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I Did Not Have Spatial Relations With That Man…Mr. Ayers

The New York Post has been a little bit biased against Obama ever since they endorsed John McCain, in much the same way that someone firing a gun at you is a little bit biased against you living.  Today marks the crowning achievement of their efforts, the startling revelation that, at multiple points during 1995, Ayers and Obama were in the same room.

Recently released board-meeting minutes for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge show the two were present together at least six times in 1995 as the foundation’s members discussed how to organize and operate the project, which was Ayers’ brainchild.

Obama has always acknowledged he and Ayers both worked at the foundation, but has insisted they never had more than a passing acquaintance.

And then, the startling reveal of why this matters:

When asked by The Post how closely he worked with Obama, Ayers twice said, “It’s in the public record.”

And then, the startling reveal of why this matters:

In the Vietnam era, the Weather Underground conducted a series of bombings of official sites. Ayers wrote in his 2001 memoir, “Fugitive Days,” that he helped with the bombings.

Okay, and THEN, the startling, awe-inspiring reveal of why this actually matters:

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So…no reveal?  The dark secret that Obama doesn’t want you to know is that he was in the same room as someone who was on the same board as him at a handful of meetings in 1995, with no indication that they ever plotted to blow up or even abort a damn thing.  What kind of fucking liberal terrorist conspiracy are you trying to sell me, Post?  A bum conspiracy, that’s what kind.

 

 

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Posted by Jesse Taylor on 11:43 AM • (50) Comments

“What kind of fucking liberal terrorist conspiracy are you trying to sell me, Post?  A bum conspiracy, that’s what kind.”

...oh yeah?  Well, you just wait for the 101st Flying Kerners!  By the time they get done with this, Obama will be…

...um, he’ll be really, um…

...mildly amused at the abject stupidity of the whole thing…

Comment #1: MikeEss  on  09/29  at  12:04 PM

Wait… that’s it?

A Fox-watching friend of mine was telling me that Obama bought a house from Ayers, and that they had other business interests together, and that some goober is writing book about it all. Hell, there’s not enough there for a decent newspaper article.

I dunno, where the hell are the right-wing yammer-monkeys getting all this other stuff?

Comment #2: LynstHolin  on  09/29  at  12:14 PM

Aside from the fact that Murdoch often uses his media holdings(most notably Fox) to push his political views, the man is primarily known for shit journalism. In another paper this would be seen as typical shoddy journalism where the reporter writes an empty story because he spent so much time finding out nothing. In the Post, one would have to presume that Murdoch has ordered his yellow reporters to throw everything at Obama that they can scrape up.

Comment #3: pragmatic idealist  on  09/29  at  12:25 PM

“Solar Stock Pick - EVSO”

This is the most valuable part of the article.  Alternative energy stocks will do well if Obama wins.

Comment #4: Neil the Ethical Werewolf  on  09/29  at  12:25 PM

Of course, if you utter the name “Charles Keating,” these same people howl that that’s all ancient history and how dare you bring up a 25-year-old smear and it’s all guilt by association, etc., etc.

Comment #5: Bitter Scribe  on  09/29  at  12:27 PM

A Fox-watching friend of mine was telling me that Obama bought a house from Ayers, and that they had other business interests together, and that some goober is writing book about it all.

At a certain point, I really do want to find out how one breaks into the right wing book-writing industry.  Apparently, if Johan Goldberg gives us an indication, this is the easiest job in the freak’n world and it pays in giant dump trucks of cash (assuming your mom knows how to nail a President over a blow job).

Seriously.  I’m pretty liberal, but if you dangle a few million dollars in front of me, I’ll happily pen a 200 page diatribe about how Barack Obama was raised by baby-killing KGB black panthers during the mid-60s in an underground muslim terror cell that helped plan the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagen.  Just make sure the money gets paid up front, and the book is as good as yours.

Comment #6: Zifnab25  on  09/29  at  12:28 PM

A Fox-watching friend of mine was telling me that Obama bought a house from Ayers, and that they had other business interests together, and that some goober is writing book about it all.

Seems to be some strange mixing of the Ayers-Rezko stories.

Comment #7: Dweeze  on  09/29  at  12:33 PM

Seems to be some strange mixing of the Ayers-Rezko stories.

My favorite part is when they inevitably say, “Obama came up through the corrupt politics of Chicago”. Please hate on Chicago more, wingnuts!

Comment #8: atheist  on  09/29  at  12:40 PM

At a certain point, I really do want to find out how one breaks into the right wing book-writing industry.  Apparently, if Johan Goldberg gives us an indication, this is the easiest job in the freak’n world

Have you ever flipped through a book by Bill O’Reilly? I think he just bitches into a recorder about whatever is annoying him that day, and it is all typed verbatim. His ‘writing’ has a ‘cranky uncle that no one wants to sit next to at Thanksgiving’ vibe to it.

Body piercing? Stupid and unnecessary.

Pamela Anderson? Used to be hot, but isn’t now.

Therapy? If you’re depressed because your daddy used too spank you too hard, just get over it already, ya wimp!

Comment #9: LynstHolin  on  09/29  at  12:45 PM

OMG, Obama actually went to the meetings of a board he served on? WHAT was he thinking? Why did nobody inform me of this horror sooner?

A lot of people have pointed out that plenty of dumbasses out there tuned into the debate expecting to see a bomb-throwing Islamic terrorist because they’ve been fed this kind of propaganda; instead they saw a sober, civil moderate. Now it’s starting to dawn on them that maybe they’ve been lied to about a lot of other stuff as well. Thank you very much, wingnuts!

Comment #10: Steve LaBonne  on  09/29  at  12:45 PM

Seems to be some strange mixing of the Ayers-Rezko stories.

By gum, you’re right. I knew there was something wrong with the story, but my friend was adamant that it was true.

Comment #11: LynstHolin  on  09/29  at  12:50 PM

My favorite part is when they inevitably say, “Obama came up through the corrupt politics of Chicago”. Please hate on Chicago more, wingnuts!

As distinct from what?  The squeaky clean politics of New York?

Comment #12: ummeli  on  09/29  at  12:53 PM

As opposed to the squeaky clean politics of Arizona. You know, the Hensley family’s Mafia connections, blowing up investigative reporters, that sort of thing.

Comment #13: Steve LaBonne  on  09/29  at  12:56 PM

“As distinct from what?  The squeaky clean politics of New York?”

No, Alaska.

Comment #14: kajey  on  09/29  at  12:56 PM

Interesting how KEATING this all comes spewing out of every KEATING pore of the right-wing noise KEATING machine all at KEATING once!

Seems like just as much of a coordinated KEATING attack as the whole KEATING business about “Obama’s guys were at Freddy Mae and Sallie Mac Lehman back in 1993” KEATING was making the KEATING rounds a couple of days ago, both in the right-wing KEATING media and interns paid to pose as KEATING commenters.

Interesting how a simple association that doesn’t even have the strength of McCain’s friendship with KEATING can suddenly take on such interesting and simultaneous life, eh?

Comment #15: Ms Kate  on  09/29  at  12:59 PM

Okay, and THEN, the startling, awe-inspiring reveal of why this actually matters:

These few, inconsequential meetings provide us endless opportunities to put the names Obama and Ayers in breathless, above-the-fold headlines!

Comment #16: Quaker in a Basement  on  09/29  at  01:07 PM

Oh yeah, well I’d bet that at some point, in a bar in a far-away port, John McCain used the same men’s room as Fidel Castro did!

Comment #17: Ms Kate  on  09/29  at  01:11 PM

No, no, no.  The conservatives actually have this one right.  We are all responsible for the entire lives of people we work with, however fleetingly or tangentially.  So remember: when one of your former co-workers or board members or fellow volunteers wings out and kills their wife, kids and pets, you bear the responsibility.  If one of them ever committed a crime of any kind, you are equally guilty and should be in jail..

Comment #18: seeker6079  on  09/29  at  01:13 PM

Right Seeker, right ... so that means that John McCain has a lot to answer for ... gee Mr. McCain, do you know what a wet start is?

Comment #19: Ms Kate  on  09/29  at  01:16 PM

Wingnut hate is better than sex

Comment #20: atheist  on  09/29  at  01:17 PM

Ms.Kate, CORRUPTION would you MCCAIN mind explaining RIGGED THE SYSTEM what the INTERFERED WITH THE LAW fuck you are RICH BUDDY KEATING talking about?  Most MEDIA SILENCE of the time THIS CRASH LIKE THAT ONE you’re clear, but I don’t TRUST THE MAN WHO WAS BOUGHT LAST TIME, REALLY! get it in this situation.

Comment #21: seeker6079  on  09/29  at  01:20 PM

Ms Kate, the “we” referred to those of us in the centre, on the left, and progressive.  We are responsible.  Those of the right and extreme right are above responsibility.  How dare you question your betters.

Comment #22: seeker6079  on  09/29  at  01:27 PM

Obama and Ayers meeting all throughout 1995…..the Oklahoma City bombing happens in 1995. I think you can see where I’m going with this.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

Comment #23: Matthew  on  09/29  at  01:32 PM

I actually look at Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn meeting and greeting Barack Obama as a reason to support him.  A sign that unlike war criminal John McCain who murdered Vietnamese civilians from the sky he might not be just another neo-lib/neo-con.

I was SDS and I was Weather before Townhouse.  I followed Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn’s faction, ‘The Action Faction” from the Pentagon onwards.

The real terrorists are Henry Kissinger and the rest of the neo-con/neo-libs.  See Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine” and Naomi Wolf’s last two books.

Comment #24: Suzy Q  on  09/29  at  01:35 PM

I’m still convinced that if you tell 90 percent of the people in this country that Obama is friends with a former Weatherman, they’re going to think you’re talking about a meteorologist.  Seriously, does anyone even care about who did what in the 1960s right now?

Comment #25: Mnemosyne  on  09/29  at  01:53 PM

Those “Sponsored Links” have nothing to do with the piece.  And don’t even try to spin it like it does.  Here are the “Sponsored Links” at the time I read it:

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Comment #26: SteveIL  on  09/29  at  01:54 PM

“So trying to tie those “Sponsored Links” are just dishonest.”

...but that isn’t what Jesse was doing…

From “SteveIL’s” site:
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...ahhhh.  That explains it.  Wingnut Koolaid poisoning…

Comment #27: MikeEss  on  09/29  at  02:03 PM

SteveIL, I’m starting to understand why you’re the guy at the comedy club who stands up and says, “but chickens don’t cross roads at all!!!  Why do you say that they do?”

Comment #28: seeker6079  on  09/29  at  02:04 PM

When SteveIL hears it’s raining cats and dogs, he calls Animal Control…

Comment #29: MikeEss  on  09/29  at  02:10 PM

“Baldrick, do you even know what irony is?”
“Yeah.  It’s like goldy or bronzy, but it’s made of iron.”

Comment #30: seeker6079  on  09/29  at  02:15 PM

We wouldn’t want to Forrestall debate on this matter of casting aspersions due to place/time association with regrettable situations, now would we?

Comment #31: Ms Kate  on  09/29  at  02:15 PM

Morons.

“The dark secret that Obama doesn’t want you to know is that he was in the same room as someone who was on the same board as him at a handful of meetings in 1995, with no indication that they ever plotted to blow up or even abort a damn thing.  What kind of fucking liberal terrorist conspiracy are you trying to sell me, Post?  A bum conspiracy, that’s what kind.”

The dark secret is that Obama has been, is, and will be in bed with terrorists Ayers and Dohrn.  I realize looking into the truth is something “liberals” have never done, but they should try it some time.

Comment #32: SteveIL  on  09/29  at  02:22 PM

No, Ms Kate, I’m sure that any such efforts would crash and burn in a fivefold fashion.

Comment #33: seeker6079  on  09/29  at  02:27 PM

Hmmm ... and you have the pictures of the two of them naked between the sheets because they made it a threesome with you (for pay, of course), Ill Steve?

Comment #34: Ms Kate  on  09/29  at  02:29 PM

(Laughing)

Okay, SteveIL has gone from having his ass handed to him for his own cluelessness to having only personal insults in response in only 28 minutes.  Is that a new troll record?

(Blows kiss.)

Thanks for playing, SteveIL.  Come back when you grow a brain and ready to debate those stupid things called “facts” rather than missing obvious points and repeating stale and empty allegations.

Comment #35: seeker6079  on  09/29  at  02:31 PM

“The dark secret is that Obama has been, is, and will be in bed with terrorists Ayers and Dohrn.  I realize looking into the truth is something “liberals” have never done, but they should try it some time.”

...SteveIL, that’s the spirit!  Whether it’s actually factual or not, logical or not, and whether there’s any actual evidence or not just doesn’t matter to you, does it?  By god, you’re gonna make that bullshit The Truth through shear force of will!

...meanwhile, back here in the Reality Based Community, we don’t have to believe false accusations simply because the <strike>Gruppenführer</strike> wingnut ranking above us says they’re true…

Comment #36: MikeEss  on  09/29  at  02:33 PM

SteveIL keeps promising me pictures of 8-year-old Obama helping Ayers plant bombs, but he’s never come through.  Don’t you people have any Photoshop skillz at all to back up your paranoid rantings?  Geez, someone at least managed to fake up a picture of Kerry and Jane Fonda together in 2004.  Get to work!

Comment #37: Mnemosyne  on  09/29  at  02:35 PM

But Obama did his best to crush former Black Panther Bobby Rush, back in 2000. The man is clearly ex-former-Sixties-radicals.

Remember, once a terrorist, always a terrorist, and you automatically get terrorist cooties just from being in the same room with them decades after they turned themselves in to the authorities.

Comment #38: Hector B.  on  09/29  at  02:56 PM

The dark secret is that Obama has been, is, and will be in bed with terrorists Ayers and Dohrn.

Wait.  WHAT?

You’re saying that the real story here is that Obama had a three-way with Ayers and Dohrn? 

Wow. 

Now that really is newsworthy.  Please feel free to email pictures.  That’s something I’d really like to see.

Comment #39: The Opoponax  on  09/29  at  02:57 PM

“You’re saying that the real story here is that Obama had a three-way with Ayers and Dohrn?”

No, no, no!  SteveIL WANTs to have a four-way with Obama and the rest and hates himself for it.  Which makes it even more exciting, which makes him hate himself even more…

Comment #40: MikeEss  on  09/29  at  03:09 PM

My favorite part is when they inevitably say, “Obama came up through the corrupt politics of Chicago”. Please hate on Chicago more, wingnuts!

Man did this piss off Daley.  The Chicago Machine Pt. II did not take being called corrupt lying down at all.

Plus, Obama isn’t part of Daley’s crowd.  Nor Blagojevich.  Blagojevich, who has done just right by me, thought he was going to be President some day.  Then Obama gave that keynote addresss and all his dreams went swirling down the drain.

Yeah, Rod’s probably going to end up in jail, but he’s done what he promised to do when campaigning.  It’s Mike Madigan who refused to go through with the funding of the programs. 

I’m never going to dump on Rod for trying to get affordable health care to all the children of Illinois nor trying to get free preschool to all 3 and 4 y/os in the state.  Those were great plans, and it’s amazing that he did them even after Madigan and the rest of the State Senators fought him every step of the way and refused to fund them.

Comment #41: Caren-Sun-blocking Creator of Animorphic Pancakes  on  09/29  at  03:22 PM

SteveIL:

The dark secret is that Obama has been, is, and will be in bed with terrorists Ayers and Dohrn.

And in precisely the same way, the fact that I have on more than one occasion been in the same room as Lance Armstrong is ironclad proof that I’m a professional cyclist with multiple tour championships whose body is 60% HGH by weight.

I love winger logic! So fun!

Comment #42: Dan, Grand High Emperor of Bananas Foster  on  09/29  at  03:29 PM

Does anybody around here have that photo of Timothy McVeigh shaking hands with McCain?

Comment #43: Ms Kate  on  09/29  at  04:18 PM

I think SteveIL might be my dad, changing his name and state to be wily.

Comment #44: JM  on  09/29  at  04:34 PM

JM, here’s hoping that you’re wily, like your old man.

Comment #45: mds  on  09/29  at  04:44 PM

And in precisely the same way, the fact that I have on more than one occasion been in the same room as Lance Armstrong is ironclad proof that I’m a professional cyclist

And by Palin logic, you’re qualified to be Surgeon General or head of the IOC!

I have had the honor of standing in front of Liza Minelli and behind Joan Jett in a lunch line.  In the “Palin/McCain” Administration I will be heading up the NEA.

Comment #46: The Opoponax  on  09/29  at  05:20 PM

My favorite Obama slam is when they call him a “coastal elite.”  Uh, we don’t have a coast in Illinois.  We have a shore.  Of the lake.

Comment #47: Mnemosyne  on  09/29  at  08:35 PM

But Mnemosyne, don’t you know that Kenwood is by the lee of the coast of the shore?

Sorry, It’s late

Comment #48: atheist  on  09/30  at  03:48 AM

No, no, no.  The conservatives actually have this one right.  We are all responsible for the entire lives of people we work with, however fleetingly or tangentially.  So remember: when one of your former co-workers or board members or fellow volunteers wings out and kills their wife, kids and pets, you bear the responsibility.  If one of them ever committed a crime of any kind, you are equally guilty and should be in jail..

I’ve been yammering on for months about how OBVIOUSLY this Ayers thing by definition makes you guilty and equally responsible for child molestation if you worked for someone who also happened to hire a child molester at one point in time, or bought a house from a child molester, or put a dollar in the cup of a child molesting bum.

Comment #49: TheMadChild  on  09/30  at  11:30 AM

My favorite Obama slam is when they call him a “coastal elite.” Uh, we don’t have a coast in Illinois.  We have a shore.  Of the lake.

Yeah, there is that. Oh yeah, I would like to point out that according to the Ayers Law of Contagion, Obama has spent significant time in a room with a houseplant, a carpet, a desk, two little girls, and the news media; therefore, he is all of these.

Comment #50: TheMadChild  on  09/30  at  11:34 AM
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