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[[Image:Features ayers1.jpg|200px|thumb|right|'''Obama served on the Board of the Woods Fund of Chicago with [[Weather Underground]] [[terrorist|terrorist group]] co-founder Bill Ayers'''<ref>[http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1a.pdf FBI fil Weather Underground]</ref> '''at the time this photo appeared''' of Ayers stomping the American flag in ''Chicago Magazine'' in 2001. Obama was hired by Ayers to chair an organization Ayers founded called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Ayers contributed to Obama election campaigns and hosted a fundraiser for Obama to meet and greet Ayers contacts.]]
[[Image:Features ayers1.jpg|200px|thumb|right|'''Obama served on the Board of the Woods Fund of Chicago with [[Weather Underground]] [[terrorist|terrorist group]] co-founder Bill Ayers'''<ref>[http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1a.pdf FBI fil Weather Underground]</ref> '''at the time this photo appeared''' of Ayers stomping the American flag in ''Chicago Magazine'' in 2001. Obama was hired by Ayers to chair an organization Ayers founded called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Ayers contributed to Obama election campaigns and hosted a fundraiser for Obama to meet and greet Ayers contacts.]]
Ayers, Dohrn and Obama's relationship went back several years and they were lending their notoriety among [[radical]] [[leftist]]s to launch Obama's career as Palmer's successor.
Ayers, Dohrn and Obama's relationship went back several years and they were lending their notoriety among [[radical]] [[leftist]]s to launch Obama's career as Palmer's successor. Ayers and Dorhns book written with [[Prairie Fire Organizing Committee|Jeff Jones]], whose title ''Prairie Fire'' is taken the sayings of [[Chairman Mao]] in the ''Little Red Book'', [http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/] "a single spark can set a prairie fire"," announces,
{{cquote|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> }}
Co-author and co-Weather Underground founder 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> worked for several years with Obama administration Green Czar [[Van Jones]], another self-described communist. Like [[Frank Marshall Davis]], there is no indication Ayers, Dohrn, Jones, Dr. Young, or others close associates of Obama have renounced their faith in communism.
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.