Friends like these
“Why in the world was Barack Obama still communicating on the phone or via e-mail with Bill Ayers up until 2005 – when in 2001 Ayers gave widely publicized interviews claiming he had no regrets about the bombing, indeed regretted that he had not done enough, and did not necessarily have any remorse either about his Weathermen career? There is a disturbing pattern here. Obama’s once-close radical Chicago associates are never jettisoned out of principle, but only at the 11th-hour when they became impediments to Obama’s political career. What made Obama cease communciations with Ayers was not the latter’s radicalism. [It was] Obama’s ascension to the Senate – and thus Ayers, like Rev. Wright later, became expendable.”
Past sins
“Here’s some unsolicited (and likely not to be followed) advice for all those Republicans who think McCain needs to attack Obama’s past associations with the like of Bill Ayers, Reverend Wright and so on. FORGET IT, IT AIN’T GONNA WORK. [Voters aren’t] concerned with his past, and, despite GOP thinking, it isn’t because they don’t know of his past associations. They’re not concerned with Obama’s past because they have feel it is irrelevant to Obama delivering the ‘change’ they so desperately want.”
Buy it!
“Lee Iacocca has just been delivered the keys to the first Chrysler hybrid vehicle. It is a bit interesting to compare the time period in which Iacocca first took the helm of the Chrysler Corporation with that of today. In the early ’80s, Chrysler was hemorrhaging money at an alarming rate, much like it likely is today. Chrysler’s former chairman pushed forward small, front-wheel drive cars inspired by those in Europe.”