Barack and Michelle and Bill and Bernardine: The Obama/Weather Underground compendium

Gil Scott-Heron’s Lyrics echoed over the FM airwaves back in 1970:

Back then I was a believer in the “Revolution”. I, like many of my long haired friends, was ready to take over this country, tear it down and start over. We knew we were right and the “Man” was wrong. Gil Scott-Heron was more right then any of us knew at the time. The riots were televised, the protests were televised, the “Love-ins” were televised, But the revolution was not televised because it never happened.

You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip, Skip out for beer during commercials,

Because the revolution will not be televised.

Obama is the new Revolution and he is being Televised:

Obama Gives “Hope” to Those Who Missed the Revolution. He may be a cleaned up version of the old 60’s radical, but he embodies those old school radical beliefs and many of his supporters are feeling a new vibrancy in life. Like the fun loving old folks who couldn’t wait to jump into the rejuvenating pool in the movie Cocoon, the ancient Radicals are feeling young again and can’t wait to jump into the Obama pool.

His retoric speaks loud and clear the message of the “Revolution”:

“So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” (Video)

The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox In 4 parts without commercial interruption. The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon. Blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary. The revolution will not be televised. (Video)

The New Nixon blog posted this thought recently:

Is Obama JFK or Adlai Stevenson? By E. J. Dionne
The result of the 2008 election may come down to how voters decide to define Barack Obama. Is he Adlai Stevenson or John F. Kennedy? Is he a detached former law review editor or a passionate agent of change? Is he an upscale reformer focused on process or a populist who will turn Washington and the country around? (New Nixon)

Michelle Malkin posted this april 23rd:

By Michelle Malkin • April 23, 2008 10:30 AM

The blogosphere and talk radio are turning up the heat on the Obamas’ cozy relations with Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

Hugh Hewitt and Power Line have 2007 audio of the America-bashing WU terrorists, dug up by Guy Benson of WYLL’s The Sandy Rios Show (Update: More from Benson at Power Line here.)

Erick Stakelbeck compiles archival video of the couple’s left-wing diatribes.

John Kass has a Chicago Trib column today recounting Dohrn’s role in the Broadway Baby boutique customer ID theft scam that abetted terrorism.

Rezko Watch (see also here) has a link-rich chronicle of the Obama/WU story.

The Revolution Is Being Televised:

And it’s in your living rooms, Mothers,

It’s in our Classrooms, Fathers,

It’s in Church Pulpits, Pastors,

It’s coming to the White House, Voters

it ain’t pretty, People.

The Revolution Is Being Televised.

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