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October 6, 2008 4:02 PM

Reality Check: Obama And Ayers

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.
Read the full story here.
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by DCropp October 6, 2008 4:11 PM PDT
McCain would rather talk about this than try to fix the economy.

We need jobs, McCain''s solution is to sling mud.
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by memekiller October 6, 2008 4:11 PM PDT
Thanks for this. I''m glad reporters no longer feel compelled to play dumb.
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by keating54u October 6, 2008 6:28 PM PDT
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 dicktracy200 October 6, 2008 6:58 PM PDT
The fact that Fox News Network is taking the position of launching a series of all out assaults against senator Obama%u2019s character is a sad day in journalism. They should be ashamed of the immoral and unethical standards that their network displays on a continual basis. What they must be made to understand is that as citizens we rely upon networks for their fair and accurate reporting of events and we will not tolerate anything less, especially when its over the top or maybe I should say as far right as Fox News Network is. If your views are the same share this message with others. It is time to take a stand against Fox and look to other networks for fair and accurate news coverage.
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by docjohn52 October 6, 2008 9:44 PM PDT
Read the above and tell me CBS is not in the tank for Obamski...

Bwaaaahahahahaha!!!

They''re citing Couric as their source!

hahahahahahahaaaaaa!!!

Just keep drinking the koolaid, twits...
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by docjohn52 October 6, 2008 9:48 PM PDT
Wright = Hatemongering RACIST
Ayers = genuine bomb throwing TERRORIST
Raines = Lying MEGA-THIEF

Integrety is what you do when no-one is watching. 20 years of Wright? Ayers is someones kids that my kids know at school...

Hey, if I don''t like the program, I change the channel, I don''t wait until someone catches me watching...
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by dburfears October 6, 2008 9:49 PM PDT
You tell the truth, and the REPUBLICAN PARROT MACHINE says it''s just the media lying to them. The PARROTS just cannot deal with reality. It intrudes on their RIGHT WING TALK RADIO FANTASY WORLD.

The BIGGEST LIES come from McCain.

McCain has gone over to the "Dark Side". His campaign is so far from "Straight Talk" that there is no hope of finding their way back. It''s now "All LIES and DISTORTIONS, all of the time."

The McCain "LIE, LIE, LIE EXPRESS". Geez John. We know your campaign is now being run by ROVE hit men. Just give it up if you cannot muster even a little remaining HONOR.
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by nodem2008 October 6, 2008 9:52 PM PDT
If you want to check out the Obama-Ayers story for yourself, here is the link
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTViMGRmMmYxZTgwZTFjYmFjODU5YzM4Y2MwM2ViMjY=&w=MQ==#more

If the link doesn''t work, just go to nationalreview.com

This is a story we are going to be hearing a lot more about, if the liberal Obama media has the guts and the journalistic ethic to report it.
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by docjohn52 October 6, 2008 9:53 PM PDT
How bout this truth, Obama broke the Logan act and needs to go to jail for felony sedition...

Keep drinking that koolaid, and line up in that line there. Face the cliff...

And if he had launched his political career in Hitler''s front room, I''d be calling him a NAZI too.
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by dburfears October 6, 2008 9:55 PM PDT
Ayers= Distraction

McCain Temperament= D*MNED FRIGHTENING

"F**k you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room." McCain to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), during a testy exchange about immigration legislation (5/18/07, WP)

"No, I''m calling you a f**king jerk." McCain to fellow Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, when Grassley asked "Are you calling me stupid?" (Newsweek 2/21/00)

"Only an a**hole would put together a budget like this ... I wouldn''t call you an a**hole unless you really were an a**hole." McCain to Budget Committee Chairman and fellow Repulican Sen. Pete Domenici, during a Senate budget hearing. (Newsweek 2/21/00)

"At least I don''t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c*nt." McCain to his wife, Cindy, after she playfully twirled his hair and said "You''re getting a little thin up there," (The Real McCain by Cliff Schecter)

McCain has a SERIOUS TEMPERAMENT PROBLEM. His impulsive and irresponsible selection of Palin as V.P. is just the latest example.

Americans do not need McCain with his "finger on the button", or starting new wars with Russia or Iran.

McCAIN IS OUT OF CONTROL.

Frankly, it is becoming OBVIOUS that McCain spent TOO MANY YEARS as a POW. His psyche is damaged. He is unpredictable. He''s unstable and angry. He explodes under pressure.

I''m sorry McCain is so deeply damaged from his years as POW. I sure as hell am not so sympathetic as to put McCain''s finger ANYWHERE NEAR THE ECONOMY or THE RED BUTTON.
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by docjohn52 October 6, 2008 10:01 PM PDT
And Obama has a serious truth problem, and if you think this country is going to elect a junior freshman senator with less experience than his own wife, let alone, Sarah, then you HAVE been drinking the kookaid too long...

(Finally, I think we got the campaign here, or are you one of the hitler youth obamanazi''s)
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by docjohn52 October 6, 2008 10:09 PM PDT
And Ayers = Genuine Radical White Bomb throwing TERRORIST...

That''s the TRUTH!

Let me say it again, SELF PROFESSED Genuine Radical White Bomb throwing TERRORIST...

(How many do you know?)

If he''s going to REPRESENT YOU, you should know one...
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by docjohn52 October 6, 2008 10:15 PM PDT
By the way, "Reality Check", you should really tell the whole story...

Ayers was IN CHARGE of the annenburg fund, and VETTED Obama for the post, and he worked for Ayers at the Wood foundation...

You should work getting your facts straight, or maybe tell the whole story...
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by nodem2008 October 6, 2008 10:15 PM PDT
Well said docjohn52. Too many coincidences, too little answers.
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by roc2341 October 6, 2008 10:17 PM PDT
I would like to know why the issue of G. Gordan Libby/McCain relationship has not been brought out into the news since McCain''s mudslinging? I mean here''s a guy who plotted with gangland members to murder Howard Hunt, plotted to bomb the Brookins Institute, and was prepared to murder Jack Anderson. This is also a person with whom McCain calls a friend, went on his radio show in May, and spoke of Liddy''s patriotism. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!AND McCAIN was not 8 years old when all of this happened!!!
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by docjohn52 October 6, 2008 10:18 PM PDT
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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by docjohn52 October 6, 2008 10:25 PM PDT
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 marieburns October 6, 2008 10:29 PM PDT
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 6, 2008 10:29 PM PDT
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 docjohn52 October 6, 2008 10:31 PM PDT
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 6, 2008 10:39 PM PDT
Running out of liberals again...

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

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by docjohn52 October 6, 2008 10:42 PM PDT
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 6, 2008 10:44 PM PDT
"Global Poverty Tax"

bwahahahahahaaaaaaaa....

We NEED TO STOP ALL FOREIGN AID, right now.

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by docjohn52 October 6, 2008 10:46 PM PDT
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 greenfun October 7, 2008 12:32 AM PDT
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 roc2341 October 7, 2008 12:59 AM PDT
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 roc2341 October 7, 2008 1:07 AM PDT
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 itoaduso October 7, 2008 1:55 AM PDT
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 pecksnif October 7, 2008 7:33 AM PDT
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by pecksnif October 7, 2008 7:34 AM PDT
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by pecksnif October 7, 2008 7:37 AM PDT
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by roc2341 October 7, 2008 5:25 PM PDT
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 goosebumps8 October 8, 2008 3:50 AM PDT
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 3:52 AM PDT
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 nodem2008 October 8, 2008 4:22 PM PDT
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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