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October 6, 2008 4:02 PM

Reality Check: Obama And Ayers

Posted by Vaughn Ververs
CBS News’ Reality Check team looks into the assertion, made by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, that Barack Obama likes to “pals around with terrorists” like former Weather Underground member William Ayers. CBS News’ Laura Strickler looks at the allegation and reports:
Over time Ayers emerged in Chicago as a community activist, became a professor and got involved in public school reform. This is how Obama met Ayers at a meeting on schools. Ayers reportedly hosted a campaign event for Obama’s early forays into statewide politics in 1995 and the two men sat on two different foundation boards together where their job was to distribute educational grants to organizations. Ayers still sits on the board of The Woods Fund of Chicago but Obama left the board in 2002. That was the last time Obama had any official link to Ayers.

There is no evidence that Ayers gave money to or has been involved in the Obama campaign. There is also no indication the two have been in regular communication for at least six years.
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by nodem2008 October 8, 2008 7:22 PM EDT
The following is an article in the New York Post written by Michelle Malakin:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10082008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_pro_barack_vote_fraud_drive_132618.htm?page=0
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by goosebumps8 October 8, 2008 6:52 AM EDT
Oh boy, what a refreshing page of blogs! So glad I stopped by to see the Obama-bashing. Well here''s an article about what WHO John McCain hangs around with... Read it and weep!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/el
ection2008/2008-10-07-mccain-iran-contra
_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
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by goosebumps8 October 8, 2008 6:50 AM EDT
Oh boy, what a refreshing page of blogs! So glad I stopped by to see the Obama-bashing. Well here''s an article about what WHO John McCain hangs around with... Read it and weep!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/el
ection2008/2008-10-07-mccain-iran-contra
_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
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by roc2341 October 7, 2008 8:25 PM EDT
Does anyone know of Joe Vogler, founder of the AIP(Alaskan Independence Party)/Sarah/Todd Palin''s "pallin" around this guy who said "The fires of HE** are frozen glaciers compared to my HATRED FOR THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT,and I won''t be buried under their DA** flag? That S. Palin wrote a speech for this secessionist group convention in March 2007? Sound pretty upset there with America, don''t cha think!!wink, wink. "I''m an ALASKAN, not an "AMERICAN","I''ve got no use for "AMERICA" or her DA**ED institutions. This group even consider Republicans inferior!!And that''s really radical and well..........
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by pecksnif October 7, 2008 10:37 AM EDT
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by pecksnif October 7, 2008 10:34 AM EDT
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by itoaduso October 7, 2008 4:55 AM EDT
Glad to see that both sides are so confused. How do you make $700 billion dollars disappear? Watch and see. Making a better world by using the Dems/Repubs as pons. Greed is good but only when you can control it.
New World Order and Ceberus
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by roc2341 October 7, 2008 4:07 AM EDT
AS FOR SARAH PALIN:

JUST WHO IS "THE PERSON SHE SLEEPS WITH" THAT MR. ALGOOD(OWNER OF ITS WHICH SET UP HER "SECRET/HIDDEN E-MAIL ACCOUNT)REFERS TO? WHY WASN''T IT TODD, OR HER HUSBAND, OR ANY WORDS REPRESENTATIVE OF SPOUSE? NO, IT WAS, "AND THE "PERSON", ONE MORE TIME "PERSON" SHE "SLEEPS" YES "SLEEPS" WITH!!!
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by roc2341 October 7, 2008 3:59 AM EDT
docjohn52:

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!Are you trying to say that G.Gordan Liddy who I might add DID/IS A "CONVICTED CRIMINAL/LONGTIME FRIEND/SUPPORTER OF McCAIN IS NOT SHADY BUT PATRIOTIC!!/SO IS McCAIN. So what will be his job in a not-going to-happen McCain administration? White House Speaker!!DID YOU AND YOUR FELLOW IDIOTIC REPUB.SUPPORTERS REALLY THINK WE MORE INTELLIGENT DEMOCRATS WOULD NOT PULL McCAIN''S CARD AND SHOW IT TO THE REST OF THE COUNTRY? TALK ABOUT DUMB!!!!!
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by greenfun October 7, 2008 3:32 AM EDT
An old BO Bio-notice the The Chicago Annebery Challenge; board member


Senator, 13th District
BARACK OBAMA, D - Chicago
Springfield: 105B Capitol Bldg., 62706; (217) 782-5338; Fax (217) 782-5340
District: 1741 E. 71st St., Chicago 60649; (773) 363-1996; Fax (773) 363-5099
Years served: 1997-present

Legislative assignments: Committees on Judiciary; Public Health & Welfare (Minority Spokesman); Revenue.

Biography: Attorney; born Aug. 4, 1961, in Hawaii; bachelor''s degree, Columbia University, NY, 1983; graduate, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, 1991; chair, The Chicago Annebery Challenge; board member, Woods Fund of Chicago; "40 under 40" award, Crain''s Chicago Business, 1993; married (wife, Michelle).
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by docjohn52 October 7, 2008 1:46 AM EDT
Yup, can''t stand the truth they change the channel, gotta go find some lib''s...

Good luck NoDem2008, they are very afraid...

cya
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by docjohn52 October 7, 2008 1:44 AM EDT
"Global Poverty Tax"

bwahahahahahaaaaaaaa....

We NEED TO STOP ALL FOREIGN AID, right now.

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by docjohn52 October 7, 2008 1:42 AM EDT
If you think the 1.8 Trillion bailout ''*** sandwich'' is a whopper, it''s nothing compared to him wanting to give the same amount EVERY YEAR to 2015, to the UN. After all, it''s just our fair share!
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by docjohn52 October 7, 2008 1:39 AM EDT
Running out of liberals again...

(This is more fun than dropping nukes on caribou...)

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by docjohn52 October 7, 2008 1:31 AM EDT
CNN = Communist News Network

You guys keep using each other as sources...

How about Drudge, right now, Top of the left page column...

There''s what you''re getting November 5th.
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by docjohn52 October 7, 2008 1:29 AM EDT
Kommisar Ombamski is to the right of Stalin and just to the left of Bejing, and you might just have a position in the new world order...

I''m thinking third comrade in charge of peoples rice farm no. 431, just south of the dallas mushroom collective...

Or would you rather be the mushroom? Need plenty of those too!
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by marieburns October 7, 2008 1:29 AM EDT
Strickler should have concluded that Palin''s charge was false, as the CNN factchecker did intead of hedging. See more on this at http://www.realitychex.com
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by docjohn52 October 7, 2008 1:25 AM EDT
G. Gordon worked for the CIA, and was Nixon''s henchman in the Watergate break-in, I like to think our terrorists are as good as their terrorists...

He''s now a talk show host, and probably knows everyone on the beltway...

I''m thinkin'' all that was a minor bit of what he''s actually done, for the country, not against it.
He wass under presidential orders, covering up for a corrupt president, is that gonna be ayers new job? or is Obumma gonna tie up some loose ends, and use the CIA in Illinois.

(Don''t be so glib, you don''t wanna be here when the purges start!)
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by docjohn52 October 7, 2008 1:18 AM EDT
thanks, I think I''m runnin out of liberals though...

So many libs, (no I''m gonna take the high ground here, no lib jokes)

:-)
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