[Rhodes22-list] ... failure of leadership or leading ...

[Herb Parsons]

Brad,

I honestly think your screaming into the wind. Some of us are already 
convinced. Most of those that aren't are the same ones that didn't see a 
problem with "I did not have sex with that woman", even under oath.

We live in a new world with new standards.

But, keep up the fight, I believe that real standards can eventually 
come back. these things seem to run in cycles.

Brad Haslett wrote:
> Ed,
>
> Obama intentionally and cynically has misled the public about his
> relationship with Ayers.  This issue isn't going away and it shouldn't
> go away.  Speculation is strong and the evidence is growing that the
> Obama and Ayers relationship goes all the way back to Obama's days in
> NYC at Columbia (Ayers was there at the same time and they were both
> friends of Dr. Saed) and that Ayers actually ghost authored Obama's
> first book (the word count and sentence structure mirrors Ayer's
> writing and was written at a 12th grade level, Obama's second book was
> written at a 9th grade level).  But let's forget speculation for a
> moment and stick with what is known.  I'm posting a link instead of
> the article so you can see the photo.
>
> http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/20/obama-praised-searing-timely-book-ayers/
>
> We know from tax returns from the Annenberg Challenge that Obama,
> Ayers, and Klonsky all had offices on the same floor of the same
> building. Michelle and Ayers' wife both worked at the same law firm.
> Obama and Ayers appeared at joint speaking engagements (which by the
> way, Illinois ethics law prohibits receiving fees for speaking but
> Obama's tax returns show "speaker fees" during the period he was in
> the Illinois Senate, another MSM oversight).
>
> "Just a guy in my neighborhood with a degree in English"
>
> That was willful intent to decieve and the MSM has for the most part
> let him get away with it.
>
> The man is a liar, if he were on trial he would certainly be guilty of
> perjury - and he may well be, soon.
>
> Brad
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>   
>> Ben said, "... Since I socialize mostly with folks in my own socioeconomic
>> class, while most support Obama, ..."  The term leadership comprises many
>> atributes.  And part of what are call traditional values is simple honesty.
>> Sometimes honesty requires analysis of what is going on and saying hey, "
>> America, we have a problem..."
>>
>> Ben discounted the Bill Ayers thing.  Even if he is a Marxist as is Bill
>> Ayers, he as an American has an obligation to speak the truth.  In America a
>> Marxist is obligated to tell the truth and not lie about it.  So it goes
>> with his candidate Obama.
>>
>> So what are the elements of Conspiracy?  If you know or should have
>> reasonable known something?  Are you obligated to say something?  If you do
>> not say anything are you a coconspirator?
>>
>> In Ben's case I have to ask, if a fraud is being commited is he obligated to
>> speak out?
>>
>> The above is why I routinely for years have quoted:
>> In Germany they first came for the Communists
>>    and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
>>  Then they came for the Jews,
>>    and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
>> Then they came for the trade unionists
>>     and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
>> Then they came for the Catholics
>>     and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
>>  Then they came for me
>>    and by that time no one was left to speak up.
>>
>>  --The Reverend Martin Niemöller, a pastor in the German Confessing Church
>> who spent seven years in a concentration camp.
>>
>> Ben said, "... I, on the other hand, wish there were no connection at all
>> because then we could argue about policy instead of who knew who, where and
>> when, and what possible difference it makes."
>>
>> Is this an admission of an issue?  Saying that because most others deny the
>> connection is using Richard Nixon's arguement that everybody else in
>> politics did it, therefore it was o.k.  Saying his friends deny the issue
>> does not make it go away.  It is Richard Nixon's arguement all over again.
>> Wasn't Nixon a lawyer?
>>
>> Does law school teach ask the hard questions in court, but do not ask them
>> of yourself?  Are lawyers above the law?  Inquiring minds want to know?
>>
>> Ed K
>> Greenville, SC, USA
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