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RNC Pulled Video Of Mock-Obama Criticizing Troops, Thanking Ayers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: The RNC confirms that the mock Obama video it put up on its site -- in which a voice impersonation of the president pledges to hand the census...

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Former Weather Underground Member: Ayers "Disingenuous"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former Weather Underground member Howard Machtinger argues in an "In These Times" essay that Bill Ayers "glosses over" the violence of the organizatio...

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Bill Ayers On Hardball: Calls Accusations "Profoundly Dishonest" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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"I don't tend to watch television news...I have three grown sons who kind of filter those things and they sent it to me." That's Bill Ayers, making a...

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Ayers Says Connection To Obama 'Exaggerated'

Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former 1960s radical William Ayers says his past relationship with President-elect Barack Obama was often exaggerated during Obama's bid for the Whit...

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How The Right Wing Helped Bill Ayers

Posted 05.25.2011

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After staying silent during an election that made him into one of its central bogeymen, Bill Ayers has been making the rounds, appearing on "Good Mor...

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Ayers To Speak At Northwestern Thursday

Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE 11/18 6:10 P.M. Bill Ayers' Northwestern speech has been postponed, a university spokesman told the Tribune. A new date has not yet been se...

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Ayers: Our Neighborhood "Kind Of Like Wasilla"

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Salon's Walter Shapiro talked to Bill Ayers about the election in which he played a surprisingly big part: Do you feel diminished by Obama repeatedl...

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Bill Ayers Calls Obama A 'Family Friend' In Updated Book

Posted 05.25.2011

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In a new afterword to his 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, Bill Ayers refers to himself as a "family friend" of President-elect Barack Obama, according to...

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Ayers Finally Speaks: I Barely Knew Obama, "They Made Me Into A Cartoon Character"

New Yorker | David Remnick | Posted 05.25.2011

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Early this morning, the Obama family voted at the Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School, in Hyde Park. Long after they had gone, the lawn in front of the...

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Race in the Race

Jim Ylisela | Posted 05.25.2011

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So here we are, 25 years after Harold Washington, and the stakes couldn't be higher.

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The Real Barack Obama, Circa 1996

Karen Chassin Goldbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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Unlike the hundreds of thousands who show up for Barack's message of hope and change today, on that evening there were maybe a dozen of us in the modest carriage house.

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Life Among the Felons

Norman Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was in 1943 that my parents moved our family from the Kingsbridge Road section of the Bronx to what is still a beautiful building on the Grand Conc...

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Studs for Obama

Edward Lifson | Posted 05.25.2011

I asked Studs Terkel, if he were to interview Obama, what would he ask him? That got him going.

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University Cancels Ayers Speech After GOP Pressure

Omaha World-Herald | Henry J. Cordes and Khristopher J. Brooks | Posted 05.25.2011

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln rescinded its speaking invitation tonight for 1960s radical-turned-educator William Ayers. University officials ci...

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McCain's Robocalls Have Parents Worried About Their Kids; Palin Criticizes Tactic

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the more noteworthy responses to John McCain's massive robocall campaign tying Barack Obama to Bill Ayers has been from parents whose children ...

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GOP Pamphlet: Ayers Is "Terrorist, Radical, Friend of Obama"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Republican Party is blasting out a four-page pamphlet tying Barack Obama to Bill Ayers, who they say oversaw a "reign of terror" and is a "friend ...

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Study: McCain Getting Burnt By His Attacks On Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The PEW Research Center is out with a new study that suggests John McCain's attacks against Barack Obama's character and associations have strongly ba...

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Final Presidential Debate: Obama Says He's Ready For Ayers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Honoring the pre-debate tradition, Barack Obama's campaign is out with a memo on Wednesday raising the expectations for John McCain to ungodly heights...

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Final Debate: McCain Brings Up Ayers, ACORN

The Huffington Post | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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McCain goes where he hasn't before in a debate: Bill Ayers. "We need to know the full extent of that relationship," he declares. Then he accuses the c...

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Bill Ayers Speaks: 'Life Happens'

Chicago Tribune | James Janega | Posted 05.25.2011

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As his name was tossed back and forth Tuesday in the fury of the presidential campaign, 1960s radical William Ayers spent the day as he often does, w...

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Who Else 'Worked With' Bill Ayers?

Posted 05.25.2011

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"Behind in the polls and running out of time to change the subject from the sinking economy, the McCain/Palin campaign has gone hyper trying to morph...

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Aide: McCain Likely To Confront Obama Over Ayers At Next Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Monday afternoon, John McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds offered a quick preview of the third and final presidential debate this Wednesday at Hofstra ...

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PolitiFact Tears Apart McCain's Ayers Claims

PolitiFact | Posted 05.25.2011

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For most of the election, Sen. John McCain's campaign has been somewhat subtle about trying to tie Sen. Barack Obama to the former '60s radical Willia...

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Obama Aides: Record Cash Raised In September, Polls Show McCain Ads Backfired

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the presidential campaign approaching its final stretch, Barack Obama finds himself in an enviable position. One official close to the campaign...

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Obama Predicted GOP's Nasty Turn (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Jed Report reminds us that Barack Obama predicted the campaign's nasty turn months ago: ...

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