Re: [Dems2008] William Ayers, Tony Rezko

William Ayers did "some bad things"???? There's the understatement of the year. Let's see...

"I don't regret setting bombs, said Ayers in 2001, "I feel we didn't do enough."

Participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972.

Of the day he bombed the Pentagon, Ayers says, "Everything was absolutely ideal. ... The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them."

All told, Ayers and Weatherman were responsible for 30 bombings aimed at destroying the defense and security infrastructures of the U.S.

Notwithstanding his violent past, Ayers today does not describe himself as a terrorist. "Terrorists destroy randomly," he reasons, "while our actions bore ... the precise stamp of a cut diamond. Terrorists intimidate, while we aimed only to educate." 

Isn't he brilliant?

William Ayers hosted a fundraiser for Barack Obama and actively worked with him to secure Barack's first electoral victory in Illinois.  Barack and Ayers also served on the board of the Woods Fund.

"William Ayers, in the age of terrorism, will be Barack Obama's Willie Horton."
--Former counterterrorism official Larry C. Johnson

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/02/obamas_weatherman_connection.html

Then, today we have this in regards to Tony Rezko:

Obama mentioned at Rezko trial

Chicago Tribune

by Bob Secter

Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama's name came up again at the Antoin "Tony" Rezko corruption trial today in Chicago and in a way that earlier filings in the case did not telegraph.

Stuart Levine, the prosecution's star witness, said he and Obama were at a party Rezko threw at his Wilmette mansion on April 3, 2004, for Nadhmi Auchi, a controversial Iraqi-born billionaire who Rezko was trying to get to invest in a South Loop real-estate development.

Auchi, now a citizen of the United Kingdom, has faced criminal charges in Europe. He also figured in the revocation of Rezko's bond early this year after attempting to wire him more than $3 million. Upon learning of that attempt, U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve declared Rezko a flight risk and ordered him held in a federal jail in the Loop.

The Rezko party in 2004 was designed to induce Auchi to pour money into the South Loop investment. Obama's presence at the party was not previously known. At the time, Obama was fresh off a surprise win in the Illinois Democratic primary for U.S. Senate and was riding a crest of national publicity.




Eamon1916@yahoo.com writes:

well let's see... one is a guy who did some bad things nearly 40 years ago and since has gone on to earn his doctorate in Education and become a professor at the University of Chicago... and in that capacity met a fellow instructor there and introduced him to other people while his fellow instructor was running for the Illinois State Senate...

The other is CURRENTLY helping the Chinese gov't crackdown on Tibetan while helping raise funds for the Clinton Foundation...

Slainte,

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