"The spot is incorrect in insinuating that John McCain himself has brought up Ayers -- it is in fact McCain's campaign that has sought to use the Ayers association against Obama..."

Okay, we were told earlier that John McCain doesn't speak for the McCain campaign. Are you telling us now that the McCain campaign also doesn't speak for John McCain.

Clever way to avoid any accountability.

This is a disaster. What were you thinking electing a man who kicked off his political career at the house of a domestic terrorist?? Seriously, what were you thinking??

William Ayers is about as old as McCaint!

If McCaint is so bothered by another old man, why not get him ejected from the University?
After all, Ayers IS influencing young American minds?

McCaint keeps going back in time; because he wants to remind the American people of just how old and incapable he is in handling the many difficult challenges the nation faces at the moment.

The present challenges that America faces is not country for old men like John McCaint, who can't even remember simple every day events.

Patriot,

Professors are protected by the tenure system, and I would never seek to have someone expelled based on their political views, no matter how heinous. It's about freedom.

That said, Ayers remains unrepentant to this day. In his heart he's the same terrorist he was then. And for this reason, for Obama to be associated with him is beyond reproach.

It could be that people like Ayers love America so much they think it has to be destroyed to be recreated as a perfect country. That's the only speculation I can come up with to see why and how Ayers still thinks he did not do enough and why and how Obama is proud of 'respectable' Ayers.

Will the video about Obama's life and his work include the Ayer launch of his political career?

Better ideas for an ad:

"When John McCain says that Social Security is a "disgrace" he means that money that currently is paying for your grandmother's retirement should be diverted to private accounts."

"John McCain wants to tax your employer financed health insurance."

"John McCain wants health insurance companies to be regulated by the state of their own choosing, simply by reincorporating in a friendly state. Say goodbye to consumer rights. Say hello to industry sponsored arbitration."

"John McCain thinks that women who have proven before a jury they were paid half as much as their male counterparts, simply because they are female, should 'get some more training'"

"John McCain thinks women that have proven before a jury that they were paid half as much as their male coworkers, because they are female, should have their case thrown out unless they filed within 180 days of being hired!"

"John McCain is for spending $9 Billion a month for the war in Iraq, a war that has done nothing to help us improve our infrastructure or educate our children to compete in the global economy."

"John McCain thinks it is fine to spend $9 Billion a month for the war in Iraq, but is opposed to making the investments in this country that can free us from fossil fuels forever!"

Exactly how dumb are these people? I hadn't exactly forgotten about Ayers, but I appreciate the Obama campaign refreshing my memory!! Obama CONSIDERS AYERS MAINSTREAM AND RESPECTABLE.... WHEN AYERS STILL IMPLIES THAT HE SHOULD HAVE FINISHED THE JOB (by t.aking out some more US installations and a few more people)???? THIS IS JUST UNBELIEVABLE!!

Ayers:
"who to this day remains unrepentant about his work with Weather Underground in the 1960s and 70s."

NObama - What GREAT JUDGMENT!!

Democrat for McCAIN in '08 !!

Looks like the McCain campaign is ripping a page from the Bush smear machine. John McCain has been a target of the machine in the past and it looks like he learned some important lessons. Such as, keep the focus off the current issues, where he is in way over his head, by constantly raising red herrings and insisting that the irrelevencies are important. Get a bunch of chattering babboons to keep up the sleigh-of-hand each time someone tries to inject a real discussion into the arena. Use backchannel, "non-connected" groups to do the real dirty work and wash your hands repeatedly and publicly. It's now called Swiftboating.

Funny, do not have the same concerns about Condi Rice or Colin Powell...

Hummm....

McCain for President !!

Maybe this will take some attention away from the monumental f-up of choosing Biden.

Why aren't there any articles about McCain embracing his captors from North Vietnam? After all, we lost 55,000 men at the hands of these 1960's "terrorists". John doesn't seem to hold any other grudges from the 60's.

Why aren't there any articles about McCain embracing his captors from North Vietnam? After all, we lost 55,000 men at the hands of these 1960's "terrorists". John doesn't seem to hold any other grudges from the 60's.

Most of us have been paying little attention to the election commercials, etc., until now. Between now and the election a lot of quesitons are going to be asked of Obama and McCain. I can honestly say I don't think there is too much that we don't know about McCain but Obama is a completely story. What I have read from the main stream press and TV is more of a highschool cheering team than objective facts about the man - I truly don't know who this man is or what his past is. One thing I can say is that I am somewhat disturbed about his past connections and what he has been doing when he wasn't molding the image. Where is our press? They used to be the third leg. I guess it is now broken and someone just forget to tell me.

Press: DO your Job! Stop cheering and start reporting. We deserve that.

This is a major issue. Obama hasn't even begun to address it. It's not a question of why now, but rather, why did it take so long? The delay is itself an issue.

It seems desperation time for bloggers like John's conscience to digress on current topic with half truths and drivel. BYE, BYE BO.

It seems desperation time for bloggers like John's conscience to digress on current topic with half truths and drivel. BYE, BYE BO.

Gee.. to ask, but... was this the same timeframe that McCAIN was valiantly serving his country...

While NObama was doing illegal ??

McCain for President

I agree with Pedestrian -- please, ABC, educate us on the difference between McCain and the McCain campaign...Which one is the one running for president?

I guess it was "John McCain" who plum forgot how many houses Senator McCain owned, and it was his campaign who thought it was "four."

Obama is corrupt and the world will know about it even if he thinks we shouldn't.

Democrat for McCain

OBVIOUS, THAT OBAMA SUPPORTERS AS WITH OTHER ISSUES SIMPLY DUCK IT, AND INSTEAD TRY TO THROW HALF TRUTH BARBS AGAINST MCCAIN. WON'T WORK - OBAMA'S CHICKENS WILL COME TO ROOST IN NOV!!!

If Nixon and Bush havent put him away (Ayers), then I would think he can't be too bad of a fellow. I think he protested against the Vietnam War!(What a creep!)Why would anyone protest the Vietnam war?, beats me. 50,000 DEAD US Soldiers. The irony of it is that today you can vacation in sunny Vietnam and if your Jerry Springer you can MC the Miss Universe Pageant in beautiful downtown Saigon.I think Miss Venezuela would have won, even without 50,000 DEAD U.S Soldiers. It seems the end result was the same weather we had gone to war,excuse me I meant "police action", or just stayed home, saving the physical/mental scarring of an entire generation.Not to mention the 50,000 DEAD,and countless maimed. You need your head examined to even contemplate
McCain as POTUS.

Those who fail to see the tragedy in Obama's support of Ayers surely deserve an Obama presidency - THE REST OF US DON'T!!

The hussein parade of slimebag pals and bad judgment is endless.....

Rev. "God D@#! America" Wright. For nearly twenty years hussein was the disciple and avid follower and supporter of this racial bigot. hussein publicly praised wright on numerous occasions. hussein gave wright's church $26,000 in 2007, plus many thousands more previously. wright's vile, bigoted harangues against America, in general, and white Americans, in particular, illustrate the true foundation of hussein. As hussein said: "I could no more disown reverend wright than I could disown my ... grandmother."

Tony Rezko. Sleazy lobbyist, slum landlord, and hussein pal who is now a convicted felon. There have been numerous shady real estate deals between hussein and Rezko - including the lot next to hussein's Chicago mansion that was purchased by Rezko, then sold to hussein at a bargain-basement price. The Los Angeles Times reported that it had found that Rezko and his associates had given hussein "more than $200,000 in donations since 1995."

W. Ayers. Weather Underground terrorist movement that "declared war on America" and successfully bombed the U.S. Capitol, Pentagon, and police stations other targets across the nation.and a hussein pal. hussein's political career was even launched at an event hosted by Ayers in his own home.

James Johnson Appointed by hussein to head vetting VP candidates. Per ABC News, 11Jun08, Johnson "represented a world of influence and special interests" and has received special treatment from the sleaziest sub-prime lender of them all: "Johnson had received $7 million in loans for mortgages with rates below market averages from a special account controlled by the CEO of Countrywide Financial Corp., Angelo Mozilo."

Joe Biden. Running mate and plagiarizing expert, who has stolen more words than Milton Berle. Totally lacking in morals or ethics, in his mediocre law school, Biden was only able to graduate 76th in a class of 85 - i.e., he was in the lowest 10.5%! Of course, while campaigning, he claimed falsely to have graduated in the "top half" of his class. A plagiarizer and a LIAR! Sweetie hussein and Plagiarizing Joe truly deserve one-another.

"The measure of a man is judged by the company he keeps."

Nonsense. Obama was 8 years old when Ayers and the Weathermen were blowing themselves up trying to blow stuff up! By the time Obama had met this man, Ayers was an American professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a reformed man. Moreover, I doubt that Ayers did enough to warrant a trial much less being branded a terrorist. Ask yourself this: If this dude was serious, why didn't he "do" jail time? The charges against Ayers were dropped due to prosecutorial misconduct, but they didn't try to go after this guy again?! And contrary to popular belief, Ayers was remorseful about his activities with the weathermen.

lou.

Protesting is legal in this country. Blowing up government installations and attempted murder is not. DUH??

Quick History Lesson for LBP- Obama was in elementary school while McCain was "valiantly serving his country" and Ayers was running the Weather Underground. Obama didn't meet Ayers until a couple of decades after he had re-surfaced, saw his criminal case fall apart due to prosecutorial misconduct, earned a couple of graduate degrees and reinvented himself as a mild-mannered and widely-respected Professor of Education. Obama and Ayers served on the board of directors of a nonprofit organization, and lived in the same neighborhood in Chicago in the 1990s (a couple of decades removed from his Weather Underground days).

It's silly to suggest that Obama is somehow cuplable for actions committed almost 40 years ago by another person when he was a child.

Oh Boy, you are asking for it! That thing on top of Joe Biden's head is going come to life and attack the GOP!

Lou: Lots of people protested the Vietnam War without setting bombs, some filled with nails that could maim and kill, on our own soil.

I cannot see how any American can vote for man who knocked on the door of Williams Ayres and asked for his support.

The company he keeps? What was he like 6
Jackass.

More to the point, why didn't the press rigorously research Obama's relationship with the terrorist Ayers? Or was it too busy pandering to Obama?

Gerald.

DID YOU ACTUALLY SAY ... REFORMED? REMORSEFUL? NOT ACCORDING TO AYER'S RECENT STATEMENTS. NO DOUBT OBAMA NOW WISHES AYERS WAS REMORSEFUL!!!

lou,

You should do your homework. Ayers more than just protested the war - he founded the Weather Underground - the group's charter called for the violent overthrow of the US government - They bombed numerous government buildings and killed multiple law enforcement officers in their quest to do just that. The Democratic party should be ashamed of itself for putting forward such and unqualified person with such dubious associations - ie Ayers, Wright etc. - for the presidency. I invite you to find the photo Ayers did for Chicago Magazine where he stands on the American Flag. The sad truth is BO has proudly stood on a stage with a man who would proudly stand on our flag. It's disgusting and disgusting for anyone to defend such an association.

If you want a ringside seat for Armegeddon, Vote for McCain.I only hope
he would bring the draft back to help eliminate the faulty gene pool of the parents that would vote him.

Is it John McCain or the McCain campaign that is running for President ? I am confused. I see Bozo making a mistake and then I see another Bozo trying to correct it. John McCain you make me want to puke.

Let's see... 20 years in the company of someone who calls the Clintons and everyone else racists (Pastor Wright), close association with a now convicted felon who is serving time in prison, and videotaped confessions of not supporting our American flag (by not wearing that, uh, pin).... connections to a self-serving terrorist (ayers)? Are you SURPRISED?

No Obama Bin Biden '08

Democrat for McCain

Heres a nice story
http://www.squidoo.com/Christian_The_Lion

Kaypleasant.

THE POINT IS THAT AYERS WAS CONSIDERED A TERRORIST WHO WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET HIS CASE DROPPED ON A TECHNICALITY AND... HE IMPLIES THAT HE SHOULD HAVE DONE MORE (BLOWING UP MORE US INSTALLATIONS AND PERHAPS KILLING A FEW MORE PEOPLE). HE HAS SHOWN NO REMORSE FOR WHAT HE AND WEATHERMEN DID. INNOCENTS DID DIE, AYERS JUST GOT LUCKY. OBAMA CAMPAIGN WAS STUPID TO BRING THIS UP.

Ron.

PROFOUND!! Great example of intellectual dialog on the issues!!

Ah, the reason the "Press" is in the bag for Obama, or any anti-establishment politician that comes along for that matter, is that since the advent of modern liberalism (the byproduct of the self-important over-indulgent spoiled boomer generation born after WW2), the institutional and media pillars of our society have been infiltrated by these radical liberal re-thinkers who's primary purpose in life is to destroy the status quo and resurrect a new order in their own likeness. They’ve done a pretty good job so far, wouldn’t you say.

This country has had enough of the military industrial complex calling the shots.President Eisenhower warned of this 60 years ago--Take Heed.

Michelle is giving a speech along with a video tonight about herself and Obama-- and what has influenced their life.

The video is a brief bio.

Will it leave out where they were married and the their children's baptism by Rev. Wright and what influence this has had on their lives?

Will it mention how lucky she is that her husband was elected to the Senate and earmarked a Milllion dollars for her employer -- and then she got a 300% raise?

She tells how her parents say "no one comes back to the neighborhood" once they graduate from college. She came back -- and then Obama migrated to Chicago because of the big crooked politcal machine --- Rezko.

Obama-bin-biden! Why does that sound like a terrorist ticket to me? And this fellow has the audacity to launch his political career from the home of a domestic terrorist? This is sacrilege to even think about putting somebody like this to desecate the Oval office guys! Come to your senses!

oldspice.

Great point. Obama SHOULD BE EMBARRASSED in trying to support Ayers. The fact that Obama is not, shows how much we have gone downhill as a nation. Most people over a certain age will certainly agree. I am not particularly a religious person, but the religious right - HAS IT RIGHT.... it is sad, but the USA seems to be on a slide that looks unstoppable. Language use and lack of respect as on this site.... one of many symptoms.

To the Obama campaign's point, a former McCain aide, Ed Failor Jr. is a key backer of American Issues Project, although he no longer has official ties with the campaign.

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OK, 0-bama is only a little devil, compared with a Bigger devil.

According to 0-bama campaign a little-devil is a better devil.

In devil's book, a devil is a devil.

Johm McCain is a physically and verbally qabusive old man. Make no mistake. At a city council meeting he threw himself across a table to attack council woman Kathy Dubs for daring to state that he and his family were profiting from his political agenda. Land purchases that were subsequently leased or sold to the state at a hefty profit. This is the guy we want meeting with heads of state?

What I'd like to know is why McCain is still friends with George Bush, who is responsible for the deaths of about 90,000 civilians in Iraq. McCain even had the gall to give George Bush a medal for it while chairing "The John McCain Slush Fund for the Overthrow of Democracy in Latin America and Underground Lobbyist Connection" aka the International Republican Institute.

I'd also like to know why McCain thought it was appropriate to launch his political career in the home of a mob-connected convict aka Cindy McCain's dad.

hesings.

Anoher PROFOUND post!!

I am a former sixties radical who has matured into a centrist Democrat. I know how people like Bill Ayers think: The US is the source of most of the world's problems. Professor Ayers is free to say what he thinks thanks to the First Amendment and academic tenure. However, I am free to question the judgment of Barack Obama who has fraternized with Bill Ayers in Chicago. How can Senator Obama serve as commander-in-chief if he is comfortable with radical intellectuals who despise this country? I would have voted for Hillary but now I plan to vote for John McCain.

Obama will regret trying to put a band aid on this open wound. Obama's ad opens the door and invites a whole lot more detail in the next series of ads on this subject. They haven't yet shown the pictures of Ayers stomping the American flag just a few years ago, well after Obama and Ayers became a team. Who knows what other pictures they have to unleash -- they're just waiting until after the convention so they can be sure Hilary doesn't steal away the nomination.

Obama denounced Ayers' bombings, but he has not denounced Ayers' more recent misbehavior.

Obama has not denouced Ayers for standing on Old Glory or for announcing he was "guilty as hell, free as a bird," nor has Obama denounced Ayers for saying he wasn't sorry for the bombings and he wished they had done more.

CJB, you are nothing more than a jibbering racist fringe goblin.

Why would I ever consider voting for someone like Obama that has close association with radical terrorists who bomb government buildings?

I hope everyone here understands that Obama's association with Ayers went on for 20 years. If it was one gathering in a home for a campaign kickoff - not a big deal - but th relationship is much deeper than that.

Let's fight the sixties battles again! Let's rev up the culture wars of the 80's. Let's divide America into true patriots and un-Americans. Meanwhile the house is burning down. Great idea brought to you by the folks who brought you that high point in American Politics, Swiftboat (lying) Veterans against America!

Senator Obama has been campaigning for almost two years and the best attack republicans come up with is who he is associated with in someway. Obama is being critized for not demonizing people and treating people with respect and dignity eventhough you disagree with them. I am glad the Obama campaign is airing these things, I think they should bring up Wright as well, the Rezkco drama, and then let the American people decide.

The truth of the matter is if Obama loses he still wins, he will be the most powerful political figure in the world, being president would actually tie his hands. He will not have to make good on any promises, and he will write a few more books and become a bizzilionaire and end up in somebody presidential cabinet or governor. His life and family lives won't be in constent threat, his "feelings" will be hurt but trust he will get over it. Same goes for McCain, he'll probably buy a few more homes to add to his fortune.

The real losers will be us the people deciding whether to work or stay home because childcare has become too expensive. Praying nobody in the family gets a catsophic disease like cancer. Going to the bloodbank so you can put a couple of gallons of gas in your car so you can get to work or make sure your kid has lunch money, or deciding between paying for your prescription and eating for the week. Let's wake up people, this is not a game.

This is just silly. Obama was like 6 years old when Ayers was engaged in this behavior. Then, 25 years later, they happened to live in the same neighborhood and happened to be fellow members of a Board of Directors. A non-issue, to be sure. Why doesn't anybody talk about McCain's DIRECT involvement as a United States Senator (not a 6 year old) in protecting Charles Keating from federal regulators and ultimately costing taxpayers $2.6 BILLION??? Now THAT's shady!!!!!!

Ohhhhhhh and check this out: John McCain considers his father-in-law to be a "role model" despite the fact that he abandoned his wife and kids, was convicted of felony charges, and had direct ties to the mafia. It is undisputed that McCain's "seed money" for his political career came from his mob-connected felon of a father-in-law. That's awesome, Johnny......what a moron! http://www.wikio.com/article/68832785

Ayers is just one more questionable associate in the life of Mr. Obama. I can't get past him spending 20 years plus in a religious congregation that preaches so much hate against the USA and white people. Any rational human being is going to question whether we want a man like this as our Commander and Chief?????? Not enough experience - too many questions!!!!!

Aw,come on. Listen to yourselves wagging your tongues about Obama. Could this be cover for your prejudices? Scrutinize your own boy McShame. He was part of the Keating Five savings and loan scandals and should have been prosecuted with the other scums. Oh, its ok to scam American's savings accounts then have the tax payers clean up the mess as usual. Wake up folks, this clown McCain is a weasel, fraud and opportunist.

What's wrong with the media and Americans? We can’t hide behind the bus carrying Obama’s associations.
Where is Reverend Wright? Where’s Jessie Jackson? Where is Sharpton?

Did all of us ignore the fact that Obama mentored with an anti American, radical, racist: Reverend Wright.

What about Ayers, Rezko, Farrakhan and Father Pflaeger?

This is an introduction to a President?

Could you just imagine if McCain was friends and mentored with the KKK?

Wake up America.

Where is the reporting?

Obama’s past associations is an introduction and a clear picture of Obama's character.

A presidential candidate that has close ties to a domestic terrorist. Obama actually praises Ayers.

America are you sleeping? It would be like electing a president that praises Timothy McVeigh.

There is no difference between Ayers and Timothy McVeigh--except that McVeigh's bombs were successful.

These guys--Wright, Ayers, Farrakhan, McVeigh are anti-goverment, anti-American radicals. And Obama seems to enjoy their company.

How can Americans ignore this?

My question is very serious and I am not trying to be funny. To be transparent I am Black; however,I cannot get an answer from my White associates, they talk about Obama associations with questionable, radical, racist, people, "what do you think he is going to do?" "Is there a fear that he is going to turn on White people, I mean what is it," If that is the case I find that hard to believe since the only Black person in his life abandoned him, it was his mom and grandparents who stood by him, when he sad, sick, happy, won the high school championship game, they were there for him. It is true that Wright (can't bring myself to call him rev.) who brought him to Christ, that a good thing, in my book. I personally think Wright got to big for his britches and started to believe his own BS, as a result his congreation suffered. I attended a church for twenty years as well that refused to allow woman in the pulpit and I believed that to be fair and just, until I saw better and so I did better. Our leaders aren't perfect, there human. Also, let me reassure that I don't think just because you don't vote for Obama that you are a racist, beyond race there are some stark contrasts between McCain and Obama. Also, my voting record is such Clinton, Dole, Gore, Kerry, and for transparency I will be voting for Obama, because I believe healthcare should be a right and not a privelge I believe in giving our children a world class education(it's what helped me into the middle class), extending the family medical leave act (we have got to give parents more time with there babies) and universal preschool, early education is so very important... I would appreciate civil comments and if you can't be civil please don't respond, let's have some socractic exchanges.

Nonsense. Obama was 8 years old when Ayers and the Weathermen were blowing themselves up trying to blow stuff up! By the time Obama had met this man, Ayers was an American professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a reformed man. Moreover, I doubt that Ayers did enough to warrant a trial much less being branded a terrorist. Ask yourself this: If this dude was serious, why didn't he "do" jail time? The charges against Ayers were dropped due to prosecutorial misconduct, but they didn't try to go after this guy again?! And contrary to popular belief, Ayers was remorseful about his activities with the weathermen.

Posted by: Gerald Shields

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"guilty as sin, free as a bird, it’s a great country"

Wm. Ayers

Maybe these ads would not be necessary
if the MSM media would stop covering up
for Obama and investigate this
association!
Once again as with Rev Wright, Father
Plegar, and James Johnson(of the hardly
covered Countrywide mortgage scandal),
this association with Ayers shows
Obama's poor judgement and character!
Don't blame McCain or his supporters>
Blame the MSM for the attempted
coverup!

Gerald Shields read this
and learn something:
August 22, 2008
Bill & Barack's Excellent Adventure
By Thomas Lifson
William Ayers, unrepentant terrorist and education professor, is once again being tied to Barack Obama in the public mind. Controversy builds over the withholding of the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an expensive failed school reform effort headed by Obama and effectively run by Ayers, held by the library of the University of Illinois Chicago. Researchers who have gained access to a few documents recording the history of the project have found strong evidence of a very important working relationship between the two men on the project, Obama's sole claim to executive experience.

Oddly enough, even though the project produced no measurable improvement in student performance according to its own final report, educators and administrators -- participants and grantees of the CAC -- were reported by outside monitors to be often "ebullient" about the activities. For insiders, it was an excellent adventure. For the pupils stuck in the failing public schools of Chicago, an ongoing, unrelieved disaster.

Obama and his campaign long have gone out of their way to downplay, in fact distort, the long and evidently deep relationship between Ayers and Obama. In the Philadelphia Democratic debate last April, George Stephanopoulos asked Obama about his relationship with Ayers, and the candidate responded:

"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.

"And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn't make much sense, George. [....]

"So this kind of game, in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, is somehow -- somehow their ideas could be attributed to me -- I think the American people are smarter than that. They're not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn't."

Almost two months earlier, the "neighbor" talking point campaign manager David Axelrod introduced the notion that Obama and Ayers were mostly just neighbors, telling The Politico's Ben Smith,

"Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school," he said. "They're certainly friendly, they know each other, as anyone whose kids go to school together."

Ayers and his wife are in their sixties, while the Obamas are in their mid-forties. Ayers' children are all adults, while Obama's children are currently 10 and 7. Axelrod's prevarication is telling, bespeaking confidence that nobody in the media will bother to dispute an obvious falsehood.

"Flimsy" turns out to be a completely misleading word when it comes to characterizing the Obama-Ayers relationship.

Notwithstanding the campaign's efforts to direct attention away from Ayers, a 527 group, American Issues Project, has just released the following ad tying Obama to Ayers, and says it is spending 2.8 million on television airtime in key states.

Despite the legally questionable embargo of the CAC archives, most of its tax returns and official evaluations of the CAC have already been made public. In the hands of intrepid bloggers such as Steve Diamond, Tom Maguire and Dan Riehl, there is already proof of Obama's extensive involvement with Ayers over the course of his chairmanship, and an emerging picture of Obama's indecisiveness and absence when serious problems needed leadership.

Barack Obama joined the CAC shortly after William Ayers and Anne C. Hallett received news that their letter of November 8, 1994 submitting a grant proposal to The Annenberg Challenge had been approved. They were to get as much as $49 million from Annenberg, plus tens of millions more dollars from other foundations. Obama's involvement predates by months the actual incorporation of the CAC and his appointment as founding chairman of the board. He came on board almost as soon as the proposal was approved.

How on earth did a relatively unknown associate at a politically-connected but small Chicago law firm come to be entrusted with the heady task of handing out tens of millions of dollars of other people's money?

Keep in mind that Obama was at this point in his career very undistinguished considering his pedigree. It would be a kind understatement to say he had underperformed his academic resume. Three years out of Harvard Law and the Law Review Presidency, here is a short list of some of the things Obama had not done:

Clerked for a US Supreme Court Justice (or any Federal Judge);

worked in an important legal position at any level of serious responsibility;

written a law review article or note or published anything of legal substance.

As of 1995 Obama may have had the most professionally empty resume of any President of the Harvard Law Review three years gone from "The Law School."

And yet Ayers gave him a gig that would enable him to hand out large amounts of money to many people in Chicago, who could be expected to be grateful, once Obama ran for office -- as he was to do later that very year, in an event held at the home of Ayers and Dohrn.

Quite clearly, Obama was already well-enough known and trusted by Ayers to be offered the sensitive, prestigious and highly visible post of chairman of this important new undertaking. So we must ask, when did Obama and Ayers actually first get to know one another? And how did they come to trust one another?

One possible connection between Ayers and Obama was Sidley Austin, the prestigious Chicago law firm where Obama had a summer job after his first year at Harvard Law School, and where he met his future wife Michelle, assigned to him as a mentor. Also working at Sidley Austin was Bernadine Dohrn, wife of William Ayers, and a fellow Weather Underground terrorist. Given the shared "progressive" politics of the three, they probably knew one another and associated together at a firm known as a white shoe corporate practice.

Or Obama might have met Ayers even earlier, during his stint as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, in fact. Ayers was a well-known and very active figure in left wing Chicago politics, and might have encountered the young, articulate, Ivy League educated rookie black radical Obama, working in a Saul Alinksy spinoff.

We soon will know much more about the period of collaboration between Obama and Ayers following the start of the CAC. Even if the archives continue to be withheld from public scrutiny, the cat is out of the bag with the documents available to all. The formidable analytical engine of bloggers trading insights and new data is warming up.

But the period prior to 1995, the time when Bill and Barack, the terrorist and the presidential aspirant, got to know one another and build the relationship of trust, is one excellent adventure likely to remain obscure.
Hat tip: James Edward Pennington and Ed Lasky
Thomas Lifson is editor and publisher of American Thinker.

Obama campaign manager, David Axelrod and Obama himself have lied about this
association from the beginning!
Axelrod claims that Obama's children
went to school with Ayer's children!
That would be pretty hard to do
since Ayers is in his 60's!
Stop the Media Coverup!
We the People deserve to know the Truth!

Curious. The Obama defenders, defense is that McCain denies responsibility for the ads? Gee, perhaps the Obama defenders would like to defend teh fact that Obama is and was a friend of a know terrorist. This is one more example of Obama's hatred of his country, and Michel's "I have never been proud of this country" and "This is a mean country". This is what the political hacks need to defend against if they can. Or I suppose they can attack McCain for not stopping me from making this post.

Further, Obama campaigns on judgement. Wow, what kind of fool runs around with a known bomber/terrorist? Judgment? It is also interest that Obama claims superior judgment by opposing the Iraq war. Forget that this is easy for him to say as he was not even a Senator with a vote at the time. But, Joe Biden "show supidity and poor JUDGMENT" by voting for the war, and Obama thinks this poor JUDGMENT make Biden an excellent choice for VP. WOW! Hypocrite or just stupid? THen campaign for change and choses a running mate who was nearly born in the Senate (started at age 29, been there for 36 years). Gee that is change if I ever heard of any. What a fraud! Change? No more of the same failed Socialist Economy-killing policies. Judgment? ARe you kidding me?

Do libs understand the concept of moral equivalance? Apparently not. In their warped minds McCain's ad on Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist, is a failure that equates to Obama's close relationship with him. Does that make any sense to anyone not driven by party over country sentiments?

v racer. Exactly. I the leftist mind, facts are irrelevant. But if you dare to state a fact you are to be punished. Not one leftist posting here DEFENDS Obama! Not one, they skate over reality and facts and blame someone else. Braindead, totally braindead. If a leftist backs into your car in a parking lot, his repsonses is wow, what were you thinking when you got out of bed this morning, and what were you thinking when you parked your car here. If you were to say, excuse me you backed into my car, the leftist would say Bush is responsible for the total distruction of New Orleans. Logic and facts are just pointless when talking to the left.

Paula, what do people fear Obama will do? Well the damage goes well beyond those things which might be directly related to his association with known terrorists. But specifically associated with this trend is that Obama is naive, naive, naive, naive in the ways of the world. When ask recently by Rick Warren whether evil exists and whether it should be confronted, Obama waffled big time. Is it that complicated to say that the 9/11 murderers were evil and that they must be stopped? But Obama, started out by saying that we must look at our evil. So Obama is very sympathetic to terrorist, and does not take them seriously! This one point, just plain beyond the obvious "what the heck are you doing assoiciating with people who easily could have KILLED dozens or hundreds of people?" I can not believe that is so easy for you to sweep under the rug! Bizzare if you ask me. Obama beleive this country is evil and does not deserve to exist in it's current state. As such he will NOT DEFEND it. The writing is on the wall.