“Memory is a Motherf—ker” (for both Obama and Ayers)
By SusanUnPC on October 11, 2008 at 10:17 AM in Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Current Affairs, Weather Underground, William Ayers
Even worse than the violent series of crimes that the unrehabilitated, unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dorhn committed is that Barack Obama associated with Ayers for over 20 years. Bill Ayers hired Obama as chairman of a $50 million education project that pushed Ayers’ radical ideological agenda, and Ayers hosted Obama’s first political fundraiser in Ayers’ and Dohrn’s home.
[Barack Obama and campaign have been hopelessly "erratic" -- suspiciously so -- on what he'll reveal about his longtime relationship with Bill Ayers -- they say Obama hardly knew him, they say he was just some guy in the neighborhood, then they say Obama was friendly with him, then Axelrod claims their kids went to the same school (even though they're @ 16-18 years apart in age), they refuse ever to respond about Ayers hiring Obama, Obama deletes his sole executive experience from his resume because it shows that he was Bill Ayers' employee, Obama says Ayers is rehabilitated, but now Obama says Ayers isn't rehabilitated. We need to face it: Obama is simply too "erratic" for the American people to trust as their president.]
Ask yourself: Would Ayers have hired Obama if Obama had not agreed with Ayers’ agenda? Would Ayers have backed Obama with political fundraisers and contributions if he didn’t believe Obama would push Ayers’ ideology as an elected official? Now this:
Barack Obama’s statement that he “assumed [William Ayers] had been rehabilitated” raises an interesting issue. In some press coverage of this matter, “unrepentant” has virtually become Ayers’ middle name. And while Ayers indeed appears unrepentant, it is important to note that he has never specified just what it is that he is unrepentant about. In other words, he’s never owned up to any of the crimes he committed. It would be one thing for him to say, “I did this, and I’d do it again.” But Ayers doesn’t do that.
Ayers opens his memoir, Fugitive Days [which I bet probably as fictional as Obama's two "memoirs" - Susan], with the statement, “Memory is a motherf—ker. I myself remember almost nothing.” Well, there’s a reason Ayers says he remembers almost nothing, and that is because he committed serious crimes and people quite likely died as a result of his actions. Ayers could speak to this more authoritatively, but there are still statute of limitations issues involved. After escaping prosecution, Ayers famously said of himself, “Guilty as hell, free as a bird — it’s a great country.” But he’s not going to press his luck. So he says he doesn’t remember. His wife, Bernardine Dohrn, has memory problems, too.
… [L]ook at the Oscar-nominated 2004 documentary Weather Underground, available (cut into nine parts) on YouTube. In it, another of Ayers’ fellow Weathermen, Brian Flanagan, says:
Here’s more from NRO, and below is a snippet from John Dickerson’s incisive article in Slate magazine:
I’m not going to tell you, “Oh, I walked in here this day and put a bomb here, or I made this here, or I blew up this car, or I held up this bank.” I mean, there were armed robberies, terrorism, all kinds of things that went down that were illegal. So I’ll tell you that we did them, but I’m not going to tell you which ones I did or who did what, because you just can’t do that…To repent, you have to confess your wrongdoing. To be unrepentant, you have to acknowledge your actions and still maintain that you did the right thing. But to avoid prosecution, you have to duck the question. … Read all at NRO.)
Now, John Dickerson at Slate in “Putting Off Ayers: HOW OBAMA BENEFITS FROM THE CYNICISM HE DECRIES.“:
Now, if you’re a purist, you might say Obama should have run from Ayers the minute he learned about his past. Perhaps he should have behaved as courageously as Joe Biden says he did when he met Slobodan Milosevic. (Biden told the Serbian leader to his face that he was a war criminal.) Obama didn’t do this. At some level, he decided it was OK to have professional associations with a person who was once a domestic terrorist and didn’t seem to regret it.
Obama and his aides recognize this is an untenable position. So this week they have offered some late-in-the-game clarifications. Obama didn’t know about Ayers’ past—and when he did learn about it, he assumed Ayers had been rehabilitated. (His aides say Obama now doesn’t believe Ayers has been rehabilitated.)
From a political standpoint, finding out whether Obama and his aides are now telling the truth leads down a rabbit hole. The press can’t determine what Obama knew and when he knew it about Ayers’ past or Ayers’ level of rehabilitation. Only a revelation on those fronts would create the conditions for a big political moment of exposing Obama as a fraud. McCain can press the issue, but Obama’s statements muddy the case, . …
If you missed it, you have to watch this video — which is a quick set of snippets from the documentary on the Weather Underground that Byron York says you can watch, in full, in nine parts at YouTube. It quickly offers visuals of the violent crimes committed by Bill Ayers. NOW IMAGINE IF YOU’D HANG OUT WITH SOMEONE WHO COMMITTED THESE ACTS:
See also:
- “Obama Is Hiding a Radical Past”
- “Barack Obama, The Front Man” (for Bill Ayers et al.)
Besides his long, intimate associations with both Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, 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.
by Ronald Scott
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