Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill Ayers by Uppity Woman

When This Man Was 9 Years Old, Ayers Bombed His Home
by Uppity Woman

Barack Obama reminds everyone that he was only 8 years old when his friends, domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, bombed their way through America. (However, Larry Johnson has proved that not only did Ayers support and promote Obama's campaigns from his first in 1995, but that Obama worked for Ayers for eight years. See: Larry Johnson's "Why is Obama Hiding the Truth About William Ayers? Follow the Money" and SusanUnPC's "The Game of Expedience.")

Well, John Murtagh was a bit put out by that remark because he was 9 years old when the Weather Underground tried to kill him and his family on February 21, 1970. Mr Murtagh wrote an April 30,2008 op-ed for the NY Daily News entitled, Barack Obama's Pal Is An Enemy Too. [BELOW IS VIDEO/AUDIO of Murtagh's interview.]

Murtagh's father was a judge hearing a case against the Panthers21, a group of Black Panthers who were being tried for planning the bombing of several landmarks and department stores in New York .

According to Murtagh, those two upstanding citizens from William Ayers and Bernardine Dorhn -- from New York Weather Underground Cell -- detonated three gasoline bombs at his home. They placed one bomb at the front door, another bomb on the front porch and they "lit" and "tucked" the third bomb underneath the family car behind the house.

The family heard an explosion but his father was afraid to leave the house because of a previous incident where scum balls opened fire on people fleeing their home under these circumstances. So they were essentially trapped in a burning house until neighbors told them it was safe to leave.

Bernardine Dohrn ultimately took credit for the incident. Considering her *ecstatic remarks about the manson murders and the fork they stuck in Tate's stomach as well as her Lay Elrod Lay song dedicated to the man the Underground paralyzed, I imagine Bernardine took that credit gleefully.

In the Fox Gibson radio interview below, Mr Murtagh weighs in on what he knows about Ayers and Dohrn, their longstanding connection to Barack Obama and how that relationship is closer and far less casual than Barack and Michelle Obama care to admit. The entire audio is worth listening to just to understand the interconnect. For starters, Bernardine and Michelle worked for the same firm together.

Click here to read the rest and be sure to listen to the radio interview



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Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (2.00 / 6)

Do you sit on any boards? I've been on three nonprofit boards and have held four officer positions. And I never vetted anyone to see if I should be on the board with them. And when asked to be president in two cases, no one did a background check on me.

This is the worst sort of guilt by association.


We care about politics because we know politics matters for people's lives and opportunities.
by politicsmatters on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:21:08 PM EST

Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (2.00 / 2)

Gibson...???  Gibson....???
Ack...!!!
McCain/Palin... even scarier than Bush/Cheney... and that's saying something!
by JenKinFLA on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:22:26 PM EST
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Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding (2.00 / 1)

I currently sit on 2 boards and am an officer on both.  I have had no vetting other than my willingness to put in sweat equity.


by futbol dad on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:28:36 PM EST
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Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (2.00 / 1)

"This is the worst sort of guilt by association."

I don't think so. It's not just Ayers and Dohrn. It's Wright and Moss and Meeks, Tony Rezko, Dorhn and Ayers, Rashid Kalidi, etc. There's a pattern of Obama having a sordid cast of friends, and this goes to his judgment, imo.  


by JFK464 on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:44:19 PM EST
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Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (none / 0)

Ummm... the Clintons have the same problem...


McCain/Palin... even scarier than Bush/Cheney... and that's saying something!
by JenKinFLA on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:19:13 PM EST
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Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding (none / 0)

Heh.  Good to see people relying on Stuart Levine.


by Adam B on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:33:21 PM EST
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Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (2.00 / 1)

Well, with your logic here we can at long last put to rest any negative connotations regarding Hillary's time on the BOD of Wal Mart.


Hell's bells, even the GOP didn't have to crucify Eisenhower's record in order to make Reagan their 'saint'. We can have two great ones, you know?
by emsprater on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:45:29 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Exactly (none / 0)

but alot of Hill supporters don't see the vulnerability.

but raising Ayers, it only invites opponents to link Hillary to her husband's pardons of the Weatherman and FALN terrorists.

etc. etc.


"McSame: He's Constipated and Ready to GO!
by Al Rodgers on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:04:21 PM EST
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dream on. (2.00 / 1)

clinton pardoned drug kingpins because Fat Tony Rodham got $400,000 bribe.

ps.  your buddies at Fox have been slamming Hillary as a communist.  

you see everyone's faults and vulnerabilities, except your own.


"McSame: He's Constipated and Ready to GO!
by Al Rodgers on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:21:10 PM EST
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Re: Exactly (2.00 / 1)

And here I was thinking this year would be different... that we wouldn't let the stupidity of fear of the GOP pick our nominee this year...

They will come after ANYONE we nominate.  Guns blazing, innuendo flying and all.


McCain/Palin... even scarier than Bush/Cheney... and that's saying something!
by JenKinFLA on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:21:17 PM EST
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Re: Exactly (2.00 / 3)

Hmmmm.

Knowing someone vs pardoning them of the crime of terrorism.

Clearly knowing someone is much worse.


by Democratic Unity on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:23:02 PM EST
[ Parent ]

WOW - Lets get the Facts Straight (2.00 / 1)

Al,

Clinton DID NOT PARDON Evans and the other Weather Woman.   He COMMUTED their sentences. They were charged with the same crime 2 others were who had received lighter sentences abd were out of jail.

Commute means less jail time - but still with a felony record and all the attenant negatives.

Pardon means wipe the slate completely clean with no attendant negatives.

Then I suggest you google the Brinks crime and see who the other  Players were.

Further, neither Hillary nor Bill went to the Weatherman houses, or had them sponsor fund raisers, nor do they "bundle" money for the Clintons

I do not believe that spreading FALSE information in now considered a Progressive Value.


by Grandma M on Fri May 02, 2008 at 08:15:48 PM EST
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Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (none / 0)

No one's attacking Clinton for the people with whom she served on the Board; the question is what she did as a board member.


by Adam B on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:06:44 PM EST
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Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (none / 0)

What she did ?

You mean like knowing and associating with the other board members?

Of course you do, if it's applied to her.  Then it matters.

But not if it's applied to Obama, who was just sitting quietly in his little chair with no real role at all, except maybe to post it in his resume to boost his creds.  Why , he had no idea at all that Ayers was there, just like he had no idea at all that Wright promoted such ideology as the US Government created AIDS to effect genocide against African Americans!


Hell's bells, even the GOP didn't have to crucify Eisenhower's record in order to make Reagan their 'saint'. We can have two great ones, you know?
by emsprater on Fri May 02, 2008 at 04:52:31 PM EST
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Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (none / 0)

No, I have not, did not and would not criticize Sen. Clinton on the basis of who her fellow board members were.


by Adam B on Fri May 02, 2008 at 05:25:45 PM EST
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A serious question: (none / 0)

What DID she do on the board? Specifically, and with links if possible.


by Swedie on Fri May 02, 2008 at 05:54:44 PM EST
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Re: A serious question: (none / 0)

Via ABC News:

Wal-Mart's anti-union efforts were headed by one of Clinton's fellow board members, John Tate, a Wal-Mart executive vice president who also served on the board with Clinton for four of her six years.

Tate was fond of repeating, as he did at a managers meeting in 2004 after his retirement, what he said was his favorite phrase, "Labor unions are nothing but blood-sucking parasites living off the productive labor of people who work for a living."

Wal-Mart says Tate's comments "were his own and do not reflect Wal-Mart's views."

But Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and other company officials often recounted how they relied on Tate to lead the company's successful anti-union efforts.

The tapes, broadcast this morning on "Good Morning America," were provided to ABC News from the archives of Flagler Productions, a Lenexa, Kan., company hired by Wal-Mart to record its meetings and events.

A former board member told ABCNews.com that he had no recollection of Clinton defending unions during more than 20 board meetings held in private.

The tapes show Clinton in the role of a loyal company woman. "I'm always proud of Wal-Mart and what we do and the way we do it better than anybody else," she said at a June 1990 stockholders meeting.

It's not a big issue for me, but there's more out there.


by Adam B on Fri May 02, 2008 at 06:12:26 PM EST
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Re: A serious question: (none / 0)

Thanks, though that says more about what she didn't do than what she did do. I found another link as well, and frankly I'm not much put off by her service on the board, any more than I'm put off by Obama serving on the same board as Bill Ayers. For what it's worth, here's another link. It seems to be a fairly evenhanded view.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/ 2008/04/the-hillary-wal.html


by Swedie on Fri May 02, 2008 at 06:53:18 PM EST
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Re: A serious question: (none / 0)

I guess I wonder why anyone would see any equivalence between Obama's serving on a good liberal non-profit's board which had one member of questionable background, versus Clinton's serving on the board of a corporation which did a number of questionable things.


by Adam B on Fri May 02, 2008 at 08:07:46 PM EST
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Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (2.00 / 1)

I have my problem with Wal-Mart, but for a lot of Americans Wal-Mart is a positive thing in their lives.


by JFK464 on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:07:32 PM EST
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Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (2.00 / 1)

Walmart compared to an American Terroist who planted bombs against his country.  Not really any correlation at all I would say.  Just hype on myopia on Obama supporters part.


He that lives upon hope, will die fasting. -Ben Franklin
by TxDem08 on Fri May 02, 2008 at 06:14:12 PM EST
[ Parent ]

well wouldn't that be a clever response (2.00 / 2)

except they didn't just sit on a board together.  Obama is unfit to be president now or ever because of his lousy judgment.


For Obama it now becomes: Faith, hope and CHANGE! And the greatest of these is Change!
by TeresaInPa on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:36:34 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Teresa and Barack sitting in a tree... (none / 0)

... K.I.S.S.I.N.G.


"McSame: He's Constipated and Ready to GO!
by Al Rodgers on Fri May 02, 2008 at 04:09:54 PM EST
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thread hijack (2.00 / 1)

look at what follows.

I wouldn't want to be in the position of diminishing the hatred and violence inflicted on people by the likes of the weather underground.  And like it or not, you can't claim "bill clinton did it too".  


by 4justice on Fri May 02, 2008 at 04:34:19 PM EST
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This is why Hillary is losing (2.00 / 2)

As Hillary says, over and over and over again, talk about issues facing everyday americans, like Gas prices and getting troops home from Iraq, not whether or not Hillary committed fraud with fundraiser, Peter Paul.


"McSame: He's Constipated and Ready to GO!
by Al Rodgers on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:22:33 PM EST

Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (2.00 / 3)

Given that HRC worked for a law firm that defended the Black Panthers (one summer in San Francisco), her supporters and she really should know better than to engage in this sort of thing.


We care about politics because we know politics matters for people's lives and opportunities.
by politicsmatters on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:22:46 PM EST

OMG! (2.00 / 3)

They both worked at the same law firm that has ~1800 attorneys worldwide!  Drown the witches!


by Adam B on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:23:28 PM EST

Re: OMG! (2.00 / 1)

Let's put Obama and a duck on some scales and see if they balance out.


by emptythreatsfarm on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:38:24 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Ducks love Obama (2.00 / 6)


"McSame: He's Constipated and Ready to GO!
by Al Rodgers on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:41:02 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Ducks love Obama (2.00 / 1)

That, was awesome.


by Pragmatic Left on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:44:58 PM EST
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Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding... (2.00 / 1)

This man is totally unelectable!


by MKyleM on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:24:32 PM EST

This is why Hillary will NEVER become president (none / 0)

because her supporters don't focus on gas prices and  universal Pre-K


"McSame: He's Constipated and Ready to GO!
by Al Rodgers on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:31:56 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Just cause Barack is not using this crap does not (2.00 / 3)

mean the Republicans and the media won't. Currently they are ignoring her but that can and would definitely change

What Obama wishes he could say

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/050 8/10010.html

Seems like Barack hands could be a lot dirtier if he really wanted to play in the mud


by KosTexasliberal on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:36:08 PM EST
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Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (2.00 / 4)

If I read one more Ayers diary, I may start contemplating blowing things up myself.


"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman
by Steve M on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:28:10 PM EST

Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (none / 0)

Stop.

Think about what you said.

Think about the role of violence historically in political contests like the one we are in.

I think if you do this for 3 minutes earnestly it will be CLEAR to you why you shouldn't go there based SOLEY on your own political interests.


by DTaylor on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:34:04 PM EST
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Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (2.00 / 2)

I believe in an America which is honest, just, forward-looking, and where people understand what a figure of speech is.


"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman
by Steve M on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:48:38 PM EST
[ Parent ]

could you start with the Designated Hitter (2.00 / 1)

As a purist, I can't stand the DH.


"McSame: He's Constipated and Ready to GO!
by Al Rodgers on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:37:06 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: could you start with the Designated Hitter (2.00 / 2)

Sorry, Al, I am American League all the way.

Forcing pitchers to bat, just for the sake of treating everyone exactly the same whether they deserve it or not, frankly strikes me as a bit Communist.


"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman
by Steve M on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:50:13 PM EST
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Re: could you start with the Designated Hitter (2.00 / 1)

It would certainly cut down on hit-batters....


McCain/Palin... even scarier than Bush/Cheney... and that's saying something!
by JenKinFLA on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:22:33 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (none / 0)

"I may start contemplating blowing things up myself."

This is not helpful.


by JFK464 on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:37:27 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (2.00 / 3)

Jeez, so many people without senses of humor, perpective, or appreciation for figures of speech.


by rfahey22 on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:59:01 PM EST
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Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (2.00 / 2)

Oh, they will be first up against the wall, mark my words.


"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman
by Steve M on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:01:38 PM EST
[ Parent ]

The Clintons have SO MANY worse (2.00 / 1)

connections than Ayers and Wright that Hillary fans shouldn't want to go there.


by puma on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:34:20 PM EST

You want connections?? (2.00 / 3)

If you wanna talk about friendly associations the Clinton's may wanna back off of that...Obama has too much class and respect to bring up the likes of  Webb Hubbell (`90s flashback: He was one of Hillary Clinton's legal partners and closest friends, whom she installed in a top Justice Department job before prosecutors sent him to prison.)

It also includes modern hits like Frank Giustra. (In case you missed it: There was a January New York Times story, which did not get the attention the reporting deserved, highlighting how this Canadian tycoon and major Bill Clinton benefactor was using his ties to the ex-president to win business with a ruthless dictatorship in Khazakstan.)

Obama has never pressed Clinton to talk about Marc Rich, even though the former fugitive financier who won a controversial pardon from Bill Clinton gave money to her first Senate campaign.

He has never mentioned her brothers, even though Hugh and Tony Rodham once defied Bill Clinton's own top foreign policy advisers by entering into a strange investment in hazelnuts in the former Soviet republic of Georgia and Hugh Rodham took large cash payments for trying to broker presidential pardons.

And don't forget a Newsday story  at her legal career -- including the revelation that as a young lawyer she attacked the credibility of a 12-year-old rape victim.


Toot, thank you for raising such a terrific person...You done good and we will have you in our hearts.
by hootie4170 on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:36:43 PM EST

Hillary is connected to rapist ?? (2.00 / 1)

Are you saying Hillary berated a 12 year old rape victim!!??

MY GOD!!

The minute Fox News gets a hold of this, she will be finished.  She will NEVER become president.


"McSame: He's Constipated and Ready to GO!
by Al Rodgers on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:43:46 PM EST
[ Parent ]

So you think Obama is a Terrorist and Hates USA? (none / 0)

Why dont these chumps just say it. They describe the guy they dont like but leave Obama out of it. What are you saying about Obama. Can you imagine how many shady people the Clintons know. They are old and been around for a lot longer than Obama. You know Clinton talked to Arafat who is considered a TERRORIST by many. Thats how dumb this stuff is. I dont do background checks on people i meet thats not about judgment. Maybe we will just give up and form a police state and let the SECRET POLICE investigate all of us fo  UNAMERICAN  behavior. I am sure the fear mongers would love that.


by edtastic on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:39:23 PM EST

Bill Clinton pardoned two (2.00 / 1)

ex-weather men along with Marc Rich.

Speaking of associations, Bill Clinton was also impeached.

Why do you insist on buying into right wing talking points?

Oh that's right, your favorite channel is now Fox News.


overthrow the government~participate
by missliberties on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:41:40 PM EST

Re: Barack Obama's (2.00 / 2)

Funny BO supporters made it clear that HRC had to address the Barbara R forced Wright to go to the National Press Club.  Then yesterday it was the fake WVWV scandal when HRC was targeting black voters and then today some one alters and fakes a tape to make it look like a HRC made a racist comment.  I mean when is it going to end.

david


by giusd on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:48:22 PM EST

Re: Barack Obama's (2.00 / 1)

The audio was not doctored.  See the Politico.  The subtitles were added to the video but the audio stayed as the orginal.  Go listen to the original audio without the subtitles, and you be the judge of what was said.  I can't understand what was said.  Politico ought to tell us who this person was.  If I had to bet I think it was a McCain fan trying to stir up trouble.


by Spanky on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:54:32 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Barack Obama's (2.00 / 1)

Did i say the audio was doctored????  I didnt say that.  What i said was the tape was altered and it was to make it look and like he was saying one thing he was saying another.  That is altering the tape.  Period.

david


by giusd on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:12:06 PM EST
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Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection (2.00 / 2)

Obama sat next to a lady that knew somebody that knew somebody that ate her cat.  The horror of Obama.


by Spanky on Fri May 02, 2008 at 02:50:25 PM EST

BREAKING: Obama in trouble (2.00 / 1)

The New York Times is reporting that as a state senator, Obama always took up two parking spaces!!

My GOD!!

Wait till Fox NEws gets ahold of this!!!


"McSame: He's Constipated and Ready to GO!
by Al Rodgers on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:09:36 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: BREAKING: Obama in trouble (2.00 / 1)

Won't someone PLEASE think of the children? - Helen Lovejoy


McCain/Palin... even scarier than Bush/Cheney... and that's saying something!
by JenKinFLA on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:27:08 PM EST
[ Parent ]

It depends on the meaning... (none / 0)

It depends on what the meaning of is, is...


"McSame: He's Constipated and Ready to GO!
by Al Rodgers on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:29:45 PM EST
[ Parent ]

btw, where are the billing records (none / 0)

welcome to the big leagues.

Go ahead, toss out crap, you seem completely unaware of your side's own vulnerabilities...Hillary's missing billing records, etc. etc.


"McSame: He's Constipated and Ready to GO!
by Al Rodgers on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:31:59 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Associations (2.00 / 1)

"Most significantly in terms of her recent attacks on Barack, after Yale law school, Hillary went to work for the left-wing Bay Area law firm of Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein, which specialized in Black Panthers and West Coast labor leaders prosecuted for being communists. Two of the firm's partners, according to Treuhaft, were communists and the two others "tolerated communists". Then she went on to Washington to help impeach Richard Nixon, whose career was built on smearing and destroying the careers of people through vague insinuations about their backgrounds and associates. (All these citations can be found in Carl Bernstein's sympathetic 2007 Clinton biography, A Woman in Charge.)"

from: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080505/ha yden

Now, I consider most of Hillary's work to be of social benefit.  To use the ridiculous guilt by association attack on Obama (the Ayers fantasy) when you can pull this stuff out of her past is just nuts.  Do you want what is left of this campaign to turn into another orgy of redbaiting tactics.  McCarthy must be smiling benignly in his grave, on the Democratic party for once.


by mady on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:17:11 PM EST

Yawn! (none / 0)

You Wingnuts crack me up with your hysterical faux patriotism.


It's time to restore balance and fairness to our economy,... It's time to stop giving tax cuts to corporations that ship jobs overseas... - Barack Obama
by Lefty Coaster on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:42:24 PM EST

Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding Connection to Bill (none / 0)

this site is an anti-obama joke, clinton supporters use republican talking points better than anyone,


by nj49ers83 on Fri May 02, 2008 at 03:55:14 PM EST

Re: Barack Obama's Longstanding (2.00 / 1)

I truly do not understand how anybody can rationalize Obama's friendship with Ayers. Ayers was instrumental in getting Obama started in Chicago politics- held fundraisers for him. This is not a casual howdy do neighbor relationship. Obama and a terrorist are friends for crying out loud!
Hello people- do you really want Ayers having influence in the White House????
For God's sake, for our country's sake, please, please think about this!
by ProudMilitaryMom on Fri May 02, 2008 at 10:20:15 PM EST


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