(4/08) "Debunking Obama's Ayer's Fact Sheet" (Townhall)

[freethinker]

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/04/24/debunking_obamas_ayers_fact_sheet

Next, let's examine Obama's claim that his connection to Ayers and Dohrn is "tenuous" and "phony." Is it phony that Obama's political coming-out party in the mid-1990s was hosted by Ayers and Dohrn? What about the panel discussions in which Ayers and Obama both took part—that were organized by Michelle Obama? Tenuous? I suppose the goodbye party for prominent Israel basher and Arafat apologist Rashid Khalidi, attended by Obama, Ayers and Dohrn, is also unworthy of discussion. That Khalidi himself hosted a fundraiser for Obama's first Congressional campaign must be completely irrelevant, too.

Then there's the pesky fact that Obama and Ayers served together on the board of the Woods Fund for three years—and continued to do so even after Ayers was quoted in the New York Times fondly recalling his days as a bomber, and despairing that he hadn't "done more." (This quote, the Obama fact sheet reminds us, comes from an interview that just happened to be published on 9/11—Ayers had made the incendiary remarks earlier. I don't know about you, but that makes me feel a lot better). The funds Obama and Ayers helped control at the Woods Foundation funneled thousands of dollars into both Khalidi's organization and the now-infamous Trinity United Church of Christ. Irrelevant, phony distractions? So what if the Obama campaign's top strategist concedes that the Senator's relationship with the terrorist is "friendly"? I apologize for even devoting this much attention to such tenuous and unimportant information.

[Tea toaD]

Dohrn refers to America as "the beast" and "the monster" while rambling on about the United States' obsession with empire and our white supremacist way of life. She says she believes the US government to be the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. Ayers, not to be outdone, cheers an ongoing "spirit of rebellion…and resistance." He favorably quotes Mao Zedong's premier, Zhou Enlai. He calls contemporary America a place of "great stress, and oppression, and authoritarianism," and bemoans "a kind of rising incipient American form of fascism." (Jonah Goldberg, call your office). Does Barack Obama expect Americans to believe these deranged rantings represent anything close to mainstream commentary?


Why do they continue to live here if they hate it so much? Unbelievably unamerican. Obama is always protected of course "we cant' blame him for the things these people have done, it wasn't him":mad:

Ayres may still come back to haunt him for the GE. Look here:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-23-apr23,1,4967065.column

[Nancy Kallitechnis]

The article links to powerlineblog.com which has audio clips of Ayers and Dohrn then and now. In a past speech Dohrn says her organization "...will attack the enemy around the country, not just attacking targets, we are bringing a pitiful helpless giant to its knees, guard your planes, guard your colleges, guard your banks, guard your children, guard your doors."

And during a recent speech Dohrn said the United States is a "beast" and that she is "in the belly of the beast." Referring to the U.S. as a "monster" she implies people should work against the U.S., that they should work from within to make change, "inside the heart of the monster." Obama should tell a speech about why he has closely worked with Ayers and Dohrn for years and why he is friendly with them for many years.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/04/020362.php