Does Obama Still Think Ayers Has Been ‘Rehabilitated’? No, Says His Campaign

Jake- did you ask why Obama and his campaign have given so many untruthful and/or misleading stories about this so far? Why, in fact, he’d failed to mention his Chicago Annenberg Challege experience at all up to this point?
I would like reporters to start looking into what Obama’s CAC board supported for funding.
Acorn. Klonsky. A power struggle with Daley, and poor results.
Obama has been giving out false information about this for a reason. I would like a reporter to find it before we vote.

We are facing an economic 9/11 and all John McCain can talk about it a man who did a very bad thing forty years ago and ‘Drill, baby, drill.’

Obama stated “I assumed he had been rehabilitated.” Hey maybe Bin Laden is also rehabilitated. It is really, really, really hard to believe that Obama really thinks Ayers is a roll model as Ayers has said publically that he wishes the group had bombed more, killed more and so forth. What judgment does his man Obama have?

Matt -
You seem to miss the point – yes he did a bad thing 40 years ago but in 2001 Ayers himself said he does not regret it and feels they did not do enough.
What is up with that. Is this clown is an educator.

The Ayers family selected and groomed Obama for political office.
Without the help of Bill Ayers (plus his father, wife, brother and other associates), Obama would probably not be in political office.
- It was Ayers the gave Obama power and prominence in Chicago by naming Obama to the Annenberg Challenge and Woods fund which doled out over $100 million to radical, left wing organizations.
- It was Ayers, in his house, who had a party with the Chicago elite to introduce Obama as the new person running for office in Chicago politics.
Without the huge help of Bill Ayers there would be no Obama.
Sidenotes:
- Bill Ayers wife, Bernadette Dohrn, worked in the same law office as Michelle Obama.
And didn’t Obama know the Ayers family in 1987?
In 1987 there was a push for school reform in Chicago. Thomas Ayers was a leader of the ABCs Coalition which was coordinated by his son, Bill Ayers. One member of the coalition was the Developing Communities Project, headed up by Barack Obama before he left for Harvard.

For you die-hard supporters for His Nothingness. The market crash is a vivid warning of what you will see under a Zero-bama administration.
Zero-bama pushed hard to pass a so-called economic stimulus program, basically giving some of you up to $700 bucks, to “save” the economy. On the contrary, HRC wanted a targeted economic plan aimed at banking and mortgage crisis – this was 12 months ago! Yet, the Congress, headed by his House Mommy and Senate Daddy wanting to show their support and to pick an Affirmative Action candi, went along, ignoring the real crisis and a viable solution at that time, again 1 freeking year ago.
Now, this $700 did nothing, as characteristic to His Nothingness, to the economy; actually it led to the down-slide of more than 40%!!!! in the market. On top of this, this phony still wants to give you $1000 to (1) buy your vote if you vote for him, and (2) boost and rescue the economy if you elect him.
This is a serious judgment problem. Has he really ever made a good judgment call when he has the responsibility of doing something????
Are you blind supporters really as moronic as this phony is!

@ Frank from Southampton (one word, BTW): You are a perfect reflection of why the nation is turning away from McCain. His supporters are crazy, hysterical and hopelessly wrong. The ugliness coming through at these rallies is an embarrassment to the Republican party, of which I’m a member.
Country first? Not even close.

Ayers won’t be rehabilitated until he picks up all the garbage in the snow with shovels and rakes and implements of destruction. And pays the $50 fine.
Officer Obama came to the realization that it was a typical case of American
blind justice, and there wasn’t nothing he could do about it.

Jon in Maryland, Life just aint fair is it?!?!

How is WIlliam AYers related to the beating my bank accounts have taken over the last week? How is Rezo or what ever his name is related to my husband losing his job? They are distractions put out by McCain because he does not get economy. Same deal with Acorn. Yeah some say it is part of the problem and it may be but so are the greedy guys we just bailed out on Wall Street. By the way I WANT MY SPA TREATMENTS NOW!!!!There is enough blame to go around Pelosi and company ande ven John MCCain. He fought for deregulation for years before he saw the light.

Ayers is a dead horse. McCain can keep beating this thing all he wants but in the end, it’s still a dead horse.
McDeperado is a sad thing to watch.
Here’s a radical idea, try acting like you give a rat’s but about the middle class.

The “Left” only wishes they had an Ayers like connection with McCain

Try all you like, Republicans, with your smear tactics and trying to keep people from voting. None of it is going to work this time. The crap you brought us in office is soon to be over!The American people see through your lies and say Enough is Enough!

Hopefully before long all the Republicans will be singing “Super Trooper” by Abba. (Ok I admit I listened to my Mam Mia sound track at lunch. This song came it and well It just seemed applicable.)

Obama, Ayers, Chicago organizers, ACORN — all part of the same rotten fruit!

According to reports, even Obama’s airplane stinks. Stink seems to follow him wherever he goes!

First, Obama sees nothing wrong with working with Ayers. Then he says he didn’t know Ayers was a violent activist. Then he says he thought Ayers had been rehabilitated. Now, he says he thinks Ayers has not been rehabilitated.
Obama acts like a lawyer trying evade responsibility, which is what he is. He’s not presidential material.

Bill Ayres was and is accepted as an important advocate of education reform, one who is a professor at a respected university.
Guilt by association is the game that Joe McCarthy played. He was unAmerican and so is John McCain.
NOW CAN WE get back to the economic problems facing this nation?
Unless that is John McCain wants to talk about the Obama’s nanny or gardener or if he has a toupe or something equally important!

Repub. you can continue bringing
this Ayers issue morning and night.
But what I can tell you is:
No one can go back and change a bad
beginning. But anyone can start
now and create a successul ending.

What I meant to say in my last post is
if there any resources availble, you would have to have No assets at All to receive them!

Wow, what anger from the far right-wing of the GOP. Still throwing stones without looking over at Sarah Palin sleeping with a person who was a member of a political party (AIP) which has as its central platform Alaska seceding from the United States — i.e. treason. What’s more bothersome: Obama once, several years ago, being on a non-profit education committee with a bunch of republicans and Ayers (I guess all those republicans are to be considered terrorists, as well), or a person who continues to this very day to be closely associated with, and in fact sleeping with, a traitor!
Hummm……

If Obama’s tenuous association with Ayers should make people question his judgement, what about McCain’s serving in the Senate with Strom Thrumond, who himself ran on a segregation platform? Should McCain not have denounced him for previous actions and resigned in protest?

Hero – Oprah did not make the list? For shame!!!! She must be devistated.

According to obama’s past and behavior, 30-40 years from now, if bin laden is still alive, we can work with him for the greater good.
maybe we can give bin laden a medal for good behavior
ACORN thanks obama for that 800,000.00 and the Millions during his state senate years….

Mara: I quess what we are saying is falling on deaf ears. They love to stir the pot! They cater to the lowest intelligence in our country.

“and by design no one was ever hurt”…he’s lying..plain and simple…a Police Officer was killed by his group.

Sen McCain and Gov Palin seem to be inciting their crowds to emulate the actions of Bill Ayers.

What is “Republican Logic”? It must be an oxy-moron

No one seemed too concerned about the ISSUES when they had Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter to be talking about instead.

Oh, stop all your hysterical rants you McCainiacs. Ayers never said “I wish we had killed more”. He said he wished he had “done” more, perhaps more speaking out, more demonstrating, sometinig more to end the War earlier since it didn’t end until 1975, after 58,000 of our soldiers were killed for no good reason. There wasn’t anything American citizens could do to end the War. We had to wait it out until the Viet Cong resolved it for us. Ayers didn’t even “kill” one person. He bombed government buildings, yes. He may not have been a good man in 1970, and maybe not even today. But believe me, there were a lot of angry Americans and anti-war protestors back then who did a lot of acting out because they opposed a vicious, useless War that nearly destroyed this country. (Sound familiar?) In any event, I doubt Ayers went around bragging about what he did so many years later, and Obama may not have known about this at all. Ayers never did any jail time for his activities, either. Obama and Ayers were on a Board together, and that doesn’t constitute anything illegal.

I believe that many of the racist anti-Obama posts on this site are actually created by Obama supporters pretending to be McCain supporters. Their intent is to create the illusion that McCain supporters are hateful, ignorant racists. I also believe that the few racist-types who show up at McCain rallies are Obama plants. They are playing to the media. It’s all a part of the strategy. Their hope is that if they can make ordinary Americans believe the racists have risen en masse to oppose Obama, these ordinary Americans will rush to his defense and give him a “sympathy” vote. The media, of course, helps this strategy along by focusing not on the millions of Americans who have well-founded reasons to oppose Barack Obama, but on the few idiots who don’t like the color of his skin. For a new kind of politician, Barack Obama certainly knows some old political tricks.

ACORN learned from obama to go to bank official’s homes to harrass them to keep lending money to ANYBODY THAT CAME INTO THEIR BANKS.
ayers+obama FUNDED ACORN.
FUNDED ACORN TO KEEP ON HARRASSING
and during the primary against Hillary, obama FUNDED ACORN to KEEP ON CHEATING to steal the votes from Hillary’s supporters.
obama knows 2 ways to play,
pay to play
cheat and win

If this were a job, Obama’s personal references would be Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Tony Rezco, and Franklin Raines. If I were Obama, I too would be hoping that my interviewer did not call on my personal references.

Well Obama finall answered the question of when he learned of Ayers radical terrorist past when he stated
“Ultimately”
“I ended up learning about the fact that he had engaged in this reprehensible act 40 years ago.” I say Thanks to Sara Palin
Obama also “Ultimately” after 20 years of “inspiration” ,learned about Rev Wright thanks to Fox Sean Hannity
“Jeremiah Wright who spoke at a press function in Detroit was not the man he heard preaching every Sunday”
Obama may have been suspicious as he states in Chap 14 of Obamas book “Reverend Wright shrugged “Some of my fellow clergy don’t appreciate what we’re about. They feel we’re too radical”
Obama also “Ultimately” learned Tony Rezko thanks to a Court and Obamas discounted home purchase
“This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew, but now he has been convicted by a jury on multiple charges that once again shine a spotlight on the need for reform.”
Obama also “Ultimately” learned about Mike Klonsky ideas of education and communist ties thanks to right wing bloggers
Mike Klonsky postings were entirely deleted from the Obama campaign web site in June after several independent bloggers noted Klonsky’s connections to Obama and Ayers.
Obama also “Ultimately” learned about Hatem El-Hady’s thanks to Michelle Obama who had listed him as a friend
Hatem El-Hady’s web page has now vanished from the Obama campaign website. No explanations given
Obama “ultimately” learned thanks to campaign staff,
The New Black Panther Party appears openly anti-White, anti-Jewish, and anti-America. After Obama’s Tuesday damage-control speech,his campaign pulled the Black Panthers’ endorsement story off their website
“Ultimately” may not yet have arrived for Obama on Khalidi ,thanks to Khalidi returning the Woods Grant favor by hosting a fundraiser for Obama.
Obama “lavished praise” on Khalidi in 2003 when the former PLO functionary took a job at Columbia University, according to an LA Times article last year.
“Ultimately” may never arrive for Frank Marshall Davis’s role as a mentor to the young Obama but if Obama read Franks book Livin’ the Blues he would “Ultimately” learn as Frank wrote that “when author Richard Wright in 1944 left the Communist Party”,”aided only the racists who were constantly seeking any means to destroy cooperation between Reds and blacks”(p. 243)
Obama “Ultimately” learned about his racist Grandma that raised him
“but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.”
I say the voters will “Ultimately” learn that of all the above associations, the only person of them all that he publicly stated that mad him cringe was his grandmother. I just hope its before Nov4.

Hey Shrubbery.. One would have to be a Bin Laden sympathizer to view a candidate with ties to terrorist as being viable…

obama was a lawyer.
lawyers lie all the time and they have no remorse for it….all they want is their fee….
how convenient :
obama runs woods fund, woods fund ACORN, ACORN pays obama fees for his work….
all swimming together in that pond of chicago style politics….
something smells

The media MIGHT want to mention the appearance/disappearance of Mike Klonsky as a blogger for the Obama website.
If Obama WERE bent on socialism, that’d be fine — IF he could bring himself to put forward something other than a Republican-lite platform, along with his personal supposed-adorability, to attract votes.
Trouble is, most of Obama’s political history has been uneventful, except for his own advancement toward the big coup.
The worst thing about Ayers/Obama/Klonsky may not be that Ayers actually is, as he claims, a “communist”, but that the hyper-”left” may have operated for all these years as … the EXACT opposite.

Ayers’ education work has been just as divisive as Rev Wright’s religious work!!!

I totally understood what Obama said the first time. Obama has always condemned Ayers acts.

And if you want to know the change Obama and Ayers have in mind, look at what they did at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Look at Obama’s Chicago years, which explains why Ayers and Dohrn would host the launching of his political career from their living room. That’s where Obama doesn’t want to go — because if voters look there, he’s toast.

I don’t see how McCain/ Palin can honestly make such a non-issue into an issue of patriotism and integrity when Palin remains married to a former member of a secessionist party and when the McCain camp has been doing everything possible to stonewall the Troopergate investigation, not to mention they have been running the ugliest campaign in our recent presidential election history.

MayBee
Clearly all of you should spend less time watching fixed news and actually read. Like Palin, you’re all low information voters. This info has been out for a long time. Now, what I’d like to know is how all of you players feel about the fact that Ayers was appointed to this board that he served on with as many as 5 other REPUBLICANS by Walter Annenberg who was given an ambassadorship by RONALD REGAN. Annenberg’s wife who is still alive endorsed McCain. Are the Regans, Annenberg’s and McCain terrorist?
You’re all just ticked because the tall, smart, young guy is beating the snot out of the short, stupid, Old guy. Graduating 5th from the bottom of your class means you’re not Presidential material. Sorry but joe six pack is beneath the Whitehouse and 5 schools in 6 years does not scream Vice President of the United States.

Carpenter – “CHEAT AND WIN CHEAT AND WIN….good education process taught by the “professor ayers and the almighty obama ” I thought that that was the
Republicans tactics until they switched to lynch mobs.

For more information on Ayers, ACORN, and other recent revelations, check out the NO Quarter and Texas Darlin’ Blogs.
Right now ACORN is being investigated for Voter Fraud in a number of states, and guess who was involved with ACORN?

If McCain had even just shared a cup of coffee with Timothy McVeigh, his campaign would be toast. But no worries Barack, the Times will run it on page A21 (they save the front page for really important stories such as the pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s daughter;-)

OH BY THE WAY I AM NOT FAR RIGHT BUT YOU NUT JOBS ARE FAR GONE/ YOU MAKE EXCUSES FOR EVERY THING .IT IS THE FAR LEFT THAT IS CAUSING ALL OF THIS. THE MEDIA THE MAIN CHANNELS COVERING ONLY OBAMA AND TELLING LIES ABOUT THE POLLS AND EVERTHING. LOOK AT OPERA WOW SHE HAS AN ALL WHITE AUDENCE AND CONTROLS THEM ALL,WAIT UNTIL THEY GET THE SHOCK OF THEIR LIFES WHEN OBAMA THE LIAR GETS IN. THEREIS NO RIGHT WING HYSTERIA BUT THEIR IS LEFT WING RADICALS WHO WOULD DO ANYTHING JUST TO GET A DEMOCRAT IN .HOW IS IT THAT OBAMA WON OVER HILLLARY NOW REALLY COME ON NOW ….IT WAS FIXED… .HE HAS NO EXPIERENCE

“Were you even alive in the 60s? Those were different times back then. I don’t agree with his attacks, but things were different then.”

The bottom-line to all of this is that Obama has not been voluntarily forthcoming and has outright LIED about the extent of his involvement with William Ayers and ACORN.
Additionally, if not moreover, Obama’s repeated claim that our current financial crisis is the result of the last eight years of Bush’s failed policies is not only an outright LIE but, since Obama played an instrumental role in ACORN obtaining thousands of sub-prime mortgage loans, it’s a HYPOCRITICAL LIE.
NObama! NO way! NO shape! NO form!

My dad always said, if you want to see a person’s real caharacter, watch what he does when boxed into a corner. With his attack politics McCain has revealed himself to be pathetic.

Ask the people in Chicago — Ayers is simply part of the scene, and no one thought anything of it until this election. McCain is throwing mud and hoping some sticks.

When will Obama be asked about his memebership in the Democratic Socialists of America? There is documented evidence of his attendence at meetings.
(and spare us the Obamabot talking points about Alaska)

I watched the news showing McCain’s interview on Fox being televised on CNN, FOX, and other networks. In the interview McCain said he wanted Obama to come out with the truth about Ayers so the public can decide. Why isn’t anyone calling out McCain on his hypocrisy on TROOPERGATE? He asks for public truth from Obama, yet he sends his lawyers to Alaska to cover up TROOPERGATE to avoid public scrutiny. Why doesn’t McCain let Palin testify about her TROOPERATE connection so the American Public can decide – the same standard he wants to apply to Obama. Do you smell hypocrisy?
I don’t want to hear this excuse that TROOPERGATE is politically motivated and that the AYERS connection isn’t. Palin was in office as a government official during TROOPERGATE while Obama was eight years old when Ayers did his despicable act. You tell me which has more validity in applying a standard of judgment — a person governing when the act was being committed or a person who was eight years old when someone else committed the act?
If judgment is what McCain is questioning about Obama, shouldn’t the American pubic question McCain’s judgment for picking a VP that may be using her powers for personal reasons? Sounds like Bush/Chaney tactic to twist the law f to protect them elves and those they surround themselves with. After all, Palin’s character could be a heart beat away from the Presidency if McCain is elected. The public deserves the truth by her testifying in front of an INDEPENDENT board, not one she picks. How many middle class citizens you know that would get away with ignoring a subpoena — hmmm, I guess if you could hire high powered lawyers to put you and your cronnies above the law, you could.
Come on, what are you afraid of McCain, the truth? McCain keeps preaching about transparency in government, but I guess that only applies to others, not himself or those he surrounds himself with.
McCain seems to wear hypocrisy as well as one of his thousand dollar suits. His campaign and campaign tactics looks more and more like the same eight years of Bush scare tactics that middle class come to despise. BUSH SCARE TACTICS MAY OF WORKED FOR THE WAR, BUT IT WON’T WORK FOR THE ECONOMY. WE SWALLOWED THE BUSH SCARE TACTIC PILL BEFORE AND THE ONLY CURE FOR THIS CANCER IS TO PUT IN OFFICE SOMEONE THAT DOESN’T REFLECT BUSH POLICIES WHILE CAMPAIGNING — WE NEED A PRESIDENT WHO BELIEVES THERE IS A BETTER WAY AND THAT SURE ISN’T THE MCCAIN’S HYPOCRISY POLICY THAT APPLIES TO EVERYONE ELSE, WHILE HE APPLIES DIFFERENT STANDARDS TO HIMSELF AND THE HYPOCRITES HE SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH.
BRING IT ON, MCCAIN AT THE NEXT DEBATE. I DARE YOU!

Someone (helloooo media) ought to take a look at the “educational reform” ideas Ayers and Obama were pushing through Annenberg. Educational reform sounds benign. Take a look at what Ayers means by reform and who got the Annenberg money. That’s Obama’s so-called executive experience. Wouldn’t want that “reform” in my public schools.

Every time a question is asked about Obama, we get either (1) an attempt to change the subject or (2) the next in a string of evolutionary answers, to wit: He’s just a guy in my neighborhood, I didn’t know he was a terrorist, I knew he was a terrorist but thought he was rehabilitated.
I never heard the racist comments. I could never disassociate myself from him, no more so than my white grandmother.
What a load of crap.
If you had no problem associating with someone, be stand up enough to say so. But don’t insult our intelligence.

Hey folks, it’s like Rev. Wright said. Obama will do whatever he needs to do to get elected. That’s what we’re seeing.

Damn straight, Bishop.
Ayers’ dad was a big shot with a utility and got him off the hook for his murderous activities. Got the lovely Ms. Dohrn a job at Sidley Austin law firm. Dohrn got the job even though she couldn’t practice law because she had a criminal conviction…

Hey Marko — Ayers got off on a technicality. His own quote is “free as a bird, guilty as sin.” Yeah, guilty of trying to kill people like policemen. And, he said quite recently that he wished he’d done more back in the day.
That’s Mr. O’s friend.

Marko have you seen Rev. Wright’s “goddamn America” video?
What do you call that?

LTTE to the NYT from William Ibershof, the lead prosecutor of the Weatherman.
“As the lead federal prosecutor of the Weathermen in the 1970s (I was then chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District of Michigan and took over the Weathermen prosecution in 1972), I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child.
Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.
Because Senator Obama recently served on a board of a charitable organization with Mr. Ayers cannot possibly link the senator to acts perpetrated by Mr. Ayers so many years ago.”

Murtagh was a kid at the time Ayers and Co. tried to kill him and his family. Hid dad was a judge.

Ayers, Wright, Dorn, Frank Marshall Davis and all of Obama’s other associates do hate America. They want to change America from the America set up by our Founding Fathers into a Marxist utopia of their own making. Just listen to them. God damn America from Rev Wright. Have you ever read Ayer’s views and Frank Marshall Davis poetry about the country? Have you ever listened to Obama himself. He says all the time that America is no what he thinks it should be and he wants to change it. He never says America is good or great. It’s always flawed. And stop with the crap about Liddy and Oliver North. They were fighting FOR America and our interests against the very kind of radical communists and stalinists that Obama and his ilk support. Ayer’s was fighting his OWN country. And bombing and killing people in his OWN country. And if Liddy and North did anything wrong, they have paid the price for it. Ayers got off on a technicality and then even went on to flippantly say something like “guilty as hell and free as a bird. Only in America” What a jerk. There is no comparison between him and Oliver North. North is a patriot. Ayer’s is an America-hating Marxist.

The fact Obama doesn’t think this matters tells me all I need to know about his lack of judgment. Plus, if he’s been hiding this bit of his past, what else is Obama hiding??

Tex You are known by the company you keep.

Go ahead folks, be useful idiots.
Whatever.

“I think that when people support you, it doesn’t mean that you support everything they say. Obviously, those words and those statements are statements that none of us would associate ourselves with, and I don’t believe that Senator Obama would support any of those, as well.”
– John McCain, in reference to the Jeremiah Wright controversy

Obviously that should have been Marxism and not Maxism. Another typo.

McCain considers Charles Keating to be a close personal friend going on several decades now.
Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 10, 2008 4:52:45 PM
__________
… A close friend who has paid his dues to society…. and learned his lesson.
Obama waits until all the dirt is in before he flings HIS friends… Jeremiah, his white grandmother, Pfleger, into the crocodile pond….
WHOOOOPS!
There goes Ayers!
Who’s next?

I don’t recall reading that Palin released her own Troopergate report exonerating herself. That is ludicrous enough to discuss, don’t you think. Where is the public outrage at the race baiting at McCain’s rallys? Why won’t the networks call him on it? Why do they continue to smear Obama (Ayers) when they know the truth? Where is the integrity in journalism? Where are the real journalists? I think we should boycott all sites that do not treat both candidates equally. Not to do so is to condone the behavior. To paraphrase the adage, we must stand for something or we will fall for anything.

where does race come into this?
The only ones who keep bringing it up are Obama supporters…..
Is this the only platform Obama has to fall back/ off of?
Isn’t he “everyman” BI racial?
Why does it become a matter of race when someone shows up HIS warts and scars……?
Methinks Obama and his followers… protest too much!

Obama’s greatest accomplishment has been to somehow convince voters that McCain (who democrats have loved for 2 decades) is the same as George Bush (who they understood was extremely different when he campaigned against McCain in 2000). Obama supporters have concentrated so much hatred on George Bush that they have not taken a close look at who it is they are supporting. They have not demanded the details of what Obama has done for even the last 10 years.
The accepted answer to the Ayers question in the primary was that Ayers was some guy that lived in Obama’s neighborhood and quit asking these “guilt by association” questions!
But Obama has an extremely limited history. By all means don’t remove his honest associations! In the absence of all associations, he has only his ability to campaign. And in the words of his former pastor, “Obama says what he says because he is a politician”.
Obama may actually benefit by having so many questionable associations. Many voters will accept his defense against any one of them and not understand how deep-rooted the others are. They may not consider that even if you believe he is not corrupt, his inability to identify corruption is a dangerous trait for a President. They may not realize that this is what they hated most about George Bush.
Nobody has suggested that Obama is “guilty” of what Ayers has done. The evidence suggests that they hold similar views. Had the public records that were finally released last week regarding his association with Ayers been available during the primary, he certainly would have lost to Hillary.
The money did not go to schools. It went to what Ayer’s referred to as radical education reform. So the question is, do you believe that Ayers selected someone with similar radical views to hand out this money?

It is too late for the old man and his militia gang to derail the Obama Express. Obama is very honest, very staright forward, very likeable, very sincere and above all real gentleman. He deserves to be OUR PRESIDENT, when Bush-Cheney and McCain have dumped us in to a cesspool. Bush-Cheney must be indicted for their crimes and McCain must be sent to Arizona Desert to enjoy his retirement.

>>>PJO110 | Oct 10, 2008 6:12:18 PM
Are THOSE people running for President?

This nuance of whether or not Ayers is “sufficiently” rehabilitated is midding the point. It still has nothing to do with Obama.
Obama condemned Ayers’ crimes, but was willing to work with him 40 years later to get some good things done. Obama works with a wide assortment of people all the time, whether he thinks they might have done something bad in the past is hardly relevant.

Google “Steve Stoll and Sarah Palin.” Want to know who’s really pallin’ around with terrorists? As it turns out, Sarah “Joe Sixpack, hockey mom” Palin, that’s who. This story is about to break big and finish the job McCain has done of ruining his campaign. McCain blew it by picking Palin, especially now that it’s come to light that she supports terrorism on our own soil. Go ahead and read up on it now, Steve Stoll and Sarah Palin. If you aren’t a KKK member, you’ll be shocked, disgusted and frightened of this enemy combatant McCain picked as his running mate. No exaggeration here. This is terrifying stuff. Really terrifying as her ties to this group are as current as 2008.
If you really put country first, you’ll be voting OBAMA/BIDEN 2008.

I don’t recall reading that Palin released her own Troopergate report exonerating herself. That is ludicrous enough to discuss, don’t you think. Where is the public outrage at the race baiting at McCain’s rallys? Why won’t the networks call him on it? Why do they continue to smear Obama (Ayers) when they know the truth? Where is the integrity in journalism? Where are the real journalists? I think we should boycott all sites that do not treat both candidates equally. Not to do so is to condone the behavior. To paraphrase the adage, we must stand for something or we will fall for anything. Posted by: Ihjt | Oct 10, 2008 5:29:54 PM
Since we are airing candidate’s dirty laundry, how about John McCain left his disabled wife- who had lobbied extensively for his release- for Cindy, and, to add insult to injury, John’s mother sued the poor lady for wedding trinkets. How about Cindy McCain stole and was addicted to drugs that should have gone to poor children. How about she did this because John was entangled in the Keating 5 scandal. How about John McCain was involved, perhaps inappropriately, with a female lobbyist. I could go on and on, but I simply do not have the years to devote to it.

This is absurd to even be in the news! I sit on a board. I have never asked any of the members what they were doing 40 years ago. Nor do I care. I care what they are doing now.
It is hard to believe how easily Americans can be led.
As somebody wiser than me said: It is all about the excellence of marketing and the gullibility of the people.

Mr. board member and others — put aside the association with ayers theme and LOOK at what obama and ayers did with the annenberg money. this was not some benign activity funding the three Rs. Their idea of “education reform” was to fund one radical group after another. Not what I’d want in my school and I’ll bet not what most other Americans would want either. Look at it! That alone is reason to qustion Mr. O’s so-called executive experience, even if Ayers weren’t a terrorist.
Quit accepting what the media keeps calling “education reform.” It wasn’t. And by the way, it did not good. Millions wasted. Annenberg is probably spinning in his grave.

Old news people. Ayers is old news. New news? Palin found guilty of ethics violation in Alaska.
So you can keep harping on an old 60′s nut case…or you can talk about someone who abuses their power running for VP.
Which one has an impact on your life today huh??

To Wow,
You have taken the side of Powerful against the weaker although there is no proof that the trooper did the things that Ms Palin said he did.
It It seems that ‘fair justice for all’ are words foreign to the extreme right.
GREED and DISHONESTY are illnesses

Who is John McCain?
Yesterday after a week of hateful anti-Obama events, McCain told supporters that Obama is a decent man, and that that they shouldn’t be scared if Obama becomes Presidents. But McCain approves the ads that claim Obama supports terrorism.

I am praying that the republican nightmare is finally ending and along with it, their attitudes and strategies of promoting guilt by association, rumor mongering, character assassination, fear mongering, xenophobia, and racism, as well as anti-intellectualism. My grandmother told me in 1960 that only bad will happen when the republicans gain power, and I have found that to be true. I am also hopeful the media will stop coddling the ultra right wing conservatives, just because they slam their fist on the table and scream about being treated unjustly – when their stupid ideas are actually called stupid. Most of the ultra conservative philosophies, from creationism to trickle down economics have been leading to the destruction of all the great principles that have created the greatest country in the world.
Raising associations with Ayes – an aging professor, who wants to hold onto the romantic notion that his efforts forty years ago, as violent and unacceptable as they were, somehow made a difference in the Vietnam debate for the good – is a very sad example of the desperate lengths the conservative movement is willing to go to try to assassinate someone’s character via an association for political gain. Ayes had no impact on the debate on the Vietnam war. He is a person of absolute insignificance on the world and national stages. And by now history has shown that his violent activities (as with all terrorist attacks) only served to hurt the very cause he claimed to promote. Terrorism is always the choice of the faithless coward.
In many ways Ayers stubborn inability to fully renounce those activities and see them for what they are is a reflection of John McCain’s unwillingness to disassociate him with the failed conservative policies that he has lived all his live espousing and believing. HE STILL WANTS TO USE THESE SAME STRATEGIES today, to deal with the very crisis they created. At least Ayers is willing to concede that violent civil protests may not have been the best choice (yea, he is getting close, but no cigar yet). I feel sorry for both men, at least Ayers seems close to an epiphany and maybe he will realize someday soon that his violent activities were antithetical, hypocritical and anti-productive given his stated goals. I do not think John will ever have such a moment.
Just so we are clear, I am in no way trying to say that John’s conservatism is the same as Ayers terrorism. Ayers tried to arrogantly and illegally take matters in his own hands, did not participate in a debate, and had insufficient faith in the correctness of his own beliefs leading him to selfishly and cowardly acts that threaten people’s lives: he was just lucky he never killed anyone. His activities were arrogant and self centered. John McCain is a far nobler human being who has given this country his dedication, service and honorably contributes to the debate in this country (well except for a few rather sleazy negative ads out there in TV land that I have to tolerate every five seconds in my battleground state).

Do you know the backgrounds of everyone you associate with? I can guarantee you that you don’t.
This Ayers thing is just a ludicrous witch hunt.
Perhaps you should question McCain as to why the Annenbergs donated to him? They are the ones who had Ayers on their board. They must be terrorists and these terrorists are funding McCain! Oh, my!!
You people make me sick trying to put down a good man like Barack Obama.
You people make me sick trying to demonize ACORN. A bi-partisan organization that has been around for many years that helps poor people. An organization that was following the laws and reported the suspicious registrations but had to turn them in by law. Whose to say a Republican plant wasn’t put into the group to purposely make out false registrations? Eh? It’s not beneath a Republican to do something like that. Republicans even eat their own. Look what the Bush campaign did to McCain when he ran before.
Go ahead and vote against your own best interest. Give more to the rich and kick the poor in the teeth. Our founding fathers will once more roll in their graves.

I THINK THAT THE COMIC MEANT THAT IN ADDITION TO THE WEATHERMEN, AYERS FELT THAT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR DID NOT DO ENOUGH TO END THE WAR. HE DID NOT RECOMMEND THE METHODS HE THOUGHT THEY SHOULD HAVE IMPLEMENTED.
THE ISSUE IS NOT WHETHER AYERS IS CORRECT OR NOT, IT IS TO TAKE UP THE CAMPAIGN IMPUGNING OBAMA AND NOT DISCUSSING REAL ISSUES THAT CONCERN THE UNITED STATES’ ELECTORATE.