Barack Obama: Senator I-Don't-Know

Obama and Unpleasant Revelations
The Standard Obama Response:
"I Didn't Know"



Bill Ayers
Aunt Zeituni
Rev. Jeremiah Wright

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Zeituni Onyango

Barack Obama's aunt, who attended Obama's U.S. Senate swearing-in ceremony, was discovered living in a Boston slum. She's living in the USA illegally in public housing.

Living in poverty, she still had the means to make a donation to her nephew's campaign--which was returned when the story got publicity.

Obama's response?

"Senator Obama has no knowledge of her status but obviously believes that any and all appropriate laws be followed."

That was the Obama campaign's stock answer to any unpleasant news which makes its way into the Mainstream Media--a feat in itself.

The Associated Press found that Obama's aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by an immigration judge who rejected her request for asylum from her native Kenya. The woman, Zeituni Onyango (zay-TUHN on-YANG-oh), is living in public housing in Boston and is the half-sister of Obama's late father.
--Obama says he didn't know aunt's illegal status

The answer has been used before and seems to satisfy any MSM curiosity about Barack Obama's family and friends.

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Rev. Jeremiah Wright

• "No no no! God damn America!"
  
  
• "The U.S. of K.K.K.A."
  
  
• “We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.”
  
  
• “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” [September 2001]
  
  
• “Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!…We [in the U.S.] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.”
  
  
• “Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.”
  
  
• “The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.”

The above are famous quotes by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who for 20 years was Barack Obama's pastor--until Wright became politically inconvenient.





A Wright sermon called "The Audacity to Hope" inspired Barack Obama's remarks at the 2004 Democratic Convention and provided the title of Obama's second book.
--10 Things You Didn't Know About the Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Obama's response?

"I didn't know about all these statements. I knew about one or two of these statements that had been made."
--Just What Did Obama Know About Wright's Past Sermons?

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Bill Ayers


[ABOVE: Bill Ayers in photo published on September 11, 2001]

Bill Ayers, was one of the leaders of the Weather Underground, a group that bombed the Pentagon and police stations. Ayers remains convinced that he "didn't do enough" during his bombing days.

Barack Obama worked with Bill Ayers for years. Obama was hired by Ayers. Obama helped Ayers distribute millions of dollars to many radical recipients. Ayers held one of the first fund-raisers for Barack Obama's Illinois state senate race.

When news of Obama's association and friendship with Ayers surfaced. The Obama responses were disingenuous.

"Just one of the thousands of people I know."

"Just some guy from the neighborhood."


Obama has lied repeatedly about his relationship with the unrepentant domestic terrorist. He spent years working for Ayers, promoting Ayers’ causes. Even CNN won’t buy the Obama line any longer.
--CNN: Obama’s lying about William Ayers




Obama's latest responses to the issue of Bill Ayers?

"When he went he certainly didn't know the history [of Ayers' domestic terrorism]." --chief Obama strategist David Axelrod to CNN - arguing for the first time since the story surfaced early this year that Obama was unaware of Ayers' past.

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There have been other instances of Barack Obama pleading ignorance about unpleasant information once its reported (Father Michael Pfleger, for one).

Which may lead some to affectionately refer to Barack Obama as "Senator I-Don't-Know."


by Mondo Frazier
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Source: Controversial Rev. Wright Quotes

Obama Camp Cancels FL TV Interview over Tough Questions

Unpleasant Media Questions:
Obama Campaign Cancels Interview with Florida TV Station




Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was one of German dictator Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers.
Joseph Goebbels

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Joseph Goebbels was famous for controlling the flow of information and news in Nazi Germany. To be clear: we are not saying the Obama campaign is a Nazi organization--though comparisons between Bush and Hitler have been a favorite staple of leftie blogs for most of the Bush administration.

We're just saying: Herr Goebbels would recognize the Obama campaign's cutting media access off to those who ask unpleasant questions.

Here's a tip to the media, in case they didn't already know it: if you ask any questions of Barack Obama or Joe Biden that aren't of the "softball" variety, you can forget getting anymore access.

From Obama campaign cuts off WFTV after interview with Joe Biden:

Biden so disliked West's line of questioning that the Obama campaign canceled a WFTV interview with Jill Biden, the candidate's wife.

"This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election," wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign.

McGinnis said the Biden cancellation was "a result of her husband's experience yesterday during the satellite interview with Barbara West."

Here's a link to the interview: http://www.wftv.com/video/17790025/index.html.

WFTV news director Bob Jordan said, "When you get a shot to ask these candidates, you want to make the most of it. They usually give you five minutes."

Jordan said political campaigns in general pick and choose the stations they like. And stations often pose softball questions during the satellite interviews.

"Mr. Biden didn't like the questions," Jordan said. "We choose not to ask softball questions."

Jordan added, "I'm crying foul on this one."

Ours may be labeled a "partisan" view. The charge will likely come from many of the same people who delighted in posting "Bushitler" images on the Internet. Campaigns do try to control the flow of news and Obama's is no different.

We just note the lack of 'outrage' from those same quarters that raised a fuss over all things George Bush.

Meanwhile, Big Media can heave a sigh of relief: there's no chance of the Obama campaign canceling any interviews with ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, The New York Times, LA Times or MSNBC.

There's also no chance of Americans learning anything from those "news" outlets--except perhaps, Barack Obama or Joe Biden's favorite color.

by Mondo
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