Modus operand for people like you is to pull one out of your ass and lay it on the table. The question was "what privileges have you lost" and again you try to deflect by listing thing you have been deprived of. Try again ass hat.

If you think there are other world currencies more valued than the dollar then I suggest you move to one of those countries or buy more Glen Beck gold.

You have not been deprived of the right to choose your doctor. Pick whoever you want but you're totally responsible for paying the tab. Also, the doctor you want may not want your cheap ass as a client.

The underground weathermen may not have still been active, but its main actors were still around and all evidence points to O's relationship with them.

Lies, big lies, and damned lies. The Obama team offers a disingenuous blend of fact and fiction in trying to cover up the true relationship between Obama and Ayers. The devil is in the detials and details do matter:

Ayers is just a guy who lives in my neighborhood, a tenured professor, and adviser to the local mayor

Ayers does live in Barack’s neighborhood (or vice versa). In fact, Barack and Bill currently live about two blocks apart on Greenwood Avenue and 50th Street. And before Barack’s “boneheaded” deal with convicted felon Rezko to purchase the Greenwood mansion, Obama lived about 1-1/4 miles from Bill. But the dismissive “just a guy who lives in my neighborhood” is a lie because Ayers was not just some fellow Barack bumped into at the corner market. They have a relationship that goes back nearly 20 years. Ayers was Barack’s friend, employer, colleague, and political supporter.

Ayers also is a tenured professor and multiple reports indicate he also is a buddy of Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley. In fact, Mayor Daley has defended him during the campaign saying they’ve worked together, that Bill Ayers is a respected educator, and valued member of the Chicago community (Chicago Tribune, April 17, 2008).

It is unfair to say that Ayers’ actions 40 years ago when I was only eight should reflect upon me; anyway, charges against him where dropped and he did not serve any jail time. Plus, I’ve condemned the group’s actions

False. It is entirely fair to judge Barack by the people he surrounds himself with. Bill Ayer’s may have beat the terrorism charges but he has remained resolutely unrepentant about his actions. In 1981 David Horowitz quotes him bragging “Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.” In 2001 he is quoted saying “I don’t regret settings bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” (New York Times, September 11, 2001). Bill’s wife, Bernadine Dohrn went to jail rather than aid the government after the deadly Brinks armored car robbery. I like the comment at Hot Air (February 24, 2008) where See-Dubya expresses concern about Barack’s “…frightening tone-deafness toward terrorism, and a blithe ignorance of the evil and chaos these radicals represent.”

Any connection to Ayers is phony, tenuous, or a stretch. It is ridiculous to suggest any tie with Ayers

False. Everything discovered to date undeniably document that Barack Obama and Bill Ayers have personal, professional, and political ties that span nearly 20 years. Steve Diamond believes they likely first met in 1988 following Chicago’s teacher’s strike. Barack was hired into a Woods Fund sponsored position with Developing Communities Project that was a member of Bill Ayers’ Alliance for Better Chicago Schools (ABCs) (Global Labor and Politics, June 7, 2008).

Consider as well:

In November 20, 1997. Michelle Obama, then Associate Dean of Student Services and Director of the University of Chicago Community Service Center, organized and participated in a panel that included Barack and Bill, Should a child ever be called a “super predator?” at the University of Chicago. See also, Chicago Tribune.
In 1997 Barack wrote a review of Bill’s book “A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court”. Chicago Tribune published a blurb from Obama about books he was reading. See also USA Today.
April 19-20, 2002, Barack, Bill, and Bernadine participated in a conference and panel “Intellectuals: Who Needs Them?“. See also, Chicago Tribune.
February 2005. Barack and Bill participated in a conference and dinner for Rashid Khalidi at Columbia wherein they offered testimonials to Khalidi. Mayor Daley also attended this h**e-fest. (See The Sun and Campus Watch for some commentary. Khalidi subsequently lost his position at Columbia because of his comments, see New York Times.)
Ayers did not help launch my career

False. Back in 1995 after Barack Obama had returned to Chicago upon graduating from Harvard Law School, Bill Ayers hired the young Barack, then a third year associate at Davis, miner, Barnhill & Gallad. Together they spent upwards to $160 million dollars over the next seven years. As well, Bill and his wife Bernadine Dohrn feted him to the community as then-State Senator Palmer’s successor.

Early in Barack Obama’s career, he attended one reception in his honor at Ayers’ house

Not the whole t***h. This was not a meet and greet reception. And Barack had more than one isolated sit down with Ayers and Dohrn. The Ayers/Dohrn home is where Barack Obama launched his campaign to oust then-State Senator Alice Palmer. This reception is reported in numerous articles including Ben Smith in Politico (February 22). Maria Warren writes about this gathering in her blog Musings & Migraines on January 27, 2005, “When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the living room of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. They were launching him–introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread.” Ari Berman also reports in The Nation (May 1) that Bill hosted a fundraiser for Barack in 1996. (Possibly an error on Berman’s part as this might be the 1995 event since there is no other mention of a 1996 fundraiser.)

Ayers had nothing to do with my joining Annenberg Challenge. He did not recruit me, nor did he serve on its board

False. Bill Ayers founded the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, secured the initial $50 million from Annenberg Challenge, and claims to have co-chaired the Collaborative it with Barack Obama. While there is nothing to explicitly prove that Bill recruited Barack, it is simply not credible to say that Bill Ayers had nothing to do with Barack Obama joining the organization.

I do not exchange ideas with Ayers

Really? Can you say the same thing about your communications director, David Axelrod? According to a source who attended the Democratic National convention in Denver, an old friend of Ayer’s bragged that Axelrod and Ayers are in regular contact and coordinating on how to respond to the claims about the Ayers/Obama relationship.

Ayers has not ‘officially’ endorsed me

Really? So he’s backing McCain? The issue is not who Ayers has endorsed. The issue remains–why did Barack hang out for so many years with a guy like Ayers. Endorsement or not, it is a question that matter.

Ayers has been a politically active member of that community for years

True. First, as a home-grown d******c t*******t, then since around 1987 as a community activist, organizer, and financier. As Lynn Sweet wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times (March 3), “Hyde Park welcomed William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn to the neighborhood after they resurfaced as local civic leaders following their years on the lam as members of the Weather Underground.” She notes Ben Smith observing in Politico (February 22), “While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.”

Considering that, it’s actually remarkable how little the two have to do with each other

Oh yeah?! Now this is where the lying really begins. As is increasingly clear, they worked together and shared the same circle of friends and families, same business associates, and same political associates.

They also were separately asked by a charitable organization to serve on that organization’s board

Not true. They were involved in at least three different “charitable” organizations. There was the Woods Fund of Chicago, which Barack joined 1993 and Bill Ayers joined in 1997. But what about the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which Ayers founded and worked on with Barack Obama from 1995 through 1999. While Barack chaired the Challenge, Bill co-chaired its Collaborative arm. This was actually three connected organizations: Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC, the Board), Chicago School Reform Collaborative (the Collaborative, and Consortium of Chicago Schools Research (CCSR).

And that’s it. There’s no friendship between the two…

Ben Smith in Politico (February 22) writes that Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician, told him that they were “friends”. At the time Smith dismissed this for lack of supporting information and the denial by Barack Obama. (I wonder if Smith has since reconsidered?). Mayor Daley now says they are friends. Even Bill Burton acknowledges that they were friends.

…no relationship

False. They have family, community, business, and political ties. The only tie they appear to not share regards religion.

…no history of working together

False. Why is the media so reluctant to explore the CAC relationship?

At the risk of being redundant, sometime in 1987 Bill and Bernadine returned home to Chicago, where both had family. Michelle likely already knew both through her Robinson family ties and then in her 1988 work at Sidley Austin, where Bernardine was also employed. It is likely that Barack at least knew of Bill Ayers because he was already involving himself among with the Ayers family and their players in the community. Bill Ayers operated in relative obscurity until February 2008 when his ties to Barack and Michelle Obama became a matter of discussion in Barack’s p**********l aspirations.

As a community organizer in Chicago from 1985 to 1988 Barack Obama received funding from and worked with numerous groups, such as Developing Communities Project. Bill Ayers joined in this arena upon his return in 1987 through his own group, Alliance for Better Chicago Schools (ABCs). They both surely crossed paths as Ayer’s father, Tom, provided funding to Barack and Bill through Chicago United, a group of businessmen concerned about race and education issues in Chicago. Tom Ayers was once CEO of Commonwealth Edison (now Exelon) (Steve Diamond, Global Labor and Politics, June 18, 2008). Michelle, the Robinson daughter, continued her own involvement but details are murky at best. Barack Obama shows up again in Chicago after graduating from Harvard Law School, ends up at Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, and joins the Woods Fund board, 1993, as a freshly minted 32 year old law school graduate, where he remained through 2002 and continued association with until gaining a seat in the U.S. Senate. Bill Ayers formally joined the board in 1999 but had ties throughout the earlier years, including receiving funds from the group.

Anyway, in 1993 Bill began organizing the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Despite his unrepentant terrorist past he succeeded in securing nearly $50 million from Annenberg Challenge and immediately named Barack as his co-chair. Together over the next five years they spent at least $110 million for “radical” school reform in Chicago (Steve Diamond, Global Labor and Politics, June 18, 2008 and August 18, 2008). Then, or shortly afterward, the remains of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was handed over to Chicago Public Education Fund.

This was a small circle of people, families, and businesses. They were figuratively partners in crime, Chicago’s political mafia enriching themselves through their political position, through federal, local, and state funding, and through their positions and funds given from private organizations, especially, of immediately focus here, from the Woods Fund and Annenberg Challenge. It is likely that there are other organizations and people involved and this needs to be explored further. Stanley Kurtz, Steve Diamond, and others are now beginning to look into what Annenberg Challenge did with its more than $160 million in private and federal dollars.

But first, let’s get back to Barack, Bill, and Bernadine. Again, Michelle plays at least a bit role in this but to what extent is still unclear. Over the years Barack, Bill, Bernadine, and Michelle show up together, along with other Chicago figures that include Rev. Wright, Minister Farrakhan, Rev. Meeks, Rev. Pfleger, Sen. Jones, and many, many more. Throughout this Barack also had his early ties with friend, businessman, and political financier Tony Rezko and Rezko’s partners and associates. And finally, let’s also not forget organizations that received funding from Barack and Bill, such as:

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
Arab American Action Network (AAAN) founded by husband and wife Rashid and Mona Khalidi.
Maoist Mike Klonsky, another terrorist member of the Weatherman
Children and Family Justice Center, Bernardine’s organization.
Trinity Unity Church and Rev. Wright.
Finally, what role did Barack’s position as a sitting state senator play in all of this?

Summary

Fairly or not, Chicago has a long reputation as a corrupt political city. It is increasingly clear that Barack joined and became a willing partner in this corruption. The families, organizations, and businesses involved enriched themselves off of the private and public funds that Barack controlled. That Barack Obama lied and continues to lie about his relationship with Bill Ayers is a smokescreen and the tip-of-the-iceberg about the depth of his involvement in what are, or may be, corrupt practices among these people and their organizations.

Hence, the Chicago Way ploitical style with which O is running his administration continuing the anti-American agenda of his and bushie's , etc....puppet masters.

Yes and every year citizens have to spend millions to defend that right, from our goverment that uses tax payer money to attack that right. Why areny you mad about the wasted dollars that could be going to your socialist goals. Its ok we ll just borrow more! I see a lot of talk about different bills that the GOP stopped from being funded by the house. Did anyone here actual look at these bills? No you didn't, and I know this cause most of them had more pork than an Oscar Myer factory, and bacon is costing more these days :)

I am another horrible right wing extremist, and I think Michelle Obama is female, just not of the Nordic type with narrow hips and slender body. Most black women from parts of Africa seem to have the same type body build as Michelle. It would have been hard for the slender delicate type to survive in an area where the women had babies without hospitals, so the hip structure would have had to be wider and stronger. I know that many have commented that she is not good looking, but that, to is a matter of taste. Each to his own. Why does it matter anyhow. The Obamas have done everything they could to rebuild America as a collectivist state, and the President is ruling it with a type of soft tyranny, what they look like, or what race they are, or whether they are the same sex, different sexes, or no sex really isn't important. The important thing, and what we should all be concerned with, is that Obama h**es America and is intentionally doing every thing he can, legally and ILLEGALLY to destroy her and rebuild America into just another third world country.

That is not the full picture. Bills are not simple and straightforward and limited to one item. If they were then the Republicans could sign on to some of them. Most bills are written with other significant issues at stake and evil men try to even craftily slip them by. Much like obamacare. That is why pelosi did not want anyone to read it. I want my reps to read every jot and tittle so these evil liberals can't push more damaging insidious bills through. Most of Obamas agenda is bad for the country. this is the main reason we cannot sponsor anything he wants to accomplish.

No just having some fun. I am not defending the two who k**led the policeman either. I am not defending bill Clinton who brought us 9/11. I am not defending Obama or Hillary for causing the deaths of our people in B******i and not even sending help that was close by and could have saved them. I am not defending Eric Holder and Obama who got our border patrol agent k**led. I am not defending Obama for those who will be k**led for releasing five Taliban generals in trade for a deserter. I will not defend Obama for children sick and dying coming from central America because he refuses to enforce the laws he is sworn to uphold. I am not defending Obama for those k**led at Ft. Hood because he refuse to call terrorism what it is while those families go without benefits they so richly deserve. I am not defending the vets that died because of Obamas worthless campaign promise when he attacked Bush for not doing enough for our vets. I am not defending any of these crazed whackos. I never said I did.

Thanks for the insight, only I lived it too. I do find it interesting how people only remember what they want to remember. W/ rufus's point what has obama accomplish since he took office? Takes responsiblity for nothing. He had full reign and spent more money than any other president. He didn't fix anything, & throwing money at a problem only lasts so long, and now "the desimated alqueada" his words is stronger than its been in 8 yrs. The immigration problem is the worst its ever been, they're sending they're children over in thousands now to take advantage of us. Republicans had nothing to do w/ this. How long do you think going further and further in debt will last? I know you understand this, meanwhile you still blame republicans. Any funds handed out during the TARP program were paid back. Nothing this administration has put money into has made money and it because of they're policies. If you work for a living then I know you feel it everyday. Unless maybe you don't work and can't understand why I m getting pissed off at how my money is constantly going into Harry Ried and Pelosi pockets, 9 million she made in one yr from insider trading on tax payer funded projects, and that's fine by you. Meanwhile you attack the tea party for failed policies that couldn't even get off the floor. You blame republicans but you never really tried to work w/ them. Just dictated how it was going to be and they said "NO" so no we have a situation of a president breaking the law that MOB RULE CHARISHES SO MUCH. Based on momentary lapses of judgement due to crisis situations(just like we all got fooled by the patriot act) that usually fit an agenda other than protecting Americans. Even Rachel Madow from MSNBC of all people broke it down and couldn't figure it out Sorry so long, but I got like 4 of ya hitting me at once. Once again it seems that one feeds the other, but I just don't see what you see, have to agree to disagree.