Letter c:
He looks up to terrorists.
The Bill Ayers link, which is a weak link at best:
Bill Ayers and
Barack Obama at one time lived in the same neighborhood in the city of
Chicago, and both had worked on
education reform in the state of
Illinois. The two met "at a luncheon meeting about school reform."
[46] Obama was named to the
Chicago Annenberg Challenge Project Board of Directors to oversee the distribution of grants in Chicago. Later in 1995, Ayers hosted "a coffee" for "Mr. Obama's first run for office."
[46] The two served on the board of a community
anti-poverty group, the
Woods Fund of Chicago, between 2000 and 2002, during which time the board met 12 times.
[46] In April 2001, Ayers contributed $200 to Obama's re-election fund to the
Illinois State Senate.
[47] Since 2002, there has been little linking Obama and Ayers.
[46] Obama said in September 2008 that he hadn't "seen him in a year-and-a-half."
[48] In February 2008, Obama spokesman Bill Burton released a statement from the senator about the relationship between the two: "Senator Obama strongly condemns the violent actions of the Weathermen group, as he does all acts of violence. But he was an eight-year-old child when Ayers and the Weathermen were active, and any attempt to connect Obama with events of almost forty years ago is ridiculous."
[47]CNN's review of project records found nothing to suggest anything inappropriate in the non-profit projects in which the two men were involved.
[49] Internal reviews by
The New York Times,
The Washington Post,
Time magazine,
The Chicago Sun-Times,
The New Yorker and
The New Republic "have said that their reporting does not support the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship".
[50] William C. Ibershof, the lead federal prosecutor of the Weather Underground case has stated, "I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child."
[51]
During the
2008 U.S. presidential campaign, a controversy arose regarding
Barack Obama's contact with
Bill Ayers, a
Distinguished Professor at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, and a former leader of the
Weather Underground.
[1] He served on two nonprofit boards with Obama. Both Ayers and his wife,
Bernardine Dohrn, hosted a gathering at their home in 1995,
[2] where
Alice Palmer introduced Obama as her chosen successor in the
Illinois State Senate.
[3][4] Investigations by the
New York Times,
CNN, and other news organizations concluded that Obama does not have a close relationship with Ayers.
[5][3][6]
The matter was initially raised by
Hillary Rodham Clinton in February 2008 after it had been suggested by
Sean Hannity and other hosts on
conservative talk radio programs. Moderator
George Stephanopoulos revisited the discussion during a debate between Clinton and Obama in April 2008. In October 2008, the matter was mentioned in
attack ads,
robocalls, mass mailings, and campaign speeches by
Republican presidential candidate
John McCain and vice presidential candidate
Sarah Palin as an issue in the general election campaign. Obama has condemned Ayers' past,
[7] and stated that he does not have a close association with him.
[2]
Letter d:
He will create Socialism in America.
On this only time will tell.
