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Originally posted by plumranch
reply to post by Frankidealist35
They're running a smear campaign against Barack Obama
Are you denying that Barack had/ has terrorist friends! We're supposed to be denying ignorance here, you know.
FYO, Fox is currently running a financial special unraveling the current fanancial crisis and showing probable cause. Names like Franks, Dodds, Obama, Schumer and Pelosi not surprisingly come up a lot as culprits.
Ayers was one of the original grantees of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school reform organization in the 1990s, and was cochairman of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, one the two operational arms of the CAC. Obama, then not yet a state senator, became chairman of the CAC in 1995. Later in that year, the first organizing meeting for Obama's state Senate campaign was held in Ayers's apartment. Ayers later wrote a memoir, and an article about him appeared in the New York Times on Sept. 11, 2001. "I don't regret setting bombs," Ayers is quoted as saying. "I feel we didn't do enough."
Originally posted by plumranch
reply to post by Frankidealist35
They're running a smear campaign against Barack Obama
Are you denying that Barack had/ has terrorist friends! We're supposed to be denying ignorance here, you know.
Originally posted by darkangel831
Another question:
Is this not factual?
Ayers was one of the original grantees of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school reform organization in the 1990s, and was cochairman of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, one the two operational arms of the CAC. Obama, then not yet a state senator, became chairman of the CAC in 1995. Later in that year, the first organizing meeting for Obama's state Senate campaign was held in Ayers's apartment. Ayers later wrote a memoir, and an article about him appeared in the New York Times on Sept. 11, 2001. "I don't regret setting bombs," Ayers is quoted as saying. "I feel we didn't do enough."
US News
If this is not factual, and can be proven such, I will gladly appologize.
Yes I have a cooment on that.
Originally posted by TheRooster
Fox is the only news channel NOT smearing McCain/Palin. Have any comment on that?
Originally posted by darkangel831
Another question:
Is this not factual?
Ayers was one of the original grantees of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school reform organization in the 1990s, and was cochairman of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, one the two operational arms of the CAC. Obama, then not yet a state senator, became chairman of the CAC in 1995. Later in that year, the first organizing meeting for Obama's state Senate campaign was held in Ayers's apartment. Ayers later wrote a memoir, and an article about him appeared in the New York Times on Sept. 11, 2001. "I don't regret setting bombs," Ayers is quoted as saying. "I feel we didn't do enough."
Originally posted by Fathom
Yes I have a cooment on that.
"News" STATIONS SHOULDN'T BE SMEARING ANY POLITICIAN. they are to "report" the news, not try to explain, distort, make up, the news.
They also should remain impartial on political issues.
Folks, we don't have real news media anymore if we ever did.
it has always been biased.
Originally posted by Frankidealist35
reply to post by darkangel831
What does that have to do with Obama? So someone who Obama once knew in the past had some involvement with terrorists? That has nothing to do with Obama.
This is just like when they smeared Obama for Reverend Right. IT ALMOST WORKED.
It will be interesting to see how voters react to this. Will they accept it as fact and believe that Obama is a terrorist or will they refuse to accept more of this BS?
Statements like these are slanderous and cannot be proven true. They are nothing but heated accusations that take away from the current crisis we have at hand with our economy.
JERUSALEM – The board of a nonprofit organization on which Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe" and supports intense immigration reform, including providing drivers licenses and education to illegal aliens.
Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Fund's website. According to tax filings, Obama received compensation of $6,000 per year for his service in 1999 and 2000.
Obama served on the Wood's Fund board alongside William C. Ayers, a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971.
He has multiple times expressed support for Palestinian terror, calling suicide bombings response to "Israeli aggression." He dedicated his 1986 book, "Under Siege," to "those who gave their lives ... in defense of the cause of Palestine and independence of Lebanon." Critics assailed the book as excusing Palestinian terrorism.
While the Woods Fund's contribution to Khalidi's AAAN might be perceived as a one-time run in with Obama, the presidential hopeful and Khalidi evidence a deeper relationship.
Originally posted by darkangel831
reply to post by Buck Division
Perhaps I can work out your reply, as your formatting was confusing..
I implied nothing.
I asked the question and received more deflection.
The article shows association, I asked if it was factual.
If the associations are innocent, why is every Obama supporter afraid of them?
Why the call to "not watch" a channel that is discussing them?
Founding Member of the Keating Five
Back in the old days, defendants in famous trials got numbers -- the Chicago Eight, the Gang of Four, the Dave Clark Five, the Daytona 500. McCain was one of the "Keating Five," congressmen investigated on ethics charges for strenuously helping convicted racketeer Charles Keating after he gave them large campaign contributions and vacation trips.
Charles Keating was convicted of racketeering and fraud in both state and federal court after his Lincoln Savings & Loan collapsed, costing the taxpayers $3.4 billion. His convictions were overturned on technicalities; for example, the federal conviction was overturned because jurors had heard about his state conviction, and his state charges because Judge Lance Ito (yes, that judge) screwed up jury instructions. Neither court cleared him, and he faces new trials in both courts.)
Though he was not convicted of anything, McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating after Keating gave McCain at least $112,00 in contributions. In the mid-1980s, McCain made at least 9 trips on Keating's airplanes, and 3 of those were to Keating's luxurious retreat in the Bahamas. McCain's wife and father-in-law also were the largest investors (at $350,000) in a Keating shopping center; the Phoenix New Times called it a "sweetheart deal."