Posted on 10/03/2008 5:46:20 PM PDT by mathprof
At a tumultuous meeting of anti-Vietnam War militants at the Chicago Coliseum in 1969, Bill Ayers helped found the radical Weathermen, launching a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and United States Capitol.
Twenty-six years later, at a lunchtime meeting about school reform in a Chicago skyscraper, Obama met Mr. Ayers, by then an education professor. Their paths have crossed sporadically since then, at a coffee Ayers hosted for Obama’s first run for office, on the schools project and a charitable board, and in casual encounters as Hyde Park neighbors.
Their relationship has become a touchstone for Obama’s opponents. Video clips on YouTube, including a new ad that aired Friday, juxtapose Obama’s face with the young Mr. Ayers or grainy shots of the bombings. In a televised interview last spring, Senator John McCain, his Republican rival, asked: “How can you countenance someone who was engaged in bombings that could have or did kill innocent people?”
More recently, conservative critics who accuse Mr. Obama of a stealth radical agenda have asserted that he has misleadingly minimized his relationship with Mr. Ayers, whom the candidate has dismissed as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood” and “somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know.”
A review of records of the schools project and interviews with a dozen people who know both men, suggest that Mr. Obama, 47, has played down his contacts with Mr. Ayers, 63. But the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called “somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.”.
Obama campaign aides said the Ayers relationship had been greatly exaggerated by opponents to smear the candidate
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They are worried that we have an October surprise coming concerning Ayers, the are already getting their spin out....hoping we do in a big way.
Ayers recruited Obama. Obama worked for him....
NYT staff is seriously depraved.
LOL! Nice try Scotty boy.
These people are totally corrupt.
NYT, BS Edition
“A review of records of the schools project and interviews with a dozen people who know both men, suggest that Mr. Obama, 47, has played down his contacts with Mr. Ayers,”
So why has Barak lied about it, Scott?
“If Barack Obama says he’s willing to talk to foreign leaders without preconditions,” Mr. Hayden said, “I can imagine he’d be willing to talk to Bill Ayers about schools. But I think that’s about as far as their relationship goes.”
Didn't go down Joe say that this wasn't the case in the debate?
Geez, it’s one thing to carry the water for your guy, but THIS stuff requires a shovel!
The smoke and mirror show continues.
If you want to be creeped out again, go look at the latest Obama worshipers.
Young black men giving credit to The One.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUEQz5dltmI
Lies and damn lies from the mother load of untruth.
I know you rag will probably shorted soon by the market But while your still printing the news that is a joke
Ayers actually met Obama while at Columbia.
Neither is Obama close to his pastor of 20 years!
Nor his grandmother, brother or typical white person mother!
Obama is not close to Franklin Raines his financal advisor!
Nobody can be close to Obama - he is the one -- the messiah -- a god! No time for mere mortals - he can't be burdened with people, he is our savior.
——In fact, according to several people involved, Mr. Ayers played no role in Mr. Obama’s appointment.——
Innoculation article. Dumped on Fri. night. I’m surprised they didn’t set off a bomb somewhere so they could bury the story.
BHO is saying come and get me! Will anyone step up?
So, it is Ayers’ habit to host a launch of political career of an unknown Black man?
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "FBI INVESTIGATES OBAMA'S FRIEND" by Andrea Billups (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "(Editor's note: The original version of this article has been corrected. The office of Larry D. Walsh was not raided.) The FBI is investigating a former Illinois state senator who is a poker-playing buddy of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama.") (October 3, 2008)
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