Obama’s Ties to William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn - Part III
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Barack Obama began his career in the home of William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. In 1995, Obama saw an opportunity to run for the Illinois Senate seat that was held by Alice Palmer; Palmer planned to run for the Congressional seat that had been vacated by Mel Reynolds. Reynolds had been convicted in a state court of sexual misconduct with a 16 year-old volunteer. Alice Palmer was also the editor of the Black Press Review in 1986, and as such, she was the only African-American to attend the 27th Congress of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. In 1986, the Soviet Union was still fighting in Afghanistan and the Berlin Wall had not yet fallen.
Jerome Corsi, in his well documented book Obama Nation makes the case that Alice Palmer was a well known leftist in Chicago’s liberal community. She handpicked Obama to be her successor and she invited her influential liberal friends to the home William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn to gain support for Obama’s campaign. Corsi also makes the point that Alice Palmer would never have invited Obama to the Ayers-Dohrn home if she thought Obama was politically incompatible with them. We should bear in mind that in 1995 Obama had been attending Rev. Wright’s church for several years, and he considered Wright to be his mentor.
Obama’s standard comeback to questions about his relationship to Ayers and Dohrn is, “I was only eight years old when they were involved in terrorist activities.” His answer is meant to convey the erroneous perception that the Ayers-Dohrn team’s terrorist activities were only youthful indiscretions. What the inattentive listeners fail to understand is the fact that Ayers and Dohrn remain committed radicals to this day. Corsi points to some audio clips that Chicago radio station WYLL obtained clips of speeches that William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn made at a 2007 reunion of SDS members. Ayers can be heard praising and quoting Communist revolutionaries heroes, including Chou En Lai who was a confident of Chairman Mao. At this same reunion, Dohrn referred to the U.S. Government as, “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world,” and living in America is like “living in the belly of the beast.”
Michelle Obama – Bernardine Dohrn - Corsi found an interesting connection between Dohrn and Michelle Obama. Although Dohrn was ineligible to take the Illinois bar exam, she was hired as a paralegal by the Chicago law firm Sidney Austin – the same firm where Michelle Obama worked. It’s no small wonder that Michelle Obama made her infamous statement, “For the first time in my adult life, I’m proud of my country.”
Ayers was instrumental is getting Barack Obama, in 1999, to serve on the board of Woods Fund, a board that he served on with Ayers for three years. One can make the argument in the absence of hard evidence that the Obamas’ relationship with Ayers and Dohrn is guilt by association. At the very least, Barack Obama’s relationships with Ayers, Dohrn, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and Father Pfleger and con-man Tony Rezco show an appalling lack of judgment on Obama’s part. There was a lot of caterwauling from the mainstream press about McCain’s alleged failure to thoroughly vet Sarah Palin, yet the press has given a shameful pass to Obama.
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The City as a Battlefield: A Global Concern
Monday, Nov. 02, 1970
Though the similarities among guerrilla groups seem less a matter of conspiracy than a kind of contagion or psychological empathy, there is evidence that organizations like the Panthers, in the U.S., and Palestinian guerrillas exchange not only ideas and moral support but also financial backing. There is no lack of spots where guerrillas of several continents can get together. In Cuba, Fidel Castro’s Sierra Maestra Guerrillero camps have taught more than 5,000 foreign recruits such techniques as sabotage, bomb making and murder since 1961. Most of Castro’s trainees have come from Latin America, but he has had numerous callers from the U.S. Among the American Weathermen visiting Cuba have been Mark Rudd, Bernardine Dohrn. and two would-be city-busters who were killed when the Greenwich Village town house that they were using as a bomb factory blew up last March, Diana Oughton and Ted Gold.
Black radicals, too, have made the Havana circuit. It was at a conference in Cuba in 1967 that former S.N.C.C. Leader Stokely Carmichael declared: “America is going to fall, and I only hope to live long enough to see it.” Angela Davis, now fighting extradition from New York to California on charges of murder and kidnaping, called on Castro in July 1969.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909730-7,00.html