Oct 10 2008
Obama/Ayers/Dohrn Timeline
Barack Obama has told so many lies about his relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers it’s hard to keep up. So, I have pieced together a timeline to see if this “rehabilitated guy who happens to live in Obama’s neighborhood” could be a bit closer to the Obama’s than is being disclosed.
Notice my use of the phrase “the Obama’s.” We can not leave out Michelle, as her relationships play a pivotal role as well.
I will be updating this as new information becomes available. If you would like to add or correct any information please send me an email, along with the source information to freelancer4108@gmail.com
***Note***
In 2002 Barack Obama’s license to practice law became “inactive.” Can anyone provide sourced information on this?
We begin with a brief, somewhat sterile history of the terrorist group The Weathermen Underground, founded by Bill Ayers.
1969 - 1981
Bill Ayers, son of philanthropist Thomas Ayers, creates terrorist group The Weathermen Underground (WU) in Chicago, home of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.
The “Days of Rage” riots began when the WU blew up a statue dedicated to Chicago’s policemen in retaliation for beating several demonstrators. The shockwave shattered hundreds of windows.
Statue rebuilt and blown up the next year by the WU.
The statue was rebuilt and provided 24 hour security.
WU bombed home of a New York City judge involved in black panther case.
WU set off a bomb in a bathroom of the Pentagon.
WU set off a bomb at New York State Department of Correction.
1970 Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn go underground. Dorhn on FBI’s 10 most wanted list.
March 8, 1970, three members of WU killed while trying to make a nail bomb.
September 1970 helped drug lord escape from prison and hid him out.
1976-1977 federal charges dropped against Ayers and Dohrn due to prosecutorial misconduct.
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1980 Ayers and Dorhns come out of hiding and turn themselves in.
1981 marks official end of WU when WU member Kathy Boudin commits armed robbery and kills three men.
“Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country,” Ayers said when interviewed by David Horowitz.
20+ years of Barack and Michelle Obama
1985
Barack moves to Chicago.
Barack goes to work for the Developing Communities Project (DCP).
Barack obtains the DCP’s first funding from the Woods Fund of Chicago.
1987
The Chicago School Reform Project is lead by Mayor Richard Daly, Jr and Bill Ayers who are good friends, as were their fathers Richard Daly, Sr (also Mayor of Chicago) and Thomas Ayers (Thomas Ayers served as an advisor to Richard Daley, Sr).
Barack Obama is the leader of the Development Community Project.
The Development Community Project works with Bill Ayers on their School Reform Project
The law firm of Sidley & Austin is run by Howard Trienens, friend of Thomas Ayers, father of Bill Ayers, Father-in-Law of Bernadine Dohrn.
Bernadine Dohrn, wife of Bill Ayers works for Sidley & Austin (hired in 1984 by Howard Trienens).
Michelle Robinson goes to work as an attorney at the law firm of Sidley & Austin
1988
Barack quits work at the Development Community Project. Travels to Kenya, the birthplace of his father, where he spent five weeks.
Barack enters Harvard Law School.
Bernadine Dohrn leaves Sidley & Austin. She is unable to obtain a license to practice law due to her criminal history. Trienens says it was because she would not say she was “sorry” for her terrorist past.
Bernadine Dohrn goes to work in the office of the Cook County Public Guardian.
1989
Barack interns at Sidley & Austin;
Barack first meets and begins his relationship with Michelle Robinson, who was assigned to be his mentor.
1990
Barack selected as editor for Harvard Law Review.
1991
Valerie Jarrett, Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Richard Daley, offers Michelle Robinson a job as Assistant to Mayor Richard Daley.
Michelle Robinson insists fiancé Barack Obama meet Valerie Jarrett.
Michelle Robinson leaves Sidley & Austin and goes to work for Mayor Richard Daley, Jr, friend of Bill Ayers – husband of Bernadine Dohrn.
Bernadine Dohrn goes to work at Northwestern University School of Law as an adjunct professor of law as a “Clinical Associate Professor of Law.”
Howard Trienens, former employer of Bernadine Dohrn at Sidley and Austin law firm, is a member of the Board of Trustees of Northwestern.
Thomas Ayers, father of Bill Ayers, father-in-law of Bernadine Dohrn, is a former board member of the Board of Trustees of Northwestern.
1992
Barack and Michelle get married.
Barack directs Illinois’ Project Vote, a voter registration drive.
Barack begin teaching Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
1993
Barack and Michelle founded Chicago office of Public Allies. Michelle is named Executive Director of this group which encouraged young people to work on social issues in nonprofit groups and government agencies.
Barack goes to work as an associate for the law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, which specializes in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development.
Barrack gets on board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago.
1994
Barack on board of directors of the Joyce Foundation.
Bernadine Dohrn says “I still see myself as a radical.”
1995
Ayers works with Mayor Richard Daley on the city’s school reform program.
Ayers writes grant proposal for Chicago Annenberg Challenge and obtains $49.2 million over 5 years for public school reform.
Barack selected as Founding President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
Bill Ayers has Barack fundraiser and political coming out party in his home. Barack and Michelle Obama were both present.
In an interview published in 1995, Ayers characterized his political beliefs at that time and in the 1960s and 1970s: “I am a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist … [Laughs] Maybe I’m the last communist who is willing to admit it. [Laughs] We have always been small ‘c’ communists in the sense that we were never in the [Communist] party and never Stalinists. The ethics of Communism still appeal to me. I don’t like Lenin as much as the early Marx. I also like Henry David Thoreau, Mother Jones and Jane Addams […]”
1996
Michelle Obama goes to work for the University of Chicago as Associate Dean of Student Services.
Barack promoted as Senior Lecturer at University of Chicago.
Barack elected to Illinois Senate.
Barack reported member of the “New Party,” (Democrat Socialist Party). They proudly announce their member Barack Obama won his State Seat.
1997
Connie Chung interviews Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. They say they do not regret what they did and would do it again. Wish they could have done more. Wish they had been more militant.
Mayor Richard Daley presents Bill Ayers the Key to the City and named his citizen of the year.
Michelle Obama organizes a discussion panel at the University of Chicago.
Michelle schedules Barack and Ayers to appear on the panel together.
1998
Barack re-elected to Illinois Senate
1999
Bill Ayers put on board at the Woods Fund of Chicago.
Barack steps down as President of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge but remains on the board.
The Socialist ‘New Party’ is defunct after losing a supreme court challenge that ruled the organizations “fusion” reform platform as unconstitutional.
2000
Barack loses bid for U.S. House of Representative.
Barack, Michelle and Bernadine Dohrn are listed together as mentors with the University of Chicago Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies.
2001
Bill Ayers donates $200 to Barack’s re-election fund for the Illinois State Senate.
Bill Ayers publishes “Fugitive Says: A Memoir,” detailing his time as a terrorist.
In an article with the Chicago Tribune, Ayers said, “We weren’t terrorists. The reason we weren’t terrorists is because we did not commit random acts of terror against people. Terrorism was what was being practiced in the countryside of Vietnam by the United States.”
Bill Ayers gives interview to New York Times. Published on September 11, Ayers said he did not regret his militant tactics and believed they had not done enough.
2002
Barack reelected to Illinois Senate.
Barack loses his license to practice law for reasons unknown at the time of this writing.
Barack no longer serves on board of Woods Fund of Chicago.
Barack no longer serves on board of Joyce Foundation.
Barack no longer serves on board of Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
Barack hires political strategist David Axlerod.
Barack and Ayers are scheduled to appear together on a panel at the University of Illinois Chicago titled “Intellectuals in Times of Crisis.”
Michelle goes to work for the University of Chicago Hospitals as executive director for community affairs.
2003
Barack announces his bid for U.S. Senate.
2004
Barack wins primary.
Barack gives Keynote address at Democrat National Convention.
Barack elected to U.S. Senate.
Barack resigns his seat in Illinois Senate.
Bills Ayers gives interview: “How do you feel about what you did? Would you do it again under similar circumstances?” He replied:[24] “I’ve thought about this a lot. Being almost 60, it’s impossible to not have lots and lots of regrets about lots and lots of things, but the question of did we do something that was horrendous, awful? … I don’t think so. I think what we did was to respond to a situation that was unconscionable.”
2005
Barack sworn in as U.S. Senator
Michelle Obama is promoted to Vice President of Community and External Affairs where she still works part-time.
2006
Barack traveled to Kenya and openly campaigned for violent radical muslim Raila Odinga, Barack’s alleged cousin.
Bill Ayers travels to Venzeula and gives a speech to Hugo Chavez, stating “We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution” or “La educacion es revolucion!”.
2007
February Barack announces he will run for President.
I think I see the dangerous threads you’ve tied together. Thank you for your efforts. This piece shows the holes in Obama’s story that he MUST fill in, before anyone can trust him to become the President of the United States of America. This is scarey.
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This is the best chronology so far, really outstanding. Someone needs to dig into the links between Dohrn and Michelle as much as Obama and Ayers. Someone also needs to see if there are links of Ayers/Dohrn to New Party, there almost certainly have to be, though I’ve seen no commentary on it thus far. But in any case, my main point is that there is something not being sufficiently focused on with regard to Obama’s connection with Ayers. That is this: think of the loss of credibility our nation will have in a war on terror, when its chief executive– nay, it’s Commander in Chief– has ties to, indeed launched his political career in the home of, a confessed and unrepentant domestic terrorist. The American people need to reflect soberly on the moral effect such an association will have on the legitimacy of our war against terrorism. If people don’t think that every terrorist state and organization in the world won’t make hay with that, they are delusional. It doesn’t even matter if Obama agrees with or condemns Ayers’ actions. The association is sufficient for the terrorists to exploit. Period. No one seems to be addressing the “why does it matter” aspect (beyond simply bad judgment). I’ve been doing my best to keep up with most of the articles on this subject through RCP, but I don’t think anyone has really driven this home. I really think this is the angle that needs to become a drum beat, and just hammered home until election day. It’s not guilt by association, it’s irreparable damage to our nation’s moral credibility in time of war against terrorist states and organizations.
This article is very interesting, however to be credible the resources for the information need to be given and the author should be listed. This is the only way individuals will recognize the infrmation as factual and not just a Conservative view.
The 420 page FBI FOIA site shown,is about the Weatherman and does not include information on OBAMA.
Please respond to this request.
Another attempt to smeaar someones name because McCain is losing. Has anyone looked into McCains past and saw some things about him that would turn your stomach.
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So, basically you’ve proven that Barack Hussein Obama did some really noble things in Chicago. To your credit, you did convince me not to vote for Bill Ayers.
great to see that, as the McCain campaign shifts focus from the real issues to desperate fear mongering and conspiracy theories, the conservative bloggers are doing the same. maybe next you could draw up a timeline for palin and the alaska independence party
I read an article in an isreal paper(I can’t remember the name or the ladys name) but I read it around a week ago, she’s the editor or something of the paper, anyway she stated that she knew bill ayers back in the 60’s and was kinda dating him , and he had a blcak friend over and she says in this article that he made her sleep with this black friend…I dunno how true it is but maybe that guy was Obama’s dad and that is the connection???? u never know..she said in the article that she didn’t know the guys name…who knows…
great work and thanks for this time line. I do want to learn why he is no longer on the bar. wasn’t that asked in the berg suit?
great story. Don’t mind the turkeys trying to make this information appear irelevant. If the one is elected to presidency, I wonder if such articles will be used to jail people.
“bluesistersredstate on October 10, 2008 9:46 pm”
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Now imagine that you are attending skinhead meetings, one of the skinheads ghost-writes your memoir, all of your friends are skinheads, you’re head is shaved, your spouse is a skinhead, and you live in a neighborhood filled with skinheads.
Now it’s much clearer for you. No charge.
Let’s roll America….NOBama!
“The 420 page FBI FOIA site shown,is about the Weatherman and does not include information on OBAMA.”
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The WU was defunct by the time Obama hooked up with Ayers and Dohrn. Of course it wouldn’t show anytime about Bambi.
Try again astroturfer lol.
ARDC Lawyer Search Results from the ARDC database:
http://www.iardc.org/ldetail.asp?id=856848418
1991-2008: Barack Hussein Obama
STATUS: Inactive; Not authorized to practice Law.
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1989-1993: Michelle Obama (fna Michelle Lavaughn Robinson)
STATUS: Voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law - Last Registered Year: 1993
No malpractice report required as attorney is on COURT ORDERED inactive status.
The chronology is, or course, incomplete. Obama’s New York years are completely ignored (and rather difficult to reconstruct, given Obama’s reluctance to provide information). Just on the basis of what’s publicly available on Wikipedia:
Columbia University student Barack Obama was in New York at the same time as, guess who? Bill Ayers, our favorite domestic terrorist! Obama graduated from Columbia in 1983, but stayed in New York another two years; while Ayers attended Bank Street College (located near Columbia), earning a M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education there in 1984. Ayers continued his studies at Columbia and completed his Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction in 1987, but it is unclear whether he resided in New York while doing his doctoral research, since from 1984 to 1988 his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, worked for the prestigious Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin (rich family connections are always helpful, even when you’re a leftist radical). My guess would be that the Ayers couple resided together in Chicago from 1984, …which is where Obama arrived in June of 1985. Three years later (Fall 1988) Obama entered Harvard Law School (how he got in is also a mystery), but the next summer (1989)he returned to Chicago where he worked as a summer associate at, you guessed it, the law firm of Sidley & Austin. That’s where he met his wife, Michelle, who became an associate at the firm, just as Bernardine Dohrn was offered an adjunct professorship at Northwestern Law School.
One could say that these are simply coincidences. Or maybe we can just go Disney and sing: “IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL…”.
(You can also add Ayers mentioning Obama in his 1997 book “A Kind and Just Parent” (on p. 82), and Obama publishing a brief blurb in the Chicago Tribune (Dec. 27, 1997) lauding the Ayers’ book.).
What this info absolutely proves that Obama’s statement, and the press’ attempted confirmation that Obama only had a passing relationship with Bill Ayers is a lie.