University of Illinois to Release Obama Records (Bill Ayers, Annenberg Challenge)

AP via Google News ^ | Friday, August 22, 2008 | Pete Yost

[penelopesire]

“Here comes their presumptive Presidential nominee, a man whose campaign organization includes a person who REALLY HAS perpetrated a terrorist attack on the United States previously, and they could care less??? What’s up with that - seems awfully contradictory.”

There are no contradictions in life..check your premises.

(From Atlas Shrugged)

(wink)

[Kickass Conservative]

The word REDACTED comes to mind.
Don’t want to mess with the Messiah now, do we?

[Candor7]

The Video Ad running in VA now makes the connection between Ayers and Obama. Ayers was one of Obama's mentors, as a "revolutionary."

It has the Obama campaigns shorts all in a twist. They are talking about how the ad is illegal, gonna sue, CNN refused to play it, blah, blah, blah.

ut the fact is that it is the TRUTH.

And the shocking thing is that the moonbat campaign workers themselves did not know of these associations, or about Saul Lazinsky also. They are now shocked , completely shocked at the truth. They are in denial. Its "dirty tricks" from the nastiest "play book" the Republicans have , etc.....Obama is working to end these kinds of politics in America.... ( an end to Free Speech in America, good bye 2nd amendment?).

These facts are true. No one is addressing this. How did a man with tis background hoodwink so many people? well it was with his slick talk, his creation of a messianic cult criticize him and you are a racist, etc. It was the same with Hitler. Most Germans could not believe the monster they themselves had helped create.

Here in America we are preventing the monster from being created. And it is the work of freedom. Lets go about it with a will, we should not waiver or falter.

[Candor7]

This man, Ward Churchill, will address the Democrat convention. Now tell me. Is he a revolutionary or a terrorist?

The answer? Neither.

They are all cut from the same cloth , liberal socialists who have become fascists.They come from the same place that fascists of the 1930s did. They are certainly not "revolutionaries" as they think in justifying the threat of violence against free Americans in order to establish their socialist Utopia. Why do you think the Dems want to "Reasonably Regulate" 2nd amendment rights? They don't want anyone shooting back at them.

And Ayers is the same, an f'n stone cold fascisti.

And its high time we started to recognize them for what they are and call them on it. In public.

[ElkGroveDan]

Supporters of John McCain have been trying to exploit the tie between Obama and Ayers, with a conservative group spending $2.8 million on an ad focusing on Ayers. Ayers' Weatherman group took credit for bombings that included nonfatal blasts

Do these biased reporters even blush when they write something so slanted as this?

[Candor7]

This man, Mumia Abu Jamal, is a convicted cop killer, will address the Dem convention through a video taken in prison. The Obama campaign thinks this is just fine.

The Dems are indeed turning into fascists. Look at the array of so called ,"revolutionaries" they bring forward to speak, people who have used violence or the threat of it to impose their socialist Utopia on America. And now they seek to cow America into voting for them?

That is genuine dyed in the wool fascism.

The outing of the Obama Ayers connetion is not in a vacuum. The Dems intend to parade a whole coterie of these petty fascists at their convention, in order to cause Democrats everywhere to rise up agianst their "Republican" oppressors, with Ward Churchill and Jamal among them.

Workers of America Untie, you have nothing to lose but your brains!.

What a sad state of politics into which the Dem party has descended.

Obama has just lost the election.

[PhatHead]

[iopscusa]

This is another indication that the Moron Media has lost the war, the PJ Bricades have out flanked them. With intrepid researchers like Kurtz and Steve Diamond on the Ayers/Annenberg case like a dog with a bone the issue has now become too hot to coverup.
This is going to go big...that McCain is one lucky SOB!

[stan_sipple]

Sandy Berger looked them over first

[Arrowhead1952]

mark for later

[WaterBoard]

Yeah, your right. “Non-fatal blast” sounds so much better than “attacking the heart of our democracy with a bomb”.

[kellynla]

BTTT

[reg45]

Obama and the bomba.

[mojito]

If these records have been scrubbed, it will be pretty obvious.

One point that has escaped notice is important: before the records were declared off-limits, Stanley Kurtz was given a detailed outline of their contents. That outline, some 30 pages long, had been prepared by library staff to assist researchers in finding what they were looking for.

This outline was prepared when the library received these documents from the donor, and well before there was any suspicion that these might be hot.

The outline remains in Kurtz’s possession: If he requests something listed, and suddenly, it's no longer there, it will be clear evidence of tampering.

[PapaBear3625]

The records have probably been sanitized. They cannot afford to expose the long running relationship between William Ayers and his wealthy father and the Chicago Establishment (Bill Ayers dad WAS the Chicago Establishment):

Sorry for cross posting on multiple threads, but this data is just too juicy:

We know that Ayers started Obama's political career, and is very influential in Chicago politics. What hasn't been really examined is HOW and WHY he's influential

The HOW and WHY is his dad Thomas G Ayers (1915-2007). Tom Ayers was President of Commonwealth Edison from 1964, and was chairman and CEO from 1973 to 1980. Besides that:

"He had a great social conscience and believed in breaking down the barriers that confronted so many people, particularly minorities and women," said James O'Connor, who succeeded Mr. Ayers as ComEd chairman. "Beyond what he did at Commonwealth Edison, he really set an example for other leaders in the Chicagoland business community to follow."

Mr. Ayers also served on boards of nonprofit initiatives and chaired those of the Chicago Urban League, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Erikson Institute, Bank Street College of Education in New York, Community Renewal Society and the Chicago Community Trust.

While chairing the Northwestern University Board of Trustees, he helped start Chicago United, dedicated to racial minority group access to jobs and education. The project that made him most proud, son John Ayers said, was Dearborn Park, an integrated South Loop housing project, which he conceived and for which he raised funds.

With his sons deep in protest of the Vietnam War (one, Bill Ayers, was a member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society who went underground for about 11 years) the businessman supported his children and their campaign. "Our father always stood by us," John Ayers said. "He was an establishment guy, but he believed in us. He believed in change."

After the Board of Education's financial collapse of 1979, Mayor Jane M. Byrne named Mr. Ayers as her choice for president of the new board.

Bill Ayers' dad was a primary mover and shaker in Chicago politics, with strong ties to the Daley machine. Besides all the above:

He was the Chicago establishment, serving on the boards of Sears, G.D. Searle, Chicago Pacific Corp., Zenith Corp., Northwest Industries, General Dynamics Corp. of St. Louis, First National Bank of Chicago, the Chicago Cubs and the Tribune Co.

Mr. Ayers also was an agent for change, negotiating between Mayor Richard J. Daley's administration and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s open housing campaign in the mid-1960s, and developing the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities to fight racial discrimination in housing.

[Enchante]

I wonder if Thomas Ayers' "support" for his sons extended to providing funds for Bill Ayers while we was "underground" as a WANTED domestic terrorist? I always wondered how the Weatherfreaks managed to exist underground for so long, where they go money and safe houses, etc. Some turned to theft to support their activies, and that's how they got caught up in the Brinks armed robbery that ended with them murdering several people, IIRC. But that was AFTER they got through the whole decade of the 1970s, and someone or someones provided money and safe houses to get them through a decade on the run from the FBI. Don't think any of that has ever been properly investigated......

"...the businessman supported his children and their campaign. "Our father always stood by us," John Ayers said. "He was an establishment guy, but he believed in us. He believed in change.""

[tutstar]

bttt

[rwfromkansas]

Obama and Ayers worked together. I have to say......so what?

The ad is very powerful because of the quotes where Obama acts like he is an ok guy.

But, these records aren’t going to reveal anything except Obama and Ayers worked together for a big at the CAC.

Who cares?

[rwfromkansas]

You can’t be serious.....he will be addressing the Dem convention??? Not possible.......is it?

[PapaBear3625]

I have no doubt that Bill Ayers wealthy dad kept him financially supplied during his underground days. It would not have been difficult for Thomas Ayers to funnel large amounts of cash (and valuables which could be converted to cash) to his son.

I suspect that a good hard look at Thomas Ayers will discover some links between him and the radical Left. I think Bill was already a radical Leftist long before he started college