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== About this listing ==
The '''Obama–Ayers controversy''' arose during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign regarding [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] Presidential nominee [[Barack Obama]]'s contact with [[Bill Ayers]], a [[Distinguished Professor]] at the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]], and a former leader of the [[Weatherman (organization)|Weather Underground]].<ref name="bddm418"/> He served on two nonprofit boards with Barack Obama. Both Ayers and his wife, [[Bernardine Dohrn]], hosted a gathering at their home in 1995,<ref name="pswp418"/> where [[Alice Palmer (Illinois politician)|Alice Palmer]] introduced Obama as her chosen successor in the Illinois State Senate.<ref name=cnnfc>{{cite news |title=Fact Check: Is Obama 'palling around with terrorists'? |url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/05/fact-check-is-obama-palling-around-with-terrorists/ |work=[[CNN]] |date=2008-10-05 |accessdate=2008-10-12}}</ref><ref name="bsp222">{{cite news |first=Ben |last=Smith |title=Obama once visited '60s radicals |url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8630.html |work=[[The Politico]] |date=2008-02-22 |accessdate=2008-10-12}}</ref> Investigations by the New York Times, CNN, and other news organizations concluded that Obama does not have a close relationship with Ayers.<ref name="NYToct08"/><ref name="CNNoct08"/><ref name=cnnfc/>


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The matter was initially raised by [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] in February 2008 after it had been suggested by [[Sean Hannity]] and other hosts on conservative talk radio programs. Moderator [[George Stephanopoulos]] revisited the discussion during a debate between Clinton and Obama in April 2008. In October 2008, the matter was mentioned in [[attack ad|attack ads]] and campaign speeches by Republican presidential candidate [[John McCain]] and vice presidential candidate [[Sarah Palin]] as an issue in the general election campaign. Obama has condemned Ayers's past,<ref name=Scheiber/> and stated that he does not have a close association with Ayers.<ref name="pswp418"/>


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==Underlying circumstances==
===William Ayers===
Ayers and Dohrn are fixtures of their Chicago neighborhood, "embraced, by and large, in the [[Liberalism|liberal]] circles dominating [[Hyde Park, Chicago|Hyde Park]] politics", according to Ben Smith, a writer for ''[[The Politico]]''.<ref name="bsp222"/> Ayers has been described as "very respected and prominent in Chicago [with] a national reputation as an educator."<ref name="bddm418"/> But they have not been embraced everywhere due to their past leadership of the [[Weather Underground]], a 1960s radical organization that placed bombs at a number of government institutions, causing damage, but no deaths or injuries.<ref>{{cite book |first=Dan |last=Berger |title=Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity |publisher=AK Press |location=Stirling, Scotland, UK |year=2005 |pages=286–287 |isbn=1-904859-41-0}}</ref>
Ayers and Dohrn were members of the five-member central committee of the Weathermen in the late 1960s and early 1970s.<ref name="plm102581">{{cite news |first=Paul L. |last=Montgomery |title=Last of Radical Leaders Eluded Police 11 Years |url=http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F4091EFA3B5D0C768EDDA90994D9484D81 |format=registration required |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1981-10-25 |accessdate=2008-06-08}}</ref> Since the [[September 11 terrorist attacks]], some alumni of the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]], where Ayers is a tenured professor of education, and [[Northwestern University]], where Dohrn is a law professor, have protested their presence, though colleagues believe their achievements since overshadow those actions.{{Fact|date=October 2008}}


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===Interaction between Obama and Ayers===
Ayers and Dohrn hosted a gathering at their home in the [[Hyde Park, Chicago|Hyde Park]] section of [[Chicago]], the neighborhood in which the Obamas lived,<ref name=nytoa/> at which then- state Senator [[Alice J. Palmer]] introduced Barack Obama as her choice for the 1996 Democratic primary.<ref name=nytoa/> Palmer denied that she organized the political affair for Obama, although she said she attended. Dr. [[Quentin Young]], a longtime physician, who also attended, referred to the gathering as the political coming-out party for Obama. Young said it was a small group—maybe a dozen or so people—who were being introduced to the next senator from Chicago's South Side, and that money was raised for Obama at the event.<ref>{{cite news |first=Drew |last=Griffin |coauthors=Kathleen Johnston |title= Ayers and Obama crossed paths on boards, records show |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/07/obama.ayers/index.html |work=[[CNN]] |date=2008-10-07 |accessdate=2008-10-12}}</ref> Although the exact date of the gathering is not known, it was sometime in the second half of 1995, according to Ben Smith, a reporter for ''The Politico''.<ref name="bsp222"/>


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Obama served as president of the board of directors for the [[Chicago Annenberg Challenge]], a large education-related nonprofit organization that Ayers was instrumental in starting.<ref name=nytoa>{{cite news |first=Scott |last=Shane |title=Obama and ’60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04ayers.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2008-10-03 |accessdate=2008-10-12}}</ref> The board disbursed grants to schools and raised private matching funds while Ayers worked with the operational arm of the effort. Both attended some board meetings in common starting in 1995, retreats, and at least one news conference together as the education program started. They continued to attend meetings together during the 1995-2001 period when the program was operating.<ref name=nytoa/>
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Obama and Ayers served together for three years on the board of the [[Woods Fund of Chicago]], an anti-[[poverty]] foundation established in 1941. Obama had joined the nine-member board in 1993, and had attended a dozen of the quarterly meetings together with Ayers in the three years up to 2002, when Obama left his position on the board,<ref name="bddm418">{{cite news |first=Morain |last=Dan |coauthors=[[Bob Drogin]] |title=Obama and the former radicals |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/18/nation/na-radicals18 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=2008-04-18 |accessdate=2008-10-12}}</ref> which Ayers chaired for two years.<ref name="abn51"/> Laura S. Washington, chairwoman of the Woods Fund, said the small board had a collegial "friendly but businesslike" atmosphere, and met four times a year for a half-day, mostly to approve grants.<ref name="pswp418"/> The two also appeared together on academic panel discussions, including a 1997 [[University of Chicago]] discussion on juvenile justice. They again appeared in 2002 at an academic panel co-sponsored by the Chicago Public Library.<ref name="bddm418"/> One panel discussion in which they both appeared was organized by Obama's wife, [[Michelle Obama|Michelle]].<ref name="jbcd511">{{cite news |first=Jo |last=Becker |authorlink=Jo Becker |coauthors=Christopher Drew |title=Pragmatic Politics, Forged on the South Side |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/us/politics/11chicago.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2008-05-11 |accessdate=2008-10-12}}</ref>


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In 2008, a spokesman for the Obama campaign said the last time Obama and Ayers had seen each other was when Obama was biking in the neighborhood in 2007 and crossed paths with Ayers. The spokesman said "The suggestion that Ayers was a political adviser to Obama or someone who shaped his political views is patently false".<ref name=rcabc830>{{cite news |first=Ron |last=Claiborne |title=McCain Campaign Goes on Offense |url=http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Conventions/Story?id=5667094&page=1 |work=[[ABC News]] |date=2008-08-27 |accessdate=2008-10-12}}</ref>
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The ''[[New York Times]]'' reported that Obama did not have a significant relationship with Ayers.<ref name=nytoa/> According to several people, Ayers played no role in starting Obama's career which was primarily launched when Deborah Leff, then president of the [[Joyce Foundation]], suggested Obama be appointed as chairman of the board of the six-member board that oversaw the distribution of grants in Chicago.<ref name=nytoa/>


=== Quality ===
== Presidential campaign issue ==
Obama's contacts with Ayers had been public knowledge in Chicago for years.<ref name=Boston>{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/18/how_obama_and_the_radical_became_news/ |first=Joanna |last=Weiss |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |date=2008-04-18 |title=How Obama and the radical became news}}</ref> British writer [[Peter Hitchens]] wrote about Ayers in the [[Daily Mail]] in early February, 2008.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-511901/The-Black-Kennedy-But-does-know-real-Barack-Obama.html |work=[[Daily Mail]] |title=The Black Kennedy: But does anyone know the real Barack Obama? |first=Peter |last=Hitchens |date=2008-02-02}}</ref><ref name=Boston/><ref>{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Dobbs |authorlink=Michael Dobbs (US author) |title=Obama's 'Weatherman' Connection |url=http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/02/obamas_weatherman_connection.html |work=The Fact Checker |publisher=[[The Washington Post]] |date=2008-02-19}}</ref> The connection was then picked up by blogs and newspapers in the United States, including the liberal [[Huffington Post]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-c-johnson/no-he-cant-because-yes_b_87036.html |title=No, He Can't Because Yes, They Will |accessdate=2008-08-10 |first=Larry C. |last=Johnson |work=[[The Huffington Post]] |date=2008-02-16}}</ref> In a February 15, 2008 article, a [[Bloomberg L.P.]] reporter quoted Obama's rival, [[Hillary Clinton]], who stated that the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] might use the supposed connection with Ayers to discredit Obama if he were chosen as the nominee of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=adgAs9YOxRSc |publisher=[[Bloomberg L.P.]] |title=Obama's Ties Might Fuel `Republican Attack Machine' |first=Timothy J. |last=Burger |date=2008-02-15}}</ref>


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[[Howard Kurtz]] claimed that the connection between the two Chicagoans was "all but ignored by the news media, other than [[Fox News|Fox]]" until it was raised in a primary debate.<ref>{{cite news |first=Howard |last=Kurtz |authorlink=Howard Kurtz |title=The Military-Media Complex |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042100776.html |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=2008-04-21 |accessdate=2008-10-13}}</ref> At the [[Democratic Party (United States) presidential debates, 2008|Democratic Party primary debate]] in [[Philadelphia]] on April 16, 2008, moderator [[George Stephanopoulos]] (after [[Sean Hannity]] suggested the question the day before<ref>{{cite news |first=Faiz |last=Shakir |title=AUDIO: Hannity Feeds Stephanopoulos Debate Question On Weather Underground |url=http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/17/steph-hannity-audio/ |work=Think Progress |publisher=[[Center for American Progress]] |date=2008-04-017 |accessdate=2008-10-13}}</ref>) questioned Obama about his association with Ayers, asking the candidate: "Can you explain that relationship for the voters, and explain to Democrats why it won't be a problem?"<ref name="abn51">{{cite news |first=Ari |last=Berman |title=Obama Under the Weather |url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080519/berman |work=[[The Nation]] |date=2008-05-01 |accessdate=2008-10-13}}</ref> Obama responded:{{quote|This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense, George.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/DemocraticDebate/Story?id=4670271&page=2 |title=Transcript: Obama and Clinton Debate |accessdate=2008-10-12 |work=[[ABC News]] |date=2008-04-16}}</ref><ref name="pswp418">{{cite news |first=Peter |last=Slevin |title=Former '60s Radical Is Now Considered Mainstream in Chicago |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041703910.html |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=2008-04-18 |accessdate=2008-10-12}}</ref>}}


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Obama's response led to an exchange between him and Clinton, in which Clinton said, "Senator Obama served on a board with Mr. Ayers for a period of time, the [[Woods Fund of Chicago|Woods Fund]], which was a paid directorship position."<ref name="abn51" /> Obama then referred to President [[Bill Clinton]]'s pardoning of [[Linda Sue Evans]] and [[Susan Rosenberg]],<ref>{{cite news |title=An Almost Oppo Free Zone |url=http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/04/an_almost_oppo.html |work=[[The Hotline]] |date=2008-04-16 |accessdate=2008-10-13}}</ref> two former Weather Underground members convicted for their actions after joining the splinter group [[May 19 Communist Organization]]. The following Sunday, Stephanopoulos asked Republican presidential candidate [[John McCain]] about Obama's patriotism, and McCain responded: "I'm sure he's very patriotic", then added, "But his relationship with Mr. Ayers is open to question."<ref name="abn51"/>


===General election campaign===
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In April, 2008 John McCain began to question Obama's interactions with Ayers<ref>Cooper, Michael, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E2D6173AF93BA35756C0A96E9C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print "Republicans Focus on Obama as Fall Opponent"], article, ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 8, 2008, retrieved June 5, 2008</ref> and it became an issue later in the general election campaign. In August, 2008, the Republican Party created the website ''barackbook.com'' as a spoof of [[Facebook]], on which Ayers is listed as one of Obama's "friends". This website contains a mocked-up [[user profile]] for Bill Ayers, which describes the controversy and Obama's alleged connections with Ayers.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/07/MN251268V8.DTL&tsp=1 |work=San Francisco Chronicle| title=Obama, McCain campaigns bust out the brass knuckles |first=Carla |last=Marinucci |authorlink=Carla Marinucci |date=2008-08-07}}</ref>


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Also in August 2008, the [[American Issues Project]] began running an ad that emphasized the relationship between the two, which contained the following text: "Barack Obama is friends with Ayers, defending him as, quote, 'Respectable' and 'Mainstream.' Obama's political career was launched in Ayers's home. And the two served together on a left-wing board. Why would Barack Obama be friends with someone who bombed the Capitol and is proud of it? Do you know enough to elect Barack Obama?"<ref>http://nevada-rlc.org/2008-election/ad-ties-obama-to-60s-radical/</ref> In response, the Obama campaign's attorney Robert Bauer wrote TV stations running the ad, saying, "Your station is committed to operating in the public interest, an objective that cannot be satisfied by accepting for compensation material of such malicious falsity," and wrote Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General John C. Keeney, describing the ad as a "willful attempt to evade the strictures of federal election law."<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D92PL7400&show_article=1</ref>


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The same month, the Obama campaign ran a TV ad in selected market that said in part, "With all our problems, why is John McCain talking about the 60s, trying to link Barack Obama to radical Bill Ayers? McCain knows Obama denounced Ayers's crimes, committed when Obama was just 8 years old."<ref>http://www.wtop.com/?nid=213&sid=1466240</ref>


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In October 2008, after the McCain campaign announced that it would step up attacks on the Democratic presidential candidate,<ref>{{cite news|publisher=CNN|title=Obama campaign rejects Palin 'terrorist' gibe|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/05/palin.obama.terrorist.claim/index.html}}</ref> [[Sarah Palin]] delivered speeches claiming that Obama is "palling around with terrorists". For support, Palin cited a [[New York Times]] article that also concluded that Obama and Ayers were not close. The article stated that other "publications, including ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[Time magazine|Time]]'', ''[[The Chicago Sun-Times]]'', ''[[The New Yorker]]'' and ''[[The New Republic]]'', have said that their reporting doesn't support the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship."<ref name="NYToct08">''[[New York Times]]'' article: "[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04ayers.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Obama and ’60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths]".</ref> [[CNN]] has independently deemed Palin's allegations false, saying: "There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are now 'palling around,' or that they have had an ongoing relationship in the past three years. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Ayers is now involved in terrorist activity or that other Obama associates are."<ref name="CNNoct08">{{cite news|url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/05/fact-check-is-obama-palling-around-with-terrorists/|date=2008-10-05|title=Fact Check: Is Obama 'palling around with terrorists'?|publisher=CNN}}</ref> The [[Republican National Committee]]<ref>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/10/rnc_uses_ayers_in_new_ads.html</ref> and the McCain campaign each launched additional [[attack ad]]s, calling Senator Obama, "too dangerous for America."<ref>http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Multimedia/Player.aspx?GUID=9A48C156-AD6A-40BD-9381-98DDF66EC77A</ref>


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Obama's response to the Palin speeches came on October 5, 2008 at an event in [[Asheville, North Carolina]]: "Senator McCain and his operatives are gambling that they can distract you with smears rather than talk to you about substance. They'd rather try to tear our campaign down than lift this country up. That's what you do when you're out of touch, out of ideas, and running out of time."<ref name="CNN100508">[[CNN]] article: "[http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/05/campaign.wrap/ Obama accuses McCain of looking for distractions]."</ref>


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==Reactions to the controversy==
Obama has condemned Ayers's past through a spokesman.<ref name="Scheiber">{{cite news |first=Noam |last=Scheiber |title= Parsing the Ayers Allegation |url=http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/02/22/parsing-the-ayers-allegation.aspx |work=[[The New Republic]] |date=2008-02-22 |accessdate=2008-10-12}}</ref> After the controversy arose Ayers was defended by officials and others in Chicago. Mayor [[Richard M. Daley]] issued a statement in support of Bill Ayers the next day (April 17, 2008), as did the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' in an editorial.<ref name="Dorning">Mike Dorning and Rick Pearson, [http://blogs.trb.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/daley_dont_tar_obama_for_ayers.html Daley: Don't tar Obama for Ayers] ''The Chicago Tribune'', April 17, 2008</ref><ref name="ChicagoEd">Chicago Tribune editorial board, [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-0418edit3apr18,0,7443216.story Guilt by association] ''The Chicago Tribune'', April 17, 2008</ref> Ayers remains on the Board of Directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago. <ref>[http://www.woodsfund.org/about/staff Board of Directors and Officers] Woods Fund of Chicago</ref> Woods Fund Chair Washington said it was "ridiculous to suggest there's anything inappropriate" about the two men serving on the foundation board.<ref name="bddm418"/>


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In late May 2008, [[Michael Kinsley]], a longtime critic of Ayers,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Kinsley_on_Ayers.html |title= Kinsley on Ayers |accessdate=2008-06-01 |last=Smith |first=Ben |date=2008-05-30 |work=Ben Smith's Blog |publisher=[[Politico]] }}</ref> argued in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' that Obama's relationship with Ayers should not be a campaign issue: "If Obama's relationship with Ayers, however tangential, exposes Obama as a radical himself, or at least as a man with terrible judgment, he shares that radicalism or terrible judgment with a comically respectable list of Chicagoans and others &mdash; including Republicans and [[conservative]]s &mdash; who have embraced Ayers and Dohrn as good company, good citizens, even experts on children's issues...Ayers and Dohrn are despicable, and yet making an issue of Obama's relationship with them is absurd." <ref>{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Kinsley |authorlink=Michael Kinsley |title=Rejecting Obama's Radical Friends |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1810338,00.html |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=2008-05-29 |accessdate=2008-06-01 }}</ref>


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In August, the Obama–Ayers contact was mentioned in [[Jerome Corsi]]'s ''[[The Obama Nation]]'', a book intended to defeat Obama's election campaign, and in conservative author David Freddoso's ''[[The Case Against Barack Obama]]'', where he wrote that the situation raised questions about Obama's judgment and influences.<ref>Freddoso, David, ''[[The Case Against Barack Obama]]'', [[Regnery Publishing|Regnery Publishing Co.]], 2008, pp 122-123</ref> ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' columnist and editorial board member Steve Chapman suggested that while Obama was "justly criticized for his ties" to Ayers, the coverage of that connection should be matched by equal coverage of [[John McCain]]'s associating with convicted [[Watergate]] burglar [[Gordon Liddy]].<ref>Chapman, Steve, blog post, [http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/steve_chapman/2008/08/obamas-radical.html "Obama's radical friend"], August 22, 2008, 10:37 AM, "Minority of One" blog, ''[[The Chicago Tribune]]'' website, retrieved August 28, 2008</ref><ref>Chapman, Steve, [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/oped/chi-oped0504chapmanmay04,0,3136852.column With friends like these ...] ''[[The Chicago Tribune]]'', May 4, 2008</ref>
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On September 9th, journalist [[Jake Tapper]] reported on the comic strip in Bill Ayers's blog explaining the soundbite: "The one thing I don't regret is opposing the war in Vietnam with every ounce of my being....'When I say, 'We didn't do enough,' a lot of people rush to think, 'That must mean, "We didn't bomb enough s---."' But that's not the point at all. It's not a tactical statement, it's an obvious political and ethical statement. In this context, 'we' means 'everyone.'"<ref>Tapper, Jake [http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/in-a-not-remote.html In a Not-Remotely-Comic Strip, Bill Ayers Weighs In on What He Meant By 'We Didn't Do Enough' to End Vietnam War] ''ABC News'', Political Punch, September 9, 2008</ref>


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[[Stanley Kurtz]], a conservative commentator and Senior Fellow at the [[Ethics and Public Policy Center]], examined the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]] records for the [[Chicago Annenberg Challenge]] (CAC) for the period in the 1990s when both Obama and Ayers were employed there, and reported his findings and opinions in the [[Wall Street Journal]] in late September 2008. "The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming "guilt by association," Kurtz wrote. "Yet the issue here isn't guilt by association; it's guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle." <ref>[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html "Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools"], ''Wall Street Journal'', 9-23-08 </ref>


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William C. Ibershof, the lead federal prosecutor of the [[Weatherman (organization)|Weather Underground]] case, wrote to the New York Times on October 9, 2008:
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<blockquote> I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child. Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.<ref> [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/opinion/l10ayers.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Letter to the Editor, "Prosecuting Weathermen"] New York Times, October 9, 2008 </ref> </blockquote>
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=== Articles with 2 cleanup categories assigned ===
==External links ==
*[http://factcheck.barackobama.com/factcheck/2008/04/17/fact_check_on_clinton_attacks.php Fact Check on Obama and Ayers] statement from the Barack Obama campaign on April 17, 2008
*[http://fightthesmears.com/articles/22/AyersSmear The Truth about Barack Obama and William Ayers] statement from the Barack Obama campaign's ''Fight the Smears''


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<tr><td>[[Adam Wainwright]] '''«High»'''</td>
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</tr>
<tr><td>[[Andrés Galarraga]]</td>
<td>Articles needing additional references (Apr 2007)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[Andy Van Slyke]]</td>
<td>Articles with trivia sections (Jan 2008)</td>
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<tr><td>[[Billy Southworth]] '''«High»'''</td>
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<tr><td>[[Bill Doak]]</td>
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<tr><td>[[Brian Jordan]]</td>
<td>Articles needing additional references (Oct 2007)</td>
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<tr><td>[[Busch Stadium]] '''«Top»'''</td>
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<tr><td>[[Charles Comiskey]] '''«High»'''</td>
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<tr><td>[[Enos Slaughter]] '''«Top»'''</td>
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<tr><td>[[Eric Davis (baseball)]]</td>
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<tr><td>[[Ernie Broglio]]</td>
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<tr><td>[[Frank Bettger]]</td>
<td>Cleanup (Jul 2007)</td>
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<tr><td>[[Gashouse Gang]] '''«Top»'''</td>
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<tr><td>[[José Oquendo]] '''«High»'''</td>
<td>Articles with trivia sections (May 2008)</td>
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<tr><td>[[Mark McGwire]] '''«Top»'''</td>
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<tr><td>[[Mark Mulder]]</td>
<td>Articles lacking sources (Aug 2008)</td>
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<tr><td>[[Mike Jorgensen]]</td>
<td>Articles with unsourced statements (Jul 2008)</td>
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<tr><td>[[Pedro Guerrero (baseball)]]</td>
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<tr><td>[[René Arocha]]</td>
<td>Articles lacking sources (May 2007)</td>
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<tr><td>[[Roger Maris]]</td>
<td>Articles with unsourced statements (Sep 2008)</td>
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<tr><td>[[Stan Musial]] '''«Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles with unsourced statements (Aug 2007)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[Whitey Herzog]] '''«Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles with unsourced statements (Jun 2008)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[William DeWitt, Jr.]]</td>
<td>Articles needing additional references (Jan 2008)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[William Ortega]]</td>
<td>Articles to be expanded (Sep 2008)</td>
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=== Articles lacking in-text citations ===

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* [[Bill Doak]]
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=== Articles lacking sources ===

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* [[René Arocha]] (May 2007)
* [[Mark Mulder]] (Aug 2008)
* [[Gashouse Gang]] (Oct 2008) '''«Top»'''
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=== Articles needing additional references ===

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* [[Andrés Galarraga]] (Apr 2007)
* [[Brian Jordan]] (Oct 2007)
* [[Billy Southworth]] (Jan 2008) '''«High»'''
* [[William DeWitt, Jr.]] (Jan 2008)
* [[Keith Hernandez]] (Jun 2008) '''«High»'''
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=== Articles to be expanded ===

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* [[Jap Barbeau]] (Sep 2007)
* [[William Ortega]] (Sep 2008)
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=== Articles with trivia sections ===

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* [[Andy Van Slyke]] (Jan 2008)
* [[José Oquendo]] (May 2008) '''«High»'''
* [[Eric Davis (baseball)]] (Jun 2008)
* [[Jeff Weaver]] (Jul 2008)
* [[Keith Hernandez]] (Aug 2008) '''«High»'''
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=== Articles with unsourced statements ===

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* [[Enos Slaughter]] (Jan 2007) '''«Top»'''
* [[Ernie Broglio]] (Feb 2007)
* [[Pedro Guerrero (baseball)]] (Feb 2007)
* [[Scott Rolen]] (Feb 2007) '''«High»'''
* [[History of the St. Louis Cardinals]] (Mar 2007) '''«Top»'''
* [[Joe McEwing]] (Mar 2007)
* [[Stan Musial]] (Aug 2007) '''«Top»'''
* [[2005 National League Division Series]] (Oct 2007) '''«High»'''
* [[Adam Wainwright]] (Oct 2007) '''«High»'''
* [[Busch Memorial Stadium]] (Dec 2007) '''«Top»'''
* [[Charles Comiskey]] (Dec 2007) '''«High»'''
* [[Busch Stadium]] (Jan 2008) '''«Top»'''
* [[Joe Girardi]] (Apr 2008)
* [[Busch Memorial Stadium]] (May 2008) '''«Top»'''
* [[Scott Rolen]] (Jun 2008) '''«High»'''
* [[Whitey Herzog]] (Jun 2008) '''«Top»'''
* [[Mike Jorgensen]] (Jul 2008)
* [[Joe Buck]] (Sep 2008) '''«High»'''
* [[Mark McGwire]] (Sep 2008) '''«Top»'''
* [[Roger Maris]] (Sep 2008)
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=== Cleanup ===

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* [[Frank Bettger]] (Jul 2007)
* [[Joe Buck]] (Jul 2008) '''«High»'''
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The listing is based on a database snapshot of 8 October 2008. It contains all articles flagged for cleanup with talk pages in Category:St. Louis Cardinals articles.

Based on that data, 406 articles are assigned to this work group, of which 34, or 8.4%, are flagged for cleanup.

The following quality assessment classes were evaluated for this report:

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Quality

Featured articles

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Featured lists

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A-Class articles

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The work group has 45 top-importance articles. 8 of them, or 17.8%, are flagged for cleanup.

ArticleMaintenance categories
Busch Memorial Stadium «Top» Articles with unsourced statements (Dec 2007, May 2008)
Busch Stadium «Top» Articles with unsourced statements (Jan 2008)
Enos Slaughter «Top» Articles with unsourced statements (Jan 2007)
Gashouse Gang «Top» Articles lacking sources (Oct 2008)
History of the St. Louis Cardinals «Top» Articles with unsourced statements (Mar 2007)
Mark McGwire «Top» Articles with unsourced statements (Sep 2008)
Stan Musial «Top» Articles with unsourced statements (Aug 2007)
Whitey Herzog «Top» Articles with unsourced statements (Jun 2008)

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The work group has 88 high-importance articles. 8 of them, or 9.1%, are flagged for cleanup.

ArticleMaintenance categories
2005 National League Division Series «High» Articles with unsourced statements (Oct 2007)
Adam Wainwright «High» Articles with unsourced statements (Oct 2007)
Billy Southworth «High» Articles needing additional references (Jan 2008)
Charles Comiskey «High» Articles with unsourced statements (Dec 2007)
Joe Buck «High» Articles with unsourced statements (Sep 2008), Cleanup (Jul 2008)
José Oquendo «High» Articles with trivia sections (May 2008)
Keith Hernandez «High» Articles needing additional references (Jun 2008), Articles with trivia sections (Aug 2008)
Scott Rolen «High» Articles with unsourced statements (Feb 2007, Jun 2008)

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Articles with 2 cleanup categories assigned

ArticleMaintenance categories
Busch Memorial Stadium «Top» Articles with unsourced statements (Dec 2007, May 2008)
Joe Buck «High» Articles with unsourced statements (Sep 2008), Cleanup (Jul 2008)
Keith Hernandez «High» Articles needing additional references (Jun 2008), Articles with trivia sections (Aug 2008)
Scott Rolen «High» Articles with unsourced statements (Feb 2007, Jun 2008)

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ArticleMaintenance categories
2005 National League Division Series «High» Articles with unsourced statements (Oct 2007)
Adam Wainwright «High» Articles with unsourced statements (Oct 2007)
Andrés Galarraga Articles needing additional references (Apr 2007)
Andy Van Slyke Articles with trivia sections (Jan 2008)
Billy Southworth «High» Articles needing additional references (Jan 2008)
Bill Doak Articles lacking in-text citations
Brian Jordan Articles needing additional references (Oct 2007)
Busch Stadium «Top» Articles with unsourced statements (Jan 2008)
Charles Comiskey «High» Articles with unsourced statements (Dec 2007)
Enos Slaughter «Top» Articles with unsourced statements (Jan 2007)
Eric Davis (baseball) Articles with trivia sections (Jun 2008)
Ernie Broglio Articles with unsourced statements (Feb 2007)
Frank Bettger Cleanup (Jul 2007)
Gashouse Gang «Top» Articles lacking sources (Oct 2008)
History of the St. Louis Cardinals «Top» Articles with unsourced statements (Mar 2007)
Jap Barbeau Articles to be expanded (Sep 2007)
Jeff Weaver Articles with trivia sections (Jul 2008)
Joe Girardi Articles with unsourced statements (Apr 2008)
Joe McEwing Articles with unsourced statements (Mar 2007)
José Oquendo «High» Articles with trivia sections (May 2008)
Mark McGwire «Top» Articles with unsourced statements (Sep 2008)
Mark Mulder Articles lacking sources (Aug 2008)
Mike Jorgensen Articles with unsourced statements (Jul 2008)
Pedro Guerrero (baseball) Articles with unsourced statements (Feb 2007)
René Arocha Articles lacking sources (May 2007)
Roger Maris Articles with unsourced statements (Sep 2008)
Stan Musial «Top» Articles with unsourced statements (Aug 2007)
Whitey Herzog «Top» Articles with unsourced statements (Jun 2008)
William DeWitt, Jr. Articles needing additional references (Jan 2008)
William Ortega Articles to be expanded (Sep 2008)

Listing by maintenance category

Articles lacking in-text citations

Articles lacking sources

Articles needing additional references

Articles to be expanded

Articles with trivia sections

Articles with unsourced statements

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