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Obama asks DOJ to stop anti-Obama ad

Remember how the left has been petrified for nearly a decade that the Bu$hitler McCheneyburton DOJ would be called upon to stifle free speech?  Well, as luck would have it, the left was right…just not in the manner they expected.  From Politico:

Sen. Barack Obama has launched an all-out effort to block a Republican billionaire’s efforts to tie him to domestic and foreign terrorists in a wave of negative television ads.

Obama’s campaign has written the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of the “American Issues Project,” the vehicle through which Dallas investor Harold Simmons is financing the advertisements. The Obama campaign — and tens of thousands of supporters — also is pressuring television networks and affiliates to reject the ads. The effort has met with some success: CNN and Fox News are not airing the attacks.

Wait…I thought Fox News was a tool of the right?  Anywho, continuing:

Bauer’s letter called on the Justice Department to open “an investigation of the American Issues Project; its officers and directors; and its anonymous donors, whoever they may be.”
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The Obama campaign plans to punish the stations that air the ad financially, an Obama aide said, organizing his supporters to target the stations that air it and their advertisers. 

If that’s not a stunning example of fascism by a presidential candidate who doesn’t give a wet fart on a dry January Monday about the First Amendment, I really don’t know what is.

What’s so objectionable about the ad?

The ad focuses on Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers, a Hyde Park acquaintance at whose home Obama attended a gathering early in his political career. Ayers is a complicated figure: professor and adviser to the mayor of Chicago despite not having repented his past as a domestic terrorist with the Weather Underground.

If, by “Ayers is a complicated figure”, they mean “an unrepentant domestic terrorist”, then yeah…”complicated”!

Anemic retort from The One:

Obama has launched a response ad, which addresses McCain directly, and will air in Ohio, Tracey said. “With all our problems, why is John McCain talking about the ’60s, trying to link Barack Obama to radical Bill Ayers?” says Obama’s ad. “McCain knows Obama denounced Ayers’ crimes, committed when Obama was just 8 years old.” 

Response from the McCain campaign:

“The fact that [Obama] is launching his own convention by defending his long association with a man who says he didn’t bomb enough U.S. targets tells us more about Barack Obama than any of tonight’s speeches will,” said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers. 

Darn right.

The Obamination’s assertion that he should be absolved of his poor judgment (associating with Bill Ayers) because O was only eight when Ayers was happily bombing America is patently absurd.  Let’s say that I’m pals with Charles Manson.  Before you call me a sicko for being friends with Manson, let me remind you that I wasn’t even born when Manson and his minions went on their rampage, m’kay?  So step off!

Anywho, as you can see, it’s not the right that works to stifle free speech in the country…it’s the thin-skinned reality-averse left.

The Obamination looks down his nose on the First Amendment

August 26, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | McCain, Obama, shameful