Re: Bill Ayers, Barack Obama and the Annenberg Foundation
William Ayers was accused (never convicted) of bombings from 1969 to 74. ??? And again.
??? Senator Obama was only 8 to 13 years old.
To quote Washington Post, The 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."
What a waste of a thread!
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