Barack, William Ayers, and ACORN video (MUST SEE -- ACORN was funded by Ayers, etc)

You Tube Video ^ | 18 Oct 2008

[PhiKapMom]

Obama, Ayers, and ACORN

This is a lengthy (10 mins), but very important video. Please watch it to the end and share it. One item that is revealed is that ACORN was FOUNDED by WILLIAM AYERS with a fellow SDS alum and Communist Party leader, Michael Klonsky.

[jersey117]

This is absolutely chilling! It’s going out to my entire address book.

Bookmark and BTTT.

[Son House]

Bill Ayers, “over throwing the Capitalist System, and put in something more humane”

[AuntB]

Good one!!

[w1andsodidwe]

Actually that is not the case. I don’t have a lot of free time and I needed this to get to the point fairly soon. I just worry that the people that really need to see this will not have the patience to see it through. The meat of the issue needs to be moved forward. Maybe if it started with that and then showed how we got there it might have kept my interest.

[unspun]

Please distribute this video!

[pissant]

BINGO. You nailed it.

[2nd amendment mama]

My point still stands. I can’t believe that you don’t have 10 minutes to view something so important to the freedom of our republic. I’m sure that you waste more than 10 minutes in a day. Take 10 minutes from your FReeping to educate yourself so that you can share it with others - it’s worth it!

[newfreep]

Please distribute this video!

To paraphrase b.hussein....Please Re-distribute this video"

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I’ve listened to the video twice and don’t find reference to Ayers being a co-founder of ACORN. I find the reference to his associate Wade Rathke being the founder of ACORN.

That's correct. Ayers was not the founder of ACORN. He funded ACORN at CAC and at Woods, both with Obama. And both ACORN and the Weathermen were born out of the ultra-militant SDS. But Ayers is not the founder of ACORN.

The title of the thread should be changed from "FOUNDED" to "FUNDED".

[XR7]

The graphics are okay.
But that insipid music makes it unbearable.
You don’t want to email this to your friends.

[XR7]

Sorry. I reclicked on it and watched the whole thing.
Yes. It is good. Especially the stuff about ACORN.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

http://michaelklonsky.blogspot.com/

[w1andsodidwe]

The problem is not whether I have 10 minutes. I am already a believer. This video will not change my mind, but for those who’s mind we are trying to change, it is a snoozer at the beginning. That is all I am saying.

[manc]

A 527 needs to buy a 10 min slot of national news networks and show this

well put together damaging insightful video

[cgk]

I posted this on the other thread, which has since been locked:

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The video does not say that ACORN was FOUNDED by Ayers. It says it was funded by Ayers & Obama through their foundations. Both of these threads have factually incorrect titles and they make us look... well, not smart.

Post #23, from the person who made the video, on (this) thread:

I don’t think the video says ACORN was founded by Ayers... I think it says that ACORN and Weather Underground were both formed out of SDS...

Correct. Ayers and Rathke were SDS members together. Ayers former WUO in 1968, Rathke formed ACORN in 1970. Both groups are breakaways from Students for a Democratic Society.

Ayers and Obama helped finance ACORN together at the Annenberg Challenge, then again at the Woods Fund.

Klonsky, another SDS'er, received Annenberg grants from Obama/Ayers for a different project, the Small Schools Workshop (which was also created by Ayers; Klonsky was pulled from his job as a cab driver to run Small Schools).

Also, until very recently, Klonsky ran a blog on Obama's official website until the campaign scrubbed it.

One big happy Hyde Park family.

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We need both titles fixed ASAP. "FOUNDED" to "FUNDED". People are blaming the video for this now and it DOESN'T STATE THIS. This appears to be coming from the HRC forum/HRC supporters, and they are wrong.

[cgk]

I sent a ping to the mods, also and actually filed an abuse report to see if they could correct the title.

[Fawn]

I liked the music and thought it added dramatic impact...and mailed it to all my friends.

[cgk]

THANK YOU for fixing the title...

:)

[floriduh voter]

Just copy the link from your address line and put it on all Obama threads that are here and type in the title. It's important to keep one thread on the top of breaking news. Other threads on the same subject might not be permitted anyway.

BTTT for McCain-Palin.

[floriduh voter]

However, in 1992 Obama and Michelle founded Public Allies which was the merger of the Black Liberation Army and the radical leftists including Bill Ayers. Note Obama never talks about Public Allies.