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Campaign boogeyman William Ayers talks to 'GMA'

William Ayers, the 1960s radical whose violent history became a focal point in the 2008 presidential election, said today that the... more

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Ayers Talks Obama on GMA

Big up to Bill Ayers. Don't let them demonize you.

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Bernardine Dohrn, Radical

We welcome Bernadine Dohrn, Director and Clinical Professor of Law, Children and Family Justice Center, Northwestern University... more

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Bernardine Dohrn and Jamal Joseph: From 1968 to 2008

Former radicals Jamal Joseph and Bernardine Dohrn on the historical shift in American politics. What are the social weapons of... more

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Political punch - election over, Ayers, Wright & Farrakhan emerge

"For nine months, I kept quiet," Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said today at Mosque Maryam in Chicago,... more

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Mccain is connected to Ayers!!!

Well oh my god. McCain is directly connected to William Ayers. As well as Rashid Khalidi. And then theres the Keating five. ... more

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Former NYC top cop Bernard Kerik weighs in on Obama and his "terrorist ties"

So, a few weeks ago I went up to New Jersey to hang out with the man who was almost the head of Homeland Security, Bernard Kerik.... more

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McCain/Palin Are Fueling Hatred For Obama

In more ways than one, John McCain and Sarah Palin are fueling hatred, lies, racism, and bullshit for Barack Obama. They do it... more

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McCain hammers Obama on Ayers ties

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has failed to tell “the complete truth to the American people” about his... more

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GOP flooding US with pamphlet linking Obama to Ayers

Remember during the debates when McCain claimed that he didn't care about "some washed up hippie?" That would be... more

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Ayers/McCain

As in the Rocky Mountain News - I would like to ask why McCain keeps accusing Obama for associating with the former domestic... more

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Barack Obama and Bill Ayers: The Truth About McCain's Lies

Tired of hearing the Republican's version of Bill Ayers and his connection to Barack Obama? Get all the facts you can... more

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The Truth About Ayers

Smears From Next Generation Swiftboaters In 2004, Harold Simmons was the biggest funder of the manipulative smear group Swift... more

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Why Ayers, Rezko Matter!

Raising the specter of Barack Obama’s ties with the likes of Bill Ayers is perfectly legitimate, and John McCain's only... more

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Why didn't McCain say it to Obama's face? "It didn't come up in the flow of conversation."

Sen. John McCain acknowledged he is trailing Sen. Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential race, but says he long ago got used to... more

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Ayers wife worked with Obama's wife in law firm in 80's

Michelle Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, and Sidley & Austin [Ed Whelan] A quick follow-up to Andy McCarthy’s intriguing... more

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Obama's Murtagh Crisis... I was 9 when Ayers weather underground blew up our home

Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign has enlisted Yonkers Councilman John Murtagh in its push to link rival Sen. Barack Obama to William Ayers, a former member of the radical group the Weather Underground.

Murtagh issued a statement through the Republican candidate's national campaign operation yesterday questioning Obama's ties to the co-founder of a group that firebombed the councilman's childhood home.
Ayers is a University of Illinois professor and former anti-war activist who co-founded the Weather Underground, a political group that used violent tactics in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

"What I would like Senator Obama to do is level with the public about his relationship with a man who is responsible for multiple terrorist attacks against government targets - and in the case of my family home, where they attempted to kill us," said Murtagh, a Republican who is running against state Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Democrat. "Once he's told the truth about that relationship, citizens of the United States can decide what impact that has on their decision on Election Day."

An Obama campaign representative, Blake Zeff, declined comment on Murtagh's statement yesterday. A New York Times report last week that analyzed Obama's relationship to Ayers concluded "the two men do not appear to have been close" and noted that Obama had not expressed any sympathy for Ayers' views or actions, calling him "somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8."

One of Murtagh's criticisms of Obama yesterday was for serving with Ayers in an education reform project called the Annenberg Challenge. The Obama Web site states that Ayers was not on the Challenge's board and did not recruit Obama to the project.

Murtagh said he got a call from the McCain campaign Tuesday asking him for permission to use statements he made last week on WOR radio and in an article he wrote for a publication from the Manhattan Institute, a right-of-center think tank.

At the time of the bombing, Murtagh's father was a New York state Supreme Court justice presiding over the trial of the "Panther 21," members of the Black Panther Party indicted in a plot to bomb New York landmarks. According to McCain's campaign, early on the morning of Feb. 21, 1970, three gasoline-filled firebombs were set off at Murtagh's home in the Inwood section of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third under the gas tank of the family car.

Former members of the Weather Underground also were involved in the 1981 killing of two Nyack police officers after an armored-car robbery at the Nanuet Mall, where a security guard was also killed.

Pace University political scientist Christopher Malone yesterday questioned the effectiveness of the McCain campaign's tactics given the financial crisis gripping the country and the world.

"When asked in polls, 59 percent of Americans say the economy is the issue, and the McCain campaign is putting out releases about something that happened 35 years ago," Malone said. "This is not where the American people's minds are right now. They're much more focused on staying in their homes and keeping their jobs."

Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign has enlisted Yonkers Councilman John Murtagh in its push to link rival Sen. Barack... more