The American Issues Project has released it’s first ad looking at the relationship between Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee for President, and unrepentant American terrorist William Ayers.
Ben Smith at the Politico has looked at this relationship in his article titled “Obama once visited ’60s radicals” where he noted about Ayers:
While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.
Smith later writes about an meeting at Ayers’ house between Obama and Ayers and others early in Barack Obama’s political career:
I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.”
Obama and Palmer “were both there,” he said.
Obama’s connections to Ayers and Dorhn have been noted in some fleeting news coverage in the past. But the visit by Obama to their home — part of a campaign courtship — reflects more extensive interaction than has been previously reported.
Here is the advertisement:
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