[balls]

This is a must read/hear. It has a link to a podcast if you want to listen to it.

[marron]

There are several points embedded in the whole Ayres story. One is that he has been caught in another lie. Another is what he does to people who ask questions he doesn’t want to answer; he stone-walls, then he sends his mobs after them and asks Justice to prosecute them.

It won’t get any better after he is elected, and Justice and IRS answer to him.

[Right Wing Assault]

"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood. . . . He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis."

Ranks right up there with, "I did not have relations with that woman."

[ken21]

grants like this are usually

full employment and better

for socialists.

[capydick]

The only thing needing investigating is why Obama is trying so hard to hide his past.

No worries - I'm sure Chris Matthews and the rest of our responsible media will right on top of this. As soon as they are done looking into 22 year old DUI convictions.

[Roccus]

"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood.

....and my wife just happened to work at the same law firm as his wife....at the same time.....

[Tublecane]

Why can’t Obama have the courage of his convictions and say he’s a socialist? I mean, we can all tell he is by his policy proposals. But why can’t he mouth the words? What is he afraid of?

Oh, right, know one would elect him if they knew what his life has been building towards.

[Red in Blue PA]

The media will be on this after they are done looking for expired fishing licenses.

[XavierLarry]

I agree it is a must read. And it was. Last week. No offense intended but it’s a little stale. I’m looking forward to hearing from Mr. Kurtz when he finishes his review.

[ETL]

The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference
[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]

April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.

I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)

We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.

Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy

III. Lunch and Public Encounters

Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.

IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.

William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm

________________________________________________________

Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Revolution #63, October 1, 2006
Interview with Bill Ayers:
On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times
http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html

[realcleanguy]

“This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood. . . . He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.”

LOL, He’s your friend, you were on committees together, and he served on your state senate campaign.

[petercooper]

bttt

[Travis McGee]

I hope that somewhere in those files are picturs of BO and BA together, gripping and grinning.

[Mark was here]

Read / hear later. Thamks.

[ronnie raygun]

This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood. . . . He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.”

Sounds very similar to his answer on racist wright.
My mom always said “you are who your friends are”
And we know moms are always right

[alloysteel]

“The Annenberg papers” appear to be some kind of chronicle of how money distributed for education purposes got hijacked and diverted to non-educational uses (at least in the generally agreed meaning of “education”). So how is Bill Ayers involved, and how does this relate to Barack Obama?

A whole secret world NOT of the Bilderbergers or the Illuminati seems to have be operating for some time now.

[Operation_Shock_N_Awe]

"He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis."

yeah, exchanging ideas would mean Obami had to have some ideas of his own. He offered to let Ayers borrow his "magic idea machine" [teleprompter] to which Ayers responded "Who the hell do you think puts the words on the screen?"

[mkjessup]

It's highly amusing to go back through recent FR threads when this Annenberg gambit was first attempted regarding the whole birth certificate issue in behalf of the Obama campaign and read the posts from the blind and gullible Freepers who were more than willing to just accept this Annenberg crapola as Gospel Truth, buy into the whole 'no problem with Obama's citizenship, let's all move on.'

The fact is, Obama is like a big fat onion, you peel away one layer of duplicity, and there remains many more layers beneath, all of them hiding and shielding what is at the core.

In experience alone, Obama is unqualified. No managerial or executive experience, no foreign policy experience beyond attending Muslim schools in Indonesia and abandoning his own brother to a $12 a year existence in Kenya.

In accomplishments? Name one, beyond working like a demon to defend, justify and expand the multiple ways that an unborn baby can be murdered prior to birth. Obama's views are virtually favorable with infanticide, publically stating that he would not want his own daughters to be 'punished' with a baby, were they to become pregnant. If Trig Palin had been conceived inside Michelle Obama's womb, the odds are that the life of that little tyke would have been swiftly snuffed out due to his genetic flaws.

Both Barack and Michelle Obama represent an ideology that is not only foreign to our Constitutional Republic, it is hostile, and when they make Bill and Hillary Clinton look like 'middle-of-the-roaders', that alone should convince any sane person that an Obama Presidency would be the beginning of the end for these United States.

[FreedomProtector]

connections between Obama and Ayers are easy to find:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ayersapr18,0,359588.story

“Since coming out of hiding in 1980, the couple have raised three boys in Chicago and become part of the fabric of their liberal South Side neighborhood. Neighbors said it’s only natural that Obama would know Ayers and Dohrn, who often open their homes for gatherings filled with lively discussions about politics, arts and social issues.”

Obama and his wife “are part of our neighborhood and part of our social circle,” said Elizabeth Chandler, a neighbor of Ayers’.

[Typical_Whitey]

Is there any doubt that a Socialist like Obama would think that this country needed change. Its just that Americans cannot afford the Change Obama wants to bring. Of course the Youth is energized it is as lazy as most inner city Democrats... always looking for a handout. Always wanting someone else to pay their way.

[Vince Ferrer]

Is anyone other than Stanley Kurtz looking at these files? there are a lot of them, it seems like he could use a whole staff looking at them.