@BillRM,
An overstatement of the relationship between Obama and Ayres? What nonsense!
They were very good friends and worked on the same boards. Have you ever worked on some kind of board or small group, BillRM?
Note:
Interaction between Obama and Ayers
Obama and Ayers first met in 1995[14] when Ayers and Dohrn hosted a small gathering at their home in the Hyde Park section of Chicago, the neighborhood in which the Obamas lived,[2] at which then-state Senator Alice J. Palmer introduced Barack Obama to the group as her chosen successor for the 1996 Democratic primary.[2] Dr. Quentin Young, a longtime physician, who also attended, said it was a small group " maybe a dozen or so people " who were being introduced to the next senator from Chicago's South Side.[15] The formal announcement and endorsement by Palmer was held at the Ramada hotel.[16]
Obama served as president of the board of directors for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a large education-related nonprofit organization that Ayers was instrumental in starting.[2] The board disbursed grants to schools and raised private matching funds while Ayers worked with the operational arm of the effort. Both attended some board meetings in common starting in 1995, retreats, and at least one news conference together as the education program started. They continued to attend meetings together during the 1995"2001 period when the program was operating.[2]
Obama and Ayers served together for three years on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago, an anti-poverty foundation established in 1941. Obama had joined the nine-member board in 1993, and had attended a dozen of the quarterly meetings together with Ayers in the three years up to 2002, when Obama left his position on the board,[1] which Ayers chaired for two years.[17] Laura S. Washington, chairwoman of the Woods Fund, said the small board had a collegial "friendly but businesslike" atmosphere, and met four times a year for a half-day, mostly to approve grants.[5] The two also appeared together on academic panel discussions, including a 1997 University of Chicago discussion on juvenile justice. They again appeared in 2002 at an academic panel co-sponsored by the Chicago Public Library.[1] One panel discussion in which they both appeared was organized by Obama's wife, Michelle.[18]
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No, they barely knew each other!!! Bunk!!!Anyone who had any kind of political aspirations( I am sure Obama did) would stand on his head to AVOID any interactions of any kind with a confessed Anti-American like Ayers--unless that person did not care that relationships with an Anti-American would hurt his poitical future. After all, Obama's base is far left wing or almost completely moronic. He did not need to be careful of his associations with the "bomber".
