Left And Right Politics

From Michelle Malkin:

Barack Obama wanted The Justice Department to investigate and prosecute The American Issues Project for their ad, which you can watch below, on his ties Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.

The AIP responded:

The Barack Obama campaign has now sent a second letter to the Department of Justice calling for the prosecution of one of American Issues Project’s donors for his role in funding a political advertisement in full compliance with all election laws.

“Having failed in its attempts to get our legal, factual and fully-supported ad off the air, Barack Obama’s campaign now wants to put our donors in prison for exercising their right to free speech,” said Ed Martin, American Issues Project’s president. “These over-the-top bullying tactics are reminiscent of the kind of censorship one would see in a Stalinist dictatorship, with the only difference being that those guys generally had to wait until they were in power to throw people who disagreed with them into jail.”

In addition to two letters sent to the Department of Justice asking the government to investigate American Issues Project, its officers, board of directors, and donors, the Obama campaign has been contacting stations running American Issues Project’s ad in an unsuccessful attempt to compel them to pull the spot. With no success on either front, the campaign has also begun running its own ad in response. Notably, this ad fails to dispute a single fact in the American Issues Project’s initial ad.

On September 12, the Department Of Justice told Barack Obama to fuck off.

Justice Department Enforcement Donsanto Says DOJ Does Not Pursue Criminal Probes of Independent Groups

The Justice Department does not pursue criminal investigations of contributors to independent political groups, even when they give $1 million or more and even when their money is solicited based on an appeal to support or oppose a candidate, according to DOJ’s top election crimes official.

“You don’t see a whole lot of cases” where DOJ is looking at independent groups, said Craig Donsanto, the veteran director of the Election Crimes Branch in DOJ’s Public Integrity Section.

Donsanto made his comments Sept. 12 at a conference on corporate political activities in Washington, sponsored by the Practising Law Institute.

Asked directly during a panel discussion at the PLI conference whether he would approve of a case against a hypothetical contributor to a Section 527 group who gave a seven-figure donation based on a request to help or harm the prospects of a particular presidential candidate, Donsanto said, “No.”

Barack Obama said “…enough is enough. This election is too important and the challenges too big to spend the next 54 days talking about trivial non-issues. Today is the first day of the rest of the campaign…We will respond with speed and ferocity to John McCain’s attacks and we will take the fight to him, but we will do it on the big issues that matter to the American people”.

Trival non-issues!!!!
Speed and ferocity!!!
Big issues that matter!!!

Those are fighting words!!!

Let’s see what he came up with, shall we?

um…..email????
Careful there Barack. You might break a nail.

And what’s with this “today is the first day of the rest of campaign” shit?
Barack wants a re-do!!!!

Sorry….this isn’t a game of tag on the playground.

It’s amazing what a candidate will say in an ad. Barack Obama has released a campaign ad in Spanish recently. Beside that fact we’re in America and our nation’s language should be English (I’ll save that for another post), who is he trying to fool with his partial information in this ad?

Here is the transcript of the ad in English, that I found at No Quarter.com.
(what’s in parenthesis is just my commentary)

Some people have power and connections.
(like the Senator.)

But most of us have to make our own way through life.
(Isn’t that the way it’s suppose to be?)

This is true even for the man who could become the next President … Barack Obama.

He grew up without a father – raised by his mother with the support of his grandparents.
(Do you mean the two Muslim men?)

Obama never forgot his roots ….
(Yes he did, he’s half white too.)

He worked with churches to help families get job training and after-school care for their children.
(None of which were Spanish speaking churches.)

In the State Senate, he passed a law that helped reduce the welfare roles by over 80% by helping families to secure jobs.
(OK, I’ll give him that one.)

And despite the political pressure, Obama has stood with us for immigration reform and spoke out for our veterans.
(to make it easier for illegals to say here.)

It’s time we had a President who understands we all deserve a chance to make our own way.
(With more programs that we’ll pay for in the way of taxes.)

Before anyone thinks I’m a McCain supporter, I have to say that the only thing that I stand for is what’s best for America. The campaign ads have always been a farse and always will be. I take them with a grain of salt and do my own research of each candidate. Unfortunately, most people believe the hype and uses the campaign ads as gospel. There is too much mud-slinging in the ads and each candidate should speak of their own accomplishments.