[syriacus]

1984--Barbara Ransby graduated from Columbia the same year as Obama.

Ransby got her advanced degrees at U of Michigan

2002 -- She moderated a panel which included Obama and Ayers

Ransby is Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies, African American Studies, and History Director, Gender and Women's Studies Program at Univ. Ill /Chicago

What other connections might she have with Obama and Ayers?

[I still care]

The fact that he tried to blow up and murder men, women and children is incidental.

[Poincare]

Ayers has done far more damage to American society as a professor of education than as a bomber. (And the damage the Weathermen did was considerable.)

[devere]

Defending Ayers is a bit like defending OJ. They are both guilty of murder.

[Brown Deer]

Mr. Goldberg is nostalgic for an earlier time. We are not.

Right. Why should those people he murdered way back then, matter to her?

[screaminsunshine]

McCarthy was right.

[DaveTesla]

Ayers and his wife are COP KILLERS.

Perhaps Barbara could write a letter to this mans family and tell them his life did not matter:

Anti-personnel bomb set on window-ledge in San Francisco

Brian V. McDonnell, a sergeant with the San Franscisco Police Department who received fatal shrapnel wounds from a Weatherman pipe bomb set off on February 16, 1970.In a bombing that took place on February 16, 1970, and that was credited to the Weathermen at the time, a pipe bomb filled with heavy metal staples and lead bullet projectiles was set off on the ledge of a window at the Park Station of the San Francisco Police Department. In the blast, Brian V. McDonnell, a police sergeant, was fatally wounded while Robert Fogarty, another police officer, received severe wounds to his face and legs and was partially blinded.

Weatherman leader Bernardine Dohrn has been suspected of involvement in the February 16, 1970, bombing of the Park Police Station in San Francisco. At the time, Dohrn was said to be living with a Weatherman cell in a houseboat in Sausalito, California, unnamed law enforcement sources later told KRON-TV.[28] An investigation into the case was reopened in 1999,[29] and a San Francisco grand jury looked into the incident, but no indictments followed, and no one was ever arrested for the bombing. An FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl, who successfully penetrated the organization from the late summer of 1969 until April 1970, later testified to a U.S. Senate subcommittee that Bill Ayers, then a high-ranking member of the organization and a member of its Central Committee (but not then Dohrn’s husband), had said Dohrn constructed and planted the bomb. Grathwohl testified that Ayers had told him specifically where the bomb was placed (on a window ledge) and what kind of shrapnel was put in it. Grathwohl said Ayers was emphatic, leading Grathwohl to believe Ayers either was present at some point during the operation or had heard about it from someone who was there. In a book about his experiences published in 1976, Grathwohl wrote that Ayers, who had recently attended a meeting of the group's Central Committee, said Dohrn had planned the operation, made the bomb and placed it herself. In 2008, author David Freddoso commented that “Ayers and Dohrn escaped prosecution only because of government misconduct in collecting evidence against them”.


Brian V. McDonnell

[Darkwolf377]

” mean-spirited” = not fake, but accurate

[RubyR]

Found this site today. Online petition to support Bill Ayers. I just looked at the list quickly but a few names jump out for me already.

http://www.supportbillayers.org/

[pbmaltzman]

I think I threw up in my mouth, just a little, right now.

This should have had a BARF ALERT posted at the top.

[Wil H]

1984--Barbara Ransby graduated from Columbia the same year as Obama.

WRONG!

Obama graduated from Columbia in 1983, not 1984.

However, William Ayers graduated from Bank Street College in 1984, then went to Columbia and Graduated from there in 1987.

Bank Street College is 371 down the road from Columbia.

If Ransby knew Ayers when she was at Columbia, doesn't it seem obvious that OBAMA KNEW AYERS IN EXACTLY THE SAME SITUATION?

[Carley]

Cutting edge as in cutting off the heads of those who disagree, as in Daniel Pearl murder?

We see no evidence at all that Ayers has changed his views of violence being the only way forward towards his world views.

[driftless2]

degrees in gender and women’s studies. In short, Ransby has degrees in worthless, intellectually deadend pursuits.