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Never Let Anyone Outside The Family Know What You’re Thinking Again

Posted on November 13, 2008 at 6:14 pm

Sixties radical William Ayers writes of his relationship with Barack Obama in a new afterword to his book being reissued this month:

“We had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser at my house, where I’d made a small donation to his earliest political campaign,” he writes.

But right-wing commentators tried to use those connections to smear Obama, he says.

“Obama’s political rivals and enemies apparently saw an opportunity to deepen a dishonest narrative about him, that he is somehow un-American, alien, linked to radical ideas, a closet terrorist, a sympathizer with extremism,” Ayers wrote.

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48 Responses to “Never Let Anyone Outside The Family Know What You’re Thinking Again”

  1. November 13th, 2008 9:00 pm

    He kept quiet through all the crap, he deserves to make a few bucks off the whole matter.

  2. almiller writes
    November 14th, 2008 7:39 am

    Always lying. Bill Ayers most likely ghosted Obama’s book. The relationship was much tighter than he represents. But anyone who believes a word Bill Ayers says is a fool.

  3. November 14th, 2008 7:43 am

    So there’s Ayers, there was Obama’s aunt in Boston, and no doubt many others.

    How many people did the Obama campaign pay to keep their mouths shut until Nov. 5?

    Just wondering…

  4. 15 Minutes, Plus 20 Years writes
    November 14th, 2008 7:55 am

    Sergeant Brian McDonnell
    Officer Waverly Brown
    Sergeant Edward O’Grady

    How many more would have dies at Ayers’ hands if his idiot minions hadn’t blown themselves up?

  5. Frank writes
    November 14th, 2008 7:57 am

    Yeah, right….

    And right-wing commentators tried to smear Charles Manson as a Mass-murderer….

  6. red writes
    November 14th, 2008 7:59 am

    –he deserves to make a few bucks off the whole matter.

    He’s not in it for the bucks, he’s in it for the revolution. After the revolution, there won’t be bucks - only power.

  7. ron nord writes
    November 14th, 2008 8:16 am

    One of Ayers coconspirators at a meeting said that those that couldn’t or wouldn’t go along with the ‘revolution’ would have to be re-educated in re-education centers. When asked just exactly what that meant, it was said the upwards of 25 million Americans would have to be eliminated. Why go to Afghanistan or Iraq to look for enemies, we have plenty in the United States teaching our children, we have terrorist teaching children how to be terrorists. We have professors teaching teachers how to teach children to be communists. Hello out there.

  8. Davy writes
    November 14th, 2008 8:23 am

    Wonder how many Southern conservatives and Republicans have connections, supporters, or family members who were members of the Klan, or had connections with members of the Klan in the 1950s and 1960s?

    I’d say quite a few.

  9. Andy Freeman writes
    November 14th, 2008 8:23 am

    > “Obama’s political rivals and enemies apparently saw an opportunity to deepen a dishonest narrative about him, that he is somehow un-American, alien, linked to radical ideas, a closet terrorist, a sympathizer with extremism,” Ayers wrote.

    It’s nice of Ayers to admit that he is “un-American, alien, linked to radical ideas, a closet terrorist, a sympathizer with extremism”.

  10. junyo writes
    November 14th, 2008 8:26 am

    Wonder how many Southern conservatives and Republicans have connections, supporters, or family members who were members of the Klan, or had connections with members of the Klan in the 1950s and 1960s?

    I’d say quite a few.

    How many of them are President elect, and got a free pass from the press during they’re campaign?

  11. Skyler writes
    November 14th, 2008 8:26 am

    Davey, only democrats get elected that have ties to the klan.

  12. junyo writes
    November 14th, 2008 8:27 am

    …their…

  13. Dave in Texas writes
    November 14th, 2008 8:28 am

    Davy, the problem isn’t past guilt. It’s present enjoyment of the past acts, it’s lack of remorse, it’s republishing of books that call for the same actions he did, it’s loudly declaring he has not changed, that anyone who knows him knows what he stands for…

    He isn’t just an old yesteryear bad guy, Davy. He’s very much in the present. Just because he brainwashes young people in school today instead of building bombs means nothing, except that he’s lazy and enjoys having money and influence. He IS, not WAS, a very very bad guy.

    How would you feel about any Klansman (Dem Senator RObert Byrd) who did NOT apologize for what he did ‘back then’ (as Byrd has apologized) and still wanted power, influence and an inside track? Would you say it’s okay for Republicans to hang out with former Klansmen who did not denounce their days in the Klan? OBviously not, since you wrote that post about it.

    BUT AYERS IS THE SAME THING as what you seem to oppose.

  14. Tom Spaulding writes
    November 14th, 2008 8:30 am

    “keeping quiet through the crap” = shutting up until his protege was elected. Why does he deserve something for that? Don’t these people have something to do but write endless memoirs?

    “Wonder how many Southern conservatives have Klan in the family?” I appreciate the “our guy a radical, so is yours” argument…it’s a start at least.

    But no problem with the ex-Klan member actually IN the Senate…Robert Byrd, Democrat?

    That seems odd.

  15. TomT writes
    November 14th, 2008 8:30 am

    Yeah the Klan is an equivalent comparison. How many people did the Klan kill in the 20th century? Very few. How many people died under the type of philosophy that Ayers supports? 150 Million.

    Yeah you’re right. You should be much more afraid of the Klan. Isn’t it obvious.

  16. Outis writes
    November 14th, 2008 8:33 am

    It’s nice of Ayers to admit that he is “un-American, alien, linked to radical ideas, a closet terrorist, a sympathizer with extremism”.

    Andy, that is completely unfair. Ayers has been an out-of-the-closet terrorist for decades.

  17. chicopanther writes
    November 14th, 2008 8:37 am

    What if someone blew up Bill Ayres. Would the FBI go looking for the person who did it? If they found the person, would they pin a medal on him/her? :-)

    – chicopanther

  18. Gringo writes
    November 14th, 2008 8:38 am

    Wonder how many Southern conservatives and Republicans have connections, supporters, or family members who were members of the Klan, or had connections with members of the Klan in the 1950s and 1960s?

    For a starter, consider DEMOCRATIC SENATOR Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who filibustered against the 1964 Civil Rights Bill for fourteen hours.

    The point about Ayers and his terrorist/Communist past is that he is unrepentant about it(read Prairie Fire). Ex Klansman Robert Byrd, for example, has expressed regret that he was against the Civil Rights Bill.

  19. Zoot writes
    November 14th, 2008 8:42 am

    Davey, like most libs, is full of mythical knowledge. Listen up sparky, the klan was a demoncrat organization…read a history book you moron.

    Democrats opposed the Abolitionist

    Democrats supported slavery and fought and gave their lives to expand it

    Democrats supported and passed the Fugitive Slave Laws of 1793 & 1854

    Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery

    Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery

    Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision

    Democrats supported and passed Jim Crow Laws

    Democrats supported and passed Black Codes

    Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers

    Democrats opposed the Reconstruction Act of 1867

    Democrats opposed the Freedmans Bureau as it pertained to blacks

    Democrats opposed the Emancipation Proclamation

    Democrats opposed the 13th , 14th, and 15th Amendments to end slavery, make black citizens and give blacks the right to vote

    Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1866

    Democrats opposed the Civil Right Act of 1875 and had it overturned by U.S. Supreme Court

    Various Democrats opposed the 1957 Civil Rights Acts

    Various Democrats argued against the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Acts

    Various Democrats argued against the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Acts

    Various Democrats voted against the 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act

    Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson

    Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.

    Southern Democrats opposed desegregation and integration

    *During the past 21 decades the Democrats successfully disguised and concealed their horrific acts against the African Americans by operating and committing these acts under the following aliases: the Confederacy, Jim Crow, Black Codes, the Dixiecrats and the Ku Klux Klan. Congressional records, historical documents, and the letters and testimonies from several brave black citizens revealed that these groups werent separate independent organizations, but were actual auxiliaries, divisions and/or the legislative efforts of the Democratic Party. The debates on the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 further revealed that these auxiliaries were committed to use every means possible to carry out the Democrats racist agenda of White Supremacy, including: lynchings, murders, intimidation, mutilations, decapitations and racially bias legislation and adjudication.

  20. Kelly writes
    November 14th, 2008 8:44 am

    Makes me sick. Ayers and his wife should both be sitting in prison right now. Instead they write books, warp young minds, get nice speaking engagement fees (way to fight the pig) and get interviewed by Good Morning America. Ain’t this a great country???

  21. Roux writes
    November 14th, 2008 8:50 am

    It’s going to be a constant drip drip drip of these things for the next 4 years.

  22. njoriole writes
    November 14th, 2008 9:08 am

    Hey Davy, you don’t have to investigate any Republicans for “links” to Klansmen, just look to the Democrats’ “Conscience of the Senate,” Robert C. (KKK) Byrd. Rather than having a tenuous link to the Klan through family and friends, Byrd is an ACTUAL former Klansman, who once wrote that, rather than serve in an integrated armed forces (as a result of Truman’s executive order), he (Byrd) would rather have seen Old Glory (i.e., the USA) “trampelled in the dirt, never to rise again.” Gee, those friendships of convenience sure do present some problems of hypocrisy, don’t you think?

  23. willis writes
    November 14th, 2008 9:10 am

    “It’s going to be a constant drip drip drip of these things for the next 4 years.”

    Or we could ratchet things up a bit. How about ObamaHitler, or would speaking in leftist-fashion of the Dear Leader get you a knock on the door in the middle of the night.

  24. Dale Michaud writes
    November 14th, 2008 9:24 am

    Ayers today talks about how Venezuela is the example of how education is the key to destroying capitalism.

    He has taught little kids in Head Start to adults in college.

    This was a menace a long time ago. He has just changed his methods. That’s all.

    And Obama was more than just neighbors. Obama was lying to Clinton and the world!

  25. Agoraphobic Plumber writes
    November 14th, 2008 9:28 am

    “It’s going to be a constant drip drip drip of these things for the next 4 years.”

    It’s the game the Dems and their hangers-on chose over the last 8 years…the more militant (and a lot of the not-so-militant) of the right will, of course, retaliate in like kind (though I do hope they’re a LITTLE classier about it). If the Dems couldn’t see THAT coming, they’re not smart enough to hold elective office.

    I predict that if Obama wins a second term, it will be a squeaker. If the Repubs don’t take the presidency and at least one house of congress by the end of his first term, they will certainly do it by the end of his second.

    In the meantime, invest in popcorn. The show is about to begin.

  26. November 14th, 2008 9:31 am

    Hey Davy, you don’t have to investigate any Republicans for “links” to Klansmen, just look to the Democrats’ “Conscience of the Senate,” Robert C. (KKK) Byrd….Gee, those friendships of convenience sure do present some problems of hypocrisy, don’t you think?”

    THIS.

  27. Dr. Kenneth Noisewater writes
    November 14th, 2008 9:32 am

    Wonder how many Southern conservatives and Republicans have connections, supporters, or family members who were members of the Klan, or had connections with members of the Klan in the 1950s and 1960s?

    You mean like Sen. Robert Byrd? Oh wait, he’s a Dem, so that’s ok then..

    “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side… Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
    —Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944 [2][7]

  28. Uh, Clem writes
    November 14th, 2008 9:39 am

    Their political views aside, the chief difference between Timothy McVeigh and Billy Ayers is that McVeigh had sufficient personal courage to act upon his beliefs. Billy was just a wannabe…a poseur who let others take the risks. Now, years later, Billy continues to pose and preen, and to feed upon the largess of a society that he despises. In a wiser world, we’d call Billy Ayers a parasite, and deal with him accordingly.

  29. sherlock writes
    November 14th, 2008 10:05 am

    I would love to see a video clip of Obama’s first response to a question about his relationship to Ayers and Doern (always mention both), and I would love to see it prominently viral.

    Obama is a liar, and like Ayers he gets by on a technicality. In Obama’s case the technicality is that the media also lies to cover for him.

  30. DADvocate writes
    November 14th, 2008 10:22 am

    …he deserves to make a few bucks off the whole matter.

    Just when I thought Sean had a brain.

  31. Matty writes
    November 14th, 2008 10:25 am

    The new epidemic sweeping the right-wing nation:
    Ayers Derangement Syndrome. The cure: say three “Hail Obamas” and read the complete NY Times for two weeks straight.

  32. Matty writes
    November 14th, 2008 10:30 am

    Uh, Clem is like most right-wing fanatics (who have more in common with Islamists than with liberals): having principles, even barbaric principles, is better than being smart, articulate or knowledgable (see: Palin, Sarah).

  33. Matty writes
    November 14th, 2008 10:35 am

    Compared with the likes of supposed conservative “philospohers” such as Rush, Savage, Hannity, Malkin, et al, Bill Ayers is a patriotic national hero. Don’t y’all have a gay marriage to destroy somewhere??

  34. Christine writes
    November 14th, 2008 10:41 am

    This guy is a SICKO!!!!

    It is a shame that so many people have been fooled into believing anything this man says.

  35. Robbins Mitchell writes
    November 14th, 2008 10:46 am

    Bill Ayers is clearly the same gutless punk he was 40 yrs ago when he was playing revolutionary and hiding behind his daddy’s money….the trouble with jerks like Ayers is that they always see themselves in positions of power and control after their little ‘revolution’…in Ayers case,if the ‘revolution’ comes,he and his homicidal whore won’t live to see it implemented…much less be in any positions of power

  36. Joe writes
    November 14th, 2008 10:47 am

    G. Gordon Liddy.

  37. Julie writes
    November 14th, 2008 11:17 am

    I wasn’t even BORN when this unrepentant terrorist was waging war against his own country, and I wouldn’t even shake his hand.

  38. Uh, Clem writes
    November 14th, 2008 11:28 am

    Billy Ayers is a “patriotic national hero”? In your dreams, Matty…that’s where fantasies belong.

  39. Ollie writes
    November 14th, 2008 11:35 am

    Yes, but an Ayers in charge of DHS or DOJ or Dept of Education or a new Civil Homeland Defense Force larger than the US Military (”Funded to a level higher than the US Military with more people than the military,” Barak Obama), well that makes this another issue all together does it not? We have to have this well funded and large size militia to defend the “People” from well, just what, within the US?

    You will have Communism on your doorstep then.

    No more Republicans - re-education camps (heard of Pol Pot?), just look up all “General Opposition Party” members on the voter rolls and re-educate them,

    no more freedom of speech - not politically correct speech is that of racists and terrorists and needs to be prosecuted, oh heck, just eliminate them like Stalin or Beria did as treasonous, get that signed confession first of how treasonous they were first, using “hazing”, no use torture they are sub-human,

    no more freedom of movement - national ID cards with info on where you work and live and are allowed to go and above all political affiliation - “your papers/ID card please”,

    police and apparatchiks at every street corner and internet web site - we must spy on everyone since they may be treasonous or a terrorist, enemies of the state and people, - that is Communism/Fascism.

    This was practiced by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Mussolini, etc, and is practiced today in Venezuela, Cuba, China, North Korea, Burma, and various others.

    All for the best interests of the People (well party members really). Look at “re-distibution of wealth” (straight out of Das Kapital by Karl Marx) Sound familiar? What Obama stated that phrase? Look at Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and Cuba (the leaders have become fantastically wealthy - to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars of personal wealth - look at Fortune’s list of wealthiest country leaders to see this) from their “nationalized industries”, the people, well they can live on a couple of thousand $s a year, equally distributed.

    Funny how that works.

    So have you joined the Democratic party yet? You may regret it, if you don’t, some day soon there will be the knock on the door at 4:00am in your neighborhood. Your neighbors will wonder what happened and why but will not dare say anything because that would make them tomorrow’s night pickups.

    You think they are not grooming Ayers for power? Think again.

    This is what Ayres is all about. His past and current actions are and have been along these lines as much as possible. Remember that as head of such an agency he will not personally kill or inter anyone, that will be someone elses job…

    So the Dems and the media want to “rehabilitate” him by putting him and his “sanitized message” on TV - “rehabilitate” a term which in communist-speak means: get him ready to install into a position of power. Hitler and Stalin and Mao had their “hatchet men” so will Obama if Ayers is installed. If not Ayers it will be someone else.

  40. Matty writes
    November 14th, 2008 11:38 am

    Ollie = Ayers Derangement Syndrome, Exhibit A (A is for “are you kidding me?”)

  41. Holdfast writes
    November 14th, 2008 11:57 am

    The only differences between Ayers and Timothy McVeigh are:

    Ayers was “left wing” and McVeigh “right wing”

    Ayers is more highly educted

    McVeigh was more competent

    McVeigh was duly and justly executed for his crimes under a Republican President, while the investigation into Ayers was bungled during Dem Admins - and then some of his cohorts were pardonned by the Clinton Admin.

  42. Ollie writes
    November 14th, 2008 12:15 pm

    Matty,

    There you go - libeling others without facts. A typical commmunist style of ad hominem attack. Belittle your enemies, make them look ridiculous. Facts are not necessary - would not want to make them public. If they are against communism/socialism they must be deranged.

    Sounds like it. You fit the bill.

    Socialist/Communist, sympathize with Ayers? Have a little Bush Derangement Syndrome yourself? Or is it now Republican Derangement Syndrome - anything Republican must be bad…we need to get rid of it, that is the next step, is it not? According to Ayers historically and currently it IS the next step.

    You must agree with that. It is in your own logic.

    Equating people with derangement.

    You on the other hand know better and must get rid of the opposition. A typical Communist/Fascist argument. You would make Goebbels proud. You would make the Communist “useful idiot list”. You must realize that Defaming people is how Communists/Fascists pick those they eliminate? That open discussion is not allowed in such regimes? You show such leanings.

  43. Matty writes
    November 14th, 2008 1:13 pm

    Ollie - are you trying to argue that “defamation”, or, for that matter, character assassination, is a tactic solely employed by the left?

    Right…good luck with that one.

  44. Tennwriter writes
    November 14th, 2008 1:56 pm

    I’m going to have to impose my morality on the situation. Blowing up policemen-bad. Trying to burn alive an eight year old child–really bad. KKK-very bad. Timothy McVeigh, atheist terrorist, really bad. Communist–astoundingly bad.

    Help! I feel like I’m about to impose a theocracy with all this morality and stuff.

    So what would I do if I met Ayers? I’d place a hand on a weapon in my pocket and wait, and watch just like I’d do with a rattlesnake because he’s a dangerous lunatic. Phew! I feel better. I made a decision based on personal survival issues rather than morality.

    Oh, wait, personal survival is part of morality. Oh me oh my, whatever shall I do?

    And, oh Matty, while it is true that John Calvin argued that it was better to choose the leader who was evil and prudent over the leader who was righteous and imprudent, it really is more important for a person to be good than to be smart. Saruman was smart. Frodo was good.

  45. Hal C writes
    November 14th, 2008 2:13 pm

    Davy,

    I’m from the South. I’m a conservative. The Klan here in Georgia had plenty of Democrats on board. And our families (Democrats and Republicans) mostly looked down on them. Your offensive comment doesn’t do anything to advance political discourse.

    BTW - The Civil Rights Act was passed, percentage-wise, with more Republicans than Democrats.

  46. nick writes
    November 14th, 2008 3:20 pm

    of Ayers coconspirators at a meeting said that those that couldn’t or wouldn’t go along with the ‘revolution’ would have to be re-educated in re-education centers.
    and where is the evidence?

    In Syria?

    morons

  47. Uh, Clem writes
    November 14th, 2008 3:33 pm

    Nick, I believe that information came from trial testimony given by an undercover FBI source who had infiltrated the Weather Underground. They were reported to have gleefully pondered the liquidation of as many as 25 million fellow Americans, come the Revolution. As our dear Ms Doehrn said in a slightly different, but genuinely murderous context, “dig it.”

  48. Jenn writes
    November 14th, 2008 5:46 pm

    Billy Ayers is not a Revolutionary. He’s a RICH KID, a middle-aged child. When he got sick of PLAYING, Daddy’s money cleaned him up.

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