The Ayers and Obama connection... it keeps getting deeper and deeper. For raw video of these files finally released under lots of public pressure, check out THIS LINK at the Chicago Tribune. Below is a short video on this growing connection and some text from the YouTube video embedded below. The National Review has put pressure on this foundation -- finally appealing to the public, and winning -- that vetted Obama (which Ayers and his communist wife founded) and jump started his political career.
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Ayers, now a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, served with Barack Obama on the board of the charitable Woods Fund of Chicago for three years and helped launch Obama's political career in Illinois by hosting in his Hyde Park home an informal campaign event for the future state senator in 1995.
Ayers claimed the Weathermen were driven by "hope and love," not despair, and said he did not think the group's violent acts, targeting federal officials and local law enforcement officers, were "a big deal."
Between October 1969 and September 1973, the Weather Underground claimed credit for some twenty bombings across the country, in which no one was harmed — save the three cell members who perished in a Greenwich Village townhouse in March 1970, when one of their creations detonated prematurely. Ayers claimed the fact that no other individuals were killed as a result of the Weathermen's actions was "by design."
In his autobiography, Fugitive Days: A Memoir, Ayers recalled, he posed the question: "How far are you willing to take that step into what I consider the abyss of violence? And we really never did, except for that moment in the townhouse.... I actually think destroying property in the face of that kind of catastrophe is so — restrained. And I don't see it as a big deal.
