True about Obama or False?

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Registered: 09-12-2008
True about Obama or False?
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Fri, 09-12-2008 - 2:41am

I am reading threads about Obama and Ayers that Obama may have been in his house. I want to know if this is true or false, please post

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-13-2006
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 6:02am

From the Washington Post Fact Checker:


The only hard facts that have come out so far are the $200 contribution by Ayers to the Obama re-election fund, and their joint membership of the eight-person Woods Fund Board. Ayers did not respond to e-mails and telephone calls requesting clarification of the relationship. Obama spokesman Bill Burton noted in a statement that Ayers was a professor of education at the University of Illinois and a former aide to Mayor Richard M. Daley, and continued:


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

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 6:17am
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 - However he will associate with him and take his reelection money.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-12-2008
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 6:29am
Thanks but was he really in Ayers' house too or is that false?? This is important to me as if he were in his house that is not just a casual friend usually.
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-13-2008
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 6:34am

Hey, check out www.factcheck.org

It has helped me clear some things up. Its independent, so there are checks on Obama and McCain. There may be something about your concern there, however, I have not checked that specific issue myself. Good luck to you.

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Registered: 08-25-2008
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 7:28am

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.




iVillage Member
Registered: 07-05-2006
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 8:31am

From what someone else posted, it does appear that he was at a fundraiser held at Ayers home.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-25-2008
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 9:28am

By the same token, I distrust anything Ayers says.

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Registered: 09-11-2007
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 9:38am

Does it strike anyone else as odd that there have been several different topics started by supposedly "different" posters....but they all say the same thing?

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Fri, 09-12-2008 - 9:56am
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Fri, 09-12-2008 - 10:03am


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