OBAMA FREINDS

WEATHER UNDERGROUND Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Obama’s Entry into Politics In the mid-1990s, Obama entered electoral politics, setting his sights initially on a state senate seat in Illinois. He launched his political career in the home of two well-connected Chicagoans, longtime activists who would help him make important contacts and enlarge his public profile. These two allies were https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/bi... https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/bi ifelong Marxists who in the 1960s and ’70s had been revolutionary leaders of the https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/... https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/..., a domestic terror group that aspired to transform the U.SI NTO a Communist country. In 1974 Ayers and Dohrn co-authored a book that openly advocated “revolutionary war” as “the only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism”; called for “a revolutionary communist party … to lead the struggle [to] seize power and build the new society”; and lauded socialism as the key to “the eradication of the social system based on profit.”