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ALtab's avatar

Yes, Bill Ayers was definitely ‘placed’ in advance to prepare the way as well as to sustain the puppet, Obama.

I lived through the time Ayers and Bernadette did what they were programmed and paid to do. No justice for them, yet, but there will be.

Sally Zelikovsky's avatar

In some ways it feels like yesterday and in other ways it seems like several lifetimes ago. Touche Jack. You deserve(d) a Pulitzer on this. And I remember Rush that day! And…Thomas gave u a break and u later told me to send my first article to him and he published it — without your name I doubt he’d have ever read my email!

Jack Cashill's avatar

Thomas follows this substack, an American original.

Stu Tarlowe's avatar

Me too, me too! Jack encouraged me to submit material to American Thinker (and to mention his name), and I've been doing so (and getting published!) for some 15 years now!

reality speaks's avatar

Obama was and always has been a fraud,

Susan Daniels's avatar

When I read " they oeuvred themselves out of business.." I laughed out loud. I had essentially the same experience starting in 2009 when no one would listen to me about Obama's phony SSN, which Rush also mentioned on his show, but without my name. We were both right and had the receipts.

Frank Santora's avatar

A lot of us Americans saw Obama as the phony he was. The left wing media did a good job of intimidation on the public and apparently on the publications you mentioned. They were playing it safe as it looked like everyone wanted to be able to say they backed the first black president, even if only by not attacking him.

McCain as a candidate made it easy; a poor choice, the media remembered him from his days of talking to the enemy in a Viet Cong prison camp and his not so impressive inclusion as one of the Keating Five. Even if he was completely innocent in both incidents, it was easy for them to lay low.

They should have listened to you

Jack Cashill's avatar

When the media call a Republican a "Maverick," it is time to count the silverware.

Jeanette Cyr's avatar

Jack, you are so right—I never saw it that way—this should’ve been a big clue back then!

Frank Santora's avatar

I know he wasn't, I don't believe he was innocent in either Viet Nam or Keating. He was let off the hook because his father was a high ranking & respected naval officer with no scandals on his record. They didn't want to embarrass the father. McCain later showed his true worth with his vote that allowed Obama Care to ruin medical coverage.

Susan Daniels's avatar

Worse than that, in the early ‘90s, he got a law passed that stopped our country from trying to find any more MIA or POWs from the Vietnam War. He was trying to hide the role he played as “Songbird.”

Frank Santora's avatar

Those that did return were not McCain fans, I don't know if any were with him in that "prison" but these men did not like him for a reason. If they were held in the same camp, they may have been beaten to demonstrate it would happen to him if he did not co-operate . I'm sure he was targeted by his captors who knew he was the son of a high ranking officer. That was enough for them to target him but the others suffered greatly for it. Word gets around with many in those circumstances

Susan Daniels's avatar

He was treated well. I read he made thirty-two radiocasts for them. They did not break his arms. He broke them himself when he ejected incorrectly. He previously crashed two multi-million dollar planes.

Frank Santora's avatar

I knew about the arms, Knew of one but wasn't aware of him crashing TWO planes

Cheesefrog's avatar

Obama starts his political career in the home of a domestic terrorist and no one bats an eye. Kind of says it all.

Noah Otte's avatar

In October 2008, Jack might well have changed the course of American History. Calling Barack Obama maybe “the best writer in American history since Lincoln!” Is a HUGE stretch and not even remotely close to true. Obama was actually a terrible writer and depended on far-left terrorist Bill Ayers to write Dreams from My Father. Obama also lied about the extent of their relationship. He wasn’t just “some guy who lives on my block.” He was a close friend and associate who helped Obama get his political career off the ground. The parallels between the two men’s writing is stunning, that’s because they are the same man-Ayers. Jack’s findings could’ve torpedoed Obama’s candidacy had David Remnick, Ta-Nieshi Coates and others not smeared and attacked him, Rush Limbaugh and Andy McCarthy. Look, I never liked Rush Limbaugh, but nothing he said on-air about Jack’s article or Obama’s lies were based on racism and it was all true. The mob had to pick apart what he said and read things into it that weren’t there in response because they couldn’t challenge it on the facts.

Nor were Republicans assertive or unapologetic enough as they are now with Trump in charge, to go after Obama harder. These are the reasons the potential October Surprise of 2008 never happened. John McCain might well have become the 44th President of the United States not Obama. This scandal should’ve gotten more attention from the press. Obama should’ve been questioned about who actually wrote his books by every media outlet in the country! His ties to Ayers (and Louis Farrakhan) should’ve been more closely scrutinized. Jack’s findings absolutely deserved a closer look! As for Coates, he’s a piece of garbage, an Obama shill and a cheap smear merchant and race hustler. When Trump was in office, he pronounced doom for American race relations but when Biden became President he all of a sudden became an optimist. How curious! Coates is a clown who would make MLK roll over in his grave. He’s the favorite writer of partisan Democrats racked by white guilt.

I remember how Obama was lionized before he became President and compared to FDR, JFK and MLK. He never came anywhere close to being on the same level with those American icons. He was treated with kid gloves because he was the first black President. But let’s be clear, there are plenty of skeletons in Obama’s closet from when he was President. Let me remind everyone that Obama bombed eight countries, withdrew from Iraq too quickly and opened the door for ISIS to rise to power, negotiated the disastrous Iran Deal, prosecuted whistleblowers harshly, expanded the national security state, did the Fast and the Furious Scandal, embraced identity politics, turned Libya into a failed state with open slave markets, and appointed Hillary Clinton Secretary of State who did a horrible job. His Presidency wasn’t some golden years for the country. Since he’s left office, he’s become extremely out of touch too. The media should have focused on what Trump said about the book and NOT the stupid birth certificate allegations which were idiotic and Trump was rightly roundly mocked for.

Susan Daniels's avatar

You forgot that he used a stolen Connecticut SSN starting in his mid-20s. That is a violation of federal law, which means that everything he did for eight years was illegal and any laws he signed that are still in effect continue to be illegal. I still have the receipts.

ALtab's avatar

He was nothing more but a created Manchurian puppet.

Grape Soda's avatar

His family was wired into the spook shop from the get-go. Without their help (employing their specialty, the selective disappearance of relevant evidence) he’d never have made it. But it was his behavior in office that seals this hypothesis. He was careful to give certain players what they wanted - “foam the runways” anyone? But my current hypothesis is that he hoped to use his position to leverage his establishment power to bring into being a more socialist America. I don’t think one can make sense of the huge lurch to the left by his party without accounting for his influence. I surmise that important people in the spook shops, being used to the megalomania that unaccountable power produces, were on board with the further concentration of power in a centralized system. It doesn’t matter what you call it. In the game of power, ordinary people are always the pawns.

ALtab's avatar

VERY astute assessment!

Dan Hird's avatar

The media focused on the fraudulent birth certificate with the same gravity it gave your fraudulent author theory (you convinced me way back then). I put up a convincing critique of its authenticity the same day Obama put up his long form BC. They shadowbanned me within a week. Even knowing the date, April 27, 2011, won't help you find it on youtube. It's there. But you nor anyone else will be able find it. The keywords "Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate" are in the title. Bottom line: Obama was protected from every side via the race card. If you want the exact link, Jack, just ask.

Albert Cory's avatar

I think your conscience should be clear. The liberal reaction to your American Thinker piece shows you what they would have done if you'd been in National Review or Fox News, except it would have been louder and longer. It wouldn't have brought him down because they were determined to prop him up.

Jim Moore's avatar

Thanks for the look back, Jack … I didn’t know details about that particular fraudulent aspect of “The One” as faux author. So disappointing and disillusioning to learn about the scale of so-called conservative media’s cowardice and hypocrisy … that old racism tag can freeze just about everybody, still to this day. Loved RUSH throughout his amazing career as a national broadcaster. Your review of his role in the ‘08 incident makes me miss him even more …

David Merrifield's avatar

Bill was a member of the terrorist group “The Weathermen”.

Jack Cashill's avatar

Wife Bernardine Dohrn was the Weather Pin-up.

Stu Tarlowe's avatar

Don't forget his earlier flame, Diana Oughton, who, with 2 other Weathermen, perished in 1970 when the nail bomb she, Ayers and others were building (intended for soldiers at Ft. Dix, NJ) exploded in a Greenwich Village townhouse.

If I recall correctly, you exposed that Obama's supposed "recollection" of a former girlfriend was actually an Ayers-penned composite based on Oughton. Have ANY former flames of Obama ever surfaced? (Larry Sinclair doesn't count.)

HEIDI's avatar

The narcissistic communist Ayers lives inside 0bama’s, and EVERY demoncrat's heart and soul. They hate America. They thrive on dependency. Objections to anything they read, write, say are met w venomous accusations based on projection.

V3's avatar

Man if it still meant anything, you should have won multiple Pulitzer prizes. One of the few gifts of this era is becoming familiar with your work. As an aside, I am also amazed at the way the left co-opted the entire country into believing that America would be given absolution, now and forever, for every national sin, perceived or real, by electing Barack Obama. We could feel good about ourselves again and he was an appealing vehicle. Indeed, it was some sort of cosmic national transcendence all built on complete horseshit. Your leftist boomer, with their narcissistic, self-aggrandizing guilt can’t pass from the stage quickly enough.

Jack Cashill's avatar

Thanks for the kind words.

Kenn Goodwin's avatar

Obama was installed like Carter and FJB. Does anyone remember the picture of Che Guevara on his desk?

Stu Tarlowe's avatar

I remember that one or both the Obama daughters sported Ché Guevara T-shirts!

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Jeanette Cyr's avatar

Chairman Mao ornaments, for real?

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Jeanette Cyr's avatar

Thanks for explaining that Christopher—guess we’ve got to hand it to them—just when we think we’ve seen all the layers there’s more.

Jenny Hendley's avatar

Perfectly said Jack. ❤️🤍💙