—OBAMA
“That anger is not always productive,” Obama asserted. “Indeed, all too often it distracts attention from solving real problems; it keeps us from squarely facing our own complicity in our condition.”

Why, then, given this call to reject “a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism,” did Obama establish a long-lasting working relationship with unrepentant former terrorist William Ayers?

Obama dismissed inquiries about his relationship with Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground, by saying that he was just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.”

In fact, Obama served from 1995 to 1999 as chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), the brainchild of Ayers, an organization that funneled some $100 million into the hands of community organizers and activists, including ACORN, in order to radicalize Chicago’s public schools.

Between 1969 and 1974, the Weather Underground claimed responsibility for some 20 bombings in the United States — at police stations, banks, jails, courthouses, the Capitol and the Pentagon. Ayers became a fugitive in 1970, reports Andy McCarthy at the National Review, after three of his cohorts were “accidentally killed when the explosive they were building to Ayers’ specifications — Ayers was a bomb designer — went off during construction.”

The explosive, a nail bomb, “had been intended for detonation at a dance that was to be attended by army soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey,” reports McCarthy. “Ayers attested that the bomb would have done serious damage, ‘tearing through windows and walls and, yes, people too.’”

Ayers, describing the Weather Underground as “an American Red Army,” motivated by “hope,” succinctly summed up the organization’s mission: “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments.”

“I don’t regret setting bombs,” Ayers told The New York Times in September 2001. “I feel we didn’t do enough.”

Ayers, in charge of shaping CAC’s education philosophy, describes himself as “a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist.” Rather than focusing on anything as mundane as math or reading, the job of teachers, said Ayers, is to “teach against oppression.”

Ayers “downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism,” writes Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

“Ayers wrote that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression,” reports Kurtz. “He believes teacher education programs should serve as ’sites of resistance’ to an oppressive system.”

The question: Why do Obama’s deeds contradict his words? Is anyone in the mainstream media curious??

HP Boston, any chance you're running a GOP outreach service? I've seen this little canard come about every now and then and funny thing, it's always the afraid of "voter fraud" repukes running the scam.

" hope Palin goes on to CONDEMN The University of Chicago, It's Trustees and President, its student and the parents of these students and everyone in Chicago who have interacted with Ayers... Obama was frickin 8 years OLD for crying out loud..'

How old was he when he was sitting in Ayer's living room seeking his support to help kick of Obama's political career?

palin thinks she attack everyone, people are going to get tired of this lady real fast, how dare she call herself a christian, what she is- is an extreme sarcastic bit*h. I do not think she intensionally sounds stupid so tina fey can get some work, i think tina fey is going to be offended by her comment as I was. everytime you turn around Palin is being negative and sarcastic, these are not good traits in any employee let alone the VP of the US

Mack

can you explain all the scary and reckless asociations of Palin and mccain

because they make Obama's look like something off the Andy Griffith Show

Mccain's associations have sent us to war...and cost us trillions...

Palin's
are just "weird scary"

you not only have to be stupid to vote for McCain Palin

you have to be borderline institutionalized.

"Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings" - so said Samuel Johnson, who a few hundred years ago, and was a few hundred times smarter than Sarah Palin.

Really, seriously, this is her attack? " Barack Obama is not as American as you and me - I'm AFRAID of what he'd do to America." This is ugly and divisive. It is also fear-mongering and racist. It is, as Dr. Johnson would note, phony patriotism. It is also cynical political posturing and manipulation.

Yep, John McCain, this is a real HONORABLE campaign you've got going. And Sarah Palin, your wind-up doll, is beneath contempt.

So what about the THOUSANDS of kids who attend The University of Chicago where Ayers is a DISTINGUISHED professor... Please CONDEMN their parents for sending their children to the University of Chicago...

Wow HP Boston - you are THAT afraid of the results, huh?

Do you really believe that the electorate is as stupid as you?

Now stop hanging around grown up sites and go back to your Mommy.

Palin is no Christian. Jesus said: 'Heal the Sick'. Republicans say: 'socialist'

Specifically, Palin flat out lied when she characterized Obama's plan as 'government taking over health care'.

The TRUTH, as any Christian would have to acknowledge, is that Obama thinks that EVERY AMERICAN should have the option to sign up for the same health plan enjoyed by John McCain and every other member of the Congress, at a discount for those who cannot afford it, IF THEY CHOOSE TO DO SO.

John McCain wants to TAX your employer supplied health insurance, in an attempt to force you and your family to give up your employer provided health insurance and take your chances in the marketplace, WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF AN EMPLOYER'S PURCHASING POWER.

Of even greater concern, John McCain thinks that insurance companies should be regulated by a friendly state OF THEIR OWN CHOOSING, one with ZERO consumer protections, simply by reincorporating in that state.

"Mack

can you explain all the scary and reckless asociations of Palin and mccain"

Obama, the coward, needs to stand up in front of the American people and explain his associations. Stop throwing people under the bus and stand up for once.

JB...Palin is so full of crap, she sticks..She knows so little about America it is shameful to have someone like her even in office.
She belongs to a group who wanted to withdraw from the US because they thought the US was terrible!!! Where are all the news reports on that!

Talk about being bias!!!

Please When will Palin see her position as a puppet for old angry men...
OBAMA 08

A vote for McCain a vote for war..

HP Boston - nice try. typical republican slimeball.

2 new Virginia polls today .

Surveyusa +10
Sufolk + 12

PA

Morning call + 11

"So what about the THOUSANDS of kids who attend The University of Chicago where Ayers is a DISTINGUISHED professor'

He is an unrepentant domestic terrorist that should be in prison.

I'm fearful that a woman like Palin (whose husband wanted Alaska seperated from the USA) could be President if McCain won.

I'm fearful, that this is a trend. A woman who has invoked fear before to try to get someone fired, is trying to invoke fear again to get someone hired.

I'm hopeful that after November 4th, Palin will be back in Alaska for good.

Obama is a nut case who believes raising taxes is going to fix this economy. Gee, whose bright ides does that sound like? Maybe Mondale and Carter. He has no clue how to deal with this economy.

People are seeing their 401K plunge and have no time to listen to Ms Pitt bull

2 new Virginia polls today .

Surveyusa +10
Sufolk + 12

PA

Morning call + 11

Obama 08

Republicans running scared!!!!
McCain picks a insulting, undereducated,
and take the low road partner..

SO sad when our country needs leadership
How about talking about issues Palin
oh.. you would have to know the issues

Mack...looks like Palin is throwing McCain under the bus. She wants to go back to Michigan and says she wants to get "down and dirty" with Obama. Why doesn't McCain just bow out and let her run the whole show?