Video: John Murtagh questions Obama’s Ayers timeline
posted at 11:57 am on October 9, 2008 by Allahpundit
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From Fox & Friends this morning, via Ankle Biting Pundits. Maybe this is helping, maybe it isn’t. We’ll know more when Gallup comes out later. The money bit here starts at around two minutes in; after you’re done, watch the second clip below for a refresher on how very nuanced indeed is The One’s tolerance for offensive politics. He couldn’t bring himself to associate with Don Imus after the “nappy-headed ho’s” comment lest he become a tacit “enabler” of that sort of thing. But enabling Bill Ayers? No problem. Thanks to reader “barney gumble” for reminding me of that. Exit quotation from Rick Moran: “This is not a man with a radical ideology. It is a man with no ideology at all, no set beliefs in anything save his own supreme abilities.”
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perroviejo on October 9, 2008 at 12:00 PM
I wonder how old was Barack Obama when Bill Ayers had his picture taken standing on the American Flag?
Did Barack Obama get in his car, drive over to Ayers house and punch him in the face after he saw the photo?
Elizabetty on October 9, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Moran is wrong. I wish he was right and all Obama represents is an egomaniac empty vessel. His history tells us otherwise. He has an agenda for the country.
a capella on October 9, 2008 at 12:04 PM
Wrong, that’s the meme going around but you’re never going to know until he has power…
ninjapirate on October 9, 2008 at 12:04 PM
hey National Media, maybe you should interview this guy and point out Obama’s lying about his Ayers connections.
jp on October 9, 2008 at 12:05 PM
I hope we see Mr. Murtagh in the media a lot in the next few weeks!
ConMom on October 9, 2008 at 12:05 PM
As I see it, this is the best we can possibly hope for in Obama. But if he’s indeed the radical ideologue that he appears, God help us all.
petefrt on October 9, 2008 at 12:06 PM
http://blog.pumapac.org/2008/10/07/the-bomber-as-school-reformer/
http://blog.pumapac.org/
Rick Moran is less conservative, and is less patriotic than the PUMAs.
funky chicken on October 9, 2008 at 12:06 PM
Does that make Barry a totalitarian then?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 9, 2008 at 12:08 PM
The real interesting stuff is the Michelle Obama/Bernadette Doehrn connection. That’s one I’d not heard before either.
unclesmrgol on October 9, 2008 at 12:08 PM
I seriously think the Odinga connection is just as damaging, or more damaging than this story. Where’s the coverage of that?
matd on October 9, 2008 at 12:09 PM
Obama is a Marxist. Obama is a Marxist. Obama is a Marxist. Obama is a Marxist. Obama is a Marxist. Obama is a Marxist.
Obama is a Marxist. Obama is a Marxist. Obama is a Marxist. Obama is a Marxist. Obama is a Marxist. Obama is a Marxist.
The average American skull is approximately 4″ thick so repetition is required for the sound to penetrate. If accompanied by hypnotic drumming the message penetration rate increases.
DerKrieger on October 9, 2008 at 12:09 PM
EXACTLY!!
WHERE IS THE COVERAGE OF THE OBAMA/RAILA ODINGA STORY????
SaintOlaf on October 9, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Where is the coverage of the Obama/Fannie/Freddie/ACORN connection?
DerKrieger on October 9, 2008 at 12:11 PM
WHOA! Rush just said that there is a rumor that Chicago AG looking at a RICO violation with Obama Camp and ACORN!!!
WOW! Where is this going?
OSUBuciz1 on October 9, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Laura Ingraham has been hitting this all day and asked Sarah Palin on her show about this:
“Forget what Obama saw in Ayers. What did William Ayers see in Obama? Why has he involved Obama in so much of his affairs?”
AubieJon on October 9, 2008 at 12:12 PM
FoxNews has been doing a good job on the Ayers connection and the ACORN voter-fraud stories. But will any of the other TV media report this?
Governor Palin has been mentioning the “domestic terrorist Bill Ayers” theme on the campaign trail recently, but in her interview with Greta Van Susteren, she didn’t seem to know any details about what Obama did with Ayers on the Annenberg board or Woods fund. She probably needs to sit down with Stanley Kurtz and John Murtagh and get the facts, then she could be more effective.
Steve Z on October 9, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Monday on Hannity’s radio show and then H&C at night.
Corsi called into Hannity’s radio show yesterday. He was in the UK. A story on WND reports that bribes were made to Kenyan government officials to get Corsi out of Kenya.
Corsi was going to give a press conference on the relationship (strategic and political) between Obama and Odinga. Should be some interesting stuff.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 9, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Great article from IBD earlier this year about Obama’s exposure to communist and socialist thought.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=294880428846293
Enjoy.
jawbone on October 9, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Obama is just going to give another speach and weasel out of this.
Teflon, time and time again.
Thune on October 9, 2008 at 12:13 PM
NOT associations – alliances! Thomas Sowell has it right.
ebrawer on October 9, 2008 at 12:13 PM
“Obama is now denying his ties with ACORN.” – Rush
So should we expect “This is not the ACORN I thought I knew” soon? Or perhaps “The ACORN fell farther from the tree than I thought…”
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 9, 2008 at 12:14 PM
O.K. So the electorate isn’t sophisticated enough to understand his community organizing was really an Acorn style radicalization of Chicago youth. In tamdem with a terrorist he met because his wife Michele befriended his equally terrorist wifey .
How about this for the average American…..Barry is a henpecked pussy and a punk. Yeah, that will connect.
crashman on October 9, 2008 at 12:15 PM
Someone needs to do an ad with this guy. It puts a human face on the issue.
thirteen28 on October 9, 2008 at 12:15 PM
Is William Ayers the PUPPETEER?????? Is that why Ayers had such an interest in the BO? Is this campaign the biggest scam ever laid upon the AMERICAN PEOPLE??????
bloggless on October 9, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Could have stopped right there…
DerKrieger on October 9, 2008 at 12:16 PM
the thing about Odinga, who killed thousands of people recently and is a Marxist allied with Jihadist….Obama is on TAPE CAMPAIGNGING FOR THE GUY 2 Freakign YEars ago!!!!
jp on October 9, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Did you see/hear the acorn tree gaffe Teh One used here in Indy yesterday when describing The Bayhs?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 9, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Obama is the Manchurian candidate for Marxists. Where is the Soros connection?
DerKrieger on October 9, 2008 at 12:16 PM
BINGO! I included this in my Obama Ten video. Of all of the left-leaning politicians and business leaders Ayers could have selected to serve as CHAIRMAN of the board, he chose Obama. WHY?
cannonball on October 9, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Someone please remind McCain that an amnesty will make it far easier for an Obama like candidate to be elected in future.
DerKrieger on October 9, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Obama is the Manchurian candidate for Marxists. Where is the Soros connection?
DerKrieger on October 9, 2008 at 12:16 PM
probably in B.O.’s back pocket Der.
upinak on October 9, 2008 at 12:18 PM
What do we know about Obama’s mama? Wasn’t she a Marxist? We know she was a Liberal. Perhaps she filled his head with Marxist Utopian “if only’s”. Not to mention his mentor Frank (name escapes me) from his book.
DerKrieger on October 9, 2008 at 12:19 PM
One issue at a time. Hammer Ayers for the rest of this week and into the weekend.
Pick up something else mid-next week. I say the next Obama BFF we should all get to know and hate is Tony Rezko. Obama says he cares about the poor, and housing the poor, and educating the poor…
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/
O, rly?
Barry and Billy spent over a hundred million dollars on education in poor schools. It seems they didn’t focus their efforts on education that could help those kids lift themselves out of poverty but on education in leftist agitating for more government benefits.
More government benefits, like more housing for the poor?
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/
funky chicken on October 9, 2008 at 12:19 PM
A big mouthed little man. Ayers seems to be laying low. Too low. Not typical for a loser aging hippie. Maybe it’s getting too close to the truth.
bloggless on October 9, 2008 at 12:19 PM
“Americans prefer to support a terrorist sympathizer than a Republican.”
When did we go so far off the rails?
tru2tx on October 9, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Obama STILL supports his cousin Raila Odinga!
That is one guy he hasn’t thrown under the bus yet.
SaintOlaf on October 9, 2008 at 12:21 PM
The more Americans hooked on government and the fewer taxpayers there are the harder it becomes to remain on the rails.
DerKrieger on October 9, 2008 at 12:21 PM
Talking with Imus, no, but advising Odinga, yes.
Christine on October 9, 2008 at 12:22 PM
The Obama/Raila oDinga Dorhn connection…
pedestrian on October 9, 2008 at 12:22 PM
I like the Freeper comment that links to the McCarthy article on NRO.
Why Won’t Obama Talk About Columbia?
The years he won’t discuss may explain the Ayers tie he keeps lying about.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 9, 2008 at 12:23 PM
I want to see Gibbs tell Murtaugh that Ayers’ past doesn’t matter.
drjohn on October 9, 2008 at 12:23 PM
“Americans prefer to support a terrorist sympathizer (rather) than a Republican.”…even when that Repub isn’t a conservative…but Sarah is.
Christine on October 9, 2008 at 12:24 PM
Follow the money. Where is all of this campaign and 527 cash coming from? You know the majority of his supporters don’t have the extra $$$ to donate. The portrayal of Darth Soros in the SNL parody was probably quite accurate.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 9, 2008 at 12:25 PM
You know Der, my BF and I were discussing this about a week ago and he brought up something.
A “typical white woman” from America, in Hawaii whom probably was a spoiled brat and to tick off the Parents, got pregnant and married an man whom brainwashed her to believe that nothing is wrong concerning Islam and then brought her back to Kenya.
Learning what she did, and probably getting smart, she comes back to Hawaii (pregnant or with baby B.O. unknown) and a couple years later is probably ticked off at her Parents again, meet another Islamic man from now indonesia which she marries and leave the country again. In which she renounces her American citizenship.
Now the BF said one thing, she was young and dumb… but even that young, most know that America is a saving Nation. So why try to harm yourself and go to that extreme.
My BF and I think there is more to B.O.’s Mom and past then is being lead to believe. But I can speculate.
upinak on October 9, 2008 at 12:26 PM
This is excellent. Someone needs to start waving the flag about the law firm association between Michelle and Bernadine 20 years ago. Huge.
He is parsing his association, and a simple question, including his wife, would turn up the heat considerably.
Further, the notion that “…..this all happened when I was eight or nine”, needs to be called on the carpet on. Murtagh’s assertion is it is implausible that he never knew about Ayers past for a Harvard law grad is key. I would make this assertion:
BO chose and embraced the relationship, precisely because of his past.
Starlink on October 9, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kigo1GIV7B0
Doesn’t this also show that if it wasn’t politically poisonous to be associated with Wright that Obama would have continued on his association with Wright knowing the offensive views and remarks Wright made.(Obama is likely lying about not knowing about Wright’s views and claiming he just found out like everyone else, but the Ayers relationship shows that he would have just continued on with Wright and really doesn’t have a problem with these relationships until voters find out about them.
And how can Obama claim that he wasn’t aware of Wright’s comments and views but he was eventually able to find out Ayers history and still be associates with him?
gumble on October 9, 2008 at 12:26 PM
This is all just a distraction from donations from Fannie Mae and Freddie, urrr, letting babies die on tables, uhhh, twenty years in a radical church, ummmm, never actually accomplishing anything that he is willing to admit to, uhhhh, racism. Yeah, that’s it, this is a distraction from the conversation on racism we need, you Bible hugging gun-clingers.
pedestrian on October 9, 2008 at 12:28 PM
O’Bama was enamored with Ayers bonifides
A radical who actually was on the front lines….
Starlink on October 9, 2008 at 12:28 PM
Here’s a good article that I missed in September.
William Ayers and Barack Obama: Finally exposed
by Andy Martin
Note his timeline.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 9, 2008 at 12:29 PM
Amen. People need to stop sugarcoating Obama’s relationships. These aren’t passing acquaintances. Michelle Malkin spoke this morning about Acorn being in Obama’s DNA. It’s the same with all of these relationships–they’re deep alliances. Right now, I’d argue that Biden is an association, while Ayers, Wright, Rezko, and the like have been Obama’s allies.
Here’s the Sowell article noted above, must read:
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZmM1NzBkNGI4MGRkZjFmOTg4ZjU3ODVjNmE5ZGM0OGI=
BuckeyeSam on October 9, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Seriously guys…read this blog post from the pumapac:
http://blog.pumapac.org/
read the whole thing. now is not the time to go crazy with all kinds of disjointed attacks.
Ayers now, ??? Rezko or ACORN or whoever next, then on to something else.
I don’t see a huge upside in the Odinga thing, as horrifying as it is. That is a story that may have to wait until after Nov. 4. First, stories of brutal ethnic/tribal violence in Africa are (tragically) kind of old hat. Second, Kenya is far removed from your average American voter. Finally, it will be too easy for the Obama campaign to spin it as Obama’s trying to help out a wacky family member.
We all know that’s BS, but with 3 weeks to go, you don’t go for the complicated stuff.
funky chicken on October 9, 2008 at 12:30 PM
There are some Democrats in Illinois who are not comfortable with Obama’s radicalism and his associations with Ayers and Dohrn and ACORN. Now that Obama and Axelrod are distracted with the presidential campaign, I believe there is a power struggle going on in Illinois. AG Lisa Madigan is not an Obama acolyte. She may even be a closst PUMA who supports Hillary. She would have been a leading contender for AG in a Hillary admninistration. She may also be aspiring to be Governor after Blagojevich gets sent to jail, and she needs some anti-corruption cred to get there. Her competition may be none other than Patrick Fitzgerald himself.
There could be some real fireworks here before it’s over.
rockmom on October 9, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Some detective work should be able to establish if Ayers and Obama were roommates during their college years.
It fits this pattern of choosing his Marxist friends carefully:
…with Bill Ayers?
econavenger on October 9, 2008 at 12:33 PM
cannonball on October 9, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Great video, Obama Ten.
Educational, entertaining and scary all at once.
tru2tx on October 9, 2008 at 12:35 PM
pedestrian on October 9, 2008 at 12:28 PM
True. I was of the same mind yesterday. But you cannot make, other than a specious “racial” claim out of Ayers.
Wright, Acorn, infanticide, …..all can be couched in racial terms. Unbelievably I know.
Ayers goes to his core beliefs. Realize that BO could have been part of and associate with any group or individuals and chose to serve on two boards, one as chair, with Ayers. In those parts of Chicago it would have been considered “cool”, given BO’s interest in climbing the ‘radical’, ‘persecution theology’, activist/socialist political ladder.
Starlink on October 9, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Thank you for the link. That seems to confirm what Mr. Murtagh was saying in the F&F video above.
Yakko77 on October 9, 2008 at 12:38 PM
source Kenya Orange Party manifesto. Yes, this is Odinga. the guy Barry campaigned for 2 years ago.
Does any of this crap sound familiar to anyone?
Ayers..ACORN..OBAMA? Anyone?
ChrisM on October 9, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Hmm, now this is a curious pattern: Saul Alinsky had his own “Bill Ayers” ideological father-figure named Frank Nitti.
econavenger on October 9, 2008 at 12:43 PM
And I think Bernadine and Michelle have NOT cut the ties that bind. I think that this is how Bill and Obama are still connected. They may not be seen so much together here lately, but the wives have not been under the microscope.
Michelle is the radical voice that Obama does not express publicly. She is the attitude and the megaphone of Ayers/Alinksy radicalism that Obama does not dare show in public. But it is there and there is evidence of him speaking in radical tongues. The media will just not show it.
freeus on October 9, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Holy Smokes!
Michelle and Dohrn, then Obama at the same law firm. Now, it makes more sense and I call BS on Obama. I’ve worked in a law firm, you get to know all the lawyers. How could he not know Dohrn and Ayers?
skatz51 on October 9, 2008 at 12:45 PM
If I was hiring the POTUS, and looked over Obama’s resume, I would look at the references for character and judgement. They would list like this:
Saul Alinsky
Frank Marshall Davis
Malcolm X
Reverend Wright
Father Flager
Louis Farrakhan
Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour
Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal
Brzyzinski
O’Malley
Tony McPeak
Samantha Power
Anthony Lake
Susan Rice
Ali Abunimah
Tony Rezko
Edward Said
As an informed voter, do you know who all these people are? Do you know what they stand for? Do you know who their friends are?
As Sean said, this is the year journalism died, except for the wonderful efforts of a few brave web publishers. HotAir is one of them – thanks for a forum to get the word out that the MSM refuses to do!
“You have been duped people – the ‘Kool-Aid’ is strong this time.”
Be careful not to drink too much…
Kevin in Washington State on October 9, 2008 at 12:47 PM
There are too many questions, just too many!!
We cannot trust this country to this man. It is not racist to say so.
skatz51 on October 9, 2008 at 12:48 PM
I don’t remember who said it first but the term “associations” is no longer even remotely accurate when it comes to the Ayers-Obama relationship. Alliances is the term, plain and simple.
Yakko77 on October 9, 2008 at 12:48 PM
I left off William Ayres, because Obama said he was just somebody in my neighborhood. Yeah right dumbass – I might of been born yesterday, but it sure wasn’t last night.
Kevin in Washington State on October 9, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Yes, Ayers is damaging, and they are putting the hurt on O! this week, forcing his mouthpieces to inch backwards on his claim that he barely knew this guy, but, for Pete’s sake Mac, FOCUS ON ACORN! That is the issue. There are too many aging hippies and younger folks who romanticize the 60’s for the Ayers thing to deal a fatal blow to O!’s campaign.
HAMMER ON ACORN!
For one thing, we have to stop this voter fraud NOW. For another, it O!’s campaign is actively associating with (contracting with) ACORN.
The message is clear: Obama currently employs and actively supports a criminal organization to steal the election. What could be simpler?
Y-not on October 9, 2008 at 12:52 PM
On NPR radio yesterday:
“Obama’s out there addressing the economy while McCain is ATTACKING OBAMA ABOUT A VIETNAM ERA RADICAL.”
Another unbiased report from NPR (Not Particularly Racist)
pherrman on October 9, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Wow, you’ve got to wonder if some people have been watching the DOW or the real serious news.
We have an economic crisis and people care about Ayers?
This reminds me of the bitter comments…
mycowardice on October 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Hannity & Clown, Monday.
Akzed on October 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM
NPR (National Propaganda Radio)
Kevin in Washington State on October 9, 2008 at 12:57 PM
That I did sah.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 9, 2008 at 12:58 PM
That’s what I’m sayin’ in my post above. The O! camp can pivot on the Ayers controversy by saying McCain is living in the past. Hell, half the friggin’ pictures of Ayers and his fellow terrorists are in black and white. People under 30 don’t even think black and white photography ever existed!
Obviously Ayers and Wright need to be hammered. I would use Palin and the surrogates for that. McCain is clearly not comfortable going nuclear on Ayers and is too twitchy to go after O! on Wright. That’s fine. Let others do it.
Senator John McCain needs to call a press conference demanding an immediate Congressional investigation of ACORN. He can keep his statesman persona and kick O! in the acorns simultaneously.
Y-not on October 9, 2008 at 1:06 PM
From Rick Moran:
Perhaps this is unfair, but I can see Obama doing all these things. Not because he wants to advance socialism, but because he believes the common people need that kind of “help” from him.
I know that at least one of Obama’s supporters thinks profits should be outlawed. If this sentiment is widespread among Obama supporters, would a pliable Obama step into that savior role?
SheofTwoMinds on October 9, 2008 at 1:09 PM
Yes. The public cannot keep up with this, at this pace it’s going to melt the intertubes.
NellE on October 9, 2008 at 1:11 PM
Here’s a link to possible RICO violations by Team Barry.
Great Merciful Zeus! Tomorrow could be the start of Fitzmas: rumor in Chicago is Patrick Fitzgerald is investigating ACORN and SoetorObama campaign for RICO violations
Also, a report from Citizen Wells.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 9, 2008 at 1:11 PM
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 9, 2008 at 12:29 PM
I love the fact that you guys are using Andy Martin to support your case against Obama.
A little background on “Andy Martin.”
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/08/fox_news/index.html
Keep up the good work, fellas.
Tom_Shipley on October 9, 2008 at 1:12 PM
This is still a really good question from Martin:
drjohn on October 9, 2008 at 1:19 PM
Well, the Weather Underground and the Black Panthers worked together, right? And they were fond of proclamations like “All white babies are pigs.” And Ayers has a book coming out in ‘09 about “white supremacy” in America. So those might be clues.
Jim Treacher on October 9, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 9, 2008 at 12:29 PM
Haven’t read the site yet, but just what you posted popped something into my head. Ayers’ brother was working on “educational reform” with Obama around 85-87. Obama was also working on voter registration. Obama says he was discouraged about community organizating and thinking he could do more as a lawyer.
I’m wondering if that had anything to do with the need to get the motor voter thing handled, and because Bernadine couldn’t become a lawyer – nor could anyone who had a criminal record. They could easily do the educational wing of the plan; how many SDS professorsare there in the world anyway? But they needed somebody with no criminal record to do the lawyer thing. That may have been the initial reason Ayers was interested in Obama. I wonder if Ayers knew anybody else who wasn’t a criminal?
justincase on October 9, 2008 at 2:00 PM
I haven’t found this on a mainstream press outlet yet, just blogs, but The Chicago Sun-Times has plenty of recent ACORN stories that are not sanitized to eliminate traces of Obama from them. My guess is that it will hit there first. Might take a while so our trolls can start digging up dirt discrediting the Sun-Times in the meantime.
I am not defending this attitude, but in my opinion Ayers is not going to penetrate as effectively with the electorate as this ACORN scandal or even as much as Reverend Wright. Even apolitical people understand what it means to steal an election or let your kids be baptized by a hate-spewing racist. The country is still too confused about Vietnam and have no idea what it means to sit on a board or what the Annenberg Challenge was about. Ayers has been “rehabilitated” (he’s a professor!).
Hammer on ACORN, the “truth squads,” and Wright. The first two will pull the PUMAs, moderate democrats, and real independents (not the ones we see on the MSM post-debate panels), the last will scoop up those gun- and religion-clingers.
And, irrespective of swaying the electorate, we need to stop this voter fraud stuff for the good of the country. McCain needs to use his stature as a senior Senator to call for immediate action on ACORN and its
supportersco-conspirators.Y-not on October 9, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Treacher –
I like Jack Cashill’s explanation in American Thinker today:
Heh, I read both books, and Cashill’s analysis is dead accurate.
Nichevo on October 9, 2008 at 2:12 PM
We’ll mark you down as someone who doesn’t give a rat’s ass that Barack Obama is politically/ideologically allied with someone who bombed government buildings to advance a radical communist agenda.
Oh wait. We already did that.
capitalist piglet on October 9, 2008 at 2:17 PM
Saw this elsewhere a couple of days ago:
John McCain: Tortured by communists.
Barack Obama: Tutored by communists.
capitalist piglet on October 9, 2008 at 2:18 PM
I think there’s something there. I was reading a thread on the Hillary Clinton Forum (PUMA site) about it, too, and many of them agreed as well.
If there were a way to prove that, it would be a bombshell – no pun regarding Ayers intended.
capitalist piglet on October 9, 2008 at 2:19 PM
Cashell himself admits that the science isn’t perfected, but it’s fascinating, especially considering that their mutual friend, Rashid Khalidi, thanked Ayers in the acknowledgements to his anti-Israel/US screed for allowing him the use of his dining room table to write the book.
I guess Ayers was the neighborhood ghost writer.
Nichevo on October 9, 2008 at 2:39 PM
Yeah, Ayers goes a bit beyond white liberal guilt, doesn’t he?
Jim Treacher on October 9, 2008 at 3:31 PM
Whatevs. He sure as hell is not going to lower the capital gains tax, income tax, corporate tax, or death tax.
He will raise taxes on families and businesses making over $250,000 a year.
He will not reduce any spending except for military spending.
He is going to push for a single payer health care system.
He will not allow us to drill (he make give a few fake words of support, but he knows the enviros will stop it in the courts).
He does not support the 2nd Amendment.
He does not support Free Speech.
He does believe in race-based affirmative action.
Ad nauseum.
Buy Danish on October 9, 2008 at 3:56 PM
I read the original 3 part version of that Cashill story, but I don’t recall seeing the Poetry of Barack Obama:
Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance . . .
Occidental College must have had an affirmative action program in place for their literary magazine.
Buy Danish on October 9, 2008 at 4:04 PM
No, that would only be true if the polls were totally impartial. The only poll I trust is the one that is taken on November 4th.
rmgraha on October 9, 2008 at 4:09 PM
lol… “Barack Obama would have to have been the dumbest man to have ever graduated from Columbia and Harvard law school”.
Now that a line you can quote.
Dreadnought223 on October 9, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Questions that need to be answered and the Obama campaign is not giving any:
- How did Obama get into Harvard Law School? (What were Obama’s grades at Columbia University?)
- Who sponsored Obama or got him into Harvard Law School? (Friends or associates of the Ayers?)
- How did Obama pay for his tuition and living expenses at Harvard Law School? (Friends or associates of the Ayers?)
- How is it that Obama got a summer job during Harvard Law School with the Chicago legal firm Sidley Austin the same law office that Bill Ayers wife and terrorist, Bernadette Dohrn, worked at? (This is also the law firm used by Tom Ayers, father of Bill.)
- In mid-1988, Obama traveled for the first time to Europe for three weeks and then for five weeks in Kenya, where he met many of his Kenyan relatives for the first time.
Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988.
How did Obama pay for that 8-weeks of travel to Europe and Africa then also pay for Harvard (plus living expenses??? All on a low-paid Community Organizer pay check? Who was sponsoring Obama???
albill on October 9, 2008 at 4:44 PM
READ AND LISTEN
When Obama went to Columbia he lived 1/4 mile from Ayers
Ayers was going to Banks College 4 blocks from Columbia
After Banks Ayers taught at Columbia
After Columbia Obama worked for a business intelligence newsletter and then NY Public Interest Group as a ‘community organizer’.
It is more likely the two met during this time frame in NYC for a very long term relationship.
Local news coverage there seems not even interested in doing background history on a potential history making Presidential candidate and no one seems to find this lack of curiosity odd.
Obama was at Occidental College and traveled to Pakistan at the time Osama Bin Laden was active against the Russians in Afghanistan and it is alleged he traveled on a Indonesian Passport (in the current COLB lawsuit submissions). Indonesia DOES NOT recognize dual citizenship.
CommentGuy on October 9, 2008 at 5:27 PM
Well, weren’t Michelle and Ayers both employed by University of Chicago before Michelle took her leave from the hospital spokesperson job.
sheesh on October 9, 2008 at 6:29 PM
Jack Cashill was on John Gibson today, going over the theory:
Bill Ayers is Obama’s ghost writer.
Some people have conducted some comparative data analysis of sections of Ayers’ and Obama’s books, and the initial results indicate that the hypothesis checks out. He is trying to get some experts to conduct a formal comparative reading analysis on the manuscripts.
Worth a listen to Gibson’s show. Cashill has done a lot of background research on Ayers biography and his justifications of the theory are compelling.
phreshone on October 9, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Nope they were at the same law firm where Obama later met Michelle
CommentGuy on October 10, 2008 at 12:10 AM
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