Report: Obama and Bill Ayers attended same 2014 wedding

The Hill ^ | 2/12/15 | Justin Sink

[Libloather]

Former Weather Underground activists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn were guests at the August 2014 wedding of White House chef Sam Kass and MSNBC anchor Alex Wagner, which was also attended by President Obama and his family, according to a report Thursday in Gawker.

Obama's ties to Ayers became a flashpoint during the 2008 presidential campaign, with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) memorably accusing Obama of "palling around with terrorists who would target their own countries."

Ayers and Dohrn spent nearly a decade on the run as fugitives for their role in carrying out bombings of federal buildings, including the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, in protest of the Vietnam War. Federal authorities eventually dropped charges against them because of FBI misconduct.

Ayers later became a professor and served alongside Obama on several charitable and education boards. Ayers also hosted a 1995 campaign event for Obama, who was running for the Illinois state Senate at the time. Officials for the Obama campaign said in 2008 the two men had not spoken by telephone or email since the president was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2005.

Kass, the Obama family's longtime chef, also lived in Chicago during that period. He left the White House at the end of last year to join Wagner in New York City, where she anchors her afternoon show.

Although critics of Obama have insinuated close ties between the president and Ayers, the former Weather Underground member said in an interview just two months before the wedding that he believed Obama should be put on trial for war crimes at The Hague.

In an interview with Real Clear Politics, Ayers said he "absolutely" believed the president was engaged in terrorism for his use of drone strikes in fighting the war on terror.

"Every president in this century should be put on trial, every one of them," Ayers said. "For war crimes. Absolutely.

"Every one of them goes into office, an office dripping with blood, and adds to it. And yes I think these are war crimes. They are acts of terror," Ayers added.

He also said he would give the president a "failing" grade, while admitting that he liked him personally more than other recent presidents.

Obama dismissed efforts to tie him to Ayers during the 2008 primary.

"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood ... the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago — when I was 8 years old — somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense," Obama said.

[Jim Noble]

The Ayers wedding invitation tells me that Ayers is closer to Obama than just a person who happens to live in the neighborhood

I think they are probably quite close.

There is a whole roster of Obama's former associates who I suspect, are playing a more active role in the administration than is generally known.

[bjorn14]

He was Chairman of Commonwealth Edison, Chicago’s electric utility.

[lentulusgracchus]

And a Communist? That does not parse at all.

It worked for Armand Hammer but his was a completely different gig. He raised capital in the West for Uncle Joe, and then he bought an energy company in California that he used to break the Seven Sisters' control of the oil business, which eventually statalized all oil everywhere (a very small slice of worldwide reserves remains in private ownership, the opposite of what obtained in 1935).

What did the chairmanship of a utility company do for Uncle Joe?

[lentulusgracchus]

There is a whole roster of Obama's former associates who I suspect, are playing a more active role in the administration than is generally known.

I think everyone on this board has known since Obama's inner imbecile came into public view that he is a figurehead, a cigar-store Indian for the Politburo that runs his Regime. Valerie Jarrett seems to be the head of it, but that isn't necessarily true. They may have Alinsky's brain in a jar somewhere, channeling instructions from Asmodeus and Belial .

[Brown Deer]

...somebody from their neighborhood...

Which neighborhood? The one in Chicago, or the other one in NYC?

[Brown Deer]

[Brown Deer]

On December 14, 0bama announced that he would once again restore diplomatic ties with Cuba after more than 50 years.

"In June of 1969 Bernardine Dohrn met with Communist Cuban Intelligence officer Jose Viera at the Cuban Mission to the U.N. at East 67th Street New York NY, the following month (July) Dohrn led a SDS contingent to a meeting in Havana with Communist representatives from Cuba and North Vietnam. In the fall of 1969 the SDS dissolved and Bernardine Dohrn joined forces with Bill Ayers to start the Weathermen." ~~ Sarasota Bill Warner Investigations

Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers held a fundraiser in their living room in the 1990s that helped start 0bama's political career. It seems logical to me that 0bama will soon appoint Bernardine Dohrn as the first U.S. Ambassador to Cuba in over fifty years.

[LucyT]

Ping to important article, and comments, esp # 26 , # 27.

Thanks, Brown Deer. ... Question, who was in the Brinks robbery get-away car?

[hoosiermama]

Wish someone had access to the underground newspapers in NYC and their photo archive.

[hoosiermama]

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The break up of standard Oil would make great grand father working for them unlikely. Since its mentioned that he worked for a company out of Tulsa and the only company solely from there is the company that now holds controlling interest in Solyndra it might explain why 0 is against the pipeline (He’s been declaring income from family trust on taxes)
If I’m correct the entire “dreams from my father” is nothing more then the distraction from a magicians hand