Posted on 05/02/2010 5:06:47 PM PDT by RobinMasters
A new book released today uncovers for the first time where and how President Obama first met Weather Underground terrorist-group founder William Ayers – and it is much earlier than previously believed.
The book reveals the two were brought together by a student of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky, whose name, it has emerged, was obscured in Obama's autobiography "Dreams from My Father."
The new book, "The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and other Anti-American Extremists," charges Obama has deep ties to an anti-American extremist nexus that has been instrumental not only in building his political career but in crafting current White House policy.
The book exposes an extremist coalition of communists, socialists and other radicals working both inside and outside the administration to draft and advance current White House policy goals.
With more than 800 citations, the brand new, autographed title from WND senior reporter and WABC Radio host Aaron Klein bills itself as the most exhaustive investigation ever performed into Obama's political background and radical ties. Klein's co-author is historian and researcher Brenda J. Elliott.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I think -0 and Ayers possibly met before that .. in NYC.
Maybe even earlier than NY.
I wonder about his “mentor” Frank Marshall Davis’ ties to Chicago and the communist party there. Who all did Davis know? Valerie Jarrett’s father-in-law? Ayers senior? How far back and how wide are the connections that may have produced Team O?
**continued at link. a very good read.
http://pundita.blogspot.com/2009/09/barack-obama-and-family-of-william.html
Wednesday, September 30
Barack Obama and the family of William Ayers
Not long after posting the following entry I heard an interview with Newt Gingrich on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, a syndicated radio show aimed at the ‘black community.’ Newt described bipartisan efforts to improve America’s schools and had high praise for Arne Duncan, President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Education.
I’ve stated before on this blog that it’s my firm belief that if not for Steve Diamond sounding the alarm last year there would have been a very different education secretary, one whose views reflected those of William Ayers’s.
Although Steve’s warnings were suppressed by the mainstream media during the presidential campaign, he is a well known figure in labor union circles. He is also well known to Obama’s circle, and particularly known for his tenacity.
So while Arne Duncan is not perfect, next to what could have been in charge of American public education reform he is a fortunate pick.
But now to turn back the clock, to before Barack Obama came to the White House —
Introduction
From Who “sent” Obama? by Stephen Diamond, originally published April 22, 2008:
In Chicago politics a key question has always been, who “sent” you? The classic phrase is “We don’t want nobody that nobody sent” — from an anecdote of Abner Mikva’s, the former White House Counsel (President Clinton) and now retired federal judge. (And someone I campaigned for while in high school when he ran, unsuccessfully, for Congress in the early 70s.)
As a young student, Mikva wanted to help out his local Democratic Party machine on the south side of Chicago. In 1948, he walked into the local committeeman’s office to volunteer for Adlai Stevenson and Paul Douglas and was immediately asked: “Who sent you?”
Mikva replied, “Nobody sent me.”
And the retort came back from the cigar chomping pol: “Well, we don’t want nobody that nobody sent.”
So it is reasonable to ask, who “sent” Barack Obama? In other words, how can his meteoric rise to political prominence be explained? And, of course, in an answer to that question might lie a better understanding of his essential world view. When I started looking at this question a few weeks ago I quickly grew more concerned about the kinds of people that seem to have been very important in Obama’s ascendancy in Chicago area politics. It is the connection of some of these people to authoritarian politics that has me particularly concerned. And a key concern of this blog has been the rise of authoritarian tendencies in the global labor movement.
The people linked to Senator Obama grew to political maturity in the extreme wings of the late 60s student and antiwar movements. They adopted some of the worst forms of sectarian and authoritarian politics. They helped undermine the emergence of a healthy relationship between students and others in American society who were becoming interested in alternative views of social, political and economic organization. In fact, at the time, some far more constructive activists had a hard time comprehending groups like the Weather Underground. Their tactics were so damaging that some on the left thought that government or right wing elements helped create them. There is some evidence, in fact, that that was true (for example, the Cointelpro effort of the federal government.)
Today, however, many of these individuals continue to hold political views that hardened in that period. Many of them have joined up with other wings of the late 60s and 70s movements, in particular the pro-China maoist elements of that era and are now playing a role in the labor movement and elsewhere. And yet this question of Obama’s links to people from this milieu has not been thoroughly explored by any of the many thousands of journalists, bloggers and political operatives looking so closely at Obama.
The most recent effort was by Jonathan Kaufman in the Wall Street Journal, who argued that a critical connection for Obama was his links to some in the wealthy and prominent Jewish community in Chicago. This article contains some important insights and is well worth reading. But, I think Kaufman gets it wrong.
So, who did “send” Obama? The key I think is his ties not to well connected uber lawyer Newton Minow, as Kaufman suggests, but more likely to the family of (in)famous former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers – not just Bill Ayers, but also Bill’s father Tom Ayers and his brother John as well. [...]
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On Friday Stephen Diamond sent me his latest post on his King Harvest blog, which detailed his interview with a retired postman, Alan Hulton. Mr Hulton claimed to have had a conversation with Barack Obama outside the home of William Ayers’s parents that Steve judged must have taken place in the mid-1980s.
Hulton’s account contains a startling claim that if true might place Barack Obama’s relationship with William Ayers much further back than he’s admitted to the press, and which at the least suggests Obama had more than a casual relationship with the Ayers family.
As I have mentioned many times on this blog, Steve Diamond’s professional credentials are impeccable. And his life-long involvement with Democratic and Leftist politics, and his native-born Chicagoan background, give tremendous weight to his analyses of Barack Obama, his Leftist associations, and the Chicago political mileu in which Obama moved.
What follows is my exchange with Steve after he asked what I thought of his post about Hulton.
“Steve:
I think Hulton’s account has merit; I doubt he’d have any reason to lie and he seems a credible witness. So, in light of all I know about the Ayers-Obama relationship, I am willing to give the account the benefit of the doubt.
Yet the account could be challenged by asking why Hulton’s memory wasn’t jogged earlier. Hadn’t he seen a photograph of Obama when he became a U.S. senator from Hulton’s home state and then became a national political figure even before the presidential run? .....
Clowns, maybe; but TREACHEROUS ones and not to be taken lightly.
Just a guy in the neighborhood...!!!
It’s a lot cheaper at amazon or half.com
from the link, a sighting of a young barry at daddy ayers house.
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Barack Obama’s Visit to the Other Ayers’ House
By Stephen Diamond, September 25, 2009
Barack Obama visited the house of Tom and Mary Ayers, parents of former Weather Underground activist turned education professor Bill Ayers, in the mid-1980s to thank the Ayers’ for their support of his “education,” according to Alan Hulton, the letter carrier who delivered mail to the Ayers’ Glen Ellyn home at that time. Glen Ellyn is a suburb of Chicago, southwest of the city.
Hulton spoke to King Harvest at length about his experience.
It is acknowledged widely now that Bill Ayers and Obama had a close and longstanding relationship because of the role that Ayers played in promoting Obama’s career including, for example, Ayers’ appointment of Obama as Chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the $150 million education reform effort that Ayers founded in 1994. Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn held a campaign event in their Hyde Park home for Barack Obama in late 1995.
This blog has also suggested, however, that Obama may have had a relationship with Tom Ayers in light of the importance of the senior Ayers in Chicago politics and his role in the same educational issues as Obama. In 1988 Obama’s Developing Communities Project (the “DCP”) joined the Alliance for Better Chicago Schools (“ABC’s”), a lobbying alliance, to push for the reform of Chicago schools through the creation of so-called “Local School Councils” (“LSC’s”) that would watchdog teachers and administrators.
The proposal was very controversial and groups like Operation PUSH headed by Jesse Jackson did not support it because many teachers were black –- it was one of the first stable middle class careers a black person, and black women in particular, could aspire to in Chicago. Tom Ayers and Bill Ayers were strong supporters of the LSC’s, however, and Chicago United, a group founded by Tom Ayers, joined ABCs too. Bill Ayers became chair of ABCs.
In addition, a senior Democratic party activist who was involved in the Obama campaign including direct contact with Obama confirmed that the relationship between Obama and Bill Ayers went back to the 1980s, the time period of Hulton’s encounter outside the home of Tom Ayers.
The Obama Presidential campaign denied any close ties between Obama and Bill Ayers and said initially they only met in late 1995 when Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn hosted the event in support of Obama’s campaign for the Illinois State Senate. They later admitted the two had to have met earlier in light of the role both played at the Annenberg Challenge.
As President, Obama has not yet been asked about the Ayers relationship and has, as far as one can tell, never been asked about his relationship with Tom Ayers. Most recently, credible evidence has emerged that Bill Ayers ghostwrote the Obama memoir Dreams from My Father, which was published in 1995. [1]
The statement by Hulton is the first eyewitness account of a possible relationship between Obama and Tom Ayers and the first that dates his relationship with the Ayers family to the mid-1980s.
At the time of their encounter, Hulton recalls, Obama “looked about 19 years old” but was probably in his early 20s. Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983 and moved to Chicago in 1985 at age 24 or 25 to head up the DCP, a fledgling community organization modeled after similar groups started by Saul Alinsky, on the south side of Chicago. The DCP had secured a grant from the Woods Fund, endowed by the Woods family, to finance the hiring of Obama.
I haven’t been able to tie everthing together, but the Ford Foundation keeps showing up everywhere.
Maybe someone can uncover the links.
Bump for reference
The corporation that handled the security in the “Passport” breach was Ayers’ father’s company too. By “security”, I mean they went in afterward and “fixed” everything so “it couldn’t happen again.”
Hmmm, wonder what else they “fixed” while in there.
thanks!
http://pundita.blogspot.com/2010/04/steve-diamond-on-david-remnicks.html
this link from early april is a good read also
FRegards,
NONE! Chicago has one of the worst
educational records in the country.
OHOHOHOH
I have said for several years now that I believed Frank Marshall Davis was the one who took the nude pictures of Obama’s mother when she was underage. Especially given the heavy african decorations and black musician records, not that whites didn’t listen to Nat King Cole and such, but they were ALL black musicians.
Anyway, I just read the other day that FMD ran a nude photography studio! I think that settles it in my mind. And if she 18, she must have already been a few months pregnant with Obama because she was pregnant with him at the end of her 17th year. She didn’t look even a couple months pregnant.
But not enough Americans know what you know.
Of course, Barry’s fav quote about the unrepentant terrorist bill ayers. :)
these stories were out there in 2008 and before and were scrubbed, squashed or ignored by the msm who themselves were part of the story in electing the “first AA” to the presidency. they had too much at stake in his election to do any investigative reporting. we’ve seen what they can do when they put their “skills” to work.
Dat’s why they call you machogirl..!!
dat and some other reason. ;)
Que?
Hate to say this...but it’s too late now. They’re in the White House.
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