RNC Pulled Video Of Mock-Obama Criticizing Troops, Thanking Ayers
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...
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...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
Former Weather Underground member Howard Machtinger argues in an "In These Times" essay that Bill Ayers "glosses over" the violence of the organizatio...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.10.2009 | Media
"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...
Associated Press | Posted 12.21.2008 | Chicago
Former 1960s radical William Ayers says his past relationship with President-elect Barack Obama was often exaggerated during Obama's bid for the Whit...
Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago
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...
Posted 12.18.2008 | Chicago
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...
The Huffington Post | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics
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...
Posted 12.14.2008 | Chicago
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...
New Yorker | David Remnick | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
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...
Jim Ylisela | Posted 11.29.2008 | Chicago
So here we are, 25 years after Harold Washington, and the stakes couldn't be higher.
Karen Chassin Goldbaum | Posted 11.27.2008 | Chicago
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.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
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...
Edward Lifson | Posted 11.23.2008 | Chicago
I asked Studs Terkel, if he were to interview Obama, what would he ask him? That got him going.
Frank Naif | Posted 11.22.2008 | Home
Obama's detractors don't understand how the security clearance process works if they think that merely knowing a felon, former terrorist, or conservative boogeyman renders one ineligible for a clearance.
Omaha World-Herald | Henry J. Cordes and Khristopher J. Brooks | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln rescinded its speaking invitation tonight for 1960s radical-turned-educator William Ayers. University officials ci...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
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 ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
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 ...
The Huffington Post | Sam Stein | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
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...
Chicago Tribune | James Janega | Posted 11.15.2008 | Chicago
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...
Posted 11.13.2008 | Chicago
"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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
On Monday afternoon, John McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds offered a quick preview of the third and final presidential debate this Wednesday at Hofstra ...
PolitiFact | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics
With the presidential campaign approaching its final stretch, Barack Obama finds himself in an enviable position. One official close to the campaign...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics