Ayers, Obama, Philanthropy, Corruption: What Big Media Refuses to Disclose about Obama’s Checkered Past in Chicago Machine Politics
By Mel on May 29, 2008 at 12:23 AM in ABC News, Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Chicago, Chicago politics, Crown family, David Axelrod, Education, Emil Jones, Exelon, Fox News, George Stephanopoulos, Joyce Foundation, Maytag, Media Bias, Michelle Obama, Obamedia, Pat Leahy, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Richard Daley, Tony Rezko, Weather Underground, William Ayers, Woods Fund
[Truthteller’s note:Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly broached the topic of Obama’s relationship to Bill Ayers and corrupt Chicago machine politics with a Fox News analyst and a Chicago Tribune columnist on 26 MAY. Although the panelists, who in my opinion are not very bright, provide an incomplete analysis, the Tribune columnist did mention that Leftists, Democrats and Republicans in Chicago bankroll and support Obama. The columnist also discusses how Chicago politicians must “punch their tickets” with local personalities in order to become viable. Some the tickets Obama punched as he climbed the corrupt ladder of Chicago politics are discussed in depth by Mel. Mel’s essay is long, but it is required reading for those who desire to understand how the Chicago puppet named Barack Obama was shaped, groomed and formed by William Ayers and others since the 1980s. Thank you, V, for producing this video clip.]
Chicago Politics Godfather passes Down the Reins and Anoints Obama! Follow the Money!
Since Carl Bernstein, Keith Oldberman, Tim Russert et al have exposed their complete lack of journalism ethics, exemplified by acting like awe struck teens of the 1960’s over the arrival of The Beatles combined with the excitement of dirty old men in a sleazy, out of the way, XXX Porn Theatre, WE THE PEOPLE are forced to do a long line of Googles, reading, investigating in order to find the truth about Barack Obama!
In an August 2006 interview with Ayers and Dohrn it was stated: Despite their critiques, Ayers and Dohrn are eternal optimists. Over coffee, Dohrn reflected that their activist days can serve as a metaphor for a “candle” that illuminates the past—and the future. Stay vigilant. The light will come.
Funny how Obama started doing due dilligence in August 2006 to run for POTUS!
One thing Obama said during the ABC debate in Philadelphia was: “I think the American people are smarter than that.” Well Senator Obama, some are smart enough to not take you word for it, but to investigate and what is revealed once again, as it was when we investigated Rezko and Rev Wright, is that you lied! How big a lie, unlike Rev Wright where it is all on tape, is revealed with time, as it was with Rezko. But once a liar always a liar. So with that said, let’s begin investigating!
Mountie Captain: I do not approve of your methods!
Ness: Yeah, well… You’re not from Chicago.
- The Untouchables, 1987.
Let’s challenge the media to report. Will they have the honesty and integrity to do so?
What makes Illinois run and who controls the actual power in Illinois, especially in Cook County, isn’t some Mayor or some Senator, or even some Judge; it is actually a two tier power control. Tier one is the Money, and not just any money, but the Foundation and Associations money. Tier two is the Organizers of people and votes. So let’s examine them for a moment!
Foundations and Associations
Chicago has some of the strongest Foundations and Associations in the country, not because of what they control, but because of the large dollars they control and the powerful philanthropists controlling those dollars. These Foundations and Associations have and control Billions upon Billions of dollars. The circle of people within these groups is small, and while claiming to be philanthropists, they like everyone else are simply pushing their own agendas under the guise of doing so for the well being of the community. The more Foundations and Associations a person is on defines the power that person controls, because the greatest of strengths is the networking of the Foundations and Associations, thus controlling more of the money and its usage.
The Foundations and Associations of which a person is allowed to become a member is based upon the position they have in the working world. Status also increases the person’s chances of securing a Chairmanship of Foundations and Associations. That can bring immortal power and even more status to such an individual.
Chicago has many such Foundations and Associations, but the top ones that control the workings of Illinois life are:
- the Chicago Urban League ,
- the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ,
- Chicago Chamber of Commerce and Industy ,
- the Chicago United,
- the Community Renewal Society (Project funder for the United Church of Christ – Rev Wright anyone? Today a Minister from TUCC sits on the board),
- the Illinois Council on Economic Education,
- the Chicago Public Education Fund,
- the Chicago Community Trust,
- the Erikson Institute,
- the Woods Fund Chicago
and the jewel Commercial Club of Chicago, Chicago’s most prestigious business group.
These philanthropy associations drive politics in Illinois.
First discover who is Thomas Ayers. This man welded power in every way!
Thomas G Ayers was many things, but most importantly, he was the behind the scenes Godfather of Illinois Politics right up to his death last June and beyond. He passed the torch to his sons, especially Bill Ayers, Obama’s terrorist friend.
Normally, when you have a child who turns out to be a criminal of major proportions, more so when a child is one of the FBI’s most wanted and a terrorist, life usually becomes unbearable: you’re shunned from the community, and employment is at risk. But not for Thomas Ayers. While his son Bill was bombing America, Thomas Ayers was being promoted to one of a highest profile and prestigious positions in Illinois and the country. He was also handed the keys to the most Nuclear Plants in the country as Chairman of Con Ed!
So why did no one questioned his promotion? When you control a monopoly and you’re the Godfather of Illinois politics, anything is possible and no one can stand in your way.
Many think Mayor Richard J. Daley was the Chicago Kingpin till his death, only to be followed by his son, Mayor Richard M. Daley, but that is not really so. They in fact are simply crooked politicians in fancy suits, mouthpieces for those behind the scenes!
A lot of the following information was pulled from Tom Ayers Obituary of June 8, 2007, at the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times, but for some reason they are no longer available. This is also the case with stories on Thomas Ayers. But other sources were found with it!
He was the Chicago establishment, he served on many boards, including that of G.D. Searle & Company (Donald Rumsfeld was CEO from 1977 to 1985 – that why Obama had such high praise of Rumsfeld?), Chicago Pacific Corp (sold Hoover to Maytag in 1985 – Crown Family), Zenith Corp., Northwest Industries, First National Bank of Chicago, the Chicago Cubs and Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Tribune.
But it was during his time as CEO of Con Ed that Thomas Ayers learned to work both sides of the street, making him the go to person in Illinois, the man with the “power”. It all started in the early 1960’s when he helped negotiate the first labor contract between Con Ed and the 12,000 member International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers! Thomas Ayers learned then that power comes from the streets; he also learned that power came from championing the plight of the Black community that provided real power in Chicago!
When Rev. Martin Luther King Jr brought his open house campaign to Chicago in the mid 1960’s, Thomas Ayers was called upon to negotiate between Mayor Richard J. Daley’s administration and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. He also developed the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities to fight racial discrimination in housing.
Mr. Thomas Ayers learned then the power of philanthropy and became a leader in Chicago Philanthropy circles and an agent for change. He worked with many powerful nonprofit groups and many Foundations, serving as the chair of the Chicago Urban League, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber of Commerce and Industy, Chicago United, Community Renewal Society (Project funder for the United Church of Christ – Rev Wright anyone? Today a Minister from TUCC sits on the board), Illinois Council on Economic Education, The Chicago Public Education Fund, the Chicago Community Trust, Bank Street College of Education in New York (where Bill Ayers went to school after surfacing in 1980), Erikson Institute and the jewel Commercial Club of Chicago, Chicago’s most prestigious business group. These philanthropy associations drive politics in Illinois, especially with a combined worth exceeding $5 billion. Thomas Ayers knew how to network (new name for manipulate) them all for his own agenda!
If you look at all these Associations and Foundations Board of Directors, you will see the Who’s Who behind Obama’s campaign! According to Thomas Ayers, it all starts at the basics, elections and grass roots, in order to be working from inside the establishment and not fighting from the outside!
James O’Connor, former Chairman and CEO of Com Ed summed it all up about Thomas Ayers: “He had an extraordinary social conscience. He was willing to step into situations where very few people were willing to risk their reputation. He had total courage and never seemed to weigh the consequences of that sort of activity. He never did anything for applause or for any sort of recognition.” In other words it was “all about the power”!
“He was a guy of great intelligence and integrity, and he was willing to put the time in as well,” former Northwestern U president Arnold Weber said. “Those offices are not just honorary or for social distinction.” Again, it is for the “POWER.”
Michael Klonsky (former SDS leader and Founder of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) USA, and author of “Remembering the Summer of ‘66″ (Klonsky also collaborated with Bill Ayers on several projects over the years, and the duo, along with Gabrielle Lyon, of A Simple Justice: The Challenge of Small Schools) had these comments about Thomas Ayers:
Tom Ayers, was a force in the civic life of Chicago. “He will be remembered, not only as a business leader, but as an individual committed to civil rights and school reform. I loved to argue politics and baseball with Tom although I can’t say I ever made him see it my way in either area.”
Equally important to Mr. Thomas Ayers was the educational and financial advancement of African-Americans. “He felt the black community’s success was key to Chicago’s success,” son John Ayers said. “He pushed business people to be more open in the 1960s.”
Look at Thomas Ayers present day successor at Con Ed, Mr. Frank M Clark, who joined Con Ed under Ayers’s reign in 1966. Now compare Clark to Ayers by the Foundations Clark is on: the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Family Services, The Chicago Community Trust, the governing board of the Illinois Council on Economic Education, the Economic Club of Chicago, The Commercial Club of Chicago, and the Executives’ Club of Chicago. Clark also was ranked among the 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America by Fortune magazine in 2002. Mr. Clark also happens to be a super bundler for Obama. He is also a lobbyist.
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“In the ’60s and ’70s, we went through some rough patches in our family,” he said. “He was very sweet and supportive of us all. He used to say, ‘It takes all kinds’ to get the world moving forward.” John Ayers worked on School Reform in the 1980’s representing the powerful Commercial Club of Chicago Civics Commitee that was put in place in 1983 in part to provide business sector leadership in support of the reform of the Chicago Public School system and public school financing.
During a 1993 interview by the Chicago Magazine with Bernadine Dohrn, many revelations materialized, some lies (she is a terrorist, after all), some not! She and her husband Bill Ayers have held high-profile dinner parties and seem to do so often. Obama’s campaign and political career launch party in 1995 was just one in a line of them.Terrorism today according to Bill Ayers’s good friend and fellow Weather Underground member, who is also today’s MDS partner, Mark Rudd is explained on his website. It starts at the basics, elections and grass roots, to be working from inside the establishment, according to Thomas Ayers, and not fighting from the outside!
Basically, Ayers and Dohrn are the same, living the same past lives, but something expressed by Bill Ayers brother John about their father is revealing: With his sons deep in protest of the Vietnam War (one, Bill Ayers, was a member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society who went underground for about 11 years) the businessman supported his children and their campaign. “Our father always stood by us,” John Ayers said. “He was an establishment guy, but he believed in us. He believed in change.”
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So how powerful a man was Thomas Ayers? Well when Bernadine Dohrn was seeking her NY State law licence, two people wrote on Dohrn’s behalf to the Ethics Committee in her application. Her supporters included two powerful lawyers, Don H. Reuben (Sydley Austin), at one time the Chicago Tribune’s lawyer. The other supporter was a very well respected Federal Judge Harold Tylor!
How did she get into Sidley Austin Law Firm, where both Michelle and Barack Obama not coincidentally both worked? Howard Trienens, a partner at Sidley Austin since 1956, has been a member of the Northwestern University board of trustees since 1967 and chairman of the board from 1986 to 1995, replacing Thomas Ayers as Chairman (One more item: Ayers’ wife, fellow ex-terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, is a law-professor (without a licence to practice law) at Northwestern U since 1991. Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but Thomas Ayers served as the Chair of the Board of Trustees from 1975 to 1986 at the prestigious college. He was named a Life Trustee in 1987). He received two degrees from Northwestern, a bachelor’s degree in 1945 and a J.D. in 1949, and was editor in chief of the Illinois Law Review. Read More. And Read More.
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Equally important to Mr. Thomas Ayers was the educational and financial advancement of African-Americans.
“He felt the black community’s success was key to Chicago’s success,” son John Ayers said. “He pushed business people to be more open in the 1960s.” “In the ’60s and ’70s, we went through some rough patches in our family,” he said. “He was very sweet and supportive of us all. He used to say, ‘It takes all kinds’ to get the world moving forward.” John Ayers worked on School Reform in the 1980’s representing the powerful Commercial Club of Chicago Civics Commitee that was put in place in 1983 in part to provide business sector leadership in support of the reform of the Chicago Public School system and public school financing.
When William Ayers resurfaced in the 1980s, it was as though no time had passed between him and his father. “It was as if we were in the middle of a conversation and nothing much had changed,” William Ayers said. Probably because the communication was always there while in hiding!
While chairing the Northwestern University Board of Trustees, he helped start Chicago United in 1968 upon the request of Mayor Daley. Chicago United was dedicated to racial minority group access to jobs and education. In 1973, Chicago United joined with other civic organizations to create the Regional Transit Authority.
After the Board of Education’s financial collapse of 1979, Mayor Jane M. Byrne named Mr. Thomas Ayers as her choice for president of the new board.
In 1987, Mayor Harold Washington asked Chicago United (Thomas Ayers) to head a broad-based school reform coalition, one that lead directly to the landmark School Reform Act of 1988.
Active in the local control from below, on the “community” side of this effort was the University of Illinois, where Bill Ayers who had returned to Chicago in 1987 as an Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Illinois’ Chicago Circle campus. Another ally in this battle at the same time was Executive Director Barack Obama’s Developing Communities Project (DCP), as Obama notes briefly in his Dreams From My Father. The DCP had its origins in the “radical” movement started by Saul Alinsky.
A lengthy report done by Bill McKersie, published in 1992, on Philanthropy’s Paradox: Chicago School Reform (The Role of Chicago Foundations in Reform, 1987-1990) for the American Educational Research Association, exposes several things. McKersie wrote this having experience on the inside, having worked for the Joyce Foundation.
McKersie points out that the money funnelled to Community Activists was to represent parents and Community residents and that these Activists were pushing for a fast moving change agenda. The shift of Foundation money only occurred after the School Reform act was completed and sent for passage at the State level. Thus prior to late 1988, Foundation money was used and targeted to Activists to voice the peoples concerns to those involved in representing the Government (Thomas Ayers group) and the researchers and developers of the Reform Act (Bill Ayers group).
Two of the Foundations continually funded mainly Community Organizations, the Wieboldt and the Woods Fund. In 1987, the DCP, Obama’s group, was given in excess of $36,000/yr directly for School Reform work. What is important to note is that these two Foundations used Community Organizers to shape the agenda for School Reform for much larger Education funders, demanding also faster action to Reform. How does this happen? By being active with the Communities and those working for the Government and Institution researchers setting the agenda for School Reform!
But unfortunately, the Activist side of setting the agenda was squashed in late 1987, hmm-same time Obama decided to go to Harvard! It was in early 1988 that AT&T, Chicago Community Trust (Thomas Ayers), Joyce Foundation and McArthur Foundation came together and decided it was time to look at everything and actually do something concrete after linking up with the Community Renewal Society (Thomas Ayers), and the project came to fruition. Basically, it was the convergence of groups, the Activists (Obama et al) attempting to set an agenda without a plan and the Institutions able to forge a plan (Thomas/Bill/John Ayers et al). Basically, it is noted that the Foundations via the Activists attempted to have “Bought Reform.” But in the end, they didn’t: all they bought was moving certain ideas through discussions, but it took the Institutions to enact the final outcome and resolve. Sounds exactly like a POTUS campaign going on presently!
The reasoning for the Foundations funding of Activists was to make sure that multiple and diverse voices were heard! Obama was recruited by the Woods Fund to work the Afro-American community, the one community that they could not previously reach with their white Jewish Organizers, thus putting Obama front and center for the Black group of voices representing the DCP with all the powers to be, namely Thomas Ayers, since 1985 when the movement started on School Reform! Therefore, Slate is correct in stating Obama has more than 20 years experience in School Reform. Unfortunately, Obama’s work in School Reform has been a failure!
What this endeavour of School Reform also brought to Obama was not only his meeting Thomas Ayers, but also brought him closer to the powers to be at the Woods Foundation and other organizations such as the Joyce Foundation and ACORN, who endorses Obama, just to name a few.
When the ordeal was finally resolved, imagine who the head of the school reform coalition was, none other than Thomas Ayers son and Bill Ayers brother John Ayers! Coincidence?
So who brought Obama to Chicago? The DCP? Well, yes and no! The DCP brought him, but actually was funded by The Woods Fund Chicago!
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So what is the Woods Fund?
Frank Woods had a broad vision of philanthropy. Under his leadership, institutions like the Art Institute, which he chaired, were great beneficiaries. But he also gave grants to help equalize opportunities before the Civil Rights era and supported small community-based groups. He appeared to have valued risk taking in philanthropy, setting up fund at Chicago Community Trust (Thomas Ayers), whose purpose was to encourage “high risk grants.” He was known to be very open to community organizing and got involved early in its funding. Following Frank Woods’s death, George Kelm provided leadership. One critical leadership contribution of Mr. Kelm was hiring the Fund’s first full time staff director, Jean Rudd. She shaped the Director’s philanthropic visions into clear grant making guidelines, creating two major grant making programs – in community organizing and in public workforce development policy – that remain to this day. So you know, George Kelm was President and CEO and Chair of Sahara Enterprises and Sahara Coal Company, Illinois largest coal company, a main supplier to Con Ed (Thomas Ayers, David Axelrod and Obama’s vote for the Bush-Cheney Energy Bill)!
The Woods Foundation has a lot bigger a role than expected!
The Woods Fund, in many ways, is responsible for helping start Obama as an organizer and shaping his political identity. In 1985 the foundation gave a $25,000 grant to the Developing Communities Project, which hired Obama, at 24, as an organizer on Chicago’s economically depressed South Side. Obama became friendly with Woods director Jean Rudd (why if he was working for the DCP? The School Reform Act of course), and after he graduated from Harvard Law School and moved back to Chicago (1991), Rudd asked him to join the board, which met four times a year to review grant proposals. (Obama also served on the board of the larger Joyce Foundation, which specialized in environmental conservation, welfare reform and education.) “Community organizing was a central priority of this foundation, so more and more we drew him in,” says Rudd, who retired in 2000. Obama and Ayers happened to not only fund Rezko on the board, but also Dohrn and Rev. Wright via the Gamaliel Foundation.
Note: Obama was on the Woods Fund board for at least 6 years before Ayers joined it! Also, the Joyce Foundation is an anti-gun foundation hidden under the guise of being an environmental Fund. How come Obama never mentions this Fund he was on? Maybe because the NRA calls the Joyce Foundation an activist foundation whose “shadowy web of huge donations” leads “straight to puppet strings that control the agenda of gun ban groups.”
What seems to be critical is why would Obama be known to a Foundation, when the money was a grant to the DCP? Following this logic of Jean Rudd being involved in where the Woods Fund money goes, then is Jean Rudd’s involved in the money the Woods gave to Rezko, Ayers, Klalhia, and other assorted people, as today she heads the oversight for all Chicago slum rehabilitations?
I found the old Woods Fund site (hidden not removed). Some links don’t work, but I find it interesting who they gave money to! And notice the dates: everything is deleted during Obama years. Wonder why?
Obama also tends not to mention another Foundation he was on in the 1980’s, the Gamaliel Foundation, which teaches the works and practices of Saul Alinsky to community organizers! The Gamaliel Foundation is a church based Foundation, supported by many of Tom Ayers Foundations and happens to be a part of the United Church of Christ. Rev. Wright ring a bell?
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Also, another lie of Obama’s is his claim to meeting Illinois Senator Emil Jones in the Senate, not true; Obama met his State Senate Godfather in 1986!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/21/politics/main3858237.shtml
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Richard M. Daley, Chicago Mayor and member of Mayors against Illegal Guns member that receives big funds from The Joyce Foundation, stated after the ABC debate:
The liberal blogs are still aghast about the whole incident, and to varying degrees; many mainstream voices have denounced what’s being called a smear campaign.
On the surface, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s statement on the affair is surprising.
There are a lot of reasons that Americans are angry about Washington politics. And one more example is the way Senator Obama’s opponents are playing guilt-by-association, tarring him because he happens to know Bill Ayers. I also know Bill Ayers. He worked with me in shaping our now nationally renowned school reform program. He is a nationally recognized distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago and a valued member of the Chicago community.
I don’t condone what he did 40 years ago but I remember that period well. It was a difficult time, but those days are long over. I believe we have too many challenges in Chicago and our country to keep re-fighting 40 year old battles.
So while it would appear on the surface that Richard M. Daley picked William Ayers, well, out of the air, to help guide the reform of Chicago’s school system; upon a closer look, in a city like Chicago, where people get ahead on who they know and who they are related to, Daley’s selection made a lot of sense.
But there is something else the mayor will remember. Ayers father was Thomas G. Ayers, the head of Commonwealth Edison, which was then Chicago’s electrical utility. Just as Obama and the younger Ayers are, in the words of Obama aide and Com Ed lobbyist David Axelrod, “friendly,” so were the elder Daley and the senior Ayers.
Funny for Axelrod to say, considering David Axelrod happens to come from a politically communist family: his mother use to write for the NY paper “PW” which was a communist oriented paper. Axelrod also met Obama in the early 1990’s (1991 to be exact), when Obama was a community organizer leading a voter-registration drive on the South Side. Axelrod served as advertising director for Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign. A former political reporter, Axelrod, 53, left the Chicago Tribune in 1984 (started in 1977) to become press secretary for then-Rep. Paul Simon, D-Ill., who was running for the Senate. He established himself as a fixture in Windy City politics, as well as statewide. In 1989, Axelrod went to work for Richard M. Daley in his first successful bid to be Chicago’s mayor, and he has remained close to the Daley machine ever since by displacing the African-American leadership from City Hall. Read More.
Then there is Valerie Jarrett: Jarrett in 1991 was Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s Deputy Chief of Staff. After serving at Daley’s side, Jarrett was a Commissioner in the city’s Planning and Development Department (key to distort Obama’s claims of not knowing about Rezko’s dealings and failures) and went on to chair the Chicago Transit Board (Thomas Ayers created Board), which oversees the city’s flawed and failed public transportation system. Jarrett is a fixture in Chicago politics and in the Obama family. Jarrett, 51, is a senior unpaid adviser to the campaign, and is a confidant of both the candidate and his wife, Michelle. Jarrett’s role as an honest broker in the campaign stems from her deep friendship with the candidate and his wife. Barack Obama met Jarrett in 1991 when she was interviewing Obama’s then-fiancée for a job in City Hall. The three have been close ever since. A lawyer, Jarrett got her start in city government as a deputy corporation counsel for finance and development. She is also a member of the University of Chicago’s board of trustees, and she chairs its Medical Center Board. She served as chairman of Obama’s finance committee during Mr. Obama’s 2004 (alongside Tony Rezko) campaign for U.S. Senate. Her associations also helped pave the way for Mrs. Obama’s job at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where Ms. Jarrett was on the board of directors. Read More. Jarrett also is a Director of The Joyce Foundation, which claims to be an enviromental Foundation, although it is also an anti-gun foundation. Since 2003, the Joyce Foundation has paid grants totaling over $12 million to gun control organizations. Gun rights groups including the National Rifle Association call the Joyce Foundation an activist foundation whose “shadowy web of huge donations” leads “straight to puppet strings that control the agenda of gun ban groups. Read More. Obama was a Director of the Joyce Foundation also. Read More. Was Jennett put in place to keep control over the OBAMA’s?
The list of names go on, but they all lead back to Mr. Thomas Ayers!
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So as stated above, William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, upon return to Chicago, spent a lot of time holding “High Profile Dinner Parties”, basically doing the passing of the torch from Tom Ayers to the new Godfather duo of Illinois Politics based upon Thomas Ayers years of building power and control by ways of civil rights and school reform!
Everyone remember Senator Leahy (D-VT) speaking out for Clinton to quit a couple of weeks ago? Well, actor and activist Peter Coyote talking on the 1996 Democratic Convention in Chicago on his website mentions a couple of times about having to inform his wife “Martha that I’m dragging her to the apartment of old friends, ex-Weathermen, Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, hosting a party for Senator Leahy. Perhaps Edward Said will be there I urge her to come by promising that the event will push the edges of the envelope of her centrist politics.” (Wonder who got Senator Leahy to demand Clinton withdraw?)
But, all these social trappings notwithstanding, she and her husband say they have not lost any of their old, anti-Establishment fervour. Ayers, who still carries his SDS card in his wallet, says he feels no better about this country “just because a bunch of 40-year-olds are now part of the Establishment.”
Ayers says electoral politics is a tool to connect causes, like gay rights, disability rights, voting rights, human rights. “That’s how you use electoral politics. Not as an end in itself, but as an organizing mechanism. Our deepest belief, I think, is that we need to connect all these good projects and build the movement. …we should always be positioning ourselves, thinking, okay, if I’m involved in this next election, how am I positioned to help contribute to building a movement, raising consciousness, making the connections, and that’s a real tricky business.” (Any wonder who is behind Obama?)
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So what would attract someone like Obama to William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn?
Obama’s relationship with communist Frank Marshall Davis, Obama’s adopted grandfather and life advisor, of course. Add to that Obama’s continual obsession for following Marxist types of organizations and education makes Obama a natural fit with his gift for being illusive!
So we are left to figure out, was 1987 the first time Obama met the Ayers or was it sooner, such as:
- At Cooper Union in New York during a Marxist convention?
- At Columbia U with Ayers or Dohrn as a political Science class guest speaker? (Is that why Obama’s Columbia records are locked up)?
- Any other time in NYC at some rally?
And do not forget, the Anti-war speech Obama gave in 2002, was organized by former terrorists of the SDS days, Carl Davidson, Marylyn Katz and others!
Lies, deception, corruption and so many links to radicals, and the Democratic Party feels someone like this is the future?
Answer: Dohrn stated: “I don’t look to the Democratic Party. I don’t have hope for the Democratic Party. I think the Democratic Party is bankrupt. And I think the only answer is for us to build an independent, radical movement, and, I mean, the big ‘us.’ “Stay vigilant. The light will come”…….is the light Obama, yes to them he is! JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY!!
And this is what Obama stated during the Philadelphia ABC debate when questioned about his relationship to William Ayers:
SEN. OBAMA: George, but this is an example of what I’m talking about.
This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense, George.
So this kind of game, in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, is somehow — somehow their ideas could be attributed to me — I think the American people are smarter than that. They’re not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn’t.
My Response: Senator Obama, first, your guy who lives in your neighborhood happens to be a terrorist teaching education to children and not English, and you, sir, being a Political Science Major from Columbia U should know that! Second, your children cannot possibly go to school with Ayers kids, as his kids are all over 21 years of age, Mr. Liar! Third, your relationship with this TERRORIST goes back over 20 years and your association is not based upon a howdy on the streets, but is one of you working side by side putting forth this TERRORIST’S agenda, especially when it comes to educating children! If they are not your values you share with him, then why did you sit on many foundations, support many of his causes and work so closely with him? Simple answer is because you are one of him! Yes, we are smarter than to be conned by a thug and a corrupt Chicago politician, Senator Obama! You claim to be a true Christian and believer in Jesus Christ, it is a mortal sin to lie and a moral sin to lie in a place of worship, Senator Obama, but you did.
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Now in 1990, Obama was pretty much set as far as power from the streets was concerned, since Michelle Obama’s father was a powerful Democratic Precinct Captain, but timing is everything and Michelle’s father died in 1990, thus Obama lost his street power and to recoup it went out and worked for the Project Vote and registered 150,000 new voters in 1992 (Marilyn Katz of SDS fame happened to be leading Project Vote and working on many of Thomas Ayers Foundations, including working for Davis Miner Law firm, Barack Obama’s former employer, doing PR work). Funny thing, Miner happened to work on Mayor Washington’s staff from 1984 to 1987 and also happened to be classmates at the University of Chicago law school with Bernadine Dohrn!
Why must we do the media’s job to find out the workings of the corrupt Chicago underground attempting to control the DNP and now the White House?

(insert middle finger here)
Obama/Obama ‘08
Because the Messiah can get it done without veeps.
Wow!!! Well, I’ve known about some of this from my research of Obama but my gosh…. this is detailed and totally makes sense why I cannot trust this guy. Too bad the media choose to be blind and deny the people the truth.
Most of this is a hoot! I wouldn’t be too impressed. Calling me a ‘terrorist’ of the 1960s is just flat wrong. I was in the group that opposed the Weathermen from the time they formed, and wrote against them until they faded away. That means your ‘researcher’ just made it up, or copied someone who did. But be careful! With six degrees of separation and armed with trusty ‘Google,’ I bet I can connect anyone here with ‘ties’ to people who advocate Biblical Slavery, or even worse. Your buddy McCain is starting to get some garbage dumped on him this way.
Nice try, Carl. No go take a hike. THANK YOU!!!!! By the way, we are Democrats. You are just a corrupt Chicago pol. Scumbag. I know what you are about, and you are full of shit. Have a nice day.
Apparently, you don’t know much. I’m hardly a ‘pol,’ no longer live in Chicago, and the only serious money that ever came my way was from repairing computers or selling truck parts, all of which I got the old-fashioned way, by working for it. No, I stay involved in the politics of change for the love of it–a little of the glitter, but certainly no gold. But you’re right on fooling me into thinking you were something other than Democrats.
Interesting Carl (if this is Carl Davidson), but in 1968, after the three hostages were taken and the follow up actions at Columbia, the SDS secretary, who happened to be Carl Davidson then designated the Columbia action as the model for all campus organizing efforts by SDS in the 1968-69 academic year.
Well taking hostages and overthrowing leaders, be it College leaders or political leaders is an act of terrorism and Carl Davidson was promoting this action everywhere!
Another point, no matter how it comes to be, Carl Davidson is presently a member of the MDS, and happened to be in Chicago last november and in the midst of the people there and promoted on the website in pictures is Bill Ayers. So say as you will even about the MDS, guilt by association, not when an unrepenting terrorist is in the midst and a member. That is like saying well gee I am a member of the same group bin Ladin is in, but bin Ladin doesn’t speak for me!
Wait a minute isn’t that what happened in 1968-1973 with the SDS?
To say writing out against something and then reliving it again with the same cast of charaters is condoning the past, might be different if the MDS told Dohrn and Ayers, sorry you are not included here, as we do not condone your unrepenting actions!
So not blowing things up, but condoning and announcing for more kidnappings and over throws is an act of terrorism no matter how one tries to manipulate it!
Combine that with rejoining with the same cast of charaters who did the bombings discredits any form of rational to the opposite!
Yes you moved back to your home state of PA just before their primary. Was it you who arranged for the thugs to intimidate people at the polls who said they were not going to vote for Obama?
True you “made a living” fixing computers and Ovama was one of your best customers, along with the City of Chicago and old anti-war friends.
However, exchange in Chicago does not always entail hard cash does it Carl?
Sorry, Nellie, your imagination is getting the better of your common sense.
No voters were intimidated by me or anyone else here in Beaver County. We had a peaceful, friendly day at my polling place. In any case, I spend it passing out voter guides rating all the candidates on the war at two local campuses, and urging those not registered to vote to register for November. If you have another story behind that odd claim, it’s news to me. Besides, being in the minority here, I’m hardly in a position to do much intimidating, even if I approved of such things, which I don’t.
Obama was never even a customer of mine, let alone a ‘best’ one. You simply made that up, or someone who passed it to you did.
True, the CPS hired me to train teachers on how to train students to repair computers, and to set up after-school computer workshops to do the same, in some of the city’s toughest schools. I did a decent job of it for three years, but even then, CPS wasn’t my ‘main’ customer.
No, I made my money the old-fashioned way: find a need, meet it by working hard and doing a good job, and the customers tell their friends and call you back. I learned it working in my father’s gas station and auto repair shop.
Nellie, I’m sure we have major and serious political differences. I’m more than willing to debate them, but why do you guys always go for this ‘ad hominem’ crap that would have got you a ‘D’ in my Logic class I taught to freshmen on the college level long ago?
Carl, Carl,
You will not remember me, but I dated Abbie Hoffman’s cousin - that is until the unfortuante violence of 68.
We split because of that violence - I have always preferred negotion.
To pretend there were no casulaties is ludicrous. There were serious economic “casualties”. For those needing and attemtping to make a living, get to work etc. The puncturing of tires - Marilyn Katz’s little styrofoam/nail invention actually hurt people.
I know what part you played - so your Pontius Pilot routine will not work. Still the same I see, with your veiled threat in above commnet.
Terrorist - lousy term - gotten too generic in the last years - but yeah it fits. Would you perhaps prefer “Guerilla Leader”since you still consider yourself part of a legitimate? resistance
Well, wonder how many people have copied this to their hard drive? LOL Guess this is just too much for the msm to wrap their heads around.
I am sure this has already been forward to those who need to know. I started calling the DNC 8 months ago asking when they would vet Obama-Marxist. Did they really think the glitter would never fall off this person?
The closer Obama-Marxist gets to the nomination all his little secrets will come out. I for one cannot wait.
NO OBAMA-MARXIST
HILLARY OR MCCAIN 2008
NOTE: Compare what these people say about Obama’s coming to Chicago to do “community organizing” and what Obama himself said at the Sunday commencement for Wesleyan college:
“So that by the time I graduated from college, I was possessed with a crazy idea – that I would work at a grassroots level to bring about change.
I wrote letters to every organization in the country I could think of. And one day, a small group of churches on the South Side of Chicago offered me a job to come work as a community organizer in neighborhoods that had been devastated by steel plant closings. My mother and grandparents wanted me to go to law school. My friends were applying to jobs on Wall Street. Meanwhile, this organization offered me $12,000 a year plus $2,000 for an old, beat-up car.
And I said yes.”
Very much in contrast. This man is incapable of telling the truth.
I can link at least 20 different stories as to Obama going to Chicago, he is a simple pathalogical liar!
It’s no wonder that Obama never goes into detail about the change he wants to bring to DC, if this is a sample of his new kind of politics. The MSM will never do any in depth coverage of this story. They are so use to doing 30 second sound bites, that they have no any idea how to do real reporting.
Instead of dumbing down the news for the audience, I think they had to dumb it down for the talking heads so they wouldn’t look dumb.
Frankly, you’d have to dumb it down for me, too. LOL*
This is why the Rezko story never got picked up. It’s just too complex. Or it’s that nobody has stepped back and summarized.
I will try to summarize it tomorrow. But I thought everyone should have all the information.
Thanks for putting this together for us. Holy crap. It never stops, does it?
Truth is our most powerful weapon.
Remember how Obama reponded to Hillary’s Rezko charge? At the time he also said “truth matters”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OECrIhiPYuI
Thanks. That clip is classic the way he handled that, drawing away from the charge without saying anything of substance on the charge. Later on he wound up returning about $250K of Rezko’s money. He never had to acknowledge how deeply involved Rezko and his associates have been in Obama’s political career.
Youdid a great job in a short period Truthteller, I know it is a tad disorganized, but May 31st is soon approaching and things need to be vetted fast now!
Most know it won’t be by the media, because the Tribune Co, owner of major market TV stations, Radios and Newspapers won’t let it happen as they are the largest independant media holding in America, and Axelrod is so well connected there!
So pump it out June 3rd is less than a week away and the more reality of Obama out there the more clear things about this guy becomes!
Here is Obama’s planned Marxist Change:
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM41_eastafrica.html
It is Obama’s fathers “Land Reform and economic Redistribution paper” (10 page pdf) written in 1965.
Now you can see why Farrakhan is almost licking his chops in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWxNeGOXSoA
Well, what can one say. It is a bit too long for my concentration level. Guess I’m not up for filthy, Chicago politics. It is all quite incestuous.
I just read this, and I am shocked. Anyone who endorsed him is not a Democrat. Democrats do not condone corruption, and they do not endorse exploiting public school systems for personal gain. No one who supports this Obama has my respect. His supporters must be corrupt if they decide to ignore this.
PURE SLEAZE.
“Democrats do not condone corruption”
Now that’s good comedy.
Democrats=Politics
Politics=Corruption.
The more power someone has the more corrupt they become.
I use to argue with my father who was a straight ticket republican, every time the Congress voted to give themselves a pay raise. I would say they don’t deserve to make the money they do with as little work that they do. He would say they need to be well paid to keep them honest so they will be less likely to be bought. I would say if they can be bought they shouldn’t be in office in the first place. He’d get mad at that point and end of conversation.
On Policy, Obama Breaks Little New Ground
Obama. All fluff, no substance.
Great clip! Ambitious digging! As someone privy to insider info on the machine there I dispute the contention the city hall is not the centre of power. Sorry but my own information - not from research but from first hand sources inside - says otherwise.
Is Chicago City Hall the Public Face of power?
Or the total aribitrator of power, including the more powerful behind the scenes string pulling, and very top levels of decision making?
The Great Chicago Bonfire of the Vanities.
Leaving in its wake dilapidated public housing, crime sprees, mansions for bigot pumping and pulpit humping preachers, failed savings and loans and subprime bailouts for Wall Street instead of Main Street.
Superman Obama is still an employee of the Daley Planet.
He sees dead people, whose votes from Cook Co. give him a slim lead if you don’t count two of the largest Primary battleground states, and emphasize caucuses from the other 57 states, of which he’s visited or draws support from 55 of those states.
Yes, his math is more than a bit fuzzy, but so are the feel good feelings of his effort to unite America by calling all opponents or rivals race baiters, including members of his own political party.
The article may be long and take some time to sort through but everyone should read it and read it again. Not reading something like this is exactly why Obama-Marxist is close to the nomination. Not reading it is exactly what his supporters would do because they cannot and will not accept anything negative about their idol.
They are lazy and will not research their idol and get crazed about him because it is the “newness of him” that they see but they will not peel back the layers to take a good look.
It is our duty to read and go thru the links and reveal the truth about who he is and how he got where he is.
There is still time to take our party back. I will never vote for him no way and if he is the nominee I will leave the party Hell I may leave the party anyway but I still want the media to have to do their job. I hate the DNC for not vetting this person.
Please pass this article on to everyone you know. This should be going out to every media market and blog asap. I have sent it to some blogs already and am sending it to my reps in my state who have not commited.
NO OBAMA-MARXIST NO WAY
HILLARY OR MCCAIN 2008
The media — too busy with other more important things than doing real journalism.
This story could be told with film clips, photos and diagrams showing the links between individuals — very visual and graphic.
Obama is a cleaver guy — he tries to be all things to all people and it almost worked — a whole lot of people have been fooled.
That speech at the 04 convention wasn’t all that great. He pulled all the gospel minister type tricks and he SAID nothing. At this point in time can anyone remember what he really said? Blah blah blah blah.
Yes, I can tell you what Obama said in his 2004 Keynote speech in Boston. He said, “There are patriots who support the war in Iraw, and there are patriots who oppose the war.”
And we also know why he took such a high dive into the tank. John Kerry and John Edwards voted for the Resol;ution to authorize President Bush to take the country to war, and so did 29 of the 50 Democratic Senators, virtually all of whom were sitting on the convention floor.
The man has no guts. He is a slick politician. He could have set the 2004 Democratic National Convention on fire, but he chose to take a dive instead.
This is a fantastic article. I knew a good deal of this stuff, but not all the details and it helped to fill in a lot of gaps for me, and answer some questions.
I sent a link of this article to Greta, Sean, and Bill–since they seem more likely to cover it than Obama-media.
Here is Fair Media’s contact list: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=111
Also: ALL media contact list, click on the state:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/
Help spread the word.
Hopefully, Lou Dobbs can use it for bedside reading too….although it seems he just had a new baby!
It is a waste of time to try and disqualify Obama because he is a Chicago politician. Dirty politics takes place everywhere these days. And Obama is a transplanted Chicagoan who travels in circles most Chicagoans and Chicago politicians abhor. This issue is a non-starter for just about everyone.
And if you choose to believe it, good luck.
He’s filthy, they’re filthy, and from this article, those people, not too bright.
Fascinating look into the heads of the wealthy and mediocre, no talent, no brains, top to bottom. They sure couldn’t recruit the real intellect, only the wannabes too stupid to understand WHY corruption never works, in the end.
Like the Cheneys, and the Bushs, that whole “Aspen” crowd, LOL…
No wonder all their plans fail, from trying to elect a POS like Obama, to, oh, I don’t know….
I asked yesterday, given McClellan’s book, why we’re in Iraq.
No one has an answer yet, but the discrediting of McClellan is as predicted, and barely worth a yawn.
Poor things…
The wars will bankrupt this country, no way around it.
Should we ignore it?
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Yeah.
There’s nothing that group can do, they’re too corrupt, and they’re too fucking DUMB.
Here’s what you’re missing, dugan49:
All these “feel-good” philanthropic organizations don’t actually DO anything for the poor people they purport to care about.
They just move BIG MONEY around so their fat salaries are increased, but the DOLLARS actually stay within the power-brokers and the connected in the group.
These people don’t really CARE that poor people in nursing homes have no heat. They don’t actually CARE about mentoring a Black ghetto kid or teaching him to read. They don’t actually DO anything constructive.
They just pass the foundation and government money around to EACH OTHER, putting CONNECTED people on their Board of Directors, while receiving even more money for that.
It’s a pyramid scheme.
They don’t really give a rat’s ass about the poor or the downtrodden.
They give a rat’s ass about THEMSELVES and the inner circle they’ve been inducted into.
It’s all crap. Smoke and mirrors.
Mel,
Excellent research! If I could make a recommendation … this information could be far more impactful if it would focus on the four to five key relationships between Obama and Ayers through these foundations and organizations, with timelines. This would make the casual follower of these issues raise an eyebrow.
For readers who want even more information on the the Obama - Ayers connection is http://www.globallabor.blogspot.com. You will be glued to your computer for hours going through the detailed and well researched articles.
Mel,
Could you clarify how Obama came to Chicago?
I know you made mention, but I wasn’t too clear on who the main players were in facilitating his career.
There are so many conflicting storys as to who brought him but it will be figured out soon hopefully!
Found many articles about it being a guy named Kellman, but a wrench was thrown in when an article appeared saying during an interview, the Board of Directors fell in love with Obama, so trying to figure it out and find the truth since Obama will never tell….lol
Thank you for the info. I’m like you, I do not understand why the media is not doing there job. Maybe its because they have been bought off?
I also am left to wonder why the media is not doing there job.
Because the “media” (pundits) ALSO make more money with connections and access to the powerful.
Tim Russert isn’t interested in giving you, as a voter, relevant information.
Tim Russert is interested in schmoozing so HE will have more access within his own power bubble.
The Kossholes had to make Hillary’s June comments about some loon trying to do Obama harm, why?
Because they know all this stuff is out there and it is soon going to come out. They need Hillary out of the way so the DNC has no choice but to go with the flawed candidate.
I think the Clintons know something is in the works re: Patrick Fitzgerald and are staying in for that reason.
this article by mel could use a good editor, but it provided me with a key insight.
OBAMA AND AXELROD REALLY ARE BENT ON HIJACKING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
they intend to TAKE OVER AND USE the democratic party to radically reform american politics,
these guys are left-wing ideologues little different from the right-wing ideologues who have run the bush presidency for seven and 1/2 long years.
throughout this campaign i keep reading comments from democrats and clinton supporters to the effect that
- the obama campaign is trying to hijack the democratic party.
- obama is some sort of manchurian candidate.
Mel’s article tells me that their intuition was correct.
read between the lines in the followng two quotes and i think you will see what i mean.
from Mel’s article:
[(mel asks rhetoricaly)
..the Democratic Party feels someone like this is the future?
>
> Answer:
Dohrn stated: “I don’t look to the Democratic Party. I don’t have hope for the Democratic Party. I think the Democratic Party is bankrupt. And I think the only answer is for us to build an independent, radical movement, and, I mean, the big ‘us.’ “Stay vigilant. The light will come”…….is the light Obama, yes to them he is! JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY!! ]
and this
[ … David Axelrod happens to come from a politically communist family: his mother use to write for the NY paper “PW” which was a communist oriented paper. Axelrod also met Obama in the early 1990’s (1991 to be exact), when Obama was a community organizer leading a voter-registration drive on the South Side. Axelrod served as advertising director for Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign. A former political reporter, Axelrod, 53, left the Chicago Tribune in 1984 (started in 1977) to become press secretary for then-Rep. Paul Simon, D-Ill., who was running for the Senate. He established himself as a fixture in Windy City politics, as well as statewide. In 1989, Axelrod went to work for Richard M. Daley in his first successful bid to be Chicago’s mayor, and he has remained close to the Daley machine ever since by displacing the African-American leadership from City Hall. Read More. ]
bernadine dorn is bill ayers wife. i’d bet that obama and ayers and dorn and axelrod have had lots of conversations about taking over the democratic party in order to transform american politics.
axelrod’s communist family background suggests to me that axelrod was raised to hold a deep contempt for american political traditions and for the democratic party.
know we know
obama is the means for axelrod and ayers and dorn to “reform” american politicis.
that’s what this strange race is all about.
and the superdelegates are going right along with that.
A quick and dirty version of everything is two fold from all this infomation, first Obama is a liar, Telltruth will be putting up another piece I hope with a down and dirt add on to this connection of Obama working with Bill Ayers in 1987 and 1988.
Second of the down and dirty is simply this, the Family Ayers is all about control, and control of what, Public Money how do you control it, you control the politicians! Obama was not simply a one timer for Bill Ayers holding political parties, Sen Leahy was another one, presently known of, and who was the first to publically demanded Hillary step out first, Sen Leahy, was that orders of Bill Ayers?
Thomas Ayers FYI since early 1970’s wanted to develope the train yards of Dearborn Park, and finally got it under way in the late 1980’s, now who is right by Tom Ayers site, Rezko, now Auchi’s South Loop venture, coincidence, hardly!
People like the Ayers, Crown’s, et al do nothing for free, even in face of failure which the School Reform of 1988 was totally! Yet it keeps on trucking because of Ayers trying to model a prof at Bank Street College of Education in New York (which by the way, Tom Ayers was on the board of Trustees at) named Greene, which wrked in NY for a while and was different, Bill Ayers and family tried to better the system, yet failed and continue to fail! Front man in Governement for Ayers, Obama! So what do you think will happen in an Obama WH?
This should be sent to newspapers and TV stations in South Dakota, Montana and Puerto Rico.
Also, someone should sent it to the people meeting in D.C. on the 31st.
AND—send it to ALL of the superdelegates.