Was he 8 years old when he served with him on various boards (and helped distribute $100 M to Chicago schools with no measurable improvement, by the way). Was he 8 years old when Ayers hosted the kick-off of his senatorial campaign? Was he 8 years old when Ayers said (on 9/11/01) "I don't regret setting bombs". Oh, the AP and the NY Times are your sources of information? That explains a lot.
-----Original Message----- From: Kirsteen Wright [mailto:kirsteen.falcons...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:55 AM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>Off Topic Politics On 11/5/08, jessie70 <jessi...@optonline.net> wrote: Steve Obama's friend, Ayers, dedicated his book to Kennedy's murderer. Wake up. J William Ayers is a professor <http://education.uic.edu/directory/faculty_info.cfm?netid=bayers> of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with whom Barack served on the board of an education-reform organization in the mid-1990's. According to the Associated <http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93KD6Q00&show_article=1> Press, they are not close: "No evidence shows they were "pals" or even close when they worked on community boards years ago ." Smear groups and the McCain campaign are trying to connect Obama to acts Ayers committed 40 years ago - when Barack was just eight years old. Here's what the New York <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04ayers.html> Times reported on the connection: But the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called "somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8." Barack has publicly <http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/02/obamas_weatherman_conne ction.html> denounced Ayers' radical actions from the 1960's: Senator Obama strongly condemns the violent actions of the Weathermen group, as he does all acts of violence. But he was an eight-year-old child when Ayers and the Weathermen were active, and any attempt to connect Obama with events of almost forty years ago is ridiculous. Kirsteen
