It's true that obama was eight yrs old when william aires, ?

Question

a member of the weather underground that bombed the pentagon and wished that when terrorists flew into the twin towers that more americans had been killed obama has since been a long standing associate and dear friend. does this register at all to those who so blindly follow this man and treat him as if he were a rock star? doesn't ones moral sensibilities come into play here! how could anyone call someone like this a friend. and don't take my word for it. google william aires and you'll get a treasure trove of info.

Answer 1

Yes he was. I know this because I was 6.

Answer 2

Ever heard of Glen Beck, he can give you tons of info on this man.  The stuff I'm hearing is just plain scary.  If we put Obama in the White House our nation will be in even more trouble than we're in now!  I mean just having some one like William Ayres in your past is questionable especially if you happen to be running  for the president of the US of A.

I'm not completely on the McCain band wagon, but you better believe I'm voting on the man.  Voting for a third party is a vote for Obama, just stick with your party...VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!

Answer 3

He launched his senate campaign from his home.. so No.THE SPIN:

Obama said Ayers is “a guy who lives in my neighborhood” and not someone who has endorsed him or talked to him regularly.

“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,” Obama said.

Clinton said the relationship was deeper than that because both men served together on the board of a charity.

Ayers, she said, made comments “which were deeply hurtful to people in New York and, I would hope, to every American, because they were published on 9/11, and he said that he was just sorry they hadn’t done more.

“And what they did was set bombs,” she went on. “And in some instances, people died.”

THE FACTS:

Clinton’s implication that Ayers made hurtful comments connected with the terrorist attacks is wrong.

By coincidence, a story about Ayers and what he called his fictionalized memoirs appeared in The New York Times on the day of the attacks.

The story was based on an interview he had done earlier, in Chicago, in which he declared, “I don’t regret setting bombs,” and “I feel we didn’t do enough,” even while seeming to dissociate himself coyly from the group’s most destructive acts.

Clinton is correct that both men served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based charity that develops community groups to help the poor. Ayers joined the board in 1999 and is still on it. Obama left it in December 2002 after nine years.

Ayers was clearly more than someone Obama just ran into in the neighborhood on occasion. In the mid-1990s, when Obama was making his first run for the Illinois Senate, Ayers had Obama to his home to introduce him to others.

But a flub by Obama in the debate suggested he does not know him that well: He called Ayers an English professor. Ayers teaches education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has been an education adviser to Mayor Richard Daley.

Ayers disappeared after the 1970 town house explosion, although he was not charged in that episode. He and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, surfaced in 1980.

They both faced charges stemming from Chicago demonstrations in 1969 but his were dismissed for prosecutorial misconduct while she pleaded guilty to aggravated battery and bail-jumping.

Answer 4

The age is not important, only the consequences of association, and Aires is lucky this is america where he can make such outrageous statements and still walk freely on the streets of the nation.We are judged by our friends,and obama is making the kind of choices that bares naked his unsuitability to lead us.

Answer 5

How many people did William Ayers (Spell it right if you want me to google something, but I already knew it so it worked) kill again?

How many have Bush associates such as bin Laden, Saddam, etc. killed?

Simple math should tell you which is more important of an issue.