That should have been the headline from last night's debate.
Hillary Clinton, board member at Walmart for six years from 1986 to 1992, the same Walmart that sued a brain-damaged accident victim to get back the money they had paid for her healthcare, the same Walmart that hires part time workers to avoid having to pay benefits whenever possible, the same Walmart that continues to prevent workers from organizing in their stores, and even encourages their suppliers to outsource jobs overseas, actually said:
I also believe that Senator Obama served on a board with Mr. Ayers for a period of time, the Woods Foundation, which was a paid directorship position.
This has got to be an all time low. More below.
And if I'm not mistaken, that relationship with Mr. Ayers on this board continued after 9/11 and after his reported comments, which were deeply hurtful to people in New York, and I would hope to every American, because they were published on 9/11 and he said that he was just sorry they hadn't done more. And what they did was set bombs and in some instances people died. So it is -- you know, I think it is, again, an issue that people will be asking about. And I have no doubt -- I know Senator Obama's a good man and I respect him greatly but I think that this is an issue that certainly the Republicans will be raising.
UPDATE: The Associated Press says Clinton was wrong:
Clinton's implication that Ayers made hurtful comments connected with the terrorist attacks is wrong.
By coincidence, a story about Ayers and what he called his fictionalized memoirs appeared in The New York Times on the day of the attacks.
Here is a link to the article, printed the morning of 9/11.
So what is this Woods Fund anyway? Sounds like a terrorist group to me:
Woods Fund of Chicago is a grantmaking foundation whose goal is to increase opportunities for less advantaged people and communities in the metropolitan area, including the opportunity to shape decisions affecting them. The foundation works primarily as a funding partner with nonprofit organizations. Woods supports nonprofits in their important roles of engaging people in civic life, addressing the causes of poverty and other challenges facing the region, promoting more effective public policies, reducing racism and other barriers to equal opportunity, and building a sense of community and common ground.
The Woods Fund has a strong belief in the need for and effectiveness of including the less advantaged in the entire process of addressing issues that affect them. To this end, the Woods Fund encourages and supports organizations and initiatives that promote "participatory policy making" by reaching out to their less advantaged constituencies. Such efforts should involve the less advantaged in identifying and defining the issues that face them, and in forming effective solutions to these problems.
So who is on this board of terrorists Obama belonged to from 1999 to 2002?
Board of Directors and Officers
Laura S. Washington, Board Chair
Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor and Fellow of the DePaul Humanities Center
Jesus G. Garcia, Vice Chair
Executive Director, Little Village Community Development Corporation
William C. Ayers
Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago
Lee Bey
Director of Media and Governmental Affairs, Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill LLP
Doris Salomon Chagin
Category Manager - Ethnic Markets, BP Products North America
Beth E. Richie
Professor and Head of the Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
Patrick M. Sheahan
Executive Director, Public Affairs, UBS Investment Bank
Charles N. Wheatley
President, Sahara Enterprises, Inc.
Lucia Woods Lindley
Board Member Emeritus
UBS? BP? University of Illinois? It seems Mrs. Clinton has unmasked a pack of wolves in sheep clothing who intend to attack the United States! Someone call the Department of Homeland Security, we found a sleeper cell!