Chicago Trib: Ayers 'Seems to Contradict' Obama by Calling Him 'a Family Friend'

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Ayers and DohrnYeah, and the Chicago Cubs "seem" not to have won a World Series for 100 years.

A Thursday afternoon Chicago Tribune story (HTs to Ace and Say Anything) by Rex W. Huppke covers the appearance of a new afterword in a book by former Weather Underground leader William Ayers.

Let's just roll the excerpt:

In a new afterword to his memoir, 1960s radical William Ayers describes himself as a "family friend" of President-elect Barack Obama and writes that the campaign controversy over their relationship was an effort by Obama's political enemies to "deepen a dishonest narrative" about the candidate.

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Ayers describes phone threats and hate e-mail he received during the campaign, and he bemoans Obama's guilt by association.

During the campaign, Ayers' friendship with Obama was a favorite subject of conservative bloggers and talk show hosts who insisted the two were closer than the candidate was admitting. Ayers' new description of the relationship seems to contradict Obama's statements.

Obama had dismissed Ayers as "a guy who lives in my neighborhood" and "somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know."

..... (Ayers will) appear Friday on "Good Morning America" to promote the re-issue of his book this week. The Tribune obtained a copy of the updated material.

For someone so opposed to the evils of capitalism, the guy sure is a savvy financial opportunist, isn't he?

A guy whose organization was responsible for dozens of violent acts, including a murderous armed robbery, and who told the New York Times in a September 11, 2001 article that "I don't regret setting bombs," complains about crank phone calls and e-mails, apparently expects sympathy (of course I'm not defending those e-mailers and callers). You can't make this stuff up.

There's more dissembling by Ayers than can be addressed here at the Trib link, but one reportorial oversight demands notice. While citing criticism from John McCain during the presidential campaign, reporter Huppke failed to note that it was Hillary Rodham Clinton who was the first presidential candidate to bring up Ayers (as well as Obama's radical pastor of nearly two decades, Jeremiah Wright), doing so in an April primary debate.

Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.

—Tom Blumer is president of a training and development company in Mason, Ohio, and is a contributing editor to NewsBusters


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Maybe

he has ADHD. Lots of cute kids use this as an excuse to torment others. Or maybe his daddy didnt hug him enough. Or maybe its from the pesticides they used at the local country club when he was growing up. Or maybe hes just one f'd up unit.

(third-last "word" edited by Tom Blumer) 

Would appreciate it if

Would appreciate it if you'd edit the end of your comment.

We try be a little better here than DU and KOS.

Thanks.

Welcome to the fricken

Welcome to the fricken party MSM,

Glad you can make it, 

Semper Fi

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the

Yeah Wright

Did you read the caption under the picture of Ayers in the original Chacago Trib article? It says: Bill Ayers, former 1960s radical activist turned college professor, listens to Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. speak at Northwestern University during an event hosted by Northwestern's Black Student Alliance.

He was pictured listening to Rev Wright, the same Reverend that BO did not listen to in 20 years of going to Wright’s church.

Don’t (blank) on my leg and tell me it is raining. Don’t tell me that these guys, Ayers, Wright, Obama, aren’t all friends and don’t share the same beliefs

Now this morning with Ayers appearance on TV to peddle his book the conventional wisdom of the MSM is that Ayers and Obama were just passing acquaintances.

 I hate the MSM… grumble, grumble.

Bill Ayers new pet peeve

It seems that Bill Ayers thinks that the rope we will be hung with by our enemy is too expensive.  How can our enemy hang us if they can't afford rope?

Let it go. He's now a non

Let it go. He's now a non story. There were lots of militant radicals in the 60's.  Calling him a terrorist is now simply a marketing ploy by the far right.

Move on to something more important like the rediculous notion of bailing out GM so they can continue bleeding.

NCguy

If you were alive in the '60s you must have been living on the dark side of the moon.

Why not before the election

He's now a non story

If he's a non story now why is he on GMA and why is the Chicago tribune writing about him?

Geez ....

.... what a trollish statement.

A Presidential candidate lied through his teeth for months about the nature of his relationship with a domestic terrorist, and after the election, the terrorist himself says as much. Taking note of it is some kind of marketing ploy.

If bombing buildings to make political statements isn't terrorism, what is?

As to GM, I wrote about it twice yesterday. Look around before making ignorant comments.

Dont' forget...

Hanoi Jane... they're getting ready to fawn all over her for her 'achievements'. Nobody remembers she's a traitor.

Ted Kennedy... don't forget him and Mary Jo either. Ted has killed more people with his car than i have with my handgun!

Edwards and Clinton... I did not have sex with that woman!

 Clinton... I did not inhale.

And so it goes...

Hey Tom - Ayers. not just bombing buildings

Looks more like he was calling for "guerrilla warfare in the urban areas.." 

A few questions for Ayers could be found within these pages:

 Principles Schminiciples – New Left Notes, Nov. 21, 1969

[pg. 16] Ayers said ..The essence of the SDS strategy is to build a white, para-military organization designed to carry our guerrilla warfare in the urban areas of America – they are totally committed to revolution.

[..]

Enter the Rev. Wright principles: 

SDS does not believe that the goal is unity between black and white youth. SDS views the black people of the U.S. as a nation which is colonized by the white oppressor nation. The goal for blacks is revolutionary black nationalist struggle against the white oppressor nation, U.S. imperialism...

So much information - so few investigative journalists. (;~/ gary

"a white, para-military organization?" Who knew ....

.... that Ayers was a revolutionary segregationist USKKK of A type? :-->

It's not only what he did

It's not only what he did in the 60's; it's that he doesn't regret any of it; in face he says they didn't do enough.

 

Of course he doesn't regret it.

Of course he doesn't regret it. Why in the hell would he regret protesting what he felt was an unjust, genocidal war in Vietnam? You need to talk to someone who lived through the 1960's and knows what was going on in this country. The people who branded Ayers a terrorist were people like John Mitchell, Richard Nixon and John Erhlichman. These people subverted the constitution. Get your facts and your priorities straight. 

So of course ....

.... opposition to the war, and whatever Mitchell, Nixon, and Ehrlichman did justifies bombing government buildings and carrying out murderous armored car heists. What the hell is wrong with you?

God help us if people like you ever get a little power. Oops, it might be too late.

JRJ08... I lived through

JRJ08...

I lived through the 60's and you are a freak!

Proof - Liberals Are Looney-Toons!

 

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Lets pull out a dictionary, shall we?

 terrorist - a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities.

     Yup, Bill Ayers fit the bill.  I don't see how calling him what he is a far right ploy.  It seems to be a far left ploy to gloss over and "rename" a person to make that person look less threatening.

     BTW, I wonder if we could get away with no longer calling Timothy McVeigh or Terry Nichols  terrorists?  Maybe we can just call them a couple of 90's millitant radicals instead.

“I've spoken to all of them that are living.  I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances" B.H. Obama

What????????

Where have you been living for the past year?  So when we find Adolf Hitler still alive and well in Argentina we are to welcome him to America and provide him with a cushy professorship?  It is very relevant and he is a terrorist!!!!!!!!

NCguy, does this mean...

...20 or 30 years from now you could simply dismiss Osama Bin Laden as a "former terrorist", and a "non story"  (if he's still alive, that is)? 

Once a terrorist, ALWAYS a terrorist.  Ayers deserves to be behind bars for his actions against his own country.  And anyone who associated with him in any way does not deserve to be our President.

Unifying The Workforce

http://www.associate...

The hiring of 5 million community organizers will help give the American workforce the jobs it so desperately needs. Nothing is free, Its annual cost would be 250 billion dollars and would be a great investment in the nations future. The main task of an organizer is to search for factors in isolated communities that prevent it from joining the greater whole. Some of those factors could be education, transportation, need of economic development, and xenophobia. With total support from our government those problems would be solved. The final outcome would be a unified nation with the most productive workforce in the world.

From melpol's place: I

From melpol's place:

I never know what I will write about until suddenly the thought pops into my head.

On the assumption that you're a person of good will -- do yourself and readers a favor, and think things through after the "thought pops."

Do you really tink the government can effectively run a program with 5 million "community organizers" (I hope you really mean "community service volunteers," because if there are 5 million organizing the work, no one is actually doing actual work)?

$250 billion is 8% of the federal budget. Who is going to pay for this? It's also clear you haven't thought through what these 5 million will do. 

Xenophobia?

BTW, Judeo-Christian based capitalism, as a side effect, improves communities better and more quickly than any "community organizing" effort ever could.

 

Alice? Is that you at the keyboard?

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said;
"FEED YOUR HEAD"

 

No representation, without taxation!

I have a feeling this is

I have a feeling this is only the beginning... It's nauseating that Ayers is now going to attempt to profit from his terrorist activities... and GMA provides him with the perfect platform... No wonder MSM is in the toilet- that's right where they belong, with the likes of Ayers.

The MSM never ceases to

The MSM never ceases to amaze.  Not one question, narry a mention of Ayers before the election.  Now, he will be all over the place.  How shameful can the MSM get. (GMA especially.)

For someone so opposed to the evils of capitalism, the guy sure is a savvy financial opportunist, isn't he?

Yes he is.  A typical leftist-"do as I say, not as I do".

Slap in the Face...

That's all Ayers is doing. He's mocking America again....he like other Terrorists sees America as weak minded. Oh and When will we see the "corrections" on all those Articles about Sarah Palin 'accusing' the One of Palling around with Terrorists. I think Bill "Guilty as Sin" Ayers, just proved Saracuda's Point.

 

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BiasedGirl

My thoughts exactly. With the "Chicago Associates" in power, everyone else is getting mocked. These stories were totally ignored by the MSM to project the image of BO, as a "Kansas kind of Guy", based on limited associations with radicals........Not True! BO's associates and the MSM are now openly talking about the relationships that were dismissed just months ago. Bill Ayers and the others are still flipping us off after all these years...... Unrepentant Radicals. I expect to hear that Rev. Wright has been rehabilitated so he can give the opening prayer at the Inaguaration hailing fire and brimstone on America and praising the wonderful MESSIAH and the future he brings..

tribune:

[insert shock and disbelief here] 

what a joke the "journalists" have become...

I can't believe anyone is

I can't believe anyone is actually shocked at this. After they brought Wooten on and he was a 'victim' and then brought Wright on and let him play the 'victim' I said to myself "Ayer's is most certainly next because he's their favorite".  Who are today's old school reporters?  Old hippy wannabes!  They stood on the other side of the barricades and reported on the war activists with great intensity and fervor but I think deep down they wished they could have the intestinal fortitude to stand with them.  Back then it was not acceptable to allow bias into your reporting.  Now all the cards are on the table.  The media wants the days of yore.  They want Camelot.  They want their college days back.

Welcome back to the party MSM.  Now you're officially 'cool'.

*sighs with exasperation*

 

member of the Conservative Independant Witness Protection Program since Nov. 5, 2008

Political enemies making Obama look bad??

"the campaign controversy over their relationship was an effort by Obama's political enemies to "deepen a dishonest narrative" about the candidate."

He was a terrorist people! Republicans didn't have to put a spin on it--he was a known terrorist and a family friend of Obama--to make Obama and the left wing illuminati look bad.  So, the Republicans are not to blame for Obama looking like a dishonest terrorist....Obama did that all by himself.

You speak of sense and

You speak of sense and logic.

Unfortunately, these people have none. They live off sound bites and flashy things.

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ~ Winston Churchill

Obama lied to the American

Obama lied to the American people. He lied about his association with Bill Ayers, a known TERRORIST.  Will the Media call Obama out on this lie?  On other lies? 

Will GMA do the right thing and ask Obama about this...or just put on their "My President Pals Around With TERRORISTS' T-Shirts and go along their merry way??

TN Mom... Simple answer

TN Mom...

Simple answer in one word...well maybe two...

No...Never.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

bt

I knew the answer as I typed it.  The way I see it, the media is as guilty as ACORN in trying to steal the election...for Obama. Sad thing is they're guy won, which of course will give both free reign to do so again. 

Obama could have risen above all this, but he chose to let the media act as his PR head....

I never had a chance, BT.  I was robbed without a gun!

TMom... You watch what

TMom...

You watch what what happens in Ga. speaking of voting fraud....they are having early voting at one or two stations, then the other poll stations open for I heard like weeks until the closing date, what is it the 1st or 2nd of Dec...give me a break, there is going to be massive cheating going on in my opinion.

Look at what Franken is getting away with so far...and will continue to do so in my opinion.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Ridiculous...

William Ayers is a non-issue. He was a guy who served on a board with Obama that dealt with educational issues. Others on the board included the president of Northwestern University. You don't see him resigning in disgrace.These people were selected to serve on that board by the Annenberg Foundation and the very conservative Annenberg family, which endorsed John McCain. William Ayers protested the Vietnam war, along with hundreds of thousands of other Americans of conscience. The people who keep pulling out this card, are desperate to sabotage the Obama administration before it has even had a chance to get started. It's a waste of energy and time, and it doesn't help the country one damn bit. 

»→ Exactly JR

And I'm sure you're ready to erect a statue to Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma, given there's not a whit of ideological difference between him and Ayers.

Aren't you late for that "Free Erik Rudolph" rally?

  • LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

§ Cool...Ayers being Discussed on H&C NOW!!

Please inform the Clown Above!!!

Ster.

I am a peripheral visionary. I can see the future, but only way off to the side.

Barack Obama's Radical Associations

Bill Ayers is a carefully chosen friend of Barrack Obama. Born in 1944, Currently a professor of education at the University of Illinois.

1) Leader of the 1960s and 70s domestic terrorist group Weatherman. The Weatherman issued a 'Manifesto', calling for armed opposition to US policies, includig Capitalism and asked white radicals to launch a 'Race War' against 'White Skin Privilege'. Leaders like Mark Rudd (currently a mathematics professor at a New Mexico community college) traveled illegally to Cuba in 1968 for terroist training by Soviet KGB Colonel Vadim Kotchergine, who taught Marxist philosophy and urban warfare. Weather men always spelled America - 'AmeriKKKa'.  

2) "Kill all the rich people. ... Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents." Bill Ayers

3) Participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972. Ayers proudly stated that he didn’t "regret setting the bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough."

"America is NOT a just and fair and decent place - it makes me want to puke." Ayers said in 2001

In the mid-1990s, Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn hosted meetings at their Chicago home to introduce Barack Obama to their neighbors during Barack Obama's first run for the Illinois Senate.

In 1999 Ayers joined the Woods Fund of Chicago, where he served as a director alongside Barack Obama until the Obama left the Woods board in December 2002.

Review of Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) documents shows that Ayers and Obama each chaired the two CAC operating bodies from 1995 to 2000. Michelle Obama started working at a law firm with Bernadette Dohrn, Ayers wife, in 1985.

Bernardine Dohrn
In the 1960s, Bernardine Dohrn and her husband Bill Ayers were leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society's "Weatherman" faction, which in 1969 went underground to become America's first terrorist cult.

At a 1969 "War Council" in Flint, Michigan, Dohrn gave her most memorable and notorious speech to her followers.

Holding her fingers in what became the Weatherman "fork salute," she said of the bloody murders recently committed by the Manson Family in which the pregnant actress Sharon Tate and several other inhabitants of a Benedict Canyon mansion had been brutally stabbed to death: "Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!"  Dohrn is currently an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University.

Michelle Obama first met Bernardine Dohrn in 1985 when they worked together at a Chicago law firm.

In the mid-1990s Dohrn and her husband, Bill Ayers, hosted meetings at their Chicago home to introduce Barack Obama to their neighbors during his first run for the Illinois Senate.

http://hisfacts.blog...

Ayers is an innocent

Ayers is an innocent victim. Ayers is using a classical Communist move to claim that he is now the victim of smears.

Never mind that he seems to stereotype Vietnam Vets as bad killers and that his government was horrible and he and his group had to take the law into their own hands to stop their government.  Everything he was doing back then was smearing his government and implying that those soldiers fighting and doing what their country asked them to do were horrible rotten soldiers.  The Government made mistakes in Vietnam, but the soldiers over there did what they were told, and most of them behaved ethically and came back to the States and helped raise families, were valuable members of society, and most importantly they didn't go around bombing college campuses in protest to the protesters on college campuses.  Now you can find examples of unethical behavior, but those are few and far between.  Most Vets were very ethical and were proud of their service.

Here is a good link about a Vet and his views on the protesters. 

http://www.i-served.com/v-v-a-r.org/102902_YouLiedAboutVietnam.html

 Fonda and Company who seem to pride themselves in caring about atrocities and human rights, don't ever seem to care about re-education camps by the Communists once they took over S. Vietnam, or the fact that S. Vietnamese make up the largest refugee population in the world I believe.  Why would anyone want to flee on boats from the utopian society of Vietnam if Ayers and Fonda and Company are correct about Communism?

Here are some links with a different perspective that you probably won't find taught on a college campus.

 

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/comfaq.htm#part9

 

http://www.vietquoc.com/0006vq.htm

 

http://www.vietquoc.com/0007vq.htm

 

http://www.vietquoc.com/

http://www.lich-mc.com/jobgov/What_communism.htm

  

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/another-tet-offensive-in-the-summer-of-2007-will-history-repeat-itself/

http://www.shopaim.org/Television-Vietnam_p_3-757.html

   

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_27_15/ai_55283467/pg_2