What of the Barack Obama-Bill Ayres relationship?

Snopes comments on the rumors of their relationship; "Partly true"

FactCheck.org:  McCain cranks out some false and misleading attacks on Obama's connection to a 1960s radical.    ... "We wrote back then that Clinton had gone too far by suggesting that "people died" as a result of Ayers’ actions. And nothing Obama said then has since been shown to be false. It is true that he did not bring up his work with Ayers on a second project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where Obama was board chairman and Ayers was an early organizer, and where the two were together for half a dozen or so meetings. But neither Clinton nor Stephanopoulos asked him about that project. McCain could fairly accuse Obama of not volunteering the information, but it is false to claim he "lied.' "

WND

Ayers dishes details on relationship with Obama   ... "Ayers did not discuss the role he and his Weather Underground wife, Bernardine Dohrn, played in launching Obama’s public career. In 1995, Ayers and Dohrn held in the living room of their Hyde Park home the first fundraiser for Obama in his effort to win a seat in the Illinois state Senate.
"In 1985, the Woods Foundation gave a $25,000 grant to the Developing Communities Project in Chicago that allowed the DCP to hire Obama, then 24 years old.
"It was the job offer that allowed Obama to move from New York City to Chicago.
"Ayers was a director of the Woods Foundation for nine years, from December 1999 to December 2008, overlapping with Obama for three years, with Obama serving on the board from December 1999 to December 2002." ..

Truth or Fiction;  Controversy Over Senator Obama's Relationship With William Ayers-Truth!   ... "Critics said a special investigations unit composed of Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston from CNN looked into the Ayers story and concluded that "the relationship between Obama and Ayers went deeper, ran longer and was more political than Obama -- and his surrogates."   

The CNN story said that:       A review of board minutes and records by CNN show Obama, crossed paths repeatedly with Ayers at board meetings of the Annenberg Challenge Project in Chicago. For seven years, Ayers and Obama -- among many others -- worked on funding for education projects, including some projects advocated by Ayers. While working on the Annenberg project, Obama and Ayers also served together on a second charitable foundation, the Woods Fund, and that among the Woods Fund recipients was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church where Obama had his church membership. Obama praised Ayers' book on the subject of juvenile justice in a 1997 Chicago Tribune review, calling it "a searing and timely account of the juvenile court system, and the courageous individuals who rescue hope from despair.    Stanley Kurtz in the WSJ: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools   "The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming "guilt by association." Yet the issue here isn't guilt by association; it's guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago."   Breitbart; Ayers and Obama: What the Media Hid   ... "Ayers methods have certainly changed since the 60s, but his commitment to bringing down the American system has been a constant throughout his life. Therefore, it's fair to ask what Obama saw in Ayers, the committed anti-capitalist radical. It's also fair to ask why the NY Times (and the rest of the media) were so quick to dismiss the import of the connection. No one is saying Obama and Ayers were part of a secret cabal, but they do seem to have been friends over a period of years, so presumably they had something in common. Given Ayers' consistently extreme views on America and government, isn't that worth exploring?"

Obama is so Mad About All of His Scandals

American Glob   "No one is madder than Obama about the VA scandal. And the IRS. And Fast and Furious. Etc. Etc.
"Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…
 

 

Jay Carney: Obama Learned About VA Scandal From News Reports    "Of course."

 

"Consoling phone call placed to Sandra Fluke within minutes of her mention on the Rush Limbaugh show. Congratulatory phone call placed to gay athlete the instant he comes out.

"VA scandal? Saw it on the news. Still no public statement. Speaks volumes.
"Video via Hot Air.
 

ABC, NBC Ignore Report Showing Obama Administration Knew About Ongoing VA Problems
"Of the big three networks, only the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley covered the new revelations in the VA scandal. CBS News host Scott Pelley noted that “The Bush White House was so concerned about this back in 2008 that it warned the incoming Obama Administration.' ”

Ron Fournier: Quiz: How Dumb Does Obama Think We Are?   "The Veterans Affairs policy fiasco is magnified by an insulting-public relations strategy."
"It's harder to BS the public these days. White House press secretary Jay Carney still tries. On Monday, he repeatedly suggested that the American Legion had praised the move.

"The American Legion said that the group looks at Petzel's resignation as a, quote, step towards addressing the leadership problem at the VA. So I think that undercuts the assertion that that is not a meaningful development."

"Carney cited the American Legion nine times during the briefing.
Unfortunately for Carney and his boss, ABC's intrepid White House correspondent Jonathan Karl has access to the Internet. "It turns out, however, the American Legion had issued a statement dismissing the resignation as 'business as usual,' " Karl wrote." ...

Dingy Harry*; Lost In Space

Legal Insurrection
"How long will it take Harry Reid to blame the growing VA scandal on the Koch brothers?"  American Glob

*Harry Reid’s Koch Brothers Dementia – The Rush Limbaugh Show  “Reid also rejected concerns from many Democrats that his focus on the Kochs has done nothing to help the party. ‘The Koch Brothers, I’m not walking away from them. I’m going to be on their tail for the whole campaign because if they think Romney was watched closely by me, that’s nothing compared to what it’s going to be like with the Koch Brothers...' "

 

The Origins of Political Correctness

An Accuracy in Academia Address by Bill Lind  "Where does all this stuff that you’ve heard about this morning – the victim feminism, the gay rights movement, the invented statistics, the rewritten history, the lies, the demands, all the rest of it – where does it come from? For the first time in our history, Americans have to be fearful of what they say, of what they write, and of what they think. They have to be afraid of using the wrong word, a word denounced as offensive or insensitive, or racist, sexist, or homophobic.

"We have seen other countries, particularly in this century, where this has been the case. And we have always regarded them with a mixture of pity, and to be truthful, some amusement, because it has struck us as so strange that people would allow a situation to develop where they would be afraid of what words they used. But we now have this situation in this country. We have it primarily on college campuses, but it is spreading throughout the whole society. Were does it come from? What is it?
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Mainstream Media Incest

Always on Watch

 

"The Newspeak noose continues to tighten so as to control the information that WE THE PEOPLE receive (links below the fold):

1. FEC chair warns that conservative media like Drudge Report and Sean Hannity face regulation --- like PACs

2.  FCC’s grab for new regulatory power could go beyond broadband providers

This 3200 Year Old Tree Is So Huge It’s Never Been Captured In A Single Image. Until Now.

Funky Pickens  “ 'The President” is one of those trees. The giant sequoia stands 247 feet tall, measures 45,000 cubic feet in volume, and is an estimated 3,200 years old."

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"Absolutely incredible. To see how it was done, check out this video:"
 

 

Hat tip to Bill Smith; Rainier, Oregon