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William Ayers on his friendship with Obama: We were “family friends”

posted by Susan Johnson | 5:52am Friday November 14, 2008

OK, so our new president let his daughters hang out with a guy who said that bombing the pentagon wasn’t going far enough. Nice.

“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.

And yet, they were right, imagine that. I know, nothing to see here, time to move on, ancient history, right lefties?



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Guy Arthur Thomas

posted November 14, 2008 at 7:23 am


The next 4 years will only solidify the suspicions of Obama that many people, in hopes of being gracious, ignored and voted for Obama against their better judgment. The impact that the Axis Media had for Obama will be a one-timer. The Axis media won’t be trusted again as America watches this slow train wreck. Even after 2 years the Dummycants will get a strong rebuke with lost seats in Congress and by the end of The Obamanation’s disastrous 4 years, all of his deception will have manifested itself, both from the past and what occurs during his 4 years. Ayers is just the tip of the iceberg.
Next Please!



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Lauren

posted November 14, 2008 at 8:45 am


“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. ”
Um….I already knew all this…it was in the news before the election. And I still voted for Obama. t



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myshkin2

posted November 14, 2008 at 9:13 am


Absent from the discussion of Ayres’ terrorism is any sense of what the 1960s & 70s were like: the draft, Kent State, Jackson State, the police riots at the 68 Chicago convention, Nixon, the bombing of Cambodia, draft card burning, the Quaker Norman Morrison’s self-immolation to protest the war, Mai Lai massacre, Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire, the assasination of RFK and MLK, The FBI under J, Edgar Hoover, Naplam and Agent Orange, riots in Philly & Detroit & Neward, the violence directed against the civil rights movement, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia….and, oh yeah, the relatively minor role of Students for a Democratic Society and their violent offshoot, the Weather Underground. And yes, I was personally dedicated to non-violence and even received a 4-F Conscientious Objector status from my local draft board–based primarily, if I remember, on my faith in Tolstoy. But, as my 12-year old says, “I’m just sayin’…”



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derisk

posted November 14, 2008 at 9:40 am


Well I actually find Christians who are only moral and ethical because they fear divine punishment and not because they love others to be a lot more frightening than someone like Ayers. I’d rather my kids hang out with Ayers than you Michele.



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TC

posted November 14, 2008 at 10:44 am


The election is over. Give it a rest.



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Your Name

posted November 14, 2008 at 11:10 am


Well, nothing new here. Doesn’t change my mind about voting for him either. Ayers is not the same man he was in the 60′s now so give it a rest.



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Charles Cosimano

posted November 14, 2008 at 11:46 am


Ayers obviously is a man with many useful skills. No doubt he can blow up something in the future to entertain the rest of us.
The election is over, over, over. It is time for a new set of topics.



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John

posted November 14, 2008 at 11:50 am


Michelle, this is, as Sarah Palin mentioned in her interview with Larry King, still a high-priority concern for any sane person who loves America. Even more now that unrepentant terrorist William Ayres may be sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom, hopefully not bombing it. What does it say about our President’s judgment that he would allow William Ayres into the Lincoln bedroom even before he is inaugurated? I think we all know.



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Minnie

posted November 14, 2008 at 12:47 pm


You’re *still* flogging the dead horse of Ayers? Give it a rest already. The election is over, and your obsession with this guy long since passed the point of tiresome.
No one cares about Ayers, and they didn’t care about him during the election. Obama still got elected despite all the GOP bleating and whining over Ayers, so that should be a giant sign that harping on this guy was largely ignored.



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Bob

posted November 14, 2008 at 1:50 pm


“Ayers is not the same man he was in the 60′s now so give it a rest.”
Except that he is the same man he was in the 60s. Dedicating the book to Bobby Kennedy’s assassin, saying that the WU didn’t bomb enough back in the day, saying he doesn’t regret any of it…
Ayers is exactly the same man today as he was back then. That’s what disturbed us conservatives.



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Larry Parker

posted November 14, 2008 at 2:01 pm


I know a former member of the Weather Underground myself. (And one who, unlike Bill Ayers, actually has a criminal conviction — that was the true “guilt by association” that riled liberals, that Ayers was treated like a convict when he actually WASN’T.)
Should I expect a McCarthyite knock on the door from Homeland Security?



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Steve

posted November 14, 2008 at 2:09 pm


Michelle, you’re making things up again–and there’s so much reality you could be working with. “Family friend” is not a term that appears anywhere in Ayre’s interview. Please don’t do this. It looks desperate. And we aren’t.



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Minnie

posted November 14, 2008 at 2:15 pm


That’s what disturbed us conservatives.
Nonsense. What disturbed conservatives was that they knew they were facing certain defeat after the past eight years, and they didn’t have the luxury of a Clinton to run against because all of Limbaugh and Hannity’s efforts to interfere with the Democratic primaries failed miserably.
Without Hillary Clinton to run against, the GOP couldn’t motivate the base to vote for McCain by reminding them of Whitewater, Monica, and all the Clinton hate they had in the 90′s, so they had to try and come up with anything they could think of to smear Obama. Enter William Ayers.
For people under 50, who either weren’t alive or who were small children when the Weather Underground was around, Ayers was and is a non-issue. They simply didn’t care about it. If it mattered, voters under 50 wouldn’t have turned out in such large numbers for Obama, but they did anyway. Why? Because no one cares about what some guy did 40+ years ago when they’re worried about losing their home or paying their bills.
But hey, I hope the Republicans keep running on trivial issues like Ayers instead of focusing on what voters actually care about. It will make Obama’s re-election in 2012 that much easier.



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gmo2

posted November 14, 2008 at 4:28 pm


Bob: …Dedicating the book to Bobby Kennedy’s assassin…
RFK, Jr.:Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that “some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies.”
I don’t know if Ayers is the same guy, but he has never been charged with a crime for his actions, is a college professor, and was chosen by a conservative foundation to be on its board. But more importantly, there is no indication that Ayers has in any way influenced Obama’s political thought. And, I am frankly more worried about the people who call Obama a Marxist, a socialist, and anti-American than I am about the influence of Ayers, who almost no one takes seriously. I am more worried about the hatred that is being stirred up by those people.



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RJohnson

posted November 15, 2008 at 8:59 am


Face it, the conservatives knew they were going to get their hind-quarters handed to them in this election, so they decided to bring any mud they could to the table. They threw everything they had at Obama, and it didn’t work.
The people have spoken, Michele. The GOP has nearly broken this nation. Now it’s time for them to go wander the wilderness for a few years and contemplate their sins while the adults clean up after them.



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Guy Arthur Thomas

posted November 15, 2008 at 9:01 am


So calling a Marxist and Marxist is hatred? How typically FASCIST of you.
Next Please!



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gmo2

posted November 15, 2008 at 2:17 pm


GAT: So calling a Marxist and [sic] Marxist is hatred? How typically FASCIST of you.
No, calling someone who is not a Marxist, a Marxist, is lying and it does whip up hatred. But if I were a facist, wouldn’t I be happy you and Michele were calling Obama a Marxist? But how does my saying that calling Obama a Marxist whips up hatred make me a facist? And what is your reasoning, if that exists, for calling Obama a Marxist? Now, if you’re implying that Michele hasn’t called him a Marxist, she has. By the way, your “next please” dismissive is woefully overused.



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