Obama Confidante Bill Ayers Confirms Role in Obama Circle

Global Labor and Politics ^ | 11-4-08 | Steve Diamond

[STARWISE]

How about that? No sooner than the voting was finally underway and Bill Ayers surfaces from the Hyde Park underground for...."spontaneous" simultaneous interviews with the Washington Post

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/11/04/bill_ayers_speaks.html

and The New Yorker...

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2008/11/mr-ayerss-neighborhood.html

no doubt part of the rehabilitation effort necessary to enable the Obama confidante

http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/11/ayers-and-obama-in-regular-contact-says.html

open access to the White House.

As might be expected, Ayers attempted to minimize his connection with Obama despite the extensive record and despite the fact that Obama himself told the media that they were in touch as recently as early 2007.

But the New Yorker notes something the Post glossed over:

Ayers says his contacts with "the Obama circle" continued until "his name became part of the campaign maelstrom."

Now the "maelstrom" really only began a few weeks ago when Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin accused Obama of "palling around with terrorists," which indeed was one focus of the interviews today.

So unlike the millions of people that Ayers compared himself to in the interview whom he said would want to get to know Obama better (hey, who can argue with that - we are all wondering who Obama is given his relationship with a former terrorist and lifelong authoritarian and neo-stalinists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn),

**we know now from both Obama and Ayers that their relationship existed and continued into the campaign period itself.

Nonetheless, the reporters avoided probing Ayers on what his role was with the Obama circle.

I have already reported that it was significant and that in fact Ayers is part of a select group that includes only himself and Bernardine Dohrn inside the inner circle, and that the couple advises Obama and his wife Michelle directly and personally.

To remind readers that reporting included a credible source stating, among other things, that Ayers and Dohrn speak regularly with either Obama or his wife and have been involved in "vetting" campaign advisors and potential appointees and that Ayers and Axelrod spoke regarding efforts to prevent access to the records of work Ayers and Obama did together on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995 until 2002.

Since neither Ayers nor Dohrn have formal roles in the campaign organization (beneath them no doubt) they can continue to use that as a means to convince people that they are not involved.

Ayers appears to confirm the structure of his relationship to the campaign when he told The New Yorker:

"I felt from the beginning that the Obama campaign had to run the Obama campaign and I have to run my life."

Now why would someone who was NOT very involved with Obama have to make such a decision? Thus it did not surprise me at all as it did The New Yorker that Ayers was "curiously calm and cheerful" about the way he has been treated in the campaign.

Ayers knew where he stood and knows where he stands now. And so now the battle for the soul of the next Presidency moves to another stage.

(The obsequious non-reporting coming from the Post and the New Yorker only serves to remind how far those two pillars of modern American journalism have fallen from the days when they spoke truth to power. For a reminder of what that really meant to this country watch All The President's Men when you have a chance.)

[STARWISE]

The source has stated that Obama and Ayers have a direct personal relationship that extends back to the 1980s and that there are now close ties between both Michelle and Barack Obama and Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, also a former leader of the Weather Underground. Global Labor believes the source to be highly credible but has not been able to confirm independently the comments made by the source.

The source has said that either Obama himself or his wife Michelle communicate with Ayers or Dohrn on a regular basis, up to “several times a week,” including discussions about the “vetting” of potential advisors to the campaign as well as potential appointments to staff positions in the new administration should Obama win the presidential race.

The source continues to support the Obama candidacy but has expressed serious concern about the influence of what is known in the campaign as the “Ayers camp” on the candidate.

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OK .. so, now we know we've really been played the stooge all along, while the messianic throng has achieved their despicable mission.

If this doesn't call for intense activism on our part to save our country from these thugs, communists and terrorists, I don't know what does.

My stomach is already churning at the image of them in our White House.

Eagles UP!

[STARWISE]

Article links

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Washington Post

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/11/04/bill_ayers_speaks.html

and The New Yorker...

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2008/11/mr-ayerss-neighborhood.html

no doubt part of the rehabilitation effort necessary to enable the Obama confidante

http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/11/ayers-and-obama-in-regular-contact-says.html

[mnehring]

Bump.
Surprised- No
Pissed- Yep
Laughing at the old guy in the cartoon character shirt- You Betcha!

[sodpoodle]

******And so now the battle for the soul of the next Presidency moves to another stage.*****

Ain’t no soul there.....moving on............

[BigFinn]

And McCain called him a “washed up terrorist”. Anybody that couldn’t see that relationship is just plain blind. Ayers just changed the method... quiet infiltration. Now he is a mentor to the POTUS.

[LottieDah]

Do you think the Kool-Aid drinkers care about Obama’s connection to Bill Ayers. They were foaming at the mouth that the elder Bush was on the same board of directors as Osama Bin Laden’s father(the father who disowned him by the way). Hypocrits.

[AmericanGirlRising]

Root out supporters of Bill Ayers where your kids go to school, where you pay alumni dues, and in state institutions where you pay taxes: http://redgirlrising.blogdns.net/educators-in-support-of-ayers/

[Maverick68]

If it is shown to be true that he is indeed in direct contact with a known terrorist and taking advice from him, I will say the Obama Presidency could be in trouble. I will not say out loud what many of us are thinking...

[WellyP]

Better lock ‘n load! This could get very rough!

[AmericanGirlRising]

Listen, McCain has always been part of the problem. I campaigned for him because he was a better choice than Obama, but McCain’s brand of moderate/centrist garbage is exactly why we’re in this position today. There is no place for him and his ilk in the New Republican Party.

[mnehring]

Not the Kool-Aid drinkers obviously, but we may be able to bring some weak-kneed ‘right’ folks back under the fold.. Also, we need to collect anything and everything we can that shows and highlights The Messiah’s deceptions.

[AmericanGirlRising]

It’s not the Obama kool-aid drinkers we want to understand what’s happened here. It’s the uninformed voters for Obama that don’t take the time to understand the implications of a friend of Bill Ayers being POTUS. We have to reach them with the message of conservatism and freedom. And we have to start today.

[MrB]

OK, now would it be OK for me to punch someone in the mouth when they deny this connection?

[IrishCatholic]

Not bad for just some guy in the neighborhood.
William Ayers Secretary of Education.....strike that....Reeducation.

[STARWISE]

~~ Please get this out to Hannity, Rush, Levin, Megyn, O'Reilly, Greta PING!!

[thesearethetimes...]

The man behind the man.

Bump.

[FreedomProtector]

Thanks for posting.

[sonic109]

Our only hope is to organize massive , very very aggressive protest. We must adopt the tactics of the far left , become agitators, in their face. We have to be on the news every night and fight every single move Obama makes. But we wont, we;ll sit here and bitch to each other on FR and preach to the choir.

[wally-balls]

1329 ______________ Ave? Street? Road???????

[The Sons of Liberty]

This is the kind of information we need to circulate, because the MSM will not. This is important so 0bama will not be re-elected, if we still have a Country and if der Fuhrer allows elections.