Before the election, Obama’s “Fight the Smears” site said:
Smear groups and now a desperate McCain campaign are trying to connect Barack to William Ayers using age-old guilt by association techniques. Here’s the truth: the smear associating Barack to Ayers is “phony,” “tenuous,” – even “exaggerated at best if not outright false.”
William Ayers is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with whom Barack served on the board of an education-reform organization in the mid-1990’s. According to the Associated Press, they are not close: “No evidence shows they were “pals” or even close when they worked on community boards years ago …”
After the election, William Ayers himself provided this evidence:
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.
The Audacity of Obama’s Deceipt. If he lied/misled about that, what else has he lied/misled about?
Is he even constitutionally eligible to hold the office of President of the United States?
“Family friends” doesn’t imply “close relationship,” let alone “partnership in working against the U.S.,” especially since Ayers had renounced such views decades earlier.
The evidence is there. Most of America already knows. What’s keeping you?
Ed,
Thank you for your comment.
Ayers has not renounced his views. He’s only changed some of his tactics. Instead of attacking our government from the outside, he is now attacking it from the inside, and in my opinion it appears that he has groomed the candidate known as Barack Hussein Obama II (also known as Indonesian citizen Barry Soetoro) to become President of the United States.
Ayers is a Violent, Revolutionary Communist. What is Obama?
Obama’s last name and citizenship were both changed when he was adopted by his Indonesian step-father Lolo Soetoro. Whatever citizenship Barack Hussein Obama II had was renounced when he became Barry Soetoro, citizen of Indonesia. And oh, by the way, his religion was listed as Islam. And oh, by the way, he has openly confessed, in Arabic, with a first-rate accent:
(Those are the [translated] opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, which he recited “with a first-rate accent”.)
But he has not openly confessed this:
In fact, while he claims to be a “committed Christian”, he rejects the truth of Jesus Christ:
“Committed Christian” Obama/Soetoro said:
Clearly, “his God” is not Jesus Christ.
He admitted earlier this year that he travelled to Pakistan in 1981. U.S. citizens were not permitted to travel to Pakistan in 1981. What country’s passport did he use to go to Pakistan? It appears that he travelled to Pakistan with an Indonesian passport. Since he was over 18 at that time, that means he, as an adult, chose Indonesian citizenship and renounced his U.S. citizenship (because Indonesia does not allow dual citizenship).
And it is very telling that Obama considers Jakarta, Indonesia (not Honolulu, Hawaii) as the “starting point” of his Hope to Assault the White House. You tell me why he allowed his book to be given the following title:
I ask in complete seriousness:
A Different “9/11 Truth”
This is not a joke, and this is not a game. This is about thousands of lives lost to Jihadists, and ensuring that only a Natural Born Citizen, with complete and undivided loyalty to the United States of America, is allowed to hold the office of President of the United States.
In Memory of My Friend
The Unseen Victims of 9/11/2001
Support And Defend Our Constitution
1. Ayers is a second-tier professor of education — education — at a second-tier U.S. university. He had a court say he wasn’t guilty of what you accuse him of. I think it’s terribly unsporting to claim he is what he says and what a court says he is not. For example, you have not had a court deny that you are an Islamic terrorist. Ayers is on better grounds than you are.
Of course, both claims are silly. Quit joking around and get serious.
2. Minors can’t renounce their citizenship. Unless you’ve got evidence of formal legal proceedings that so far have failed to turn up, Obama’s birth in Hawaii would be enough to make him a citizen; his mother having been a U.S. citizen at the time of his birth seals the deal.
3. Obama didn’t “confess” the Islamic prayer. He recited it, much as you recite it here. Unless your claim is that by posting the prayer, you now are a Muslim who has forsaken your U.S. citizenship, you should grant Obama the same courtesy of understanding that knowing culture is not endorsing that culture, nor did his knowing what the prayer was change his citizenship status.
As far as that goes, there is no ban on any follower of Islam, or any non-believer, holding the presidency. Your lack of religious tolerance — that is, bigotry — appears to have blinded you to one of the fundamental tenets of our freedom in the U.S., contained in the First Amendment. Don’t go so far out on a limb that you renounce the Constitution yourself, please.
3. Your slanders at a man I know to be Christian are untoward, unfair, indecorous, and wrong. To the best of my knowledge, you’ve never confessed that Jesus is your lord — but again, the Constitution says that is a moot issue in a race for the presidency. More and more, it appears you have renounced the Constitution. Obama looks more patriotic by the moment. Are you sure you won’t reconsider, and pledge to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution? Obama has taken that oath, publicly. Have you ever taken it? I’m not sure you’ve got ground to complain about Obama, when he’s sworn to defend the U.S., especially since I can’t find any record of your having done so.
4. Travel to Pakistan in 1981 was discouraged, but was not a crime, and not “prohibited.” He would have had to have gotten there from somewhere other than the U.S. directly. In fact, Pakistan was quite close to the Reagan administration in 1981, getting aid from Reagan, and as an ally, as the Pakistanis were fearful of the Soviets who had invaded neighboring Afghanistan the year before. Travel to Pakistan does not suggest that any American is a closet Islamist, but may instead suggest they are ardent anti-communists, or simply world travelers. Islamists were allies with the Republicans in that era. Your allegations strike me as rather absurdly silly.
5. In the publishing industry, authors generally have no control over the foreign nation publication of their books. Translations are notoriously bad. What evidence have you that Obama had any control in the matter at all?
And — do you speak Indonesian? — how do you know that the title you claim was put on the book is the title it gets? The automated translators say the title translates to “Hoof Expectancy: From Jakarta to the White House.” I suspect “hoof expectancy” is idiomatic — but I cannot find anything that suggests it means any kind of assault on America. (I don’t speak Indonesian or anything close; “assault” would be “Penyerangan,” which is not the word on the front of the book at all, but might be phonetically similar; you’re working off of a mistranslation, I believe.)
Obama did, in fact, live in Indonesia, where he attended a Catholic school, and a Moslem school. For the local Indonesian market, a book title’s noting that a kid who once lived there is on his way to the White House seems to be a pretty good promotional gimmick, don’t you think? In the end, it seems to me that anything that might promote Indonesian people reading Obama’s book is a good idea, a great way to get them more familiar with American democratic institutions. The title in no way suggests anything unpatriotic to Americans that I can see. The book is a ringing endorsement of American hope, capitalism, opportunity, education, and everything else we call “the American way.”
What is it you find so dangerous about someone standing up to say good things about America and hope for the future? Seriously, whose side are you on? This is one of the most bizarre claims I’ve ever seen — that Obama’s selling books in Indonesia is a problem. Which part of waving the flag is it that bothers you?
I don’t think you understand how American elections work. Obama’s been through the wringer, and he’s come out smiling and standing tall. In John Wayne’s America, we salute that sort of stuff. It’s the stuff peace is made from, especially peace based on a security promoted by more people sharing in the American ideals, and therefore, protecting America from attacks from outside or within.
You misquote Ayers (have you read that New York Times article? He said he regrets not having done enough to stop the war, to stop the killing, during the Vietnam era. Surely you don’t mean to distort Ayers’ words to make your point, do you? If you have to distort the evidence, maybe your point isn’t worth making, you know?).
I am sorry for your losses on 9/11. Very few Americans were not directly touched, I find in my travels and discussions. Restoring America’s security, financial soundness, and hope, are difficult tasks that we really must accomplish. False complaints against Barack Obama don’t advance anyone’s cause, I don’t think.
Ed,
You clearly haven’t followed the links I provided, because some of your questions (like those about the book title) are already answered in the links. Since you haven’t bothered to read those, I suggest you do before expecting me to take more time to provide answers to all of your questions.
The Ayers quote is a direct cut and paste from the NY Times article…not a “misquote” as you claim.
The part of the Constitution that relates to religion and the Presidency is Article 6 (no religious test), not the First Amendment (which restricts Congress, the legislative branch, and has nothing to do with the executive or judicial branches).
You also don’t seem to understand the difference between establishment (of which our Congress is prohibited) and endorsement (of which our Congress is not only free to do, but has always done). Educate yourself on the truth.
Yes, a Muslim is not Constitutionally barred from POTUS, but seven years after 9/11/2001, the people of this country would not knowingly elect a Muslim as President. That’s where Taqiyya comes in.
Obama’s “Fight the Smears” web site says:
So he “regularly attended” Jeremiah Wright’s church for over 20 years and never heard anything objectionable?
This “committed Christian” skips church, heads to gym
If Obama is truly a “committed Christian”, and is a man of integrity, let him confess three simple words that I freely and joyfully confess: