Hat tip Big Government
"It's hard to imagine that the powerful in our society would tolerate the burgeoning prison-industrial complex if they'd imagine that the black men and Latino men that are being imprisoned were something like their sons."
Andrew Breitbart is speaking from the grave. Here is a video of a Barack Obama speech from 2002 that is running on Big Government. In this speech at the University of Chicago, Obama makes a couple of noteworthy quotes that call into question the idea that he is bridging the racial divide.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/03/Old-Video-Shows-Obama-s-Feelings-About-Race-Crime-Education-and-Wealth
"I don't know if you've noticed but rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn't they be. They've got what they want."
Of course, compared to Bill Ayres and Jeremiah Wright, this shouldn't be too big a shock. Perhaps it is a reminder that Obama was never vetted by the news media in 2008. Obama was asked one time about his relationship with Ayres, and he answered by describing him as a respected college professor who happened to live in the neighborhood. As for Wright, Obama turned out that "great speech" in Philadelphia that Chris Mattherws compared to the Gettysburg Address or some such nonsense.
Now these videos come out that show a different Barack Obama from the one who gave that speech in Philadelphia.
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"Obama was asked one time about his relationship with Ayres, and he answered by describing him as a respected college professor who happened to live in the neighborhood."
Obama's exact quote:
"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense..."
Now, do you have some sort of proof that Obama had a closer to Ayers than he's letting on there?
703,
Just so happens I do. First of all, my summary is accurate enough. Secondly, Obama began his political career in the home of Ayres and his fellow-terrorist, and fugitive and wife Bernadine Dohrn when he ran for his first political office. Obama also served on various boards with Ayres in Chicago. As far as what Ayres did 40 years ago, he has always been unrepentant and in recent years had his picture taken standing on an American flag in a alley. All that is above and beyond your quoted statement. Is that enough?
Neither of those mean that he's close to Ayers or shares his ideology.
Do you know the circumstances behind either of those two examples? That might reveal something one way or the other.
703,
You can do all the googling very easily, but I tried to find a "neutral" source for you, so here is the Fact Check description of the events.
You forgot the link, so I did some research.
Snopes has an article, which completely goes against your thesis. Ayers himself claims that he didn't even know Obama when the campaign was launched at his house, as he hosted it at the request of a state senator.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ayers.asp
Factcheck also contradicts your assertion:
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/10/he-lied-about-bill-ayers/
So, everything I'm finding isn't helping your case all that much. I'm finding plenty of right-wing sites that don't do anything other than assert what you did though.
Old news. Gary is desperate to find a way to turn this election around.
Good luck.
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