Entries Tagged as 'Ayers'
Why Do We Care About Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground?
Pay no attention to the radical behind the curtain.
Race Course Against White Supremacy - Ayers & Dohrn
Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, are ready to help teach more people to hate America. Their new book (conveniently available after the election), Race Course Against White Supremacy, is described as follows on Amazon:
White supremacy and its troubling endurance in American life is debated in these personal essays by two veteran political activists. Arguing that white supremacy has been the dominant political system in the United States since its earliest days—and that it is still very much with us—the discussion points to unexamined bigotry in the criminal justice system, election processes, war policy, and education. The book draws upon the authors’ own confrontations with authorities during the Vietnam era, reasserts their belief that racism and war are interwoven issues, and offers personal stories about their lives today as parents, teachers, and reformers.
Think of what a sensation that President Obama will make at the Ayers/Dohrn book launch party.
Obama Campaign Admits an Ayers Cover-up
Good post by Mark Impomeni on AOL News.
Excerpts:
Today’s line from the Obama campaign seems to acknowledge that there was a close working relationship of a nature greater than the campaign has thus far been willing to admit. . . .
But with one month to go before Election Day, and the stakes for Obama considerably higher, it is huge gamble to bet on voters being satisfied with only an outline sketch of the Obama-Ayers relationship. By its statement today, the Obama campaign has already admitted that its past statements on Ayers were a cover up. Questions will continue to dog the campaign until it finds a way to explain how Sen. Obama could not have known just who Ayers was, and what he had done, while he was working along side him for at least three years.
Obama and Ayers - a 20 Year Timeline
Nice Deb has an excellent post on the Obama/Ayers Timeline that demonstrates contacts Obama and Ayers/Dohrn beginning in 1988-89 and continuing through 2002.
Obama/Ayers/Dohrn - A Dangerous Combination
Out of their own mouths.
New York Times Responds to the Obama/Ayers Connection
Responding to an expanding blogosphere storm, the New York Times has decided that the Obama/Ayers connection needs to be massaged with Obama Has Met Ayers, but the Two Are Not Close.
Both Ayers and his wife, Bernadette Dohrn, refused to speak to the NYT despite numerous requests. The piece is most notable for what it doesn’t say, but first, some excerpts:
Twenty-six years later [after Ayers' terrorist violence], at a lunchtime meeting about school reform in a Chicago skyscraper, Barack Obama met Mr. Ayers, by then an education professor. Their paths have crossed sporadically since then, at a coffee Mr. Ayers hosted for Mr. Obama’s first run for office, on the schools project and a charitable board, and in casual encounters as Hyde Park neighbors.
Who else was at the meeting? The NYT does not say that this was the first meeting between Obama and Ayers.
A review of records of the schools project and interviews with a dozen people who know both men, suggest that Mr. Obama, 47, has played down his contacts with Mr. Ayers, 63. But the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called “somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.”.
Even the NYT acknowledges that Obama “played down” his Ayers relationship. Another view of this is that Obama lied about the nature of his relationship.
Gathering Storm - Obama and Ayers
FOB - Friends of Barack - Part 2
Here’s a prediction, the relationship that Barack Obama had with 60’s domestic terrorist Bill Ayers is going to swamp the Obama campaign between now and the election.
Obama and the campaign have assiduously attempted to minimize the Ayers connection, most notably with Obama’s “a guy in my neighborhood” characterization of his relationship with Ayers.
First, a little background on Ayers. He was a founder of the Weather Undgerground (not completely unbiased description here), an anti-war, anti-capitalism group. The Weather Underground was an extremely violent, most notably successfully bombing the United States Capital (something Al Quaeda tried, but couldn’t pull off), conducting an armed robbery of a Brinks armored truck in which the driver and two policement were killed and blowing up a Greenwich Village townhouse that it had converted into a bomb facory. Several members of the Weather Underground are still in prison for charges related to the Brinks case. Rudy Guilani was the US Attorney in charge of many of these prosecutions.
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