Then-State Senator Alice Palmer announced to those gathered at the Ayers/Dohrn residence that she was stepping down to make a run for Congress and introduced Obama as her chosen successor.
Ten years before the aforementioned meeting, Alice Palmer was an official of a notorious Communist front group (so identified by the FBI), the U.S. Peace Council, an affiliate of the World Peace Council, an international Soviet front. It goes without saying that during that era of the eighties, both of these mouthpieces for Moscow were working feverishly to undermine President Reagan's arms buildup which played a major role in the downfall of the Soviet Union. That was the time of the worldwide Soviet-inspired nuclear “freeze” movement in 1983, when Palmer was also mentioned as a participant on the World Peace Council's Prague assembly.
In 1986, Palmer wrote an article for the People's Weekly World, a house organ for the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). In that dispatch, Palmer favorably recounted her experiences attending the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Wow, Obama hangs out with communists! Lots of them!
A bump to check your link tomorrow.
What they didn't say is taht she lost an election and then had her candidacy for her old seat thrown out by a legal challenge by none other than Obama. You see, she had served her purpose, so he threw her under the bus and stuck the knife in her back.