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Obama and ’60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths (Obama Has Met Ayers, but the Two Are Not Close)
nyt ^ | 10/3/08 | SCOTT SHANE

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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Well, NYT reporter SCOTT SHANE says that Obama and Ayers are not close. End of story. Drive-bys speaketh, Obama cleared. No story here!
1 posted on 10/03/2008 5:46:20 PM PDT by mathprof
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To: mathprof

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.


2 posted on 10/03/2008 5:48:22 PM PDT by LegalEagle61 (If you are going to burn our flag, please make sure you are wearing it when you do!)
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To: mathprof
Note to NYT... We didn't just get off the turnip truck.

Ayers recruited Obama. Obama worked for him....

NYT staff is seriously depraved.

3 posted on 10/03/2008 5:49:56 PM PDT by xtinct (Suicide Hotline... !! "Obama here" --> Please Hold...)
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To: mathprof

LOL! Nice try Scotty boy.


4 posted on 10/03/2008 5:50:14 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (DemocRATS are "scared" of strong, intelligent women.)
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To: mathprof
They see the attack coming soon and are trying to pre-empt or short circuit it on Obamas behalf.

These people are totally corrupt.

5 posted on 10/03/2008 5:51:24 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (Democrats still want to get Pres. Bush and/or VP Cheney; there might be show trials in Feb09)
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To: mathprof

NYT, BS Edition


6 posted on 10/03/2008 5:51:32 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie
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“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?


7 posted on 10/03/2008 5:52:18 PM PDT by nuconvert (Obama - Preferred by 4 out of 5 Dictators & Terrorists// Rove>Biden is a Big,Blowhard Dufus)
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To: ETL
Thought this would make you laugh.....or cry....LOL! ;)
8 posted on 10/03/2008 5:52:51 PM PDT by BossLady (Say it aint so ...Joe.....)
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To: mathprof
Here's an amusing quote from the end of the article:

“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?

9 posted on 10/03/2008 5:53:00 PM PDT by mathprof
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Geez, it’s one thing to carry the water for your guy, but THIS stuff requires a shovel!


10 posted on 10/03/2008 5:53:46 PM PDT by digger48
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To: mathprof

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


11 posted on 10/03/2008 5:55:24 PM PDT by JRochelle
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Lies and damn lies from the mother load of untruth.


13 posted on 10/03/2008 5:57:06 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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Note to NYT

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.

14 posted on 10/03/2008 5:57:50 PM PDT by scooby321 (Cai)
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To: nuconvert
He launched his campaign from Ayers home - but they are not close!

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.

15 posted on 10/03/2008 5:58:03 PM PDT by DaveyB (Those who are merciful to the cruel will be cruel to the merciful.)
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——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?


17 posted on 10/03/2008 5:59:23 PM PDT by Doug TX
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So, it is Ayers’ habit to host a launch of political career of an unknown Black man?


18 posted on 10/03/2008 5:59:54 PM PDT by paudio (Nobody cried 'racism' when Swann, Blackwell, and Steele lost to white guys in 2006)
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19 posted on 10/03/2008 6:02:32 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: xtinct
Ayers recruited Obama. Obama worked for him....

Obama's education and crime policies were Ayers.
20 posted on 10/03/2008 6:02:36 PM PDT by igoramus08
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