I was a fan of Vietnam War protesters, and took a particular interest in the Chicago 7 (or 8, depending on whether you count Bobby Seale), even though I was too young at the time (I was 9 in 1968) to do more than think hippies were cool. Even so, my impression was that outfits like the Yippies and the Weathermen and SDS were kind of loosey-goosey, non-dues-paying groups whose members acted locally even if they took the name of a more renowned club.

Fast forwarding to 1995, when Obama was invited by the Illinois senator to the home of a fundraiser who turned out to be William Ayers. I have spent a good deal of time online trying to see exactly what Ayers did, and why he was allowed to become a college professor and contributor to society if it was much more than protesting the Vietnam War, and have found little in the way of specifics. Hard though it might be to remember, in 1995 the internet was still a nascent technology. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to research Ayers from, say, your local library’s reference section of books and periodicals only?

So whether it’s converting a Vietnam War protester into a terrorist, or holding Obama accountable for not googling Ayers when Google wasn’t even around (I just checked – the company started in 1997), we are wrong to paint the past with brushes from the present. Attempting to do so is why your side is having trouble making these “charges” against Obama stick.

By contrast, McCain was in his 50s when he was the guest of honor at a fundraiser for a woman who shot an abortion doctor, a retired Navy surgeon, and who was called a terrorist by her sentencing judge.

This whole Ayers thing is just a big nothing burger that’s sole purpose is to change the subject from McCain’s lousy campaign and his dangerously bad judgment in picking the Worst Vice Presidential Nominee Ever.

Founded by the Woods family, owners of the Illinois-based Sahara Coal Company, a major supplier of coal from its mines to Commonwealth Edison, headed by Thomas Ayers, father of Bill Ayers.

In 1985, the Woods Fund gave a $25,000 grant to the Developing Communities Project (DCP), which allowed DCP to hire Obama, at age 24, as an organizer on Chicago’s South Side. Obama served on the board of the Woods Fund from 1993 until 2002. Bill Ayers
joined the board of the Fund in 1999.

Annenberg Challenge

From its inception in 1995 until 2000, the leaders of the two operative arms of the Annenberg Challenge [CAC Board and CSR Collaborative] were Bill Ayers and Barack Obama.

Obama dismisses Bill Ayers as “some guy who lives in my neighborhood.”

Ps: I’ll still vote for whoever the Democratic nominee is. this stuff pales in comparison to what Senator McCave-in has been up to in prostating himself before the GOP power barons.

The facts are the facts; how can you defent Obama’s ties with domestic terror? He wants to be the leader of the free-world, yet he is friendly with individuals that tried to blow up federal buildings, as well as Fort Dix base during a party. That is pure evil. These facts are very real, not made up by some right-wing politician-no spin at all. Look it up your-self.

Barack will never win in a national election regardless of how the press wants to spin things. You watch, Americans will not vote for a man that has a shady past, with ties to un-american groups; they want a patriotic president, that does not associate with terror groups, both foreign and domestic-regardless of the whole democrate/republican association.
I agree he is a charasmatic guy-but has nothing to back it up with. he can’t win, he can’t even win the states that are needed to win a national election.

If he is the nominee he will loose and Mccain will be the next president. I look at Barack’s push to be president something like this-Exp: if a person went to work at a company at an entry level, and after one year of holding a junior position started petitioining the board to be the CEO…they would laugh him out of his job. He came too soon. Had he waited maybe 4 years he would have a shot, but the inexperience, and the background ties to terror will leave him a loser. Watch and learn.