You may remember William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Shortly after 9/11, if I’m remembering right, the NYT did a puff piece about these former Weather Underground terrorists — bomb-planters — who were now university professors (shocker, huh) and utt…

Ayers has money to throw around and any Democrat politician in the area would be required to visit and do the “Buck and Wing” in his living room if he wanted to get anywhere. Especially if he were African-American.

Obama is apandering egomaniac.

Any support is good support.

Even terrorist slime.

Not Everything is About Hillary Clinton

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and of course, no: ccawr is not “a coalition of religious leaders” or whatever they were trying to front on the wikipedia page.

That said, I probably have some sort of documentation laying around, but unless i can get such impartial sources as slate or Olberman to publish it, it will be suppressed as “WP:OR”.

gabriel sutherland on February 22, 2008 at 12:18 PM

I once spent a couple of days trying to get a mention of Ramsey Clark’s work for Saddam Hussein into ANSWER’s article. They camp and presume ownership of the articles.

To be technical, There wasn’t a

…but with panel and boards, he probably didn’t know who was on them until after he’d accepted…Besides, you cross paths with a lot of people in politics, and he probably didn’t even recall Ayers’ history.

calbear on February 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM

They were both on the board for the Woods fund. This is not a long list of people, so it’s fair to say they rubbed elbows.

They were on the panel I cited (because it was after 2001), and they were on this panel together:

In November 1997, Ayers and Obama participated in a panel at the University of Chicago entitled Should a child ever be called a “super predator?” to debate “the merits of the juvenile justice system”.

They were also neighbors, and Ayers mentions that in his idioitic book.

No way Obama didn’t know who Ayers was. It doesn’t mean they were friends necessarily, but they worked together and Obama did not distance himself from him after his appalling 2001 remarks.

Update: Click here to see what Democrat radio host, Taylor Marsh, has to say about Obama’s relationship with Ayers which goes into some detail on her website:

Obama’s Ayers and Dorhn relationship is something more than a few people have been trying to nail down for weeks. You can bet the Republicans and their 527s will do just that. I don’t blame them either. This goes well beyond the Rezko connection. In the bad judgment file, any association whatsoever with a domestic terrorist who actively tried to thwart an air war during the Vietnam war, calls our Marines “terrorists,” while also being unrepentant about it, shows a lack of seriousness I will never accept. John McCain’s personal disgust at this connection between Obama and Ayers will bring out a righteous fury that will likely pit the War Hero against the Terrorist’s Friend, which is just one angle Obama’s opponents will use.

Even if he did, Ted Kennedy’s hands aren’t exactly free of blood, but you don’t see politicians in 2008 shunning him over Chappaquiddick, do you? It’s understandable, even if it might be upsetting to a non-politician.

…the American public thinks that Marxism died with the Soviet Union.

baldilocks on February 22, 2008 at 11:54 AM

That’s a big part of the problem, isn’t it.

I’ll be checking in often on David Horowitz for some of the best analysis of Obama’s radical roots, such as they may be.

In April 2002, Ayers, Dohrn, and Obama, then an Illinois state senator, participated together at a conference entitled “Intellectuals: Who Needs Them?” sponsored by The Center for Public Intellectuals and the University of Illinois-Chicago. Ayers and Obama were two of the six members of the “Intellectuals in Times of Crisis” panel.

(via Hot Air) Here’s a story from The Politico that should (but won’t) give Obama supporters pause.
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the …

I was referring to a large network of self labeled political criminals [SNIP]

Also, I’ve been reading about these people for several decades and was present for the Days of Rage. Their portrayal, and others, on the internet is being seriously whitewashed.

Blake on February 22, 2008 at 12:27 PM

Got it. Thanks.

Could Obama not have known who Bernadette Dohrn was?

Blake on February 22, 2008 at 12:40 PM

Exactly. It’s like not knowing who Abbie Hoffman was. Obama is not a Johnny-come-lately lib. He has been a lib his entire life, he worships liberalism, and surely he knew who one of the most famous iconographic radicals of the Sixties was.

funky chicken on February 22, 2008 at 11:52 AM

Heh. Probably. Folks who say McCain’s the same as Obama might say almost anything.

Buy Danish. Her parents named her Stanley?

funky chicken on February 22, 2008 at 12:21 PM

Her father (Stanley) wanted a boy. Hey, who can blame him. He had the audacity of hope.

They’re already out of prison. Ayers and Dohrn were acquitted of the charges against them due to prosecutorial screw-ups in 1981.

I was referring to a large network of self labeled political criminals, most associated with Ayers and Dohrn, that Obama will be lobbied hard to release. None of them are repentant. And all should remain in prison. It is really offensive that Obama would associate with Ayers and Dorhn.

Also, I’ve been reading about these people for several decades and was present for the Days of Rage. Their portrayal, and others, on the internet is being seriously whitewashed.