Note To Reporters on the Ayers Story: Ask About The Brink’s Case


Where Was Obama in 1981? Where Was Chesa Boudin in 1994?

Kevin has linked to a great CNN piece that explodes some of Barack Obama’s untruths about the depth of his ties to unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. You should go watch the video, which is excellent and includes new reporting quoting Alice Palmer, the leftist state senator who Obama succeeded in office.

The Obama camp and its media allies have used two main rhetorical strategies to deal (dishonestly) with the Ayers story.

The first is to minimize the nature of the relationship by talking about it solely in terms of “meetings.” Maybe this was the state of reportage a few months ago, but as of now, believe nothing you hear from anyone who refuses to address Stanley Kurtz’s detailed reporting (CNN, amazingly, talked to Kurtz) on Obama steering millions of dollars to Ayers’ left-wing “educational” programs, and Ayers’ theories to this day about using education to push his radical left agenda.

The second strategy is to claim that Ayers and Dohrn were somehow obscure figures (who just happened to be profiled periodically by national newspapers), and who had been the subject of wanted posters across the nation, and that Obama had no reason to know they were terrorists. This is silly as well. Their background was well known in Hyde Park. Erick has noted the extensive publicity about the Weather Underground at the time of the 1996 Democratic Convention in Chicago.

To me, the big one is the October 1981 Brink’s heist by Ayers’ and Dohrn’s old Weather Underground cronies in my home town just north of New York City, which resulted in the death of two cops and an armored car guard. The Brink’s case was huge front-page news in New York for months; it’s why I immediately knew who these people were when Obama’s ties to them surfaced, and I’m ten years younger than Obama. Well, Obama was living in New York City attending Columbia University in October 1981.

Moreover, one of the defendants in that case was Kathy Boudin; when Obama dealt with Ayers & Dohrn, Boudin and her husband were in prison and Ayers and Dohrn were raising their son Chesa as their own. I may not think much of Obama but even I don’t think he was obtuse enough not to have known exactly who these people were; if that’s the case, he was practically the only person in town who didn’t.

If Obama was ever to be asked questions about Ayers, these would be fertile subjects to pursue.

UPDATE: Want another piece of the puzzle? Kathy Boudin’s brother Michael was a lecturer at Harvard Law School when Obama was there (in fact, he was my antitrust professor). Did Obama take his class? Michael Boudin is, of course, an infinitely more respectable figure than his sister – he’d served in the Reagan Justice Department and in 1992, shortly after Obama graduated, Judge Boudin was appointed to the federal appellate bench by George H.W. Bush – but his family ties were the sort of thing one would routinely discuss about a member of the Law School faculty.


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Excellent post!

Frozen_Man (Diary) Tuesday, October 7th at 11:49AM EST (link)

Thanks for the new information. I had been amazed at how Ayers had been glossed over and it is good to see it getting a shadow of the publicity that it deserves.

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“This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behavior we expect from other people.” C. S. Lewis

“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” – Ronald Reagan

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” – C. S. Lewis

 

try the truth

plainsgirl Tuesday, October 7th at 11:49AM EST (link)

If you are concerned about people’s political ties, try this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eniG9l_7its

How many bombs did those Alaskans set off, Plainsgirl?

mcg Tuesday, October 7th at 11:54AM EST (link)

Obama's Communist Connections

izoneguy (Diary) Tuesday, October 7th at 11:57AM EST (link)

Obama’s Communist Connections

Who is Alice Palmer?

Palmer is much more than the “influential liberal” described by Politico.

Ten years before the aforementioned meeting, Alice Palmer was an official of a notorious Communist front group (so identified by the FBI), the U.S. Peace Council, an affiliate of the World Peace Council, an international Soviet front. It goes without saying that during that era of the eighties, both of these mouthpieces for Moscow were working feverishly to undermine President Reagan’s arms buildup which played a major role in the downfall of the Soviet Union. That was the time of the worldwide Soviet-inspired nuclear “freeze” movement in 1983, when Palmer was also mentioned as a participant on the World Peace Council’s Prague assembly.

In 1986, Palmer wrote an article for the People’s Weekly World, a house organ for the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). In that dispatch, Palmer favorably recounted her experiences attending the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

(Note: Because Palmer later tried to reclaim her place in the State Senate, Obama moved to have her taken off the ballot. Thus this year, according to America’s Survival, she is supporting Senator Hillary Clinton for President.)

Red press rejoices

Frank Chapman, a member of the U.S. Peace Council Executive Committee, wrote what could be called a gloating letter to the People’s Weekly World right after Obama’s victory this year in the Iowa Democrat Party caucuses. Therein, he said the following:

“Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move: It was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared [the] revolutionary new era of struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary ‘mole,’ not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through.”

So who is the mole?

A “mole” on whom Karl Marx would have smiled benignly if he were here? Chapman writes exuberantly as if he believed there was a “mole” in the Obama campaign. Perhaps Obama himself? Is anybody in the mainstream media just mildly curious?

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

It really is bugging them, isn't it?

Moe Lane (Diary) Tuesday, October 7th at 11:58AM EST (link)

They also

Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Tuesday, October 7th at 11:58AM EST (link)

just lost a court battle against her.

“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill

Moe, we've got a live one here. n/t

Vegas_Rick (Diary) Tuesday, October 7th at 12:00PM EST (link)

n/t

“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.

Is that the best you can do?

Crowe (Diary) Tuesday, October 7th at 12:09PM EST (link)

A couple loving words and gestures to a third party that calls for peaceful and law-abiding measures to accomplish a political end…

vs…

Deeply tying onself to a man involved in murder and massive, violent anti-government activities whose only regret is that he didn’t do enough (and that’s only one of many very-shady associations)…

Do you seriously draw a parallel? How do you keep a straight face while doing so? I’ll bet Sarah Palin also knows someone who took three pennies at the 7-Eleven instead of just giving an extra nickel.

Be gone! before someone drops a house on you too…

“We sleep soundly in our beds only because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm Dear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”

Too late. Moe dropped the house.

Crowe (Diary) Tuesday, October 7th at 12:10PM EST (link)

n/t

“We sleep soundly in our beds only because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm Dear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”

[Neil, can you look at this?]

plainsgirl Tuesday, October 7th at 12:13PM EST (link)

[It just keeps happening. Very odd. - Moe Lane]

Love those liberal arguements

Frozen_Man (Diary) Tuesday, October 7th at 12:15PM EST (link)

There is no discussions about the connections of her candidate or why they are not what they seem, but only a YouTube link with no argument as to why a peaceful law abiding group is equivalent to a bomb maker / terrorist / who tells kids to kill their parents. It is pathetic that they cannot argue their point.

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“This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behavior we expect from other people.” C. S. Lewis

“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” – Ronald Reagan

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” – C. S. Lewis

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Axlerod's non-denial

JPH (Diary) Tuesday, October 7th at 12:44PM EST (link)

Here’s what Axlerod said:

There’s no evidence that they’re close,” Axelrod added.

There’s no evidence that Obama in any way subscribed to any of Ayers’ views. And Obama’s been very clear about condemning the despicable acts that Bill Ayers committed 40 years ago when Obama was 8 years old.”

There’s no evidence? How about “They weren’t close and Obama does not subscribe to Ayers’ views”? The tone of Axlerod’s statement seems to indicate that Obama is close to Ayers and does agree with his’ views, you just don’t have any way to prove it.

 

Would You Vote For Barrack Obama if He Were Friends With Osama Bin Laden?

IndianaIrishman (Diary) Tuesday, October 7th at 2:39PM EST (link)

Of course you wouldn’t. That is a silly question. Bin Laden is responsible for planning and leading activities aimed at killing Americans and disrupting the American way of life because he does not agree with the views of American democracy and American values.
So why would you think of voting for Barack Obama for President, or any office for that matter, knowing he is friends with Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and Naomi Jaffe?
Hear me clearly on this and do your homework if you don’t believe me. Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground Organizations’ attitude, beliefs and actions towards the United States and American citizens was and still is just as dangerous and eerily similar to those of Bin Laden and Al Qaida.
The Weather Underground Organization was lead by Bill Ayers and Dohrn after they split from the Students for a Democratic Society. Their founding document called for the establishment of a ”white fighting force to be allied with the Black Libertarian Movement and other anti-colonial movements to achieve the destruction of US Imperialism and achieve a classless world and world communism”
In 1970 the WUO declared war on the US Government and carried out a campaign of bombings, killings, jailbreaks and riots. The FBI declared them as a Domestic Terrorist Group.
WUO, planned by Bill Ayers and carried out by his wife to be Bernadine Dohrn, bombed a police station in San Francisco killing police officer Brian V. McDonnell February 16, 1970.
November 1970, unfazed by killing Officer McDonnell, Dohrn sends a signed letter to the Associated Press promising more bombings.
WUO bombed the US Capital March 1, 1971
WUO bombed the Pentagon May 19, 1972
WUO bombed the US Department of State
WUO intended to bomb a US Military NCO dance at Fort Dix NJ in what Brian Flanagan of the WUO said had been intended to be “the most horrific hit the US Government has ever suffered on its territory”. Instead, by the grace of god, the inept WUO members blew themselves up accidently with their own bombs leaving the most horrific hit the US Government has ever suffered on its territory to the hands of Bin Laden to carry out. Brian Flanagan said recently “when you feel you have right on your side you can do some pretty horrific things”

At the end of 1970 the FBI places Ayers and Dohrn on the Top Ten Most Wanted List. The same place that now displays Osama Bin Laden. But Obama still wants to be friends?
Read the following quotes and think about who might have said them.
“I refuse to wring my hands over damage to some empty imperialist buildings. Human lives are another matter, which I would approach with much greater caution and humility from a moral point of view, than I personally did in the past. Nevertheless, I still feel challenged, as a white person in a world in which white people are inflicting daily death and violence on people of color, to consider a full range of responses in trying to stem the genocide” 2002
“Okay, capitalism isn’t dead yet. And the house is falling on us too. But let us allow ourselves one little moment of glee at the expense of the system that’s been choking the world to death for 500 years” September 25, 2008
Did you guess these quotes were spoken and written by Naomi Jeffe, current fundraiser for the campaign to elect Barrack Obama???? Or did you think they were written by someone who hates America and is willing to do anything for its downfall? Still want to vote for Obama? Want to check it out? Look up Essay by Naomi Jaffe and go to CommonDreams.org. I couldn’t make this stuff up.
Obama says that what Bill Ayers did was a long time ago. I guess he is comfortable with the excuse that if it happened in the past it should be forgotten. I don’t know the families of Officer Brian McDonnell, Officer Edward O’Grady, Officer Waverly Brown, Brinks Guard Peter Paige or the countless other people who died or were injured in the WUOs quest to fall the United States of America but I can guess that they have not forgotten. I can guess that that the 3 children of Officer Waverly Brown have not forgotten. All of 3 of them went on to serve this country, this same country that Bill Ayers and his group hate so much, in the US Air Force. I can guess that the son of Officer Edward O’Grady has not forgotten. He went on to serve this country, the same country that that Naomi Jaffe recently celebrated the troubles of, at the US Naval Academy and the United States Navy. It will not be forgotten that Officer Waverly Brown, the first African American member of the Nyack, New York Police Department was gunned down by an organization led by a man, Bill Ayers, who says he does not regret his actions.
I just pray to God with all my heart and soul that in the 2036 election a candidate running for the Presidency of the greatest country on earth doesn’t speak about the actions of his friend Osama Bin Laden and his organization Al Qaida and brush off his actions of the past by saying they happened a long time ago forgetting the men, women and children who died on and because of those actions of September 11, 2001!!!!!

 

McCain and esp Palin could nail this one shut

bk (Diary) Tuesday, October 7th at 3:11PM EST (link)

All Palin needs to say is something like this…

“As my kids were growing up and playing hockey and such, they played with kids some of whose parents I didn’t know very well. But we’d occasionally have groups of us stop to eat somewhere after a game. All of us have been in that sort of situation and of course it’s no big deal.

But what we have here is Barack Obama going out of his way to meet with anyone regardless of their background if their political connections could help advance his sizable political ambition.

To equate these two things should insult your intelligence. Does he really think we are dumb enough to fall for this? Instead, it’s time for Obama to come clean about all these skeletons in his closet and tell the American people the truth for a change.”

A condensed version of that would resonate with every soccer mom in the audience.