Posted on 09/10/2008 6:33:06 PM PDT by mondoreb
[ABOVE: Bill Ayers, Chicago Magazine, August 2001]
"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents." --Bill Ayers, summing up the ideology of the Weather Underground
Imagine a candidate running for President that had ties to a man and his wife who were former federal fugitives wanted for over 30 bombings during the 1970's, some of whom they were personally responsible for: the New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972.
During an interview on the Bill O'Reilly Show, Barack Obama attempted to disassociate himself from Bill Ayers, a former member of the radical 60's and 70's domestic terrorist group, the Weather Underground.
Obama claimed that he "knew thousands of people" and then called his relationship with Ayers, "tangential". DBKP took a look at just who Bill Ayers is, his past, and whether Obama was telling the truth about the "tangential" tango between himself and the former domestic terrorist, that Ayers was merely one of the "thousands" of people in Obama's life.
We found the transcript of the show at the Chicgo Sun Times. Journalist Lynn Sweet's "bio" on Ayers:
"Ayers spent 10 years as a fugitive--and now lives in Hyde Park with wife Bernardine Dohrn--also a Weather Underground fugitive. They faced federal charges when they surfaced, eventually dropped. Ayers and Dohrn--who runs a program at Northwestern's law school--have become well regarded members of Chicago's civic community. I wrote a column in April explaining how the past of Ayers---an urban education specialist embraced by Mayor Daley--did not bother anyone in Chicago by the time Obama showed up on the scene."
Make note where Sweet states the federal charges against Ayers and Dohrn were "dropped" and that the two, Ayers and Dohrn, are now "well regarded members of Chicago's civic community".
"Guilty as sin, free as a bird, America is a great country." --Bill Ayers, Destructive Generation by David Horowitz and Peter Collier
The charges against Dohrn and Ayers were dropped, not due to insufficient evidence, but due to charges that the FBI used "improper surveillance".
"You are wrong. Let's start from scratch. Number one, I know thousands of people, right, and so, understandably, people will pick out folks who they think they can --" --Barack Obama, Bill O'Reilly Show, 9-9-08
Partial Transcript from Bill O'Reilly Interview of Barack Obama, 9-9-08
MR. O'REILLY: I'm sitting there, and I'm an American. I'm sitting there in Bismarck, North Dakota, I'm sitting there in Coral Springs, Florida, and I'm seeing Reverend Wright, I'm seeing Father Pfleger, who think Louis Farrakhan's a great guy, I'm seeing Bernadette Dohrm and Bill Ayers, Weather Underground radicals who don't think they bombed enough, I'm seeing MoveOn.org, who says General Betray Us, and I'm seeing you go to a Daily Kos convention -- and this week, Daily Kos came out and said that Sarah Palin's Down syndrome baby was birthed by her 15-year old with no proof -- they put that on there -- and I'm going, gee, that Barack Obama, he's got some pretty bad friends. Am I wrong?Obama: Now, on this Ayers thing which, you know, you've been hyping, Bill, pretty good --
MR. O'REILLY: Not that much. You know, you were on the Woods Foundation board --
SEN. OBAMA: Here's the bottom line. This guy did something despicable 40 years ago.
MR. O'REILLY: You know, (it was ?) despicable last week when he said he didn't do enough bombings. That's last week!
SEN. OBAMA: I haven't seen the guy in a year and a half.
MR. O'REILLY: But you know who he was. He's on the Woods Foundation board. You know he is there.
SEN. OBAMA: Let me finish my point, all right. Here's a guy who does something despicable when I'm 8-years old.
MR. O'REILLY: Okay.
-snip- SEN. OBAMA: All right. I come to Chicago, he's working with Mayor Richard Daley, not known to be a radical. So he and I know each other as a consequence of work he's doing on education. That is not an endorsement of his views. That's not me --
-snip-
SEN. OBAMA: That's pretty flimsy. Here's the point, right. This guy is not part of my campaign. He's not some adviser of mine. He is somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know. The problem that your viewers, your guys, your folks, the folks you champion, the problem you're going through, the problems they're going through with trying to pay their bills, trying to keep their job, trying to move up in this world, their problem isn't Bill Ayers. It was Bill Ayers 40 years ago when he was blowing stuff up.
Was Ayers merely one of the "thousands" of people in Obama's life as he stated to O' Reilly?
During the interview Obama painted a very "slim" picture of Ayers, claiming that when Obama "met" Ayers, Ayers was "working with Mayor Daley" and "not known to be a radical" and that Ayers was "somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know."
According to Capital Research.org, Obama may "know" Ayers a bit more than the current Obama campaign meme. In 1995, the two former Weather Underground domestic terrorists, Ayers and Dohrn, held a fundraiser for Obama's Illinois state representative run in their own home. Not just "any" fundraiser, but the very first fundraiser for Obama, for his first run for public office.
Another source of the Ayers fundraiser is an article from Investors Business Daily:
According to Investors Business Daily, National Review writer Stanley Kurtz has been stonewalled in his investigation into the relationship between Ayers and Obama:
"We have written extensively on the socialist past of Barack Obama as expressed in his proposals and associations, both personal and organizational. One of those associations is between Obama and Ayers, a leader of the Weather Underground, a '60s terrorist group.It's true Obama has condemned and disassociated himself from the terrorist actions of Ayers and the Underground. But Ayers has never repudiated or apologized for his past, and if there's one word that should always precede his name, it would be "unrepentant."
Obama claims Ayers was just a "guy in the neighborhood," but clearly he was more than that. Obama misrepresents his relationship with the man in whose home his first fundraiser was held. Leading the expose of the true nature of that relationship has been National Review writer Stanley Kurtz."
Not only did Ayers hold Obama's first political fundraiser in his home in 1995, Obama and Ayers had later ties with their association with the Wood Foundation:
Read the rest: Obama's Ties to 1970's Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers: Disassociation and Little Condemnation
Obama has distanced himself from Ayers, but on his website, Obama never condemns Ayers. He prefers to let the MSM speak for him on his site, and the MSM doesn't disappoint: the attitude is "It's not important".
We just think it's important to keep pounding this point until Joe Average is aware of it.
The best defense is a good offense--and the anyone who relies on the MSM can see that everyday with the attacks on Palin.
The American people deserve to know why it's ok for their President to be friends with a TERRORIST (and his terrorist wife)--
whose only regret is that they DID NOT DO MORE!!
Thank you for posting this article.
Translation: He meets Ayers every day, at the ‘corner’ of the street.
Bob Dylan singing: You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Ayers philosophy is that if you don't like what the government does you blow things up, the modern mindset of the liberal Chicago machine is that anything did to oppose the war in Vietnam and to advance socialism is not only excusable, but establishes ‘street cred’. Let us all remember that one of 0bama’s political mentors was a communist revolutionary who UNREPENTANTLY thinks that democratically elected governments are to be opposed by cowardly and murderous acts.
My question is” why is this man enjoying the fruits and freedoms of this country today. He should have been banished many years ago.
Thanks a lot.
I agree about the spiking. People who are constantly scanning the web come across these stories and sometimes, we assume that everyone knows about them and that they are “old news”.
Seeing Obama on Bill O’Reilly pass off Ayers as “tangential” and “40 years ago when I was eight” kind of brought this home and LBG was already working on an Ayers’ article and decided to do a ‘by the numbers’ piece to acquaint the average reader with the situation.
It might be good to recycle this until Obama is forced to throw Ayers under the bus or denounce him—which, so far, he’s refused to do.
(Although, he said labeled his actions as “40 years ago he did a dispicable act”.
Hardly a denunciation.
Why does Obama continue to surround himself with a cabal of anti-American people?
The readers on Free Republic probably have a good guess, but a lot of people busy with their regular lives, who watch the evening news, do not.
Thanks again, everyone!
Ayers should see daylight for two hours a day when they let him out of his cell. And the pose with him standing atop the American flag.....makes me want to blow something up, but the authorities gave him and his terrorist wife a pass.
that I can even believe no one 'calls him on that outrage'.
I wish someone would ask Hussein,,,,,
"Then tell me, would it be ok for a child who was eight years old on 9/11--to then have a friendship with Osama bin Laden later in life as an adult"?
His "I was only eight years old at the time" defense is bogus, pathetic, and absolutely OUTRAGEOUS! Why doesn't someone ask him that question?
THAT is an excellent point!
...and one that you’ll see in the future (with a hat tip, of course).
Q: What does Obama and Osama have in common?
A: They BOTH have friends who bombed the Pentagon!
I like it!
...and no, I hadn’t heard that one...but you can bet I’ll pass it around!’
Thanks!
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