Audio and Commentary of McCain’s Speech, Response to the Democratic Attacks of Palin’s Speech - On Political Pistachio Radio
On Political Pistachio Radio tonight we broadcast live John McCain’s speech at the Republican National Convention. After the speech we provided conservative commentary on the speech. I was struck by the speech’s theme that proclaimed McCain to be a servant of the people. He considers it a privilege to serve in Washington, and wishes to hold the politicians in Washington accountable. Listen to the audio of the speech by John McCain, and the commentary by me and a few of my listeners: HERE.
As for the Democratic response to Sarah Palin’s speech last night, it seems to me that if Palin was a Democrat they would be championing her small town rise to become the most popular governor in the country, and would hail her as a champion of women’s rights being that she is a woman that has achieved all of this political notoriety without an ex-president husband or a silver spoon shoved in her mouth. Instead, however, the Left is gritting its teeth over Sarah Palin. They know that this conservative that is sometimes being compared to Ronald Reagan is trouble for them and they don’t understand why. They don’t get it.
The left has attacked Sarah Palin for her inexperience while the man that is at the top of their ticket has even less experience than her, and no executive experience as a leader. Sarah Palin is being attacked for pursuing her political career with a special needs child at home while those accusing her of this are the same folks that have pushed for abortion (and would have aborted their baby had they been in Palin’s place) and who have pushed women to be in the workplace as the children at home become latch-key kids. Sarah Palin is being accused of being a secessionist because of a single speech she gave, while Obama spent over twenty years attending a church headed by an anti-American preacher, and while Obama called Frank Marshall Davis his mentor when the man was a well known communist bent on bringing down American Society.
The hypocrisy of the Left, and the baseless attacks from the leftwing media, on Sarah Palin disgusts me. Rather than recognizing Palin’s speech last night for what it was (phenomenal), they are grasping for more straws in a mad scramble to discredit her before she becomes too popular.
After listening to Palin’s speech last night, I am excited about this ticket, and no longer feel like I need to hold my nose to vote for the Republican offering for President and Vice President of the United States of America.
If Ronald Reagan could see this ticket, he’d be looking down upon us smiling.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
YOU WROTE “Obama called Frank Marshall Davis his mentor when the man was a well known communist bent on bringing down American Society.”
RESPONSE: Obama did not call Frank Marshall Davis his mentor, nor was Davis a “well known communist,” nor was he “bent on bringing down American Society.” It looks like you may have been hoodwinked by a right-wing disinformation campaign, coordinated by “Accuracy In Media” (AIM), and irrefutably documented at http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/Kaleokualoha.
The Obama specifically rejects the claim of mentorship in the rebuttal to the Corsi book:
“LIE: “But the key role Frank Marshall Davis plays in the autobiography is not to provide Obama with words from his poems as a voice for Obama’s black rage. Instead Davis is the mentor Obama seeks for wisdom and advice, for instance when he has a crisis with his grandmother that was so traumatic Obama still mentions it today.†[p 87]
REALITY: OBAMA MEMOIR CHARACTERIZED FRANK DAVIS MARSHALL AS A FIGURE FROM HIS YOUTH WHO “FELL SHORT†AND WHOSE VIEW OF RACE WAS “INCURABLE.â€
Edgar Tidwell, whom AIM’s Cliff Kincaid cites as “an expert on the life and writings of Davis,” demolishes right-wing misrepresentation of Davis’s radical influence in one simple paragraph:
“Although my research indicates that Davis joined the CPUSA as a “closet member” during World War II, there is no evidence that he was a Stalinist, or even a Party member before WWII. Further, to those attempting to make the specious stand for the concrete, there is no evidence that he instructed Barack Obama in communist ideology. Frank Marshall Davis did NOT believe in overthrowing the USA. He was committed to what the nation professed to be. For him, communism was primarily an intellectual vehicle to achieve a political end-a possible tool for gaining the constitutional freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for ALL Americans.”
The AIM disinformation campaign stacks available evidence, not unlike the reprehensible actions of ex-D.A. Mike Nifong in the Duke Lacrosse case, in order to support their political agenda. AIM cites Tidwell’s conclusions when they supports AIM’s agenda, while ignoring Tidwell’s conclusions when they refute AIM’s agenda. AIM even fabricates bogus evidence. This disinformation campaign is similar in style, albeit dissimilar in quality, to the Bush administration’s “deliberate misrepresentation” of the Iraqi threat prior to the invasion. Many people of integrity have nevertheless swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
I challenge your readers of integrity to review the documentation of AIM’s specific misrepresentation regarding the Davis-Obama relationship, and to refute any of the items if possible. I am a retired Air Force Military Intelligence Officer, with specific CIA training in Deception Analysis in 1989. You will find that the case for disinformation is ironclad.
If Accuracy In Media had authentic evidence of Davis’s radical influence on Obama, they would not need to fabricate evidence such as misrepresenting public records of Congressional testimony. To do so insults the intelligence of everyone of integrity with access to such public records and other source documents.