Obama & Ayers: Why it Matters

So where does the truth lie in the re-emergence of the story of Barack Obama and his relationship with William Ayers?

Is it, as Obama and his enablers in the media say, that it's irrelevant guilt by association?

- That what Ayers did in bombing federal targets in the 60's in the Weatherman when Obama was 8 has nothing to do with Obama.
- That Obama barely knows Ayers, "just a guy that lives in his neighborhood"
- that serving on two charitable boards together means nothing as far as Obama's judgement

Or is it, as conservatives like me and Sarah Palin argue, entirely relevant to Obama's qualification to be President?

- that Obama and Ayers have deep connections, going back to time together at Columbia
- that they share a socialist agenda for overthrowing capitalism, which they actively worked together to bring about.

Clearly, it's the second one.

Here are the only two things you need to know about William Ayers' relationship to Barack Obama:

1. William Ayers never stopped attacking America!

- not only as the cofounder of the radical anti-war bomber during the 60's, bombing the Pentagon and the Capitol and killing federal officials.

- since then. Not only as an unrepentant bomber, who regrets that they hadn't "done more". As a devotee of Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" which taught Democratic radicals to pursue their agenda of revolution and socialism from inside the system. To get elected or in power and use the mainstream infrastructures to bring down the American system of capitalism and usher in marxist socialism in America. (No, I am not making this up. If you don't know who Saul Alinsky is, you don't know enough to vote for Barack Obama. Simple as that.)

- William Ayers pursues his attack on America now as an "education reformer". Simply put, he's not interested in teaching your kids math or english. He's teaching them radical revolutionary socialism. Teaching a whole generation of kids to loath capitalism and to foment revolution.

2. William Ayers chose Barack Obama to help him undermine American education!

- Ayers created the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. He sought and won $50 million in funds from the Annenberg charitable trust, and matched it with $50 million in local funding.

- Ayers chose Obama as the first chairman of the board that distributed that money. In fact, Obama was so proud of this position that he claimed it as his best executive experience qualification when he ran for Illinois Senate.

- Obama, under Ayers's close guidance, distributed the $100 million not to schools, but to external left-wing radical organizations. Groups like ACORN that commit voter fraud. Groups that teach revolutionary socialism. Groups that I would certainly not grant money to if my goal was to improve education.

Two Questions that Settle this issue:

1. If you created an organization to hand out $100 million dollars on behalf of a cause that you cared deeply about, would you select someone you barely knew as the first chairman of the board? Or would you choose a fellow traveler, who you knew very well and were certain that he shared your radical views?

2. Is education in Chicago improved after Ayers and Obama collaborated to spend $100 million "reforming" education in Chicago? Would you enroll your child in the Chicago School District?


Bottom line:

- Ayers and Obama know each other very very well, despite Obama's persistence to deny that he knows Ayers. And despite the media covering for him.

- Ayers and Obama are fellow travelers with a radical revolutionary vision of bringing down capitalism in America and replacing it with a marxist socialist system.

It matters, very much.