GRITtv: Bill Ayers: What Obama Does Understand

Bill Ayers talks about Obama's background as a community organizer, and how that gives him the understanding of social movements--and why we must be doing our own organizing now.

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[substanti8]

@oldwarhorse1865

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You have used the straw man fallacy to defame a man who you don't even know. Furthermore, as someone who volunteered to kill people on behalf of the military-industrial complex, you're in no position to judge the actions of Bill Ayers.

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[pseudolover]

Thank you GRIT TV!

[voltairinedecleyre66]

This guy self-identifies as an anarchist AND a Marxist. He is also an enthusiast for mainstream party politics apparently. Look out, he'll shoot you after the revolution

[lovejen01]

Martin Luther King was Republican. Another thing is Obama did lie after the last year and half he done the exact opposite he said he will do.

[Boris82much]

Ayers has been fired from his job. Castro has publically admitted that socialism has done utterly nothing, nothing, for his country and people. Obama (Ayer's favorite pupil) is going down in flames because he is inept and his cabinet and czsars are a joke.

Champagne anyone?

[dlstb]

@substanti8 Men and women do not join the military to go kill people! We join to defend the principles that make this country great, like The Constitution and the strongly held belief that all men are created equal and endowed by nature and nature's god with unalienable rights. Bill ayers did volunteer to kill people and did plant a bomb inside the United States of America. The patriot men and women of our armed forces may have had the wool over our eyes at times (by politicaans)but Bill?

[scotts0550]

What a bore. I took his edu class at UIC hoping to learn something from this " God like revered figure" and all I got was a hack who's students thought he walked on water

[eqsmooth]

@82 No, I wouldn't. Some people change Look at Sen. Byrd who was employed as a politician until 90 years old. He was a KKK member for Christ's sake! He joined simply because he had low self esteem & incorrectly thought it would help his leadership potential & political career. Ayers was young, angered & dismayed by the development of the military-industrial complex & the Vietnam War. He is a highly respected professor & as you can see here, quite insightful. Tea Partiers are useless clods.

[Boris82much]

@eqsmooth If we were talking about a Tea Partier or Republican with the same behavior 50 years ago, you'd be all over it.

Professor Asswipe Ayers garners very little respect and his drag queen wife even less. It's all about their egos. They are hypocrites. They bash the very system they have used to become multi-millionares.

[eqsmooth]

@Boris82much

FOR ONE THING, I DON'T BELIEVE OR TRUST YOU BUT IT IS 2010, ASSHOLE. WHO CARES ABOUT THE 1960'S. Listen to Bill Ayers now. He is a respected professor for good reason.

[eqsmooth]

If Sarah Palin saw this her head would explode. It would be perfect for her. She can't concentrate for more than 5 minutes anyway. Ayers said more in 2 minutes 39 seconds than Palin has in nearly 2 years. He packed so much knowledge and substance into that comment. The guy's a genius. "Pallin' around w/terrorists". What an asshole she is.

[Boris82much]

Google the name Donna Ron. She was a friend and supporter of Ayers back in the sixties and what he did to her speaks volumes about his arrogance and ego. Today it's called rape. He also cheered and praised Charlie Manson for his "Death to the Pigs" murder rampage in Los Angeles in 1969.

WTF is wrong with you people!!!!