Barack Obama - Do You Really Know Him? Part 3

We're back with part three of the series on Barack Obama. If you haven't read the first 2 parts, you may want to read them. (Read PART 1 and Read PART 2) Let's get right to the next parts of this series.

5. His Association with Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground - First of all, you need to understand who Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground are. Bill Ayers was the leader of the terrorist group known as the Weather Underground, which actually declared a "state of war against the United States government" in 1970. The group plotted terrorist acts on the Pentagon, US Capitol, NYC Police Headquarters, Military Recruitment Centers and more. Quickly some of the members of the group were put on the governments Top 10 Most Wanted List. They later would go after John Murtagh and his family who was presiding over a trial regarding the Black Panthers. Bill Ayers, the leader would later marry a member of the group, Bernadine Dohrn. They were tried in 1981, but due to the misconduct of the prosecution they were not convicted.

Now, you are probably wondering, where does Obama tie in to Bill Ayers? Well, back in 1995 Bill Ayers and his wife actually held a "political coming out party" in their home for Obama. Obama also spent time serving alongside Ayers as a director for the Chicago Woods Fund, from 1999-2002. Both men have come out to speak together at various speaking engagements as well.

Obama is constantly trying to downplay the relationship with Ayers, even with the proof that he has been friendly with Ayers. In fact, Ayer's is still unrepentant about his acts of terrorism, and a statement was released from him on 9-11-2001, saying that "I don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do enough."

Another tie that Obama has to Bill Ayers is the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which was a charity that was "supposed" to aid the public schools of Chicago. However, Ayers commandeered this organization in order to further promote his agenda of radicalism. Obama was later hired by Ayers to be the chairman of this organization. Here is a brief excerpt from an article in the Wall Street Journal on this topic: (read it all HERE)

"Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists.

The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Among other feats, Mr. Ayers and his cohorts bombed the Pentagon, and he has never expressed regret for his actions. Barack Obama's first run for the Illinois State Senate was launched at a 1995 gathering at Mr. Ayers's home.

The Obama campaign has struggled to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood," and "not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis." Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC. Those archives are housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago and I've recently spent days looking through them....

The CAC's agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers's educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism. In the mid-1960s, Mr. Ayers taught at a radical alternative school, and served as a community organizer in Cleveland's ghetto....

CAC translated Mr. Ayers's radicalism into practice. Instead of funding schools directly, it required schools to affiliate with "external partners," which actually got the money. Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or Acorn).

Mr. Obama once conducted "leadership training" seminars with Acorn, and Acorn members also served as volunteers in Mr. Obama's early campaigns. External partners like the South Shore African Village Collaborative and the Dual Language Exchange focused more on political consciousness, Afrocentricity and bilingualism than traditional education. CAC's in-house evaluators comprehensively studied the effects of its grants on the test scores of Chicago public-school students. They found no evidence of educational improvement....

Mr. Ayers's defenders claim that he has redeemed himself with public-spirited education work. That claim is hard to swallow if you understand that he views his education work as an effort to stoke resistance to an oppressive American system. He likes to stress that he learned of his first teaching job while in jail for a draft-board sit-in. For Mr. Ayers, teaching and his 1960s radicalism are two sides of the same coin....

The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming "guilt by association." Yet the issue here isn't guilt by association; it's guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago."

There is no way that Obama can keep side-stepping these ties to Bill Ayers. Americans should be outraged at a candidate that has so many ties to a man like Bill Ayers - a terrorist that is unrepentant. He has constantly downplayed these ties, never owning up to all the associations with this man, which makes me wonder why he is so interested in hiding this. Bill Ayers is a man who still believes he is RIGHT. There is a huge danger when people like this think they are right. We cannot afford a president that has these ties…these are facts people. What can we expect from Barack Obama once he gets into the White House when he is associated with known terrorists? Well, let's do our part to make sure we don't find out.