Obama said,"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."
Ayers, 63, spent 10 years as a fugitive in the 1970s when he was part of the “Weather Underground,” an anti-Vietnam War group that protested U.S. policies by bombing the Pentagon, U.S. Capitol and a string of other government buildings. Nobody was hurt in the attacks by the defunct organization, which the FBI labeled a “domestic terrorist group.”
Today, Ayers and his wife — fellow former Weather Underground fugitive Bernardine Dohrn — live in Hyde Park, where they moved after surrendering in 1980. Federal charges against the two were dropped because of improper surveillance, so they avoided prison.
Ayers and Dohrn have raised two sons of their own and adopted a third boy whose parents were Weather Underground members who went to prison. They’ve built stellar reputations as professors: Dohrn at Northwestern’s law school, Ayers as an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Along the way, they met a rising political star named Barack Obama, who lived in their neighborhood.
The Ayers-Obama relationship became a hot topic in Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate. It is “an issue certainly Republicans will be raising” should Obama be the Democratic nominee for president, Obama rival Hillary Clinton said.
In the mid-1990s, Ayers and Dohrn hosted a meet-and-greet at their house to introduce Obama to their neighbors during his first run for the Illinois Senate. In 2001, Ayers contributed $200 to Obama’s campaign. Ayers also served alongside Obama between December 1999 and December 2002 on the board of the not-for-profit Woods Fund of Chicago. That board met four times a year, and members would see each other at occasional dinners the group hosted.
Reached by the Sun-Times on her cell phone, Dohrn declined to comment. Ayers, who was traveling, did not return messages.
But friends like Chicago political strategist Marilyn Katz said Ayers should not be a campaign issue.
Katz met Ayers when he was 17 and they were members of Students for a Democratic Society, a peaceful group from which the Weather Underground splintered. She noted Ayers’ work with Mayor Daley to overhaul the Chicago Public Schools and likened him to Black Panther-turned-U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush.
“What Bill Ayers and Bobby Rush ... did 40 years ago has nothing to do with” the presidential campaign, Katz said. Ayers “has a national reputation. He lectures at Harvard and Vassar. He writes the textbooks that are the standard for innovative approaches to reaching inner-city youth.”
Ayers, a Glen Ellyn native who became active in SDS while attending the University of Michigan, is the son of late Commonwealth Edison CEO Thomas G. Ayers. Ayers has praised his dad for standing by him while he was on the lam.
A book Ayers penned about those years, Fugitive Days, landed him in hot water on Sept. 11, 2001. That morning, the New York Times ran a story about the book in which Ayers said, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Ayers’ statement was made before the World Trade Center attacks, but its timing led some to believe it was in response. “My book is in fact a condemnation of terrorism in all its forms — individual, group and official,” Ayers later said in a letter to the Chicago Tribune.
Ayers has a Web site, billayers.org, in which he blogs about politics and other subjects. He lets friends and foes post comments.
In response to an Ayers posting, “End the War,” a reader wrote, “You are an anti-American communist and a terrorist. I hope you get what you deserve over and over and over.”
Our youngest daughter was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 21, 1971 and her Certificate of Live Birth which was issued by the Research and Statistics Office of the Department of Health State of Hawaii and looks nothing like the one shown here in this thread for Barack Hussein Obama II. Our daughter's certificate contains a File Number (151) and the certificate number (71 015396), my wife's signature and residential address, the doctor's signature, the hospital name (Kapiolani), the signature of the deputy Registrar, facsimile signatures of the Director of Health and the State Registrar as well as other information which is not shown on Obama's certificate. Our copy was issued May 8, 1979 as a "true and correct copy of the original".
But most importantly, the image of the perforation stamp on our daughter's certificate is NOT the same as the one on Obama's. It looks like his birth certificate is a fake!
Someone is distributing talking points to all the liberal media and their allies in evil. All of the liberal media have been asking the same question in response to any inquiry as to why Palin's family are acceptable targets, "...anything discovered about her family that wasn't disclosed raises questions about whether or not she was properly vetted."
A nervous young McCain staffer took it upon himself to explain to Palin the facts of life in a national campaign, the intense scrutiny she'd be under from the media, the viciousness of the assault that she'd be facing, etc.: Palin: "Thanks for the warning. By the way, do you know what they say the difference is between a hockey mom and a Pit Bull?" McCain aide: "No, Governor." Palin: "A hockey mom wears lipstick.
While on stage tour of Germany, Barack Hussein Obama specifically chose not to visit our wounded troops. Not only has Sarah Palin spent more time in Iraq than B.O., but she also has chosen the experience of visiting our wounded troops in Germany which he chose not to do!
Based on an Increasing Awareness of Barack Hussein Obama's Past, He is Beginning to Look More and More Like A Closet Commie!
(1) E-mail frenzy: 'Obama plans to disarm U.S.!'
WND ^ | 8-26-08 | Drew Zahn
Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:01:45 AM by hope
DES MOINES, Iowa – A video the Barack Obama campaign produced last year to solicit the endorsement of an Iowa-based advocacy group has generated more than 3 million page views on YouTube, fueled by chain e-mails claiming the clip is evidence the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee intends to disarm the U.S..
Florida's St. Petersburg Times received an e-mail that warned of Obama's plan to "unilaterally disarm our nation" and stated, "You do not have to check Snopes to determine if this is true or false. ... Watch and listen to Obama's own words."
WND also received an e-mail suggesting the Democratic National Committee is supposedly pressuring YouTube to remove the video clip before it leaks out to too many viewers and damages Obama's chances of winning the presidency.
The video, however, was originally posted on YouTube by the Obama campaign itself on Oct. 22, 2007, and has been seen – in its various repeat appearances on the site – well over 3 million times.
Does it give evidence of a plan to disarm the U.S.?
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
(2) Comment on Michelle Malkin's blog: On August 27th, 2008 at 10:49 am, CJ said:
I’m not convinced that it’s the Ayers-Obama link that the campaign wants to hush up. Oh, they’d like that to go away, but I think there may be something more damaging.
BO was Chairman of the Board of the CAC, which had a cool $100+ million to enact hopeandchange in some of Chicago’s worst schools. So, after blowing through this cool $100+ million, where’s the hopeandchange??? The kidlets who had the opportunity to experience this $100+ million of hopeandchange are now adults. Did their schools start graduating a higher percentage of students? Did test scores rise? Did more students attend (and the all-important statistic, graduate from) college?
What kind of education can a cool $100+ million buy? The average cost a private school is about 5K/year. If that cool $100+ million had been used to award scholarships to poor students stuck in the worst of these schools, a couple of thousand of them could have attended private schools — for all 12 years of their childhood.
BO was ultimately responsible for the cool $100+ million. How was it spent? Who was hired? Why don’t we see the promised hopeandchange? And most importantly, if Barak Obama was a failure in his ONLY executive endeavor, why would anyone even consider him fit to run a country???
And if the American people start thinking about that last question…
MY Name is Tom Daschle and I approve of Hussein Obama!
When is Osama going to give up his failing jihad
and throw his support behind Obama??
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