I dunno...this one might stick.

"The notion that somehow, as a consequence of me knowing someone who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, that somehow reflects on my values is crazy," Obama said.

April 2002, Ayers, Dohrn, and Obama, then an Illinois State Senator, participated together at a conference entitled "Intellectuals: Who Needs Them?"

40 years ???....and here it only seems like it was 6 years. Was this before or after Ayers wished he had tried for more terrorism?

Kerrin,
Read, read, read...the detestable acts were 40 years ago...unless these two goofs tried to blow up the pentagon again in 02 while at that conference?

Why does it matter that the acts occurred 40 years ago? I wouldn't be friends with someone who did anything like that, no matter how long ago it was. Would you?

Didn't Bill Clinton pardon members of this group when he was President?

Joe,
No, I wouldn't but you kinda missed my point. Obama said the acts were 40 years ago and Kerrin mentioned something about it only being 6 years ago. They were at a conference together 6 years ago, the crime didn't occur 6 years ago.

And, at least according to the WaPo Fact Checker, they are hardly "friends", but did travel in the same social circles.

I wouldn't be friends with

Where has anyone said they are "friends"?

Joe at 3:38 made that characterization.

oops - hit the button too soon.

Should have said "mischaracterization"

In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

... "I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers' house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress," said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. "[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor."

Obama and Palmer "were both there," he said.

Obama's connections to Ayers and Dorhn have been noted in some fleeting news coverage in the past. But the visit by Obama to their home -- part of a campaign courtship -- reflects more extensive interaction than has been previously reported.

??????

"I don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do enough," Ayers told the New York Times in 2001.

So 13 years ago the retiring incumbent introducing the new candidate to a group of HER supporters becomes a "campaign courtship"? Musta been a pretty crappy courtship since it only netted a $200 campaign contribution to his state senate campaign.

Donner...downboy...easy ! We know BJ did not "did not pardon him for his crimes "

Here is how Barack Obama answered in the evening's debate when questioned on his association with Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers:

The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who during his campaign once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried about abortions. Do I need to apologize for Mr. Coburn's statements?

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Ayers joined the Weather Underground (terrorist organization) in 1969, but went underground with several associates after the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in 1970 which killed three members (Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, and Diana Oughton, who was Ayers' girlfriend at the time).

In 2001, Ayers published Fugitive Days: A Memoir. Ayers's interview with the New York Times about his book was published on September 11, 2001, and opens with his statement, "I don't regret setting bombs, I feel we didn't do enough."





Lets see, Coburn's remark was a hypothetical... the possible penalty if abortions were made illegal as opposed to actual terrorist bombings.

Hell yes...I can see the similarities.

I can see where this is going after Jan. 2009.......McCain's fault.

Obama voted while in the Illinois senate, 96 or 97 I believe, to ban all handguns.

This fraud is toast.

NULL...y'all can bash Mac til the cows come home.Psffft!
At least I know and admit I'll be holding my nose come Nov.

C'mon Nully, who wouldn't want to sleep through one of Bush's speeches.

NULL...y'all can bash Mac til the cows come home.

What goes around comes around.

Oh Noes! Obama's been mixing wif homegrown terrorist types!!

Yaaaawn.

Some RT dorks just figuring this out now?

Tha's funny!

Ya'll think it'll have an impact?

Think again.

Freeperwurld been picking this scab fer months.

No traction.

Will the MSM try replaying it endlessly like the Wright sound-bytes?

If they are desperate enuff they will.

Fox prolly will anyways just cos they are R-tarded biatches.

Kerry is bring us this nugget?

Ta fer that.

Holding yer nose in November to vote fer McNasty may not be enuff. Ya might wanna schedule a lobotomy as well.

Be Well.

I want the black panther riff, by golly

Recipegate! The perfect story for today's tabloid media. Hope George Stephanopoulos is "taking notes".

Was Cindy providing recipes to Ayers for bombs...
take one pipe w/endcaps add....................

kerrin57 - people within my circle have been speaking of this for a couple of months now - sorry thing is, these people are as left as any who post here and they are heroes in the eyes of the dhimmicrats - this will only stick if conservatives come out in droves and vote.

most people have conveniently forgotten the sixties and seventies...at least those who cannot remember them...ala timothy leary...

It's normal for a human to forget stuff that happened 30-40 years ago when it didn't affect them directly. It's called human growth, moving on, etc. Give it a shot some time, it might make you a better person.

Welcome to the retort where 2 wrongs make a right.

You are the company you keep. Obama's flippant responses and brushing off of legitimate questions (or better yet blaming the questioner) isn't going to pass muster with some voters. He's a fraud and ill-prepared to be anything more than a community organizer. There's just simply something not right about this guy and I perish the thought of him in the White House. His far left wing agenda is no better than the neocons on the other side. Neither position serves the majority. Wake up folks and be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.