Adding to the growing mountain of evidence that Barack Obama either intensely dislikes the very country of which he wants to be elected president, or at the very least surrounds himself with those who do, news is breaking that one of Obama's big money donation "bundlers" is virulently anti-military and a supporter of Hugo Chavez -- the well-known Venezuelan dictator famous for his hateful anti-American rhetoric. There is even a photo of Obama "bundler" and Code Pink operative Jodie Evans arm-in-arm with Hugo Chavez. (Evans is the red head in the middle)
Code Pink has been at the forefront of the anti-war movement and has involved itself in many attacks on our members of the military. They've even targeted the wounded for their attacks on the war in Iraq. Because of this connection, pro-troop groups are demanding that Obama return the $50,000 that Code Pink operative Evans gathered from her associates to donate to the Obama campaign.
Catherine Moy of Human Events details some of Code Pink's campaigns against our wounded troops in her latest blog posting.
Code Pink has also waged a campaign of psychological warfare against America's wounded warriors and their families by protesting at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, targeting them with signs bearing messages such as “Maimed for a lie” and “Enlist here and die for Halliburton,” the joint statement from pro-troops groups said.
Moy also recounts that Evans sat on the board of directors for a radical environazi group called Rain Forest Action Network (RAN) a group also connected to the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front, groups that the FBI have reported are responsible for more than 600 criminal acts causing more than $43 million in damages over the last few decades.
Evans has been an organizer and operative of Code Pink since September of 2002.
Melanie Morgan also gives us a little reminder of some more of Code Pink's greatest hits:
Kicked out of Pakistan after protesting the Pakistani governments efforts to combat the jihadists operating in that country, Code Pink's leaders have also been some of the strongest proponents of former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's regime. Code Pink leader Medea Benjamin even renounced the United States and moved to Cuba before being kicked out by the government there. Turns out, even tyrants have standards. Who knew?
These are pretty radical organizations that sponsor some pretty dangerous and fierce anti-capitalist, anti-American campaigns. Is this the sort of extreme hater that a candidate of "change" and a candidate that says we should "come together" should be accepting assistance from? Should a candidate that wants a "new" politics be so happy to take the donations of someone who has led groups that have perpetrated acts of domestic terror? Should Barack Obama be so quick to accept money from a woman who has planned campaigns to harass our wounded soldiers as they try to heal in the hospital?
Another pressing question is, will the MSM report this story? Will the MSM tell the country that their vaunted candidate of "change" and "civility" is working with people responsible for acts of terrorism against Americans?
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The money is bundled, Obama
April 15, 2008 - 00:33 ET by bigtimerThe money is bundled, Obama will not return it, the msm will not report this as any big deal...if they report on this at all.
Simple as that.
The Hopeful Changer will keep the change.
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
The Hopeful Changer will
April 15, 2008 - 06:56 ET by motherbeltThe Hopeful Changer will keep the change.
Good one, I like that!!
If a big enough stink is made, what will happen is that Obama will say that we need to have a national "conversation" about protest groups like Code Pink. He will then lecture us on their "frustrations" and "fears" and explain that while he doesn't agree with them, he intends to be President of all Americans. And he can't turn his back on Hugo Chavez either, because he has said he will talk to everyone, without preconditions.
Update: Here's another look at this story from Ben Johnson
Big
April 15, 2008 - 12:10 ET by ahusserI think your Winston Churchill quote is coming true.
McCain should be quiet and let Obama self-destruct. Obama needs to help the poor left wing radicals who are bitterly clinging to their Dictators and failed Socialism.
Hillary to the rescue?
April 15, 2008 - 06:17 ET by ThisnThatThe MSM won't report this (they're in the tank). McCain won't comment on this (because of his milktoast approach). The GoP won't comment on this (I don't even know why the GoP exists anymore, to tell the truth). So who's left???
HILLARY. Seems she's the only one trying to hammer Obama these days, and guess what -- she's running into the same passive resistance we've experienced for decades. But at least she's trying.
Shows how desparate we have become, relying upon a socialist to expose the most hateful set of presidential candidate/supporters that ever existed.
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amateur
April 15, 2008 - 06:29 ET by JWFThis guy is an amateur and should not be this close to the Presidency. The only reason he is this close is because the MSM absolutely refuses to vet Democrat candidates. All this stuff comes out too late in the campaign for any other plausible candidates to have a chance.
I think this actually works in a backwards way for the Republicans. They know they will be put through a grinder and the guys with real bones in thier closet don't even try. The guys that do get through the grinder have little toe bones and those are brought out early enough and when there is still enough candidates in the race, that the public will decide if they want to keep them in the race.
The media
April 15, 2008 - 09:04 ET by iveseenitallBlame the "journalists" again. They refused to do their job because this guy is black and a "liberal". Irresponsible as Hell, but what's new? Anyone over 50 surely must have seen how Barry reflects the 60's radicals, those virulent anti-American communists who despised everything about our nation. They ignored it. Jimmy Cartah now wants to meet with the enemies of the free world. Obama is just a younger version of the feckless one. Ironically, the Dims are now stuck with the guy.
I went to college in the 60's and had to suffer these fools in class after class, especially at the state-run "universities". They indoctinated and trained guys like Rev.Wrong, who in turn brainwashed people like the Obamas. They despise "white" America, its values, and its way of life. But, unfortunately for them, they often can't keep their mouths shut long enough to win election to the presidency. Cartah did and look what happened. Obama won't, and thank God for that.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Obama mania
April 15, 2008 - 11:02 ET by merlin61Every day more and more is being found out about
this MSM "Messiah". We need this information
to keep coming, and to prevent this man from
ever becoming President. I believe he's a very,
very weak candidate and is overblown by the
liberal media. A wolf in sheep's clothing
beware, beware, beware!!!!!
I don't know if you can blame the media on this one
April 15, 2008 - 11:19 ET by jefflebowskiIveseenitall, I don't know. I guess every 30 or 40 years of prosperity and relative peace, America needs to have a Jimmy "the worst American ever born" Carter. It seems like a large percentage can't understand that "change" can also be bad....a la Carter and Osama.
There are enough alternative sources of news available for anyone wanting to view various sides of any issue. I haven't watched or read the MSM for years and consider myself to be better informed than ever. There just are a lot of spoiled, rich, unappreciative people who have never had to struggle. If you want to blame anyone, I say start with $6 cups of coffee at Starbucks! I really believe that the next 4 years are going to be very difficult for most of us. After that, maybe the next Reagan will appear and lead. He won't be a Republican, he will be a Conservative. Anyway, just a few thoughts. And I agree, never trust a liberal!
Money Can't Buy Me Love
April 15, 2008 - 12:10 ET by acumenAnd what does Code Pink hope to buy with this 50K?
"The bottom line is that: Obama sent a clear signal that -- unlike impeachment, which he's ruled out and which now seems a practical impossibility -- he is at the least open to the possibility of investigating potential high crimes in the Bush White House."
Cindy Sheehan - geeze
April 15, 2008 - 12:46 ET by Gary HallCindy Sheehan - geeze
Just seeing her picture again brings up so much -- hatred of the media - that they ever carry her voice or her picture in the news.
Why wouldn't the president meet with Cindy Sheehan? No, no no. The question should always been, why won't the president meet with you "again?"
And the most ridiculous statement of all out of this floozy. In the aftermath of Katrina, when finally President Bush had got thru to the hapless Gov. Blanco (who admitted on camera that she had screwed up on this) and got the troops into New Oreans to restore order and civility, Sheehan popped off with: "George Bush needs to stop talking .. [and] pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans."
What?
Friends
April 15, 2008 - 21:23 ET by badger.I still can't figure out what Sheehan is gesturing in the photo. Is that the lazy, I'm cool school, give peace a chance symbol? Maybe secret code, I'm a hip gangsta hanging with Scarface, "talk to my little friend"Tony Montana whannabe? Teaching gangsta to my little friends for life.... Funny!