[AGL] Chicago's Mayor Daley Defends both Obama and Ayres vs Clinton

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Daley to Clinton: Don't Tar Obama with Ayers

by Mike Dorning and Rick Pearson
Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, whose father was famously not so
sympathetic to anti-war protesters, is coming to the defense of Barack
Obama for his friendship with former Weather Underground member Bill
Ayers.

Daley accused Hillary Clinton and other critics of Obama's association
with Ayers of "re-fighting 40 year old battles." And the mayor noted
that he, too "know(s) Bill Ayers" and has "worked with" Ayers on city
education reforms.

The mayor released the following statement:

"There are a lot of reasons that Americans are angry about Washington
politics. And one more example is the way Senator Obama's opponents
are playing guilt-by-associatio n, tarring him because he happens to
know Bill Ayers.

"I also know Bill Ayers. He worked with me in shaping our now
nationally-renowned school reform program. He is a
nationally-recogniz ed distinguished professor of education at the
University of Illinois/Chicago and a valued member of the Chicago
community.

"I don't condone what he did 40 years ago but I remember that period
well. It was a difficult time, but those days are long over. I believe
we have too many challenges in Chicago and our country to keep
re-fighting 40 year old battles."

But the Clinton campaign was not about to drop Ayers connection to
Obama. Ayers hosted a neighborhood coffee for Obama's initial 1996
Illinois state Senate run and gave Obama a $200 donation for his state
Senate re-election campaign in 2001.

In a conference call with reporters today, Clinton spokesmen Howard
Wolfson and Phil Singer sought to maintain that Obama's political
relationship with Ayers was more important than the decision by
Clinton's husband, President Bill Clinton, to commute the sentences of
two of Ayers' former Weather Underground members, Susan Rosenberg and
Linda Evans on terrorist related weapons charges.

Asked if Hillary Clinton had expressed any disagreement with her
husband's actions in commuting the sentences of Rosenberg and Evans,
Wolfson said only that he would ask the candidate. 


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