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Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge
Later, Obama adviser David Axelrod told CNN the Illinois senator "didn't know the history" of Ayers' Weather Underground activities when Ayers hosted the 1995 gathering. Speaking in Estero, Fla., Palin responded, "Today they're saying for the first time that Barack Obama didn't know back then about Ayers' radical background."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081006/...D0rSrR8DOs0NUE
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Thursday, October 09, 2008
Yeah Right... Obama Said He Thought Ayers Had Been Rehabilitated
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/20...ght-ayers.html
Oh, this was bad.
This was really bad...
Obama made a MAJOR MISTAKE tonight.
Barack Obama now says that he thought terrorist Bill Ayers had been rehabilitated.
Not true.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/arti..._William_Ayers
On September 11, 2001, The New York Times published, "
No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen" on the life of Bill Ayers.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...C0A9679C8B 63
Also in 2001, Bill Ayers also wrote about his terrorist bombings in his memoir, "
Fugitive Days" It was not an apology.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09292008...216.htm?page=0
Now get this... Bill Ayers was serving with Barack Obama on the Woods Fund Board
in 2001.
Barack Obama said today that he thought that Bill Ayers was rehabilitated.
Ben Smith at The Politico reported:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/
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In an interview with the sympathetic conservative talk radio host this afternoon, Obama offered the clearest explanation yet of how an extremely careful politician allowed himself anywhere near a former '60s radical who would become a Republican target in this year's presidential campaign.
Obama "had assumed" from Bill Ayers' stature in Chicago, he told the Philadelphia-based Michael Smerconish, that Ayers had been "rehabilitated" since his 1960s crimes.
In the interview, which was taped this afternoon and will air tomorrow, and which you can listen to above, Obama recalled moving back to Chicago after law school, and becoming involved in civic life there. "The gentleman in question, Bill Ayers, is a college professor, teaches education at the University of Illinois," he said. "That's how I met him -- working on a school reform project that was funded by an ambassador and very close friend of Ronald Reagan's" along with "a bunch of conservative businessmen and civic leaders."
"Ultimately, I ended up learning about the fact that he had engaged in this reprehensible act 40 years ago, but I was eight years old at the time and I assumed that he had been rehabilitated," Obama said.
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So... Obama thought that Bill Ayers was rehabilitated while at the same time Ayers was publishing article after America-hating article on not doing enough while he was a Weatherman terrorist?
Yeah right.
And, and don't forget, Obama also said he never heard Jeremiah Wright spew anti-American racist filth.
Reverse Spin says Obama just contradicted his spokesman Axelrod from statements made 2 days ago.
http://www.reversespin.com/?p=899
Today, Barack Obama decided to try out a few new answers about his alliance with unrepetent domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and managed to contradict his own chief spokesman.
First, he told ABC anchor Charlie Gibson (D-Obama):
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“Why don’t we just clear it up right now I’ll repeat again what I’ve said many times. This is a guy who engaged in some despicable acts 40 years ago when I was eight years old. By the time I met him, 10 or 15 years ago, he was a college professor of education at the University of Illinois . . . And the notion that somehow he has been involved in my campaign, that he is an adviser of mine, that . . . I’ve ‘palled around with a terrorist’, all these statements are made simply to try to score cheap political points.”
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Nobody said he was involved in your campaign or an advisor.
Those are red herrings. And, we are trying to determine how much he palled around with Ayers. That is unknown because to date Barack and Ayers haven’t answered it.
On a radio interview, Obama tried a new approach:
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“The gentleman in question, Bill Ayers, is a college professor, teaches education at the University of Illinois,” he said. “That’s how i met him — working on a school reform project that was funded by an ambassador and very close friend of Ronald Reagan’s” along with “a bunch of conservative businessmen and civic leaders.”
“Ultimately, I ended up learning about the fact that he had engaged in this reprehensible act 40 years ago, but I was eight years old at the time and I assumed that he had been rehabilitated,” Obama said.
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Rehabilitated? This directly contradicts what his spokesman, David Axelrod said earlier in the week. He claimed Obama didn’t know about Ayers’ past when he met him.
This is getting more bizarre. Why can’t anyone in the media get a straight answer from Obama? Why hasn’t the Obama campaign pumped out a lengthy timeline on their alliance that would make this go away?