Ayers Isn't The HALF Of It!

The Obama defenders are complaining that William Ayers’ radical bombings in the late 1960s and early 1970s are dismissible as "old news." They declare Obama's associations to be "irrelevant." (Somehow I'm prompted to wonder what they'd say if McCain were a friend of a 1940s Nazi prison camp guard.) Yet Obama's associations are relevant, as they are in fact current news, and they speak to his judgment, character and to his political proclivities and inclinations.  And we can never forget that a man is known by the company he keeps.

 

Here is a brief accounting of over a dozen of Obama’s long-time colleagues, associates and friends.

 

Khalid al-Mansour: the anti-Semite Black Nationalist racist who changed his name from Don Marshall and converted to Islam, was a patron of Obama’s and helped advance Obama’s candidacy to law school. He was instrumental in starting the violent Black Panthers group, reportedly became Kind Saud’s attorney and represents OPEC. No wonder Obama doesn't want to drill anywhere, although he changed that tune in last Tuesday's debate in an apparent attempt to drill for votes.

 

As an article in FrontPageMag.com reported, “And why is it that black racists such as al-Mansour constitute a significant proportion of these hate mongers? In large part, it is because blacks have been specifically and aggressively targeted for recruitment by leaders of the worldwide jihad, just as they were targeted for recruitment by the Communist Party USA in the 1920s. Black grievance, combined with the evangelism of the Nation of Islam over the last seventy years, has established an audience for the ideology of hate.”

 

It is notable that Khalid al-Mansour is an advisor and friend to Prince al-Walid bin Talal, the Saudi sheik to whom Mayor Rudy Giuliani returned a $10 million check right after 9/11 because bin Talal stated that America brought the bloodthirsty attack on itself due to our foreign policy.

 

Rashid Khalidi: an enthusiastic supporter of the Palestinians, fervent critic of Israel (which he calls a destructive “racist” state), an admirer of suicide bombers and a driving force behind the Arab American Action Network (AAAN). This so-called pro-Palestinian “community organization” in Chicago is another beneficiary of the Obama-Ayers team at the Woods Fund. It promotes an agenda that would horrify Obama’s Jewish supporters and any normal person. In fact, both Sen. Obama and Mr. Ayers actually spoke at a testimonial dinner for Rashid Khalidi.

 

According to Jack Kelly in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “ ‘Khalidi and Obama lived in nearby faculty residential zones and the two families dined together a number of times,’ a source on the University of Chicago faculty told WorldNet Daily. ‘The Obamas even babysat the Khalidi children.’ ”

 

Ingrid Mattson: President of the troubling Islamic Society of North America, a group named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorist trial, and a woman whom Obama invited to lead prayer at the Democrat Convention, which she did.

 

Frank Marshall Davis: another of Obama's mentors mentioned in his book, a well-known Stalinist Communist whose devotion to the Soviet Union and hatred for an America which he described as racist and imperialistic put him under FBI surveillance for at least 19 years. It is quite possible that Davis did more to shape Obama’s world view than many in his entourage.

 

Tony Rezko: convicted felon of fraud and shady dealings, he and Obama were very close. Rezko helped get Obama a sweetheart mortgage, and he bundled tons of money for Obama’s campaign. Rezko bought property (under another sweetheart deal) to be Obama's neighbor. As of today, it appears Rezko is willing to talk to reduce his sentence.

 

William Ayers: Ayers is still today (this is not an “old news” story) an unrepentant terrorist.  He was quoted (coincidentally on September 11, 2001, in the New York Times) as being proud and unapologetic for the bombings of the Pentagon, the Capitol and the New York City Police where several police officers were murdered as a result. In fact, he stated that his only regret was that they hadn't done more.  For a smug thug like this, Sen. Obama – unbelievably – did the favor of writing a dust-jacket blurb forMr. Ayers' 2001 book, "Fugitive Days". 

 

Ayers and Obama served on the board of the Annenberg Foundation together, overseeing the expenditure of tens of millions of dollars. Currently, or rather, inexplicably, all the related records remain "unavailable."

 

Interestingly, the Annenberg Foundation runs the "Factcheck.org" site that Obama uses as his only source of "facts" on his "fight the smears" website. Why or how factcheck.org is given any mainstream media credibility as a fact source is laughable. The mainstream press should be ashamed of itself for using them.

 

Saved from jail, unfortunately, by legal technicalities, Ayers is married to Bernardine Dohrn, another Weathermen terrorist once on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List, who did serve time for refusing to testify about the death of other Weathermen when a bomb they were building blew up prematurely.  J. Edgar Hoover called her ''the most dangerous woman in America'' and ''la Pasionara of the Lunatic Left.''

 

Bernardine Dohrn, who in the 80’s worked at the same time with Michelle Obama for the Chicago law firm Sidley Austin,was also a fan of Charles Manson: 

 

At a 1969 "War Council" in Flint, Michigan, Dohrn gave her most memorable and notorious speech to her followers. Holding her fingers in what became the Weatherman "fork salute," she said of the bloody murders recently committed by the Manson Family in which the pregnant actress Sharon Tate and a Folgers Coffee heiress and several other inhabitants of a Benedict Canyon mansion were brutally stabbed to death: "Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!" The "War Council" ended with a formal declaration of war against "AmeriKKKa," always spelled with three K's to signify the United States' allegedly ineradicable white racism.

 

ACORN: An organization so fraught with voter fraud they should be closed down and indicted under RICO. Where you're never too dead to vote twice. Ever wonder what a "community organizer" is?  Think ACORN.  For whom was Obama a "constitutional lawyer"? ACORN.  Currently, numerous ACORN offices are being raided by the FBI and investigated for ongoing and major voter fraud.

 

Fannie/Freddie: Obama was the number two campaign contribution recipient from Freddie and Fannie execs, behind Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd. And bear in mind, those are numbers compiled over nine years. Obama has been a senator only for four of those years and raked in almost as much dough as Dodd did in all nine years.

 

Franklin Raines/Jim Johnson: Former heads of Fannie Mae, both men were removed for impropriety. Both made tens of millions of dollars from their time at the helm, helping to pilot the economy onto the rocks. Are there two people more responsible for the current economic mess? Besides Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, they may have had more to do with creating the problem than anyone else... and they're in Obama's inner circle giving economic advice; Jim Johnson was actually chosen to vet Obama's VP Pick.

 

Rev. Wright and  Father Pfleger: radical, fervently anti-American, and anti-Semitic. The Rev. Louis Farrakhan, also an anti-Semite and black racist, was recently honored by Rev. Wright for “Lifetime Achievement”. And Obama called them mentors, friends and/or spiritual advisors. What did he learn from them over the decades of their association? And why did he not reject their views until it was politically expedient for him to do so?

 

Michelle Obama:  Mrs. Obama seems to hold radical separatist views consistent with a 20-year attendance and tutelage under Rev. Wright. Her college thesis was on assimilation vs. "the black culture,” and she was openly dismayed that so many blacks were choosing to assimilate into the American melting-pot culture. She also stated on the campaign trail that for the first time in her adult life she was proud of her country.  This, from a possible First Lady of the land.

 

From anti-American at best, to virulently anti-American and criminal anti-American at worst, this is the rag-tag crowd with whom Obama has chosen to build his career and personal relationships for the past few decades. That such a person – and crowd - could end up holding the fate and deepest secrets of our most precious jewel, America, in their hands – as well as all our futures - is deeply troubling, to say the least, and it would be an unspeakable tragedy if it were to transpire. 

 

Comments

[Dore]

All of this background info of Obama's ties to radical movements has been available during this long 2+ year campaign. Why is it just now coming out to the public forum?? Why won't the mainstream media at least research some of this?? Americans may get "change" with Barack Obama, but will it be the kind of change they thought they would get? That's what scares me.

[Just Bob]

Doug....Where have you been man....The national debt has doubled since 2000. 5 trillion dollars in less than 8 years. For six of those years, we had a Republican Congress. The bailout is happening because the man in charge of monetary policy in the U.S. since 1987, Alan Greenspan, appointed by Ronald Reagan and reappointed by George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W Bush, doesn't really believe in regulation. The law that allowed banks to underwrite and sell mortgage backed securities is called Gramm-Leach-Bliley after it's sponsors Phil Gramm (a former McCain advisor and Republican senator from Texas), and Jim Leach, Republican congressman of Iowa. It passed by a veto-proof majority, most of which were Republicans and Bill Clinton signed it.

The people who allowed Bear Stearns to get to the point where their debt was 33 times assets were 3 Republicans and 2 Democrats appinted by George W Bush to the SEC. The decision to allow companies like Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley to "self regulate" was unanimous. And made almost as much sense as letting a heroin addict "self medicate".

The people who prevented derivatives from being regulated were Robert Rubin, (ex-Wall Street, appointed by Clinton), Greenspan and McCain's buddy, Phil Gramm, then the Republican chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, who inserted the changes into an 11,000 page appropriations bill.

So here we are, with a 700 billion dollar bailout, proposed by a Republican Secretary of the Treasury and a Republican Chairman of the Feb, who claim it has to be done NOW, not time for changes, no time for a careful examination. Passed by a Democratic congress with lots of Republican votes and signed by a Republican president. Incidently, my Democratic congressman and the guy I'm voting for for Senate both voted against it.

So, back to your list of suspicious associates of Barak Obama. Did you know that Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi ambassador, had a nickname? It was Bandar Bush. His family and George H.W. Bush go way back - back before Bush was president, maybe even before he had CIA. Did you know that Halliburton, that stalwart American company that used to be headed by Dick Cheney, now has it's headquarters in Dubai? Maybe the execs are worried about subpoenas....or maybe they just like it there. And it wasn't Democrats that made sure that every single Saudi with the surname bin Laden got out of the U.S. before they could be questioned after 9/11.

Did you know that the Alaska Independence Party, that Todd Palin belonged to until his wife wanted to run for partisan political office, was founded by a guy who was quoted as saying, "I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I have no use for American or her damned institutions."? Joe Vogler was murdered in 1993 (before Todd joined the party) just before he was to speak to a UN committee. The country that sponsored his appearance was that epitome of freedom and democracy, the Islamic Republic of Iran. Vogler is buried in Dawson Creek, Northwest Territories, because he swore he'd never be buried in American soil. Todd Palin didn't join the AIP to socialize, he joined because he agreed with their platform. Secession from the United States.

Doug, my geek score is 88, so I hope you'll believe me when I SHOUT OUT TO THOSE HARDWORKING GUYS AT THE NSA WHO ARE SUCKING THIS POST OUT OF THE INTERNET along with all of our email and a lot of our telephone calls. GET A WARRANT, GUYS. Am I worried about the Constitution with Obama in charge? Not as much as I would be with McCain and his Bush/Rove retread organization and the Palins. Just my opinion. Your mileage will probably vary.

How's your 401-K. Is your company still taking purchase orders? What are they going to do if customers don't pay in a timely manner and they need to borrow to make payroll? Or maybe you work for the government and don't have to worry about that....

[Patricia]

Hi, You mention Rashid Khalidi as helping Obama with his admission to Harvard Law. How is this done? What does Khalidi have to do with Harvard Law.
Thanks

[stargirl]

ive been senidng out emails entitled "obama's iceberg" which are very similar to doug's blog.
the mccain campaign is wrong to focus solely on william ayers. obama can easily de-fuse the ayers issue.
ayers is but the tip of the iceberg. below the water is where the real danger lies:

1) frank marshall davis, friend of obama's grandfather and obama's mentor: an avowed communist who wrote poems praising the soviet military and mocking christians;
2) saul alinsky: radical left wing community organizer who wote "rules for radicals," mentored cesar chavez and inspired obama;
3) william ayers, domestic terrorist who co-founded the radical group weather underground. ayers advises venezuelan despot hugo chavez on education and seeks to radicalize public education, "la educacion es revolucion.";
4) bernadine dohrn, ayers wife whom ayers started dating when his then-girlfriend was killed in a blast while assembling bombs: dohrn is a longtime member of the weather underground, which in 1970 declared war on the united states and set off bombs across the country. she was on the FBI's 10 most wanted list. her criminal record prevented her from getting a law license;
5) mark rudd, former SDS radical, member of weather underground, and revolutionary youth movement;
6) tony rezko: convicted felon who came from syria in the 1970s on a student visa, engaged in shady real estate deals, and raised huge sums of money for obama;
7) rev jeremiah wright: anti semite and fulminating racist in whose church obama sat for 20 years, who married the obamas, baptized obamas children, and was obamas spiritual adviser until his racist views became known;
8) david axelrod: son of extreme leftist parents. his mother wrote for a communist-dominated newspaper, "PM";
9) rashid khalidi: PLO supporter, anti-israel professor with whom obama socialized and praised lavishly at a speech in khalidis honor. khalidi's wife ran the arab-american action network, a pro-palestinian group that obama and bill ayers funded with monies from the woods foundation.
10) raila odinga: left wing prime minister of kenya, whose campaign obama directly advised and supported. odinga is responsible for tribal violence, including the burning of hundreds of christian churches, and allied himself with radical muslims in his bid for power, promising to expand sharia law in kenya if he won the election.
11) george soros: left wing currency speculator who supports drug law liberalization, gun control, and other leftist causes.
12) father michael pfleger: obama spiritual advisor and campaign contributor, racist demagogue, received $100,000 earmark from obama.
13) louis farrakhan, supreme minister of the nation of islam, black supremacist, anti-semite, and vociferous critic of america.
14) rev. james meeks: white-hating pastor who is one of obama's spiritual advisers;
15) ACORN: left wing anti-capitalist group with close ties to obama. ACORN is under investigation for voter fraud in a dozen states. the group engages in "direct action" otherwise known as intimidation, and buses in groups of people to overwhelm polling places and caucuses. obama paid them to "get ot the vote."
16) HAMAS: violent islamic palestinian terrorist group that has killed thousands of innocent civilians, denies the holocaust happened, and has openly endorsed obama

is there a pattern here? of course there is! there is no one in obama's circle who loves this country, supports traditional values, or relfects the moderate majority viewpoint. there is no one on this list whom most voters would be proud to know.
taken all together, obamas associates present a damning portrait of who he is, and what he represents.
mccain needs to use this list to box obama into a corner.

[mike]

we could be seeing an Antichrist rising.
I cannot dismiss it yet, as much as I would like to...you heard it here.

[Mel]

Hey, any comment on Todd Palin's association with the Alaska Independence Party? If the Palins were recently involved with a party that advocates the destruction of the union, then I don't want to vote for McCain. Where is their patriotism? And why was she selected as nominee for VP of the US when she seems to sympathize with people who want to destroy the union?

YES, here's a comment:

1) Todd was a member of AIP for a short time, under 2 years. He has not been affiliated for quite some time, unlike Mr. Obama's sudden de-affilliation from Trinity church after 20 years - for political expediency - earlier this year.

2) AIP AT ONE TIME, but no longer, advocated NOT for seccession from the union... but to correct a perceived wrong perpetrated on the citizens of Alaska at the time of the vote for statehood in the middle of the 20th century. Because the multiplicity of options (statehood, territory, commonwealth or independence) were not presented, to the people of AK, they felt the matter should be presented again to allow Alaskans to TRULY make the choice. Since 1986 (Todd joined After 1986) AIP candidates have disapproved of initiating a state-wide vote revisiting the status of Alaskan statehood.

3) The party did not get involved in presidential elections until 1992, when it endorsed Howard Phillips, the candidate of the U.S. Taxpayers Party (now the Constitution Party). The AIP is listed as an affiliate of the Constitution Party on the latter party's website. (Wikipedia)

4) The Constitution Party is a Libertarian/Conservative small but mainstream party which is active nationwide.

--Doug