The Ayers-Dohrn 2007 Audio

Townhall.com ^ | 4/23/08 | Hugh Hewitt

[LJayne]

Mark Steyn and James Lileks have reacted on tonight's show to the 2007 audio of Ayers and Dohrn dug up by Guy Benson. Much should be written about it and what it tells us about Senator Obama, but whether the MSM even notices remains to be seen.

A caller from North Carolina, Steve, noted the obvious: We know what Dohrn and Ayers were thinking about the U.S. in 2007. We know that they know Obama well, and have "vetted" him. And we know they supported him from 1995 forward.

UPDATE: Powerline's John Hinderacker begins the hard-look at "The Friends of Barack Obama."

Keep in mind a young radio producer --Guy Benson of WYLL's The Sandy Rios Show-- found audio that no one else in all of the MSM found to launch this story. What else will we be discovering about Barack Obama's friends, and about the candidate?

[SE Mom]

drip...drip..

[Sender]

You can pick your nose, and you can pick your friends...

[imskylark]

The Dems agree with Ayers. Obama’s approval numbers would probably go up among the Dems if they found this out. It is in the general election that this should hurt Obama.

[afortiori]

I agree. The audio I heard was pretty standard lefty boilerplate.

[gridlock]

Ayers and Dohrn are royalty in the far Lefty reaches of Hyde Park and Berkeley because they are unrepentant anti-US terrorists. Jeremiah Wright is a hero to the far Lefty anti-American racial grievance set because he says outrageous and stupid things, accusing our government of murder and worse.

This is where Barack Obama chose to build his political base.

[JCG]

What else will we be discovering about Barack Obama's friends, and about the candidate?

Between what his friends say and what he says you have to wonder just what skeletons are in that big B. Hussein closet...

 

Obama: Man of the World
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: March 6, 2007

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to
prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that
seemed delightfully uncalculated [...], Mr. Obama described the
call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at
sunset."

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
http://nevadathunder.com/?p=3626




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[Beckwith]

I must be losing my sight - - where’s the link to the audio?

[Cheburashka]

You can pick your nose, and you can pick your friends...

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But you can't pick your nose's friends.

Or something like that.

[KeyLargo]

Good article here:

www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-23-apr23,1,4967065.column
chicagotribune.com

Underground links likely to resurface for Obama

John Kass

April 23, 2008

Broadway Baby was not mentioned during the Democratic infighting in Pennsylvania.

But Broadway Baby—once a chic children’s boutique in Manhattan’s Upper West Side—is the future, if Barack Obama is the presidential candidate in the fall.

This story involves two Chicagoans, former Weather Underground terrorist leaders Bernardine Dohrn and her husband, William Ayers, both Obama supporters who blessed his initial foray into politics. Last week, the unrepentant Ayers became a flash point in Obama’s debate with Hillary Clinton.

“And what they [Weather Underground] did was set bombs and in some instances people died,” said Clinton, sweetly playing the white terrorist card. “I know Sen. Obama is a good man and I respect him greatly, but I think this is an issue that certainly the Republicans will be raising.”’

And why shouldn’t they?

As president, Hillary’s husband commuted the prison sentences of two other Weather Underground members and of Puerto Rican terrorists, so her scolding was quite unconvincing.

Obama insists such gotcha politics is beneath our dignity. But no association is above question for a candidate, whether Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Illinois political fixer Tony Rezko, or Ayers and Dohrn.

Clinton and Republican John McCain have suffered scrutiny. The only one treated as an infant in swaddling clothes by the national media—until quite recently—is Sen. Change....

Excerpt

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-23-apr23,1,4967065.column

[LongTimeMILurker]

WJJD Mooseheart Ping!

[ghost of nixon]

WOW! If you drill into John Kass’ Chicago Trib column from the Hugh Hewitt link provided, you find out that the real story has been twisted. Ayers & Dorhn beat some vague 1969 charges, but were still up to their eyeballs in violent crime & terrorism as of the early 80’s. And then, viola, they are hired into academia, and show up hosting Obama’s initial political fund-raiser a mere 13 years after their (or at least their gang’s) last “known” criminal acts. Mysteriously, Ayers walked away from all this in the early 80’s without doing any jail time & with a clean record and a sweet professor gig. Dorhn pays a $1,500 fine and walks into a sweet academic job also. Amazing!

[Poincare]

We know that they know Obama well, and have "vetted" him. And we know they supported him from 1995 forward.

In about 1997, give or take a year, I heard Dohrn give an address at the U of Michigan where she bitterly torn into then President Bill Clinton and talked about the need to take over the Party. Kinda like how she and Ayers took over (stole if you like) SDS from the moderate lefties. Obama is their vehicle.

One line of hers was that the only building going on under Clinton was "more prisons and casinos." Well, infrastructure did suffer then.

[LJayne]

I think this is only the tip of the iceburg