The Obama-Ayers Top Ten: Highlights of the 20 year Obama-Ayers Connection

globallabor.blogspot.com ^ | August 10, 2008 | Steve Diamond

[Free ThinkerNY]

If you take the Obama campaign at its word, the contention that there is a relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama is “phony,” “tenuous,” a “stretch.” In Obama's own words, Ayers was "just a guy who lives in my neighborhood," certainly not a long time close political ally.

But a review of just the publicly known highlights of the Ayers-Obama relationship suggests a twenty year pattern of connections between the two.

At the heart of this "Top Ten" list is the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which Ayers founded and Obama and Ayers co-chaired for five years, raising and spending at least $110 million in an effort to bolster a "radical" (Ayers' word) reform program in the Chicago Public Schools from 1994 to 2001.

1) Out of the Woods:

The Woods Fund financed the hiring of Obama in 1985 by the Developing Communities Project.

According to The Nation: “The Woods Fund, in many ways, is responsible for helping start Obama as an organizer and shaping his political identity. In 1985 the foundation gave a $25,000 grant to the Developing Communities Project (aka the "DCP"), which hired Obama, at 24, as an organizer on Chicago's economically depressed South Side.”

The Woods Fund was founded by the Woods family which owned the Illinois-based Sahara Coal Company, a major supplier of coal from its mines to major Illinois power companies. Commonwealth Edison, the giant Chicago-based electric power company was headed by Thomas Ayers, father of Bill Ayers.

[Free ThinkerNY]

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Disturbing, to say the least.

[thesearethetimes...]

“Disturbing, to say the least.”

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Ayers and Dohrn, clearly were made for each other. Such productive people...

Reverend Wright.

Such a nice young couple, Barry and Michelle. Throughout their adult lives they certainly have made some very interesting choices, concerning who they choose to work and worship with.

Tatt

[patriot08]

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[sweetiepiezer]

Very disturbing.

[sweetiepiezer]

Thanks for the ping.

[tioga]

In the fall of 1995 Barack Obama began his first electoral campaign to replace State Senator Alice Palmer who was attempting to run for Congress. Palmer accompanied Obama to the Hyde Park home of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn for an introduction of Obama to the Hyde Park left. Unnamed Obama campaign aides told the New York Times that this was the first time that Obama met Ayers and Dohrn, part of the campaign's effort to minimize the relationship between their candidate and the two authoritarian leftists. Of course that was wrong, as clearly Obama and Ayers had already met well before this "meet and greet."

these two homegrown terrorists launched the obamessiah's political career.......how nice.