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From the
Desk of Chairman Robert A. Gleason, Jr.
Friends in Low Places
Presidents
are faced with many unexpected challenges during their tenures in office that test their
character and judgment in unimaginable ways. Thus, it should come as no surprise that in
the final days and weeks of this campaign season, voters are beginning to ask serious
questions about the decisions made by our candidates, including with who they choose to
associate. John McCain’s history is highlighted by a career of service to our
country. The fabric of Barack Obama’s story is a lingering association with an
unrepentant couple who had knowingly and eagerly committed acts of domestic terrorism on
the United States of America.
William
Ayers spent his youth leading the Weather Underground, a terrorist organization that
bombed both the Pentagon and the United States Capitol. While John McCain was sitting in a
Vietnamese prison camp while serving our country, William Ayers’ was orchestrating
the bombing of the United States Pentagon on Ho Chi Minh’s birthday. An admirer of
the carnage of bombs (The New York Times called it his “love affair with
explosives”); Ayers lived by a strict mantra that included “Bring the revolution
home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.”
Amazingly,
Barack Obama’s first known interaction with Ayers occurred when the young lawyer
joined the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a radical left-wing organization co-founded by
Ayers which focused exploring alternative forms of education. They attended over a
dozen meetings of the organization together, and were given the assignment of co-authoring
the group’s by-laws. The duo also served together on the board of the Woods
Foundation during a period when Ayers espoused to the Times that “I
don’t regret setting bombs…I feel we didn’t do enough.”
It is
certainly troubling, then, that Barack Obama would start his political career in the home
of Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn. While John McCain was refusing
an early release from his prison camp, Bernadine Dohrn spent her time on the F.B.I.’s
10 Most Wanted List. It is quite disturbing, then, that Barack Obama
would choose the home of these two defiant terrorists to host his first political event.
When faced
with these facts on the campaign trail, the Obama campaign has stated that their candidate
barely got to know William Ayers in the thirteen known years of their relations. However,
when questioned, Obama Senior Adviser Robert Gibbs openly admitted that he
“didn’t know the details” of aspects of the Obama-Ayers relationship.
These types
of associations are not minor issues. During his early and formative political years,
Barack Obama associated himself with terrorists, at least one of whom said, “I
don’t want to discount the possibility” of performing similar actions in the
future. These are serious allegations that are absolutely warranted
given the information that has been uncovered.
We are in the midst of the
most important election of our lifetime. The health of our country depends on the
outcome on November 4th. We must not elect a man who
persistently aligns himself with those who advocate violent acts against the United States
of America, and fondly recall their own. We need a leader who will
fight terrorists, not accept them and their donations for his own personal political gain.
Simply put, we need a leader that will put America first, and that is
not Barack Obama: that’s John McCain.
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PAGOP: Obama - A Terrorist's Best Friend
HARRISBURG - Republican Party of
Pennsylvania Chairman Robert A. Gleason, Jr. released the following statement regarding
Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers, a terrorist who helped found a group
called the Weather Underground. The Weather Underground is a left-wing extremist
group that was responsible for bombing both the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon in the
70’s. The group was also responsible for a pipe bomb that killed a San
Francisco police officer in 1970.
“Barack Obama’s
association with terrorist Bill Ayers is alarming and absolutely deserves to be
questioned,” Gleason said. “We are electing someone to be our next
Commander-in-Chief and I think it is more than fair to look into their background.
The Obama Campaign admitted that Obama and Ayers were ‘certainly friendly’ and
that says a lot about Barack Obama’s character. Ayers’ is a terrorist, and
there is no denying that the group he founded attacked our country and killed innocent
Americans.
“Obama claims that he
didn’t know about Ayers background as a terrorist, but I find that hard to believe.
Ayers past is well known and he has been quoted in numerous articles, including in The New York Times where he said
that he thought he didn’t do enough and wishes that he would have set off more
bombs. What does it say about the character of Barack Obama that he knowingly
associates with terrorists? It tells me that Obama lacks the judgment and character
to be our next Commander-in-Chief.”
To continue reading this article, follow this link.
Palin: Obama
"Palling Around With Terrorists"
By: Jimmy Orr
Christian Science Monitor
It’s “time to take
the gloves off,” Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin said on Saturday
before launching an attack that sought to link Barack Obama to a violent, 1960s-era
radical group.
No ramp-up time was needed for
Palin, fresh off last Thursday night’s debate. She hit the ground in Colorado and
California, ’spittin’ fire’ as the folksy governor might say.
“Our opponent … is
someone who sees America it seems as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with
terrorists who would target their own country,” she said, referring to a co-founder
of the 1960s-era Weather Underground, an organization the FBI labeled as a domestic
terrorist group.
The co-founder, Bill Ayers,
now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, served on a board with Obama and
held a fundraiser for him in 1995. Obama has condemned the actions of Ayers, and many
media organizations have discounted any ongoing relationship between the two.
New York Times
In
discussing Obama and Ayers, Palin cited the newspaper that the McCain-Palin campaign
regards as a foe.
“I get to bring this up
not to pick a fight, but it was there in the New York Times, so we are gonna talk about
it,” she said. “Turns out one of Barack’s earliest supporters is a man who,
according to the New York Times, and they are hardly ever wrong, was a domestic terrorist
and part of a group that quote launched a campaign of bombings that would target the
Pentagon and US Capitol. Wow. These are the same guys who think patriotism is paying
higher taxes.”
To continue reading this article, follow this link.
Senator
Specter Endorses Lou Barletta
HAZLETON – This evening,
in front of a packed room, at the Woodlands Inn in Luzerne County, U.S. Senator Arlen
Specter endorsed Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta in his race for Congress in Pennsylvania's
11th District.
Sen. Specter said, “Lou
Barletta has won the confidence of both parties and that's really quite an accomplishment.
“Lou is just the kind of
a person you need to represent you in Washington. I am very proud to call him a friend and
I am very much looking forward to having him join me on Capitol Hill.”
Mayor Barletta said, “I
am honored to have Senator Specter's support. I look forward to working with him in
Washington to solve the problems facing America.”
Earlier Monday, Mayor Barletta
participated in Senator Specter's conference with healthcare professionals and citizens
regarding the cancer cluster in Luzerne, Carbon and Schuylkill counties.
GOP State Treasurer Candidate Tom
Ellis Endorsed By The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
PITTSBURGH – On the
heels of a poll showing the campaign for State Treasurer a statistical dead heat,
Republican candidate for Pennsylvania State Treasurer, Tom Ellis, today announced his
endorsement by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
“I am honored to receive
the endorsement of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.” Tom Ellis stated. Ellis
continued by saying “I have been traveling across the Commonwealth spreading my
message of leadership, accountability and experience and I am proud that this editorial
board agrees with my message!”
Ellis has been with the law
firm of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll for over 22 years, practicing public
finance. Ellis concentrates his practice on financial matters for school districts,
municipalities, counties, colleges and universities.
In addition to his legal
practice, Ellis brings with him practical executive government experience. Ellis has
been a Township Commissioner and until last year was the Chairman of the Board of
Commissioners for Montgomery County, where he managed the budget of the 3rd largest county
in Pennsylvania.
In reporting the endorsement
the Post Gazette stated that “Mr. Ellis has interesting ideas on campaign finance
reform (which Mr. McCord is not much interested in) and improving the state's college
tuition savings program.”They continued by saying “Our choice is Republican Tom
Ellis for State Treasurer. He is the steady hand without the big ties to Wall
Street.”
Ellis is a life-long resident
of Pennsylvania and attended both college and law school at the University of
Pennsylvania. He lives in Cheltenham with his children Rachael and Rebecca.
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