Obama Once Visited '60s Radicals (Weather Underground Terrorists)

In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.

Now, as Obama runs for president, what two guests recall as an unremarkable gathering on the road to a minor elected office stands as a symbol of how swiftly he has risen from a man in the Hyde Park left to one closing in fast on the Democratic nomination for president.

“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.”

Obama’s connections to Ayers and Dorhn have been noted in some fleeting news coverage in the past. But the visit by Obama to their home — part of a campaign courtship — reflects more extensive interaction than has been previously reported.

Neither Ayers nor the Obama campaign would describe the relationship between the two men. Dr. Young described Obama and Ayers as “friends,” but there’s no evidence their relationship is more than the casual friendship of two men who occupy overlapping Chicago political circles and who served together on the board of a Chicago foundation.

But Obama’s relationship with Ayers is an especially vivid milepost on his rise, in record time, from a local official who unabashedly reflected a very liberal district to the leader of national movement based largely on the claim that he can transcend ideological divides.

In one sense, Obama’s journey toward the cultural and political center is not unusual among national politicians. But its velocity is.

Politicians of an earlier generation had their own relationships with figures now far to their left. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for instance, interned at a radical San Francisco law firm while in law school.

On the other side of the political spectrum, many in the generation before hers shifted dramatically on civil rights. John McCain voted against creating a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and later called that a mistake.

The relationship with Ayers gives context to his recent past in Hyde Park politics. It’s milieu in which a former violent radical was a stalwart of the local scene, not especially controversial.

It’s also a scene whose liberal ideological features — while taken for granted by the Chicago press corps that knows Obama best — provides a jarring contrast with Obama’s current, anti-ideological stance. This contrast between past and present — not least the Ayers connection — is virtually certain to be a subject Republican operatives will warm to if Obama is the Democratic nominee.

The tension between the present and recent Chicago past is also evident in some of his positions on major national issues. Many national politicians, including Clinton, have moved toward the center over time. But Obama’s transitions are still quite fresh.

A questionnaire from his 1996 campaign indicated more blanket opposition to the death penalty, and support of abortion rights, than he currently espouses. He spoke in support of single-payer health care as recently as 2003.

Like many of the most extreme figures from the 1960s Ayers and Dohrn are ambiguous figures in American life.

They disappeared in 1970, after a bomb — designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally destroyed a Greenwich Village townhouse, and turned themselves into authorities in 1980. They were never prosecuted for their involvement with the 25 bombings the Weather Underground claimed; charges were dropped because of improper FBI surveillance.

Both have written and spoken at length about their pasts, and today he is an advocate for progressive education and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; she’s an associate professor of law at Northwestern University.

But — unlike some other fringe figures of the era — they’re also flatly unrepentant about the bombings they committed in the name of ending the war, defending them on the grounds that they killed no one, except, accidentally, their own members.

Dohrn, however, was jailed for less than a year for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating other Weather Underground members’ robbery of a Brinks truck, in which a guard and two New York State Troopers were killed.

“I don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do enough,” Ayers told the New York Times in 2001.

BOOOOM!!!!

Obama—>Rezko—>Auchi—>SADDAM HUSSEIN

Obama got his money from Rezko, who got his 3.5 Million from Auchi.

-Rezko described his friendship with Auchi as “close”

-Nadhmi Auchi is an Iraqi-born billionaire who was charged along with Saddam Hussein for conspiring to assassinate Prime minister (president) Abdul Karim Qasim and stood trial in 1959. (Auchi gave fellow Baath Party members machine guns from his home for Saddam Hussein.)

-Auchi also financially backed Saddam Hussein’s plan for a pipeline from Iraq to Saudi Arabia

-Auchi protected secret money for Saddam Hussein AND Muammar al-Gaddafi.

(Remember, Obama’s Trinity church Pastor Wright went with Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan in 1993 to visit Libyan socialist leader Gadaffi.)

-Raila Odinga was also financially backed by Muammar al-Gaddafi. Raila Odinga is Obama’s cousin:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7176683.stm

***Obama’s cousin Raila Odinga who just became co-President of Kenya this week (after an estimated 1,000 Christians were killed by fire and macheted by Muslims). Obama is said to be close to Raila Odinga, calling him several times a day, and even taking a break to call him during New Hampshire primary.

**Odinga signed a secret pact with Muslim jihadists who were to ethnically cleanse Chritians. He wants to introduce Sharia law to a western embracing, mainly Christian Kenya!

*Obama’s cousin Raila Odinga was educated in communist E. Germany, and his father, Oginga Odinga led the communist oppostion during the Cold War.

*Why does Raila Odinga use Obama’s exact same campaign slogan: CHANGE....Vote for CHANGE: Look at his website:

http://www.raila07.com/

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Weather Underground: Domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn!!

Besides Rezko, Rashid Khalidi a Columbia University Professor also held a fundraiser for Obama, Rashid Khalidi serves on the board of the non-profit organization that Bill Ayers and Barack Obama were paid directors of.

This organization granted funding to a controversial Arab group that is pro-Palestine and deeply resentful of Israel. They intensely support immigration reform and licenses and education to illegal aliens (but for which illegal aliens in mind?). Khalidi has been connected to numerous organizations, including: Palestinian News Agency, (PNA) and PLO, the Palestinian Liberation organization.

This Woods Fund, that Barack Obama and Bill Ayers were directors of raised money for AAAN: Arab American Action Network.
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Obama and Bill Ayers don’t just have just that in common, but Bill Ayers also contributed to Obama’s current campaign, and Obama has been reported to visit with Bill in his home on numerous occasions and Bill has even been referred to as a mentor of Barack’s.

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