I'm not sure there is any more room left under the bus. But if there is I would advise Bill Ayers to be prepared for his new home.
Posted on 08/28/2008 6:08:40 AM PDT by libstripper
Barack Obama's supporters insist that an ad from a conservative group attacking his ties to unrepentant 1970s radical William Ayers is irrelevant to the campaign. Cass Sunstein, a University of Chicago law professor and close friend of Mr. Obama, says that while he is "very disturbed by [Mr. Ayers'] past and by his refusal to disavow what the did . . . the implications of this for Obama are zero."
You wouldn't know that from the reaction of the Obama campaign. Yesterday, it took the extraordinary step of airing a response to the Ayers ad, which links Mr. Obama to the former Weather Underground organizer who took credit for a series of non-fatal bombings at the U.S. Capitol and Pentagon during the Vietnam War era. "With all our problems, why is John McCain talking about the 60s, trying to link Barack Obama to radical Bill Ayers?" the Obama ad asks. "McCain knows Obama denounced Ayers' crimes, committed when Obama was just 8 years old."
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need to keep hammering this on him.
Spoke to a woman yesterday who said that she had neevr heard about this and it was republcians who were just all makking it up. When I gave her evidence she was stunned.
Seems the MSM have done a good job of covering it up so we need to hammer this home for weeks
this is not going away!
a chicago black woman called into wgn last night to tell the show that this republican attack on oba mao has no substance and has been disproven.
she said.
Michelle Robinson, in 1988, worked with Bernadine Dhorn at the same law firm in Chicago. It’s largest client was a company headed up by Bill Ayers uncle.
In 1989 Barack Obama went to work there as an intern at the very same law firm.
Dhorn and Ayres have known the Obamas for at least twenty years. They share the same admiration for Alinsky and radical left-wing politics.
O-Bomb-a!
Ayyyyyyyyyeeerrrrrss!
Somewhat detestible?
Detestible?
Very detestible?
A democrat?
> “With all our problems, why is John McCain talking about
> the 60s, trying to link Barack Obama to radical Bill
> Ayers?”
Because Ayers is a TERRORIST and terroism is a valid campaign issue.
> “McCain knows Obama denounced Ayers’ crimes, committed
> when Obama was just 8 years old.”
Ayers has NOT renounced his crimes, but rather has said that he didn’t commit *ENOUGH* terrorism! And this in an interview published in the NY Times on the morning of the destruction of the WTC, accompanied by a photo of Ayers trampling an American flag.
And while Ayers has not renounced his crimes, Obama has not renounced Ayers.
Obama spent 5 years working closely with Ayers wasting a 51 MILLION dollar federal grant on a project that was an ABJECT FAILURE.
THIS IS A CAMPAIGN ISSUE!
IT MUST BE SHOUTED FROM THE ROOFTOPS, if the MSM doesn’t broadcast it.
I think it will stick- and there amy be more to come.
Regardless of what happens with Ayers there’s a significant lesson the McCain campaign MUST heed. This is the Chicago Way and the Saul Alinsky Way. There is an Obama ground game in place from the primary season that is FORMIDABLE.
Manchurian candidates should be more carefully vetted.
Drip...drip...drip
WSJ is watching this developing story and if they print this preview, you KNOW something is coming down the pike!
That's atypical of rank & file dhimmirats - they usually imply that you're lying, your sources are lying, or that there is another explanation.
Live in SW Ohio in the greater Cincinnati area ... saw this ad for the first time 20 minutes ago on local TV. Going to be difficult for BO to dodge this bullet.
Ayers’ Weathermen tried to kill New York State Supreme Court Chief Justice Murtagh and his family on February 21, 1970. Alert neighbors fought the firebomb flames with snow and helped the family escape death. Since then, Ayers has said, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” For his attempted kid-killing, I’d like to kill Ayers and co-terrorist wife Dohrn. I know I shouldn’t, and I know Jesus wouldn’t, but something should be done.
The whole “crmes committed forty years ago” thing is a vile canard. They were still active in the ‘80’s.
That prick, Bill Clinton, pardoned their accomplices.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODk2ZTRmZDIwNWEzOWE2MDNhMTQ0ZWYwYmRiNWZmNDM=
I'm not sure there is any more room left under the bus. But if there is I would advise Bill Ayers to be prepared for his new home.
“very disturbed by [Mr. Ayers’] past and by his refusal to disavow what the did . . . the implications of this for Obama are zero.”
BS. Every friend and mentor of Obama is a leftist radical. Is there a pattern here?
The Ugh-Bummer connection with radical Ayers is concrete and solid...and the decision of stations to not carry the ad is a further indictment!
[ So, just how detestible does someone have to be before Obama decides he shouldn’t associate with the individual? ]
Detestable enough to lower his poll ratings.
And sadly, that is the only “bottom” Obama knows.
I am beginning to feel sorry for the man-child: a scolding wife; miserable friends, etc.
People see Barry's ad and they are going to ask who is this Ayers guy and why was he your friend.
Thanks for posting.
Good research/links/summary about Weather Underground and Obama’s close connections
to Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn on this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069095/posts?q=1&;page=1#1
Do you “Know Enough” about Barack Obama?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m89m0pC_bpY
Obama wasn’t 8 years old though when the Weather Underground killed 2 officers and a guard during the Brinks robbery.
I wonder if any of that missing money ended up bundled into the Annenberg Foundation?
And here we go!
“...while he is “very disturbed by [Mr. Ayers’] past and by his refusal to disavow what the did . . . the implications of this for Obama are zero...”
Really??? I think the opposite it true. Where you have been is how you got where you are, pal! Americans are NOT stupid and DO NOT want this a%$ Clown in the WH... not him and not his coarse, trash-talking, Communist, shrew of a wife.
Americans are still trying to live down the shame of the 8 year long Clinton smear on our national identity... we don’t want to go back to that scenario.
What do Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden have in common?
They both have friends that bombed the Pentagon
My mother who only gets her news from TV and the paper, has heard nothing of this. I sent her an email with a link to the ad and an article. She immediately sent it out to her email friends group. This stuff is getting out slowly and it will sink Obama.
have you all ever looked at the Ayer’s web site?
Take a look at it.
Here we have a Presidential candidate with some of the most corrupt, treasonous, venal and avowed criminal - personal/proffesional connections AND his VP choice who THOUGHT he was ‘clean’. My, my, my.... For shame
Yes, the stations have a real fear they will be bombed by the terrorists, for the same reasons they won't criticize Islam.
IIRC, the client was ComEd, the utility company. It was headed by Ayers father, who talked the law firm into hiring Dohrn even though she could not become a member of the bar because of her criminal record.
Chicago is a cesspool like none other.
Now you/we are getting somewhere, with your excellent question as to where the money went. What did this money actually permit the recipient(s) to do with the funds? Especially, with Ayers past... $100 million dollars (plus) doled out!
Time wise, I’m not sure the connection with the Brinks robbery and the Annenberg Challenge can be made. A little searching will give the time line of both subjects.
Plus, what was Barack Obama able to do with the money? What benefits (tangible and intangible) came his way? What did the recipients actually do with the money?
bump
The Brinks robbery took place in 1981, and the Annenberg Challenge kicked off in 1993.
>>>The Brinks robbery took place in 1981, and the Annenberg Challenge kicked off in 1993.
So? The Annenberg Foundation was established in 1989.
>>>Plus, what was Barack Obama able to do with the money?
The Annenberg Foundation has a searchable database on their website of all that they donate too. QUITE an interesting database too.
>>IIRC, the client was ComEd, the utility company. It was headed by Ayers father
Really? Now it was ConEd that had the NYC blackout a few years ago.
At the time it was being report that squirrels and trees were involved on the Canadian border side; but since, it has been reported by the CIA that it was hackers.
No idea if this is related; but it is an interest connection. I wonder if NYC had to pay any monies to get their power back.
There very well may be :)
The Obama-Ayers Connection goes way, way, back. In fact, Ayers earned his PhD at Columibia University in the 1980’s, Obama’s own Alma Mater, which he attended in the 1980’s, too!
See the following link and go to Global Labor & Politics. The column is dated April 22, 2008, and written by a Ralph Nader supporter. It is called, “Who “sent” Obama?”, and it is chock full of interesting facts.
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-sent-obama.html
Not 100% sure you understood my post.
Dear Cal,
I’m just trying to get as much information about Obama and his radical connections out there as is possible.
He DOES have connection to the very, very liberal Ayers family. Sorry if it seems I dissed you; by no means did I ever mean to insult you.
I used to work for a large, privately held electric utility in the Pacific Northwest. My father was a VP and company officer of same utility. Most utilities keep detailed information about large-scale blackouts close to the vest for security reasons AND to save public face!
If you have any detailed information that hasn’t been made public, I’d LOVE to read the juicy details!
Hugs & kisses -— Satindoll
I didn’t think you dissed me at all Satin. I just couldn’t tell if you understood what I was posting from your response.
Dunno. I think the full name of the Chicago company was Commonwealth Edison. Up in NY is it Consolidated Edison?
I don’t follow your line of questioning... are you saying that the Brinks robbery contributed to the Annenberg Challenge, because if you do, I disagree, and see it as a black hole...
For the record; show me proof where the Annenberg Foundation started in 1993, or sooner, which is still too late to tar the Brinks robbery...
I am not an apologist for these leftists... I simply want to smack them down with irrefutable proof...
Exactly. The relationship between the Barack and Michelle and Dohrn and Ayers goes back much further than any of the four have admitted to.
It has also been much closer (and meaningful) than any have admitted to.
Moreover, there are even more Alinsky ties. The gentleman who hired and supervised Obama as a "community organizer" was one Gerald Hallman -- a disciple of Alinsky.
By the way, I believe the chairman of Con Edison in Chicago was William Ayers' dad, not his uncle.
The Obama campaign's reaction certainly suggests that there is more to come...
We may be about to see the most lop-sided election loss in our history.
>>>>show me proof where the Annenberg Foundation started in 1993
http://www.annenbergfoundation.org/about/
The Annenberg Foundation is a private foundation established in 1989.
>>>are you saying that the Brinks robbery contributed to the Annenberg Challenge,
I’m speculating.
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