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Ayers Was on Woods Fund Board with Obama When He Stepped on Flag
Little Green Footballs ^ | 10/5/2008 | Charles Johnson

Posted on 10/05/2008 10:44:56 AM PDT by mojito

Barack Obama was much older than 8 when William Ayers was photographed stepping on a US flag in 2001, for an article in which Ayers said he had “No Regrets” for his violent actions in the Weather Underground.

In fact, at the same time Ayers was in a Chicago alley desecrating the flag, he and Barack Obama were serving on the board of the Woods Fund together: PolitiFact | Obama served on board with Ayers.

Deborah Harrington, president of the Woods Fund, a philanthropic organization in Chicago, said Obama was a director from 1994 through 2001. That overlaps Ayers’ time as a director by three years. It also means Obama served with Ayers for the final months of 2001, after Ayers made his comments to the New York Times.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; ayers; billayers; flagdesecration; issues; obama; woodsfund
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Sheesh,amazing reading! They are connected so tightly, it wouldn’t surprise me that Obama would consider Ayers as his Sec. of Education!
21 posted on 10/05/2008 11:21:50 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (McCain/Palin '08 ----- It's October, SURPRISE ME!)
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To: mojito

btt


22 posted on 10/05/2008 11:25:14 AM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: mojito

23 posted on 10/05/2008 11:27:14 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: mojito
From marathonpundit.blogspot.com:
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Bill Ayers stepping on a US flag in 2001

My good friend Anne Leary of Backyard Conservative, a fabulous North Shore blogger, tipped me off to this picture, which I've heard rumors about, of Bill Ayers stepping on a US flag in 2001.

I believe it's from Chicago Magazine, and it accompanied an article in which Ayers was peddling his terrorist memoir, Fugitive Days.

At the time this photograph was taken, Obama and Ayers were serving together on the board of the Woods Fund. It was in 2001 when Ayers donated $200 to Obama's State Senate campaign fund.

"Guilty as sin, free as a bird, it's a great country" is one of the Ayers quotes in the top clipping.


24 posted on 10/05/2008 11:36:55 AM PDT by RonDog
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To: mojito
And front and center during Tuesday's debate.

That would be great to see.

25 posted on 10/05/2008 11:40:16 AM PDT by Taggart_D
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To: ETL
"a revolution against war and racism and materialism, a revolution based on human solidarity and love, cooperation and the common good —must win."

Wow, I never knew that a war based on love and cooperation included setting bombs off and killing police officers. I thought that kind of war was fought by lighting up a bong, inhaling deeply and then passing it to your neighbor, or standing around like a zombie and holding a sign. Learn something new every day.

26 posted on 10/05/2008 12:03:29 PM PDT by ponygirl
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To: maine-iac7

I just sat down and watched the presentation of Fox. They named names, pointed fingers, and shared out the word on who was and who was not on board with the program.

The bailout should never have to have been necessary. This was blowing through not one, but half a dozen red lights successively, and the first five times or so, we were incredibly fortunate there was no cross traffic.

Then we caught that 18-wheeler broadside.


27 posted on 10/05/2008 12:06:43 PM PDT by alloysteel (Just because you are a target, does not mean you have to be a victim.)
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To: maine-iac7

FOX is rerunning “Saving the Economy...” at 2 EST this afternoon and again at 10:00pm and again at 1:00 in the morning.

Hannity’s America precedes the 10:00 EST showing. That’s 6:00 p.m. PST. It’s supposed to be very good too. Lowdown on Obama?


28 posted on 10/05/2008 12:10:05 PM PDT by IM2MAD
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To: mojito

And it wasn’t a secret that he did it. It was on the front page of the Tribune’s Sunday Magazine. Obama was fully aware of this when he pronounced him “respectable.”


29 posted on 10/05/2008 12:15:59 PM PDT by cookcounty (McCain:....... Still seeking the media's good opinion.)
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To: maine-iac7

I just watched Saving the Economy on Fox!! Excellent, kudos is right! I just emailed them with mine. I hope they run it every day and night up until the election.


30 posted on 10/05/2008 12:19:50 PM PDT by fishergirl (My warrior, my soldier, my hero - my son. God bless our troops!)
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To: IM2MAD
Hannity’s America precedes the 10:00 EST showing. That’s 6:00 p.m. PST. It’s supposed to be very good too. Lowdown on Obama?

Followed again with this incredible expose on the demRats! It's been great TV since the Thurs. nite debate and O'Reilly's Super Slap down on barney... There's light on the horizon again

31 posted on 10/05/2008 12:20:47 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (No trees were killed in sending this message but a lot of electrons were terribly agitated)
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To: mojito
GOP has Obama coming and going on Chicago Annenbeerg and Ayers

There are only 2 possibilities: AS CAC CEO, Obama:

Either worked closely with Ayers.

OR, he was asleep at the wheel while the foundation was essentially looted by unqualified "education reform" organizations. Obama signed the checks. Did he not know what he was signing?????

What does that say about his ability to lead????

32 posted on 10/05/2008 12:22:31 PM PDT by cookcounty (McCain:....... Still seeking the media's good opinion.)
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To: tsmith130
I really think McCain needs to also focus on the Dems responsibility in this financial fiasco and he needs to do it NOW and REPEATEDLY!

He'll do it on Tuesday at the next debate with 60 million people watching.

33 posted on 10/05/2008 12:26:42 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: ETL
""The Small Schools Workshop was founded in 1991 at the University of Illinois at Chicago to provide support for teachers who were trying to create new smaller learning environments. Its director is Michael Klonsky, a former professor of education at UIC."

In late August I googled through Anywho "Chicago Annenberg Challenge." There was no address, only a zip 60007 (which is the zip of Ayer's office at UIC). The phone number was exactly the same as the one listed on Ayer's page at the Small Schools Workshop. KKKlonsky, Ayers and Obama are all linked.

34 posted on 10/05/2008 12:27:20 PM PDT by cookcounty (McCain:....... Still seeking the media's good opinion.)
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To: Cicero


Curiously symbolic that the O is superior to the Stars and Stripes, isn't it?
35 posted on 10/05/2008 12:31:28 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
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To: mojito; All

Don’t forget to watch Hannity’s America tonight on Fox News at 9:00 pm Eastern.

He’s doing a special on Obama’s shady associations.


36 posted on 10/05/2008 12:42:50 PM PDT by KJC1
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To: BIGLOOK

watch this....
taken at a camp obama session. the O stands for the “circle of life” major hurl alert!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkihYM7libo


37 posted on 10/05/2008 12:43:06 PM PDT by CanadianMusherinMI (Mrs. Musher here!)
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To: mojito

“This needs to be the McCain talking point of the next week.”

EXACTLY!!!!!!! And MORE of the same and about the finacial crisis.


38 posted on 10/05/2008 12:44:40 PM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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To: word_warrior_bob

Here is another interesting link: (lots of info and links)

http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/obamas-ties-to-ayers-back-to-high-school/


39 posted on 10/05/2008 12:51:59 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: cookcounty

Comments from the McCain campaign backing Sarah:

“The last four weeks of this election will be about whether the American people are willing to turn our economy and national security over to Barack Obama, a man with little record, questionable judgment, and ties to radical figures like unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers. Americans need to ask themselves if they’ve ever befriended an unrepentant terrorist, or had a convicted felon help them buy their house — because those aren’t smears, those are true facts about Barack Obama.” —Tucker Bounds, spokesman McCain-Palin 2008

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/05/ap-palins-a-racist-for-bringing-up-ayers-or-something/


40 posted on 10/05/2008 1:06:15 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( BOOMER SOONER -- VOTE FOR McCAIN/PALIN2008! LetsGetThisRight.com)
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