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The Obama Watch
Obama’s Prairie Fire Companion
How did old pal Bill Ayers finally outrage university liberals? By the author of Dupes.
Every now and then, our monolithic, woefully over-priced universities do something right. A case in point is the news that University of Illinois trustees have denied emeritus status to a tenured faculty member: Bill Ayers.
Gee, with everything in his record, how did Ayers finally outrage university liberals? Well, it wasn’t his past as a fugitive fleeing the law, when he assumed aliases taken from names of dead babies in cemeteries in towns where he hid. It wasn’t even his more recent statements about harboring “no regrets” over bombing the Pentagon or police stations; after all, many aging tenured radicals, like Ayers in the 1960s, once referred to the military and police as “fascists” and “pigs.” No, what did it was Ayers’ dedication of his 1974 book, Prairie Fire, to no less than Sirhan Sirhan, assassin of Robert F. Kennedy.
The catalyst, of course, had to be something offensive to liberals, but we’ll take it.
It turns out that one of the university’s trustees is Christopher Kennedy, son of RFK. Kennedy implored the university community to “understand my motives and reasoning,” noting, “How could I do anything else?” Indeed.
Kennedy shouldn’t expect much level-headedness in return. This is, after all, the university community. One Ayers colleague told the Chicago Tribune she was “shocked” by the decision. And, naturally, the dean at the School of Education that hosted Ayers since 1987 protested that Ayers has been a “very good colleague” whose “good far outweighs any negative press.”
Of course, the decision by the trustees was a no-brainer, but in our horribly un-diverse universities — ideologically dominated by the left — the real shock is that a just, sensible decision has been made.
The fuller history here is worth revisiting. Let me backtrack a bit.
Published as the “political statement of the Weather Underground,” Prairie Fire was signed by four Weather Underground members: Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, and Celia Sojourn. Its contents are as alarming as its dedication.
“We are a guerrilla organization,” explained the authors, more than one of whom teaches in our universities. “We are communist women and men, underground in the United States.” This junior communist manifesto endeavored: “We need a revolutionary communist party in order to lead the struggle, give coherence and direction to the fight, seize power and build the new society…. The only possibilities are victory or death.” “Our intention,” wrote the revolutionaries, was “to disrupt the empire” of “U.S. imperialism,” “to incapacitate it.”
Citing “THE BANNER OF CHE,” the manifesto pledged that, “The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.” That “war,” the authors promised, “will be complicated and protracted. It includes mass struggle and clandestine struggle, peaceful and violent…. Without armed struggle there can be no victory.”
Che Guevara was the poster boy for Prairie Fire, as full pages inside the book featured loving illustrations of the god-like communist revolutionary. “In our own hemisphere,” wrote the four authors, “Che Guevara urged that we ‘create two, three, many Vietnams,’ to destroy U.S. imperialism… and opening another front within the US itself.”
One might think that the advocacy of such things might have gotten Bill Ayers rejected from admission into Columbia University’s Teachers College only a few years later. It might have hindered his hiring by the University of Illinois’s Department of Education in the first place. Both are bellwethers of the wretched state of America’s schools of education.
And it likewise — one would hope — might have kept a young politician named Barack Obama from seeking Ayers’ political endorsement.
Alas, it did none of those things.
The latter example, on Obama, is worth revisiting here, for several reasons reinforced in this latest Ayers episode: The articles in the mainstream media reporting on the trustees decision either downplayed or misrepresented Ayers’ association with Obama. The Chicago Tribune reported only that Ayers and Obama “worked on a school-reform initiative together.” MSNBC mumbled that Ayers “once served” with Obama on “a Chicago charity’s board.” Clearly, liberal journalists are still protecting Obama here, forcing the rest of us to do their jobs. In fact, the Ayers-Obama relationship was not insignificant. This certainly matters, as Obama was elected leader of the free world by oblivious Americans voting for “change.”
About the Author
Paul Kengor is professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. He is author of the new book The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. His other books include The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism and Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.
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Booger| 9.28.10 @ 6:27AM
From the desk of President B. Hussein Obama:
Dear Bill,
I was very disturbed to learn of your recent difficulty with the University of Illinois, and wish to assure you that Eric Holder will be looking into the matter with all due alacrity. I believe it might behoove us to have Tim Geithner's people in the IRS looking into the matter as well; nothing sends a message like an audit.
After reflecting on our conversation the other day, I have a couple of pieces of advice to offer regarding your current problems. First of all, please remember that this is NOT 1974. Certain solutions you have mentioned to this problem would NOT go over well at the present time. While your outrage is justified, expressing it in this manner would be a real problem for my November plans.
As to my second point: It will, of course, soon be November. And of course October comes just before November. And of course there are always "surprises" this time of year. Just be sure the surprise is directed at an appropriate target. A target that will generate sympathy for those of us slaving away in government service, not some tea-bagger nutbags. We can take care of them AFTER November. Rezko gave me a couple of numbers to call, you know, so things WILL get handled.
In the meantime, keep your eyes on the prize. This is just a little setback. You've had them before. Maybe you could suggest that it's really a problem with Islamaphobia. After all, wasn't Sirhan a Palestinian? Start shouting that and racism loud enough, and the university will probably reverse itself in no time.
Finally, about that OTHER thing. As we've discussed, the vote may not go our way in November. Fortunately, your wonderful Prairie Fire Companion (got one right here where that stupid bust of Churchill used to be) has some great recommendations for that sort of problem. I've already been talking them over with certain people. And like our good friend in Turkey pointed out, you can always get off the train once democracy has gotten you to where you're going. So don't let them get you down over this. Just make sure you get all their names.
Your Friend and Admirer,
President B. Hussein Obama
S. Ruger| 9.28.10 @ 8:39AM
OK, American Spectator, sign Booger up as a regular writer. This letter is priceless.
Meg Gruner| 9.28.10 @ 10:30AM
I second what S. Ruger said...give Booger a job! This was the best comment I have read in months and months.
NavyBrat | 9.28.10 @ 12:14PM
Booger, this is simply AWESOME! I've taken the liberty of sharing your comment with my brothers & sisters on Town Hall as well! Thanks for the laughs!
Alan Brooks| 9.28.10 @ 2:04PM
Sirhan Sirhan? what an unlikely dedicatee.
Who next? Terry Nichols?
Alan Brooks| 9.28.10 @ 2:08PM
...Tex Watson?
Mark David Chapman?
If only Evander Coey were alive someone could have dedicated a book to him.
T1Brit| 9.28.10 @ 2:39PM
That is just... deadly
Alan Brooks| 9.28.10 @ 3:42PM
The following is where I thoroughly part with AS: not all liberals, or famous liberals are bad.
For instance, RFK was a good person, too good a person to be president. I would have taken RFK over his brothers, Nixon, Ford, both Bushes
--and it goes without saying, Jimmuh.
Petronius| 9.28.10 @ 9:41PM
Mark Steyn, is that you???
Alan Brooks| 9.28.10 @ 10:49PM
No, you have had too much to drink, and are imagining things.
drudge ette obama| 9.28.10 @ 7:17AM
Another White Guilt Seminar Series at Washington University School of Law featuring VAN JONES on 11/30/2010.
Next will be Bill Ayers on oppressive police powers.
No money for you, WashU.
Alan Brooks| 9.28.10 @ 2:11PM
Oops, sorry the extra post, the murderer's name was Couey, not Coey-- mustn't misspell a child-killers name, right?
Stephanie| 9.28.10 @ 7:19AM
When was this book published? I must have missed it in the article. It just flabergasts me that this terroist is running around free and teaching young minds to hate America. The 60s were the beginning of the end for us who love the America the way the founders meant for it to be.
Pat| 9.28.10 @ 2:06PM
It was published in July, 1974. You can download it at: www.usasurvival.org/docs/Prairie-fire.pdf
The best commentators on sociopaths like Ayers is David Horowitz. He has written the best overview on Ayers & his pal Obumma that exists entitled 'Barack Obama's rules for revolution'. If you want a copy of it, try: http://frontpagemag.com/2010/0.....-horowitz/ and see if you can get a free pdf file download. If not email me and I'll send you one.
Bruce | 9.28.10 @ 5:31PM
I visited the site linked to, Pat, and a donation of $25 is apparently stil required to download the PDF. If your offer still stands, I'd love to have a copy. I can't see your email, but my blog has my email address in the right sidebar if you don't mind.
Appreciate it!
Don| 9.28.10 @ 7:57PM
Horowitz also does writing for discoverthenetworks.com This is a great site for finding out about the leftists and who they are and what they stand for.
Ken (Old Texican| 9.28.10 @ 7:22AM
Folks
I remind you again why I have been posting the Obama crew as simply communists, (pardon the shorthand).
Bruce | 9.28.10 @ 5:33PM
Ken - I have been referring to the usurper as a Marxist rather than a Socialist since shortly after the election. Why it has taken so many people so long to agree with (us) is a mystery. Some still refer to his as a socialist!
Thom| 9.28.10 @ 7:17PM
Ken/Bruce, I use the term Marxist also so as to not get into “academic” arguments with “academic” useful idiots about the 31 flavors of Marx’s Socialist model/steps for humanity. Most people come away from the shallow knowledge of what is called “socialism” today thinking it is Communism Lite rather than just a rest shop onto Communism. No one has ever made it to Communism in practice nor can humanity be made into the model insect society of 99% drones and 1% King and Queens. Even those that call themselves Communists are often more fascist in practice but the 3% typically at the top of the power pyramid will keep trying to shove the Borg experiment on us until either we “submit” our we destroy them. I don’t see a sustainable middle ground and we are standing on the middle ground now.
Jeremiah| 9.28.10 @ 7:42AM
One minor quibble, Mr. Kengor. Please quit calling the establishment media the mainstream media. Quite obviously they are way out of the mainstream of American values.
They romantically imagine themselves as daring rebels storming the barricades, not understanding they have become the barricades - and we, the people, are doing the storming.
davelnaf| 9.28.10 @ 7:57AM
With 'friends' like Ayers who needs enemies?
Doctor Right| 9.28.10 @ 8:14AM
It would be very sweet...poetic justice, so to speak...if Bill Ayers was beset by bouts of severe anxiety every time he put his car keys in his ignition, turned them, and wondered if the car would actually start or if, in a blinding flash of light, he'd be wearing his ass as a hat.
vtwin| 9.28.10 @ 8:51AM
Without balls, one can only dream.
Doctor Right| 9.28.10 @ 9:02AM
So you're a dreamer..???
Albert| 9.28.10 @ 1:57PM
So, are you suggestiing that Ayers' bombing attempts and dedication to communism are acts of "courage?" Are you serious? Again, I am forced to ask the obvious question: Just WHY do you worship at the Altar of Socialism? What is it about this gradest of all failures that you find alluring? Why is it that the true heroes of Socialism are all mass murderers and mass murderer wannabes? What is about this tripe that turns you on?
Li'l ol' me| 9.28.10 @ 3:54PM
veetie, do you dream in color or black and white?
Anthony| 9.28.10 @ 11:23AM
Not to worry DR, when we retake control of America, starting in November, Ayers, Dorne, and the rest of the cushy, sclerotic, bourgeois wannabe radicals of the '60s had best brush up on their "underground guerrilla tactics" and go into hiding.
If I were Ayers, I'd be learning Spanish about now, or the Canadian version of French.
davelnaf| 9.28.10 @ 12:38PM
People like Ayers expect the police that he despises to protect him and ordinary Americans that he despises to behave decently. But he and people like him reserve to themselves the right to kill and maim indiscriminately these same people. Don’t you understand that?
Anthony| 9.28.10 @ 2:13PM
I seem to recall an incident, fairly recently, where this fearless and brave radical whimpered for police protection when things got a little dicey.
Maybe it was a reporter from FOX that got Ayers all agitated.
Be that as it may, yes, this fraud demands protection from the same "pigs" he and his Che loving radicals once despised, and perhaps still do.
Hopefully, when he does call the cops next time, an "unfortunate incident" or "accidential discharge" might occur and the fearless radical will have lived his dream of confrontation with the "man".
Then, they can pick up his worthless carcass and dump it in the Chicago River.
Anthony| 9.28.10 @ 2:18PM
P.S. As for ordinary Americans behaving decently, hey dude, it's a new day man. Power to the People!!!!
Trebuchet| 9.28.10 @ 8:25AM
As I remember Dohrn and Ayers were big supporters of Charlie Manson during his trial in L.A.
Doctor Right| 9.28.10 @ 8:43AM
"Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into a victim's stomach. Wild!"
- Bernadine Dohrn (speaking of the Tate-La Bianca murders perpetrated by Charles Manson and his "family")
vtwin| 9.28.10 @ 8:33AM
We are twenty plus months into the Obama administration, at this point in Bush’s first term with 5 thousand Americans dead Bush was busy laying the foundations for both the greatest foreign policy plunder in American history and the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression, and conservative authors have nothing but Bill Ayers?
Greetings from the Left Coast| 9.28.10 @ 8:40AM
Yup, and that worked out so well for them in 2008.
Doctor Right| 9.28.10 @ 8:51AM
It's working out VERY well for us now, dumbass.
Your boy of a President and his Party are about to take a serious ass-beating in November.
See what happens when you let Affirmative Action pick your nominess?
vtwin| 9.28.10 @ 9:24AM
“Boy of a President…Affirmative Action.”
Careful Doc, your racist slip is showing.
Doctor Right| 9.28.10 @ 9:44AM
...Yawn...
Did everyone hear that? The l'il Libby-boy who calls himself "vtwin" thinks that criticism of Obama is racist.
Gee...We are twenty plus months into the Obama administration, the worst administration in American history, with Obama's recession rolling on and on and on...and l'il Libby-boys have nothing but "racism"?
Your lib-shtick is old. People have noticed. It doesn't work anymore.
No wonder you fools are going to get your asses beat in November.
Stephanie| 9.28.10 @ 11:50AM
So, so tiresome vtwin. Yeah we're all a bunch of white racists. So what.
Jeremiah| 9.28.10 @ 1:01PM
I was with my son-in-law at a sports bar watching a football game and called him 'my boy' a few times. Some women finally decided to lecture me on what a racist I was and him about not taking that sort of thing. God bless him....he looked at them with contempt and said, "That's my father-in-law. And how many black people are YOU related to?" They scurried away.
Last summer I was at a park playing with the grandkids. They were playing that they were monkeys on the jungle gym equipment, something many of us who have ever went to the zoo played at when we were kids. I was complimenting them on what great monkeys they were. Again, a woman decided to correct me on the error of my racist ways. She should have known better...they were obviously with me. "They're my grandkids, idiot," I explained to her. My grandaughter asked me, "Poppy, why was that lady mad at you?"
You know, vtwin, I have not yet had a black person or conservative white person misinterpret any of the affectionate playfulness with the black folks in my family. Only white liberals. And you know what else? A lot of the black folks I'm related to have noticed that, too. Your loss is even deeper than you know. Even your intended victims have started figuring out your 'sensitivity' for what it is: condescending racism that can never treat black folks as anything but 'other.' My family and I laugh at you.
(My son-in-law and I were once in a heated argument early on. At one point, he stuck his lip out, pouted and asked, "Is it because I'm black?" I shot right back, "No, it's because you're an ass." He paused a moment, then roared with laughter adn said he should have known better than to try to play the race card with me. We both laughed and so ended the argument. You know what's better than sensitivity? Family ties and natural affection with all the occasional squabbling it brings.)
Nick| 9.28.10 @ 1:43PM
Jeremiah,
Excellent anecdotes!
Thank you, for sharing them.
Li'l ol' me| 9.28.10 @ 3:52PM
Careful veet, yer kneepads are showing.
waco kid| 9.28.10 @ 8:47AM
Uh, nice one there pan head, flat head, vtwit. You are a true believer and your eyes are shut to this pretender. Keep bleating like a sheep that "Bush is bad, Bush bad". F you and the v twin you rode in on.
TR| 9.28.10 @ 10:55AM
waco, it's just a little bicycle with baseball cards clothes-pinned to the spokes so it makes a noise. He has never grown up, he just makes noise because it's so fun.
waco kid| 9.28.10 @ 8:47AM
Uh, nice one there pan head, flat head, vtwit. You are a true believer and your eyes are shut to this pretender. Keep bleating like a sheep that "Bush is bad, Bush bad". F you and the v twin you rode in on.
Bob S| 9.28.10 @ 12:49PM
Waco- I think the Harley engine version that most resembles vtwin is the Knucklehead.
Paul D| 9.28.10 @ 8:48AM
Give it up, vtwin.
Anthony| 9.28.10 @ 6:02PM
He does Paul. Early and often.
Doctor Right| 9.28.10 @ 8:49AM
Ok, genius...
Since you're free to post on this board, please provide explict and specific details of exactly how George Bush made:
1. "...the greatest foreign policy plunder in American history..." (Note: Hey Einstein...didn't you mean "blunder"?)
2. Exactly how the recession was "Bush's fault".
3. Explain the "Community Reinvestment Act" of 1978 (signed into law by Jimmy carter, Democrat)
4. Explain Andrew Cuomo's tenure as HUD Secretary during Clinton's Presidency, and Cuomo's view of the "Community Reinvestment Act".
5. Explain how MASSIVE "stimulus" spending by Obama (which has quadrupled our national debt) was designed to help the economy, and what it's done so far.
6. Explain the relationship between taxation and economic vitality.
A failure to respond will be viewed by us Conservatives as a tacit admission that you're a drone who doesn't have a CLUE what he's talking about.
So which is it, dummy?
If you're gonna' mouth off on a board for Conservatives, you'd BETTER be prepared to defend your position.
Steve A| 9.28.10 @ 8:50AM
V, I thought your man BO was gonna end those evil wars? What, in your mind, would be different in Iraq & Afghanistan if Bush had a 3rd term vs BO calling the shots. I will go ahead & answer for you. Absolutely nothing. Joke is on you pal. BTW: What happened to those genius plans to close GITMO??
Jeremiah| 9.28.10 @ 12:40PM
Oh no, Steve A, there would be a difference. If Bush were still president we would be fighting those wars to win, despite the howls of the establishment media and the left, rather than as a show to mollify.
This has real consequences. My son, who graduated a police academy just over a week ago and is now an officer, was in the military and left when his hitch was up early this year. It was not what he originally intended -and he was not alone.
He told me when it was time to decide, "Dad, before I knew I could get killed, but it was in a cause worth fighting and one that I believed in. Now they will not let us win and we can't even fight back most of the time. It is just a meatgrinder where the politicians are sending us to get killed for no reason and without hope of a victory that would make life better for the people there."
My son won the outstanding cadet award, top marksman, tops academically, and was elected head of his class by his fellow troopers. I say this with pride, of course, but more to note who the military under Obama is losing - and who he considers expendable to prop up his political needs but not to allow to win a fight they can win. If George Bush were still president, that fine young man would still be serving us all. He - and everyone of his friends who can, are getting out as quick as they can before they get their heads shot off to prove how tolerant Obama is of Jihad.
Dan H| 9.28.10 @ 6:42PM
Jeremiah
Please thank your son on behalf of all of us. (AF Ret.)
Albert| 9.28.10 @ 3:00PM
Again! Irrelevancies! Non-sequiturs! What does Bush have to do with Obama's grandiose failures as President? Bozo surrounds himself with avowed communists and you want us to believe he is not one himself? And as for the worst economic collapse, again this was CAUSED by government. The Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama team have ruined this economy with massive taxes, massive goernment, reckless spending, and utter stupidity. Bush was a crummy president. That in and of itself does not make Obama good one. Find a new argument. Get a life! Try learning something useful.
lonestar| 9.28.10 @ 6:35PM
58% of the Democratic Senators vote for the war in Iraq. I guess that dumb ol' Bush tricked them.
George Bush, in his own words, was a compassionate conservative, not a conservative. He believed in a policy of don't tax and spend and was supported by a majority of Democrats in every economic stimulus plan he proposed. Democrats supported his 10 billion dollar Aides to Africa, No Child Left Behind Act, Medicare Prescriptions. Democrats refused to pass his bill in which he tried to reform the liberal policies of FANNY MAE and FREDDY MAC. Which is the reason for the economic collapse we are in. Bush never implemented conservatism because he spent money he didn't have.
Bill Ayers, Obama, and you have one thing in common. You believe America is the evil empire.
Paul P.| 9.28.10 @ 8:40AM
I know Grove City is way up there among the clingers in western PA, but are you JUST NOW picking up on BHO's shady past and associates? Great work, nice job staying current.
Ken (Old Texican)| 9.28.10 @ 8:41AM
Vitwin
I'm sorry. We just can't fix stupid.
vtwin| 9.28.10 @ 8:46AM
And, you’re proof of that.
Doctor Right| 9.28.10 @ 9:03AM
Still waiting for a reply to my request, pansy-boy!
Man-up or shut-up.
Li'l ol' me| 9.28.10 @ 3:40PM
Yeah, c'mon v-ster - nut up or shut up.
Publius| 9.28.10 @ 9:33AM
Old Texican is not the one in need of repair.
Bydand76| 9.28.10 @ 9:59PM
Riiiight.
I am willing to bet that is the same thing you told your mom too, isnt it Vtwit?
Douchebag!
Pro Libertate!
TR| 9.28.10 @ 10:58AM
Oh, Ken, you must feel really hurt by that excellent retort from that child vtwin. He is just soooo clever.
TR| 9.28.10 @ 4:19PM
Oh, Ken, here's a great retort that bicycle boy would understand...ready...
SAYS YOU!
Bruce | 9.28.10 @ 11:15PM
A better and far more suitable one for vtwit - seeing as how it's so utterly childish:
"I know you are but what am I! nyah, nyah, nyah!"
S. Ruger| 9.28.10 @ 8:46AM
It's by the grace of God that the ludicrous, loony lefties have captured the stage and reached their crescendo of power with a maestro plagued by a Gollum-monster like Ayers clinging to his leg. All the audience can see the connection for themselves.
And lest anyone think that the denial of emeritus status is a minor dig, take it from an academic that it's a real kick in the nuts on the way out the door.
Doctor Right| 9.28.10 @ 9:22AM
vtwin has left the building...
...With his tail tucked between his legs, like a good little Libby-coward.
Steve A| 9.28.10 @ 9:34AM
DR, You are wasting your time. When it comes down to crunch time, vtwin has no game. He shows it time & time again.
Doctor Right| 9.28.10 @ 9:46AM
Steve A:
I know, you're right. But it's fun calling-out these fools.
I do it on their websites ALL the time...And the reaction is always the same: Libs cannot argue facts, they get upset, and they call you a racist.
Same crap, different website...Lot's of fun!
Steve A| 9.28.10 @ 10:51AM
DR, Could not agree more. They attempt to make a point. It gets blown apart. Race card is played. You would think a rational human would re-evaluate their position after years of this result & you would be correct. They are emotion driven. Logic has nothing to do with it. Results are irrelevant, feelings & intent matter most in this world. It is actually sad.
TR| 9.28.10 @ 4:21PM
That, and their old standby that will be brought out, dusted off and used ad nauseum soon...
"It's for the children"
TR| 9.28.10 @ 2:00PM
The bicycle boy left quickly because his allies that usually vomit their liberal thoughts must be out collecting their welfare checks today and aren't here to cover his butt.
David H Dennis | 9.28.10 @ 9:23AM
I did a careful review of Ayers and Obama's role in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge a few months before the 2008 election.
It is interesting to note that the Challenge promised to improve education, and then poured $150 million into organizations including Trinity United (Rev. Wright's church), Peace Schools and the South Shore African Village Collaboration.
Curiously, the Chicago Algebra Project was turned down.
The surprisingly frank final report indicated that all this made little to no difference in the overall performance of the schools receiving the money. Quite understandable really, since the names of those organizations indicate that their true goals were not educational.
The organization of the Challenge was designed so that the Board approved proposals but a shadowy organization called the Collaborative created them. Obama was Chairman of the Board. Ayers ran the Collaborative. This organization meant Obama and the Board were essentially meant to rubber-stamp the Collaborative and the whole system was really run by Ayers. The fact that Obama accepted such a position indicates his true relationship with Ayers.
It was fascinating research and based on it I came to the definite conclusion that Obama was not fit for the Presidency. It doesn't much matter to me that Ayers was a bomber in the distant past, but Obama's role in Ayers' organization says a great deal about both men, none of it good.
D
Bill| 9.28.10 @ 9:23AM
So, in Prairie Fire they proclaimed themselves as communist guerrillas and declared, "Victory or Death!" I guess they liked William B. Travis and the Alamo story. So they didn't attain victory; why aren't they dead? Did they get some discretion (the better part of valor) at some point?
Jack12| 9.28.10 @ 9:24AM
Dims' leftist warmongering......coming home to roost starting Nov. 2
matthew s harrison| 9.28.10 @ 9:37AM
As usual, there is too much talk about this a-hole ayers(name not capitalized on purpose). One need not know anything more than the fact that this "anti-war" punk who spat on vets and called them baby killers, and his entire ilk, are for abortion-lots of abortion, and wanted to overthrow our government because of ideological differences, much the way our government went to war in Vietnam for ...........
I have to laugh every time I see this moron/sissy-and know that his daddy probably stopped writing a 6 figure yearly check to UC over this, which is little billy-the-bomb-thrower's only satisfaction.
Now, can we forget about this turd and go beat the pee pee out of the dumbocrats in November? Lets focus on that-cause ayers and his oh-so-ugly "old lady" as they called them in the 60's are boooooooooooooring! che is dead, the 60's are dead, and so is ayers' career!
Katie Hussein Couric| 9.28.10 @ 10:12AM
Who's Bill Ayers? I never heard of him. Now excuse me while I go through Sarah Palin's junior high school attendance records.
Li' ol' me| 9.28.10 @ 3:50PM
lol - I'd have written that in caps if it weren't so sadly true.
vtwin| 9.28.10 @ 10:20AM
As an active member of the Frisco Chapter of the Hell's Angels, let me tell you I thoroughly despise your homophobic reactionary magazine.
Bush lied, young men died.
Evelyn| 9.28.10 @ 10:26AM
Hell's Angels? You spelled every word correctly! You actually sound educated. Not buying the membership claim.
skip| 9.28.10 @ 10:55AM
1) Defense spending is constitutional. 2) Stimulus and welfare spending is unconstitutional. 3) 5000 tragic deaths of American citizens had exercised their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness by volunteering. 4) Every 30 hours since January 22, 1973 there are 5000 murders of innocent American citizens who have been denied life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 5) You will exist for all eternity; try to act accordingly. 6) Unintelligent and dishonest is no way to live.
Steve A| 9.28.10 @ 10:57AM
Where do I sign up for The Mongols??
TR| 9.28.10 @ 11:01AM
But you read it every day. Sounds like a self-loathing sickness to me.
The Hells Angels wouldn't tolerate a wimpy liberal in their midst. A pretender you are. Maybe you belong to Heck's Angels. You and your middle-school buddies.
Pete| 9.28.10 @ 11:13AM
Oilbama lied, the Gulf died.
Ray| 9.28.10 @ 11:51AM
Hay, vtwin, how many gay men are members of the Hell's Angels? The answer is NONE! I'd be careful about claiming membership in the Hell's Angels, if I were you. They don't like posers and have been known to bash their skulls in.
TR| 9.28.10 @ 12:24PM
Ray, they couldn't bash in vtwin bicycle boy's skull. It is full of mush, the sound would be more like "squirt". A sound that describes what he is.
Stephanie| 9.28.10 @ 11:58AM
Sarah Palin's JHS attendance records is now homophobic? Wow, who would have known!
Your vocabulary is so progressive too :-)
Ljo| 9.28.10 @ 1:54PM
I just had one hilarious vision of the "frisco" Hells Angels!!
TR| 9.28.10 @ 4:25PM
Yeah, with vtwin riding down the street on his sting-ray bike ringing the bell and shouting to the Hells Angels "come on guys, please let me join!"
Anthony| 9.28.10 @ 2:40PM
And how exactly did an article on Bill Ayers and the Uof I segway into a discussion of TAS being homophobic?
vitwin, if you're a member of Hell's Angels, Frisco Chapter no less, then I' m the queen of England.
vitwin, the only riding that you're doing is what Obozo's pastor called "riding dirty".
Tell us vtwin, do you ride dirty?
Albert| 9.28.10 @ 3:07PM
I guess the worst part of this post is I have discovered that vtwit lives in my neck of the woods. Assuming his post is true and accurate.
Bush did not lie. Get over it. Unless you are ready to admit that Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Madeleine Albright, and a host of other DEMOCRATS lied as well when they said exactly the same things Bush said, and they said it all BEFORE Bush was elected. Are you ready to make such an admission?
Cpm| 9.28.10 @ 3:25PM
I was always under the impression only outsiders or noobs used the term "Frisco" when referring to San Francisco, unless you really are from a town named Frisco and they have a Hell's Angel's chapter, but I find it all pretty doubtful.
Li'l ol' me| 9.28.10 @ 3:47PM
Veet-man, the "Frisco" chapter? Really?
This is supposed to give you cred as what - a guy, a tough guy, a big biker dude, or a hick with a moped?
I vote for the moped hick, from "Frisco".
Negro X| 9.28.10 @ 6:44PM
vtwin,
"Frisco Chapter of the Hell's Angels", werne't these guys formerly known as the "Village People"?
You aren't angry that people a racist, your angry because you know they are right.
Bydand76| 9.28.10 @ 10:05PM
Wow!
Now I know your full of fecal matter Vtwit!
Would that be the "San Francisco chapter of the Hell's Angel's?
Or is it the Frisco Colorado Chapter of Hells Angel's???
BWAAAAH HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!
Best damn comedy I have read all day right there!
Pro Libertate!
GavInTucson| 9.28.10 @ 11:28PM
Frisco Chapter of the Hell's Angels? LOL!!! That paints a hilarious picture.
The picture I'm painting in my mind is of the cast of the Blue Oyster bar from Police Academy, except some of those would likely have breast implants. Priceless.
Evelyn| 9.28.10 @ 10:22AM
I do wonder when Christopher Kennedy learned of Bill Ayers' inconvenient book dedication. Just curious.
If Barack Obama had not been elected president, I doubt that anyone other than Ayers' fellow travelers would know about it.
bill carson| 9.28.10 @ 10:48AM
One thing I'll bet about that Kennedy kid: if Ayers had kicked anyone other than a Kennedy, the Kennedy kid would have been happy. When will our society stop ass kissing Kennedys?
TR| 9.28.10 @ 11:02AM
About the time they all die off from overdoses or alcoholism, which could be pretty soon.
Anthony| 9.28.10 @ 11:06AM
Much has been made over this so called act of principle and bravery by the Trustees of the University of Ill. and Christopher Kennedy.
Neither the Board of Trustees nor Christopher Kennedy deserve any acolades. Had Sirhan Sirhan killed anyone else other than a Kennedy, and more particularly, a Republican president, Bill Ayers would have received his award with fawning gratitude and a standing ovation by Kennedy and the Board of Trustees.
Moral of the story; Leftists are morally and intellectually bankrupt.
cuban pete| 9.28.10 @ 11:43AM
No further explanation or discussion required.
End of story.
chris haynes| 9.28.10 @ 11:11AM
Ayers bad luck had little to do with Kennedy. It had to do with the fall elections. The poor liberals figure their they dont need amy more bad headlines.
Norman Conquest| 9.28.10 @ 11:44AM
Why, exactly, did the erstwhile Purpleguy change his name to vtwin? One is as witless as the other.
Leon L. Lecturie | 9.28.10 @ 11:51AM
Of course they denied him. He is a liberal and he is associated by inference though not reality, with Obama. We at the UI do not allow liberals to be honored. Although we welcome their input at plebeian levels such as the classroom, only true red-blooded American nationalists, millionaires or billionaires, failed Republican governors, corporate leaders and apologists, and fascists deserve emeritus status. That is where UIC draws the line.
ncatty| 9.28.10 @ 12:06PM
It must have been agony for the trustees. On the one hand a chance to stick it in the eyes of the grown-ups by honoring Ayres. On the other hand, not wanting to offend a member of the holy Kennedy family. What angst there must have been!
michigander_sandusky| 9.28.10 @ 12:49PM
vtwin, in other words:
V = vacuous
T = tawdry
W = wasted
I = inane
N = nonsensical
Bob Miller| 9.28.10 @ 12:51PM
Obama has been perfecting a debt bomb whose effects would dwarf those of Ayers' piddly bombs.
danny| 9.28.10 @ 1:07PM
Bob Miller, I agree almost 100% with you. The only thing I would change is to insert will in the place of would.
Nick| 9.28.10 @ 1:13PM
If this country had any semblance of justice, like it did a hundred years ago, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, and Celia Sojourn would have been tried, convicted, and hung for treason and levying war agianst the U.S. of A.
The fact that someone who palled around with terrorists could be elected in this country, shows that America is in terrible shape.
Nick| 9.28.10 @ 1:18PM
Oops! That should have been: HANGED for treason....
GreyLioin| 9.28.10 @ 2:19PM
Hung works very well, Nick, it's just not inclusive enough.
Nate| 9.28.10 @ 10:11PM
The American Way!
Tried, convicted, and hanged before a jury sees evidence and a judge pronounces sentence.
Good old fashioned fascisim at work!
Nick| 9.28.10 @ 11:55PM
Nate the dazi,
Do you not understand what the word "tried," the past tense of "trial" means, or are you just this ignorant?
Nick| 9.28.10 @ 1:24PM
"As an active member of the Frisco Chapter of the Hell's Angels [...]." - vtwin
So, when you're not trafficking in drugs and killing members of rival gangs, you're engaging in sodomy?
How proud your mother must be!
Nick| 9.28.10 @ 1:37PM
Vtwin wears a cape, young boys get raped!
TR| 9.28.10 @ 2:04PM
The Hells Angels don't allow bicycle boys. vtwin is a teenage wannabe.
DDwildcat| 9.28.10 @ 1:34PM
"The catalyst, of course, had to be something offensive to liberals..."
THERE'S the money shot...
Tondaleo| 9.28.10 @ 3:26PM
Great article about the relationship between Obazo and the POS Ayers. One this is missing; there is good evidence that Ayers was Obozo's ghost writer for "Dreams from my Father." Kansas City writer Jack Cashill has written extensively about this on the website www.americanthinker.com
Mad Hatter| 9.28.10 @ 5:32PM
A sensible young son of RFK,
Changed Ayres’ weather over ground one day,
Raised the Octagon nice and calm,
So we say, “You da bomb!”
Sing odes to Che? No - we just say “Touché!”
Mad Hatter| 9.28.10 @ 5:55PM
Bill Ayres, with his vile violent wife,
Eschewed peaceful methodology for strife,
Killed innocents with bombs,
And he still has no qualms?
Give not tenure, but twenty years to life!
Oldefarte| 9.28.10 @ 6:30PM
I was well aware of this before 11/4/08, but sadly I was in the minority since he was elected president. As the sold saying goes, BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, as his radical connections are now slowely coming to light. Americans in their stupidity elected this man to the most important job in the world, and amazingly now are astonished at what he has done in several short years. Once again, folks, you simply need to communicate with everyone you know or have contact with, and explain the 11/2/10 is probably the last chance to save this country from complete destruction. The choice is yours, and the means to stopping same is through/at your respective polling/voting stations throughout the country!!!!
Martin Treptow| 9.28.10 @ 6:38PM
...and I mean this with all sincerity. When did we lose our collective sense of justice and retribution? As someone who was born in 1969, and, alas, too late to act as judge over the actions of these seditious hippies in the 60's, when exactly did this country misplace the moral compass? Why do Bill, Bernardine, and that treasonous b*** Jane Fonda still walk in Freedom? When did we surrender our collective nutsack? And please tell me it is not too late to retrieve it. Sheesh.
Dan H| 9.28.10 @ 7:01PM
Look everbody! It's 'vtwit. Associate Founding Member of the Frisco Chapter of the Hell's Angels.
http://www2.anaheim.net/images/default/articles/756/capt.jpg
scythe| 9.28.10 @ 7:16PM
Read parts of this intellectual vomit and wondered if this dirt bag can quite wrap his twisted brain around the fact that while declaring himself an enemy of "imperialism" he promotes a hideous fascistic totalitarian/authoritarian political philosophy that seeks to TRAMPLE and RULE ALL. While protesting the "war" he was plotting to kill and maim in the interests of brotherhood and "peace". His is the face of an ancient reptile with all its inhumanity and evil on display; it's a pity he was not called out years ago and subjected to a roar of public condemnation. Instead he burrowed into the DNA of the educational establishment and used his relative obscurity to devour from within. I despise this POS and I hope he suffers mightily in his soon to be declining years.
Anthony| 9.28.10 @ 7:37PM
Well said, very well said. I was kinda hoping that the fearless revolutionary Dr. Ayers would have joined us on line and taken us on. However, this coward is not capable of direct confrontation, unless he has a mob in front of him.
No, this worm once did his damage at night with hidden bombs. Now he hides in academia, pretending to be the voice of intellectual reason and discourse.
I suspect this worm has read this site several times today. I hope you sleep well tonight thinking of us, knowing that we are thinking of you and your sick ilk.
You and your '60s radicals once thought Canada was the promised land, well Bill, this time it won't be the draft that will send you lame excuses for humanity to Canada, it will be us.
ExPat| 9.29.10 @ 6:17AM
Of course he knows full well what he is saying. It's typical leftist doublespeak, or "newspeak" as Orwell termed it. The unfortunate thing is that this mindset has permeated our academic community and infects the minds of our young people each day. Actually, I would not encourage any high school student to attend college and major in any of the "liberal arts". Unfortunately many of the professional disciplines, like science and law, are becoming politically tainted as well.
Thom| 9.28.10 @ 7:34PM
I looked up "emeritus" and displaying my ignorance here, how does his hurt him? In academic terms does this mean he doesn't get a Marxist merit badge but otherwise keeps on doing what he was doing all along?
Nate| 9.28.10 @ 10:09PM
When they made Milton Friedman -- you've heard of him? -- professor emeritus, was that a Marxist merit badge too?
Thom| 9.29.10 @ 4:03AM
Milton Friedman was never a Marxist thus if Professor Emeritus conveys some sort of benefit to our domestic terrorist here then we are rewarding a Marxist since Bill Ayers is a Marxist by his own words.
Bruce Berger| 9.29.10 @ 8:29AM
Nate,
Please get your facts straight. Ayers is with the University of Illinois - Chicago. Friedman was at the University of Chicago.
Republican Sage| 9.28.10 @ 10:07PM
The American people read our pledge and yawned. Even conservative pundits thought it sounded like swill.
So let's talk about Bill Ayers! Maybe we can fool them.
The One We've Been Waiting For| 9.28.10 @ 10:22PM
Estamos comprando camaron, Republican Sage. Nueva Mexico esta muy bonita pero los Democatas estan pendejas. I like the tactic. I sure don't want to talk about Billy. He wrote my book and apparently was a terrorist when he was a youngster. Why do all my friends end up like this? Oh well like Granny used to say, "birds of a feather flock together." Predators raining down on Pakistan, baby. From the left wing, no comment.
Bruce | 9.28.10 @ 11:20PM
Dammit vtwit - if your mommy finds you out of bed and screwing around on her computer again - you're in trouble.
Dan| 9.28.10 @ 10:09PM
Sometimes things just don't make sense.
Timothy Mcviegh gets death, Terry Nichols gets life in prison for the Oklahoma City bombing. (As they should have)
Bill Ayers bombs the pentagon and police stations and becomes a college professor. Something seems to be missing here.
Chef Brian | 9.29.10 @ 12:28AM
The letter was freakin hillarious..........I think I peed!
The most obvious sign of the fall of the Dem. party was earlier today when my uncle ( a Roosevelt Dem. hard line) stopped by to 'chat'. It wasn't long before the convo turned to politics.
My uncle, a 60 year Dem. was sitting there BLASTING his party. I almost fell off my chair! He is soooo angry with where his party has gone in just the last 10-15 years that he said he was switching this November.
Something SERIOUS is in the works folks when Roosevelt Dems are jumping ship.
Yes, November will be interesting!
Chef Brian
Emma| 9.29.10 @ 12:46AM
Seeing the left get what they have coming to them is weird, really weird....we've waited so long. Stock up on popcorn.
It WAS nice to finally agree with a Kennedy about something.
Yosemeti Sam| 9.29.10 @ 2:34AM
" ...The scandal continues: never in American history has so little been known about the background of our president. It's a product of a willful ignorance among the "journalists" whose
job is to unveil that background ...."
Where Donkeys and their putrid alliances are concerned, the LBSM PEN1 motto - hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil - redounds upon their said political monkey business model.
Yo, though, the price tag - has assuredly 'progressively' made monkeys out of them.
Oh, the burden of - carrying monkeys on their backs.
Oh, the sting of Tea Partiers throwing monkey wrenchs into their world-screw of America.
Oh the sting of delightful metaphors - LOL!
Send the Donkeys back to the deep jungles to swing in their natural habitat on that 'MAGIC' date - 11/02/10!
The LBSM PEN1, will dutifully follow and listen to their macaws - or is it their maccacas?
ExPat| 9.29.10 @ 6:02AM
Finally, some chickens have come home to rooost!
vtwin| 9.29.10 @ 11:12AM
you guys make me sick! what's wrong with being gay and riding a bike? my membership with the Frisco Hell's Angels should be taken as a statement of progressive pride. I don't smile at a reporter while slaying a moose with an ak like that wench palin, right?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com.....e17626.jpg
Oldefarte| 9.29.10 @ 12:31PM
Nate apparently is claiming that Milton Friedman planted bombs inside the Pentagon or banks, killing policemen also by his asinine comparison!!!
JeffT| 9.29.10 @ 1:04PM
Ayers has been a "very good colleague" whose "good far outweighs any negative press." Academics are the most pusillanimous people. It's not the "negative "press we are concerned with. It's his bombing and killing people that generated the benign "negative" press to which the academic refers. That poor Hitler, all that "negative" press.
S.L. Toddard| 9.29.10 @ 1:27PM
vtwin, is this you?
http://flywithbats.files.wordp.....s_01-1.jpg
Jeremiah| 9.29.10 @ 1:30PM
It can't be: there's apparently one cylinder only to be seen (on the bike, of course)
Lori| 9.30.10 @ 12:57PM
At least one Kennedy is sensible.
Quoth Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on September 15, 2008 on the Huffington Post in criticism of Governor Sarah Palin, then running for VPOTUS:
"Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that “some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....t_15725640
Yet the same Robert F Kennedy, to my knowledge, hasn't said boo about Bill Ayers' dedication of his book "Prairie Fire" to Sirhan Sirhan (and has publically called Sirhan a hero) .... the man who actually shot and killed his father! ... and hasn't said anything about Barrack Obama whose political career which was launched by the same Bill Ayers.
Tony in Central PA| 9.30.10 @ 9:47PM
Sirhan Sirhan ? I guess Richard Speck wasn't available ?
jacky | 3.20.11 @ 6:02AM
I was in a McDonalds a while ago
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