Facts About Senator John McCain's wife, Cindy McCain

[Etta Place]

Originally Posted by xds&chevys

Barack Obama Obama launched his campaign for the state senate with a fundraiser at the house of Ayers and his fellow terrorist wife Bernadine Dohrn.

I don't know about you but I would think that he would have to be more than a casual acquaintance to use his home for a fundraiser to launch a campaign. He would at the very least have to like and respect him right?? Would you launch a political career at the house of someone you didn't?

It's more like Ayers liked or respected Obama and Obama was grateful for the support.

[jdavionic]

Interesting read. Quite a difference from the baggage that Obama is carrying. In the end though, I find the spouse of the candidate to be pretty irrelevant in the overall importance of the decision in casting my vote.

[AZXD]

Originally Posted by jdavionic

Interesting read. Quite a difference from the baggage that Obama is carrying. In the end though, I find the spouse of the candidate to be pretty irrelevant in the overall importance of the decision in casting my vote.

Agreed, just on their own words ... The decision requires dice .... No need to foul the polluted waters with spousal BS.

[xds&chevys]

Originally Posted by Etta Place

It's more like Ayers liked or respected Obama and Obama was grateful for the support.

With all due respect, the way I understand your post is that Barack Obama was grateful for the support of a terrorist, and therefore chose to launch his political campaign at his house and break bread with him.

[Etta Place]

Originally Posted by xds&chevys

With all due respect, the way I understand your post is that Barack Obama was grateful for the support of a terrorist, and therefore chose to launch his political campaign at his house and break bread with him.

I would say that this is a pretty balanced description of the relationship between Ayers and Obama. It's part of a longer article about the relationship.

Obama once visited '60s radicals
By: Ben Smith
February 22, 2008 01:26 PM EST

In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.

Now, as Obama runs for president, what two guests recall as an unremarkable gathering on the road to a minor elected office stands as a symbol of how swiftly he has risen from a man in the Hyde Park left to one closing in fast on the Democratic nomination for president.

“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.”

Obama and Palmer “were both there,” he said.

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Obama once visited '60s radicals - Ben Smith - Politico.com