Obama Tries to Hide Ayers Tie
By Larry Johnson on February 22, 2008 at 2:54 AM in Current Affairs
Ben Smith at Politico.com has the start of the story of Obama’s ties to an unrepentant former member of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group. It goes beyond Ayers just making a $200 dollar donation in 2001. Nope. Ayers helped raise funds for Obama. It all started in 1995:
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. . . .
Now, as Obama runs for president, what two guests recall as an unremarkable gathering on the road to a minor elected office stands as a symbol of how swiftly he has risen from the Hyde Park left to a man closing in fast on the Democratic nomination for president.
“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer healthcare, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified him as her successor.”
Except Ms. Palmer had a change of heart. She decided not to run for Congress. But Obama betrayed her. He would not relinquish running for her state senate seat. So much for loyalty. Obama led the effort to ensure she could not run against him. Betray your mentor. Yep. That’s the kind of politics we don’t see in Washington.
Obama tries to dismiss the tie to Ayers by claiming he was only eight years old when Ayers was planting bombs in the United States. That is true. But when Barack subsequently met Ayers he knew about Ayers’ past and Ayers’ belief he had nothing to apologize for. So here we have a guy who dreams of running for president and he does not understand the implications of letting an unrepentant terrorist raise money for him?
What is it about terrorism that a brilliant constitutional law professor does not understand? And Obama believes the Republicans won’t use this against him? Hell no. He understands. Hence the stonewall. Obama is trying to figure out whether Alzeheimers is a defense. And Ayers and Obama are trying to maintain the pretense that they barely know each other. Ayers is a tough customer. He’s not saying anything. He refuses to talk.
They may be able to deceive die hard Democrats enamored of the Obama myth. Cotton candy platitudes. Soaring (plagarized) rhetoric. But come the fall, the Republican machine will beat him senseless with this. They will hammer on the theme–Obama is in bed with a terrorist who insists he was right to bomb the Capitol. Ayers is too much of a committed ideologue to backdown. He told the New York Times in 2001:
I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough.
Please Obamatrons. Explain to me why the Republicans will ignore this? And as they subsequently probe into every grant made by the Woods Fund when Obama and Ayers sat on the board and steered money to cronies of Obama I am sure the Republicans will say, “hell, there’s nothing there.” Right! And Karl Rove is a warm, wonderful human being who believes politics is softball.
Obama cannot beat this with happy talk. He will be forced to deal with it. Unfortunately, Joe and Jane Average American will be, shall we say, a tad uncomfortable electing a guy to protect America who had no problem taking money from a terrorist and working with him in giving money to a guy, Rashid Khalidi, who the Government of Israel will be more than happy to identify as someone who they believe helped fuel Palestinian terrorism.
If you find that an easy position to defend please get your resume soonest to the Obama campaign. They are going to need you.
So the bomb is a big deal and all but I see this as significant: this story is a continuation, and reinforcement of the WSJ piece yesterday that said O’s rhetoric was not advancing an agenda, like it did for MLK, FDR, but hiding a more left-wing ideology. Liberal blogger Kevin Drum complained about the rhetoric doing no advancing a week ago:
Now here’s Politico, showing how swiftly Obama shifted from a far-left politician who hobnobbed with an unrepentant Ayers to a non-ideological transcendent pol:
And yes, the WSJ piece was by Rove. But it hit at something that sticks.
And of course, the bombing Ayers and his statement of no regret in 2001 is a big deal.
And frankly, unlike Drum I’m not convinced Obama is devoted to center-left. What he actually is devoted to is tough to pin down.
The accumulation of large amounts of money, to be held in a foreign bank account, in the name of another?
Just a thought.
Perfectly put.
Obama and Clinton are not center left, they are far left, look at their agenda to spend and tax us into oblivion.
I agree. I do not think he is, in his heart, a leftie like Rove says. I really don’t think he gives a damn about the issues as much as he does advancing HIMSELF. It’s all about winning.
And I hope to go you all read my quotes / links yesterday — and in previous weeks and months — about his RIGHT-OF-CENTER economic advisers! His Social Security guy is a privatizer!
Ayers? I think Obama is too much self-involved to think hard about what Ayers’ HORRIFIC violence and terrorism did to this country — as well as to the theretofore PEACEFUL antiwar protests, tearing all the groups asunder.
And that some academic institution gives Ayers a teaching spot is no surprise. Colleges/universities often overlook their academics’ shady or violent pasts. And, it’s still HIP among the very far left professors to diss everything American. So they have no problem with Ayers — probably kinda get off on it, ya know, and have fantasies of “oh, I wish I’d could have had the guts to do that.”
But Obama? He just doesn’t stop to think about it much. Especially whenever there is GREEN involved — and someone like AYERS can use his influence among his friends to get EVEN MORE money into Obama’s hands.
Huh … maybe that’s Larry’s NEXT assignment. Find out who Ayers hangs with — Larry’s done some of that already — and find out how cozy they all got with Obama too. Remember, it’s the flash of green that gets Obama’s attention.
I think it’s possible that in the not-too-distant future, the word “opportunist” will have a picture of Obama next to it in the dictionary.
Obama cares about Obama, which makes him very short-sighted - seeing only the immediacy of how something can advance him up the ladder, and not thinking about the long-term consequences. While that’s a trait that is so far only impacting on him, I fear that it is one that is all-too-reminiscent of Bush. “Act now, think later” is an approach that has gotten us in a world of hurt.
This pattern of shortsightedness for self-aggrandizement is something that needs to be looked at more closely - this is just not a good trait for someone who wants to make life-or-death decisions.
“They” do have a point when it is repeated that Obama could have gone for the “green” immediately after law school and he did not. I really do not doubt his sincerity or his commitment. I do not like his fence sitting.
Kathleen -
In what way do you feel that Barack Hussein Obama didn’t go for the green immediately? If he had gone to a big firm or corporation he might have had to do some work.
Obama did nothing in an incredibly lackluster legal career.
He didn’t handle jury trials. It doesn’t appear that he handled any trials. As far as anyone can tell, he only put in 5 hours of work for Rezko and some mystery hours for an entity that worked in conjunction with Rezmar - Rezko’s company.
(Obama’s senior partner actually left the firm and went into business with Rezko.)
No great legal briefs written - if any. Basically little if anything to show for his time as a lawyer. Or professor or Senator for that matter.
He re-invents his resume as much as he has re-invented himself. He claims to have handled various cases, but when pressed for details he can’t remember, much like his idol Reagan in his last days.
Obama seems to have made out like a bandit with little effort in his career .
If Obama was truly all about winning, wouldn’t he go negative? oh wait that was hillary. What fucking crazy world do you people live in?
guilt by association time! You peeps have linked to Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air, The Ace of Spades, and now John Podhoretz (son of Norman, Zionist Nut Ball, Legacy hire for wingnut welfare, describes GWB as “the first great leader of the 21st century”). Ergo, this site is officially republican! You guys should ask Obama when he stopped beating his wife already!
On Bill Maher two weeks ago, Bill tossed out what was essentially a throwaway line- “of the two candidates left, I mean…Obama is more liberal. Clearly. Right?”
The panel nodded and agreed unanimously- oh yes, of course, Obama is more liberal than Clinton. Of course. It’s obvious.
At the time I thought, “WHY? Based on WHAT?”
The only conclusion I could reach: Obama is assumed to be more liberal because of the color of his skin.
Because other than the vote against the war he wasn’t there to make, I can’t think of one way in which Obama’s record suggests he’s more Liberal than Hillary. His Health Care “plan” sure isn’t.
He’s more liberal because he’s black and his opponent is white. And this is being fed to me by so-called “Progressives”- judge a person’s Progressive bonafides based on the color of his skin. Wonderful.
Drum also was a proponent of the Iraq invasion back in the day, kinda any killed notion he was ever truly the mythological “moderate” republican.
Actually, I had read an Obama election would further insure right wing ideologues.
Notice would be world king maker and Rezko godfather Auchi donates to both political parties.
It is more than just rhetoric, and advancing an agenda (whatever that may be as it is still hidden).
It speaks to JUDGEMENT or more correctly - lack thereof. Yet in each debate and speech Obama touts his ahmmm “Superior Judgement”.
Falling back on well worn adages “Talk is Cheap” and “Actions speak louder than words”
The phrase “round the bend” comes to mind.
Willie and the Poor Boys:CCR.
Now I can only picture ‘Bama in the hood.
Shit.
Eh….As opposed to all of the Christian Reconstructionist types running with the Bushies?
Ayers is so, uhm, well, old. He’s one person of a long defunct criminal organization, that wasn’t particularly competent.
The Reconstructionists, by contrast, have real power, are politically and strategically competent and have done real harm to the US.
Snore…..
Obamatons shouldn’t believe their own rhetoric, like Bush, Cheney, and even the scaredy cat Rove, next thing you know, you’re in a bubble.
Cheney is old, did a lot of damage.
OTOH, Ayers is just a delusional old fart, I’m more interested in his connection to the Woods Fund, and the other charities to which Obama is connected.
Please read the wikipedia entry on Ayers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers
He may be old, but he’s still an unrepentant domestically grown terrorist. His wealthy family was able to provide him with the very best in legal talent (his father, Thomas Ayers, was Chairman and CEO of Commonwealth Edison, the electrical utility provider for most of Illinois). Quoting from the Wiki entry:”Ayers went underground with several comrades after their co-conspirators’ bomb accidentally exploded on March 6, 1970, destroying a Greenwich Village townhouse and killing three members of the Weather Underground (Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, and Diana Oughton, who was Ayers’ girlfriend at the time). He and his colleagues invented identities and traveled continuously. They avoided the police and FBI, while bombing high-profile government buildings including the United States Capitol, The Pentagon, and the Harry S Truman Building housing the State Department. Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn raised two children, Zayd and Malik, underground before turning themselves in in 1981, when most charges were dropped because prosecutorial misconduct during the long search for the fugitives…”
I was a wee one when this occurred, younger than Obama, but for some reason, I remember it, maybe my parents were upset, and that made an impression.
I don’t excuse Ayers, he is as conceited as George Bush, he’s a sorry excuse for a human. And one intent on real change does it from within, peacefully. Ayers, IMO, just wanted, WANTS, to be a star, and show up his Daddy.
Really, what is it about Obama, and terrorists?
Terrorists MURDER, they aren’t docile, cool guys.
I mean, Ayers glamorizes terrorism, but I wonder how he’d do at the other end of a Saddam’s drill? I can’t see Hezbollah giving a treasonous guy like Ayers a break, simply because they both fight, hate “the man.”
And Ayers, and Obama are connected to Rezko?
Jeez.
To add, I get the feeling that men like Ayers, and Obama, see terrorism as this false thing, unreal, dangerously cool, simply business, not understanding they shouldn’t be messing with men like Rezko.
It’s this massive denial, not acknowledging how a man like Saddam operated, or thinking, in some way, “no one will ever drag my ass to a rape room” (or your wife’s, or your daughters, big O) “this will never happen to me.”
But the men Auchi is connected to DO things like this, and Obama is willing to take money from him?
What?
As long as it’s someone else’s kid, or wife, or anus?
And you mess with this, you sell yourself as a political whore to men of this sort, they’ll come for you, if you cross them, evem if you don’t.
Which again, makes Plame’s outing SUCH a crime.
There you go.
Those of us who lived through that era — and saw the destruction of the peaceful anti-war movement by the vicious violence and terrorism of Ayers et al. — remain appalled to this day.
They murdered so many innocent people. From policemen to security guards to Brinks drivers to the Superintendent of Schools for Oakland to a Hispanic prison guard … and on and on. And they terrorized Americans everywhere. No ROTC building was safe from their bombing attempts…
I’m especially appalled that people don’t get just how evil this guy is, and how much he still believes in terrorism. Oh sure, he got a cushy job at a university — but that’s par for the course for these unrepentant terrorists.
I can’t believe Obama ever had any dealings with him. But, like Rezko, Obama and Ayers were thick as thieves.
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
I’ve always loved this quote from The Great Gatsby, and I was reminded of it when I thought about the interesting Ayers/Obama connection. Is Obama pro-terrorist or Weatherman? Well of course not, but so much of the story perfectly reflects World Obama and its Gatsby-esque diffidence and absence of seriousness. It’s an attitude that claims we don’t have to be accountable for our words or deeds because, after all, we arise from wealth, privilege and superior education.
Want to play College Kid Revolutionary for a while and then ease back into polite society when it becomes tiresome? Sure, why not, so long as you were careful not to be there when the fuses were lit or the bullets fired and you have the social connections back home to do so. Betray and abandon your staunchest allies—your mentor!—without ever a glance back? Certainly, for the greater accomplishments and accolades you deserve await. Take the introductions and the money of the College Revolutionary without a thought as to whether you should even be in the same room as a man who apparently really does hate this country and would do it harm? Why not, because we all oppose the injustices he protested and besides, you can always say you hardly knew the guy. And if you really, really have to have the mansion of your dreams (and to which you surely are entitled), well, everyone knows that story by now. And no further questions will be tolerated.
It’s a history of everything so easy and painless and taken for granted. And why is this important to me? Because it seems to me self-evident that a life history like this so above the fray and without any documented battle–and I mean battle!—is a life that leaves you ill-prepared for the battles that clearly face this country in the very near term, at home and abroad.
I believe true progressives should be looking forward to these fights and not yearning for a four year University of Chicago cocktail party. And for that I believe we need a warrior and not a Philosopher King. For me, that warrior, tried and true, scarred and made better is Hillary Clinton.
And if you didn’t see that last night we really have nothing further to discuss.
Just to make sure we’re not crossing our wires and in an effort to keep us all historically and intellectually honest.
“They murdered so many innocent people.”
- 3 members of the Weather Underground were killed in an accident at the house of another militant group in Greenwich Village March 6 1970, when a bomb intended for an attack on Fort Dix exploded prematurely.
All of my reading hasn’t turned up a murder directly linked to Bill Ayers, or the Weather Underground prior to their disbanding (If you can find one please let me know. I’m all about educating and evolving our collective consciousness).
“to the Superintendent of Schools for Oakland”
- The assassination of the Superintendent of Schools for Oakland was by the SLA, October 6 1973(The Symbionese Liberation Army, made famous by the kidnapping of Patty Hearst). Not Bill Ayers or the WU.
“…to a Hispanic prison guard.”
- I couldn’t find a reference to the murder of the Hispanic Prison guard you mention (Can you supply a link?). However considering the SLA was a group consisting of convicts and prison activists it wouldn’t surprise me if they were potentially responsible for this as well.
- William Ayers turned himself in with Bernadine Dorhm Dec. 3, 1980.
“From policemen to security guards to Brinks drivers.”
- A year later the Brinks Security guard murders were the result of a botched robbery by the ‘Black Liberation Army’. On Oct. 20, 1981. Two ex members of the Weather Underground were also involved.
This certainly doesn’t clear Ayers of wrongdoing (Though i’d suggest a stark difference between destruction of property and murder). Guilt of murder by association we can debate till the cows come home. Guilt by the statement “…I feel we didn’t do enough.” we could debate till we’re blue in the face. I will say though that philosophically the WU were never about assassination and kidnapping and stated as much numerous times.
To throw around erroneous accusations of murder and assassination to prove your point I think does a disservice to the debate.
Is Obama potentially involved with some dubious characters? Yes. But lets keep things honest. It’s hard enough already to sort fact from fiction to make an informed choice without smart passionate people like yourselves misrepresenting the historical record.
It only took me three or four clicks of google afterall to sort through fact from fiction.
d.
HONEST - When it comes to OBAMA???
Better keep googling - you have missed much!
The SLA was thick with the Panthers et al.
The murder of the Hispanic prison guard was carried out by a violent group near San Francisco who killed the guard when he was helping to transfer a Black Panther prisoner to another prison. It never got much media play but I can look up the link. That violent group had ties to WU, and other terrorist groups across the country.
I wasn’t aware of the details about the Avery/Dohrn connection. Thank you for sharing the informantion. I need more links to back up my comments about Obama. The Obamasphere refuses to accept any criticism of their candidate. A criticism of Obama no matter how politely phrased, no matter how politely tendered, no matter how judiciously argued is part of a Vast Hillary Conspiracy to smear Obama.
We share these facts about Obama in the face of being flamed or banned. At least the message will get out.
I refuse to add the required disclaimer to my comments “I’m proud that we have two great candidates. I would happily vote for either of them. I will vote for the Democratic candidate.”
Informed Comment, Prof.Juan Cole
More good news, as the invasion of Kurdish Iraq continues:
“Turkey told US, Iraq of incursion plan”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080222/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_turkey_iraq;_ylt=AmBJgeeTLX8cJX.45fa6Na2s0NUE
Mr. Murder, you need an open thread.
Thank you Mr. Murder. I have nowhere near your experience or knowledge.
What I do know for sure is that Military service is Mandatory in Turkey. There are more Turks than Kurds - so where will the Kurds get more men? Will they allow some form of Al Qaeda forces to join them?
What is your best estimate, Sir?
Larry………Did Obama get intel that Iraq had no WMD’s as a State Senator? If he did could it have been from some Chi/Iraq connection ? Could this also be a revelation from this trial?
Great question!
the phrase “loony bin” comes to mind…you people need to GET REAL
Oh, man, dude, you need to come in with something better than that…
Try again.
Does the way Obama is able to keep dodging his problematic relationships, like this one and more significantly, his relationship with Rezko, remind anyone else of the old Warner Brothers Road Runner-Wile E. Coyote cartoons? When it looks like things are about to catch up with Obama, he’s like the Road Runner, “beep, beep”(except for Obama, “it’s legal”) and he scatters off.
Is this the 3rd rewrite of the story here at NQ? Can’t help but notice the hotlink to the WaPo story didn’t make the cut. Sorry can’t recall the writer’s name (He was the one Larry referred to as “that lazy bastard”) anyway, the point I’m trying to make is that WaPo story, as best as I can recall, presented a moral eqivalence, asking is it worse to try & nail Obama for associating with disreputable people who committed their acts of violence decades ago, (but were not convicted) during a time frame when Obama was just a little child, or for Pres Clinton to pardon equally violent individuals who were actually convicted of their crimes? This argument brings to the forefront basic questions of fairness, double standards & hence scourched earth tactics.
The problem is the lazy Washington Post reporter REFUSES to examine Obama’s connections.
Is Ayers really inactive, or is he funneling money through “charities?”
What about Rezko? What about Auchi?
Wasn’t that a favorite way for Tom Delay to launder money, “the charity, the charity as a gateway?”
From Rob Guard up thread (wiki)
Thomas Ayers, was Chairman and CEO of Commonwealth Edison
ComEd, a division of Chicago-based Exelon Corp.,
John W. Rowe is a member of the boards of directors of Sunoco and the Northern Trust Company.
Northern Trust Company…did not Obama get his loan for the house thru Northern Trust Company and Rezko had “deals” out of there?
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Rezko ‘clout list’ outed
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-rezko-clout-list_webfeb22,0,2439036.story
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http://kimallen.sheepdogdesign.net/cinnamon/2007/06/thomas-g-ayers-1915-2007.html
Terrific links, Teak!
Does Barack Hussein Obama believe if McVeigh claimed he was protesting a war, it would have been O.K. to blow up the federal building in Oklahoma?!
The Weather Underground were assholes with explosives and they murdered three of their own including Ayers then girlfriend.
I have had and do have loved ones employed by the federal government. They do not deserve to die because some asshole has a grudge and a bomb.
Any Presidential candidate who knowingly keeps a donation, much less cavorts with such a terrorist will not receive my vote.
The Weather Underground were assholes with explosives and they murdered three of their own including Ayers then girlfriend.
Um, I know “murder” has a much better rhetorical ring when you want to slam someone, but murder is an intentional act, whereas being blown up accidentally is, well, an accident. Overblown rhetoric loses you credibility among the thoughtful. But maybe that’s not the demographic you’re targeting.
Someone here said that Obama supporters refuse to accept any criticism of Obama. If I say that this particular bit of criticism is pretty lame, will you refuse to accept that?
I am not sure the guilt by association argument is going to work. Ayers, Dohrn, and the rest of the Weather Underground members who went to prison served their time and are living more or less normal lives.
The GOP might use it, and they might not. Remember, many voters have NO memory whatsoever of the Weather Underground back in the group’s heydey of the late 1960s, early 1970s.
I am more worried about Obama’s unpreparedness NOW rather than people he associated with who did their time in prison. The GOP really don’t even have to mine the distant past of the Weather Underground to sink Obama.
I am not sure the guilt by association argument is going to work.
Depends who is using it. I agree they will not have to go to far back….but the “images” are to be drawn…
Susan Nunes -
But Barack Hussein Obama is choosing to take his donation and keep it TO DATE.
Obama knows Ayers thinks being a terrorist is O.K. and is agreeing with him by keeping his cash - TO THIS DAY.
There is so little positive known about Obama that things like associatiing with self-avowed terrorists (while running for President) does provide insight into Obama’s domestic and foreign policy, morals, ethics and lack thereof.
This is happenning NOW Susan Nunes. Not in the 60’s or 50’s. CURRENTLY.
The people they killed are still dead.
I’m deeply saddened that you feel it’s O.K. to kill 3 people and say you should have done more. Please avoid jury duty at all costs.
It’s February 22, 2008 - and Obama still has the money, the mansion and his friends Ayers and Rezko - get it?
The $200 donation was taken in 2001, that’s seven years ago, for those playing at home. There is no donation to return anymore. He wasn’t running for President in 2001.
Greg -
Barack Hussein Obama was running for office then and now. He was friends with Ayers then and still is NOW - TODAY - GREG!
Barack Hussein Obama knows Ayers is a terrorist.
Obama simply doesn’t care.
Ayers has neither paid his debt to society, nor expressed remorse.
The law matters. The safety of federal workers and United States citizens matters.
McVeigh and Ayers and the 9.11 terrorists all believed in their causes. Their victims are STILL dead.
Why does Obama insist on a Secret Sevrvice detail at tremmendous taxpayer expense if he thinks terrorism is so great?
Oh, yeah, because it’s him, not just one of his constituents. Hell, they can freeze to death for all he cares about their poor asses.
Obama wanted a mansion and his slumlord friend Rezko with his unheated buildings at taxpayer expense got him one.
I’m sure that he’ll be there for you though Greg.
I think it was Larry who mentioned Obama has a pattern of dealing with terrorists, from Ayers, to any connections Rezko or Auchi have.
This isn’t an isolated incident, and it’s highly relevant.
But those terrorists might still be connected to today’s terrorists, if only for the money.
It will be interesting to see how the Woods Fund is dispersed, and Tony Rezko’s true connections.
And btw, it’s silly to think the federal government doesn’t know the truth about Obama, his money, and connections, would have known even before Obama choose to run for President.
It’s just a matter of how much will be revealed, and when.
Hi, I’m running for state Senator, but before I appear at your house to be introduced to your supporters and possibly raise funds, could you please give me their names and social security numbers so that I may run a background check on them all?
You guys are well and truly bent if you think that it would be possible or practical or even desirable for this to happen before every political event of the size described in the article.
C’mon, Larry, you’re a former spook, you probably have free access to background reports and dossiers on everyone you meet. For those of us civilians, a criminal background check costs money!
Oh, and you’re misrepresenting the article when you say that it shows that “Ayers helped raise funds for Obama.” The article describes it as no more than an introduction.
Will Obama have to deal with this? Will the Republicans bring it up? Probably. They will throw anything against the wall. Personally, I’d much rather explain a brief introduction, a $200 contribution and serving on the board of a prominent Chicago charity with this former (unconvicted) terrorist than have to explain how the pardoning of 17 convicted terrorists (over the opposition of the FBI, DOJ, the victims, and the FOP) wasn’t done to pander to the Puerto Rican vote.
It’s also silly to think that Hillary doesn’t have any more hidden secrets. We’ve seen in the past two weeks that donations to her husband’s library is fertile ground for the production of innuendo. Her White House records are still under seal. Bill Clinton claimed executive privilege for the documents related to the pardoning of the FALN members. Would-be Swift-boaters will take the latter as an admission of guilt by the Clintons and the former as a deliberate attempt to keep the public from knowing what other secrets are hidden in the Clinton files.
Greg -
Barack Hussein Obama has not disavowed Ayers. That is what I’m asking for him to do. You can try and cast aspersions against the Clintons all day long much as the MSM does; however, Obama must disavow Ayers.
The key to understanding this a problem is here:
This is something that isn’t going to go away. If Obama’s smart, he’ll deal with it openly, and discuss why he did this. I suspect there’s nothing more to this story than Larry’s laid out, but if that’s all there is and all that comes from the Obama camp is denials and silence, it’s not going to matter. The Republicans will have a field day with this.
It can’t go away because it never arrived. Where in the press have we seen this covered so that DEMOCRATS can see it.
I’m surprised you all haven’t picked up on this,
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/02/21/obama-us-troops-in-afghanistan-forced-to-arm-themselves-with-stolen-taliban-weapons/
or this
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/255463.php
or this,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/02/us_troops_scavenging_weapons.asp
You and these guys are the two sides of the same coin.
Pentagon disuptes the first charge, regarding the Taliban.
Obama looks kinda dumb, doesnt he?
Poor Jim Webb, he must be having a hard time knowing whether to laugh or cry.
What it does point out is that Obama LIED yet again, and on national TV - and now is back pedaling.
GWB II - one serial lie after another. Left Coaster has invented a word because of the frequency of this stuff - they call it W.O.R.M. which stands for What Obama Really Meant.
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Here’s how a victim of the Black Panthers feels today:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/809445,CST-NWS-pannell23.article
Taylor Marsh mentions, though it’s unconfirmed, Obama and Ayers channeled money to a figure currently under federal indictment, possibly through the Woods Fund, Obama working with another known terrorist.
WTF is WRONG with the democratic leaders, why are they supporting Obama?
http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=27075
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Bill Ayers, his wife Bernardine, and the Weather Underground:
Weatherman, AKA Weather Underground Organization, was a violent U.S Radical Left group. They called themselves a revolutionary organization whose purpose was to carry out a series of attacks to overthrow of the Government of the United States .
The Weatherman believed that militancy was far better than nonviolent protests. Their goal was to thwart the US Government using guerrilla warfare to achieve a revolution. They wrote a “Declaration of a State of War” against the United States government.
Weather Underground claimed credit for a bombing in Chicago, which they referred to as a “kickoff” of the Days Of Rage. They even had the audacity to claim the credit in their book entitled, “Prairie Free”, which strongly called for a unified Communist Party. You ought to read it and ask yourself how come Jesus Obama thinks these people are cool.
The Weather Underground blew up several Chicago Police cars as well.
Next, these slime balls held a “war council” to firm up plans to remain underground and commit acts of sabatoge against the US Government. They bombed several police cars in Berkley. Then they detonated a bomb at the San Francisco Police Department, during which one officer was killed and several others were injured.
When 36 sticks of dynamite were discovered at a police precinct in Detroit, Bill Ayers just happened to be in town.
Later, several of the Underground’s own members died when they accidentally blew up their own bomb factory in New York. No loss. The bomb was intended to be used at an officer’s dance at Fort Dix. The bomb they were going to use was packed with nails for maximum damage. How wonderful that they got them into their own bodies instead. Then another bomb factory was discovered in Chicago’s North side. Their weapons cache was also discovered in an apartment in Chicago’s South side. Then they blew up the National Guard building in DC.
Nice people huh?
While they continued to hide from indictments, Bernardine Dohrn issued a “Declaration of A State Of War“.
They claimed credit for the explosion of the San Francisco Hall of Justice, which never occurred. Later an undetonated explosive device was discovered on the premises. Then the NY City Police headquarters was bombed. Then they bombed the Presidio Army Base in San Francisco in honor of the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
Think I am done talking about the Underground yet? Nope.
They then helped Timothy Leary escape from prison, bombed the Marin County courthouse. After that they bombed the Queens Traffic Court building. They bombed the Harvard Center For International Affairs. A few of them fled to Cuba, where I hope to God they still reside.
Next, they bombed the US Capital. Another of their bomb factories was discovered in San Francisco. Then they bombed the office of California Prisons, The New York Department of Corrections in Albany, NY, and William Bundy’s office at MIT Research Center.
Nope. I’m not done yet. They bombed the Pentagon. They bombed the 103 Police Precinct in New York.
Then they bombed the ITT in both New York and Rome, Italy.
They bombed the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
They bombed the Office of California of Attorney General.
They bombed Gulf’s Pittsburgh headquarters.
Then they bombed the Anaconda headquarters.
They bombed the State Department. They bombed the Banco De Ponce in Puerto Rico as well as the Kennekot Corporation.
They also committed the Brinks Robbery.
Think about all of this. I’ll wait. While you are waiting, here’s a little video to introduce you to the fear and misery these two people generated, only to say in 2001 they “Didn’t do enough”.
Then tell me that this is just another “boneheaded” affiliation that Obama made for himself–or that he just “didn’t know”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxoiZdBSi-g&eurl=http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com/search?q=weatherman
some people dont believe in guilt by assosiation….my question is how many people, bad people, has obama associated himself with ? the answear is too many ! it just cant be ignored any longer, it is crystal clear that something is really wrong with all of obamas associations. too many is all i can say… when does the msm come to this reasonable conclusion ? i pray that it will not be too late.
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tonight was the first time I heard a mainstream media pundit go after Obama on his connection to Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. Hopefully it won’t be the last.
Thomas Ayers died last year. I believe he was living with Bill Ayers at the time. Now let’s play the guilt by association with some others based on Thomas Ayers and Bill Ayers.
Weather Underground sympathizers based on Thomas Ayers membership:
Commonwealth Edison
G.D. Searles
Northwestern University
Sears Roebuck
Zenith
The Tribune Company
First National Bank of chicago
Chicago Urban league
Chicago Symphony orchestra
In addition Commonwealth Edison during Ayers reign was very aggressive in the nuclear power industry so it can logically be said that the WU supported nuke plants, hey and maybe they were seeking to turn the spent rods over to the WU so they can have dirty bombs. It might be time to take preemptory action against Commonwealth edison.
I think we are getting silly on the Bill Ayers connection
Fine. YOU say its silly. Happy for you in your blissful don’t want to hear it state. Koolaid refills for all!
So let me get it straight, now: Obama should have refused an invitation from his patron to a public event, where she was going to announce him to the local party leaders as her hand-picked successor…because he didn’t approve of her choice of friends.
I can just see that conversation. “Gee, Debbie, it’s real nice of you to give up your job and tell everyone you recommend me, but I can’t go to your friend’s house when we do tha