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Ayers and Dohrn took credit, and have never denied, responsibility for a series of [[terrorist]] bombings which included the [[U.S. Capitol]], the [[Pentagon]] and the [[State Department]].     

Ayers and Dohrn took credit, and have never denied, responsibility for a series of [[terrorist]] bombings which included the [[U.S. Capitol]], the [[Pentagon]] and the [[State Department]].     

Ayers, Dohrn and Barack Obama's friendship and associations go back to the 1980s. The Ayers/Dohrn group lent notoriety among [[leftist]]s to launch Obama's career.  Ayers, Dohrn and [[Jeff Jones]]<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106653 ''Obama's 'green jobs czar' worked with terror founder] Van Jones served on board of activist group where ex-Weatherman serves as top director'', By Aaron Klein, [[WorldNetDaily]], August 13, 2009.</ref> of the Apollo Alliance authored ''[[Bill Ayers#Prairie Fire Organizing Committee and Maoist thought|Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism]],'' the title of which is taken from ''The Sayings of Mao Zedong,''<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/]</ref> "a single spark can set a prairie fire." The book declares "we are communist men and women."<ref>Harvey Klehr, ''Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today'' (Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1988), 109.</ref>  [[File:Van Jones and Barack Obama.JPG|thumb|400px|left|Van Jones and Obama]]  In 1999, state senator Obama helped to found an organization known as Demos,<ref>[http://www.demos.org/press-release/demos-co-founder-and-senior-fellow-david-callahan-leaves-demos-startup-journalism-outf Demos Co-founder and Senior Fellow David Callahan Leaves Demos for a Startup Journalism Outfit]</ref> an organization which listed [[Van Jones]] as a member of the Board of Trustees for years.<ref>[http://www.demos.org/board-trustees Board of Trustees]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081221224800/http://www.demos.org/board.cfm Board of Trustees]</ref>  It is likely that Demos is where Obama and Van Jones first met.<ref>[http://townhall.com/columnists/carolplattliebau/2009/09/07/van_jones%E2%80%99_toxic_dump_on_obama_and_environmentalism Van Jones’ Toxic Dump on Obama and Environmentalism], [[Townhall]]</ref>  Obama Green Czar Van Jones is also a founder of the Apollo Alliance. In response to the [[Gulf of Mexico]] oil spill disaster, Katrina Vanden Huevel of ''[[The Nation]]'' magazine suggested "we need a [[Manhattan Project]], an Apollo Alliance."<ref>[http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100007216&docId=l:1179238159&isRss=true ''This Week,''] [[ABC News]] Transcript, 2 May 2010. Retrieved from LexisNexis, 3 May 2010.</ref>

Ayers, Dohrn and Barack Obama's friendship and associations go back to the 1980s. The Ayers/Dohrn group lent notoriety among [[leftist]]s to launch Obama's career.  Ayers, Dohrn and [[Jeff Jones]]<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106653 ''Obama's 'green jobs czar' worked with terror founder] Van Jones served on board of activist group where ex-Weatherman serves as top director'', By Aaron Klein, [[WorldNetDaily]], August 13, 2009.</ref> of the Apollo Alliance authored ''[[Bill Ayers#Prairie Fire Organizing Committee and Maoist thought|Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism]],'' the title of which is taken from ''The Sayings of Mao Zedong,''<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/]</ref> "a single spark can set a prairie fire." The book declares "we are communist men and women."<ref>Harvey Klehr, ''Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today'' (Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1988), 109.</ref>  [[File:Van Jones and Barack Obama.JPG|thumb|400px|left|Van Jones and Obama]]  In 1999, state senator Obama helped to found an organization known as [[Demos]],<ref>[http://www.demos.org/press-release/demos-co-founder-and-senior-fellow-david-callahan-leaves-demos-startup-journalism-outf Demos Co-founder and Senior Fellow David Callahan Leaves Demos for a Startup Journalism Outfit]</ref> an organization which listed [[Van Jones]] as a member of the Board of Trustees for years.<ref>[http://www.demos.org/board-trustees Board of Trustees]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081221224800/http://www.demos.org/board.cfm Board of Trustees]</ref>  It is likely that Demos is where Obama and Van Jones first met.<ref>[http://townhall.com/columnists/carolplattliebau/2009/09/07/van_jones%E2%80%99_toxic_dump_on_obama_and_environmentalism Van Jones’ Toxic Dump on Obama and Environmentalism], [[Townhall]]</ref>  Obama Green Czar Van Jones is also a founder of the Apollo Alliance. In response to the [[Gulf of Mexico]] oil spill disaster, Katrina Vanden Huevel of ''[[The Nation]]'' magazine suggested "we need a [[Manhattan Project]], an Apollo Alliance."<ref>[http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100007216&docId=l:1179238159&isRss=true ''This Week,''] [[ABC News]] Transcript, 2 May 2010. Retrieved from LexisNexis, 3 May 2010.</ref>

Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996 and served there for the next eight years.

Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996 and served there for the next eight years.