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This is Bernardine Dohrn. I’m going to read A DECLARATION OF A STATE OF WAR. This is the first communication from the Weatherman underground. All over the world, people fighting Amerikan imperialism look to Amerika’s youth to use our strategic position behind enemy lines to join forces in the destruction of the empire. Black people have been fighting almost alone for years. We’ve known that our job is to lead white kids into armed revolution. We never intended to spend the next five or twenty-five years of our lives in jail. Ever since SDS became revolutionary, we’ve been trying to...

October 6, 2008 KEEP A CLEAN NOSE, WATCH THE PLAIN CLOTHES Previous power-being-spoken-truth-to-by-William-Ayers here. P.S. CNN is covering Ayers. As opposed to covering for him. I know, I can hardly believe it either. It's fun to watch Anderson Cooper sputter and stammer at the reporter, though, trying to come up with a plausible reason this isn't so bad.

The mainstream media are currently excusing Barack Obama's friendship with unrepentant terrorist, Bill Ayers, in a couple of ways. They either claim that Ayers was just a "neighborhood friend" of Obama and/or that Ayers was merely some benign 60s radical while conveniently avoiding mention of his terrorist activities in the Weather Underground. The first point that Ayers was just some neighborhood friend of Obama is undercut by the working relationship between the two as we saw in yesterday's NewsBusters blog by Clay Waters quoting Ed Morrissey of Hot Air: ...Obama worked as CEO of the project that Ayers helped found,...

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's top political adviser said today Obama "didn't know the history" of unrepentant bomber William Ayers' activities in the violent Weather Underground movement when the candidate attended a political event at Ayers' home in 1995. "When he went he certainly didn't know the history," chief Obama strategist David Axelrod told CNN - arguing for the first time since the story surfaced early this year that Obama was unaware of Ayers' past. "There's no evidence that they're close," Axelrod added. "There's no evidence that Obama in any way subscribed to any of Ayers' views. And Obama's been very...

<p>Sarah Palin is criticizing Barack Obama's ties to his incendiary former pastor and a 1960s-era radical.</p> <p>In an interview in The New York Times published Monday, Palin spoke about Obama's relationship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who made anti-American comments -- even though John McCain had said talk of Wright was off limits.</p>

Bill Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, returned from summer vacation to find a letter from colleagues he’d worked with for decades. They told him about a conference on progressive education they were planning for the spring, and at the same time informed him that he would not be welcome to it! Professor Ayers is the author of Teaching Toward Freedom and many other books, anthologies, and essays on progressive education that have appeared in many journals, including Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, Rethinking Schools,...

I was trying to explain to a friend of mine why the Leftist media has not come out about Bill Ayers, and is defending Obama. I explained very clearly, they believe what Bill Ayers did is a good thing. Well, now there is a list of over 600 University Professors in support of Ayers. Read the list and see where your money is going for your child's education.

Prepare yourself for a shock — the New York Times article on Barack Obama’s associations with former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers did not tell the whole story: NY Times Confirms Ayers’ Role in Obama Appointment as Chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. I can easily understand why some readers may have become confused by the explosion of stories today on the Obama/Ayers relationship. The partial story of the Ayers/Obama relationship told by the New York Times today is collapsing of its own weight but has likely added to the confusion. Since I am one of the “bloggers” referred to...

A great video with 1970’s news footage of these communist punk terrorists making their revolutionary plans known and bragging about their atrocities. Then it switches to some modern interviews and coverage of the ties between Obama and Ayers. At the end is an interview Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn gave to Connie Chung, where they repeat on camera that they wish they had done more damage. That interview was done during the time Obama was associated with Ayers.

The Associated Press has long been a bastion of liberal bias. But has it now sunk to the level of a left-wing blog in the throes of a severe bout of Palin Derangement Syndrome? Yes, suggests the Morning Joe folks. In a rare bit of unanimity, the panel condemned and ridiculed AP for its "analysis" item, "Palin's words carry racial tinge." According to Douglass K. Daniel, the item's author, Palin's criticism of Barack Obama for his association with Ayers somehow carries "a racially tinged subtext." See Warner Todd Huston's earlier discussion here. Mika Brzezinski questioned the strategic wisdom of the...

Sen. Barack Obama's website still insists that unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers is just a "mainstream" college professor. Ironically, that whopper appears in a section of the site labelled "Fact Check" and as a quote attributed to the Associated Press. Don't be surprised if it is scrubbed from the website soon. I recommend that one for caching just in case... Millions of mainstream Americans will be at a loss to see how these remarks, delivered by Ayers to the 2006 World Education Forum in Caracas, Venezuela, are in any way consistent with their own views: Capitalism promotes racism and militarism...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A allegation by Republican U.S. vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin that Barack Obama has ties with terrorists is "offensive," an Obama spokesman says. Palin, governor of Alaska and running mate of Republican U.S. presidential nominee John McCain, Saturday accused Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois and McCain's Democratic opponent, of associating "with terrorists who targeted our own country." It was an apparent reference to Obama's dealings with University of Illinois at Chicago Professor William Ayers, who in 1969 co-founded the militant anti-Vietnam War group Weather Underground. Obama campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan told CNN Palin's comments...

It's a contender, anyway: the Associated Press claims that Sarah Palin's criticism of Barack Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers was racist!

Just a friendly reminder of the definition of Unrepentant. un·re·pent·ant (adj): Having or exhibiting no remorse. For the moonbats, that means he not sorry. Bill Ayers told the New York Times on September 11, 2001. ''I don't regret setting bombs, I feel we didn't do enough. He writes that he participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, the Pentagon in 1972. . . . Mr. Ayers, who in 1970 was said to have summed up the Weatherman philosophy as: ''Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars...

Barack Obama was much older than 8 when William Ayers was photographed stepping on a US flag in 2001, for an article in which Ayers said he had “No Regrets” for his violent actions in the Weather Underground. In fact, at the same time Ayers was in a Chicago alley desecrating the flag, he and Barack Obama were serving on the board of the Woods Fund together: PolitiFact | Obama served on board with Ayers. Deborah Harrington, president of the Woods Fund, a philanthropic organization in Chicago, said Obama was a director from 1994 through 2001. That overlaps Ayers’ time...

SEDONA, Ariz. — Stepping up the Republican ticket’s attacks on Senator Barack Obama, Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday seized on a report about Mr. Obama’s relationship with a former 1960s radical to accuse him of “palling around with terrorists.” “This is not a man who sees America as you see it, and how I see America,” Ms. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, said in Colorado, according to a pool report. “We see America as the greatest force for good in this world. If we can be that beacon of light and hope for others who seek freedom and democracy and...

CNN made a special late night call to Paul Schneider at home and asked if the Ayers controversey is a legitimate issue. Schneider kept saying it was "nothing new" (not answering the question) and then quickly mentioned that Ayers does "live in Barack Obama's neighborhood". After that it was all about political charges becoming more severe closer to an election. They thanked Schneider for taking their call. I swear you could hear the fear in Schneider's voice. Of course he knew he wasn't answering the question, and that the controversy over Ayers has nothing to do with just living in...

Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes will discuss the close relationship between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi - Palestinian supporter and the professor at Columbia University - on a special broadcast of "Hannity's America" which will air tomorrow night at 9:00 PM eastern time. Khalidi is a former professor at the University of Illinois and was a close friend of Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. At a farewell dinner for Khalidi before he took the Columbia job, Obama 's speech was filled with glowing praise for his friend, including references to the many meals they had shared. He thanked Khalidi...

JERUSALEM – The board of a nonprofit organization on which Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe" and supports intense immigration reform, including providing drivers licenses and education to illegal aliens. The co-founder of the Arab group in question, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, also has held a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it...

<p>The political word today is that the Republicans will return to personal attacks on Obama and Biden to draw attention away from McCain's erratic performance during the days before the passage of the Great Rescue/Bailout/U.S.-as-Sweden bill. We are supposedly to hear again about the Reverend Wright, the unreverend Tony Lezko, and William Ayers, the unrepentent Weatherman.</p>

For those who have been following mainstream media reporting on the scandalous relationship between Democratic presidential nominee Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, tonight marks a milestone in the reporting by the Associated Press.The AP, in an updated article about Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin calling out Obama and Ayers, finally reported that Weather Underground bombings killed people.For months since the story first broke in the Politico, the AP has made a point of saying that the Weather Underground bombings were 'non-fatal.' The AP repeats that in tonight's story, in reference to...

"This is not a man who sees America as you see it and as I see America," Palin said today. "We see America as the greatest force for good in this world. If we can be that beacon of light and hope for others who seek freedom and democracy and can live in a country that would allow intolerance in the equal rights that again our military men and women fight for and die for, for all of us." She then continued, "Our opponent though is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around...

Apparently Stanley Kurtz has gotten into the Annenberg files.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the FBI is looking into whether or not former Obama pal Tony Rezko -- convicted in June of attempted extortion, mail and wire fraud, and aiding and abetting bribery -- paid for all or part of $90,000 worth work on the Northwest Side Chicago home of Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Rezko apparently liked helping out his politician pals on their real estate transactions. As you may recall, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Rezko's wife, Rita, bought adjacent properties in a controversial and complicated series of real estate transactions, one of which Obama later called "boneheaded" because...

Pegged to a Times story that adds nothing to the theory that Obama and Bill Ayers were particularly close, the McCain camp is focusing on that association again today, in an attempt to move the conversation beyond the economic issues on which Obama looks to spend the last month of the race. Palin hit Obama a bit harder on this than McCain has in the past. "There's been a lot of interest in what I read lately. Well, I was reading my copy of today’s New York Times and I was really interested to read about Barack’s friends from Chicago....

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is accusing Democrat Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists" for his association with a former 1960s radical. Palin was referring to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. The group took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol four decades ago.

WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain and his Republican allies are readying a newly aggressive assault on Sen. Barack Obama's character, believing that to win in November they must shift the conversation back to questions about the Democrat's judgment, honesty and personal associations. With just a month to go until Election Day, McCain's team has decided that its emphasis on the senator's biography as a war hero, experienced lawmaker and straight-talking maverick is insufficient to close a growing gap with Obama.

Was Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers really just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood," ... Barack Obama and the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers have worked closely together on education reform since 1995, and possibly since 1987. Obama has obfuscated and minimized this association in his public statements and on his website. Why the cover-up? It’s becoming known as the Annenberg Challenge cover-up ... Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an education reform group co-founded by Bill Ayers in 1995 and chaired by Barack Obama from 1995 to 1999. Bill Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a violent radical student group...

JERUSALEM – "Senator Barack Obama is hiding mediocre grades." "He's covering up his acceptance into Harvard Law School utilizing a boost from an affirmative action program." "The presidential candidate is disguising his involvement in radical black organizations or that he first met Weathermen terrorist Bill Ayers much earlier than he's publicly admitted." These are just a few of the explanations from newspaper editorials, pundits and bloggers as to why Obama refuses to release his undergraduate records and has disclosed almost nothing about his days at Columbia University. Obama attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years before transferring to...

Obama supporter Bill Ayers speaks about his terrorist activities.

In the early part of 1995, Vartan Gregorian, the president of Brown, flew to Chicago to meet with the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school reform initiative to which he had just awarded $49 million of a large gift he had helped arrange. When he arrived, the board was excited to introduce the man it had selected to be its first president - a young lawyer named Barack Obama.

The Obama Campaign today continued its strategy of denial and obfuscation when it comes to burying the close and long-standing political alliance between their candidate and the former terrorist Bill Ayers. The latest episode emerged in response to an article by conservative writer Stanley Kurtz in the Wall Street Journal on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Kurtz argues, as I have, that it is clear to anyone who pays a moment's attention to the Challenge that Ayers recruited Obama to serve on and chair the board of the Challenge. But logic fails the Obama campaign. They issued a statement in response...

How exactly did Barack Obama pay for his Harvard Law School education? The way the Obama campaign has answered the question was simply hard work and student loans. But new questions have been raised about Obama’s student loans and Obama’s ties to a radical Muslim activist who reportedly was raising money for Obama’s Harvard studies during the years 1988 to 1991. The allegations first surfaced in late March, when former Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton told a New York cable channel that a former business partner who was “raising money” for Obama had approached him in 1988 to help Obama...

New evidence strongly suggests that Barack Obama has been less than forthcoming about the role that unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers may have played in choosing him to lead the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). Through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, I have obtained an e-mail message from former CAC executive director, Ken Rolling, to Warren Chapman and Anne Hallett, two of CAC’s three co-founders. Bill Ayers was the third founder. In Rolling’s message, sent the morning after I first requested access to CAC records housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), he admits to avoiding...

Stanley Kurtz has been investigating the Chicago Annenberg Challenge files in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois-Chicago Circle, and he has reported on his results in the Wall Street Journal. I have written before on Ayers, the unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist bomber, who claims to have set bombs at the U.S. Capitol, and Kurtz notes that Obama has tried to play down his long and close association with Ayers. Ayers was the cofounder of the CAC, and Obama was chairman of the board; Kurtz makes it clear that Obama worked more closely with Ayers than previously...

<p>AURORA (MyFOXColorado.com) - An 11-year-old in Aurora says his first amendment rights are being trampled after he was suspended for wearing a homemade shirt that reads "Obama is a terrorist's best friend."</p> <p>The fifth grader at Aurora Frontier K-8 School wore it on a day when students were asked to wear red, white and blue to show their patriotism.</p>

<p>AURORA (MyFOXColorado.com) - An 11-year-old in Aurora says his first amendment rights are being trampled after he was suspended for wearing a homemade shirt that reads "Obama is a terrorist's best friend."</p> <p>The fifth grader at Aurora Frontier K-8 School wore it on a day when students were asked to wear red, white and blue to show their patriotism.</p>

Who "sent" Obama? See June 19, 2008 post: That "guy who lives in my neighborhood" for more detail on Ayers-Obama relationship. Updated May 24, 2008: former Sidley managing partner tells Chicago Tribune he hired Bernardine Dohrn as favor to Bill Ayers' father Thomas Ayers. Updated May 18, 2008 with information from Nell Minow, daughter of Obama mentor Newton Minow and sister of Obama's Harvard professor, Martha Minow. Updated May 3, 2008: Ken Rolling, first Executive Director of the Annenberg Challenge, had been a program officer of the Woods Fund; Republican activist claims Ayers is "advisor" to Barack Obama. In...

Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists. ... In works like "City Kids, City Teachers" and "Teaching the Personal and the Political," Mr. Ayers wrote that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression. His preferred alternative? "I'm a radical, Leftist, small 'c' communist," Mr. Ayers...

To his credit Ben Smith at Politico.com has been one of the few who senses, correctly, that the MSM is ignoring the deeper relationship between Obama and Ayers. But why does he ignore the readily available evidence that makes clear that the Obama campaign is misleading American voters on this issue? (The campaign and Obama seem to be at odds on this issue. Obama himself now admits he saw Ayers - that "guy from my neighborhood" - a year and a half ago, just as his presidential campaign was getting underway. Perhaps they were both out walking their dogs? And...

Fugitive criminals Bernardine Dohrn and William Ayers' leadership role in bombings and killings should have put them both in jail. Dohrn's photo adorned post office walls from 1970-73 on the FBI's Most Wanted List. Dohrn and Ayers are enemies of America; they say they are proud of all their radical terrorist activities until today and that they should have carried out even more. Amid the great deal of information in these wiki links, it is interesting to learn how these folks got "legitimate" jobs. Obama and Ayers also worked together handling and directing big grant money for a failed program...

In 1995 former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn helped launch Barack Obama's political career at a small function in their Chicago home. Bill Ayres also hired Obama to head the Annanberg Challenge, a $50 million fund which enabled Obama to fund organisations which could enhance his political career. Later Ayres worked with Obama on the board of the Woods Fund, together doling out millions to leftist causes. Obama has consistently tried to minimise his relationship with Ayres and Dohrn. The couple themselves, seem intent on maintaining a low profile-until at least after the election. Both parties realise...

Editor's note: This is the final installment of a three-part analysis of Barack Obama's "Dreams From My Father." Read Part 1, "Bill Ayers' motive for penning memoir." Read Part 2, "Deconstructing the text." On several occasions, I have gotten calls from a publisher to rescue a book. Last year, for instance, the publishers of Bill Cosby's book, "Come On People," written with Dr. Alvin Poussaint, needed some major help, and I was brought in to provide it. Although the project was difficult and expensive, the publishers had a vested interest in seeing that this book came out on time and...

Thomas G Ayers, 1915-2007 **SNIP** Thomas G. Ayers, a longtime civic and business leader, had a vision for Chicago's urban landscape and its minority communities. **SNIP** William Ayers, separated from his family during 11 years as a federal fugitive, said his father did not turn his back on him. "He understood more than most the anger and frustration young people felt about that endless war," said Ayers. "He really admired and loved all of his kids." **SNIP** He served on many boards, including that of G.D. Searle, Chicago Pacific Corp., Zenith Corp., Northwest Industries, First National Bank of Chicago and...

I have seen some factcheck.org reports on McCain ads that just appeared to me to be superficial and outwardly wrong. Out of curiosity I went to their web site and under "About" looked at some of the biographies of the staffers. Seems they like to hire some very politically active interns from the left and throw in a couple of RINO's to make it appear balanced. This makes me wonder about the politics of the rest of the staff.

Of course we all know that it's absolutely wrong and mean-spirited to suggest that anyone on the left could conceivably be unpatriotic [though an exception might be made for unrepentant terrorist friends of Barack Obama who accept from Vietnamese communists rings made from downed US planes.] So while we won't be using the u-word here, two recent MSNBC shows offer a remarkable contrast. Compare and contrast Chris Matthews' giddy reaction to news of difficulties in the markets with Mika Brzezinski's gloom in begrudgingly discussing the Iraq surge's success. View the video here.

Barack Obama previously admitted that terrorist Bill Ayers launched his career. Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn made headlines in Venezuela in 2005. (Flickr) Today it was reported that not only were terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn cavorting with America's enemies during wartime, but they were given rings from the North Vietnamese made from US planes shot down over Vietnam.Scott Swett and Roger Canfield have this shocking report today at American Thinker: Even before Weatherman began its notorious bombing campaign, the group's future leaders had formed relationships with others who shared their hatred for "Amerikkka." Bernadine Dohrn made...

The lack of media interest in the role of former domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn in Democratic nominee Barack Obama's political ascent in Chicago is one of the most remarkable aspects of the 2008 presidential campaign.  When the question is raised at all, reporters are quick to repeat Sen. Obama's claim that his relationship with the two former bomb-makers was fleeting and casual.  Some cite Chicago mayor Richard Daley's defense of Ayers as a "distinguished professor of education" and "a valued member of the Chicago community."  Why then should there be cause for concern?     Weatherman: bombs, rage and...

Why won't Barack Obama release his college transcripts? What secrets is he hiding? Affirmative action? Poor grades? Suspect courses? Obama owes the American people a detailed explanation and document dump. Martin says there is a "black hole" in Obama's life that needs to be explained. Barack Obama and William Ayers: PART TWO The mysterious Mr. Obama BARACK OBAMA AND WILLIAM AYERS: DID THEY MEET AT COLUMBIA? WHY THE SECRECY ABOUT OBAMA'S COLLEGE RECORDS? Barack Obama had the wrong calling. Instead of being a "community organizer" he should have joined the CIA. Obama knows how to cover his tracks. He could...

Barack Obama was interviewed by Bill O'Reilly last week. BARACK OBAMA: ...on this Ayers thing, which you've been hyping, Bill. O'REILLY: Not that much. BARACK OBAMA: This guy did something despicable forty years ago. O'REILLY: Despicable last week. He said he didn't do enough bombing. That's last week. BARACK OBAMA: Here's a guy that does something despicable when I'm eight years old. Alright? I come to Chicago. He's working with Mayor Richard Daley, not known to be a radical. So, he and I know each other as a consequence of work he's doing on education. That is not an...