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Conservative Group’s Ads Link Obama to 1960s Radical
Conservative Group’s Ads Link Obama to 1960s Radical
Senator Obama’s campaign is waging a forceful campaign against a new conservative group running ads linking him to the 1960s radical William Ayers Jr. >
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Obama’s Working With Bill Ayers Papers Released
Pirate's Cove — ... As a sidenote, the Grey Ladymentions this issue as a sidebar to their quiet cheer-leading for Obama in Obama vs. the 1st Amendment. ...

Obama’s Working With Bill Ayers Papers Released
Stop The ACLU — ... officers, were “a big deal.” Much like Obama and so much of the Left, Ayers considers “Amerika” to be the cause of so much of the problems in the world. So, yeah, associations matter. If you hang with a person who attempted murder multiple times 30 years ago and has shown no remorse, and, in fact, they thought they did the right thing, what does that say about you? Even more, what does it say about the state of education that someone like Ayers has a job teaching? As a sidenote, the Grey Lady mentions this issue as a sidebar to their quiet cheer-leading for Obama in ...

The Early Word: Seeking Reader Reviews
The Caucus — ... Mr. Biden’s wife, Jill: “As Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden rises to the national stage, friends and colleagues describe a woman who over three decades has carved out a life that is based not on her husband’s career but on her commitment to teaching, to her family and to the causes of healthcare, education and military families.” Ad Watch: The Times’s Jim Rutenberg writes that the Obama campaign is fighting back – and fighting back hard – against a wave of advertising by a conservative group seeking to draw connections between Mr. Obama and the 1960’s radical, William Ayers Jr., a ...

Obama Whines About Being Linked With His Friend the Terrorist
JammieWearingFool — ... Ayers was one of the leaders of the Weather Underground when it was involved in a series of bombings in the 1960s, when Obama was 8 years old . Obama met him in the 1990s when first starting his political career in Chicago and the two served on a board together. Obama has said he knows Ayers, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, only slightly and has denounced his actions with the Weather Underground . In the 1960s, when Obama was 8 years old. Hmm, that has a familiar ring to it. Mr. Obama has called Mr. Ayers “’somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 ...

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