I sent Obama $5 so I'm a terrorist

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funny I just commented on this from the other post. I think the Ayers thing is a legit story, so did Hillary Clinton. I'm not saying Obama is a terrorist, its a story because announcing at Ayers house shows a serious lack of judgment. How can anyone disagree with that?
*tries again* heh

I think I'd be less offended if people knew the whole story, like hey this guy has been teaching your kids for... well I'll be honest I've no clue how long, too lazy to open wikipedia at the moment... decades? And if I'm not mistaken works for charitable organizations for as long? And that's how Obama knows him... But to just say hey Obama is buddies with a terrorist... someone from Chicago press on tv just said on tv that ANYONE interested in education in Chicago pretty much had to deal with Ayers as he was one of the only people in the city who really cared about the problems in their education system and that all politicians and activists dealt with him and that Obama wasn't close to him... So was having a meet the candidate thing at his house wise for the future presidential candidate? Apparently not, heh. But apparently despite his "radical past" that Obama denounced, what Ayers did for education in Chicago... well locally he wasn't an issue it seems..
Interesting article excerpt, apparently not everyone was on board with Ayers education. By the way, I don't really care what a man does after he blew up the pentagon. I'm not going to be hosting any parties with Osama Bin Laden(even in 30 years), I prefer my Presidential Candidates to be smart enough to do the same.

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There is nothing "sporadic" about Barack Obama delivering hundreds of thousands of dollars over a period of many years to fund Bill Ayers’ radical education projects, not to mention many millions more to benefit Ayers’ radical education allies. We are talking about a substantial and lengthy working relationship here, one that does not depend on the quality of personal friendship or number of hours spent in the same room together (although the article greatly underestimates that as well).

Shane’s article buys the spin on Ayers’ supposed rehabilitation offered by the Obama campaign and Ayers’ supporters in Chicago. In this view, whatever Ayers did in the 1960's has somehow been redeemed by Ayers’ later turn to education work. As the Times quotes Mayor Daley saying, "People make mistakes. You judge a person by his whole life." The trouble with this is that Ayers doesn’t view his terrorism as a mistake. How can he be forgiven when he’s not repentant? Nor does Ayers see his education work as a repudiation of his early radicalism. On the contrary, Ayers sees his education work as carrying on his radicalism in a new guise. The point of Ayers’ education theory is that the United States is a fundamentally racist and oppressive nation. Students, Ayers believes, ought to be encouraged to resist this oppression. Obama was funding Ayers’ "small schools" project, built around this philosophy. Ayers’ radicalism isn’t something in the past. It’s something to which Obama gave moral and financial support as an adult. So when Shane says that Obama has never expressed sympathy for Ayers’ radicalism, he’s flat wrong. Obama’s funded it.

Obama was perfectly aware of Ayers’ radical views, since he read and publically endorsed, without qualification, Ayers’ book on juvenile crime. That book is quite radical, expressing doubts about whether we ought to have a prison system at all, comparing America to South Africa’s apartheid system, and contemptuously dismissing the idea of the United States as a kind or just country. Shane mentions the book endorsement, yet says nothing about the book’s actual content. Nor does Shane mention the panel about Ayers’ book, on which Obama spoke as part of a joint Ayers-Obama effort to sink the 1998 Illinois juvenile crime bill. Again, we have unmistakable evidence of a substantial political working relationship."

The entire article is here.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZWI0MjY3NzMyODgxZGM2ZjUwNTE1MmEzOGRiZmFkNWE=



CNN seems to think Obama is lying about the closeness of his relationship with Ayers.

- http://dirtyharrysplace.com/?p=4873

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