Obama's Foul Weather Friends [Ayers, Dohrn given rings made of US planes shot down by N.Vietnamese]

American Thinker ^ | September 16, 2008 | Scott Swett and Roger Canfield

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Excerpt...

After returning from Cuba, Dohrn and others met with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong representatives in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss antiwar strategy on US campuses. Speaking a few days later at an assembly of revolutionary student movements at Columbia University, Dohrn reported that the Vietnamese communists she met in Budapest were working with US GIs in Saigon, attempting to obtain military information.

As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he "left the room to cry." He said, "I realized...America was an evil... and that I was... living inside the belly of the beast...."

In January 1969, at the request of the Cubans and the Vietnamese, Dohrn assembled another SDS delegation to travel to Havana to plan what the Chicago Sun-Times called an "antiwar campaign during an eight-day seminar with representatives of Hanoi and the Viet Cong."

Much more at:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obamas_foul_weather_friends.html

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From RushLimbaugh.com, September 17, 2008
Story #1: Ayers Has N. Vietnamese Ring Made from US Planes

RUSH: By the way, I learned something today about these two -- Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. In the late sixties, both were presented rings from the North Vietnamese. Ayers got his in Canada. I forget where Bernardine Dohrn got hers, but the rings were made from US aircraft shot down by the North Vietnamese.

You think Jane Fonda was bad, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, the mentors of Barack Obama, received rings for their anti-American work! And, in fact, the Cubans allowed Bernardine Dohrn to establish a Students for Democrat Society operation based out of Cuba. So about these rings, for their fingers, made from US aircraft shot down over North Vietnam -- when Bill Ayers received his ring from the North Vietnamese in Canada, he had to leave the room in tears. He was so moved by the gesture, he said that he realized he was living in evil -- the United States -- and that he was in the belly of the beast. It wasn't just 40 years ago that Bill Ayers tried to blow up some buildings. It wasn't just 40 years ago that he was moved to tears with a gift of a ring from the North Vietnamese. And yet, Obama says, "Well, you can't hold a guy engaging in this stuff 40 years ago." Ayers still has the same mind-set about his country. These people are desperate.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_091608/content/01125104.guest.html

[mkjessup]

GREAT catch FRiend, this needs to be passed along far and wide, and of course we can be sure that Charlie Gibson will ask 0bama about his America-hating friends and whether or not they still have these oh-so-special rings of theirs?

[cue crickets chirping]

[petercooper]

bttt

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Ping!

[andy58-in-nh]

Can we give them both a rope that was made from hemp crafted by American POW’s in Vietnam?

[VR-21]

"Can we give them both a rope that was made from hemp crafted by American POW’s in Vietnam?"

Better yet, give them "the rope" the NV used on American POWs.

[andy58-in-nh]

Either way, I’ll be happy to see them swing.

[Interesting Times]

Very nice. Thanks...

[reagan_fanatic]

He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he "left the room to cry." He said, "I realized...America was an evil... and that I was... living inside the belly of the beast...."

I can't post what I'm thinking right now. I need to go calm down somewhere for awhile.

[Cobra64]

Ummm... Does anyone think that the RNC will bring this to light? It would make a great campaign ad.

A bomb going off, photos of Ayers and Dohrn, Obama shaking hands with these two....

Closing caption: "Is this the change America wants? You're next."

[Cobra64]

Can we give them both a rope that was made from hemp crafted by American POW’s in Vietnam?

They think alike. Just substitute different faces.

[VR-21]

"Either way, I’ll be happy to see them swing."

So would I. It makes my guts burn to know what Ayers, Dohrn and their ilk did to our country, and to see what splendid lives they now live in it. Heaven help us if their sock puppet gets into the White House, unfettered by a Congress full of people who are the ideological and moral equivalent of Ayers and Dohrn.

[Sisku Hanne]

Reading this, I’m also moved to tears... and the urge to hurl.

[Dream Warrior]

These folks are very dangerous and are close friends of 0bama. In fact Michell 0bama and Dorhn both work at the Sydney Auston (sp) law firm which later hired Barack. William Ayers got Barack his job on the Chicago Annenburg Challenge. Obama was also on a committee with Ayers father before he said Ayers was just a casual acquaintance because the lived in the same neighborhood.

All these folks are student of Saul Alinsky an known communists.

Wake up folks, this is very serious, 0bama must be defeated. Start your research now. Go to google and look up Alinsky. 0bama actually taught some ACORN activists the lessons of Alinsky. Bad stuff.

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From Investor's Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008:

"Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

One of Ayer's descriptions for a course called 'Improving Learning Environments' says prospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.

The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama's relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.'..."

Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845

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[Obama] is named Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge founded by Bill Ayers
(article typo has Ayers instead of Obama)

In late 1993, Bill Ayers, now an associate professor of education at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus, organized a team to put together a grant proposal to secure nearly $50 million from the Annenberg Challenge. The money was to be used by Ayers and co. to bolster the radical Local School Councils reform project that Ayers and Obama had championed back in 1988 through the ABCs.

The grant application was successful and in early 1995 Barack Obama was named chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Ayers was named co-chair of the Challenge’s operative and strategic body, the Chicago School Reform Collaborative. Ayers and Obama work together for the next five years on raising an additional $60 million in matching money from local foundations and corporations and using the money to intervene in the governance of the Chicago public schools.

The Challenge through a multi-million dollar Leadership Development Initiative intervened in the School Council elections in the middle of what was known as the Chicago School Wars. At the same time Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was pushing, successfully, to gut the power of the Councils.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/12/the-obama-ayers-top-ten-highlights-of-the-20-year-obama-ayers-connection/

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"The Small Schools Workshop was founded in 1991 at the University of Illinois at Chicago to provide support for teachers who were trying to create new smaller learning environments. Its director is Michael Klonsky, a former professor of education at UIC."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Schools_Workshop

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Some background on Bill Ayers' SDS comrade, Michael Klonsky
(Chicago Annenberg Challenge-related)

"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.

When the crazy left of the 70s died in the 80s, Klonsky went to graduate school in education in Florida and then moved to Chicago.

While driving a cab there he [Michael Klonsky] was recruited by his old friend Bill Ayers to head up a new project called the Small Schools Workshop in 1991. It’s offices were in the Department of Education building at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus where Ayers taught.

In 1995 the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge headed by Ayers and Obama gave the Workshop a grant of $175,000.

The Annenberg Challenge also had its office space in the same building as Ayers Department and the Workshop, rent free courtesy of the University.

In 2008 Klonsky ran a blog on the official Obama campaign website on education policy and “social justice” teaching. When discussion of the Klonsky blog emerged in the blogosphere, it was promptly shut down by the campaign and all of the posts made by Klonsky were removed from the site."

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/12/the-obama-ayers-top-ten-highlights-of-the-20-year-obama-ayers-connection/

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In 1977, the October League was reorganized as the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) [again, not Communist Party USA (CPUSA) -ETL] and former SDS activist Michael Klonsky became party chairman. Also in 1977, Klonsky traveled to China and the CPML was recognized by the Chinese Communist Party as its official sister party in America.

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In January 1981, Michael Klonsky resigned as party chairman, and the CPML disbanded that same year.

The previous Red Encyclopedia description of the CPML was incorrectly combined with that of the Communist Party USA (Marxist-Leninist).

http://reds.linefeed.org/past.html

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"This is a guy [Bill Ayers] who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis."

Source: ABC News - Transcript: Obama and Clinton Debate, April 16, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/DemocraticDebate/Story?id=4670271&page=2

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Bill Ayers TODAY (April 6, 2008), from his own red communist star-headed website, begging to debate communism vs capitalism with Sean Hannity and STILL calling for revolution!

"Imperialism. I’m against it, and if Sean Hannity and others were honest, this is the ground they would fight me on. Capitalism played its role historically and is exhausted as a force for progress: built on exploitation, theft, conquest, war, and racism, capitalism and imperialism must be defeated and a world revolution—a revolution against war and racism and materialism, a revolution based on human solidarity and love, cooperation and the common good —must win.

We begin by releasing our most hopeful dreams and our most radical imaginations: a better world is both possible and necessary.

Source: Bill Ayers' own website:
http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/page/2/

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"a better world is both possible and necessary"?

Looks to me like Bill Ayers stole (or borrowed) this phrase from Bob Avakian, chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Both the Weather Underground and RCP have roots in the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organization.

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"The following is an excerpt from an historic talk by Chairman Bob Avakian, soon to be available on video and DVD from Three Q Productions-REVOLUTION: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About. This talk, delivered in 2003, followed by questions and answers, is a wide- ranging revolutionary journey, covering many topics."
http://rwor.org/a/1238/introbaspeech.htm

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Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Revolution #63, October 1, 2006

Interview with Bill Ayers:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html

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Much more on the ObamaRat-commie connections at my FR Profile/Home page. Everything there is linked directly to its source. I've now added within-page links and a 'clickable' table of contents which makes it easy to hop around to the various sections:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl

[andy58-in-nh]

Heaven help us, is right. The idea of real, live America-haters being so close to control of this country and its military is frightening. The damage they could - and I believe, would - do is incalculable.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Just the idea that Øbama has a national stage is disgusting. At the most he should be teaching some worthless "studies" class.

[andy58-in-nh]

If Obama were possessed of the same level of intelligence and ability, but a fairer complexion, he would likely be an assistant professor of comparative cultural studies at East Bumfork Community College.

[nutmeg]

Excellent, FRiend... I will ping everyone on my lists here...

[nutmeg]

Thanks for starting this thread... I’ll ping more FRiends here...