Another of Obama’s odd perspective of “truth” and “transparency” with the US electorate has been laid exposed in the latest update re’release of Bill Ayers’ 2001 book, “Fugitive Days,” .
He’ll [Ayers] appear Friday on “Good Morning America” to promote the re-issue of his book this week. The Tribune obtained a copy of the updated material.
In it, Ayers — who did not respond to requests for comment — summarized his relationship with Obama: “[W]e had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser at my house, where I’d made a small donation to his earliest political campaign.”
On the campaign trail, Obama dismissed Ayers as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood” and “somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know.” Among “family friends”, one would think being dismissed as so casual would cut one to the quick. But not Ayers, who “laments” his friendship with Obama being an issue.
“The more serious point is that Obama was asked once more to defend something that ought to be at the very heart of democracy: the importance of talking to many people in this complicated and wildly diverse society, of listening with the possibility of learning something new, of speaking with the possibility of persuading or influencing others. … In a robust and sophisticated democracy, political leaders, indeed, all of us, would seek out ways to talk with many people who hold dissenting, even radical ideas.”
Personally, I think “talking” with self admitted Marxist/Communists who hold with the Rosa Luxemburg views on education, and considering the same “family friends” is a huge gap… But what the heck do I and 47% of the US population who did not fall under the Obama spell know? We’re “distractors” when it comes to examining just who are Obama’s “family friends” and business associates.
Lest any of our friendly Obama’ites miscontrue the import of this, and cry *distraction* again, the Obama-Ayers relationship has nothing to do with his Weather Underground days, but everything to do with Obama’s agreement with Ayers on a “social and economic justice” educational agenda. And to promote that socialist agenda, there are all too many teachers willing to tell their students who is “on their side” instead of promoting independent thinking.
But thanks, Obama, for making your relationship clear. Whoops…. I mean, thank you William Ayers for outing Obama and the real “truth”.
Obviously, in the interests of political expediency and personal promotion, Obama is willing to even cast “family friends” aside as no more than a piece of lint to achieve his goal.
He’s just lucky that his socialist buds find it just dandy to be a piece of lint… because having a “family friend” in the Oval Office can come in quite handy for their own agendas.
UPDATE: I see Boston Herald’s Jules Crittenden has done a link here, giving me a “neo-con” pan review. Or was it? He has a dizzy’ing study of double negatives throughout his entire post that makes one want to scream… “just spit it out, fer heavens sakes!” LOL
Or how was it he put it? (in possibly that double-reverse Clintonism”?)
Still just not getting it, hopelessly slavish to the necon media machine:….
Well, if I am experiencing a vague and/or confusing compliment/insult, I find myself in the illustrious company of Michelle Malkin, HotAir, MacsMind, RedState, Protein Wisdom and Tim Blair. So my first reaction is, I sure pick better company than Obama…. whether complimented *or* insulted.
Vietnam era Navy wife, indy/conservative, and an official California escapee now residing as a red speck in the sea of Oregon blue.
we knew the trueth, we were waiting for the media to out it, but ayers did it himself. awesome, just awesome. when will the obama freaks get an idea about who this guy really is?
So how is Obama not guilty of criminal fraud for lying to the voters?
if he said the same things to a cop investigating a crime, he would go to jail.
Last I looked, Chris, a lying politician isn’t criminal but in the moral sense. And were we to prosecute all guilty of that, we’d clean out the lot of ’em…
Hey… not a bad idea… :0)
Of course, the only problem is you’d have to make such moral degeneration illegal. And those guilty of the crime are the only ones able to pass the law. Just like they are the only ones with the power to evoke term limits on their service. It’ll never happen. But then, they rarely if ever miss an opportunity to give themselves annual pay raises…
But, since we’re living in the Obama land of Camelot and utopia, feel free to dream the American dream of pols with ethics. Why not?
It’s more like “Scum of the Earth Takes Over the White House” Mata. Please excuse me while I go throw up now…this makes me so mad I’m sick.
This bastard lied all the way to victory while the complicit media saw no evil, spoke no evil, and heard no evil.
The Obidiots eagerly gobbled up what was fed to them because they were either too brainless, too lazy, or too stupid to try to inform themselves rather than fall under the spell of the Obamanation.
This lying liar headed for the White House with what looks to be complete control in both the Senate and the House.
I honestly have to say that I fear for my country and what she is about to become.
I knew that the Ayers thing was true before the election. Seeing his admission in writing is something else entirely though.
I, like USMCdaughter, feel sick.
USMC girl and Aye… spare the world’s landfill your used barf bags, please. Does no good, ya know.
To borrow a recently used phrase, Obama’s “chickens will come home to roost”. He has his campaign talking points, already vastly expunged from his campaign site to conceil the evidence. But this is the info age… traces exist other places.
He has his anti-Bush rhetoric against McCain, only now will have to defend his Bush-light foreign policy.
There’s his nation bankrupting policy proposals, which he’ll put on hold… okay, the “faithful” *may* forgive him for that… or not. We shall see.
What it comes down to is Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan and MoveOn are not the types that like being crossed and lied to… ask Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
But Aye… you have to remember it is Ayers who is disclosing the nature of the relationship… not Obama. He can still “deny deny deny”.
That’s right, I have become a flag-stomping Ayerite Obamist! Hell no, I won’t go! Reform education now! US out of Iran!
He also laments that he wasn’t as close to Obama as you are still trying to paint him. There are several people in our neighborhood that I would consider “family friends” that in reality I barely know or spend any time with. I’m thinking maybe you’re more Donna Quixote than the Queen of the Nile.
OH plz fit…He worked with the guy as well on 2 different foundations. The first Foundation, Bill Ayers recruited him, and used him to funnel the funds to different organizations. This is networking. People only network and connect with people they have something in common with.
He also admitted on ABC that his relationship with Obama was more than the guy in the neighborhood. He admitted to hosting his reception into politics as well..
You know there are not that many domestic terrorists in the US. The odds of you or I running into one of them are pretty small. However, what are the odds of a lot of them falling into Obamas circle of friends. Ayers, Khalidi, Farrahkan. I feel like I am watching the Mayor of Detroit all over again. Eeeewwwww…
Jules… ROTFLAO! I didn’t think so, but I must say my head was spinning like The Exorcist when I finished your piece…. for the third time! Truly you are a master at the “double reverse Clintonisms”. Careful or this incoming admin may give you an unwelcome tap on the shoulder to keep the electorate really confused.
Many thanks for removing the slim, but nagging, doubt.
Well, Fit, I guess you’re more loose as to whom you let in your family circle. I do not toss the “family friends” label around casually. Most especially one with that past, and those beliefs.
But good to hear you still give Ayers a pass. I guess you’ll be happy to see your kids or grandkids in his “social and economic justice” school curriculums too.
Obama: The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers
Wow.. get a lesson in comprehension. Bill Ayers WHOLE sentence of that forward read:
“In 2008 there was a lot of CHATTER ON THE BLOGOSPHERE about my relationship with Barack Obama: we had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fundraiser at my house, where I’d made a small donation to his earliest political campaign.”
Bill Ayers was clearly stating that the blogosphere was saying these things about his relationship to Obama. HE DID NOT say that he was family friends with Obama.
I swear.. the comprehension of you people is as bad as Sarah Palin and the 1st amendment.
Here we have “birdy” squawking about reading comprehension, thinks we need a lesson, ha!
Here’s a lesson for birdy. No one gets out of Chicago with clean hands, not even Obama. Bill Ayres is a bit player in the grand scheme, but that doesn’t mean you get to breathe a sigh of relief. They *were/are* friends, Ayres did help him get to know who he needed to know to advance in the political world of Chicago.
Right now we have THREE FBI teams investigating corruption in Chicago. New York City has two as does DC. We need THREE to investigate the corrupt politicians in Chicago who also have advanced their cronyism and crime to the state level. Obama has been in the thick of it throughout his career as a politician. It’s been the corrupt Chicago players that sent Obama on his way, without them, you would have never heard the name Obama. You don’t get to pass go without playing their game, they aren’t about to risk an honest politician throwing a monkey wrench into their way of doing business, jail time is not on their agenda. They advance people they trust, people we shouldn’t trust.
So, what do we have here, looks like he isn’t ready to shed his Chicago cronies, does it? First they took Chicago, then Illinois, the leadership of this country, next, the world? Maybe we need four FBI teams to save this country.
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Since my comment is stuck in moderation, I will add this cracker for birdy to chew on until the other comment shows up:
http://nalert.blogspot.com/2008/02/obamas-elected-illinois-democratic.html
Moderators, can I get out of time out? sigh.
Oops, almost forgot my please and thank you!
I rescued you!
There were quite a number of legit comments stuck in there (including mine!)
Thank you Wordsmith, hope you have a nice day!
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Birdy and Fit just prove one of the major tennets of being a liberal–denial of reality when it doesn’t fit their POV. They don’t want to believe ayers was obama’s bud, so they convince themselves he wasn’t.
It doesn’t matter, he shouldn’t have been in his home period. This message that the liberal illuminati are sending about terrorist being okay is wrong.