'The Manchurian President' is the Most Exhaustive Investigation into Barack Obama's Background New Book on Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists, Soars on Amazon WASHINGTON, May 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new book released today uncovers for the first time where and how President Barack Obama first met Weather Underground terrorist-group founder William Ayers - and it is much earlier than previously believed. The book, which has soared on Amazon, reveals the two were brought together by a student of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky, whose name, it has emerged, was obscured in Obama's autobiography "Dreams from My Father." "The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and other Anti-American Extremists," charges Obama has deep ties to an anti-American extremist nexus that has been instrumental not only in building his political career but in crafting current White House policy. The book exposes an extremist coali

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Tuesday that Democrat Brack Obama's association with a 1960s radical will come up in their debate Wednesday.

By CHRISTOPHER WILLS By Christopher Wills The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Scraping for any advantage in the campaign's waning days, John McCain and Barack Obama are introducing voters to a new cast of characters.

Republican U.S. presidential nominee John McCain on Thursday again questioned Democrat Barack Obama's association with former radical William Ayers.

Republican U.S. presidential nominee John McCain's camp has the right to question Democrat Barack Obama's ties to an ex-radical, Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday.