If he didn’t fully endorse and support this man, why were Obama and his wife putting all this effort into working with him and praising him? Better yet, why was Obama directing millions of dollars to him in his “executive role” as head of the Annenberg Challenge?

It should be no surprise that Obama and Priya Lynn both support Ayers, though, given what he and his fellow Weathermen believe:

Convinced that all whites were born tainted with the original sin of “skin privilege,” the fighting brigade of the New Left internalized racialist thinking as hatred of their own whiteness. “All white babies are pigs,” declared one Weatherman. On one occasion the feminist poet Robin Morgan was breast-feeding her son at the offices of the radical journal Rat. A Weatherwoman saw this and told her, “You have no right to have that pig male baby.” “How can you say that?” Morgan asked. “What should I do?” “Put it in the garbage,” the Weatherwoman answered.

Or in other words, nothing that Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s spiritual mentor and inspiration, didn’t preach for the twenty years Obama was clapping and cheering along with Wright.

In other words, nothing that Obama didn’t clap and cheer for in the twenty years he was listening to Jeremiah Wright proclaim it.

And gay patriot, its no rumour about how Mccain dumped his wife in her time of need after she had stood faithfully by him. Mccain’s a scumbag. Obama was true and faithful to his ONE wife.

I was referring to your comment #28 where you said “How about you check out this research from the RNC which details in facts the Obama-Ayers relationship.” so spare me the “i didn’t say schtick”

I didn’t provide statements from the RNC, but statements from a Democrat who investigated the Keating 5. You didn’t even address my point.

And then you bring in unsubstantiated rumors from left-wing blogs about Mrs. McCain?

To call Ayers an upstanding member of the community even now is to ignore what he has said about his past actions.

If you’re going to attach your angry words to my blog, Priya, at least take the time to address my points. It’s amazing how so many on your side just shout at those on my side and don’t consider our arguments or our points, even when they take the time to visit our blogs.

McCain jettisons his ‘Maverick’ label: lawyer says Keating Five investigation was a setup

Thanks, John McCain – now you’ve undermined the very bullsh*t fantasy image of yourself that you’ve created for public consumption. In the past you said you learned from your mistakes during the Keating Five scandal.
On his Keating Five experience, McCain has said: “The appearance of it was wrong. It’s a wrong appearance when a group of senators appear in a meeting with a group of regulators, because it conveys the impression of undue and improper influence. And it was the wrong thing to do.”
Fast forward to today, you sell yourself as a reformer ready to write the wrongs in Washington, but now declare the Keating investigation was a politically motivated set up. Ben Smith:
So when his campaign puts his lawyer on the line with reporters to contest the details of a congressional inquiry that, largely, let McCain off the hook, doesn’t that cloud the sin-confession-atonement dynamic a bit?
In Halperin’s account, McCain lawyer John Dowd described McCain’s “former relationship with Charles Keating as ’social friends,’” and called the situation a “classic political smear job on John.”

Dowd also “thinks that the committee went too far in suggesting that McCain’s intervention with regulators was poor judgment,” Halperin writes. But if so, what’s this giant mistake that transformed McCain into a reformer?

Wait. McCain himself said it reflected poor judgment. Good god, this man will say or do anything at this point. The Straight Talk Express is heading for the ditch. Dowd, ironically, wasn’t exactly in McCain’s corner earlier this year when he talked about the Arizona senator:
He was McCain’s lawyer during the Keating scandal, and he supported the Arizona Republican when he ran for president in 2000. But earlier this cycle, the longtime defense attorney expressed disappointment with the Senator, saying he couldn’t even recognize his longtime friend.
“I am very sorry to see what’s happened to John,” Dowd said. “I don’t think his campaign is being well run. It’s been over-managed. He blew through $8 1/2 million. It’s a difficult thing to leave a friend and go to another friend. But we lost the John McCain I knew.”

Gay patriot, I’ve read the RNC’s lies about Obama, they don’t impress me.

Sean A said “Priya, so Obama hasn’t done anything “remotely” as immoral as McCain?”.

That’s correct. Obama has been faithful to his one wife, Mccain’s wife was true to him while he was a POW and how did Mccain repay her? He cheated on her at her most vulnerable when she was a disfigured accident victim and ran off to marry a prettier and wealthy heiress. An heiress who stole from children’s charities to support her drug habit and McCain used his Senate staff and resources to cover up Cindy’s drug use, and to prevent the Drug Enforcement Agency from investigating his wife’s theft of illegal prescription drugs.

All you’ve got is coinicidental association of Obama with someone who’s wrongdoings took place when Obama was a child and who has since become an upstanding member of the community. Not even remotely comparable.

“All the links you provide to supposedly prove Obama was associating with a terrorist demonstrate Ayers had put his past behind him and by all accounts was a widely celibrated outstanding citizen putting the good of the community first. There was nothing wrong with Obama working with such a person…”

She won’t even criticize Ayers–why would she (or those like her) criticize Obama if he WERE AYERS?

Everybody, you’re wasting your time. The fact is, even if Ayers didn’t exist and we were talking about Obama’s past involvement as a MEMBER of the Weather Underground himself, Priya and her ignorant, moral relativist ilk would still find a way to absolve him of all accountability. Seriously, if it were Obama that were responsible for innocent deaths and the bombings of police stations, government buildings and military installations 40 years ago, Priya’s position on the matter would be exactly the same. He’s a testament to CHANGE! He’s renounced his youthful “activism!” He’s become a productive member of society and a valued member of the community…blah, blah, blah…

There’s no doubt in my mind because these people are incapable of rational thought. Even if Obama and Ayers were the same person, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference to these imbeciles. It would just add to Obama’s leftist mystique and they would worship him all the more.

Read it, if you want to know the truth and not be another Obama sockpuppet.

http://www.gop.com/images/research/100608Research2.pdf

All you’re doing is repeating liberal talking points at odds with reality.

Oh, and Priya, Bob Bennett, the Democrat investigating the Keating Five had this to say about McCain’s involvement:

“At the completion of my investigation, I filed my report with the committee. I recommended that no further action be taken against Senators McCain and Glenn principally because once they learned that there was a criminal referral, they stopped aggressively doing Keating’s bidding with the regulators.” …

“After reviewing my report, the committee voted on October 23, 1990, to hold a public adjudicatory fact-finding hearing in the matter as to all five senators. This was perhaps the first time the recommendation of a special counsel not to charge a senator was rejected. This was pure politics as the Democrats on the committee did not want to cut McCain loose so that only Democrats would remain in the proceedings. If Senator McCain was not going to be cut loose, in retaliation the Republicans were going to keep Senator Glenn in the proceedings. McCain was the victim of politics, and poor Glenn was held captive to the decision on McCain. So much for nonpartisanship.

So, please, Priya, familiarize yourself with the facts before chiming in. Oh, and I’ve seen your talking points before. They come from readers (and friends) cutting and pasting stuff they got from the Obama campaign. One reader even helpfully included the link.

I watched your little clip where you claimed Obama lied about his “radical” associations and I didn’t see any record showing Obama was aware of Ayer’s past. In fact the clip you had said the Mayor of Chicago(?) said he was an outstanding citizen and Ayers was given citizen of the year award for the work he did on the board with Obama. You can’ blame Obama for accepting Ayers as the outstanding citizen he was widely reputed to be by a vast array of people.

Gay patriot said “And why has Obama repeatedly misrepresented the relationship to the public?”.

You’re distorting. Obama’s done no such thing. The clip you have of CNN discussing Obama/Ayers doesn’t confirm any misrepresentations by Obama of his, for the most part, non-relationship with Ayers. All the links you provide to supposedly prove Obama was associating with a terrorist demonstrate Ayers had put his past behind him and by all accounts was a widely celibrated outstanding citizen putting the good of the community first. There was nothing wrong with Obama working with such a person and as the clip you posted showed having coincidental contact with him

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/26/newly-released-documents-highlight-obamas-relationship-ayers/

jeb

The Weather Underground bombing campaign was not a matter of a few isolated incidents. From September 1969 to May 1970, Rudd and his co-revolutionaries on the white radical left committed about 250 attacks, or almost one terrorist bombing a day (government estimates put that number up to 600 percent higher). During the summer of 1970, there were twenty bombings a week in California. The bombings were the backbeat to the symphony of violence, much of it rhetorical, that set the score for the New Left in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Rudd captured the tone perfectly: “It’s a wonderful feeling to hit a pig. It must be a really wonderful feeling to kill a pig or blow up a building.” “The real division is not between people who support bombings and people who don’t,” explained a secret member of a “bombing collective,” but “between people who will do them and people who are too hung up on their own privileges and security to take those risks.”

The Weathermen became the storm troopers of the New Left, horrifying even those who agreed with their cause. Convinced that all whites were born tainted with the original sin of “skin privilege,” the fighting brigade of the New Left internalized racialist thinking as hatred of their own whiteness. “All white babies are pigs,” declared one Weatherman. On one occasion the feminist poet Robin Morgan was breast-feeding her son at the offices of the radical journal Rat. A Weatherwoman saw this and told her, “You have no right to have that pig male baby.” “How can you say that?” Morgan asked. “What should I do?” “Put it in the garbage,” the Weatherwoman answered.

Bernadine Dohrn [Ayers' wife], an acid-loving University of Chicago law student turned revolutionary, reflected the widespread New Left fascination with the serial-killing hippie Übermensch Charles Manson. “Dig It! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!” In appreciation, her Weather Underground cell made a three-fingered “fork” gesture its official salute.

I encourage others to do the same–early and often.

And of course, he gets off the hook because he’s made an “exemplary contribution” to the field of education by “publishing 16 books”.

A man is known by the company he keeps. If his company includes prominent, unrepentant terrorists and raving, lunatic preachers then at the very least, I question his judgement.

I am absolutely, 100 percent sure that if McCain had, once in his life, said “good morning” to Fred Phelps, we’d never hear the end of it.

It’s a testament to stupidity that a guy who beat out Barney Frank and Chris Dodd in the dollars-per-year-from-Freddie/Fannie contest can cough up K-5 and get away with it.