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Obama's Radical Friend
Folks, meet William Ayers. This is a picture of William Ayers stepping on the American flag in a deliberate display of disrespect to the flag and the nation for which it stands.
In the seventies, William Ayers was a terrorist who tried to bomb and kill people. He never served a day in prison, and now has a cushy job as a college professor.
Why is this important? Because when Obama was looking to start his political career, Ayers was a close friend, donated money hosted a meeting that launched Obama's start in Illinois politics. Needless to say, Obama thought nothing of Ayers radical past, or anti-American leanings that continued on into the future.
Millions of Americans are disgusted by Ayers and others of his ilk, and while they can't do anything about Ayers non prosecution or his cushy job, they can punish Obama for associating with him. In other words, William Ayers is an electability problem. He can be pointed to while it is said, "These are Obama's friends, this is who he associates with."
So far Obama, by his statements, indicates that he doesn't understand what the big deal is. Which is even worse, in a way, indicating a naievete about the broad mainstream of American opinion toward the radical elements of the counter culture. And we wonder why he can't get the support of the bitter clingers? More at Michelle Malkin, among others.
Recent Comments
(Page 1 of 4)Katherine11:37PMMay 5th 2008
"In the seventies, William Ayers was a terrorist who tried to bomb and kill people."
That's pretty light.
He DID set bombs with his current wife Bernadine Dorhn. They bombed the Capitol, the Pentagon, the 103rd main Police Headquarters in NYC, and over 20 different bomb sites.
People did die. A cop in a shoot out, and four people in a Greenwich Village Manhattan apartment when a bomb went off.
Watch THIS, some footage of the Weather Undergeround and their damage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxoiZdBSi-g
Katherine11:37PMMay 5th 2008
--Photograph of Bill Ayers stomping on the American Flag in August of 2001:
http://bp3.blogger.com/_Sit4XCRo-rw/SB2fJW0DM3I/AAAAAAAAA8c/5WuVV8UIi-M/s1600-h/ayers+stomp+on+flag.jpg
Katherine11:37PMMay 5th 2008
--Please read Andrew McCarthy's article: "The Bad Company of Barack Obama" (Michelle, Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn, and Rashid Khalidi): http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/11/opinion/main4009369.shtml
Katherine11:38PMMay 5th 2008
--For several years Barack Obama served as a paid director on the Woods Fund with radical unrepentant Weather Underground domestic terrorist William Ayers. William Ayers and the Weather Underground are responsible for over 20 bombings in America, including the Pentagon, US Capitol, and police stations. People were killed. On 9/11/01 it was stated in the NYT that Ayers didn't regret the terrorism, but said that he didn't do enough. Also, Bill Ayers contributed money to Obama's campaign, promoted Obama, and held fundraisers for Barack Obama in his home. The Woods Fund raised a great deal of money for Rashid Khalidi's Pro-Palestine, Israel critical AAAN (Arab American Action Network) of which Rashid's wife, Mona, was the President, but now only serves on the board. There are serious accusations that Rashid Khalidi was once a member of the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)--which is deemed as a terrorist organization. It is also said that Khalidi was a director of the Palestinian press agency: Wikalat al-Anba al-Filastinija, or WAFA in Beirut from 1976-82. It's been stated that Khalidi was a de facto Arafat spokesperson as well. http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1211 Also inferred is that Khalidi sympathizes with Hamas and Hezbollah: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2709 Please listen to total radio broadcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqqGfIsEI74
Mary O\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\11:38PMMay 5th 2008
Obama is out of touch with we the mainstream of America. He needs to go back to his rookie senate job and get some experience. Rise, Hillary, rise despite the Oprah connection $$$$$$$. Wright is poison and we don't want that in our Whitehouse.
Katherine11:38PMMay 5th 2008
--Here is an article, a sort of bio on Rashid Khalidi: http://pryce-jones.nationalreview.com/post/?q=N2UyZTIxNzRiNDYxZGRlOTcyZWI4Njg5NGI4Yjg1MDk= "If Senator Obama really has friends like this, he – and all of us too - had better beware."
--Rashid Khalidi is the Ed Said Columbia Professor of Arab studies who helped to work out the controversial September 2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visit to Columbia University in NYC. http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0308/0308obamaconnect.htm Also, please read: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/810 Also, Daily News cover on that day: http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2007-09-26-DailyNewsAhmadinejad350.jpg
Katherine11:38PMMay 5th 2008
--From the LA Times, it is reported that Barack and Michelle Obama would go on regular double dates with Rashid and Mona Khalidi and they were dinner friends. It is also stated that Barack Obama gave a rousing tribute to Rashid Khalidi at a goodbye party for when the Khalidi's moved from Chicago to New York. Also reported is that as recently as several months ago Michelle Obama attended a Khalidi family wedding and William Ayers and wife Bernadine Dorhn of the Weather Underground were also guests in attendance. Read article and click LA Times link within: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-bomber-ayers-partied-with-former.html
Katherine11:38PMMay 5th 2008
--Again, here is the photograph of Bill Ayer’s stomping on the American Flag, but there is also an article here revealing that Barack Obama and Bill Ayer’s didn’t just work on the Woods Fund together, Obama was also a chairman of the 50 million dollar foundation Chicago Annenberg Challenge Foundation. Bill Ayer’s c-founded it and Barack Obama was the chairperson!
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/03/stomp-on-this/
Katherine11:39PMMay 5th 2008
--Here is a two part interview, Greta Van Susteren of Fox news interviews John M. Murtagh, whose house was bombed by the Weather Underground three times when he was a nine year old boy—he and his parents were asleep when the bombs went off. His father was a NY trial judge. “Kill The Pigs” was posted on their front lawn, among other messages. John. M. Murtagh also explains that Michelle Obama worked at the same law firm as Bernadine Dorhn and they knew one another before Michelle even met Barack Obama. He also says that Barack Obama worked with Bill Ayer’s brother and father. Watch two part interview:
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/03/victim-of-ayers-and-dohrn-on-national-television/
Katherine11:39PMMay 5th 2008
--Also, Ali Abunimah, who serves on the board of AAAN, and who is also a "Chicago based Palestinian-American activist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada, a pro-Palestinian online publication" has written that the Obama's would go to Rashid Khalidi's home for Palestinian fundraisers, and also other Arab fundraisers in the community and that Obama was critical of the U.S.'s relationship with Israel. Obama also told Abunimah that he would get around to Palestinian issues later in the political race, but it was not the right time since the race was tight. Then Obama told Abunimah to keep up the good work, concerning his critical Israeli articles in the Chicago Tribune. Here: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57341
Katherine11:42PMMay 5th 2008
--Here is an article titled "Obama Linked to Arab Marxist Terrorist Group," from Vilmar: http://jewagainstobama.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/obama-linked-to-arab-marxist-terrorist-group/ Here is an excerpt: "An article has appeared on the ISM affiliated website Electronic Intifada (EI) by one of its co-founders, Ali Abunimah, in which Abumimah recounts his close past working relationship with Obama prior to the presidential campaign and how Abunimah believes Obama is merely giving lip service to the Jewish community to get elected, and that once in office he will work for the Palestinian cause. Abunimah lists himself and is mentioned in subsequent Obama articles in the mainstream press merely as a "Palestinian activist." Abunimah insists that Obama will "come around" once elected. But Ali Abunimah is more than just some "Palestinian activist" based in Chicago, the same location as Reverend Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ. He is, in fact, one of the founders of the fiercely anti-Semitic ISM Arab group Al Awda, the Palestine Right of Return Coalition. Abunimah is a high level international leader of the ISM for the Arabs who travels extensively between Chicago, Europe and Ramallah. Al Awda in Arabic means "The Return," and the group not only calls for the complete destruction of Israel, even denying Israel's current existence on its website and urging boycotts against not only Israelis, but American..." Also: Please read this article and click on links concerning the ISM and links to bloody Easter Sunday protests and more. Read in full: http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2008/04/barack-hussein-obama-and-international.html
Katherine11:42PMMay 5th 2008
--Here is a photo of Barack and Michelle Obama with "Professor Edward Said and Mariam Said at May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech": http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/03/obamas_jews_rus.html Professor Said is a controversial Pro-Palestinian activist who has been critical of Israel and US foreign policies in the Middle East.
Katherine11:43PMMay 5th 2008
There is also a photograph of Edward Said throwing a stone across the Lebanon--Israel border.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Edward_Said_thowing_a_stone_at_Israeli_soldiers.jpg This "action provoked criticism from some Columbia faculty and students as well as from the Anti-Defamation League." The provost of Columbia defended Said's act as freedom of expression in a written statement and he was supported by others on the campus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said
Katherine11:44PMMay 5th 2008
--Edward Said's positive review of Weather Underground Bill Ayers’ book titled "Fugitive Days" is printed on the back of his book: "For anyone who cares about the sorry mess we are in, this book is essential, indeed necessary reading."--Edward Said. http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0142002550/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
Katherine11:46PMMay 5th 2008
--Also, Another big Barack Obama supporter: Hatem El-Hady, former chairman of the Toledo-based Islamic charity Kindhearts, closed by the US government in 2006 for terrorist fundraising: Terrorist Fundraisers for Obama. El-Hady has now devoted himself to raising money for Barack Obama; he has a page at the official Obama campaign website, with three “friends” listed on it: “Rick,” “Fatima from Toledo, Ohio,” and ... Michelle Obama. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/29709_Terrorist_Fundraisers_for_Obama This Kindhearts organization raised money for HAMAS in Lebanon and the West Bank of Palestine: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/19302_Kind_Hearts_for_Charitable_Human_Development_=_Hamas
Katherine11:47PMMay 5th 2008
--Is it true that Samantha Powers, former top foreign policy advisor to Obama (who later stepped down due to Hillary is a “Monster” comment) made these statements concerning America’s relationship with Israel and Palestine? “Just so we’re clear here: Power said that her advice to the President would be to 1) “Alienate” the American Jewish community, and indeed all Americans, such as evangelical Christians, who support the state of Israel, because 2) Israeli leaders are “destroying the lives of their own people.” 3) Pour billions of dollars of the taxpayers’ money into “the new state of Palestine”; 4) Stage an American ground invasion of Israel and the Palestinian territories — what else can she mean by a “mammoth protection force” and a “military presence” that will be “imposed” by “external intervention”? — in order to do the exact same thing that she considers the height of arrogance and foolishness in Iraq: an American campaign to remake an Arab society.”
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/2093 ALSO:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/samantha_power_and_obamas_fore_1.html
Ester Wilhelm12:28AMMay 6th 2008
I recently got in a fairly heated argument with someone that I don't know if I can call friend any more. I'm white. I have a lot of black friends. But I'm really having trouble because Obama to me is a bigot and worse a hater. He dedicates a book to a man who obviously hates white people. Now that was enough to give me pause. But then when he talks about the small town people and their bitterness, it became way too much. Everyone can and should vote for whom they please, but Obama supporters I will always look at you and wonder if you hate me for being white or not.
A lot of people thought Obama would somehow be a huge step toward destroying the racial divide. Unfortunatly it seems to be the opposite. Now I wonder just how hated I am by people I thought were my friends.
Thank you Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and Oprah for dumping this very sad fact on my plate. I didn't need it.
My Choice12:35AMMay 6th 2008
WE NEED A STRONG EXPERIENCED WOMAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
I deserve your vote to be president.
I served eight years as the first lady - working on policy issues and being involved in the day to day working of the presidency.
I served two terms as wife to a governor, also working on policy and promoting an agenda to help children and women.
I have the experience to be your president!
Vote for me.
LAURA BUSH
Katherine12:40AMMay 6th 2008
--Here is a youtube video titled “Anti-Semitic Obama” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvdAWJ3tyR0
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joedenver6011:28PMMay 5th 2008
I have a lot friends, and those who I had questions about, I stay far away from...obama seems not to remember or did not know, what kind of people his friends were....how stupid does he think I am....fortunetly, my head is not up my ass, as most supporters for obama