Barack Obama is lying about not being friends with Bill Ayers...

[unregistered]

 

[RobDownSouth]

The above is the kind of statement you get from people terrified to read anything that might conflict with their chosen belief system. I he had have chosen to read before spouting, he would have read this:

"There is nothing in this timeline to even remotely suggest that Barack Obama was born anywhere except in Hawaii."

Of course you're not a "birther", Dances With Falsehoods....you were just copy and pasting an article that promotes birtherism. That way you can have plausible deniability and say "Oh NOE! I am not a birther! I'm just posting an article. tee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee" when people call you out on your many falsehoods.

Avoiding responsibility for your actions at all costs seems to be a prime directive in your life.

Many people would call that "cowardice".

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Google, which sits atop more data than anybody outside the NSA, is presenting Bill Ayers as the author of Barack Obama's purported first autobiography, Dreams from My Father. Follow this link and see it while you can. If it is gone by the time you read this, a screen shot of the page, and a close-up on the Dreams entry are provided for posterity.

Google knows so much about us already that privacy activists are alarmed. What data are its algorithms sifting through to come to the conclusion that yes, the stylistic parallels to Ayers' other books are formidable and Barry never showed any sign of an ability to write this way before or after, and yes, Christopher Anderson's friendly biography includes the information that Obama found himself deeply in debt and "hopelessly blocked." At "Michelle's urging," Obama "sought advice from his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers."

So the company that supposedly knows more about us than we know ourselves also knows who wrote Dreams from My Father.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog...r_of_dreams_from_my_father.html#ixzz1srj5Nar1

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

lol

 

[off2bed]

So it was Bill and Bernardine who ate dog in their fugitive days?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

No doubt.



And fried grasshoppers...

Obama kept trying to Wright the book, but all he ended up with was a box of random notes that he took over to some guy in the neighborhood.

 

[off2bed]

Ahh, Grasshopper.

When you can snatch the economy from my hand, it will be time for you to leave.

 

[mercury14]

Dreams of My Father has been out for almost 20 years. Did you guys just decide a the other day that you had nothing better to do, so you might as well manufacture a bunch of crap and call it news?

Or rather some right wing bloggers did this and you let them do your thinking for you? Did they also tell you to read the entire book? Or did they want to keep you intellectually bankrupt and dependent on them for your "information"?

 

[busybody..]

Google Algorithms Confirm That Bill Ayers Wrote Obama Autohagiography


Google seems to know something that we have long suspected. Look what comes up at the bottom of this screen cap if you search for books by Bill Ayers, unrepentant communist terrorist and mentor to the Community Organizer in Chief:

http://moonbattery.com/bill-ayers-google.jpg

Let’s hope Ayers is getting royalties for being the true author of Dreams From My Father. It would be a shame for him not to profit from the free market system he has called for violently overthrowing.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Dreams of My Father has been out for almost 20 years. Did you guys just decide a the other day that you had nothing better to do, so you might as well manufacture a bunch of crap and call it news?

Or rather some right wing bloggers did this and you let them do your thinking for you? Did they also tell you to read the entire book? Or did they want to keep you intellectually bankrupt and dependent on them for your "information"?

Well, we could not command 11 AP reporters to run up to Wassila and fact-check it...

What I have discovered in the four years since I purchased and read the book is that no one on the Left has read it. THey have no idea if he wrote it and they don't care, they were caught up in the moment.

We, for example, did not find out until later, that JFK did not really write PT109.

Or that he nailed Monroe...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Ahh, Grasshopper.

When you can snatch the economy from my hand, it will be time for you to leave.

When you can refute the two independent sources that say Obama brought a box of notes over to the former terrorist, then you can claim that he wasn't just a guy in the neighborhood.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Old bitter AJ still clings to the discredited conjecture that dastardly Bill Ayers wrote Barack Obama's autobiography.

He's got "independent sources" to verify this, y'know.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Comedy: The "Paper of Record" Promises "Hard Look" at President Obama
Rush Limbaugh, EIB
April 24, 2012

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I think the funniest joke over the weekend has to be that editorial by the New York Times public editor. The guy's name is Arthur Brisbane. The piece is entitled, "A Hard Look at the President." Here we are four years, for all intents and purposes... (interruption) Well, yeah, if you count 2008. Four years into coverage of Barack Obama as either the president or presidential candidate by the New York Times, and they promise -- in a piece on April 21st "A Hard Look at the President." And get this. Snerdley, listen to this. Gotta know this 'cause people might call you about it. The last line of the New York Times piece... Which, it's an editorial from the public editor.

The last line ends with: "Readers deserve to know who is the real Barack Obama, and the Times needs to show that it can address the question in a hard-nosed, unbiased way." That is the funniest joke of the weekend! Four years into it, the New York Times is promising us that "readers deserve to know the real Barack Obama, and the Times needs to show that it can address that question in a hard-nosed way." Now, this is just flat-out hilarious. Unless you think how much the rest of the news media depends upon the New York Times to lead the way in coverage. Will the rest of the news media now just say, "Okay, well, I guess we have to show people who the real Obama is."

Here we are more than three-and-a-half years into his presidency, more than five trillion dollars into more debt, and "the paper of record" decides that its readers deserve to know who is the real Barack Obama. Now, the question is: Why does the New York Times need to show who Obama is now? Where is the pressure coming from to do this? Why now? Well, I think largely people are getting their news from other places, and the things that these other places are reporting and saying about Obama doesn't jibe with what the New York Times wants people to know about Obama. That would be my guess. So the New York Times has decided, with all this other information out there about Obama, they have to come out with their own version of it to try to guard against the truth being reported about Obama.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: The New York Times promising "a hard look."
"Readers deserve to know: Who is the real Barack Obama? And The Times needs to show that it can address the question in a hard-nosed, unbiased way." Now, this editorial in the New York Times begins by the public editor Arthur Brisbane admitting that there's been a lot more negative coverage of Romney than Obama in the New York Times, but that's just the way things go in primaries. But he says, "Now, though, the general election season is on, and The Times needs to offer an aggressive look at the president’s record, policy promises and campaign operation to answer the question: Who is the real Barack Obama?" Is that not laughable?

Here is "the newspaper of record," the newspaper, the greatest newspaper in the world by reputation, deciding after four years, and they're gonna find out "Who is the real Barack Obama?" You know, I'm reminded of this sound bite we play often, Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw, on October 30th of 2008, about a week before the election. These two guys were sitting around saying (paraphrased), "I don't know what books he's read! I don't know who primary influences are. We really don't know what his foreign policy is. Who is this man? We don't really know who this man is! I couldn't tell you, Tom."

"Nor I, Charlie! We don't know." They had two primo journalists a week before the election proudly admitting they had no idea who it was they were supporting. They had full intentions of voting for the guy and they're admitting they don't know who he is. Here's the New York Times four years later promising to find out who he is. And then after they find out who he is, they're gonna tell us. And after telling us then they assure us that they're gonna be honest. And they're gonna be brave. "The Times needs to show that it can address the question in a hard-nosed, unbiased way."

"According to a study by the media scholars ... The Times’s coverage of the president’s first year in office was significantly more favorable than its first-year coverage of three predecessors..." Yeah, we wouldn'ta noticed that if they hadn't told us, right? They coulda added the last two and a half years as well. He says, "The warm afterglow of Mr. Obama’s election, the collateral effects of liberal-minded feature writers -- these can be overcome by hard-nosed, unbiased political reporting now." Now? So the New York Times is four years late and $5 trillion short as they promise and endeavor to tell us who Barack Obama really is.

END TRANSCRIPT

"You know, it’s … we’re ready, you know. Our children, you know, could care less about what we’re doing. We work hard to do that. Fortunately we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.“
Michelle Obama

Contemporary leftists, on the other hand, view their opponents as people you send off to the Gulag, unworthy of any respect, deserving of any kind of low blow, no matter how foul. So you accuse Goldwater of insanity, slander Justice Thomas as a sexual monster, casually publish plays, books, and films calling for the assassination of President Bush, and assault the first serious Republican female candidate at her weakest point -- her family. And of course, you scream to high heaven if any form of turnabout occurs in your direction, as in the case of the Obama family, which was declared "off limits" early in the presidential campaign, at the same time that Palin's family was being stretched on the media rack.

This style of political loathing has become effectively innate. It has been systemized to such a degree as to become integral. Modern liberalism cannot do without it. An entire structure has been erected on the basis of political hatred, and from that structure a whole new strategy has arisen.
J.R. Dunn

 

[miles]

This style of political loathing has become effectively innate. It has been systemized to such a degree as to become integral. Modern liberalism cannot do without it. An entire structure has been erected on the basis of political hatred, and from that structure a whole new strategy has arisen.[/COLOR][/I]
J.R. Dunn

The old media is a perfect example. Liberals think "everyone" thinks like they do (or should) and see nothing wrong with blatantly biased journalism as long as it represents their views. They can't differentiate between journalism/reporting and commentary. To them it's all the same.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The old media is a perfect example. Liberals think "everyone" thinks like they do (or should) and see nothing wrong with blatantly biased journalism as long as it represents their views. They can't differentiate between journalism/reporting and commentary. To them it's all the same.

Tom Brokaw said that.

America IS left of center, so that's where we report.

A variation on "How did he win? Nobody I know voted for him!"

 

[miles]

Tom Brokaw said that.

America IS left of center, so that's where we report.

A variation on "How did he win? Nobody I know voted for him!"

Brokaw actually said that??

I didn't know there were conservative and liberal facts!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Remember, from Iraq, there are facts we cannot know if the press is to maintain access

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

"Like many characters in the memoir," says Maraniss of Cook, "[Obama] introduced her to advance a theme, another thread of thought in his musings about race." What Maraniss does not say, and may not know, is that most, if not all, of the dramatic racial moments in the book are fully manufactured.

With the help of his muse and co-author, Bill Ayers, Obama wove a series of racial grievances into the narrative to toughen up Obama's life story. These stories aren't "compressed," as Obama claims. They are contrived. In his own memoir, Fugitive Days, Ayers likewise shows a casual disdain for facts. "Is this then the truth?" he asks. "Not exactly. Although it feels entirely honest to me." When lesser memoirists do the same -- James Frey of A Million Little Pieces fame comes quickly to mind -- they get trashed on national TV by Oprah.

In the case of composite girl, for instance, Obama tells of how their relationship came to a bitter end over her failure to understand black angst. "We had a big fight, right in front of the theater, writes Obama. "When we got back to the car she started crying. She couldn't be black, she said." Cook denies that this ever happened.

As Obama later explained to Maraniss, "I thought that [the anecdote] was a useful theme to make about sort of the interactions that I had in the relationships with white girlfriends." Frey felt much the same way. "A memoir literally means my story. A memoir is a subjective retelling of events," he protested, adding, "I never expected the book to come under the type of scrutiny that it has." When Obama used the theater story in Dreams, he never expected this kind of scrutiny, either. At the time, no one beyond his neighborhood knew who Obama was. Nor did Obama expect scrutiny when he shared in Dreams the following racial life lessons, all of which have since been proven false (For a fuller accounting, see Friday's WND):

As a nine year-old, he saw in Life magazine a story about a black man turned grotesquely white in a desperate chemical effort to lighten his appearance. Life never ran such an article. When challenged, Obama claimed that it was Ebony. Ebony ran no such article, either.

In his first days at his Hawaiian prep school, Obama shamefully rejects "Coretta," the only other black student, lest he be tainted by her blackness. Obama biographer David Remnick found the girl. She had no such memory. "He was my knight in shining armor," she gushed. In his book, A Kind and Just Parent, Ayers tells much the same story. He talks of a useful reading assignment about the travails of Clint, one of two black students in an otherwise all-white school, who rudely tries to distance himself from Marvin, the other black boy. Like Obama, Clint feels guilty on reflection.

After Columbia, Obama worked for what he describes in Dreams as "a consulting house to multinational corporations." He observes, "As far as I could tell I was the only black man in the company." In full grievance mode, he considers his unique status "a source of shame." A former coworker (and fan) revealed Obama's account to be a "serious exaggeration." It was not a multinational corporation, but a "small company that published newsletters." Obama was not the only black. He did not, as claimed, have his own office, wear a jacket and tie, interview international businessmen, or write articles.

In Dreams, "Frank," the real-life Communist Frank Marshall Davis, slams college education. "Understand something, boy," he tells the college-bound Obama. You're not going to college to get educated. You're going there to get trained." Adds Frank, "They'll train you so good, you'll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that shit." Davis would never say this. In his memoir, Livin the Blues, he tells of the richly rewarding years he spent at Kansas State University: its "beautiful" campus, its "usually agreeable" students, its "excellent" journalism department. Later, he would see open-minded white college students as the hope for America's racial future. His college poetry-reading tours on the mainland in 1973 and 1974 were huge successes. It was Ayers who had the grudge against orthodox education. "Education is for self-activating explorers of life, for those who would challenge fate, for doers and activists, for citizens," he writes in his 1993 book To Teach. "Training," on the other hand, "is for slaves, for loyal subjects, for tractable employees, for willing consumers, for obedient soldiers." Sound familiar?

In Dreams, the composite character "Asante Moran" tells Obama, "The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period." Social control -- no surprise here -- is an Ayers obsession. "The message to Black people was that at any moment and for any reason whatsoever your life or the lives of your loved ones could be randomly snuffed out," he writes in Fugitive Days. "The intention was social control through random intimidation and unpredictable violence."

To shore up the black base in a book calculated to get Obama elected mayor of Chicago, Obama suggests that the mystery white woman was the only white woman he dated. "There are several black ladies out there who've broken my heart just as good," Obama tells his half-sister Auma. This has yet to be proven false, but I doubt if even Maraniss will turn up any of these ladies.

Although I believe Maraniss wrote the Obama book in good faith, too much of what he learned from these two women in question is too convenient. The events they "remember" fill holes in the Obama narrative much too neatly. Maraniss has been misled by useful memories of old Obama friends before. In fact, on the eve of the election in 2008, he misinterpreted one such memory so completely it may have saved Obama's campaign -- but more on this later. Given Obama's elusiveness, Maraniss should have been more on guard here. He should have asked out loud why he was allowed to "find" sources no one else, including Obama's most prominent biographer, David Remnick, had.

...

Ayers' great lost love, Diana Oughton, a Weatherwoman killed in a 1970 bomb blast, matches the brief description of this woman in Dreams even better than Cook does, right down to the "specks of green" in her eyes and a multi-generational estate with a lake in the middle. "The house was very old, her grandfather's house," Obama writes of his girlfriend's country home. "He had inherited it from his grandfather." In real life, Oughton's father's grandfather built the main house on their estate, a 20-room Victorian mansion, which is now on the national historic register.

...

Maraniss has been down this road before. In a lengthy biographical piece on Obama for the Washington Post in August 2008, Maraniss mistakenly shored up the myth of a happy little Obama family, the myth on which Obama built his candidacy. Maraniss did so by relying on the testimony of Susan Botkin, a childhood friend of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham. In the process, he made an amateurish botch of the timeline of Obama's early years.

As Maraniss acknowledges, Obama Sr. left Hawaii for the mainland and ultimately Harvard in June 1962. Maraniss implies that the family had been living together since Obama's birth in August 1961. Based on Botkin's testimony, Maraniss contends that Dunham stopped by Seattle in the fall of 1962 on her way to visit her presumed husband at Harvard. Botkin reportedly tells Maraniss, "[She said] he had transferred to grad school and she was going to join him." Maraniss adds, "But as Botkin and others later remembered it, something happened in Cambridge, and Stanley Ann returned to Seattle. They saw her a few more times, and they thought she even tried to enroll in classes at the University of Washington, before she packed up and returned to Hawaii."

Other earlier interviews with Botkin, one of which was posted online, yield a much clearer picture. In these, Ann had come to visit "briefly" with Barry at Botkin's family home. Botkin placed the time as "a late August afternoon" in 1961 "when Barry was just a few weeks old," and she claimed to have changed Barry's diaper.

In April 2008, Botkin told the Seattle Times that Ann was excited about her husband's plans to return not to Harvard, but to Kenya. Botkin said the same thing to writer Michael Patrick Leahy, who interviewed her early in the summer of 2008. Here, too, Botkin adds a clarifying detail: "[Dunham] left [Hawaii] just as soon she had clearance from her doctor to travel with her new baby."

As Botkin acknowledged in several interviews, she never saw her friend again. The visit at Botkin's mother's house had to be in 1961, a year before Barack Sr. left for Harvard. Dunham arrived in Seattle in August 1961 and stayed for a year, enrolling at the University of Washington. Obama would not see Obama Sr. until he was ten.

What Maraniss needs to do is explain whether he was misled by Botkin or whether he willfully misinterpreted what she told him. He also should reveal whether he actually saw the letters that Dunham allegedly sent Botkin detailing her romance with Obama Sr., the only such proof of the same. If Maraniss can correct the record on Obama's origins and tell us a little more about those heart-breaking "black ladies out there," I may even buy the book.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012...e_girl_tell_us_about_obama.html#ixzz1u5djWs2G

 

[Ishmael]

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012...e_girl_tell_us_about_obama.html#ixzz1u5djWs2G

The problems with his book continue to mount. When fiction is so freely woven into the fabric of what is allegedly an auto-biography the lines of distinction blur to the point that the entire work begins to take on the aspects of fiction with small seasonings of truth scattered throughout. It is at that point that perhaps it is more productive to merely identify those rare truths rather than attempting to find the falsehoods.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Someone I read yesterday or Friday was pointing out that compression is what turns Six Days of the Condor, the book into Three Days of the Condor, the movie.



It never ceases to amaze me how few of his supporters have even read his book.

 

[Ishmael]

Someone I read yesterday or Friday was pointing out that compression is what turns Six Days of the Condor, the book into Three Days of the Condor, the movie.



It never ceases to amaze me how few of his supporters have even read his book.

What may be even more frightening is the number that have read it and still support him.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

He has the traditional appeal for the intellectual class (Hoffer's scribes) who have no significant part to play in a Capitalist Society so they will fulminate against it for a controlled, managed economy that requires the best and brightest brains to run it.



"The more communal enterprise extends, the more attention is drawn to the bad business results of nationalized and municipalized undertakings. It is impossible to miss the cause of the difficulty: a child could see where something was lacking. So that it cannot be said that this problem has not been tackled. But the way in which it has been tackled has been deplorably inadequate. Its organic connection with the essential nature of socialist enterprise has been regarded as merely a question of better selection of persons. It has not been realized that even exceptionally gifted men of high character cannot solve the problems created by socialist control of industry."
Ludwig Heinrich Elder von Mises

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The Dohrn Connection
By Robert VerBruggen, NRO
May 7, 2012 4:00 A.M.

Bernardine Dohrn has a history with the Justice Department. More specifically, in the early 1970s, she was one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives because of her actions with the Weather Underground, a violent radical organization.

Times have changed. In 2010 and 2011, the Justice Department saw fit to give $400,000 in grants to an organization that lists Dohrn as a member of its board of directors: a $150,000 grant in September of 2010 and a $250,000 grant a year later.

The organization that received the grants is the W. Haywood Burns Institute, and the project that brought in the money is the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative. JDAI aims to keep juvenile criminals out of “secure confinement” and to reduce racial disparities in the juvenile justice system.

http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/299147



Just a woman in the neighborhood...

 

[Saint Peter]

The Dohrn Connection
By Robert VerBruggen, NRO
May 7, 2012 4:00 A.M.



http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/299147



Just a woman in the neighborhood...

Not just any woman.


Bernardine Dohrn
Dohrn, Bernardine
Clinical Associate Professor of Law


Bernardine Dohrn, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and immediate past director/founder of the Children and Family Justice Center, is a child advocate who teaches, lectures and write about children’s law, juvenile justice, the needs and rights of youth, and international human rights. With Steven A. Drizin, she is co-founder of the Center on the Wrongful Convictions of Youth. She works to abolish the sentence of life without possibility of parole for juveniles with the Illinois Coalition for the Fair Sentencing of Children, and serves on the Board of the National Coalition for the Fair Sentencing of Youth. Dohrn is engaged in research, writing, policy and advocacy to reduce the incarceration and out-of-home care of youth.


Areas of Expertise

International Human Rights

Juvenile Justice

Courses

Children in Conflict with the Law
Directed Reading and Research
International Team Project
Selected Issues in Israeli and Palestinian Law

Seminar: Rwandan Genocide, Law and War Crimes
Torture: Paradigms and Practice
Women, Children and Human Rights

Selected Publications

Illinois: An Assessment of Access to Counsel and Quality of Representation in Delinquency Proceedings (Children and Family Justice Center, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law and the National Juvenile Defender Center, 2007). (with Cathryn Crawford, Thomas F. Geraghty, Marjorie B. Moss, and Patricia Puritz)
A Century of Juvenile Justice (University of Chicago Press, 2002). (with Margaret Rosenheim, Franklin Zimring, and David Tanenhaus )
Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools (The New Press, 2001).
The Lesser Culpability of the Juvenile Offender: Trial in Adult Criminal Court, Incarceration with Adults, and Excessive Sanctions in What Is Right For Children?: The Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights (Ashgate Publishing, 2009).
Foreword in Juvenile Justice in the Making vii-xii (Oxford University Press, 2004).
"Look Out Kid/It's Something You Did": Zero Tolerance for Children in Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools 89-113 (The New Press, 2001).

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Education

BA with honors, University of Chicago
MA, University of Chicago
JD, University of Chicago

Prior Appointments

Director, Children and Family Justice Center, Northwestern School of Law
Associate Professor, University of Chicago
Adjunct Faculty, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Criminal Justice
Visiting Law Faculty, Vrieje University, Amsterdam
Visiting Law Faculty, Leiden University, Netherlands

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

She was a terrorist bomber.