Michael Barone raises good questions — in the context of Chicago’s notoriously corrupt politics — about Barack Obama’s ties to William Ayers. He’s not the first to do so. We’ve been raising those questions here for several months. I’m not going to rehash them.
However, as I have in the past, I again invite Obama supporters to comment or even guest-author a piece explaining or contextualizing Barack Obama’s associations with Ayers, Bernadinee Dorhn and company. Finally, because Foxnews and CNN have refused to air it and the Obama campaign has reportedly tried so hard to prevent its publication, I do feel an obligation to post a copy of this ad:
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Thomas Forguson 08.26.08 at 7:24 pm
if not even Fox News will air it, its validity is question able
Kleiglights 08.26.08 at 7:46 pm
Everything that is said on that ad can be thoroughly documented. There is nothing there that cannot be validated. Ayers and Dohrn were notoriously bomb-throwing members of the violent Weather Underground in the 60s-70s
, and it was indeed in their Chicago Hyde Park home that Obama’s political career was launched in 1995. Obama’s relationship with Ayers, his father and brother is long-term and broad. Ayers and Dohrn have been described as “the Bonnie and Clyde of the 1960s.” They escaped prison only on a technicality involving illegal wiretaps.
Radical leftist Ayers is unrepentant and says (as recently as 2001, 2007) he “did not do enough.” Everyone in Chicago knows who these two are, and what they think. To believe that Obama did not know who he was dealing with or that his attitudes were unchanged gives him credit for being dumber than we thought. His choice of Ayers-Dorhn as friends, and they are his friends, not just accidental acquaintances, is consistent with the string of other ultra-left friends Obama keeps distancing himself from — as they become political liabilities.
April 38 08.26.08 at 7:55 pm
Anyone who really wants to know more about Obama’s ultra-left, corrupt “Chicago Way” politics should read one of the books recently released. I am halfway through Jerome Corsi’s “The Obama Nation.” Footnoted heavily, so you can verify claims if inclined. He is unquestionably farther left than any major candidate for the White House has ever been.
Kitten 08.26.08 at 10:50 pm
It will be fun to see what the 70 (or so) boxes from the U of Chicago have in them about obama and his anti American friends.
Thomas, I don’t know what rock you’re living under but look at all of obama’s good friends and associates and tell me there is nothing wrong about his judgment and character?
He is a weak character and that is all there is to it.
Heaven help us if he really gets into the White House.
Margot Schulzke 08.26.08 at 11:24 pm
To gain access to power in Chicago, Barone (linked above) stresses the importance of having a connection with someone who already has standing in that nest of nepotism.
Look no further for the “somebody” that sent Obama to Chicago. It was–in all probability–the first of Obama’s many mentors, Frank Marshall Davis, the Marxist friend and colleague of Chicago leftist Saul Alinsky. Frank, as Obama repeatedly refers to him in his book “Dreams of My Father,” was in the thick of things in Chicago before spending his twilight years in Hawaii. Where he took the young Obama under his wing.
Meanwhile, Ayers was an active American revolutionary in the Alinsky years, and would have to have known Frank Marshall Davis. Instant credibility for Obama.
These connections are all matters of record, and/0r identified as friends and mentors in Obama’s own writing. So there is no “guilt by association” nonsense here.
This is a network, and it goes way back. We spent three years in Chicago during the reign of the senior Mayor Daley, were politically active and saw how it works. Obama has the system down pat.
Kitten 08.27.08 at 12:24 am
Amen, Margot…..
Johannes Steiner 08.27.08 at 7:36 am
With respect April,
Corsi’s book is viewed by much of the political world as somewhat of a farce.
That being said, I don’t think there is any question about Obama’s ties with Ayers. Anyone who can countenance a man like Ayers, let alone be friends with him, has some serious problems. If you can’t trust a man’s friends to be anywhere NEAR the Capitol, why would you want said man to be the executive that leads the government?
Margot Schulzke 08.27.08 at 9:40 am
Of course Corsi’s book would be viewed as a farce by much of the political world. I would be disappointed if it weren’t. That’s how the left deals with truth — attempting to dismiss it with insults instead of facts.
THAT said, Corsi is a Harvard PhD in political science, and the highly credible author of a number of books, including the New York Times best seller, Unfit for Command. He is also a senior staff writer for World Net Daily. Among those books is his 2005 release, Blackgold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil, in which he predicted oil surpassing $100 a barrel. Unthinkable at the time, but three years later, a fact of our lives.
Corsi’s book is meticulously documented — over 600 footnotes, utterly consistent with other sources I’ve read on Obama. The author has added well-documented specifics, while contextualizing and refuting a number of claims that Obama makes about himself and his background. Or that his multitude of “mentors” — has any other candidate ever needed so many? — have told.
Such as Jeremiah Wright’s fiction about the U. S. Govt. having invented the AIDS virus to wipe out the black population. Corsi reports the source of that canard as traced by Cliff Kincaid, editor of the well-respected Accuracy in Media Report, to a Soviet disinformation campaign designed to cover their own development of biological weapons. The Soviet claims were duly reported in The New York Times, in 1987 — and picked up by The Nation of Islam’s newspaper, The Final Call. Wright cites two other sources for his claim, but interestingly enough, Farrakhan and Wright are again shown hand in glove. And Obama’s dubious choice of a pastor and spiritual mentor shown for what it is.
Corsi thoroughly documents Obama’s long-time, close friendship with William Ayers — the American revolutionary who literally threw bombs, lots of them, and remains proud of it today.
Obama’s brain may be in good shape otherwise, but his judgment is not. William Ayers would probably be a guest in the Lincoln Bedroom.
Jeny 08.27.08 at 9:52 am
“Kleiglights { 08.26.08 at 7:46 pm } Everything that is said on that ad can be thoroughly documented. There is nothing there that cannot be validated. Ayers and Dohrn were notoriously bomb-throwing members of the violent Weather Underground in the 60s-70s
, and it was indeed in their Chicago Hyde Park home that Obama’s political career was launched in 1995. Obama’s relationship with Ayers, his father and brother is long-term and broad. Ayers and Dohrn have been described as “the Bonnie and Clyde of the 1960s.” They escaped prison only on a technicality involving illegal wiretaps.
Radical leftist Ayers is unrepentant and says (as recently as 2001, 2007) he “did not do enough.” Everyone in Chicago knows who these two are, and what they think. To believe that Obama did not know who he was dealing with or that his attitudes were unchanged gives him credit for being dumber than we thought. His choice of Ayers-Dorhn as friends, and they are his friends, not just accidental acquaintances, is consistent with the string of other ultra-left friends Obama keeps distancing himself from — as they become political liabilities.”
Well said!
April 38 08.27.08 at 10:03 am
Looks like I don’t have to reply; it’s covered. Those of us on the right are used to the left calling names at whatever, or whomever, makes them and their flaky heroes and cockeyed theories look bad. But their shaky scholarship is documented to be shakier than ours — like the MSM reporters on the Iraq War who never left the Green Zone. Goes with the territory.
Abiding Joy 08.27.08 at 10:48 am
American Issues states that the Democratic party has moved to censor this ad. They filed suit against AIP.
JJ Black 08.27.08 at 3:45 pm
Well, as a tepid Obama supporter, I would say he is on a friendly basis with a 60’s radical who errantly resorted to violence in an attempt to stop the Vietnam conflict. Big deal. It’s like McCain hanging around with one of the Keating 5 - oh wait - he is one of the Keating 5.
Johannes Steiner 08.27.08 at 4:15 pm
JJ,
McCain was cleared of all charges relating to the Keating affair, as was John Glenn.
Furthermore the Keating 5 didn’t BOMB THE CAPITOL OF THE UNITED STATES! What the hell do you mean “big deal”?!?!? This isn’t some “[errant resort to violence]” like he had done it then regretted it and tried to make amends. Bill Ayers BOMBED the Capitol. Then, 30 years later, said “We didn’t do enough.” What kind of man does and says things like that? What kind of man is friends with men like that? That is not what I, nor any person who loves what this country stands (or stood, as may be the case) for needs in the Presidency. We would have a tough time finding someone as wrong for the highest position of responsibility in the land as Barack Obama.
Kitten 08.27.08 at 5:44 pm
Johannes - way to go, have nothing to add. Well maybe - what in the heck is jj talking aboujt? It’s Ok to be chummy chummy with people who have killed and attempted to kill Americans in this country? It’s OK to blow people up if you don’t agree with their policy. Please, please there are many other countries who do that, why don’t you find one and see how long it will be before someone tries to blow you up.
Abiding Joy 08.28.08 at 1:29 pm
Kurt, have you researched Agenda 21 of the UN? After doing some digging, Obama’s Zero to Five Education plan seems right on track for Agenda 21. Biden is the President of the Foreign Relations Committee–UN’s right hand man here in America. I am sure Agenda 21 is forefront on their minds…
Chris 08.28.08 at 5:08 pm
JJ,
Big deal? Are you serious? This man is insane. He tried to kill people to stop people from killing. And on top of that he repetitively says he didn’t kill enough.
JJ 09.02.08 at 6:04 pm
I suppose Ayers was also cleared of any wrongdoing if you want to say that about McCain. Actually, when Ayers said he didn’t do enough, he was referring to stopping the war which cost 65K US lives, and countless millions of Vietnamese. Not to violent acts per se. Ever been to Vietnam? You can’t go out into the rain, due to residual neurotoxins. And one in ten Vietnamese is born profoundly disfigured, of those that survive. So Ayers didn’t kill anyone, but he could have, which makes him a one-time domestic terrorist. All I’m saying is he was trying to stop a larger atrocity - and I did call it errant. We don’t know if Obama and Ayers are friendly beyond a fundraiser, Albeit at Ayers’ home. Like I said - big deal. Ever see the footage of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam’s hand when we were busy arming him in the 80’s? Or Bush, Sr. shaking possibly the bloodiest hand in the middle-east, former prime minister Assad of Syria? Anyhow, I don’t think we can necessarily fault a politician for hanging around criminals - after all, they do have to go to work. Anyone care to discuss Tom Delay? The Bush crime family? Haha.
JJ 09.02.08 at 6:10 pm
In any event, sorry to offend. I do think the larger problem is the NWO. I think they are using partisan infighting to keep the country weak. Obama’s wife and he himself are cozy with the CFR, and I had no idea Biden was an officer. This to me is much scarier that the other associations, because in some cases they openly call for the dissolution of the Republic. And Kitten, maybe I should be scared of being blown up here by state sponsored false-flag operations, like OK city, and 9-11. Haha. PS I did like Ron Paul, but we know how he, Kucinich and others were disenfranchised by the MSM.