Posted on 10/04/2008 8:35:02 PM PDT by tobyhill
A little-known relationship in Sen. Barack Obama’s past — one that had been buzzing in mostly conservative circles for months — took a very public turn Wednesday night during a Democratic debate in Philadelphia.
It relates to Obama’s relationship with William C. Ayers, a onetime member of the Weather Underground, a leftist fringe of the 1960s antiwar movement. Known as the Weathermen, the group was responsible for bombings of the New York City police headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971 and of the Pentagon in 1972.
During the debate, moderator George Stephanopoulos asked Obama about his relationship with Ayers, as part of a discussion about Obama’s patriotism.
“An early organizing meeting for your state Senate campaign was held at his house and your campaign has said you are ‘friendly,’ ” Stephanopoulos said.
Stephanopoulos quoted a New York Times story, published Sept. 11, 2001, in which Ayers was quoted as saying: “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”
Asked Stephanopoulos: “Can you explain that relationship for the voters and explain to Democrats why it won’t be a problem?”
(Excerpt) Read more at politifact.com ...
This is OUTRAGEOUS!!
Hussein needs to stop that bogus, pathetic, unbelievably LAME and incredibly insulting defense that he was only eight years old when his friend was a terrorist!!!
DOES THIS MEAN THAT SOMEONE WHO WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD ON 9/11--CAN THEN HAVE A FRIENDSHIP WITH OSAMA BIN LADEN LATER IN THEIR ADULT LIFE?
Does this mean that because they were only eight years old on 9/11--
that they could launch their political career in the home/cave of Osama Bin Laden?
According to Corsi in his Obama Nation book, when Obama launched his political career and ran for the IL legislature, his campaign was launched at Ayers’ house.
Take it for what it’s worth.
Sean Hannity will probably cover this on his Sunday night show. It sounds like a don’t miss it show.
See the Weather Underground - DVD
Weather Underground Mark Rudd, “Gut Check - challenge each other to be more violent”
Weather Underground Bill Ayers, “over throwing the Capitalist System, and put in something more humane”
So is exposing Ayer’s wife, Weather Underground leader, she’s even more sinister than Ayers, and her sister is shown verifying and supporting Dohrns voice telling Americans they will be attacked;
Bernadine Dohrn, “holding my nose and going through with surrender”
Dohrn “I remain committed to the struggle ahead”
Dohrn “I am not committed to non-violence in any way”
Another ‘community organizer’ from the Weather Underground Documentary;
Weather Underground Mark Rudd, “move off-campus and organize among the off-campus youth”
Ayer’s wife Bernadine Dohrn could only be described as the female Bin Laden, she’s even more unrepentant
Personally, if true, I find this more damning than serving on a board with Ayers. Does anybody know if this has been confirmed?
It's at that politifact link after the excerpt in the lead article:
"During the debate, moderator George Stephanopoulos asked Obama about his relationship with Ayers, as part of a discussion about Obama’s patriotism.
“An early organizing meeting for your state Senate campaign was held at his house and your campaign has said you are ‘friendly,’ ” Stephanopoulos said."
Importantly, it has nothing to do with Corsi's book which some wouldn't accept (not here).
See my #9, however reliable that link is. There should be some footage somewhere to corroborate it.
I’m surprised Ayers didn’t go to prison for a longer period of time.
Thanks.
McCain should bring it up at the debate...somehow work it in. Suggest that people ask Obama about Ayers.
I was trying to google the Weather Underground and their fomenting of campus riots like at Kent State that got those four kids killed. Although that might have been more of the SDS. But more searching revealed that the WU had gotten into the SDS to make it more violent. ANYWAY - came across this gem, their first “Communique”.
Lots of good things - well, at least to Obama they would seem good. Fighting Amerikan imperialism. Black activists. Che. All things that Obama proudly holds up. Perhaps someone could give this a thread of its own.
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FLASHBACK: Weather Underground Communiqué #1 from May 21, 1970
author: Empire Slayer
Below is the full text of the Weather Underground’s first public Communiqué, which was delivered by recorded tape on May 21, 1970. Twenty days later, they bombed the New York City police headquarters in retaliation for the ongoing police assasination of black activists. Food for thought...
Weather Underground Organization Communiqué #1:
“A Declaration of a State of War”
Delivered May 21, 1970
Hello. This is Bernardine Dohrn.
I’m going to read A DECLARATION OF A STATE OF WAR.
This is the first communication from the Weatherman underground.
All over the world, people fighting Amerikan imperialism look to Amerika’s youth to use our strategic position behind enemy lines to join forces in the destruction of the empire.
Black people have been fighting almost alone for years. We’ve known that our job is to lead white kids to armed revolution. We never intended to spend the next five or twenty-five years in jail. Ever since DSD became revolutionary, we’ve been trying to show how it is possible to overcome the frustration and impotence that comes from trying to reform this system. Kids know that the lines are drawn; revolution is touching all of our lives. Tens of thousands have learned that protest and marches don’t do it. Revolutionary violence is the only way.
Now we are adapting the classic guerrilla strategy of the Tuparmaros to our own situation here in the most technically advanced country in the world.
Che taught us that “revolutionaries move like fish in the sea.” The alienation and contempt that young people have for this country has created the ocean for this revolution.
The hundreds and thousands of young people who demonstrated in the sixties against the war and for civil rights grew to hundreds of thousands in the past few weeks, actively fighting Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia and the attempted genocide against black people. The insanity of Amerikan “justice” has added to its list of atrocities six blacks killed in Augusta, two in Jackson and four white Kent State students making thousands more into revolutionaries.
The parents of the “privileged” kids have been saying for years that the revolution was a game for us. But the war and racism of this society show that it is too f**** up. We will never live peaceably under this system.
This was totally true of those who died in the New York townhouse explosion. The third person who was killed there was Terry Robbins, who led the first rebellion at Kent State less than two years ago.
The twelve Weathermen who were indicted for leading last October’s riots in Chicago have never left the country, Terry is dead, Linda was captured by a pig informer, but the rest of us move freely in and out of every city and youth scene in this country. We’re not in hiding, but we’re invisible.
There are several hundred members of the Weatherman underground and some of us face more years in jail than the 50,000 deserters and draft dodgers now in Canada. Already many of them are coming back to join us in the underground or to return to the Man’s army and tear it up form inside along with those who never left.
We fight in many ways. Dope is one of our weapons. The laws against marijuana mean that millions of us are outlaws long before we actually split. Guns and grass are united in the youth underground.
Freaks are revolutionaries and revolutionaries are freaks. If you want to find us, this is where we are. In every tribe, commune, dormitory, farmhouse, barracks and townhouse where kids are making love, smoking dope and loading guns - fugitives from Amerikan justice are free to go.
For Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robbins, and for all the revolutionaries who are still on the move here, there has been no question for a long time now - we will never go back.
Within the next fourteen days we will attack a symbol or institution of Amerikan injustice. This is the way we celebrate the example of Eldridge Cleaver and H. Rap Brown and all black revolutionaries who first inspired us by their fight behind enemy lines for the liberation of their people.
Never again will they fight alone.
The Weather Underground Documentary stated that few went to prison because the FBI broke the law in pursuing them, but that don’t mean they weren’t as dangerous and ruthless murderers as Al Qadah, they are
Thanks again!
Thanks for the link copied and emailed out.
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