Ayers: Oh, by the way, Obama and I actually are “family friends”
posted at 9:05 pm on November 13, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Via Ace. The bad news? Obama was lying to us when he dismissed Ayers at the debate as merely “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” The good news? We already knew that, thanks to Axelrod and Mayor Daley.
Anyway, belated confirmation.
“We had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser at my house, where I’d made a small donation to his earliest political campaign,” he writes.
But right-wing commentators tried to use those connections to smear Obama, he says.
“Obama’s political rivals and enemies apparently saw an opportunity to deepen a dishonest narrative about him, that he is somehow un-American, alien, linked to radical ideas, a closet terrorist, a sympathizer with extremism,” Ayers wrote.
This turd will be on Good Morning America tomorrow to hawk his book, if you can believe it. Will Diane Sawyer think to ask him how friendly the families were? Or, more importantly, what he learned from his epochal meeting of the minds recently with Reverend Wright? A rich trove of video treasure awaits us in the morning, my friends. Exit question: Has anyone queried The One on what sorts of crimes one would have to commit to lose their coveted “family friend” status? I realize questions of basic personal judgment are inappropriate on “dishonest narrative” grounds, but I’m curious nonetheless.
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A perfect description.
Zorro on November 13, 2008 at 9:08 PM
It might be interesting to contrast it with her interview with JTP.
Jim Treacher on November 13, 2008 at 9:09 PM
You have to be kidding me. This needs to be on every news station in the country. This man must be interviewed, and Obama must tell the country that he lied to the nation when talking of his relation with Bill Ayers.
profgubler on November 13, 2008 at 9:09 PM
OMG, no way!!
/S
StephC on November 13, 2008 at 9:11 PM
“Has anyone queried The One on what sorts of crimes one would have to commit to lose their coveted “family friend” status?”
a competent press would put this on the record right out of the gate at the very first time in front of the microphones …
/here and now, we’ll have to hope the worldnetdialy w.h. reporter slips it in sometime within the next 6 months …
Buckaroo on November 13, 2008 at 9:11 PM
*head slamming desk*
Anna on November 13, 2008 at 9:11 PM
And people shake their heads when I say the Lone Star is getting close to the top of my flag pole.
Limerick on November 13, 2008 at 9:12 PM
And rubbing it in our faces.
americanpatriot on November 13, 2008 at 9:12 PM
So the Vietnam War veteran who was tortured by Marxists lost the election, but the young charismatic speaker who was mentored by Marxists now sits in the oval office. Should we laugh or scream. Well score another success for the enabling media the phony left. So there it is the worse you behave, the greater the adulation and reward.
rob verdi on November 13, 2008 at 9:12 PM
On the 14-year-old McCain thread below, MayBee noted this story was at the Chicago Trib as well.
The Trib at least admitted:
INC on November 13, 2008 at 9:12 PM
You mean Obama lied?! No way!!
aikidoka on November 13, 2008 at 9:12 PM
AP, Brother, please do not use the ‘My friends’ quote again!!!
BTW, he will be given a 4 year pass…didn’t any of you listen to Chris Matthews?
lsutiger on November 13, 2008 at 9:13 PM
Exactly. What a piece of garbage.
StephC on November 13, 2008 at 9:13 PM
the “pals” come out of hiding
defendfaithandfamily on November 13, 2008 at 9:13 PM
Seriously? O lied? Nah, couldn’t be…
XWing5 on November 13, 2008 at 9:13 PM
AP – Asking the questions the MSM refuse to as always!
Thanks AP for renewing my belief in the VLWC (Vast Left Wing Conspiracy)!
FloridaBill on November 13, 2008 at 9:16 PM
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and yes, MSM, Obama “palled around with terrorists”.
Pasalubong on November 13, 2008 at 9:16 PM
don’t forget the Khalidi tape.
hard to beleive someone like this would get elected
jp on November 13, 2008 at 9:16 PM
Yep, Ayers couldn’t resist poking us in the eye. Little weaselly coward.
4shoes on November 13, 2008 at 9:16 PM
My friends, if you really really keep at this story – along with the birth certificate controversy – I am sure you will have the election overturned in a few short months.
benny shakar on November 13, 2008 at 9:16 PM
So he was palling around with terrorists? Wipe that grin off your face Couric
clnurnberg on November 13, 2008 at 9:16 PM
I’m speechless. I think this might be a goodtime to organize a letter writing campagin to the advertisers. Un-effing believeable GMa gives him a stage to hock his book. The former Pravda execs have to be laughing their butts off. Free people trying to enslave themselves. This type of media coverage is going to make Democrats very bold legislatively.
Theworldisnotenough on November 13, 2008 at 9:16 PM
This is what disgusts me about this POS, he doesn’t think of himself as any of these things either.
thomasaur on November 13, 2008 at 9:17 PM
What we will get going forward is all the reporting that should have been done prior to the election. It’s a twisted logic that they use. First they get their candidate in office then in a Pontius Pilot move they wash their hands and then report. They do this only because they know it can’t do any harm now–he’s got his four years no matter what.
patrick neid on November 13, 2008 at 9:17 PM
They do this with no sense of shame. Stunning.
nyrofan on November 13, 2008 at 9:17 PM
My friend….*spit*….sorry was stuck in queeg mode for a sec. Look you misunderstand the role of the newsies now that their brown eyed boy is in the driver’s seat. Scooter Libby not remembering with precision????-treason. Bambi telling a lie….”forgetfulness”.
My personal thanks to all those conservatives and libertarians who have brought The Me$$iah on us through their sitting at home.
sven10077 on November 13, 2008 at 9:18 PM
“benny shakar on November 13, 2008 at 9:16 PM”
and the look on your face when that happens will be priceless!!!!
:-)
Buckaroo on November 13, 2008 at 9:19 PM
That’s a tough one, um, become a Republican?
4shoes on November 13, 2008 at 9:20 PM
This won’t matter to the lemmings. They’d vote for Obama if he had a strap on bomb, yelling “Allah akhbar” while performing an abortion in the Capitol rotunda.
SouthernGent on November 13, 2008 at 9:20 PM
“They do this with no sense of shame”
it’s one of the first things to go during their
hivemind brainwashingcollege education …:-)
Buckaroo on November 13, 2008 at 9:21 PM
“No sense of shame”? You’re kidding me. They are proud of this and happy as hell that they got away with it. As for the Pontius Pilate idea, nah. They just want to get this out of the way and sweep it under the rug before Inauguration Day ( or do we have to call it Ascension Day now).
clnurnberg on November 13, 2008 at 9:22 PM
Media=Lucy.
Ayers=Football
McCain=Charlie Brown.
’nuff said.
Bruno Strozek on November 13, 2008 at 9:22 PM
They are trying to NORMALIZE Radical Marxism!!!!!
jp on November 13, 2008 at 9:23 PM
damn!! how can you not love these guys. RIP USA
costin on November 13, 2008 at 9:23 PM
Will Diane Sawyer have John Murtagh on next, or any other family members of the victims of his Terrorism?
Seven Percent Solution on November 13, 2008 at 9:23 PM
Oh gee, the outright fraud that is BHO was actually lying about the connections with his anti-American, nihilist, terrorist friend. What a surprise …
I expect to see Ayers at the White House very soon after BHO. And the rest of the dirt that is going to start pouring out will be highly entertaining, too …
This is all just pathetic.
progressoverpeace on November 13, 2008 at 9:24 PM
“This turd will be on Good Morning America tomorrow to hawk his book, if you can believe it.”
MSM once again hits bottom, digs.
Tom Blogical on November 13, 2008 at 9:24 PM
Overturning won’t be necessary; paralysis would be OK.
ddrintn on November 13, 2008 at 9:24 PM
Precisely. That was my first thought.
I can just see the aforementioned turd lounging at the White House, sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom, all the while the two cozy families are laughing their collective a$$es off at the ignorance of the American people.
The list of colorful expletives that are trying to get out of me right now would have me banned into the next century.
tru2tx on November 13, 2008 at 9:25 PM
seriously, what would have to happen to make this election null and void? i want to tear my clothes…flog myself in the streets…this is remarkable that americans have been brainwashed with the worst propaganda campaign in the history of this country. well, you get what you ask for some times, unfortunately for us. thanks, America!
sandlin71 on November 13, 2008 at 9:25 PM
You are who you hang with, peeps…
If a=b and b=c, a=c…Ayers and Obama = POS
Mrs. Palin said it first in a national forum…over and over
What courage
gracie on November 13, 2008 at 9:27 PM
There is nothing Ayers could say that would change the fact that Americans voted for Obama. Notice how ACORN is out of the picture too. Undoubtedly, their funding will be increased and O may get the congress to toss Ayers some dough too
clnurnberg on November 13, 2008 at 9:28 PM
Obama’s chickens are coming home to roost – in the Lincoln bedroom.
pedestrian on November 13, 2008 at 9:28 PM
We are stuck with Obama for 4 years. There is absolutely no way the first black president would be impeached. Not going to happen, no matter what we find out now (we already know most of it, those who voted for him don’t and probably won’t care).
Sue on November 13, 2008 at 9:31 PM
Imagine Ayers and Dohrn dining at the WH? Doesn’t it just make you start skeeving?
clnurnberg on November 13, 2008 at 9:31 PM
problem is Obama is teflon because he’s black and the anti-GOP drug the country is on.
jp on November 13, 2008 at 9:34 PM
What do you want to bet Sawyer throws softball questions?
jcheney on November 13, 2008 at 9:34 PM
You know who stands to look good by all this? George Bush
all the hatred of W., will be but a memory down the road as people get informed about Obama and the hard-left idiots they just voted in.
jp on November 13, 2008 at 9:34 PM
We are stuck with Obama for 4 years. There is absolutely no way the first black president would be impeached. Not going to happen, no matter what we find out now (we already know most of it, those who voted for him don’t
and probably won’tcare).Sue on November 13, 2008 at 9:31 PM
FIFY
thomasaur on November 13, 2008 at 9:36 PM
You mean he can do whatever the heck he wants and get away with it? Hmmm. Swell. Looks like we are in for a nasty ride.
It would be a black eye for any other person of color who wanted to run for prez again. Either way. Impeachment or just a lousy job.
tru2tx on November 13, 2008 at 9:36 PM
JP, the people are going to be fed the cotton candy version of Bill Ayers and WU. By the time the MSM is done Ayers will look like Nathan Hale
clnurnberg on November 13, 2008 at 9:37 PM
“So the Vietnam War veteran who was tortured by Marxists lost the election, but the young charismatic speaker who was mentored by Marxists now sits in the oval office. Should we laugh or scream. Well score another success for the enabling media the phony left. So there it is the worse you behave, the greater the adulation and reward.
rob verdi on November 13, 2008 at 9:12 PM”
On top of that, I saw a lot in blogs where libs made fun of the way McCain walked and moved his arms. Obama joked that he was a better dancer than McCain. (sigh) Just sick.
Unfortunately, this won’t make a difference, at least not for four years.
Star20 on November 13, 2008 at 9:38 PM
“Obama’s political rivals and enemies apparently saw an opportunity to deepen a
dishonest narrative about him, that he issomehowun-American, alien, linked to radical ideas, a closet terrorist (sympathizer), a sympathizer with extremism,” Ayers wrote.This is a no-rewriting history spin zone Mr. Ayers.
conservative pilgrim on November 13, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Look at John Kerry. Well, don’t look if you value your eyesight, but metaphorically look at him. No one on the left really cared that he committed treason by meeting with our enemy in a time of war. No one really cared that he sat in a room while the assassination of a senator was discussed.
Sue on November 13, 2008 at 9:42 PM
Ayers also says that the University of Nebraska will suffer for canceling his speaking engagement there.
Jim62sch on November 13, 2008 at 9:42 PM
online hope is for conservative outlets not to let this die I guess, don’t let the MSM get away with humanizing this monster
jp on November 13, 2008 at 9:42 PM
It was McCains job to frame an effective argument about Ayers and Wright and he didn’t do it, despite loads of incriminating well researched information readily available from The Corner.
I’ll never understand why a man who had the courage and survival instincts to jump off of burning planes and endure 5 years of torture couldn’t pull the trigger on this.
CarolynM on November 13, 2008 at 9:44 PM
Because Obama is such a decent family man, isn’t that what McCain said? He probably feels the same way about Ayers.
clnurnberg on November 13, 2008 at 9:46 PM
And when the Cuda tried she got hammered by blue-on-blue friendly fire.
Jim62sch on November 13, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Wait wait wait….now just wait a frickin’ minute.
What, Ayers is a family friend? And I suppose Obarfa really was in the pews during many of Wright’s frothing rants?
Cooooooooommmmme OOoooooooooonnnnnnne. This is a Rovian trick, right?
Bishop on November 13, 2008 at 9:49 PM
A terrorist is a person in your neighborhood..it’s a person that you meet when you’re walking down the street..lalalala.
Nobody cares but a few of us.
clnurnberg on November 13, 2008 at 9:51 PM
The MSM is garbage!
Diane Sawyer might make this fool to look sympathetic.
The guy and his wife have blood on their hands. Also spreading their communist garbage to America and other nations suffering under rogue dictatorship.
I can not believe what is happening!
“2008: The year journalism died.” – Sean Hannity
jencab on November 13, 2008 at 9:52 PM
I am not surprised at all. What a piece of trash Ayers is. Scum. The One is a ???????????. Unbelievable, looks like we might have more to worry about. McCain should have not listened to his advisers. Or is he really gutless when it comes to politics and color of ones skin? Is not right.
sheebe on November 13, 2008 at 9:52 PM
Obama categorically denied this during the last debate.
ccc on November 13, 2008 at 9:54 PM
BUS, meet the guy in my neghborhood!
ReaganConservative3 on November 13, 2008 at 9:56 PM
I’ve got ten bucks say Ayers was cheering when AQ hit the Pentagon on 9/11.
Obama’s pal. Osama’s pal.
fogw on November 13, 2008 at 9:56 PM
BHO denied this emphatically to McCain’s face.
jgapinoy on November 13, 2008 at 9:57 PM
The first black pres. is gonna give the black race a black eye!
driver on November 13, 2008 at 9:57 PM
Ayers is evil scum.
indythinker on November 13, 2008 at 9:57 PM
And they tried to shame Sarah Palin for saying the two of them were friends.
I am beyond livid. Everybody, join the Fifty Million Americans group, and kick this media square in the ass. (Disclaimer: This is not my site, but someone here apparently started it – I read about it elsewhere.)
http://50millionamericans.org/
capitalist piglet on November 13, 2008 at 9:57 PM
None of this will matter by January, it will all be “old news”
clnurnberg on November 13, 2008 at 9:58 PM
But mention Sarah Palin and you get 300+ comments. Before anyone starts berating me for that comment I am a Palin supporter.
thomasaur on November 13, 2008 at 9:58 PM
What possible overlap in their relationship would make them “family” friends? Frank Marshal Davis blood brother buggery ritual?
BL@KBIRD on November 13, 2008 at 9:59 PM
The election is over.
America chose the terrorist sympathizer.
This is simply the first of many, many revelations about the Super Wonder Messiah which we will have to stomach.
Bishop on November 13, 2008 at 10:00 PM
Palin has been vindicated.
Amadeus on November 13, 2008 at 10:00 PM
BHO is a liar who did everything under the sun to get elected. Couple that with a complicit media and you get a political juggernaut.
At least Ayers waited a whole week to get out from under the bus. Just in time to hawk a book. What a disgraceful sack of garbage.
Exit question: think he and his lovely wife will be at the inauguration?
BardMan on November 13, 2008 at 10:02 PM
Just one more suprise for the blissfully uninformed Obama voter to chew on. But it won’t be the last. And it won’t be the biggest suprise either.
Hog Wild on November 13, 2008 at 10:02 PM
I’m a Palin supporter too. She was easily as qualified as Obama and that is another thing McCain should have pointed out instead of doing the Eliza Doolitle clothing shit.
My husband is calling McCain a Manchurian Candidate these days, pre-programmed to throw it away for the Marxy O
clnurnberg on November 13, 2008 at 10:02 PM
FIFY
thomasaur on November 13, 2008 at 10:03 PM
Old news to me. Heck, even AC360’s already called BS on Obama for his attempt to downplay their relationship.
Ryan Gandy on November 13, 2008 at 10:04 PM
Well, neither one is a Republican, either.
ddrintn on November 13, 2008 at 10:05 PM
I don’t think anybody but the consertives care about this. I really do think that people don’t see this as a big deal. It’s really sad that our country can accept people like this after all the pain to others and to the country. It’s almost like fighting a losing battle.
Brat4life on November 13, 2008 at 10:05 PM
cf. Palin, Sarah
benny shakar on November 13, 2008 at 10:05 PM
BHO voters don’t care. Most of the BHO voters hate America (which is why they voted for him) and the others can’t get out from their illusory, though crushing, guilt to think straight. America has screwed itself, with a huge helping hand from the Pravda press. On the bright side, it’s all downhill from here …
progressoverpeace on November 13, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Actually, it’s refighting a lost battle.
clnurnberg on November 13, 2008 at 10:06 PM
Obama’s pretty much old news at this point. But yeah, once he gets the controls, we’ll have another focus for concern. It will benefit Sarah Palin not to be in the spotlight.
ddrintn on November 13, 2008 at 10:08 PM
It is a sad day that we can’t speak the truth about our 9soon to be) president, for fear of appearing racist. It makes me ill everytime I hear someone in the MSM gloat about what wonderful things Obama is, (has done) for race relations. In my opinion, he’s set race relations back about 40 years.
anniekc on November 13, 2008 at 10:08 PM
You have been hoodwinked and bamboozled by a typical lying politician named Obama. Thats the
newhopenchange.canditaylor68 on November 13, 2008 at 10:09 PM
I suspect Hannity played the “GOD D*MN AMERICA” clip so many friggin times God actually thought it was a prayer.
Coronagold on November 13, 2008 at 10:10 PM
They are dropping this on Friday so it will be gone over the weekend. Three and out, then back to the Governor’s campaign wardrobe.
thomasaur on November 13, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Its Mad Mad Mad Mad World,
oh wait,thats a Movie!
canopfor on November 13, 2008 at 10:13 PM
I have said it before the election, and I will repeat it now. “Mark my words” – There are non-military Americans alive today that will not be alive this time next year because of BHO’s actions or willful inactions. These leftards won’t wake up until the third or fourth bus, mall, sporting event, etc. is blown up.
“Gird your loins”, indeed.
hamnj7 on November 13, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Wait! BHO has no integrity, honor or morals? The press will have a field day with this one… *wait* Oh that’s right, they’ll continue to ignore it.
Claypigeon on November 13, 2008 at 10:14 PM
I don’t think people care that much about it, either, but the media knowlingly allowed Obama to lie, and weren’t the slightest bit critical of him for it.
They have to be punished. I think organized boycotts of them and their advertisers is appropriate, and necessary.
capitalist piglet on November 13, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Does anyone think Ayers sent McShame an autographed copy?
progressoverpeace on November 13, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Oh, and are we Google stupid or what? I want addresses.
Coronagold on November 13, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Arrogant bastard, thinks he is asbestos now, but more than likely just signed his own death warrant. Some thrill seeking hillbilly is probably going to pop a cap in his traitorous rectum just to be the one that says “I did him” hmmmmmm word to Ayers momma.
GlocknRoll on November 13, 2008 at 10:17 PM
A prediction …
After the 2012 election, should Obama win, maybe even before the election, there will be “talk” to repeal the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution.
hadsil on November 13, 2008 at 10:17 PM
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