<p>ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: That was former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, speaking recently at the University of North Dakota about his past terrorist activity and, of course, our own Sean Hannity. Barack Obama has come under fire for his ties to Ayers, and critics are calling him to repudiate the relationship.</p>
<p>Bill Ayers is a good friend of mine, and if you can find an individual who has done more for the education of poor and at-risk children in the U.S., and especially in Chicago, in the past 20 years, I would like to know who it is.</p>
<p>Anyhow, I’d give it a rest. Hillary isn’t getting the nomination, so unless you are actively seeking for McCain to be our next President, what’s your point?</p>
<p>The attacks have been getting so bad lately that they aren’t even interesting, next up “Obama sneezed an didn’t cover his mouth!” or “Obama bumps into a jewish person at airport, is he a secret nazi!?” </p>
<p>“He was ‘embarrassed by the arrogance, the solipsism, the absolute certainty that we and we alone knew the way,’ he writes. ‘The rigidity and the narcissism.’” In this interview, he also was quoted as saying, “I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough.”</p>
<p>"HANNITY: Well, the philosophy because they declared war against the United States. And the philosophy was the Weathermen philosophy was kill all the rich people. Ayers summed these are Ayers’ words: “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents. That’s where it’s really at.”</p>
<p>I was listening to this on my XM radio last night on my drive home from hearing Obama speak in South Bend. First of all, the Fox slant was as usual, obvious. Even with that, they could only get Rove to say that it was worth checking into what ‘being on friendly terms’ meant as he reported on the supposed relationship. He was definitely being ‘led’ in the interview, but even he wouldn’t go beyond what Hannity wanted him to.</p>
<p>Give it a rest already. The man (Obama) has stated quite clearly that he thinks we (the U. S.) should talk to leaders of other countries regardless of the positions they espouse. Why should it surprise anyone that he might listen to, associate with, argue with and otherwise interact with people he doesn’t necessarily agree with?</p>
<p>If you are working to improve education in Chicago, you’re going to have contact with Bill Ayers, whether you agree with him or not. If Obama had followed the money to a big corporate firm in town when he came out of HLS (as I did), instead of working for pennies in community development, he could have avoided contact with activists. It’s pretty surprising to me that a Democrat, of all people, would think that’s a better choice for a future public servant.</p>
<p>Yeah simba, don’t dare to cast aspersions to “the chosen one”.
Don’t you know he’s PERFECT - the next messiah!<br>
He would NEVER have questionable alliances, ulterior motives or fallibilities! </p>
<p>How dare you bring up anything negative about Obama!</p>
<p>He’s going to fix the world - who are you to stand in the way of that!</p>
<p>I’m curious about this obsession. Simba, where do you get this stuff? Is there a website or radio station that collates these various lame efforts to smear Obama? Or is this a volunteer effort? 'Cause I gotta tell you, I was basically a coin-flip between Obama and Clinton after Edwards dropped out, but the more of this kind of stuff I see the more firmly in the Obama camp I get. Honestly, the last thing America needs is more “campaign by swiftboat”, yet that seems to be all I’m seeing in support of the Clinton campaign. I know she’s behind, and “going negative” is seen as a tried and true means of turning that around, but in these circumstances (primary campaign between two people in the same party) isn’t that just shooting yourself in the foot? I don’t care for that kind of attack on McCain, let alone either of my party’s candidates. </p>
<p>It’s just plain dumb, in my opinion.</p>
<p>(Cross-posted with Bz2010: I do expect to see this kind of junk from the right wing, of course. But I’m not considering voting for their candidates, so it’s not a concern to me. But seeing it come from a supporter of a candidate I will vote for in November if she’s on the ballot makes me queasy.)</p>
<p>The Clinton camp has to keep throwing negatives against the wall until something sticks. That’s all they have left.</p>
<p>Simba, really it’s alright to come out and admit that you will not vote for Obama under any circumstances. It’s obvious from the contents of your posts that you hate the guy. Really, it’s alright. Just be honest about it.</p>