Apparently taking a pause from plucking the hairs out of his ass crack, Air Berman contributed "Obama Under The Weather" (May 19th edition of, The Nation's whose table of contents blurb line is this: "The Clinton campaign, bolstered by gotcha-style media, has slandered Bill Ayers and the Chicago charity that shaped Barack Obama's activism." Slandered Bill Ayers?
Is this really where the pathetic magazine intends to go?
Yes, it only has propaganda to sell and Air's the perfect fit for that:
As part of a barrage of guilt-by-association questioning, co-moderator George Stephanopoulos asked Obama about his connection to another Woods Fund board member, Bill Ayers, a former '60s radical and ringleader of the Weather Underground.
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Obama responded that he lives in the same neighborhood as Ayers on Chicago's South Side, did not exchange ideas with him on a regular basis and was only 8 when the Weather Underground was violently protesting the war.
First, let's deal with what Barack actually said. It's not that long. But Air summarizes it instead of quoting because he can be more creative via summary. Barack in that debate:
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, George.
Now, note the moronic Barack said "from" and not "with." The Nation never fixed Bully Boy's grammar for him, they just laughed. But no one's supposed to notice how truly stupid Barack is. Need more clues? Barack called Bill Ayers an English professor when he is an EDUCATION professor. Air Berman write that Barack said Weather was violently protesting the war. Barack said no such thing, he said 40 years ago, while he was 8 years old, detestable acts were engaged in.
Barack's born in 1961. The group started in 1969 and he was eight years old at the time. But they were not a one year organization and they did multiple bombings. Their last known bombing is in September of 1975. Was Barack still eight years old? They bombed the Kennecott Corporation. The same year they bombed a bank in New York. Barack would be 14 in 1975 and living with his grandparents (by his choice) and his grandmother was a vice president in banking. Guess that sailed over his head? Maybe he was stoned on pot at the time? And, for the record, that bombing had nothing to do with Vietnam. The Weather's statement said it was in solidarity with Puerto Rican workers. The bombing of the Office of the California Attorney General (in 1974) wasn't about Vietnam either. It was "solidarity" with the terrorists in the Symbionese Liberation Army -- the six who had been killed. They're the thugs who kidnapped Patty Hearst and robbed banks. The year prior the SLA had shot dead Dr. Marcus Foster, African-American educator. For the 'crime' of? No crime. Just their twisted, sick minds.
When Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers turned themselves in, it was national news, BIG national news, and Barack was in college. Maybe he was too stoned to catch the week long coverage of that?
As for Barack's relationship with Dohrn and Ayers, Larry Johnson (No Quarter) has come the closet to nailing it down (he's not wrong, he's just either not found out everything or not published everything yet): "But Barack Obama is not just 'associated' with Bill Ayers. They have a relationship. Bill Ayers co-founded a foundation in Chicago and named Barack the Chairman. That is more than an association. It is a relationship that started in 1995 and Barack stayed in that job for eight years." Johnson isn't writing of Woods Fund, though Air wishes he was.
Yeah, Air Berman really is that stupid. Be really quiet and he'll return to plucking his butt crack hair.