Kirsten, no one applying for the most important job in American should have been on the board with, launching his campaign in the home of, complimenting the work and writings of an American terrorist, sitting for 20 yrs in the church of and taking personal advice from an anti-American "reverend", doing real estate deals with an Iranian criminal, funding, training and legally representing the criminals at Acorn. If he couldn't do his job as a senator- not voting over 100 times, how can he do it now, by listening to his wife who hated our country until he got nominated? J -----Original Message----- From: Kirsteen Wright [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 12:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>Off Topic Politics
On 11/5/08, jessie70 <[email protected]> wrote: Steve Obama's friend, Ayers, dedicated his book to Kennedy's murderer. Wake up. J William Ayers is a professor 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 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 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 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
