From Cuffy:
Ayers, “…a rehabilitated former domestic radical from the ’60s” was making IEDs while John McCain laid broken in the Hanoi Hilton fighting for Ayers rights.
Where is the justice in this?
Ayers got off on a technicality because he had the money to buy the best attorney possible.
He clearly states that he was aware that he might die doing this.
It did not matter Obama, you lied about your alliance. From Cuffy:
When asked about the infamous 1995 launch of his political career in the Ayers’ living room, just yesterday Obama said “I assumed that he had been rehabilitated.”
Here’s Bill Ayers and Berardine Dohrn boasting about their violent past. In 1996. On local Chicago PBS station WTTW:
BILL AYERS: I’m sure there are people who think that the opposition to the war was wrong and would like to re-write that history, but the opposition to the war was right, and the opposition came from all quarters, and those who opposed it should be proud of that and should say they’re proud of that. To apologize for that opposition would be, I think, a perversion. To apologize for militantly opposing racism, which I think is needed now more than ever, to me is a perversion.
ELIZABETH BRACKETT [interviewer]: As you look back now, the bombings, what the Weathermen did claim credit for, would you do it differently now?
BILL AYERS: Oh, I don’t–I don’t know that there’s much–I doubt it, not if the same conditions prevailed and the same kind of–and I knew what I knew then and didn’t know any more than I knew then, probably not.
BERNARDINE DOHRN: Resistance by every means necessary is happening and will continue to happen within the United States as well as around the world, and I remain committed to the struggle ahead. [ed -- did I say boasting about their past? My bad.]
ELIZABETH BRACKETT: Also central, the desire to make a fundamental radical change in society. Would they do it all again? They say, absolutely.
Again, from an interview on local Chicago PBS at the height of Obama’s professional involvement with Ayers. :
THOMAS FORAN, Former U.S. Attorney: I’d say they still are against the community; they’re still anti-authoritarian; they still think that they know their own little secret of how the world should run that’s different than the overwhelming majority of the people.
Attention like kissing their rings in their living room? Big deal:
Obama’s political career was launched with Ayers giving him a fundraiser in his living room. If a Republican candidate had launched his political career at the home of an abortion-clinic bomber — even a repentant one — he would not have been able to run for dogcatcher in Podunk.
His only regret is that he “didn’t do enough.”
October 10, 2008 at 7:39 PM
Every American needs to watch his.
October 10, 2008 at 7:44 PM
Every American needs to watch his. There is something not being sufficiently focused on with regard to Obama’s connection with Ayers. That is this: think of the loss of credibility our nation will have in a war on terror, when its chief executive has ties to, indeed launched his political career in the home of, a confessed and unrepentant domestic terrorist. The American people need to reflect soberly on the moral effect such an association will have on the legitimacy of our war against terrorism. If people don’t think that every terrorist state and organization in the world won’t make hay with that, they are on crack. It doesn’t even matter if Obama agrees or condemns Ayers’ actions. The association is sufficient for the terrorists to exploit. Period. No one seems to be addressing the “why does it matter” aspect (beyond simply bad judgment). I’ve been doing my best to keep up with most of the articles on this subject through RCP, but I don’t think anyone has really driven this home. I really think this is the angle that needs to become a drum beat, and just hammered home until election day. It’s not guilt by association, it’s irreparable damage to our nation’s moral credibility in time of war against terrorist states and organizations.
October 10, 2008 at 7:50 PM
Max
Obama’s relationship with Ayers provides significant insight into character.
It is particularly relevant in relation to a potential president as new, unknown, opaque and self-contained as Obama.
“American people need to reflect soberly on the moral effect such an association will have on the legitimacy of our war against terrorism.”
You are correct in assuming that terrorist organizations and unfriendly countries are watching and waiting.
KEEP making that statement on every blog possible. It is a very important statement. This man chose his alliances.
God Bless Us All.
October 12, 2008 at 5:31 AM
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October 13, 2008 at 2:22 AM
I’ve been digging around more and it just gets more unsettling. His possible islamic links are as troubling as the ones with Ayers. And to a certain extent they overlap:
While a student at Occidental and Columbia, Obama’s main coterie of friends appears to have been Pakistani muslims, mostly from Karachi. See, http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=F1C46FDE-3048-5C12-00ED1702A906DC5F. This in and of itself is not overly troubling, except to the extent that the Obama campaign has put a virtual blackout on Obama’s Columbia and Harvard years. He took a trip to Pakistan in 1981 (acknowledged by the Obama campaign), at a time when it was on the banned travel list by the U.S. State Department due to martial law and the huge influx of Afghan mujahadeen operating from Pakistan in resistance to the Soviet occupation. A strange time to visit to say the least. How far Obama’s networking penetrated into muslim circles is unclear, but information is beginning to surface that indicates his linkage into islamic powerbrokers is substantial. A prominent African-American attorney, Percy Sutton former counsel to Malcolm X) disclosed in a March 2008 television interview in August that he first heard of Barack Obama through Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour. See, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EcC0QAd0Ug. See also http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/khalid_al_mansour/2008/09/04/127844.html ; http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/08/obamas-benefact.html Al-Mansour was securing funding for Obama to go to Harvard Law School. Al-Mansour is a former Black Panther and seriously virulent muslim (check out videos of his speeches on You Tube). Al-Mansour has close ties with and is a U.S. adviser to Prince Al-Walid bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, the Saudi prince who tried to give NYC $10 million dollars but Giulani refused it because Alwaleed claimed 9/11 was the result of U.S. policies. Was Obama’s Harvard law degree bankrolled in part (or completely) with Saudi money? See http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_sutton_saudi/2008/09/03/127490.html It cannot be ascertained because the Obama campaign won’t release any of Obama’s Harvard records. The Obama campaign claims that Obama paid for his law degree through “student loans” but form whom? Again, no records are being released. Why? Moreover, the Obama’s election disclosures from 2000 on do not indicate any student loan liability, even though Michelle Obama claims they paid them off in 2006 with funds from Barack’s book sales. See, http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/obama_harvard_/2008/09/23/133199.html
Obama also has ties to Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO communications manager and virulent anti-Israel activist. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/the_obamakhalidi_connection.html
Does this make Obama a muslim? No, but he clearly has links to some very unsavory characters in the muslim community. Probably the most likely common thread link is the connection between militant Black Nationalist themed worldviews of the kind fomented by “former” Obama minister Rev. Jeremiah (“G#d D@mn America”)Wright, Louis Farrakhan (with whom Wright is exceedingly friendly), and Dr. Al-Mansour. And of course, don’t forget that Al-Mansour was a mentor to the Black Panthers in his pre-islamic days, and that the Black Panthers had heavy links with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn from their SDS/RYM days before the Weather Underground. Obama’s friends and mentors read like a “Who’s Who” of sixties era radicalism.
October 18, 2008 at 4:58 AM
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