Obama's Past & People He is Associated
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Obama's Past & People He is Associated
| Sat, 09-06-2008 - 11:00am |
I do not always vote republican but definitely am this year.
| Sat, 09-06-2008 - 11:00am |
I do not always vote republican but definitely am this year.
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The Wright thing would bother me less, except for several things.
First, Obama made his first official campaign run (back in the state Senate) from Ayer's living room.
ohhhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyyy godddddddd
that is not true????? is it??
First, Obama made his first official campaign run (back in the state Senate) from Ayer's living room.
Where did you get that from?
Why is this scary?
The sky is falling?
That's what it sounds like to me.... LOL!
From the Politico
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.
Now, as Obama runs for president, what two guests recall as an unremarkable gathering on the road to a minor elected office stands as a symbol of how swiftly he has risen from a man in the Hyde Park left to one closing in fast on the Democratic nomination for president.
“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “ identified as her successor.”
Obama and Palmer “were both there,” he said.
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