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Thursday, October 09, 2008

Obama and Ayers connection

The following is the "End of Day" report email from Gary Bauer and his Campaign For Working Families. Even though the lame stream media seems to want to sweep this under the rug along with the Obama campaign, i think it needs to be proclaimed loudly so that people can see who may have influence on a "President Obama".

Obama & Ayers

The McCain campaign released a new web ad today that targets Barack Obama’s relationship with William Ayers. The Obama campaign and the leftwing media are trying to convince you that this association is just a “distraction” from the serious issues. I believe this relationship – much more than a mere association – is a serious issue because it tells us a lot about who Barack Obama is, what he believes and the values and ideas that will influence how he governs as president if he is elected in 26 days.

Who Are The Weathermen?

To understand this controversy and William Ayers, you first need to know about the Weather Underground. The group formed in the 1960s after splintering with the radical leftwing organization Students for a Democratic Society. According to a recent Time Magazine report, “While SDS promoted nonviolent protests, the Weathermen aligned themselves with violent groups like the Black Panthers.” As Time noted, the founder of the Weathermen wrote, “There is no example of a peaceful road to fundamental social change.”

Throughout the early 1970s, the Weather Underground claimed responsibility for a series of bombings against government buildings, including the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and the State Department. As a result of their terrorist activities, the FBI launched a massive manhunt that drove many Weather Underground members into hiding.

How Was William Ayers Involved?

William Ayers was a co-founder of the Weather Underground. In 1969, the Weathermen launched the “Days of Rage” in Chicago, in which a mob ran through several blocks of an affluent neighborhood attacking cars, homes, police officers and businesses. More than two dozen police officers were injured, six Weathermen were shot, and nearly 70 protesters were arrested.

In 1970, the Weatherman bombed the home of a New York judge who was presiding over the trial of a group of Black Panthers. That same year, a letter was sent to the Associated Press, signed by Bernardine Dohrn, promising more bombings. Dohrn was placed on the FBI’s “10 Most Wanted List” for her terrorist activities. While on the run from the authorities, Dorhn and Ayers married and spent years in hiding.

In 1980, Ayers and Dorhn, now with two children, came out of hiding and turned themselves in. Most of the charges against them had already been dropped because of what a court found to be unconstitutional surveillance. Dorhn, however, was sentenced to three years probation and fined.

Unbelievably, Ayers and Dorhn found a refuge in academia. William Ayers is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, while Dorhn, formerly on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list, is an associate professor of law at Northwestern University.

What is the Ayers-Obama connection?

In debates and interviews, Obama has tried to dismiss his connection to William Ayers by saying that he is just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” But, in 1995 Obama launched his political career with a fundraiser at William Ayers’ and Bernardine Dohrn’s home.

That same year, Ayers founded the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and Barack Obama was chosen to be the foundation’s first board chairman. Ayers and Obama served together on the board of the Woods Fund from 1999-2002. They regularly appeared together on academic panel discussions.

Unrepentant

Clearly, Ayers is more than just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” In an interview this week with ABC’s Charlie Gibson, Obama said of Ayers, “This is a guy who engaged in some despicable acts 40 years ago when I was eight years old. By the time I met him, 10 or 15 years ago, he was a college professor of education at the University of Illinois…” So we are left to assume that at some point, Ayers had a “road to Damascus conversion,” repudiated his terrorist past and radical ways, and has spent the rest of life doing good works.

The only problem with that story is that Ayers has never repudiated his past and seems to be proud of it. In September of 2001, Ayers was interviewed by the New York Times after he published his memoirs about his activities in the Weather Underground. When asked if he regretted his actions, Ayers offered this disgusting retort: “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”

Obama and Ayers obviously worked together because they shared common values and beliefs, and as late as 2001 – when Obama was not eight years old, but 40 years old – Ayers remained unrepentant about his past.

It would be bad enough if Ayers were the only leftwing, fringe extremist in Obama’s background, but he is not. And the pattern of disturbing associations – what it says about the ideology and judgment Obama would take with him into the Oval Office – is a critical issue in this campaign.

Senator McCain and Governor Palin are right to bring it up, and the American people should seriously consider the Obama-Ayers relationship before they vote. You can view McCain campaign’s Ayers ad online at www.johnmccain.com.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very fine......

Eric said...

I guess my question on this issue would be this: Do you agree with Sen. Obama's tax policy, foreign policy, education policy, views on gay rights, abortion, etc? If you do not agree, do you really need some "terrorist" connection to keep you from voting for him?

boBByd said...

I don't agree with Barack Obama on probably 95% of his policies...and for that reason i will not vote for him. And his connection to this (no quotes because it is real) terrorist is yet another reason.

Anonymous said...

Evil Em-Ess-Em or no, the topic is out there; McCain and wingnut bloggers have made sure of that.

The reason that this is getting no traction is because nobody cares.

Sorry.

boBByd said...

And partisan hacks are trying to sweep it under the rug, just like they did with Tony Rezko, just like Jeremiah Wright, just like ACORN and any and all questionable relations Barack Hussein Obama has had in the past and in the present.
This does matter and people should care. A President chooses his cabinet out of those who he has worked with in his past...does that mean we can expect people like Ayers in an Obama cabinet as Sec. of Education? Or maybe Jerry Wright could be Sec. of State since he is such a "people person". I know, Cindy Sheehan can be Sec. of Defense...no, waith, she might be a better Sec. of State since she is such good friends with America hating Hugo Chavez, right?

This is just another example of the liberal hypocrisy because if John McCain would have had any working relationship with someone like David Duke it would be headlines on ever major liberal "news" network and/or journal. Get a clue Doc.

boBByd said...

And which part of unrepentant terrorist are you not getting? That is a picture of William Ayers standing on an American flag and his only remorse has been "not doing enough" according to an interview he did with the NY Times on 9/11/2001. BHO worked with this guy, BHO was hand picked by this guy to distribute millions of dollars to teach kids about his radical agenda, BHO started his political career in the Ayers home!
And for the record this has been an issue for about a year now if you go back to the democrat primary debates, but b/c the "messiah" Obama said "not an issue" all of his mindless minions have to say the same. Back off the kool-aid for a sec there Doc, drink some good coffee and wake up to the truth. A person's company will tell you a LOT about a person...and Obama's company resembles a police line up.

Anonymous said...

Dear Dr. Clichefactory:

The Right has been pushing the Ayers thing for all it's worth for, as you so helpfully point out, a year now.

And nobody cares.

If people cared, all of the hand-wringing by the Right would have yielded some kind of outrage or disgust from among people who are not on the Right, and it hasn't.

The only people who are bothered by the Ayers thing are people who are already predisposed to be bothered by it: specifically, you and others like you. We have bigger fish to fry in this country right now.

I'm not saying you have to like them, but those are the facts of the matter.

boBByd said...

i really need to apologize, because in posting this blog as well as others i assumed that most people would have some values and principles...but i forget that i'm dealing with liberals who view truth as relative at best and a burden when necessary. Of course we shouldn't worry about who the leader of the free world looks to for inspiration and consultation; be it preachers of hate, unrepentant terrorists, convicted felons, or people who just hate this country he may have an opportunity to lead. So please forgive me for assuming you had some principles.