The Bill Ayers Who Obama Has Been Close to For Over Two Decades
By SusanUnPC on October 10, 2008 at 5:50 PM in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Chicago School Reform Collaborative, Chicago politics, Weather Underground, William Ayers
All of you regular readers know all about Barack Obama’s extensive ties to William (Bill) Ayers, for over two decades — probably longer since the two lived about a block apart in New York City while Obama was at Columbia University (he graduated in 1983).
Besides their long political and social ties in Chicago — Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn hosted Obama’s first political fundraiser — it is of the highest importance that more people learn that it was Bill Ayers who hired Barack Obama as chairman of the $50-million Chicago Annenberg Project, which Ayers designed as a “real life” vehicle of his radical views of public education.
Now, here is the video that, for the first time, gives you a more complete and terrifying portrait of the kind of person who Bill Ayers is. Every voter must ask if we want a president who has a longtime social, political and professional business relationship with such a person:
It is important to remember that Bill Ayers was born into a highly affluent and influential Chicago family. Ayers’ father, Thomas Ayers, was the head of Commonwealth Edison and moved among the most powerful political and social figures in the city. Bill Ayers owes much of his status and easy influence in present-day Chicago to his father’s legacy.
Thanks to Matthew Weaver’s important research and writings, we now have further evidence of Barack Obama’s network of alliances with radical groups such as Acorn and Socialist parties like Chicago’s New Party, via the NP’s own mid-1990s newsletter in which it endorsed Obama after demanding that Obama sign a contract promising adherence to the NP’s goals and participation in the NP’s programs:
Barack Obama
Barack Obama is running to gain the Democratic ballot line for Illinois Senate 13th District. The 13th District is Alice Palmer’s old district, encompassing parts of Hyde Park and South Shore.
Mr. Obama graduated from Columbia University and promptly went into community organizing for the Developing Communities Project in Roseland and Altgeld Gardens on the far south side of Chicago. He went on to Harvard University, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated with a law degree. In 1992, he was Director of Illinois Project Vote [ACORN], a voter registration campaign that made Carol Moseley Braun’s election to the U.S. Senate much easier than it would have been. At present, he practices law in Judson Miner’s law firm and is President of the board of the Annenberg Challenge Grant which is distributing some $50 million in grants to public school reform efforts. [THIS is same group we know as the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) that was founded by Bill Ayers. Ayers also got all the fundraising for the group, and hired Barack Obama as the CAC's chairman.]
What best characterizes Barack Obama is a quote from an article in Illinois Issues, a retrospective look at his experience as a community organizer while he was completing his degree at Harvard:
“… community organizations and organizers are hampered by their own dogmas about the style and substance of organizing. Most practice … a ‘consumer advocacy’ approach, with a focus on wrestling services and resources from outside powers that be. Few are thinking of harnessing the internal productive capacities, both in terms of money and people, that already exist in communities.” (Illinois issues, September, 1988)
Luckily, Mr. Obama does not have any opposition in the primary. His opponents have all dropped out or were ruled off the ballot. But if you would like to contribute to his campaign, make the check payable to Friends of Barack Obama, 2154 E. 71st, Chicago, IL 60649. If you would like to become involved in his campaign, call the headquarters at (312) 363-1996.
Just as Bill Ayers owes much of his standing to his father’s power as an industrialist in Chicago, Barack Obama owes much of his standing, first in Chicago and now nationally, to the doors that Bill Ayers opened for him.
That Obama must distance himself so frantically from his long, close relationship with the terrorist must be amusing, privately to Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn. They are thinking that it is they who will have the last laugh, as the man who secretly represents their own interests — far more than he does that of most Americans — takes over the White House and becomes the most powerful man in the world.
by Ronald Scott
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