Ayers spills details on relationship with Obama
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(Tea Party) – In an exclusive interview with WND, former Weather
Underground terrorist Bill Ayers called Barack Obama a moderate
politician and claims he barely knew him when he was a resident of his
Chicago neighborhood.
In a debate with Obama 2016 producer, Dinesh D’Souza at Dartmouth college last month, Ayers repeatedly took shots at Obama.
“I wish Barack Obama had listened to me and followed my advice, but it
didn’t happen and it’s not going to happen,” said Ayers in the WND
interview.
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Saying he has “a lot of criticisms of President Obama,” Ayers clearly
hinted at why Obama may be losing the support of the left in his second
term.
“I am a militant, anti-war activist. I would pull out of
these Middle East wars,” said Ayers. “Also, I believe in single-payer
health care, and I believe Medicare should be extended to everybody.”
There are those observers who believe Ayers may be using this
distancing strategy to actually promote the president. The two men have
well-documented ties. Both Obama and Ayers are students of the Saul
Alinsky school of radicalism. Alinksy believed in transforming America
into a socialist state by infiltrating the system and bringing about
change incrementally.
Even when Obama ran for president in 2008
Ayers was claiming the candidate was a “moderate.” During that time
Ayers minimized his direct role in funding, coaching and assisting Obama
through his rise from Chicago 1990s no-name to president of the United
States .
In Ayer’s mind he has “no impact on President Obama or his policies.” Said Ayers:
“If I did, we would be stopping the drone strikes, we would be closing
Guantanamo, we be shutting down the Pentagon and the NSA. That is what I
would do.”
As for the notion that Obama played to the left as
part of a campaign strategy that would win him the presidency for two
consecutive terms, Ayers rejected those suggestions.
Ayers
explained, “People on the left thought Obama was winking on them,
signaling, ‘I’m going to do what you want me to do.’ But, no, he wasn’t
winking. You can see his record. Obama said he was a moderate, look at
his record.”
Ayers insists that it was incorrect of the left to
interpret Obama as being “one of them” and that it was wrong for the
right to cast a demon shadow on Obama.
“People like you say,
‘Uh, I don’t know … a secret socialist … a pal of terrorists … some sort
of a black nationalist thing going on,” said Ayers. “Just like Obama
wasn’t winking to the left, he also isn’t a secret socialist.”
“Paranoid schizophrenic” are the words Ayers uses to characterized the view of Obama as a “secret socialist.”
When pressed to explain how the right could have such a distorted view
of Obama in his eyes, Ayers laughed and replied: “I have no idea. I
think that once you go down a rabbit hole, the logic of the world kinds
of bends itself to you, rather than you opening your eyes to the world
as it is. Obama said he is a moderate. What could be truer or clearer?”
During the exclusive interview, WND pointed out Obama’s famous
encounter with Joe the Plumber where Obama said he was going to
redistribute income in America.
Deflecting the question again Ayers said:
“Oh, come on, we redistribute income all the time in this country. We
redistribute it up. The fact is, Eisenhower was a guy who knew how to
redistribute income, I mean, 90 percent,” he said, referring to what was
considered the top marginal tax rate at the time.
“I mean
those guys really knew how to tax and redistribute income, only upward.
What was Truman, a socialist? And FDR, a communist?”
Ayers
continued to insist that Obama as a political moderate is the only
correct way to interpret Obama’s political view. Explained Ayers:
“I thought that Barack Obama was exactly as he advertised himself in
the 2008 presidential campaign – a moderate, compromising, pragmatic,
middle-of-the-road politician – very ambitious, and so ambitious that I
used to say to my wife that, ‘I think he wants to be mayor of Chicago.’
That was the limit of my imagination.”
When asked if he supported Obama’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012, Ayers alluded the question.
“I’ve only ever voted for Democrats twice in my life, and both times without any illusions,” said Ayers.
According to Ayers he’s “not an electoral politics guy.”
“I don’t think elections are the way we solve the problems of our
country. What was it in 2004? Kerry and Bush? I mean really? Is that it?
Is that who was running? I can’t remember. We should be involved in
elections but only as it promotes and builds a larger strategy for
social change.”
Obama was just a guy in the neighborhood
Throughout the interview Ayers insisted he barely new Obama in Chicago.
“Before he was president, I knew Barack Obama just like thousands of
other people know him. In Chicago, just like the campaign said, as ‘some
guy around the neighborhood,’” explained Ayers. “I never had any policy
discussions with Obama when we were together.”
However, Ayers
was careful not to discuss the roles he and his wife Bernardine Dohm,
also of the terrorist group Weather Underground, played in launching
Obama into the political spotlight. It is well-know that Ayers and Dohm,
in 1995, held the first fundraiser for Obama in their Hyde Park home.
It was a fundraiser to help Obama win a seat in the Illinois state
Senate.
In 1985, an organization called the Woods Foundation
gave a $25,000 grant to the Developing Communities Project. That grant
allowed the DCP to then hire the 24-year old Barack Hussein Obama. It
was that offer that gave Obama what he needed to move to Chicago from
New York City.
Ayers happened to be director of the Woods
Foundation from December 1999 to December 2009—a three year overlap with
Obama who served on the board from December 1999 to December 2002.
Between 1995 and 1999 Obama ran the Chicago Annenberg Challenge CAC.
Obama remained on the board until 2001. In a Wall Street Journal piece
written in September 2008, Stanley Kurtz noted, “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.”
Kurtz is the person
who concluded that Ayers criticism of Obama as a political moderate is
actually intended to deflect attention away from Ayers heavy-handed role
in Obama’s rise to political prominence both in Chicago and nationally.
Kurtz believes the deflection was devised as disinformation.
Ayer’s claim that he really was not “into” Obama because of Obama’s “moderation” is just “unconvincing,” said Kurtz.
In Kurtz’s book “Radical-In-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of
American Socialism” that Kurtz wrote in 2010, the author notes that
David Remnick, Obama biographer, made virtually no mention of the
foundation work Obama did.
After all, it was at Ayers’
behest that Obama was put in charge of dispensing money to Chicago’s
most radical activists. Obama’s conduct at CAC reveals him to have been a
reliable supporter of Ayers’ most troubling projects and actions. It’s
extraordinary, moreover, that Remnick’s biography has virtually nothing
to say about Obama’s foundation work. Maybe that’s because it is
impossible to tell the story of Obama’s foundation experience without
facing up to the reality of the future president’s extensive partnership
with Ayers.
There is no doubt by Kurtz that he regards the
distancing attempt between Ayers and Obama in Chicago to be unsupported
by any evidence.
Kurtz wrote that the truth about the extended
political partnership between Ayers and Obama is in sharp contrast to
the President Obama’s 2008 campaign claim that Ayers was ‘just a guy who
lives in my neighborhood.’”
Kurtz says that Ayers’ “notoriety
turned him into a particularly noticeable tear in the carefully woven
fabric of Obama’s moderate image.”
“A few more tugs and the
cloak itself would unravel, revealing the socialist secret beneath. That
is why the Ayers story had to be suppressed,” explained Kurtz.
But still, Ayers continued to insist more than once in the WND
interview the Obama campaign’s claim that he knew Ayers only because
Ayers was “a guy in the neighborhood” was true.
Ayers said, “That’s all he was to me.” “Just a guy in the neighborhood.”
‘Dad was a Republican’
Ayers was asked by WND if his father, Tom Ayers, helped fund Obama’s education.
Tom Ayers was president of Chicago’s electric company, Consolidated
Edison, from 1964-1980 and served as chairman form 1973-1980. The elder
Ayers was a prominent Chicago businessman.
In 2012, WND
reported that a retired US Postal Service carrier who delivered mail to
the home of Tom and Mary Ayers claims that Mary Ayers told him she and
her husband were funding the Harvard Law School education of Barack
Obama, a “foreign student.” That carrier was Allen Hulton.
Hulton would then claim that he met Obama in from of the Ayers’ home.
Ayers response was to laugh.
“Not true, my dad was a Republican. Why would he fund Obama?” Ayers countered. “He never funded Obama.”
Then, in an effort to distance himself from his father, Ayers said: “I
never had any policy discussions with Obama, and I never had any policy
discussions with my father either, who lived with me for the last three
years of his life. I mean, a great guy, but somebody I didn’t agree with
politically.”
In his book, Radical-In-Chief, Kurtz says that
Bill Ayers brother John is also a leftist, claiming that John is
involved with the movement for radical school reform in Chicago. Kurtz
says that John Ayers benefitted from his father’s prominence in the
Chicago business community.
Kurtz noted that Bill Ayers did not
come back to Chicago until spring 1987 which was after Ayers went
underground to avoid prosecution for his Weather Underground days. Ayers
surfaced but the criminal case against him was dismissed. The dismissal
was a result of government prosecutors relying on Fourth
Amendment-tainted wiretapping evidence.
Wrote Kurtz: “Bill
wouldn’t arrive in Chicago until the following fall.” “Yet already, by
the spring of 1987, Obama had made contact with Bill Ayers’ brother.”
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