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Barack Obama’s review of William Ayers' book
Barack Obama’s review of William Ayers' book
On December 21, 1997, Barack Obama wrote a short review of William Ayers’ book A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court, which had recently been published by Beacon Press. Here’s a photo of how the review appeared in the Chicago Tribune: (If you would like a ...
Obama & Ayers Shared Chicago Office For Years
Obama & Ayers Shared Chicago Office For Years
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com — BARACK OBAMA LIED ABOUT HIS ASSOCIATION WITH BILL AYERS Barak Obama told George Stephanopoulos during the ABC democratic primary debate in April that "Bill Ayers" was just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood": Barack Obama told ... (more) Obama & Ayers Shared Chicago Office For Years
McCain: Ayers will come up in debate
politico.com — Obama “probably ensured” that his association with 1960’s radical Bill Ayers will come up in next debate. (more) McCain: Ayers will come up in debate

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Little Green Footballs:  Obama Gave Bill Ayers' Book a Rave Review

Stop The ACLU:  The Deep Relationship Between Obama and Ayers

Michelle Malkin:  Oh, these are the people in your neighborhood…

Ace of Spades HQ:  A Guy From the Neighborhood, Whose Book I Gave a Glowing Blurb To

Pat Dollard | Young Americans:  Who? Bill Ayers? Just Some Guy I Barely Know, But I Liked His Book

Say Anything:  Just A Guy In His Neighborhood: Obama Gave Ayers Book A Rave Review In 1997

Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:  Bill Dyer: A searing and timely account ... of a state senator who glorified a domestic terrorist turned radical "educator"

USS Neverdock:  Barack Obama’s review of William Ayers' book

Hyscience:  Barack Obama's review of William Ayers' book

Dr. Sanity:  CARNIVAL OF THE INSANITIES

Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet:  The story hasn't changed; we're just too dumb to get it straight

PoliGazette:  “Just a Guy in My Neighborhood”

Jules Crittenden:  More Palling

Wizbang:  The End Of The Lessons Of Watergate

Pirate's Cove:  Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

The Jawa Report:  Barack Obama's Review of Ayers Book

Dean's World:  How Close Is The Obama-Terrorist Connection?

Power Line:  Re: A guy who lives in Obama's neighborhood

Flopping Aces:  Obama Reviews Ayer’s Book

The Sundries Shack:  If Obama Really Didn’t Know About Ayers’ Cop-Killing Ways, I Don’t Want Him Diving the Motivations of Mad Mahmoud

Classical Values:  Haven't I seen you somewhere before?

JammieWearingFool:  Will Obama Be Blurbing the New Ayers/Dohrn Book?

NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias:  Washington Post Does a Fluff Piece on Ayers

RedState: Conservative News and Community:  Ayers: Abolish the Prisons

Nice Deb:  “Absolutely”… I mean… “No”… I Mean “Show Me”…I mean “It Was A Stupid Thing”…

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Obama Gave Bill Ayers' Book a Rave Review
Little Green Footballs — ... In December 1997, Barack Obama gave William Ayers’ book on juvenile criminals a rave review. ...

The Deep Relationship Between Obama and Ayers
Stop The ACLU — We’ve all heard that they served on the same committes and boards, and the media yawns at this. However, if only they would dig just a little they would find that things are deep even just below the surface. In 1997, Obama gave Ayer’s book rave reviews! ...

Oh, these are the people in your neighborhood…
Michelle Malkin — ... Kind of cheeky of him to throw that in there, since Ayers’ neighbor, “writer Barack Obama” also blurbed and reviewed this same book . But that’s just what neighbors do for each other! Oh, these are the people in your neighborhood, In your neighborhood, In your neigh-bor-hood, Yes, these are the people in your neighborhood, They’re the people that you meet, When you’re walking down the street, They’re the people that you ...

A Guy From the Neighborhood, Whose Book I Gave a Glowing Blurb To
Ace of Spades HQ — A Guy From the Neighborhood, Whose Book I Gave a Glowing Blurb To Review at Zombie. Pic of the blurb below. obama_ayers_review.jpg

Who? Bill Ayers? Just Some Guy I Barely Know, But I Liked His Book
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — And he wrote mine … Barack Obama’s review of William Ayers’ book (Zombie Time) On December 21, 1997, Barack Obama wrote a short review of William Ayers’ book A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court, which had recently been published by Beacon Press. Here’s a photo of how the review appeared in the Chicago Tribune: (If you would like a hi-resolution version of this image, right-click or control-click here. Bloggers, journalists and media members are all free to re-use this ...

Just A Guy In His Neighborhood: Obama Gave Ayers Book A Rave Review In 1997
Say Anything — Obama was the chairman, and handled $50 million in funds, for Ayers’ Chicago Annenberg Challenge initiative.  Obama launched his first political campaign from Ayers house.  Obama and Ayers shared an office for three years.  And now this: But remember, folks.  Ayers was just some guy in Obama’s neighborhood. And if you believe that one, Obama’s got a million-and-one more he’d like to sell you. ...

Bill Dyer: A searing and timely account ... of a state senator who glorified a domestic terrorist turned radical "educator"
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — ... ). From an authoritative and comprehensive post at zomblog (don't even think of suggesting that this is a photo-shopped fake, because you'll just make an utter fool of yourself if you do), here is a photograph of the short book review written by then Illinois state senator Barack Obama for Bill Ayers' then-new book, ...

Barack Obama’s review of William Ayers' book
USS NeverdockPhotos here. "Just a few weeks before this review was published in the Chicago Tribune, Obama and Ayers appeared together on a panel about juvenile justice organized by Michelle Obama on November 20, 1997: " Remember now, Obama says Ayers was "just some guy who lived in my neighbourhood". If that's true, why would Obama write a review of his book and sit on a panel about the subject? Why would Ayers pick Obama to head is education fund? Why would Ayers host an event to launch Obama's political career? These ...

Barack Obama's review of William Ayers' book
Hyscience — ... Via Bill Dyer, From an authoritative and comprehensive post at zomblog (don't even think of suggesting that this is a photo-shopped fake, because you'll just make an utter fool of yourself if you do)(h/t ...

CARNIVAL OF THE INSANITIES
Dr. Sanity — ... its likely it won't be included-- unless it just happens to fit in with one of the COTI themes for the week. Also, a link back to the Carnival if your submitted post is included would be appreciated...and some extremely harsh penalties await those who do not comply with this simple and reasonable request! REMEMBER, THERE ARE SO MANY INSANITIES AND SO LITTLE TIME!!! 1. Just a guy in his 'neighborhood'.... right? Must have been fun in that office building. 2. An enemy of the State? OK, ...

The story hasn't changed; we're just too dumb to get it straight
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet — ... who learned about it, which they won't because I have no knowledge of it. As I have maintained all along, Ayers and I were colleagues. But I never knew about those despicable acts he acted upon despicably, which I condemned then and still do." "Did you know I was never actually a member of the Weather Underground? I resent that you're accusing me of what you're not accusing me of. That bad stuff happened 40 years ago. Despicable acts are detestable and vice versa." "The fact that I wrote a newspaper blurb (accompanied by my picture) for one of Ayers' books , a book in which ...

“Just a Guy in My Neighborhood”
PoliGazette — ... for three years  and Obama reviewed Ayers’ book favorably. Which would have made sense for friends and political allies to do. ...

More Palling
Jules Crittenden — ... Barack reviewed Bill’s book, sat on a juvenile justice panel with him, organized by Michele. Sounds cosy. Zombie goes analog, pre-Internet to excavate Obama’s Ayers zombie from the S.F. public library stacks.  Here’s a quote from the Obama Ayers book review:   Children who kill are called “super predators,” “people with no conscience,” “feral pre-social beings” — and “adults.” William Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon Press, 1997), says “We should call a child a child. A 13-year-old who picks up a gun isn’t suddenly an adult. We ...

The End Of The Lessons Of Watergate
Wizbang — ... . A writer who offered a brief blurb for the book in the Chicago Tribune: "A searing and timely account of the juvenile court system, and the courageous individuals who rescue hope from despair." With all this, is it any surprise that people are now specuating that ...

Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup
Pirate's Cove — ... Moderate Voice (snicker) is seething over the Palin appearence on SNL. Powerline has video Dan Reihl wonders who really cares if Colin Powell endorses Barry (which he just did, of course) Excitable Andy on why he blogs. Nothing about Trig’s birth records or a guy dressed like a Village Person standing over him in there, though. Seriously, it is a pretty good post. Mrs Wuzzadem has a handy on voter/polling fraud Zombie has an interesting photo from  review on Bill Ayers book. Guess by ...

Barack Obama's Review of Ayers Book
The Jawa Report — October 19, 2008 Barack Obama's Review of Ayers Book He doesn't know who this guy is, never did, never worked with him or near him on anything, was eight when this POS was bombing the Pentagon and planning to kill soldiers, but somehow, Barry got around to reviewing his book (a glowing review, obviously. Searing .). See this mystery guy "Bill Ayers" and Obama's review of his book at zombie's place. Once you've taken that in, watch this video and send it along to all of your "undecided" friends. By Good Lt. at October 19, 2008 10:24 AM | | l ...

How Close Is The Obama-Terrorist Connection?
Dean's WorldMore details emerge: Obama lent a photo and blurb to Ayers’ book,  which he also appears in.  They also worked on the same floor of the same building for three years.  And Ace says Politico is sitting on a story that Ayers babysat Obama’s children because the source wants to remain anonymous (after seeing the treatment Joe the Plumber got, can you blame the source)? Also, Tom Maguire worries that given what we know and don’t know about Obama, the ties between Obama and left-wing terrorists could be very close ...

Re: A guy who lives in Obama's neighborhood
Power Line — ... And Zombie digs out Obama's favorable 1997 review of Ayers's book on juvenile justice from the archives of the Chicago Tribune. See-Dubya comments ...

Archives are racist
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet — Archives are racist obama_ayers_review.jpg ayers-book-cap-highlighted.jpg It's not a Photoshop. Besides, if it's not important, why would you try to say it's a Photoshop? And he really is ...

Obama Reviews Ayer’s Book
Flopping Aces — H/T: ZomBlog Prior to this glowing book review Obama and Ayers sat on a panel discussion of this book which was organized by Obama’s perpetually miserable wife, Michelle, Ayers, who spent a year observing the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center in Chicago, is one of four panelists who will speak on juvenile justice at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in the C-Shop. The panel, which marks the 100th anniversary of the juvenile justice system in the United States, is part of the ...

The Obama-Ayers Coverup Deepens
Dean's World — ... weeks of investigating, almost none done by the MSM, we’ve gone from Obama’s claim Ayers is “just a guy who lives in my neighborhood” to finding out that Obama: – worked on the same floor of the same small building with Ayers for three years – served on the Annenberg Challenge board with Ayers – funnelled millions of dollars to Ayers – launched his political career from Ayers’ home – blurbed Ayers’ book (with photo) and appears in the book – (reportedly) had his kids ...

Obama and Ayers Shared an Office for Three Years
Stop The ACLU — ... Thanks to Zomblog for sharing the research, and Dr. Sanity for the heads-up. Ayers believes that he and his terrorist buddies from the Weather Underground, as well as his terrorist wife, Bernardine Dohrn, have been a great force for social justice in America - standing up for the poor and the oppressed - and bombing American institutions like the Pentagon, the State Department and the U.S. Capitol. In truth, he cost America taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollar in the 1970’s for repair to some of our most beloved institutions, he threatened lives and later, after Barack ...

If Obama Really Didn’t Know About Ayers’ Cop-Killing Ways, I Don’t Want Him Diving the Motivations of Mad Mahmoud
The Sundries Shack — So Barack Obama’s story is that he was only eight years old when his socialist cop-killer buddy was about his work and that as he got older and, presumably, smarter, he didn’t know anything about Bill Ayers even though he worked on the same floor of the same small office building with the guy and liked one of the guys books well enough to write a blurb about it. Besides, Ayers was completely rehabilitated from the past that Obama says he didn’t know anything about when they worked together for years on the board of the same ...

Haven't I seen you somewhere before?
Classical Values — ... , specifically denying what Zombieboy had to go out and specifically track down. Here's the picture. Of what Barack Obama absolutely Did Not Write. ...

Will Obama Be Blurbing the New Ayers/Dohrn Book?
JammieWearingFool — ... Considering Barack Obama offered such glowing praise for a book by terrorist William Ayers back in 1997, I wonder if he'll eagerly review the ...

Reading Bill Ayers
Michelle Malkin — [image] Zombie, the Internet investigative reporter/photojournalist whose work I’ve spotlighted here often, is busy doing the Ayers’ research the MSM won’t do. Over the weekend, Zombie uploaded Barack Obama’s cheery book review of his neighbor’s tome on the juvenile court system. Now, Zombie has unearthed Ayers’ Weather Underground manifesto, “ ...

Washington Post Does a Fluff Piece on Ayers
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... No William, palling around together might include one pal giving another a glowing review of their book, or perhaps the two of you serving together on the board of the ...

Ayers: Abolish the Prisons
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Barack Obama had kind words for Ayers' work on this subject. Now that he's been elected president, he'll have the opportunity to show us whether he thinks Ayers is right -- that putting violent criminals behind bars is unfair and/or counterproductive. If his long association with Ayers is any indication, I suspect we may have our answer. ...

“Absolutely”… I mean… “No”… I Mean “Show Me”…I mean “It Was A Stupid Thing”…
Nice Deb — ... Obama’s “family friend”, unrepentant terrorist, William Ayers is a barking idiot, but a dangerous one, and one who most certainly did “exchange ideas” with him, as they sat on boards and panels together. And don’t forget that Obama found Ayers’ book the Illinois Juvenile Court system, A Kind And Just Parent “searing and timeless”. ...

Who says conservative bloggers don’t do reporting?
Michelle Malkin — ... and Obama’s review of Ayer’s book on the juvenile court system. Zombie’s comprehensive rally coverage in the Bay Area included: Obama Visits Billionaires Row — San Francisco, April 6, 2008 McCain in San Francisco: Fundraiser Rally — San Francisco, July 28, 2008 Kennedy Campaigns for Obama — Oakland, February 2, 2008 Operation First Casualty anti-war protest — San Francisco, November 28, 2008 Berkeley Tree-Sit Finally Ends — Berkeley, September 9, 2008 Up Your Alley Fair — San Francisco, July 27, 2008 Marines Recruiting Office Protest and Counter-Protest — Berkeley, ...

Three Degrees of Sirhan Sirhan
Gateway Pundit — ... in a book he wrote in 1997, and mentions that the two are very close neighbors. Obama gave a short glowing review of that same Ayers book for the Chicago Tribune. ...

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