that Sheriff Joe in Arizona found Obama’s birth certificate to be a computer generated fake. http://nation.foxnews.com/sheriff-joe-a ... te-forgery

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, announced Thursday that his six-month investigation had found that "probable cause exists indicating that forgery and fraud may have been committed" in the release of President Obama's long-form birth certificate.

I'm betting his "six month investigation" began and ended with what you can find in three minutes looking at wnd.com.

I wonder what he did for the rest of those six months.

[Bearguin]

Got this in an email today:

Recently Fox News reported that Sheriff Joe in Arizona found Obama’s birth certificate to be a computer generated fake. http://nation.foxnews.com/sheriff-joe-a ... te-forgery

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, announced Thursday that his six-month investigation had found that "probable cause exists indicating that forgery and fraud may have been committed" in the release of President Obama's long-form birth certificate.

I'm betting his "six month investigation" began and ended with what you can find in three minutes looking at wnd.com.

I wonder what he did for the rest of those six months.

Talked to Trumps sources?????

[gnome]

By the way, nobody has yet answered me when I ask if Wright's words were racist, anti-American, or otherwise objectionable for the entire 20 years of Obama's membership? If it took on that character over time, staying in the church until Wright crossed a line is perfectly defensible behavior.