GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - October 17, 2008
Only 18 days until the election! Early voting has already started!
DAILY HERALD
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: Will Ayers and his supporters stage a protest this evening in "privileged" Glen Ellyn? Will journalists Jerry Moore and Ken Vanko cover the event this evening or will they just continue to harass Diersen (see below)? The Milton Township Republican Central Committee (MTRCC) will host its 29th Oktoberfest fundraiser in the beautiful Abbington Banquet Hall in "privileged" Republican Glen Ellyn this evening. All Republicans are invited. Tickets are still available. Attendees last year included Arndt, Biggins, Birkett, Bucholz, Coladipietro, Cronin, Dillard, Fortner, Grogan, Henry, Hill, Hultgren, Kachiroubas, Martin, Meyer, Murphy, Pankau, Pihos, Roskam, Ruscitti, Rutherford, Sauerberg, Siekmann, Smith, and Zaruba. For information on this year's event, phone MTRCC Vice Chairman Chris Edwards at 773-620-3601. Ayers calls Republican DuPage County, Republican Milton Township, and Republican Glen Ellyn a "ghetto of privilege." Does that explain why so many limousine liberals are moving to DuPage County, to Milton Township, and to Glen Ellyn instead of to Hyde Park, to Oak Park, and to Evanston?
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=243341
(THE ARTICLE: Bill Ayers' suburban ties - Jamie Stonoff Today, he's a topic of debate in the presidential campaign. But Bill Ayers started out as a smart kid from a wealthy Glen Ellyn family. His father was a CEO of ComEd, and he lived a "privileged" suburban life while a student at Glenbard West High School and Lake Forest Academy. "I grew up in a ghetto. A ghetto of privilege," he said during an interview at Harper College in 2006. "My parents didn't know a single person who opposed the war in Vietnam." Ayers would go on to be a radical anti-war protester, and in the 1960s, helped form the group, The Weathermen (later known as the Weather Underground). To protest the Vietnam War and what they saw as the racist, corrupt men running the government, Ayers and his group resorted to violence. It began in 1969, with a window smashing spree on Chicago's Gold Coast known as "Days of Rage," and escalated to planting bombs in government buildings. When Ayers ended up on the FBI's Most Wanted list in 1970, Ayers and other Weathermen members went "underground." Ayers didn't resurface again until 1980. The story is told in an Academy Award-nominated documentary film by Chicagoan Bill Siegel, "The Weather Underground." Both Ayers and his wife, fellow Weather Underground member Bernardine Dohrn, have since become esteemed professors, authors and activists for a wide range of causes both locally and globally. "I can't imagine doing now what we did then," Dohrn said in the 2006 interview. Ayers is laying low and declining media interviews, as his connection to Barack Obama is now under scrutiny.)
-- This is the time for prosecutor raises - Joseph E. Birkett, DuPage County State's Attorney, Wheaton
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=243266
-- Truth about Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae - Mike Di Pompeo, Glendale Heights
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=243260
-- Federal officials were malfeasant - David Harris, Arlington Heights (DIERSEN: Sadly, virtually all federal employees are Democrats.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=243238&src=
-- We can't afford to be a sanctuary state - R. Kent Clark, Wheeling
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=243233&src=
-- Cable TV the new attack zone for House district 56, 66 races - Sue Ter Maat
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=243360
-- Wide difference in 6th District campaign coffers - Marni Pyke
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=243370
-- Candidates in 43rd House Distinct tout their platforms - Harry Hitzeman
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=243415
-- 33rd Senate District: GOP hopeful attacks incumbent's votes - Joseph Ryan
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=243429
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: DuPage County Board District 5: Daily Herald employee Jim Davis promotes candidate Tony Michelassi
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=243314
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: OBAMA OVERJOYED: Howard Miller of Batavia says McCain and Palin do not tell the truth
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=242304&src=
-- Bean still way ahead in fundraising race - Russell Lissau
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=243230&src=1
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
-- VERY SAD: Outpouring of academic support for Bill Ayers - 3,200-plus sign petition for 1960s terrorist linked to Barack Obama - Eric Ferreri
http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/1226103,bill-ayers-petition101608.article
-- VERY SAD: Ayers is an inspiration to UIC students, alumni - Patrick O'Reilly, vice president; Therese Quinn, Ph. D., member, UIC College of Education Alumni Board
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/1226378,CST-EDT-vox17.article
-- At the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner on Thursday night, John McCain and Barack Obama trade comic darts. - Lynn Sweet
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/10/obama_comedy_rift_middle_name.html
-- OUTSTANDING: Palin to headline rally today in Noblesville, Indiana (20 miles north of Indianapolis) - AP
http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/1227218,palin-rally-indiana101708.article
-- 3 reasons why poll numbers will tighten - Steve Huntley
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/1226402,CST-EDT-hunt17.article
-- Sneed hears Barack Obama wants an African American to fill his U.S. Senate seat if he wins the presidency.
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/1226714,CST-NWS-SNEED17.article
-- Obama plans big Chicago bash election night - Lynn Sweet
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/1226720,CST-NWS-sweet17.article
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
-- Obama schools McCain, voters with a soothing cool - John Kass
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-17-oct17,0,1767267.column
-- Early voting may change the game Rich Beeson, political director for the Republican National Committee, agrees. "We've gone from a 72-hour program," he said, referring to the GOP's vaunted turnout effort of elections past, "to a 720-hour program." - Jim Tankersley
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-early_votingoct17,0,7462017.story
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: To threaten an Obama supporter is to help elect Obama -- so anyone who threatens an Obama supporter is not really a McCain supporter and is not really a Republican, he/she is just a thug if not a criminal
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-villa_park_signoct17,0,1501910.story
-- Political rumors, full of sound and fury, fly fast online - Bob Secter
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-campaign-internet-rumorsoct17,0,3782083.story
-- Health care expansion: Give it up, Governor - Editorial
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-1017edit1oct17,0,3337703.story
SOUTHTOWN STAR
-- Illinois congressional incumbents have huge money lead - Dennis Conrad
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1226716,101708CampaignFinance.article
CBS2
-- Very SAD: Obama Backers Get Out Early Vote In Indiana - Mike Flannery
http://cbs2chicago.com/politics/Indiana.voting.Obama.2.842406.html
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: In an effort to paint McCain supporters as racists, CBS2 draws attention to a hateful Obama basher in Kane County and "a Republican woman's group in California"
http://cbs2chicago.com/politics/racism.presidential.campaign.2.842571.html
ABC7
-- Political ad center stage in 10th Congressional District race - Charles Thomas
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/politics&id=6453941
WJBC
-- OUTSTANDING: Illinois Republican Party attorney Brien Sheahan wants election officials to double check registrations - Melissa Hahn and Dara Brockmeyer
http://www.wjbc.com/wire2/news/17160_RegistrationProblemsWEB_113049.htm
CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS
-- Local voter registration levels hit record - Greg Hinz
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=31432
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: Left-leaning Chicago Tribune might not renew its contract with left-leaning Associated Press
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=31436
SUBURBAN CHICAGO NEWS
-- Two vie to replace Meyer in House District 48 - Paige Winfield
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/lislesun/news/1223478,6_1_NA17_DISTRICT48_S1.article
NORTHERN STAR
-- Second candidates forum held in Sycamore - Bri Julius
http://www.northernstar.info/article/4885/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
-- Our GOP "call to arms" - Fran Eaton
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/10/our-gop-call-to.html
-- VIDEO CLIP: Frank Watson gets frank about Obama - Fran Eaton
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/10/watson-gets-fra.html
ILLINOIS ISSUES
-- An Obama presidency could send clout back to the Land of Lincoln - Daniel C. Vock
http://illinoisissues.uis.edu/archives/2008/10/homestate.html
-- The Illinois GOP hopes to close the gap on Democratic legislative majorities. That may not be so easy - Kurt Erickson
http://illinoisissues.uis.edu/archives/2008/10/targettime.html
-- Statehouse press corps keeps dwindling - Dana Heupel
http://illinoisissues.uis.edu/archives/2008/10/editor.html
-- Illinois contests may help to reshape the U.S. House - Aaron Chambers
http://illinoisissues.uis.edu/archives/2008/10/congresscall.html
-- "Pay to play" The governor takes lawmakers' bet on ethics and raises the stakes - Kevin McDermott
(Not posted as of 3:00 PM, Thursday, October 16, 2008)
CHAMPION NEWS
-- Obama-brand liberalism: A brief history lesson - Greg Abbott
http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=1284
-- McCain steals the show at Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner - Cathy Santos
http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=1287
-- National Review, "the corner," facial expressions and comments about the third presidential debate - John Biver
http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=1285
TOM ROESER
-- Axelrod’s Invention of New Debate Rules. Will You Believe Me or Your Own Eyes? Chris Buckley for Obama Abolish the Current Catholic Charities and Form a New One
http://www.tomroeser.com/blogs/blogview.asp?blogID=24782
AMERICANS FOR TRUTH
-- VERY SAD: Another Presidential Non-Debate on Homosexual ‘Marriage’ - Peter LaBarbera
http://americansfortruth.com/news/another-presidential-non-debate-on-homosexual-marriage.html
DAN PROFT
-- AUDIO CLIP: Joe the Plumbers of the World Unite - Dan Proft
http://www.urqmedia.com/content/img/f216615/proft_joe_the_plumber_101608.mp3
BACKYARD CONSERVATIVE
-- OUTSTANDING: Illinois Republican Party Calls on Election Officials in Chicago and Surrounding Areas to Remain Vigilant in Light of ACORN Controversy - Anne Leary
http://backyardconservative.blogspot.com/2008/10/acorn-alert-in-illinois.html
PROGRESS ILLINOIS
-- GOP Warns Of More ACORN Problems In Illinois - Angela Caputo
http://progressillinois.com/2008/10/16/gop-acorn-warning-illinois
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
-- How Chicago Politics Shaped Obama - Michele Norris
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95797455
CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY
-- Illinois’ 14th (New Rating: Democrat Favored. Previous Rating: Leans Democratic).
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000002975889
GOPUSA
-- If The Reagan Era Is Dead, Who Killed It? - Michael Reagan
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/mreagan/2008/mr_10171.shtml
TOWNHALL
-- What If McCain Had Been Palling Around With a Terrorist? - Diana West
http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2008/10/16/what_if_mccain_had_been_palling_around_with_a_terrorist
NEWSMAX
-- Intelligence Official: Obama Would Endanger Us - Ronald Kessler
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/obama_intelligence_danger/2008/10/16/141080.html
WORLD NET DAILY
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: In 2000 and in 2008, the news media did everything it could to help McCain win the Republican presidential primaries. While the news media failed in 2000, it succeeded in 2008. Now that the news media's candidate has won the primary, the news media hypocritically demonizes and denigrates its candidate.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=78218
RED STATE
-- VERY SAD: Obama on Ayers: Hey, Everybody Was Doing It - Dan McLaughlin
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/oct/16/obama-on-ayers-hey-everybody-was-doing-it/
FOX NEWS CHANNEL
-- Obama and ACORN: Relationship May Be More Extensive Than Candidate Says
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/16/obama-denies-ties-acorn/
-- 'Special Report' Panelists on What Topics Should (HAVE BEEN) Addressed in Final Debate; Is America Headed Toward Socialism?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,438981,00.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
-- Officials: FBI investigates ACORN for voter fraud - Lara Jakes Jordan
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hSQRQM34d7S1eOAiEdP7GAxlwf_QD93RO0VG0
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
-- Why some blacks still might not vote for Obama There are more factors than race. Just look to recent history for proof. - Earl Ofari Hutchinson
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1016/p09s01-coop.html
INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY
-- Taking A Peek Behind Bill Ayers' Office Door - Editorial
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=309049415272386
BLOOMBERG
-- McCain Pals With Plumber, Cheapens Campaign - Margaret Carlson
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_carlson&sid=aJbU9jxQb4e8
AUTO WEEK
-- C7 on hold--How long must fans wait for a new Corvette? - Mac Morrison
http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081016/FREE/810169981/1023/LATESTNEWS
WALL STREET JOURNAL
-- Lenders Eager for GM-Chrysler Deal - John Stoll and Jeffery McCracken
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122419486740342439.html?mod=djemalertNEWS
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: In a major front page top of fold article with color pictures, WSJ draws attention to the fact that one of McCain's ancestors owned slaves
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122419511761942501.html
-- VERY VERY VERY SAD: A Liberal Supermajority Get ready for 'change' we haven't seen since 1965, or 1933. - Editorial
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html
CNN
-- GOP launches calls attacking Obama on Ayers, national security
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/16/mccain.robocalls/
WORLD SOCIALIST
-- In defense of Bill Ayers - David Walsh
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/ayer-o17.shtml
ASSOCIATED PRESS
-- McCain campaign robo calls criticize Obama - Brendan Reiley
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hNExQx1ASPP47gKcFq9wQW2O80RgD93RTPH83
-- AdWatch: Anti-Obama group raises pastor in ads - Kathleen Hennessey
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hU0EWZcx3NAS1qa1M6s7Q4Ux7E8QD93RVE5G0
ABC NEWS
-- McCain Robocalls: Obama Is a Baby-Killing, America-ignoring, Hollywood-loving, Terrorist-Loving. . . - Jake Tapper
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/mccain-robocall.html
WASHINGTON POST
-- VERY SAD: Candidate Signs and Banners Can Leave Clients, Businesses Bruised - Avis Thomas-Lester
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/11/AR2008101101465.html?hpid=topnews
-- Who's Playing the Race Card? - Charles Krauthammer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/10/16/ST2008101603959.html
-- Obama early in 2005: A Rising Political Star Adopts a Low-Key Strategy - Eli Saslow
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101604277.html
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: Alevander Lane promotes Ayers and promotes those who associate themselves with Ayers
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/politifact/6062629.html
LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS
-- VERY SAD: Reception for Cook County State's Attorney Candidate
http://www.logcabin.org/lcrchicago/index
PATRIOT ROOM
-- OUTSTANDING: Funny Video: Canada Rolls Out The Welcome Mat For Libs If Obama Loses - Bill Dupray
http://patriotroom.com/?p=3051
TIME MAGAZINE
-- "Chicago" Says There Is Too Much Ado About Bill Ayers - Steven Gray
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1851103,00.html
ANDY MARTIN
-- Chicago jealousy, pettiness and provincialism are breaking out all over
http://www.pr-inside.com/chicago-jealousy-pettiness-and-provincialism-r865823.htm
SUBURBAN LIFE
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: Suburban Life employee Jerry Moore gets lawyer Ken Vanko with the Wheaton firm of Clingen, Callow, & McLean to join him in harassing Diersen; says that Vanko says that "uber-partisans" are causing McCain's problems; spells Diersen's name wrong again; says "Vanko understands that Diersen is merely spouting Republican platitudes and not engaging in any serious discussion of important issues;" says that "Diersen affixes ridiculous 'headlines' on links to stories posted on the Web sites of news organizations;" says that "Diersen grossly simplifies how everything good happening in DuPage County is the work of Republicans and everything bad happening in DuPage County is the work of Democrats;" says that Diersen "claims that social problems occur in DuPage County only because Democrats recruit people to live in blissful, peaceful, crime-free, conservative, Republican DuPage County; this then lowers the quality of life that DuPage County Republicans have worked so hard to create, as if Republican DuPage County were incapable of producing criminals itself (OK, except for Ayers, who grew up in Glen Ellyn); says that "The rationale that Diersen displays is laughable. To their credit, many DuPage County Republicans don’t take Diersen seriously. With his sloppy thinking on display each day, how he has managed to maintain the position of Milton Township GOP committeeman is beyond comprehension;" says that "Diersen has still refused to explain what makes Liddy a noble American in his mind or point out where I promoted Ayers and Obama. He merely whines again and again about being “demonized and denigrated;” and says that "If Diersen understood anything about the news business, he would know that journalists are supposed to challenge the kind of tortured logic he exhibits. Vanko has identified incidents like this as a key problem facing McCain and the GOP, and he’s right. Thank God someone in the blogosphere is using his brain."
http://suburbanshoutout.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/a-breath-of-fresh-air-lifts-political-discourse-among-the-crap-on-the-web/
KEN VANKO
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: Lawyer Ken Vanko with the Wheaton firm of Clingen, Callow, & McLean says he "has voted far more often for Republicans than Democrats;" blames McCain's problems on "excessive partisanship;" says he is distressed "to no end to see the level of banality in our political discourse most of which is coming from the conservative right;" says "On the right, though, a hateful, destructive, xenophobic element has emerged lately that is, frankly, quite scary;" says "I’ve always been skeptical of hyper-partisans;" asks "Why would Sean Hannity, for instance, advance an Ayers line of attack on Obama by relying on none other than Illinois’ red-headed stepchild Andy Martin - serial litigator, GOP beatnik, and disheveled partisan goofball who is most famous for his brazen anti-semitic remarks? I mean, Andy Martin is a joke among Republicans;" and says "So enter Dave Diersen, so-called “journalist”, retired government bean-counter, and GOP partisan hack from Wheaton. He is engaged in a cyber-brouhaha with (among others) Moore. As is typical of Diersen’s faulty, non-sensical, overly simplistic syllogisms, he takes Moore’s point and twists it into a false argument that Moore is an Ayers/Obama sympathizer. Wrong. It’s so 2008 for the jackass to ridicule the one making an intellectual argument. Just shout guilty loud-enough, and someone from FOX News will believe you. To say Moore is promoting Ayers is obviously false. I’d say Diersen knows better, but I’m not so sure. His drivel and half-baked scoops are legendary. But here is the point: it is really difficult to have a meaningful discourse about the issues when you’re immersed in sub-kindergarten logic. That’s what we as a society have been reduced to. Speaking of kindergartners, the current president’s most destructive legacy is his black-and-white, us-versus-them, “you’re either with us or against us” mentality. The political left is filled with goofballs, but it’s the hard-right that has taken this polarizing view of the world and made it frightening for independents. Diersen’s discourse is an unfortunate example of it, but at least it’s laughable and not exactly dangerous. Let’s not kid ourselves, though – the menacing zealots lurk and they are more vocal than ever. And McCain, a fundamentally decent and heroic American, suffers for it."
http://thelonelycenter.blogspot.com/2008/10/dangers-of-excessive-partisanship.html
