The American Issues Project has a website. I’ve visited.
The best ad of this election cycle. Telling the world who Obama really is.
We know that Ayers started Obama's political career, and is very influential in Chicago politics. What hasn't been really examined is HOW and WHY he's influential
The HOW and WHY is his dad Thomas G Ayers (1915-2007). Tom Ayers was President of Commonwealth Edison from 1964, and was chairman and CEO from 1973 to 1980. Besides that:
"He had a great social conscience and believed in breaking down the barriers that confronted so many people, particularly minorities and women," said James O'Connor, who succeeded Mr. Ayers as ComEd chairman. "Beyond what he did at Commonwealth Edison, he really set an example for other leaders in the Chicagoland business community to follow."Bill Ayers' dad was a primary mover and shaker in Chicago politics, with strong ties to the Daley machine. Besides all the above:Mr. Ayers also served on boards of nonprofit initiatives and chaired those of the Chicago Urban League, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Erikson Institute, Bank Street College of Education in New York, Community Renewal Society and the Chicago Community Trust.
While chairing the Northwestern University Board of Trustees, he helped start Chicago United, dedicated to racial minority group access to jobs and education. The project that made him most proud, son John Ayers said, was Dearborn Park, an integrated South Loop housing project, which he conceived and for which he raised funds.
With his sons deep in protest of the Vietnam War (one, Bill Ayers, was a member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society who went underground for about 11 years) the businessman supported his children and their campaign. "Our father always stood by us," John Ayers said. "He was an establishment guy, but he believed in us. He believed in change."
After the Board of Education's financial collapse of 1979, Mayor Jane M. Byrne named Mr. Ayers as her choice for president of the new board.
He was the Chicago establishment, serving on the boards of Sears, G.D. Searle, Chicago Pacific Corp., Zenith Corp., Northwest Industries, General Dynamics Corp. of St. Louis, First National Bank of Chicago, the Chicago Cubs and the Tribune Co.Mr. Ayers also was an agent for change, negotiating between Mayor Richard J. Daley's administration and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s open housing campaign in the mid-1960s, and developing the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities to fight racial discrimination in housing.
Props to Mr. Simmons
The 60-second ad opens with Obama giving a speech, then asks how much voters know about him. ... it focuses on his relationship with William Ayers, a University of Illinois at Chicago professor (and unrepentant terrorist) who more than three decades ago was deeply involved with the Weather Underground (a Domestic Terrorist Org), which claimed responsibility for numerous bombings. (and a couple Murders, but hey, just a minor detail)Huh, wt___ . How does an ad violate criminal law. If anything the DoJ should be looking in Bill Ayers and his TERRORIST wife, Bernadine Dohrn, and how they escaped justice and PRISON.Obama's campaign responded to the ad by sending a letter to the Justice Department charging that the backers are violating criminal law and urging an investigation.
BILL AYERS ....
"Kill all the rich people. ... Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents."Hmmm??? He's rich now and has a kid. Wonder if he still feels the same :-)
That is a great ad, er, expose’!
Great ad. It needs to run in every state.
Can you imagine if the GOP would even take Illinois? LOL!
Thank you Mr. Simmons.