Obama “Palling Around With Terrorists”?

CBS News Reality Checks Obama’s Terrorists Links

(CBS)  CBS News Investigative Producer Laura Strickler wrote this story for CBSNews.com.

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Over the weekend, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin accused Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) of associating with terrorists.

“Our opponent is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who target their own country,” Palin said.

What is she referring to?

FACTS: Palin is talking about Obama’s association with a 1960’s anti war radical who now lives in Chicago named Bill Ayers. Obama met Ayers in 1995. The senator has repeatedly noted that when Ayers committed his domestic acts of terrorism forty years ago, Obama was eight years old.

Ayers was one of the founders of a radical anti-war group called the Weather Underground that claimed responsibility for a bombing in San Francisco that killed a police officer and hurt another. Ayers’s group also claimed to be involved in plans to bomb other locations aimed at disrupting the Vietnam war effort. However, despite his involvement and that of his wife, they were never convicted of any crimes due in part to prosecutorial misconduct.

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.

In response today, Senator Obama said:

“He’s a professor at the University of Chicago - ah, Illinois, teaches education, and he engaged in these despicable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old. I served on a board with him. And so now they’re trying to use this as guilt by association, and as you said, they’ve explicitly stated that what they want to do is to change the topic because they don’t want to talk about the economy and the failed policies of the last eight years.”

[destardi]

So you''re saying a foundation that Ayers himself and his family funds, uhbama still took the position? What about the part where uhbama''s first state senate election was kicked off in 1995 at Ayers'' home?

So you''re telling me a guy who still endorses a criminally investigated Alexis Giannoulias, a guy who accepts a leg up on a land purchase by a guy also being criminally investigated, is totally ignorant of Ayers'' and Dorhn''s past?

Sorry, but a guy willing to use race to knock hillary out of the election will stoop to any low. As well as working up a technicality against Alice Palmer (who ended up campaigning for Hillary) to get her booted off the ballot...

uhbama is disgusting.
Suuuure.

[mrmazerati]

Posted by destardi1

I think what people are saying is that this is all cr@p and Obama is going to win. But that''s just the polls, what do they know.

[usaisok]

Give me a break! You go Obama!

[macusweil]

Palin''s husband is a separatist who hates this country enough he want his own country from our 49th state.

[briannorwood]

Hey Sarah:

Does "Ooh Eee Ooh Aah Ahh, Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang" ring a bell?

[urnot]

McCain has LOST ALL HONOR and CREDIBILITY

The stock market tumbles and Palin/McCain spend their time on an old irrelevant acquaintance of Obama''s.

Their LIES about Obama have been disproved, but the far-right radio parrots keep squawking loudly because it is the only thing they have left. Their policies on WAR, and ECONOMY have been a disaster. What else would you expect KARL ROVE and the little parrots to do?

[missingamerica]

http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/keatingvideo

All about John McCain - that pristine example of Republican ethics and morality who is oh so believable fullfilling the role of "reformer" and "maverick".

At least, that is what he wants you to believe.

[akorede22]

If Hillary was credible enough to raise these doubts abt Obama back then, why cant Mccain do so... Obama keeps on making Senator Mccain guity by association to Bush, so why cant his own associations matter. The Bill Ayers was contributed to his early campaign??? For God''s sake, why wont it matter? AYERS, THE EX-CON, PASTOR FOR 20YRS....Why on earth wont it all matter? If Hillary cld raise these doubts back then, Mccain shld. Americans deserve to know who they are really voting for & hopefully, it wont be someone that surfaced from nowhere or a very shady past!!!

[aniah1-2009]

CBS has really demostrated biased headlines. Why assist the Republicans in their false, misleading, cutthroat tactics to win office. Winning is so important to S. Palin that she is willing to lie. Why can''t we question her about her affair, or John McCain on his affair with his present spouse? Or Sarah Palin''s children''s sexual, drug and alcohol habits, not to mention that her son used his mother''s name to manipulate his peers out of *** and drugs, per headlines that you would not print. This is a destructive game and all of America will be affected by the next 4 years from any Republican. America has plenty of questions, lets askem all, but that should mean ALL!!!

[bobnjersey]

[Palin is talking about Obama%u2019s association with a 1960%u2019s anti war radical who now lives in Chicago named Bill Ayers. Obama met Ayers in 1995. The senator has repeatedly noted that that when Ayers committed his domestic acts of terrorism forty years ago, Obama was eight years old. ]

ariel sharon was a terrorist fourty years ago as well.

[missingamerica]

If Hillary was credible enough to raise these doubts abt Obama back then, why cant Mccain do so... Obama keeps on making Senator Mccain guity by association to Bush, so why cant his own associations matter. The Bill Ayers was contributed to his early campaign???

Posted by Akorede22 at 04:11 PM : Oct 06, 2008

lolll...all you guys have is LIES, like that Ayers baloney.

The good guys, though, have documented FACT - easily viewable by all at http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/keatingvideo

All about John McCain - that pristine example of Republican ethics and morality who is oh so believable fullfilling the role of "reformer" and "maverick".

At least, that is what he wants you to believe.

[usnae2aw]

It wasn''t uncommom in the deep south not so long ago for people to snuff out the lights of promising black men by engaging in this type of slanderous attack. Just suggesting that a black man looked at a white woman was enough to mobilize a mob.Lynching a man politically for such an obviously false charecterization would be taking a page out of history, and would restore Americas dubious but not forgotten past.

[rsanabria-2009]

Oh...Sarah and John. People that live in glass houses shouldn''t throw stones.

[missingamerica]

McCain is now talking about how "he has brought change to Washington before".

Yah, some rather large change from a guy named Keating. $100,000 plus or so? Just pocket change to McCain, now...

[pensacola98]

Obama was eight years old. Palin is desparate.

Having another governor from an oil economy state in the White House again....that terrorizes me!!!!

[nycsense]

destardi1,

The ones who started the race card thing were the Clintons, if you can recall correctly. Maybe this is why Obama didn''t pick Hillary as his running mate, and I don''t blame him. Allow me to let you all in on a sad fact. Once you become a public figure, other people in high positions who you have to associate with have sketchy past. Try investigating other members of the Senate (like McCain) and see what you come up with. McCain has his share of skeletons in his closet.

[bdrlnt4rl]

what about obamas mystery room mates, what about the mystery money for college, what about his time with his room mates in their country and the mystery money that took him there, what about the mystery funding for his campaign from a known group linked to terrorist, what about the mystery amount he paid for his house and the mystery lot next to it purchased from the same group funding his campaign, what about the mystery behind the real estate scandal that he defended the mystery group related to terrorist.

great mysteries i would like answered......

[pga39120]

Its funny how the news networks are not reporting on MCCains dirty deeds and Palin''s is yet to come. MCCain was also friends with a terriost. He helped the gaming industry with dirty politics, and wait you have the diamond land dealings, not to mention the keating5. Wasn''t he the one that pushed for deregulation for his friends that now work for him. Our taxes are paying for the 170 lobbiests that now work for him. Its all fake. I can''t wait for the truth to come out about sarah and see what her explanation is for charging rape victims for their rape kits.

[duffyn]

Nothing surprising about this c%ap. The repugnants are talking s*it but, thankfully, this time around, no one is listening!! It''s so obvious Obama is going to defend this country against terrorism better than anyone else could. If anyone loves terrorists it''s bush mcsame and paling. repugants constant stream of war politics have given bin laden and ilk a status way beyond what they are - a small bunch of criminals

[lvnltlv]

the gop picked a perfect witch(palin) to do their dirty work for them, because I don''t think any decent republican professional woman would stoop that low, and be so ignorant.

[patriot_tx1]

One thing about McCain, his long record in the senate is open for all to see. Obimits past is in the very least "questionable". And questions he refuses to answer or turn the subject on to something else.
Nice try....but won''t work.

[pga39120]

Sorry, I got so disturb by palin and these comments. New networks are NOW reporting.

[patriot_tx1]

Sorry, I got so disturb by palin and these comments. New networks are NOW reporting.

Posted by pga39120

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Every American should be disturbed and look closer into Obama''s past.

[babyboomerm]

Hey Harry,
So much for you being neutral on election 2008. You and Katie are clearly Obama supporters. The media thinks it can shove Obama down our thoats like he has won the election before it has been held. This is BS and when your rating drop you will know why. I really can not see how any rational thinking American could want Obama to President. Being PC is not good a reason to distroy our nation. OMG people WAKE UP!

[mickfm]

hey tiddsanbeer
Looks like you''ll be getting a visit from the FBI. Last I checked, making a death threat usually gets you into some kind of trouble. I''ll be making the call myself in fact in.

[patriot_tx1]

CBS_Oliver .... Maybe CBS has finally decided to report fair.

[kissamaarse]

Oh Good! Now we can at talk about Sarah Palin''s courtship with the ANTI-AMERICAN and secessionist AIP, and her husband''s long-time membership. This was recently, not like for Obama who was 6 years old when Ayers was a radical activist.

[d33pthroat1]

Obama keeps on making Senator Mccain guity by association to Bush, so why cant his own associations matter.

-- Posted by Akorede22 at 04:11 PM : Oct 06, 2008

Typical Republican logic.

Here is an example: Bob is allowed to kill ants so why shouldn''t I be allowed to kill humans. After all we are both killing living things.

Same thing here: the comparison is not 1-to-1.

Bush and McCain have been joined at the hip for the last eight years. McCain votes 90% of the time with Bush. He openly favors continuing all Bush policies that have put us in this mess. There is ovewhelming evidence of the two hanging out together, and openly supporting each other.

Compare that to Obama/Ayers relationship. One campaign event and sitting on a company board 13 years ago is hardly a close relationship. Plus, Obama has had no links with Ayers in the last six years.


Just not the same as McCain/Bush.

And, that is why, my friend, your comparison is unfair.

[bdrlnt4rl]

what about obamas mystery room mates, what about the mystery money for college, what about his time with his room mates in their country and the mystery money that took him there, what about the mystery funding for his campaign from a known group linked to terrorist, what about the mystery amount he paid for his house and the mystery lot next to it purchased from the same group funding his campaign, what about the mystery behind the real estate scandal that he defended the mystery group related to terrorist.

great mysteries i would like answered......

and i want to know why he insisted on being part of a church that hates america, i want to know why he had the ''slip of the tongue'' about being muslim.....

something just does not match with him and i cant figure his mysteries out......too many muslim ties, or should i say too many terrorist ties.....sleeper cell comes to my mind when i think of obama

[rjs1955]

HEY,
MY WIFE USED TO WORK OUT WITH JANE FONDA EXERCISE VIDEOS....

IS SHE A COMMUNIST SYMPATHIZER? SHE WAS IN HER LATE 20s THEN. SHE IS NOW 50. I GUESS SHE IS STILL A COMMIE PINKO, HUH....?

THIS KRAPOLA FROM PALIN MCCAIN IS SO DESPERATE....

[patriot_tx1]

Why does AIP bother you folks so much?

[enlightenu]

what a sillybitch.

[ribbie149]

Every American IS disturbed and it''s NOT with Obama''s past...it''s America''s present and who made it that way. (Any guesses?)

[patriot_tx1]

something just does not match with him and i cant figure his mysteries out......too many muslim ties, or should i say too many terrorist ties.....sleeper cell comes to my mind when i think of obama


Posted by bdrlnt4rl
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Bingo!! Me too!! And millions more.....

[ribbie149]

If a movie were made about a presidential campaign and Sarah Palin were cast in it, no one would believe it. (unless it was a Zucker brothers comedy)

[patriot_tx1]

Do you all think Alaska is the only state that has an Independent Party?

[bdrlnt4rl]

the Palins are still connected to these white supremacist terrorists.

Posted by six-6-six


your comment makes no sense....Alaskan are Alaskan''s, not white.....have you ever noticed that?

[ribbie149]

Hey Sarah, if we are going to start playing the guilt by association game, how about explaining your relationship with the witch-hunting pastor who "arranged" your election as governor with God?

[babyboomerm]

May not have spelled it correctly, but I am far to intelligent to VOTE for OBAMA. Nothing your RUDE @ss can say would ever change that. Uou are not worth my time, and I have a life so I will not be online for your ridicule, sorry! So BITE ME DEMASS!

[wntrpls]

I was one month ago going to vote for Obama. And then saw an Ad on Obama and Ayers. So I decided to investigate and what I found appalled me. I cannot beleive people are thinking of Voting for Obama when there is a dangerous pattern.

1.Obama and Bill Ayers Annenberg Challenge Coverup
2.Obama and Alwadi, a palestine terrorist
3.Obama and Rev Wright
4.OBama and the socialist demcratic association
5.Obama and Acorn
6.Obmaa and Rev Flaggert
7.Hamas donated 30k to Obama
8.International Solidarity Movement
9.Wheels of Justice
10.Rezko
11.And now ACORN to the list of Obama radical associations


Take all of Obama associates and his comments he has made and ill sum up Obama.

Obama is the most left wing radical terrorist sympathizer who is pro-muslim and anti-Isreal. Obama is pro-black. Obama is arrogant, lies and throws people under the bus to pursue power. Obama is dangerous for this country. In a post 911 World , I dont understand how the Main Stream Media is not reporting or investigating Obama background. CAN anyone name a person in the past besides Michelle, Rev WRight, BIll AYers, Rezko who can VOUCH for Obama.

[satch1942]

Sarah Palin has a witch doctor for a minister... Check out how he performed witch craft in Kenya and had a woman there chased out of town for being a "witch"...

[ribbie149]

Sleeper cell comes to mind when I think of the millions of brain cells in your head that must be asleep in order for people like you to write such moronic drivel.

[missingamerica]

McCain, of course, is just your run-of-the-mill corrupt Republican.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/keatingvideo

[missingamerica]

McCain''s supporters have to resort to lies.

Makes it easy to support Obama - they''ve got history on their side:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/keatingvideo

[wntrpls]

Not only is Obama paling around with terrorist. He has in the past worked with the International Solidarity Movement, Wheels of Justice. He called Rev Wright his Mentor of 20 years. He has deep associatation with Fannie and Freddy and Ranes. Obama Marxist Views will Damage our country and have our veterns rolling in their graves.

[ribbie149]

"It was one month ago going to vote for Obama. And then saw an Ad on Obama and Ayers."

Please don''t insult the intelligence of those of us who CAN think by pretending that you were EVER going to vote for Obama. You REPUBLICAN''Ts think everyone is as gullible as YOU are...we don''t believe everything we are told by party hacks like yours. Nice try.

[missingamerica]

McCain''''s supporters have to resort to lies - oh, and insults.

Makes it easy to support Obama - they''ve got history - oh, and decency - on their side:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/keatingvideo

[tomar0317]

Negativeness....just what a slumping country needs. This is what experience get you, folks blaming other folks and making up lies and mistruths to get a step ahead. Sounds like the banking, loan, and other ego driven greedy CEO''s at their best. Get over yourselves you self serving jerks. No wonder we have no respect for politicians. I hope we wipe you all out of office this November.

[idnnsg]

wntrpls is PAID political operative for McCain. He never intended to vote for Obama. Everything he posts about Obama is a LIE.

[patriot_tx1]

ibsteve2u ... I don''t think many care to look at (my.barackobama.com). lol