from you.

Obama was 8 years old.

By the way, no one was hurt in bombs they planted.  To conflate what they did with 9/11 is odious.

It is arguments like these that harm Clinton.

You do realize that the Clintons pardoned two members of the Weather Underground that were knowingly transporting 740 lbs. of explosives for the explicit purpose of bombing?

A couple of things:

Obama was not 8 years old when he met with and asked for his support in his initial run for the Illinois Senate.

Obama was not 8 years old when he served with him on the board of the Woods fund from 99-2001, and he continued his relationship with him since, including accepting donations to his campaigns.

Obama was not 8 years old, when serving with Ayers on the board voted to invest over $1M in a real-estate venture firm owned by....ALLISON DAVIS.  Yes, that Davis...the same one who then hired him to work at her law-firm and then get involved in a real-estate scandal with on TONY REZKO.

And while President Clinton pardoned those people from the Weather Underground...at least they served prison time and showed repentance at their crimes.  Bill Ayers to this day does not, in addition to not serving one day in jail or prison for ANY of his actions.

Hmmm, so he was on an anti-poverty board with the guy, and Ayers apparently donated $200 to Obama's Senate campaign.  Ayers admittedly horrible actions occurred when Obama was 8.  And the diarist's conclusion is that this reflects poorly on Obama?  Interesting leap.  

Can we distort logic and smear by association?  If you're this diarist, clearly the answer is 'yes we can.'  Pretty sad, if you ask me.  

professors at great schools!

I think they take the following words more seriously than you do...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. -- Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Larry has been peddling this crap for months. The Woods Foundation, for those who don't know, has a long history if doing great things for underprivileged communities and for communities, in general, all over the United States, particularly in the area of health care.

From their home page:

RWJF focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. The Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change.

Now, you hacks can diminish the work of the Woods Foundation, but all that proves is that you don;t know what you're talking about. The fact that Obama and Ayers were both on the board of this esteemed foundation doesn't mean squat.

Here's their current Board of Directors:

The Honorable Thomas H. Kean, M.A., Chairman

Regina Benjamin M.D., M.B.A.

Allan S. Bufferd, Sc.D., J.D.

Robert E. Campbell, M.B.A.

Nancy-Ann DeParle, J.D., M.A.

Charles D. Ellis, Ph.D., M.B.A.

George S. Frazza

Juliet Villarreal Garcia Ph.D., M.A.

Wendy W. Hagen

Edward J. Hartnett

Robert Wood Johnson IV

Ralph S. Larsen

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey,  M.D., M.B.A.

William L. Roper, M.D., M.P.H.

Marla E. Salmon, Sc.D., R.N.

A. Eugene Washington M.D., M.Sc.

Richard B. Worley

That noted radical, Thomas Keane, is the chair.

And here's one of their recent grants in Chicago:

Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Practice and Policy for Healthy Youth Behavior
Grant Details: $6,665,636
University of Illinois at Chicago Health Research and Policy Centers
Room 558, M/C 275 1747 West Roosevelt Road
Chicago, IL 60608-1264

The Foundation's Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Practice for Healthy Youth Behavior Program was designed to improve the understanding of the role of policy and environmental factors in both youth alcohol, illicit drug, and tobacco use, as well as diet and physical activity to evaluate their effectiveness in reducing substance use and obesity among youth. This grant will expand the successful efforts of this program in documenting, analyzing, and communicating the impact of public policies and environmental influences on youth alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use. This ambitious and complex research enterprise is now at its full productive capacity, having accomplished all of these developmental tasks. The next phase of the project will: (1) continue key data collection activities; (2) expand ongoing analytic efforts, including issues of high priority to relevant Foundation programming; (3) increase communication and dissemination activities; and (4) develop creative approaches for convening key leaders in the substance abuse field, including those from other funding organizations.

Dastardly Communist radicals!

Hey, did Obama put Ayers on the board of the Woods Foundation? Or did they just happen to be two of 18 board members?

Keep peddling. The more disgusting and vile the Clinton camp and its surrogates get, the lower Hillary drops in the polls.

Good luck with your slimemball attacks, you pathetic hacks.

I am sure you'll be making the move to the McCain camp soon.

Didn't Ayers throw a political fundraiser for Obama back in the 1990s?  They are obviously very close friends.  Obama is sooo unelectable.

One of Obama and Ayers's neighbors posted to DailyKos about the truth of the matter.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/16/ 231245/285/71/497244

Hyde Park is a small community on the South Side of Chicago that is surrounded by many high crime areas (basically the most violent parts of Chicago).  Hyde Park, referred to as the jewel of the South Side, is basically like living on an island.  The Hyde Park area is only 14 blocks long and many people who live here send their children to the same school - the University of Chicago lab schools (though there are also some great public schools like Kenwood Academy!).  The community has only one major supermarket, and most people who live here run across each other at some point because of how small the neighborhood is.  However, the community is diverse - the neighborhood ranges from politicians like Barack Obama, Carol Moseley Braun, the late Harold Washington to academics like Cass Sunstein, Martha Nussbaum, Gary Becker, Richard Epstein, Richard Posner, and the late Saul Bellow.   The community also has some ex-radicals like William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, who are now mainstream academic/progressive figures in Chicago.

If you live in this small neighborhood for 20 years, it is likely that you will run across Ayers or Dohrn.  This is especially the case for Obama, as he was the State Senator for this community, was an important member of the Chicago Democratic Community, served on local charities, taught at the University of Chicago Law School (and spoke at conferences with people like Ayers - a professor at University of Illinois-Chicago and Dohrn - a professor at Northwestern Law School who also teaches at the University of Chicago).  This "Hannity" story is ridiculous and it reflects how bad the media has become.

Those damned middle-aged professors.

The McCarthyites among the Clintonistas would be baiting him over my contributions to his Senate campaigns.