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Election '08: The Obama camp tries to suppress a campaign ad and university archives linking the candidate to a '60s terrorist who hosted his first campaign fundraiser. Is he being "swiftboated," or is this a cover-up? When Obama's association with William Ayers was raised at a Democratic debate this year, Obama replied: "This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood. . . . He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis."

Accusations of a connection between Barack Obama and ex-Weatherman Bill Ayers have recently been gathering steam in conservative journals thanks to Weekly Standard and National Review contributor Stanley Kurtz. For the uninitiated, the Weather Underground was a domestic terrorist group that grew out of the New Left in the '60s and '70s. The group sought to transform America into a communist nation. Obviously, Obama does not seek such a transformation, but relationships with people like Ayers do raise other questions. More to the point is that Mr. Kurtz, along with many other journalists and lawyers, is investigating files that were...

BECK: The -- the connection to Saul Alinsky. First of all, who wants to take on who Saul Alinsky is? CORSI: Well, I`d be happy to do that if -- and also David can. I mean, Saul Alinsky was a radical socialist organizer. His main book was "Rules for Radicals." His methodology was you go in as a community organizer. That means, really, a rabble rouser. You rub raw the discontent of the community, almost in a communist sense. You find class antagonisms. You learn to speak the grievances in the people`s own logic and language, and then you go...

Google it. They're really saying that garbage. I guess Jesus also promoted abortions too. These people are demented.

"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."Source: Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0 ___________________________________________________ From Sept 11, 2001, New York Times article/interview with Obama associate and friend, William/Bill Ayers:"Mr. Ayers, who in 1970 was said to have summed up the Weatherman philosophy as: 'Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and...

John McCain did send a vetting team to Alaska to investigate Governor Sarah Palin's background before he chose her as his vice-presidential running mate, according to senior campaign officials. The trip to Alaska, disclosed for the first time, undermines Democratic claims that his choice of Mrs Palin, 44, was hasty, impetuous and had not been properly researched. The team of several specialist researchers was similar to the teams that investigated others on Mr McCain's vice-presidential shortlist. "There was a vetting team on the ground before she was named," a senior McCain adviser told The Daily Telegraph. "These were people who...

The mainstream media has spent more time vetting the skeletons in 17 year-old Bristol Palin's closet than digging in to the history of Senator Barack Obama. But with all the talk about Bristol, Trig, and Sarah Palin these past few days, you might not know about another interesting person whom the mainstream media has largely ignored: Meet William Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground, a radical left-wing organization that bombed the U.S. Capitol building on March 1, 1971, the U.S. Pentagon on May 19, 1972, and the Harry S. Truman building on January 29, 1975, among other acts of terrorism...

Great interview with Voight. He supports Palin in it. Highlight is Voight critizing the press for not looking into Obama's past (at 1:57). He mentions Obama's "deep connection" with Ayers and brings up the Annenberg papers. Alan Colmes interrupts and tries to bait Voight on Obama's religion.

The Pioneer Press reports that the Ramsey County, Minnesota, Sheriff's office investigated an anarchist group that was considering kidnapping delegates to the Republican Party's convention in St. Paul. The would-be terrorists, who called themselves the "Republican National Convention Welcoming Committee," planned to shut down the convention. The group bears a striking resemblance to the Weathermen, a violent terrorist group founded by Barack Obama's unrepentant terrorist associate William Ayers. According to the news report: # The self-described anarchist group - whose main goal was to "crash" the Republican National Convention," according to its Web site - traveled to or communicated with...

The pick of Sarah Palin has gotten many Republicans excited about voting for presidential candidate John McCain. And that, my friends, is a genuine miracle. These GOPers, it must be noted, are electrified by the idea of Palin as much as they are by the candidate. In many ways, it's comparable to the allegiance that Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama enjoys — a devotion that isn't measured by legislative accomplishment or experience. Oh, wait. Palin isn't running against Obama. Palin, you see, is so thoroughly incompetent, downright beatable and hopelessly laughable that an army of columnists, bloggers and media types...

The writer of a letter in the Courier & Press published Aug. 28 worried that the author of a book critical of Barack Obama (Jerome Corsi, "The Obama Nation") is a "danger to our society." He further cautioned that it is the responsibility of U.S. citizens to actively examine political discourse for truth and clarity. I wonder if he followed his own advice and voiced concern about the left-wing, radical rantings of Michael Moore, in books and movies, against our president and our society. Our enemies loved Moore's words, but fortunately, our great country is strong enough to withstand criticism,...

Resume Of A Terrorist: Obama's Buddy Ayers by Jim Kouri Published: Sep 2, 2008 While the likes of the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and other news organizations have their reporters digging for dirt on Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain's choice for vice president, their savior-in-waiting Barack Obama is getting a free ride at the expense of truth. It's no secret that the denizens of America's newsrooms want Obama sitting in the Oval Office, but Americans are being purposely duped by the Democrat National Committee's volunteer publicists, formerly known as the mainstream news media. If...

Hannity has led the media pack in repeatedly playing videos of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's controversial former pastor, and questioning his association with William Ayers, a member of the violent Weather Underground in the 1960s. In a recent interview with Glamour magazine, Obama said Fox News and others went after his wife, Michelle, "in a pretty systematic way. . . . If you start being subjected to rants by Sean Hannity and the like, day in and day out, that'll drive up your negatives."

Perhaps realizing that there is no hope on the Ayers issue, the Obama campaign began its strategic retreat today. They trotted out a local ally in the Chicago school wars, Linda Lenz, to begin the effort. Her job: admit finally that, in fact, there was some kind of relationship between Ayers and Obama after all but "it ain't no big thang." We'll see if this helps or only fans the flames. I posted a reply on the Sun Times website: Perhaps the editors of the Sun Times should feel "a little silly" about inviting Ms. Lenz to pen an editorial...

It appears Team Obama will stop at nothing to intimidate and harass those who would expose his long and cozy relationship with terrorist William Ayers. As in the '60s, lefties think freedom of speech applies only to them. We have written extensively on the socialist past of Barack Obama as expressed in his proposals and associations, both personal and organizational. One of those associations is between Obama and Ayers, a leader of the Weather Underground, a '60s terrorist group. It's true Obama has condemned and disassociated himself from the terrorist actions of Ayers and the Underground. But Ayers has never...

"...The Weather Underground placed a bomb in the women’s bathroom in the Air Force wing of The Pentagon..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization) "...University Ethics Office...University Code of Conduct...Approved January 22, 2002 by the University Senates Conference...Introduction... This Code of Conduct establishes guidelines for professional conduct by those acting on behalf of the University including executive officers, faculty, staff, and other individuals employed by the University..." http://www.ethics.uillinois.edu/policies/code.cfm

September 2, 2008 By Cliff Kincaid The Washington Post reported that John McCain's vetting process for picking Governor Sarah Palin included an FBI background check. Other reports dispute this. But when did the FBI investigate Obama? Who vetted him? We are living witnesses to an incredible media double standard, whereby a Republican vice-presidential candidate's personal life is being torn apart, while the Democratic presidential candidate continues to get a free ride. Obama has a 30-year history of associating with unsavory characters, beginning with communist Frank Marshall Davis and continuing with Jeremiah Wright and communist terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn,...

IN THE COMMENTS SECTION--->>> Have searched for much on this issue, and see nowhere that anybody is attempting to radicalize Annenberg or his generosity to public education. It's most unfortunate for the 470,000 public school students in the south side of Chicago that were disenfranchised by the financial shenanigans that Ayers, Obama, and Klonsky pulled off. $ 50 million or so from Annenberg, matching funds from foundations to make perhaps $ 125 million or more total, and they simply coordinated grants to many schools, many local 'charities', and all those 'leadership' grants to provide many to stand for elected office....

When John McCain named Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, as his vice presidential running mate, I was sitting at the bar of New York City's oldest saloon, Pete's Tavern, watching the event with my 81-year-old father and four of his long-time friends. The initial reaction of these retired city cops and longshoremen to Mrs. Palin was positive. A gun-toting beauty queen, mother of five, married to a blue-collar union member and small business entrepreneur, who by hard work and a touch of audacity beat a corrupt political establishment - what's not to like? They'd all be proud to have a granddaughter...

If McCain can show that Obama is a far-left liberal, he can win in November. A liberal like Obama can win only if he can paint himself as a centrist. With a message slightly more appealing to his far left sponsors than Howard Dean's message four years earlier, Obama limped across the finish line first. He won, and Dean lost, even though Dean was far more attractive to centrist Democrats. What happened? The same MoveOn-George Soros-radical left coalition supported both candidates. The difference was the black voter. Were Obama white, the black vote would have split and Hillary would have...

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New Book Blows the Lid Off Obama's Questionable Past and Plans for 'Change' "The Audacity of Deceit" goes where no book on Obama has gone before. Includes exclusive Zogby polling data on the 30% of Americans who pay no taxes - and who they plan to vote for. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 2, 2008 -- Joseph Farah, president of WND Books, announces the publication of a blockbuster book, "The Audacity of Deceit: Barack Obama's War on American Values" (WND Books, ISBN: 978-1-935071-02-0), written by a conservative Republican and noted political consultant. "Audacity" will join the storm surrounding the recent...

"One of Bill Ayers’ and Bernardine Dohrn’s comrades in the late 60s Students for a Democratic Society was Mike Klonsky. When Dohrn and Ayers moved in one direction toward the violent tactics of the Weather Underground, Klonsky, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, dropped the pro-Russian communist politics of his parents and became a committed Maoist. As leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) in 1977 [not to be confused with Communist Party USA. CPML no longer exists, CPUSA formed decades earlier and is still around-ETL], he travelled to Beijing and was toasted by the senior Beijing leadership....

‘Smear!” “Guilt by association!” “Politics of fear!” The Obama campaign has its cue cards at the ready whenever any of us right-wing demagogues has the temerity to suggest it might be relevant that a candidate for president is a friend of — is a business partner of, is simpatico with — a died-in-the-wool, America-hating terrorist. The campaign doth protest too much. The sheer thuggery in their reaction to patently relevant questions about Obama’s ties to Bill Ayers, raised by the intrepid Stanley Kurtz and the American Issues Project, betrays their candidate’s panicked self-awareness. Of course it’s relevant. Compound an era...

Eighty-five thousand cheering fans. Pyrotechnics. A dramatic, temple-style backdrop. Such was the scene in Denver Thursday night as Barack Obama accepted his party’s presidential nomination with “great humility.” As his deep voice reverberated throughout the massive venue, thousands of eyes welled up with tears of hope and change. In the sea of faces and waving flags stood a woman by the name of Marilyn Katz. Like several of the other radicals who populate Obama’s sphere, she once advocated guerilla tactics against police officers and participated in violent riots. Unlike some of her more infamous counterparts like Bill Ayers and Bernadine...

While the likes of the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and other news organizations have their reporters digging for dirt on Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s choice for vice president, their savior-in-waiting Barack Obama is getting a free ride at the expense of truth. It’s no secret that the denizens of America’s newsrooms want Obama sitting in the Oval Office, but Americans are being purposely duped by the Democrat National Committee’s volunteer publicists, formerly known as the mainstream news media. If it weren’t for talk radio and the blogosphere, even what is known about Obama...

In today's Sun Times, there is a terribly dishonest editorial making Obama's time on the Annenberg board with Bill Ayers nothing out of the ordinary. The first bit of dishonest and misleading is done as such. The issue of Obama’s role arose when a blogger for National Review raised questions about his relationship with Ayers, a favorite election-year target of conservatives. The blogger felt quite sure that the pair were much closer than Obama intimated when he said he knew Ayers "from the neighborhood" where both live. The blogger hinted darkly that the pair were really ideological soul mates and...

Using donations for the poor to help power-seeking politicians attain their ends is pure Alinskyianism. One of Obama’s Chicago mentors, Gregory Galluzzo - a former Jesuit priest, now married and Executive Director of the Gamaliel community organizing network – was interviewed by a writer to whom he showed the training manual he uses with new organizers. “Galluzzo told me that many new trainees have an aversion to Alinsky’s gritty approach because they come to organizing as idealists rather than realists. But Galluzzo’s manual instructs them to get over these hang-ups. ‘We are not virtuous by not wanting power,’ it says....

Annenberg Challenge a radical enclave? Gimme a break! There is nothing to condemn about Ayers’ leadership over the past 20 years. August 30, 2008 BY LINDA LENZ Somewhere in the afterlife, Walter Annenberg must be shaking his head and wondering what in the world is going on in Chicago. First, the Sun-Times and the Tribune gave up precious inches of their dwindling news space to report that the University of Illinois at Chicago was refusing — and then later agreed — to release documents detailing Sen. Barack Obama’s role in a nonprofit education project "started" by William Ayers, a founder...

In regards to Barack Hussein Obama's connections to William Ayers and his association with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, I'd like to get a list of questions compiled for investigation into his prior work (feel free to add more):

BAY AREA (KRON) -- The unsolved murder of two San Francisco police officers has languished as cold cases for 30 years until now. A federal grand jury has been looking into the murders. Many of the people now under investigation both as potential targets and witnesses in this case are scattered across the country. Many of them are now in their 50s and 60s. Investigators believe the crimes were politically motivated and committed by militant radical groups. On August 29, 1971, sergeant John Young is killed in a barrage of gunfire when two men walk into the Ingleside police station...

Democrats charge that Republicans make illegitimate attacks on their candidates, attacks that imply that they are far out of the American mainstream. The two examples they cite are the “Willie Horton” ads against Michael Dukakis in 1988 and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads against John Kerry in 2004. But both attacks were well within the bounds of fair political comment. Dukakis supported for 11 years a policy of granting weekend furloughs for prisoners sentenced to life without parole. Willie Horton, one of those furloughed, fled and committed another violent crime. There’s a reasonable argument for granting weekend furloughs...

-- snip --Mr. Obama is doomed to defeat. His best efforts to camouflage his left-wing associations will not work. He can flip-flop on issue after issue in the vain hope he will deceive Americans. Yet he is clearly a liar and a phony, a false messiah. He will not lead the Democrats - or the country - to the Promised Land: He has no credibility. Mr. McCain will win - and win big - in November.

August 30, 2008, 9:00 a.m. Outrageous VulnerabilitiesObama may not Weather this storm. By Michael Barone As this is written, with a deadline looming, I have not heard Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at Invesco Field and have not learned who is John McCain’s choice for vice president. You know more about these things than I do. So I will write about something I may know more about, and which has been the subject of some concern at the Democratic National Convention: the Democrats’ charge that Republicans make illegitimate attacks on their candidates, attacks that imply that they are far out...

The Editors of National Review Online have a good editorial summarizing researcher and writer Stanley Kurtz's investigation of the ties between Barack Obama and radical terrorist William Ayers, and the reaction of Obama campaign and its supporters to their critics: ... WGN, has made a stream of the broadcast available online, here, and it has to be heard to be believed. Obama's robotic legions dutifully jammed the station's phone lines and inundated the program with emails, attacking Kurtz personally. Pressed by Rosenberg to specify what inaccuracies Kurtz was guilty of, caller after caller demurred, mulishly railing that "we just want...

DENVER (AP) — The release of a 2004 interview with former 1960s radical William Ayers, in which he compared U.S. government actions to the Sept. 11 attacks, drew renewed attention Tuesday to his association with Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

Do Democratic presidential campaign committees think we are all stupid or do they suffer from some sort of group delusion? In 2004 they tried to peddle a man who made claims about his military career that were easily proven to be lies (Christmas in Cambodia, outrageous charges about war crimes by his fellow soldiers) as a war hero “reporting for duty.” This time around they are trying to take a man whose entire career has linked him with far-left anti-American characters, political agendas focused on redistribution of wealth, and racial spoils and pawn him off on us as a...

THE RACE: The political season is entering the home stretch, and Jerome R. Corsi’s “Obama Nation” remains the No. 1 nonfiction book for the third straight week. (David Freddoso’s “Case Against Barack Obama” slips one spot to No. 6.) Among the other political titles jostling for position on this week’s list: Ron Suskind’s “Way of the World,” Jane Mayer’s “Dark Side,” Andrew Bacevich’s “Limits of Power,” Thomas Frank’s “Wrecking Crew” and Fareed Zakaria’s “Post-American World” (a book Obama was seen toting). Then there is, at No. 8 on the hardcover miscellaneous list, “Goodnight Bush,” by Erich Origen and Gan Golan,...

Supporters of Barack Obama made thousands of calls and sent thousands of e-mails Wednesday in an organized campaign to intimidate a Chicago radio station – WGN-AM – into canceling the appearance of a conservative writer on one of its long-time popular talk shows. The campaign did not work, according to the talk-show’s producer. “We’ve probably had 4,000 to 5,000 e-mails,” said Zack Christenson, producer of “Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg.” “There’s no way to measure the calls. The only thing I can tell you about the calls is that from about 7:30 p.m. to about midnight that night, the phone...

Check out Bill Ayers November 2006 blog entry from his website to see why he is in the education business: WORLD EDUCATION FORUM, Centro Interncional Miranda, Caracas, Venezuela, November, 2006 "President Hugo Chavez, Vice-President Vicente Rangel, Ministers Moncada and Isturiz, invited guests,comrades. I’m honored and humbled to be here with you this morning. I bring greetings and support from your brothers and sisters throughout Northamerica. Welcome to the World Education Forum! Amamos la revolucion Bolivariana! This is my fourth visit to Venezuela, each time at the invitation of my comrade and friend Luis Bonilla, a brilliant educator and inspiring fighter...

Even as Barack Obama gave his soaring speech Thursday night, his campaign was playing hardball with its critics. Team Obama has launched an offensive against WGN, the Chicago Tribune's radio station, for interviewing Stanley Kurtz. Mr. Kurtz is a conservative writer who this week forced the University of Illinois to finally open its records on Sen. Obama's association with William Ayers, the unrepentant 1970s Weather Underground terrorist.

Barack Hussein Obama acclaimed at the Democratic convention in Denver as the party's nominee for the presidency of the United States is a historic milestone for the great republic. There is little doubt that the dream of Martin Luther King Jr. for the day when Americans "will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character" arrived a while ago. A non-white American likely would have been elected president in 1996 if Colin Powell had not declined to seek the Republican nomination. Yet the question hanging over the Democrats leaving Denver is this:...

There was some concern at the Democratic National Convention over the Democrats’ charge that Republicans make illegitimate attacks on their candidates, attacks that imply that they are far out of the American mainstream. The two examples they cite are the “Willie Horton” ads against Michael Dukakis in 1988 and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads against John Kerry in 2004. Both attacks were well within the bounds of fair political comment. Dukakis supported for 11 years a policy of granting weekend furloughs for prisoners sentenced to life without parole. Willie Horton, one of those furloughed, fled and committed another...

For months, Barack Obama has complained about the poverty his family suffered while earning a mere $200,000 per year. Last night he ridiculed his political opponent for a joke he had made about high-income earners qualifying as “middle class.” Last night, the man who opposed welfare reform bragged that while serving in Illinois he had “moved more families from welfare to work.” The man who misled the public for four years about his vote to let a Chicago-area hospital continue leaving premature abortion survivors to die, and who promised that his first act as president will be to re-legalize partial-birth...

Even as Barack Obama gave his soaring speech Thursday night, his campaign was playing hardball with its critics. Team Obama has launched an offensive against WGN, the Chicago Tribune's radio station, for interviewing Stanley Kurtz. Mr. Kurtz is a conservative writer who this week forced the University of Illinois to finally open its records on Sen. Obama's association with William Ayers, the unrepentant 1970s Weather Underground terrorist. An Obama campaign email to supporters called Mr. Kurtz a "slimy character assassin" whose "divisive, destructive ranting" should be confronted. WGN producer Zack Christenson says the outpouring of negative calls and emails is...

The Search for the Real Obama [Ramesh Ponnuru] My critique of Obama’s speech produced an avalanche of hate mail, and some sharp reactions from Obama-supporting journalists. My friend E. J. Dionne Jr. is “disappointed” with my comment about Bill Ayers, which he calls “absolute rubbish.” I am genuinely interested to know which of my assertions Dionne disputes: 1) that Ayers was a terrorist, 2) that he is unrepentant about it, 3) that Obama has been willing to associate with him, or 4) that this association, among others, suggests that he follows a no-enemies-to-the-left policy? Jonathan Chait, also a friend, writes...

The panicked reaction of the Obama campaign suggests they hold very damaging information. ---------- Do Democratic presidential campaign committees think we are all stupid or do they suffer from some sort of group delusion? In 2004 they tried to peddle a man who made claims about his military career that were easily proven to be lies (Christmas in Cambodia, outrageous charges about war crimes by his fellow soldiers) as a war hero “reporting for duty.” This time around they are trying to take a man whose entire career has linked him with far-left anti-American characters, political agendas focused on redistribution...

The American Issues Project today wraps up its first phase of a televisionadvertising and issue campaign, which called into question the longstandingrelationship between Barack Obama and unrepentant 1960’s domestic terrorist,William Ayers. “American Issues Project clearly has struck a nerve inside theObama campaign, but even more important is the reaction of the American people,who are starting to question why Sen. Obama would have such a closerelationship with an unrepentant domestic terrorist,” said Ed Martin, AmericanIssues Project president. The heavy-handed response of the Obama campaign definitely misfired. The more the Obama campaign has tried to bully the ad off the air with...

Let’s suppose that a public official has something in his past that he would prefer remain there. Something that might make voters wonder whether the rhetoric of today is something that should be believed. Let’s suppose that someone got their hands on documents about the skeleton in the closet, and went on a popular radio show to talk about them. And let’s suppose that instead of a civilized debate about what may have happened years ago, the public official ordered his legions to jam the radio station’s phone lines in an effort to make sure that whatever happened all those...

Given that I thought the Hollywood soundstage, with its faux columns, would make Barack Obama's nomination speech seem strange and offbeat, my prognostication skills aren't much. The speech was superb -- not as good as his race speech, or his 2004 convention speech, but very good nonetheless. But I see trouble on the horizon for him. This attack ad now being aired by 527 independent groups is going to shake up a lot of people who didn't know about Obama's friendship with former Weatherman Bill Ayers. I think it's far more damaging to Obama than Rev. Wright. Whenever I wirte...