Mark my words... the next "tempest in a teapot" will be William Ayers of the Weather Underground....

Hannity has been pushing this story for a couple weeks...... Supposedly, Obama once was "friendly" toward Mr. Ayers.


He's not, and has never been, part of Obama's staff.... but that won't matter.


Hannity will say that it is a "disturbing pattern" in which Obama is polite and friendly with people who have done or said dastardly things.



Just watch.... Ayers is next week's Wright.

You're going to need it.

that's the way the MSM works. And we know there's plenty of new dirt on hilly.

today with a group of retired State workers that she once work with. Most present had decided to switch to Hillary after the Rev. was exposed. What surprised her most was one of her closest friends who is very active in Dem party there and she has been very strong for BO, she has now decided to go Hillary, saying she knows nothing about BO's background except for the Rev.

Surely, you're not going to try to say that the woman is going to vote for McCain or even not vote at all.

Does anyone else find it suspicious that the RW are pushing this now, rather than after the nominee has been chosen? Why, it's almost as if they want to make sure of a McCain-Clinton contest :tinfoilhat:

Hannity thanks you.

If dumb-cluck Hannity is having a walk in the park, you know you're in trouble.

Pick your favorite MSM entity; you may be getting the story from them soon. If they had been doing their homework, instead of fawning over the empty suit, doughboy Hannity would not be in danger of getting a Pulitzer for his work this year.

(I haven't had cable for a good 5-7 years so I get no news of the Fox cretins except here at DU.)

than *, but Obama is a deceit man and he has shown himself to be the leader that will get us the farthest away from corporate domination.

He will give us the leadership to fix the breaks and bitterness between almost every divide laid on us by the bickering and slights that come from competition and the turmoil that stops us from penetrating corruption.

Compare their records and their earnestness to work for us. Then - let's defeat McCain.:dem:

Original post for those interested--

check missed it. It was not Freudian it is stupidity. Thanks for telling me.

But Murdoch wasn't part of Hillary's staff either. Soooo?

is that Ayers donated a whole $200 to Obama's state Senate campaign. I have seen or heard nothing about Ayers holding a fundraiser.

say Ayers held for Obama, then you need to retract your statement.

When O was running for the state senate he went to Ayers house in the Hyde Park section of Chicago - also Bernadine Dohrn of the Weather Underground lives there too - and there was a function to introduce O to the Chicago south side activist community.

Posting these bullshit RW talking points.

:sarcasm:

This is getting ridiculous.

I wonder if Fixed Noize will be scrutinizing her White House records the
way they're dissecting Obama's past friends/connections.

Which Weather Underground are you referring to? I use WU for my weather maps.

So what hannity thinks is a disturbing pattern is that Obama could be decent and peaceful with the likes of him and limbaugh and damn near everybody in the republican party? Here I go disagreeing with the little chickenshit, chickenhawk again.

You will get a link to a documentary on them

During the Viet Nam war, there was an activist anti-war
student group on many college campuses... S.D.S.
the Students for a Democratic Society.

They were behind many demonstrations and protests
to end the war.

In the annual convention of June 1969, a more radical
splinter group of the SDS broke away from the larger circle
claiming that peaceful means were no longer working,
and that the war must end 'by any means necessary.'

The "Weather Underground' comes from a line of a Bob Dylan
song: "You don't have to be a weatherman to know which
way the wind blows."

Many of the leaders in the Weather Underground were driven
'underground' by government efforts to quash their organizing.
("Underground" meaning they changed their identity and tried
to blend into the culture around them)

Some of them went to jail for what today would be considered
homeland terrorism (there were events of throwing animal blood
on military records, the bombing of laboratories that researched
new weapon development, etc etc.)- these events symbolic of the
system of death.

Sadly, the standards for 'authenticity' for Senator Obama seem to
be much more stringent than for other candidates. Bill Clinton had
a youthful past also, but that didn't taint him.

Simply being civil and polite to others, no matter what their background,
should be a symbol of his wisdom and kindness to others, and ultimately
his suitability for leadership.

If Senator Obama is made unacceptable because he met Bill Ayers,
then meeting me, shaking my hand, would harm him also. His story
is my story.

I recall back in the late 60's in Fayetteville, Arkansas we lived near the University of Arkansas campus and my Granddad told me to stay away from the SDS. I also recall the YAF - Young Americans For Freedom, basically young republicans. I was apolitical at the time, pussy and beer were my priorities.

I think its too big a stretch to align a ten year old with a terrorist group.

And I doubt Im alone in that thinking, thats why this wont be an issue.

...dontcha know.

Obama was convinced by Ayers to use his tricycle as a weapon against America

:rofl:

Even bigger stretch.

In that story he said the Weather Underground "did not blow enough things up." He was on a book promotion tour when the 9/11 attacks occurred. Was Obama 7 on 9/11/2001?

of which Bill Clinton pardoned several members of?

Not the Weathermen. Please keep your bombers straight.

William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, teaches courses in interpretive and qualitative research, urban school change, and teaching and the modern predicament.

A graduate of the University of Michigan, the Bank Street College of Education, and Teachers College, Columbia University, Ayers has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the political and cultural contexts of schooling, and the meaning-making and ethical purposes of students and families and teachers. His articles have appeared in many journals including the Harvard Educational Review, the Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, Rethinking Schools, the Nation, the New York Times and the Cambridge Journal of Education. His books include A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon Press, 1997), The Good Preschool Teacher: Six Teachers Reflect on Their Lives, (Teachers College Press, 1989), and To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, (Teachers College Press, 1993) which was named Book of the Year in 1993 by Kappa Delta Pi, and won the Witten Award for Distinguished Work in Biography and Autobiography in 1995. Edited books include: To Become a Teacher: Making a Difference in Children’s Lives (Teachers College Press, 1995); with Janet Miller, A Light in Dark Times: Maxine Greene and the Unfinished Conversation (Teachers College Press, 1997); with Pat Ford, City Kids/City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row (The New Press, 1996); with Jean Ann Hunt and Therese Quinn, Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader (The New Press and Teachers College Press, 1998); with Mike Klonsky and Gabrielle Lyon, A Simple Justice: The Challenge of Small Schools (Teachers College Press, 2000); with Rick Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment—A handbook for parents, students, educators and citizens (The New Press, 2001); and with Bernardine Dohrn and Jeff Jones, Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970 - 1974 (Seven Stories Press, 2006). Recent books include Fugitive Days: A Memoir (Beacon Press, 2001), On the Side of the Child: Summerhill Revisited (Teachers College Press, 2003), Teaching the Personal and the Political: Essays on Hope and Justice (Teachers College Press, 2004), and Teaching Toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom (Beacon Press, 2004). He lives in Hyde Park, Chicago with his partner, Bernardine Dohrn, and his father.

and got off on a technicality or two.

BTW, I think they have pictures of the tea party linking Bama and the much lauded killers.

And when prosecutors act so recklessly and engage in such prosecutorial misconduct that a judge drops the charges against someone, that's a technicality.

the fact that they killed people.

Can a person ever cease being "unclean"?

Obama is 8 years younger than I am.

What's next? He once said hi to Hitler? He smiled at Charlemagne?

:rofl:

to steal the nomination.

Hopefully, the campaign will put this plan into play with all the competence they've shown so far!

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/02/obamas_weatherman_connection.html

In the short term, the person who has most to gain by speculation about Obama's acquaintance with a former terrorist is Hillary Clinton. The former First Lady likes to present herself as "tested and vetted" after years of exposure to Republican attacks, in contrast to Obama, a relative newcomer to hardscrabble presidential politics. Such arguments resonate with Johnson, the counterterrorism expert, who told me that he is a Clinton supporter, although not involved with the campaign.

But the Obama-Ayers link is a tenuous one. As Newsday pointed out, Clinton has her own, also tenuous, Weatherman connection. Her husband commuted the sentences of a couple of convicted Weather Underground members, Susan Rosenberg and Linda Sue Evans, shortly before leaving office in January 2001. Which is worse: pardoning a convicted terrorist or accepting a campaign contribution from a former Weatherman who was never convicted?

Whatever his past, Ayers is now a respected member of the Chicago intelligentsia, and still a member of the Woods Fund Board. The president of the Woods Fund, Deborah Harrington, said he had been selected for the board because of his solid academic credentials and "passion for social justice."

"This whole connection is a stretch," Harrington told me. "Barack was very well known in Chicago, and a highly respected legislator. It would be difficult to find people round here who never volunteered or contributed money to one of his campaigns."

MORE AT LINK

Ayers said in the New York Times on 9/11/2001 that he didn't regret anything, (I guess including the people they killed) and they didn't "blow up enough things." He said that on the day the World Trade towers were coming down. You also left out the fact that Obama was introduced to the Chicago south side activist community at Ayer's house in Hyde Park when he first ran for the sate senate.

another day, another round of whackamole.

Go for it, Obamatrons.

On Bill pardoning 2 Weathermen. Thanks.

Again, there is not there there.

no matter who the candidate is they get equally dragged through the coals prior to being this far down the road. It is disturbing that the media has waited this long. But hey your candidate could have preempted it all and he didn't.

his mother's permission to hook up with the WU.

Are none of you people able to add or to read?

he's getting a lot of Kudos from his fellow r-wingers about that. And you can bet that O'Reilly is steamed about that...

We know there's a connection there.

was pimping that story to ABC as of February 22. Is this a rinse and repeat job?

younger than I am and I was a little kid when the WU was running around. It's not like they are active anymore. Are they?