Clinton Backer Distributes Essay On How GOP Would Link Obama To '70s Radicals

[kpete]

Clinton Backer Distributes Essay On How GOP Would Link Obama To '70s Radicals
April 18, 2008 11:46 PM

A high-ranking labor supporter of Hillary Clinton is distributing to union leaders and to Democratic strategists a document detailing the radical activities of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, two former members of the '70s group the Weather Underground, who decades later, in Chicago, crossed paths with Barack Obama.

The document - a three-page emailed essay by Rick Sloan, communications director for the International Association of Machinists as Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) -- takes both literary and political license to outline what Sloan believes would be the thrust of a hypothetical Republican campaign against Obama focusing on his tangential connection to Ayers and Dohrn.

The goal of the essay appears to be to discredit Obama as the prospective Democratic presidential nominee.

The most damaging new material cited by Sloan appears in a link to an FBI Freedom of Information web site -- where a viewer can examine hundreds of pages of a study of the Weather Underground and its leaders, written in 1976 by the Chicago FBI office, just at the group was disintegrating at the end of the Vietnam War.

more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/18/clinton-backer-distribute_n_97525.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. That's just despicable.

[SoCalDem]

6. Obama must have been SOME powerful EIGHT YEAR OLD

I smell flop-sweat :)

[EFerrari]

2. And the Teamsters will tell him to go Cheney himself.

http://www.teamsters.com/08news/nr_080220_6.asp

[Saturday]

3. So? nt

[BlooInBloo]

4. ... thus Clinton backer links Obama to "'70s Radicals".

[Avalux]

5. They are really grasping at straws. Fear fear fear!

The goal of that essay is to influence superdelegates and it isn't going to work.

[HereSince1628]

21. Clinton has gained experience while in the Senate

she has learned that FEAR is the greatest tool that the NeoCon Administration has to get its way with the folks who are also many of the SDs.

You don't think she is afraid to use that knowledge, do you?

[anonymous171]

7. Obama.. .needs....to...go.. .negative.. .very...soon.

:grr:

[BlooInBloo]

8. No he doesn't.

[anonymous171]

9. Yes he does. He needs to put Clinton and her minions on the defensive.

[BlooInBloo]

12. Can't be any more on the defensive than LOST.

[anonymous171]

18. They haven't lost. They can still win if they tear Obama down enough.

He needs to tell them to fuck off. The best way to do that is to go negative.

[EFerrari]

13. Aren't they already on the defensive? Or else, what is all that whining about?

lol

[whistler162]

10. That would be fair. He has after all taught their writings......

when he was teaching at Law School.

Those awful radical's of the 1770's that is!

[tularetom]

11. How come a clinton supporter knows so much about what the pukes will do?

Think they've been passing little notes back and forth with little hints about how to tear Obama down?

Anybody seen a little soft piggy lookin asshole around clinton HQ?

[BlooInBloo]

14. And thus DUer links Obama to "'70s Radicals'.

[EFerrari]

16. When the Clinton campaign started calling their base "activists"

the cat was pretty much out of the bag, wasn't it? :)

[DJ13]

20. How come a clinton supporter knows so much about what the pukes will do?

Because the DLC (Clinton's Dem organization) hold Republican ideals in high regard.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

15. Dear GOP, get YOUR house in order before you start on others

why can't the GOP stick to the issues instead of making up nonsense. They don't have much on Obama so they make it up.

[HereSince1628]

17. I'm not saying this is true...BUT if I WERE a Republican...

Come on. How bad is that?

What freaky abnormal psych condition in the DSMR are we really dealing with?

[kwenu]

19. This is the problem with this ATTACK. Obamas LINK to someone is not worse than Hillary's ACTIONS.

This is a worthless position because it always fails to mention that it is far easier task for the GOP to demonize Hillary as a figure of controversy unto HERSELF based upon what SHE has done and what SHE represents. This is why this argument is dead on arrival every time it is raised as a PRETEXT for why we should GIVE the nomination to Hillary, as opposed to her legitimately earning it.

[blogslut]

22. Looks to me like the GOP doesn't need to do any work at all

Another pitiful move by the tin-eared. Here's the thing. The name "Weather Underground" doesn't have the scary cache it had 40 years ago.

[Vinca]

23. The Clinton guilt by association campaign is amusing.

If Barack really wanted to expose them for what they are, he'd mention the million and one scandals that remind people why they don't want them in the White House again.

[Armstead]

24. He's a fucking idiot coward

So we're supposed to be all askeered because Big Bad Karl plans to run the GOP Campaign about trhe Weather Underground? Based on some very tenuous connection by someone who happens to know Obama a little?

Whoooaaaaaaaa!!!

I'm askaird. I guess I'd better vote for Hillary. She'll save us.

[Laughing Mirror]

25. How about Obama linking Hillary to 70s radicals

Very easy case to make.

http://www.hillaryproject.com/index.php?/en/story-details/hillary_rodham_clinton_her_career_and_agendas

Hillary served as one of nine editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action, where she worked collaboratively with Mickey Kantor (who, more than two decades later, would serve as U.S. Trade Representative and U.S. Commerce Secretary under President Bill Clinton) and Robert Reich (who would serve as Bill Clinton's Labor Secretary from 1993 to 1997). "For too long," said the Yale Review, "legal issues have been defined and discussed in terms of academic doctrine rather than strategies for social change." The publication was replete with articles by or about such radicals as William Kunstler, Charles Reich (author of The Greening of America); Jerry Rubin (who wrote a Yale Review piece exhorting parents to "get high with our seven-year-olds," and urging students to "kill our parents"); and Charles Garry (the civil rights attorney who defended Black Panther members accused of murder). The Fall and Winter 1970 editions of the Yale Review, on which Hillary worked as associate editor, focused heavily on the trials of Black Panther members who had been charged with murder. Numerous cartoons in those issues depicted police officers as hominid pigs.<3>

One of Hillary's Yale professors, Thomas Emerson (known as "Tommy the Commie"), introduced her to Charles Garry, who helped her get personally involved in the defense of several Black Panthers (including the notorious Bobby Seale) who were then being tried in New Haven, Connecticut for the torture, murder, and mutilation of one of their own members. Though evidence of the defendants' guilt was overwhelming, Hillary -- as part of her coursework for Professor Emerson -- attended the Panther trials and arranged for shifts of fellow students to likewise monitor court proceedings and report on any civil rights abuses allegedly suffered by the defendants. Striving to neutralize what she considered the pervasive racism of the American legal system, "Hillary was," as Barbara Olson observed in Hell to Pay, "a budding Leninist."<4>

Hillary's work for the Panthers earned her a summer internship at the Berkeley, California office of the hardline Stalinist attorney Robert Treuhaft in 1972. According to historian Stephen Schwartz, "Treuhaft is a man who dedicated his entire legal career to advancing the agenda of the Soviet Communist Party and the KGB."

[Tinksrival]

26. Swiftboating someone in your own party

How very Bushy. McSame knows these tactics very well. So is that how Hill will win?? Like Bush did against McCain in '99???
Sometimes I really can't stand the Good old USA.