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Bill Ayers: Left Wing Somehow Duped into Believing Obama Was a Leftist
Mediaite ^ | 11-26-13 | Andrew Kirell

Posted on 11/26/2013 11:14:03 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic

According to radical activist and Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers, American leftists were duped by prevailing conservative narratives into believing that President Obama himself was a tried-and-true leftist, and not the “middle-of-the-road” politician he declares himself to be.

Speaking at a Washington, D.C., book store last Friday, Ayers explained that despite living near Obama in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood and crossing paths many times during their activism, he never viewed the future president as a dedicated “leftist” like himself.

The remarks came in response to a question about whether Ayers ever doubted Obama’s credentials as a true “progressive” or “man of the left.”

“He was a community organizer, to his great credit,” Ayers told the crowd, “but all through the 2008 campaign Barack Obama said, whenever asked, he would say, ‘I am a moderate, compromising, pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, politician.’”

However, Ayers said, conservatives managed to convince themselves that Obama held deeply-seated “socialist” views, while the left believed the president was

The right-wing looked at him, and said, “No, he’s a secret socialist, palling around with terrorists and Palestinians; he has a fiery black nationalist minister; he’s probably a black nationalist on top of everything else.” And the left wing looked at him and said, “He’s winking in our direction, I feel it.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ayers; bambi; foba; freshprince; fuba; left; obama; obambi; progressives; weatherunderground; zero
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What a piece of work. How in the world anyone pays attention to this creepy old terrorist, I'll never understand.
1 posted on 11/26/2013 11:14:04 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Obama and Ayers are following a script


2 posted on 11/26/2013 11:15:23 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Ayers probably thinks that Vladimir Lenin was a moderate.


3 posted on 11/26/2013 11:16:13 AM PST by fhayek
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To: afraidfortherepublic

When has Obama been compromising and pragmatic?


4 posted on 11/26/2013 11:16:25 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

And the lies continue....


5 posted on 11/26/2013 11:16:26 AM PST by HarleyD (...one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Obama is not a Socialist..he is a Communist..he believes in the same ideology that Chavez and Castro believe in


6 posted on 11/26/2013 11:17:51 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: afraidfortherepublic

This terrorist is out signing books when he should be in prison.

Worse: people are buying them.


7 posted on 11/26/2013 11:18:33 AM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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8 posted on 11/26/2013 11:20:04 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Ayers is a habitual liar. Other than learning about his latest lie there is no value or credibility in anything he says.


10 posted on 11/26/2013 11:20:33 AM PST by detective
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Bill Ayres is trying to convince us that his protégé Obama is not a hard-core leftist. Sorry, Bill, not all of us are fooled by this masquerade!


11 posted on 11/26/2013 11:21:18 AM PST by MeganC (Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell! https://mattbevin.com/)
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American leftists were duped by prevailing conservative narratives

BUSH'S FAULT !

Apparently, they can't really think for themselves. Before Madcow and Matthews really got going, they were listening to Rush?

12 posted on 11/26/2013 11:21:50 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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When has Obama been compromising and pragmatic?

He's been known to substitute cole slaw for fries when he orders a hamburger. Aside from that, not at all.

13 posted on 11/26/2013 11:22:27 AM PST by MeganC (Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell! https://mattbevin.com/)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Isnt Obama the new Ronald Reagan?
I believe he has said as much


14 posted on 11/26/2013 11:22:48 AM PST by woofie
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To: fhayek

Compared to Ayers he probably was


15 posted on 11/26/2013 11:23:23 AM PST by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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You really have to be far out on the left edge to think 0bama is not.
Then again, I can believe Bill Ayers does fit that bill.
Like others on the left, they don't see the failure of 0bamas policies in how they destroy the country, they think 0bama is failing because the effects are not destructive enough.

16 posted on 11/26/2013 11:25:12 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

A liar’s liar puts forth nonsense to confuse what he believes to be ignorant masses.


17 posted on 11/26/2013 11:25:33 AM PST by BamaAndy
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Just this once!!!!

0bama wasn’t lying!


18 posted on 11/26/2013 11:25:37 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Ok who is left of Obama...Stalin?


19 posted on 11/26/2013 11:26:00 AM PST by Zathras
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To: afraidfortherepublic

OMG. Obunga-bunga is even more left that Bill Ayers. And that is saying a lot.


20 posted on 11/26/2013 11:26:04 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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