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By: Pam On: Oct/9/08 - 3 Comments

Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends. They’ve worked together for years. But Obama tries to hide it. Why?

Obama launched his political career in Ayers’ living room. Ayers and Obama ran a radical “education” foundation, together. They wrote the foundation’s by-laws, together. Obama was the foundation’s first chairman. Reports say they, “distributed more than $100 million to ideological allies with no discernible improvement in education.”

When their relationship became an issue, Obama just responded, “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” That’s it?

We know Bill Ayers ran the “violent left wing activist group” called Weather Underground. We know Ayers’ wife was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list. We know they bombed the Capitol. The Pentagon. A judge’s home. We know Ayers said, “I don’t regret setting bombs. :. I feel we didn’t do enough.”

But Obama’s friendship with terrorist Ayers isn’t the issue. The issue is Barack Obama’s judgment and candor. When Obama just says, “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” Americans say, “Where’s the truth, Barack?”

Barack Obama. Too risky for America.

FNC Features, Networks Ignore Ayers Victim

While the networks and much of the mainstream media channeled their outrage at Sarah Palin for daring to mention Barack Obama’s ties to terrorist Bill Ayers, the October 9 “Fox and Friends” featured a victim of Mr. Ayers, John Murtagh, whose home was bombed at the age of nine. Murtagh explained that the Obama-Ayers relationship goes back to the 1980’s, when they met at a law firm.
Further elaborating on the activities of a Weather Underground splinter group when Obama was attending college in New York City, Murtagh editorialized “for Barack Obama to attend Columbia shortly after these events, being in New York at that time and not know who the Weather Underground was, frankly, makes him the dumbest man that ever graduated from Columbia and Harvard Law School.” When Brian Kilmeade replied “we know he’ not,” Murtagh agreed.

The transcript follows.

STEVE DOOCY: This headline from 1970 says it all, four bombs at Murtagh home. The notorious terror group the Weather Underground claiming responsibility for an attack on the family of a New York state Supreme Court justice. The bombing was lead by radical Bill Ayers, the same guy screen right who eventually formed a relationship of some sort with Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama.

BRIAN KILMEADE: Yonkers city councilman John Murtagh was just nine years old when the blast went off inside his house. John this is a personal story for you.

JOHN MURTAGH: Clearly it is. I was nine years old at the time. My father was the judge presiding over what was called the Panther 21 trial, members of Panther party who were charged with attempting to bomb landmarks in New York. On a February night in 1970, while my parents, my brother, sister and I were asleep in our house, the Weather Underground launched the attack on our family and set off at least three, possibly four bombs, one of them under the gas tank of the family car.

DOOCY: Car bomb.

MURTAGH: Looking to kill us.

DOOCY: So when I read one of the things you wrote earlier in the spring, the headline was that Bill Ayers tried to kill my family.

MURTAGH: Well, Bill Ayers, the founder of the Weather Underground, Kathy Wilkerson, who is a former member of the Weather Underground, still lives here in New York, she wrote a memoir two years ago in which she acknowledged that it was the New York cell of the Weather Underground that launched the attack on my family. Three weeks later, at Bill Ayers direction, they were assembling bombs at Greenwich Village in order to attack the officers’ club at Fort Dix, New Jersey and they blew themselves up.

DOOCY: Right, they blew the nail.

MURTAGH: Exactly.

KILMEADE: So what do you think when you hear about this Bill Ayers back in the news and his links or lack thereof with Barack Obama?

MURTAGH: Well, you know, Barack Obama constantly says “I was only eight years old when this happened.” That’s kind of his throw away line. I’m not questioning what Barack Obama was doing when he was eight years old. I’m questioning his behavior as an adult to choose his friend, mentor, and long time personal and professional colleague, a gentleman who engaged in acts of terror against families, against government buildings and whose organization crossed the lines of at least three if not more police officers.

DOOCY: Now, we’ve had the Obama camp on a number of times and they dispute the relationship and everything else. They say it goes back to when they simply served on boards and they only met at a couple of board meetings plus that get together at that guy’s, Bill Ayers’ house. But why is it you think- because this is something that happened- why is it that you think the relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama goes back 20 years?

MURTAGH: Bill Ayers’ wife, Bernadine Dorn, also one of the original leaders of the Weather Underground. And the woman who took credit for the bombing at our home and other New York targets. Bernadine Dorn was an attorney by training. She couldn’t get admitted to the Bar because of her crimes. Bill Ayers’ family got a job at a large Chicago law firm from Sydney Austin in the 1980’s. She was a contemporary at the law firm in the 80’s with Michelle Obama. It was the firm where a year later-

DOOCY: They had known each other around the water cooler?

MURTAGH: Sure, and a year later it’s where Michelle and Barack Obama met. So I believe if the senator where to come clean and tell his full story, we’d find this relationship well predates the fundraiser in Ayers’ home and goes back to the 80’s.

DOOCY: I have never heard that connection before.

KILMEADE: I just can’t believe that a university would hire this guy with this type of background.

MURTAGH: You’d have to ask the University of Illinois to explain that.

DOOCY: Let, let me ask you one more question. You know, the Obama camp called me up and said “look they lived in the same neighborhood, but Barack Obama did not know Bill Ayers’ history at the time of that meet and greet where they launched his career in his living room.”

MURTAGH: You know, Barack Obama was a student at Columbia in the early 1980’s. He lived in New York at Columbia at a time that a splinter group of the Weather Underground murdered two police officers here in New York as part of a failed banking heist. Frankly, for Barack Obama to attend Columbia shortly after these events, being in New York at that time and not know who the Weather Underground was, frankly, makes him the dumbest man that ever graduated from Columbia and Harvard Law School.

KILMEADE: Which we know he’s not.

MURTAGH: Absolutely not.

Obama is now downplaying his extensive ties to ACORN.

For starters, Obama paid ACORN, which has endorsed him for president, $800,000 to register new voters, payments his campaign failed to accurately report. (They were disguised in his FEC disclosure as payments to a front group called Citizen Services Inc. for “advance work.”)

What’s more, Obama worked as executive director of ACORN’s voter-registration arm, Project Vote, in 1992. Joined by two other community organizers on Chicago’s South Side, Obama conducted the voter-registration drive that helped elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the Senate that year.

The next year, 1993, Obama joined the civil-rights law firm Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, where he sued the state of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to implement the federal “Motor Voter” law, which the GOP governor at the time refused to do. Then-Gov. Jim Edgar argued, presciently, that the Clinton law would invite voter fraud.

Obama downplays his ties to ACORN, and his campaign denies coordinating with ACORN to register voters.

IBD outlines the scope of their criminal behavior, and Michelle gives us the details:

  • Missouri – Officials now have to sift through hundreds of bogus applications submitted last August.
  • Connecticut – A criminal investigation has been opened into ACORN fraud.
  • Wisconsin – Registering convicted felons.
  • Ohio – ACORN tells Cuyahoga County’s election board that they can’t stop themselves from committing fraud.
  • Indiana – Over a thousand new applications from ACORN appear to investigators to be fraudulent, and that should be no surprise, since Indianapolis now has 105% of its population registered to vote.

Obama’s Dirty Little ACORNS

What does all this have to do with Obama, besides the fact that he’d be the beneficiary of most, if not all, of these new votes?
For starters, Obama paid ACORN, which has endorsed him for president, $800,000 to register new voters, payments his campaign failed to accurately report. (They were disguised in his FEC disclosure as payments to a front group called Citizen Services Inc. for “advance work.”)

What’s more, Obama worked as executive director of ACORN’s voter-registration arm, Project Vote, in 1992. Joined by two other community organizers on Chicago’s South Side, Obama conducted the voter-registration drive that helped elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the Senate that year.

The next year, 1993, Obama joined the civil-rights law firm Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, where he sued the state of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to implement the federal “Motor Voter” law, which the GOP governor at the time refused to do. Then-Gov. Jim Edgar argued, presciently, that the Clinton law would invite voter fraud.

Obama downplays his ties to ACORN, and his campaign denies coordinating with ACORN to register voters.

Meantime, New Orleans-based ACORN maintains that it has no control over volunteers who are falsifying application forms, that they’re like employees who steal from the store.

But the fraud is widespread and not isolated. It also turns out that some ACORN execs allegedly are involved in a $1 million embezzlement cover-up at their headquarters. Representing them in the case is none other than Michelle Obama’s old law firm in Chicago.

ACORN’s corruption is not just out in the field, as they claim. There’s a pattern of corruption from the top down.

McCain would be wise to start preparing a challenge to voter registration rolls should he lose the race in a close contest. He’d be crazy not to contest the results in light of these events.

Another IBD article takes aim at Obama’s not-so-stealth socialism.

(Voters might also be interested to know that Obama, the supposed straight shooter, does not once mention his father’s communist leanings in an entire book dedicated to his memory.)In Kenya’s recent civil unrest, Obama privately phoned the leader of the opposition Luo tribe, Raila Odinga, to voice his support. Odinga is so committed to communism he named his oldest son after Fidel Castro.

With his African identity sewn up, Obama returned to Chicago and fell under the spell of an Afrocentric pastor. It was a natural attraction. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright preaches a Marxist version of Christianity called “black liberation theology” and has supported the communists in Cuba, Nicaragua and elsewhere.

Obama joined Wright’s militant church, pledging allegiance to a system of “black values” that demonizes white “middle classness” and other mainstream pursuits.

(Obama in his first book, published in 1995, calls such values “sensible.” There’s no mention of them in his new book.)

With the large church behind him, Obama decided to run for political office, where he could organize for “change” more effectively. “As an elected official,” he said, “I could bring church and community leaders together easier than I could as a community organizer or lawyer.”

He could also exercise real, top-down power, the kind that grass-roots activists lack. Alinsky would be proud.

Throughout his career, Obama has worked closely with a network of stone-cold socialists and full-blown communists striving for “economic justice.”

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3 Responses to “Scroll For Updates: New McCain Ad: “Ayers””

  1. big mike
    October 9, 2008 - 01:07 PM on October 9th, 2008

    Well, it’s about frigging time someone brought up that relationship…

  2. Robert
    October 9, 2008 - 06:06 PM on October 9th, 2008

    Who cares? ZZZ….some might say. And those are the people who are marching like lemmings to the cliff.

    Remember a famous speech about the “Content of a man’s character”? If you don’t know someone personally, if you haven’t had a chance to make a choice whether to trust them and in what situations, how do you have any idea who you can support? How do you know who among the candidates you can trust or at least assume will be the best?

    You can’t go by their speeches, their promises, their commercials. They say anything if it’s what they think you want to hear.

    The only reasonable and logical way for us to do that is to look at their actions, their record, their history. Those are the only indicators we have to reveal the content of their character. Forget the speeches, the rallies, the teleprompters. Look at their personal, political, and professional records.

    And that is why these relationships, these associations, are so important. While the spinmeisters and pundits, plus the propagandists in the MSM all yawn and roll their eyes and dismiss this, it is absolutely a legitimate, valid thing. And on the basis of his actions, his records, I wouldn’t trust Obama to get anywhere near the White House.

    His lack of character and integrity is startling. He lies and spins even simple things, like when he was asked about the military and whether he ever considered serving when he was young. He could have just said a simple no, or if he had to elaborate, he could have said he just didn’t think about it much, it wasn’t his thing. No problem, it is a volunteer military, that’s fine, no big deal.

    But instead he hemmed and hawed, and then made up this obvious lie about how he didn’t volunteer because we were between wars. In other words, if he couldn’t be a warrior, there was no real enemy to fight, no real combat, he wasn’t interested!

    What a steaming, stinking load of horseshit! But it is just a small example of how this guy can’t be honest, give a straight answer. He’s always gotta shuck and jive, bob and weave, spin and twist. It’s the mark of a liar, a BSer, someone who just cannot be trusted.

    How can anyone who considers themselves intelligent vote for this klown? :o) Barack Saddam Hussein Osama bin Obama?

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    October 10, 2008 - 07:55 AM on October 10th, 2008

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