New group plans Ayers attack on Obama
Ben Smith's Blog — ... The group, the American Issues Project, is a 501(c)4 -- which means it isn't required to disclose its donors. According to a press release set to go out shortly, it's the product of a coalition of conservative groups, including Iowans for Tax Relief. Its president is Ed Martin, a Missouri conservative. Another official, Ed Failor, Jr., is a former McCain aide in Iowa who left after the campaign's shakeup last summer. ...

Senator Obama: So, About Bill Ayers ....
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McCain Prepares Rezko Ad; Wright "Now Fair Game"; GOP 527 Attacks
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... A group called the American Issues Project said it launched a 2.8 million television ad buy highlighting Obama's ties to Ayres. The group calls itself  "an organization representing a coalition of activists committed to raising conservative issues both during and after the election." It includes longtime Republican activists like Ed Failor, Jr. of Iowa. Failor was a McCain adviser in the state.  The ad will air in Ohio and Michigan. Here's the script: ...

Invoking 9/11 Attacks, Conservative Group Links Obama to 70s Radical
Political Radar — ... has denounced the detestable crimes that Bill Ayers committed forty years ago. Instead of invoking Paris, Britney and obscure sixties radicals, Senator McCain should take the day off at one of his seven homes to consider whether his support for outsourcing, tax breaks for companies who ship jobs overseas and continued spending of ten billion a month in Iraq is really putting ‘country first.’ To us, it sounds like just more of the same." View the ad on the group's website by clicking HERE . August 21, 2008 in ...

Yikes! Obama-Ayers Ad Released
Gateway Pundit — ... The American Issues Project was founded to champion the conservative values that have made the United States of America a blessed nation: smaller government, a strong and ready national defense, lower taxes, and a government that encourages entrepreneurship and new job creation in America. We also know how critical it is for America to win the war against the radical Islamic extremists abroad so we do not have to fight them here on American soil. ...

McCain Releases "Housing Problems" On the Obama-Rezko Affair
Gateway Pundit — That didn't take long... John McCain released his "Housing Problem" ad tonight on the Obama-Rezko relationship. This follows the ad earlier today released by American Issues Project on the Obama-Ayers relationship. Does this mean the Obama-Jeremiah Wright ad is coming out tomorrow?

Carol Platt Liebau: Barack's Glass House Politics
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... ? Because while we're on the subject of "questionable associations" -- well, let's just put it this way: Neither Reed nor McCain say they have any links. But even if they had, keep in mind that Reed never was a domestic terrorist, like Barack's friend Bill Ayres , as the linked ad from American Issues Project points out.

Independent Group With Links to McCain Campaign Assails Obama on Ayers
Political Punch — ... Independent Group With Links to McCain Campaign Assails Obama on Ayers August 22, 2008 10:14 AM"Beyond the speeches, how much do you know about Barack Obama?" asks the new TV ad from a non-profit conservative group called the Americans Issues Project. "What does he really believe?" The ad then tries to tie 9/11 to the Weather Underground and William Ayers, and Ayers to Obama."United 93 never hit the Capitol on 9/11," says the ad, "But the Capitol was bombed thirty years before – by an American terrorist group called Weather Underground…that declared 'war' on the U.S. – ...

Dallas Billionaire, McCain bundler, is anti-Obama group's backer
Ben Smith's Blog — ... The spokesman for the American Issues Project, the independent group whose ad is the most negative of the cycle and links Obama to terrorism, says the group just filed a report naming its sole donor. ...

Battling Over Bill Ayers
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — ... today. John McCain wants to spend $10 Billion a month in Iraq, tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas, selling out American workers. John McCain, just more of the same. The fact the Obama campaign felt the need to cut an ad on Ayers suggests one of two possibilities: 1) the Obama campaign is demonstrating a lesson learned from Kerry and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in 2004, deciding to aggressively respond to the ad that popped us last week by the conservative 501C4 American Issues Project linking Obama to Ayers or 2) the American Issues Project ad is ...

Obama Campaign Launches Desperate, Misleading Response to Ayers Ad
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... The Obama campaign has launched a new ad that fails to dispute a single fact in the American Issues Project's initial ad questioning Barack Obama's relationship with admitted domestic terrorist, William Ayers. ...

DNC news round-up - and other misc. Campaign 2008 links
Sister Toldjah — ... of the American Issues Project’s ad questioning Obama on his ties to unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers.  In Obama’s ad, the announcer appears to blame McCain for talking about it, when the only people I’ve seen bring it up are AIP.   I’ve not heard McCain mention it unless asked about it - and even if he has brought it up, it’s a legitmate issue.   ...

Obama To DOJ: Block Terrorist Ad
Crooks and Liars — ... Obama’s campaign has written the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of the “American Issues Project,” the vehicle through which Dallas investor Harold Simmons is financing the advertisements. The Obama campaign - and tens of thousands of supporters - also is pressuring television networks and affiliates to reject the ads. The effort has met with some success: CNN and Fox News are not airing the attacks. ...

Obama Camp Threatens TV Stations For Showing Obama-Ayers Ad
Gateway Pundit — ... Obama's target is an ad by the conservative American Issues Project, a nonprofit group that questions Obama's ties to Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground organization that took credit for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago. ...

Fighting back against Obama’s thugs
Michelle Malkin — ... candidacy during the 2008 election cycle and continuing through the present time. Yet, no objection to those expenditures has been raised by the Obama campaign… Surely we have not come to a point where the government and its agencies are used to protect presidential candidates from citizens’ speech, essentially destroying the very purpose, meaning and historical essence of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The full text of the letter is available at: http://www.americanissuesproject.org/ The American Issues Project’s ad began airing Thursday, August 21, ...

The Truth Hurts
Power Line — A group called American Issues Project created this excellent ad on Barack Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers. The ad is being run on local television stations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Michigan: Obama has responded to the ad the way liberals often react to free speech that they don't like: he is ...

The Ad Obama Doesn’t Want You To See
Stop The ACLU — ... because its all true! The American Issues Project respond to his attempt to silence them: AIP is organized as a qualified nonprofit corporation as that term is defined in the regulations of the Federal Election Commission (“FEC”) 11 C.F.R. §114.10. As such, AIP enjoys the protections of the provisions of the Supreme Court’s decision more than twenty years ago in FEC v. Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Inc., 589 F. Supp. 646 (D. Mass. 1984), aff’d, 769 F.2d 13 (1st Cir. 1985), aff’d, 479 U.S. 238 (1986)… AIP complies with each and every one of the provisions outlined by the ...

Obama Resorts to Tyrant Tactics to Suppress Revealing Ad
Moonbattery — ... with nasty emails. Growls Obama spokesthug Tommy Vietor: Other stations that follow Sinclair's lead should expect a similar response from people who don't want the political discourse cheapened with these false, negative attacks. Unable to dispute the accuracy of the ad, Obamatrons have been reduced to whining that Obama was only a little kid when his unrepentant mentor Ayers committed his vilest crimes against the America he so hates. The American Issues Project, which created the ad, responds to the banana republic ...

Barack Obama and William Ayers - “They’re Friends. So What?” The AIP Video
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... No wonder Team Obama is going after the American Issues Project. The William Ayers - Obama connection at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge is slowly developing into a story. Undoubtedly, Obama’s association with a Weather Underground radical who helped bomb the United States Capitol and the Pentagon is one he wants to bury. It is more than what Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley characterized as the So What? Moment. Stay tuned…… Previous: Barack Obama and William Ayers - “They’re Friends. So What?” ...

Obama Tries To Censor Critical Ad
Discriminations — ... in turn, elicited the following response from the Obama campaign: Dear Friend, Thank you for contacting Senator Barack Obama and Obama for America. Barack is gratified by the overwhelming response to his candidacy, and we appreciate hearing from you. Please note, though, that we are now replying only to emails sent through our webform.... You can view the ad yourself, and a letter from its sponsor refuting charges against it, here. ...

See the Anti-Obama Ad That Was Banned in Washington (Maybe)!
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run — ... Texas billionaire Harold Simmons, who helped fund the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in 2004, this year is backing the American Issues Project (AIP), whose main effort so far is an ad attacking Barack Obama for his association with former Weatherman Bill Ayers. Obama's supporters are so mad about the ad that they want to punish him for it, and they expect the Justice Department to help. ...

Hussein Continues To Try To Halt Free Speech And Truth Against Him
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — ... The group said its ad would continue to air through the end of the Democratic National Convention. Simmons has spent almost $3 million to air the ad, which can be seen on the group’s site. ...

Smelling Smoke In The Ayers
Wizbang — I like to consider myself a reasonably good writer, and one of the hallmarks of a good writer is the general avoidance of cliche's. But there's a reason why a phrase degenerates into a cliche': it's because it has more than a grain of truth. And as I consider the story of the relationship between Senator Barack Obama and unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, and in particular the actions taken by Senator Obama's presidential campaign, I keep hearing certain tired and trite phrases: "Where there's smoke, there's fire." "When you find yourself taking the heavist flak, you know you're over the target." "Methinks the lady doth ...

AIP Phase II
PoliPundit.com — AIP Phase II American Issues Project Phase I complete (Ayers ad), phase II on it’s way per WaPo : The American Issues Project has amassed a multimillion-dollar fund, and the group is putting the final touches on an eleventh-hour campaign targeting the Democratic presidential nominee, sources said. Welcome news too many I would expect, I’m sure they could use additional donations . -- KnightHawk Posted at 1:29 am Link to this post | Comments (1)

Fighting Obama’s Goon Squad
Michelle Malkin — ... a single fact the American Issues Project has put forth. About American Issues Project American Issues Project is a 501(c)4 organization representing a coalition of conservative activists committed to raising important issues that deserve deeper examination given their impact on policy and politics. In accordance with federal law, American Issues Project only solicits and accepts contributions from individuals and not from any business corporation. For more information, visit: www.americanissuesproject.org. About the Ad The American Issues Project’s ad describing the ...

American Issues Project Responds to Obama's Missouri Goon Squad
Gateway Pundit — Missouri top prosecutors announced this week that they will prosecute critics of Barack Obama. St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce and St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch are threatening to bring libel charges against those who speak out falsely against Barack Obama. Michelle Malkin reported earlier that the American Issues Project responded today to Obama’s Missouri goon squads: September 26, 2008 – Barack Obama is now using local law ...

Obama’s Scorched Earth Policy
Pajamas Media — ... .” Recent events illustrate the emptiness of these platitudes. Since August, Team Obama has fought a covert war against their opposition and muzzled them by any means available. Legal methods appear to be their response of choice. When a commercial from the American Issues Project linked Obama to former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, the campaign ...

Free Speech in the Era of Obama
The American Spectator — ... prosecutors with abusing their office in an effort to silence the Obama opposition. Blunt said the Obama campaign was using "Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics" and their inclusion has "attached the stench of police state tactics." Said Blunt: "Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts -- not a free society." Blunt's former chief of staff Ed Martin, now president of the conservative American Issues Project , told the Springfield News Leader that "Prosecutors, because they can ...

Reid And Dodd
Eschaton — I just saw an ad attacking Harry Reid and Chris Dodd for... I dunno, eating babies? Housing market? something like that. You can watch it here. But, uh, what a waste of money. I think I have higher name recognition than Chris Dodd. ...

Putting $800 Billion into Perspective
Wizbang — ... way: imagine a cement block that's one mile tall, one mile wide, and one mile deep. Every day a little bird comes and rubs its beak on that cement block one time. The amount of time it would take for that little bird to wear that block down to a speck of sand is how long infinity is. As adults abstract concepts are easier to grasp, but the almost $800 Billion of the Porkulus bill is so huge that it can still be difficult to wrap our heads around it. To help us with that the group American Issues Project has come up with an advertisement that puts that $800 Billion into ...

Stimulus Math: A Million Times Two Millenia Equals…
The Caucus — No one ever said $787 billion isn’t a big number, but in a new television ad going on the air on Friday a conservative advocacy group , puts the price tag of the stimulus bill in biblical proportions. “Suppose you spent $1 million every single day starting from the day Jesus was born — and kept spending through today,” an announcer says. “A million dollars a day for more than 2,000 years. You would still have spent less money than Congress just did.” The ad, sponsored by the American Issues Project, walks viewers through a timeline of history, starting with the three wise men ...

American Issues Project Latest Ad
Flopping Aces — em>If you haven’t seen it, it’s a hit! Learn more at the American Issues Project web site. Good to see independent conservative groups taking the fight to the socialists! ...

Bill O'Reilly says it isn't "constructive" for Eddie Martin to be continuing his "ideological" schemes
Fired Up! Missouri — ... show last night, but it can't have been quite what he hoped for. Martin was invited to discuss his Right-Wing Front Group de Jour, the American Issues Project. But in a bit of commentary inexplicably titled "What Would Jesus Do?," this is what ...

Missouri Dem Governor Admits "Missouri Kids & Grandkids Will Pay the Debt Off"
Gateway Pundit — ... responsibility argument as a non-issue. “My golly, this is chance to transform our economy, this is a chance to balance our budget, this is a chance to move forward,” Nixon said. Nixon later repeated his earlier argument that "the debt" the country "may have" as a result of the bill will get paid off by people's "kids and grandkids." Here's the video. Ed Martin from the American Issues Project passed this news on today. Ed was interviewed on CNN last week ...

Ericka Andersen: Do YOU Care?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — As Chuck Schumer so smugly put it -- "the American people really don't care" about the extra money spent on fish hatcheries, smoking prevention programs, dog park construction, golf courses, office reconstruction and more. American Issues Project asks, "Do you care?" If so, you can text ENOUGH to 97180 and join their cause. You can also visit their website to be a part of this new organization, which represents conservatives on important issues in policy and politics. Their latest ad speaks to the "chattering class" that Schumer and other Democrats so disdain:

CPAC Interview: Katie Favazza
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Katie Favazza of the American Issues Project (AIP) joined me for a quick interview. We talked about her prior efforts at Townhall, and also her work on trying to call attention to the massive amounts of money disappearing in Porkulus. Did AIP step over the line with its Jesus reference?

My New Blogging Gig is at AIP
The Sundries Shack — One of the happy results of my attending CPAC this past year is that I was invited to write for a new group blog at the American Issues Project web site . My guess is that in time, AIP would like to have the sort of vibrant and dynamic blog that ...

Shocked
Wizbang — American Issues Project is the organization that created the political ad that put the stimulus bill into perspective with its ad that said Obama's and the Democrats' stimulus bill is so costly that we could spend a $1million a day since the day Christ was born and still not spend as much as they did in the stimulus. That ad was very effective. In fact, it was so effective that Frank Luntz said that it received one of the highest ratings from both Republicans and Democrats for a political ad that he's ever seen. He personally gave it a 9.5 out of 10. AIP is back again with another winner of an ad that highlights ...

This is the Way Bipartisanship Ends. Not with a Bang but a Slander.
The Sundries Shack — ... authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration . How many groups can you think of that would fit into those emphasized categories? Mark Krikorian and the Center for Immigration Studies would certainly qualify for the latter. So would National Right to Life and Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum . The Club for Growth , The Heritage Foundation , The American Issues Project are just a few groups that would fit nicely into the former. And what ...

‘Shared Sacrifice’ Means Government Workers, Too
RedState: Conservative News and Community — I’ve started writing a regular column at the newly-expanded American Issues Project site. My first column is about the one constituency that seems to be skating past the current economic downturn: government workers. While private sector employees are dealing with layoffs, threats of layoffs, loss of savings (especially retirement savings), downward wage pressure, and the promise of higher taxes, government workers are doing relatively well. Government is expanding and government wages are increasing - at precisely the time the private economy is ...

It's Time For Politicians to Quit Blowing Smoke About Wind Energy
Gateway Pundit — Here is my latest column at American Issues Project: It's Time For Politicians to Quit Blowing Smoke About Wind Energy In his first State of the Union Address on February 24, 2009, President Barack Obama promised to double this nation’s supply of renewable energy in the next three years. This statement drew a loud applause from Congress. What Barack Obama did not tell America ...

TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, AIP’s Despina Karras, Rob Simmons
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... . What happened to Anderson Cooper’s ratings? And what did the veteran correspondent think of Wanda Sykes’ performance? Next, we’ll talk with AIP’s Despina Karras , a new columnist and blogger. We’ll review the President’s health-care initiative and get to know Despina. In bonus minutes, ...

Blogger Follow Friday
Right Wing News — ... Best Quotes From Ann Coulter's 'Treason' Credits Design: Danny Carlton Scripting: Danny Carlton & Nicole Baker Powered by Movable Type 4.1 The Lesson In The Latest Pro-Life Numbers | Main | The Next Level: The Obama Unicorn Statue! Plus, As A Bonus: New Sarah Palin Comic Cover May 15, 2009 rwnadmin Blogger Follow Friday Here are five blogs that I like. Give 'em a look! Pajamas Media Race 4 2012 American Issues Project American Power Libertarian Republican Bloggers, post links ...

Liberals Know Their Cap & Trade Plan Will Obliterate Economy--and Don't Care
Gateway Pundit — ... Here is my latest column at ...

Sorry, Barack: You Can’t Blame the Bogeyman for Your Record Budget Deficits, Too
Gateway Pundit — ... Here is my latest column at ...

Meet Harold Koh-- Obama's Radical Pro-Sharia Nominee
Gateway Pundit — Here is my latest column at American Issues Project: Meet Harold Koh: Obama's Most Radical Nominee Yet Over two hundred years ago our Founding Fathers overthrew the governance of the British monarchy to become the sovereign United States of America. Today the Obama administration wants to bring back foreign authority. On March 23rd, Barack Obama nominated Harold Koh to be the State Department's legal ...

AIP Column: Abandon Ship
Hot Air » Top Picks — AIP Column: Abandon Ship posted at 10:11 am on June 4, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly In today’s column at American Issues Project , I take note of the fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging attitude Vice President Joe Biden demonstrated at the thought of Porkulus funds getting wasted by incompetence and fraud.  Instead of being outraged, Biden made it sound like he couldn’t really do much about it, or even cared to.  Does he not realize which branch of the ...

Nationalized Health Care and Breast Cancer Are a Deadly Mix
Gateway Pundit — Here is my latest column at American Issues Project: Nationalized Health Care and Breast Cancer Are a Deadly Mix Democrats stepped up efforts this week to introduce their disastrous socialized health care plan. President Obama already called on his Democratic colleagues to enact this legislation by August. He even proposed that the wealthy would fork the bill for this massive entitlement program. To persuade Americans ...

AIP column: Three dirty little secrets of the public plan
Hot Air » Top Picks — AIP column: Three dirty little secrets of the public plan posted at 1:35 pm on June 18, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Today’s column at American Issues Project focuses on three “secrets” of the public plan that have thus far escaped the media coverage of ObamaCare.  Amazingly, these do not include the fact that the Obama administration apparently doesn’t understand the definition of “competition” and the ...

Let’s Face It: This Isn't a Shared-Sacrifice Recession
Gateway Pundit — Here is my latest column at American Issues Project: Let’s Face It: This Isn't a Shared-Sacrifice Recession Recent government figures concluded that the economy has lost more than 1.6 million jobs since Congress approved the stimulus bill in February. There is record unemployment in 12 states. Since January, the U.S. unemployment rate rose from 7.6 percent to 9.4 percent under Obama, the ...

At the AIP Blog, I Suggest Fear Might Be At Work
The Sundries Shack — Over at the American Issues Project blog I’ve been wwriting what’s becoming an unintentional series about how the Obama adminstration is handling its promise to deliver a more transparent and accoutnable government. In short, the President is going the wrong way. It’s going to be tough for him to argue that he’s keeping his promise when ...

If the United States Passes Obamacare, Where Will Canada Send Their Preemies?
Gateway Pundit — Here is my latest column at American Issues Project: If the United States Passes Obamacare, Where Will Canada Send Their Preemies? Ava Isabella Stinson was born at St. Joseph's Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario on Thursday of last week. Ava was 13 weeks premature. She weighed only two-pounds, four-ounces at birth. Ava needed special care and equipment to keep her alive. Unfortunately, ...