As the McCain campaign starts to get some traction with a message on taxes and moves away from Ayers/Wright, the 527s pick up the slack. This morning on Fox News Sunday, a group called the National Republican Trust PAC ran an ad linking Obama to Jeremiah Wright. They will put $2.5 million into running the ad in Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio in these last desperate days.
Needless to say, the issues are not even on the GOP radar screen as they seek to continue painting a very ugly, scare campaign against Obama. He is a socialist, terrorist, Palestinian sympathizer / enemy of Israel, radical, Muslim, anti-American son of a bitch. He wasn't native born, he spent his entire college career being guided by the PLO, post college, he freely associated with radical enemies of the state, he is risky, scary, inexperienced, and Black. Watch this nostalgic ad and tell me they aren't the swift boat party.
The National Republican Trust PAC also ran a campaign against Obama over drivers' licenses to illegal immigrants, with a blast email entitled "Obama’s Plan: Mohamed Atta Gets His Driver’s License." FactCheck.org said that the Atta ad "mixes a pile of false claims and the image of 9/11 mastermind Mohammed Atta to create one of the sleaziest false TV ads of the campaign." They indicate that the NRT PAC is run by a former writer for the Moonie Insight magazine:
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Hey Kimba.
My dad was an antique packrat. He lived in a one-bedroom apartment and had stuff stacked floor to ceiling. He died Saturday evening... the hospital sent him home with us to die. they gave him 2-months if he was lucky. He came home with us (cleared out our living room) on Wednesday and I watched him take his last breath Saturday (the 25th). To wit: That was very hard... Because it isn't like you can dial 911. The whole purpose of him coming so he could pass as comfortable as the situation could afford.
(Background) His old-school Pentecostal/TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) leanings made him not go in for the troubles he was having about two-years ago. When it was discovered he had colon cancer he denied it at first saying the Devil was a liar. He and I had an argument in front of the doctor in her office where I told him if he didn’t get the operation we were through. He then forcefully rebuked me by saying, “Get behind me Satan!” Yes, the guy trying to get him to have a life saving operation was belittles to the level of Satan.
Well, he finally did it. But he never went back for a single follow up with the specialist. They said that the cancer had perforated the colon wall and that there might be cancer elsewhere in his body. They wanted to do chemo-therapy... he refused to acknowledge his sickness and so denied any further treatment. Fast-forward to a week and a half ago and he was sitting in Kaiser Hospital almost begging the doctor to give him chemo to extend his life. The doctors pulled up his chart and showed him the CT-scan of his lungs. They were almost completely full of cancer, which is why he could barely breath. So we got him home that Wednseday and he basically suffocated to death in front of me. ...
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Kimba, that was the hardest thing I had to do. Was watch a man -- let alone my dad -- die in front of me. ...
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Like I said, that was Saturday night. I said we better start on his place Sunday. It took six 10-hour days to finish his place. We had an appraiser ($125 an hour -- it took only one hour) to point to stuff (mainly paintings) that were worthy of keeping. He had about 12 worth over $1,000. There was a wood filing cabinet that was made about 1910 (they stopped making them about the 20’s or 30’s). It’s valued at about $700-800 -- that will help pay for the cremation when sold. But we donated $1,000’s of dollars worth of antiques and knick-knacks he had collected over the years to a Lutheran second-hand store and got a receipt for a tax write off. But it took us 6-full days to finish. The wife and I were beat. We took Saturday to finish up odds and ends, memorial cards, the eulogy, and the like. And today was the service.
I -- as politely as possible -- spoke about a healthy-and-well-balanced theology that interpreted Isaiah 53:4-5 on a way that afforded people the view that doctors are a blessing. I will post it soon (maybe tomorrow). At any rate. This week has been tough. Usually I have my voter guide up by now but haven’t had the time.
I will post a eulogy for my dad tomorrow and maybe the “sermon” I preached to these wayward Christians. Much Thought...
PapaG
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