http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ayers/ en-us Tue, 7 Oct 2008 04:59:25 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099317/posts Back in the early eighties, in an interview with David Horowitz and Peter Collier, Bill Ayers remembered his reaction upon learning that he would not be prosecuted by the government for his bombing spree as a member of the Weather Underground. “Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,” he exulted. Ayers is now a university professor, but he must have been exulting all over again after reading Saturday’s front-page story in the New York Times. The article explored the putative relationship between Ayers and Barack Obama during the time they worked together on the Chicago Annenberg... The City Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099317/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 04:59:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099301/posts Now, a lot has been said of late on the connection between Obama and Ayers. Not much proof has been found or presented in a manner that connects the dots. Just innuendos and happenstance dominate the themes of these connections. In Part 1 of my Obama and Ayers connection, I will connect the dots, from the beginning: Experimentum Crucis http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099301/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 04:26:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099296/posts OH. You bet they just "knew" each other. September 2001 http://web.archive.org/web/20011006125627/www.woodsfund.org/about/staff January 2002 http://web.archive.org/web/20020206042459/www.woodsfund.org/about/staff Board of Directors January 2003 http://web.archive.org/web/20021203011711/www.woodsfund.org/about/staff February 2003 http://web.archive.org/web/20021203011711/www.woodsfund.org/about/staff Howard J. Stanback, Board Chair Manager, New Kenwood, LLC Maria G. Valdez, Board Vice Chair Attorney-at-Law Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund William C. Ayers Distinguished Professor Of Education, University Of Illinois At Chicago Cynthia M. Campbell President, Mccormick Theological Seminary R. Eden Martin President, Civic Committee And The Commercial Club Barack Obama State Senator And University Of Chicago School Of Law Charles N. Wheatley President, Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Suzanne Boyle, Board Treasurer Kristin Patton, Board... Web Archive dot Org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099296/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 04:06:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099287/posts First Obama's racist pastor was exposed. Obama's response: "I might not know him as well as I thought." Then Obama's buddy, Tony Rezko, went to jail. Obama's response: "This isn't the Tony Rezko I knew." And now Obama's friend, William Ayers, is being scrutinized. The response from Obama's camp? Obama "didn't know the history." The Neocon Latina http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099287/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 03:49:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099254/posts "Our neighbors include Muhammad Ali, former mayor Eugene Sawyer, poets Gwendolyn Brooks and Elizabeth Alexander, and writer Barack Obama." William Ayers. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099254/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 02:56:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099253/posts WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's top political adviser said today Obama "didn't know the history" of unrepentant bomber William Ayers' activities in the violent Weather Underground movement when the candidate attended a political event at Ayers' home in 1995. "When he went he certainly didn't know the history," chief Obama strategist David Axelrod told CNN - arguing for the first time since the story surfaced early this year that Obama was unaware of Ayers' past. "There's no evidence that they're close," Axelrod added. "There's no evidence that Obama in any way subscribed to any of Ayers' views. And Obama's been very... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099253/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 02:53:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099251/posts The AP writes: In February, Obama strategist David Axelrod told the Politico Web site: "Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school. They're certainly friendly, they know each other, as anyone whose kids go to school together." But while Ayers and Obama are acquainted, the charge that they "pal around" is a stretch of any reading of the public record.Are they friendly? Certainly. Do they pal around? Certainly not. The Neocon Latina http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099251/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 02:48:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099250/posts On Anderson's Cooper 360 they did a major investigative look at the Ayers/Obama connection. They even interviewed Stanley Kurtz. Bottom line: Just a guy in my neighborhood? Served on one board together? CNN Says bulls**t! They worked closely with each other and worked together on TWO boards -- both Annenberg and the Woods Foundation. They also talked about Ayers little tea party to launch Obama and found Obama hadn't been entirely honest about "just stopping by..." It was an event they planned and hosted TOGETHER. Sarah Palin needs to come out tomorrow and ride this just like she did the... CNN - Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099250/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 02:47:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099248/posts ABC on Monday night focused its ire at John McCain, for making the campaign “increasingly nasty and bitter” by unleashing a “blistering barrage on Obama,” while CBS’s Jeff Greenfield suggested McCain “may” have decided to “campaign ugly” because “negative campaigns tend to depress turnout” and thus hurt Barack Obama since he’s attracting the new voters. Gibson’s loaded set-up: We turn to presidential politics and what is becoming an increasingly nasty and bitter contest. On the eve of the second presidential debate, the McCain campaign has unleashed a blistering barrage on Obama, attacking him not only for what he says, but... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099248/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 02:43:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098120/posts It's a contender, anyway: the Associated Press claims that Sarah Palin's criticism of Barack Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers was racist! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098120/posts#comment Sun, 5 Oct 2008 19:57:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099220/posts The Chicago Anenberg Challenge was supposed to be all about educational reform. The original funds from Annenberg were $50-60 mil. With ensuing fundraising efforts, that tally ended at approx $160 mil. However over $100 mil of that went to political purposes via community organizing and campaigns for LSC friendly candidates that Ayers/Obama supported for educational reform in Chicago schools. Since Ayers and Obama teamed up for educational reform, just what kind of "reform" (which ended in failure) was Obama helping Ayers attempt to achieve? For that we dig back to a 2006 interview between William Ayers, and Venezuelan socialist Luis... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099220/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 02:09:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099213/posts The Sulzberger family has been in the newspaper business for a very long time. When they decide that they want to shape public perception they know how to do it. Theirs is an important, even awesome, power in a mass society like the United States but it is a delicately balanced power - if they abuse their power they can lose their legitimacy and thus their power. That happened most recently to the Times when they promoted the idea that, indeed, Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. That helped lay the groundwork for a war the Times now believes... globallabor.blogspot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099213/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:59:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099195/posts I can easily understand why some readers may have become confused by the explosion of stories today on the Obama/Ayers relationship. The partial story of the Ayers/Obama relationship told by the New York Times today is collapsing of its own weight but has likely added to the confusion. Since I am one of the "bloggers" referred to without an explanation in the Times' story I thought I would summarize the top ten highlights of the current state of play. It turns out as these ten key points confirm what I have argued all along - that Bill Ayers was responsible... globallabor.blogspot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099195/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:38:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099184/posts <p>Sarah Palin is criticizing Barack Obama's ties to his incendiary former pastor and a 1960s-era radical.</p> <p>In an interview in The New York Times published Monday, Palin spoke about Obama's relationship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who made anti-American comments -- even though John McCain had said talk of Wright was off limits.</p> WCPO-TV/The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099184/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:19:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099175/posts William Ayers, Professor Curriculum & Instruction Mailing Address: 1040 W. Harrison M/C 147 Chicago IL 60607 Email: bayers@uic.edu Office Phone: 312-996-4508 University of Illinois http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099175/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:09:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099179/posts Critics of Senator Barack Obama make a strategic mistake when they talk about his "past associations." That just gives his many defenders in the media an opportunity to counter-attack against "guilt by association." We all have associations, whether at the office, in our neighborhood or in various recreational activities. Most of us neither know nor care what our associates believe or say about politics. Associations are very different from alliances. Allies are not just people who happen to be where you are or who happen to be doing the same things you do. You choose allies deliberately for a reason.... Jewish World Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099179/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:13:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099164/posts Univ. of Chicago Press Release, 2002: Obama was a Community Organizer in NY Many researchers and reporters have highlighted Obama’s secrecy about his years at Columbia University in New York City. In our recent article on Obama’s friendship with William Ayers, I wrote: Now the Mainstream Media is onto this story too, and has (finally) noticed that Obama is hiding records from Columbia University, where he completed his undergraduate studies after transferring from Occidental College in California. To be more precise, it’s not just Obama’s academic files that are missing, but more curiously, the files of his life. The Wall... TDBlog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099164/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:59:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099165/posts Devastating video: Obama talks about job Ayers gave him The McCain campaign ought to be using this video. It ties it all together. Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: NY Nana). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-45A6I-N5I Ouch! israelmatzav http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099165/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:01:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099156/posts Media Bias: It's worth noting when someone as distinguished as actor Jon Voight directly warned media Saturday to quit lying in this election, if only for the sake of democracy. But lying is exactly what's been stepped up.The latest manifestation of media bias was a bizarre Associated Press "analysis" claiming racism in Sarah Palin's warning over the weekend about Barack Obama's long association with Bill Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground terror organization. AP reporter Douglass K. Daniels claimed that Palin's questioning of Obama's association with the white radical child of privilege was "racially tinged." The verbal stink bomb keyed... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099156/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:52:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099154/posts The Relationship Between Barack Obama And Bill Ayers Is Much More Extensive Than Obama's Campaign Is Willing To Admit Obama's Top Campaign Staff Have Attempted To Downplay The Relationship Between Obama And Bill Ayers: Obama Spokesman Robert Gibbs Said That Obama And Ayers Weren't Close And That Obama Was Only 8 Years Old When Ayers Was Bombing Buildings. Robert Gibbs: "If you read the article ... it says these two men weren't close, this man isn't involved in our campaign. Bill Ayers is somebody that Barack Obama said his actions were despicable and these happened when Barack Obama was... RNC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099154/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:50:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099149/posts <p>I read occasionally of former Weatherman Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, both now not only accepted, despite their bombing campaign against America in the 1960s and 70s, but successful , establishment educators whose opinions on social issues are taken seriously. Every time I see Ayers’ name I shudder with fear and rage and realize that I will never be able to erase the mark he left on my life one evening 40 years ago.</p> FrontPageMag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099149/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:42:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099151/posts Ayers-Dohrn-Obama Tie Shouldn’t Be Dismissed As everyone concentrates on Bill Ayers, a bigger story may be Obama's link to Ayers' wife, Bernardine Dohrn. October 6, 2008 - by Bob Owens Support Pajamas Media; Visit Our Advertisers [More from Roger L. Simon: Barack Obama — Running on Empty with Bernardine Dohrn] Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has consistently tried to discount the depth of his relationship with Bill Ayers, one of the founding members of the Weather Underground, a radical left-wing terrorist group that formed in 1969 and was most famous for a string of bombings in the 1970s. Republican vice-presidential... pajamasmedia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099151/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:46:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099146/posts CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin expanded her attack on Democrat Barack Obama's character Monday to include his relationship with an incendiary former pastor as well as his ties to 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers. In the process, Palin toned down her description of the Obama-Ayers relationship after her weekend remarks were criticized as exaggerated, but at the same time she embarked on a discussion of Obama's relationship with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., which Republican presidential candidate John McCain had signaled he did not want to be a part of his campaign. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099146/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:41:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099141/posts In March, Barack Obama's speech in Philadelphia on race was inspiring and knowledgeable. Attempting to put the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy behind him, Obama said he had "already condemned, in unequivocal terms," Wright's "inexcusable," "divisive," and "racially charged" comments. Wright's "incendiary language," he said, expressed "views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide, but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation." Wright's criticisms of the United States, additionally, were based on "a profoundly distorted view of this country, a view that sees white racism as endemic and elevates what is wrong... Pittsburgh Tribune Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099141/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:37:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099125/posts The Obama campaign has come out saying that Barack Obama was unaware of former Weather Underground member William Ayer's past when the two met more than a decade ago (when Obama kicked off his Illinois political carrer in Ayer's living room). When Rev. Wright went on a tirade before the National Press Club, Barack Obama came out and said "This is not the man I knew." When Tony Rezko was being exposed as a crook, Barack Obama came out and said "This is not the Tony Rezko I knew." Is America dumb enough to believe that Barack Obama was clueless... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099125/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:24:00 GMT