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Friday, February 22, 2008

All About Obama And His Terrorist Buddies

Simply unbelievable. Barack Obama is friends with two terrorists who attempted to kill U.S. soldiers.

Here is a little background on Obama's comrades, William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn:

They disappeared in 1970, after a bomb – designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally destroyed a Greenwich Village townhouse, and turned themselves into authorities in 1980. They were never prosecuted for their involvement with the 25 bombings the Weather Underground claimed; charges were dropped because of improper FBI surveillance.

Both have written and spoken at length about their pasts, and today he is an advocate for progressive education and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; she’s an associate professor of law at Northwestern University.

But – unlike some other fringe figures of the era — they’re also flatly unrepentant about the bombings they committed in the name of ending the war, defending them on the grounds that they killed no one, except, accidentally, their own members.

Dohrn, however, was jailed for less than a year for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating other Weather Underground members’ robbery of a Brinks truck, in which a guard and two New York State Troopers were killed.

“I don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do enough,” Ayers told the New York Times in 2001.

We are now finding out just how radical and anti-American Obama's leftism actually is.

(h/t Purple Avenger)

Update: Far from being a mere acquaintance of Obama's, Ayers and Obama served together on the board of the Woods Fund, an anti-poverty group.

Incredibly, the New York Times published a profile of Ayers on September 11, 2001.

Crossposted from Ken McCracken

Comments

The article seems to indicate a very passing and fleeting aquaintence. It hardly seems to suggest close friendship.

This seems less than fair.

Kenny on February 22, 2008 at 10:13 am

By all accounts, Obama himself, the terrorists themselves, and the community in which they reside, Obama is friends with these people.

Would you, Kenny, tolerate an even passing acquaintance with people who attempted to kill U.S. soldiers?

Ken McCracken on February 22, 2008 at 10:21 am

“I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough,”

And this is the guy whose home you take the new senator to meet his liberal constituents?
It may have been a passing acquaintance on Obama’s part, but it looks like an endemic part of the Democrat’s base.



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Proof on February 22, 2008 at 10:46 am

This stuff needs to be hammered and hammered and hammered. Schorched earth policy. This is unacceptable. The left leaning MSM doesn’t care because they feel he is better than bush…


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goon on February 22, 2008 at 10:50 am
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Right now, this indictment is about as strong as John McCain’s “affair”. 

Unless you are going to treat both situations equally, this post is both dishonest and partisan.

Hannitized on February 22, 2008 at 10:57 am

Partisan, Hannitized?

Of course.

Dishonest? Bring it up with The Politico.

Ken McCracken on February 22, 2008 at 10:59 am

By all accounts, Obama himself, the terrorists themselves, and the community in which they reside, Obama is friends with these people.

Really? That doesn’t square with ANYTHING in the article:

....Neither Ayers nor the Obama campaign would describe the relationship between the two men. Dr. Young described Obama and Ayers as “friends,” but there’s no evidence their relationship is more than the casual friendship of two men who occupy overlapping Chicago political circles and who served together on the board of a Chicago foundation.

According to the article, they are passing aquaintances, not friends. Neither Obama nor the two will comment on their relationship, so the charge that they are friends is completely dishonest and without merit, unless you have something else to offer.

Would you, Kenny, tolerate an even passing acquaintance with people who attempted to kill U.S. soldiers?

I have known awful people who have killed innocent people as well. I have about the same ammount of exposure to the Southside rapist and a pedophile as Barack Obama had to these guys.

Why wouldn’t I tolerate it? What the hell’s he supposed to do? Shoot them on sight? You’re being thick.

Partisan, Hannitized?

Of course.

Dishonest? Bring it up with The Politico.

No, Ken, H is completely right on this one. This is a ridiculous story, and unfair to Obama.

There’s plenty to dislike about the guy. He’s a hardline socialist who’s policies are both terrible and ridiculously naive. To pounce on something this trivial is to divert from issues that matter, like how he’d simultaneously surrender Iraq and bomb our ally Pakistan.

Kenny on February 23, 2008 at 12:10 am
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Bravo! Good for you! What courage to report this. The Obamamaniacs will try to sweep it under the carpet, but the Republicans will make much of this story. How can someone who wants to be the President of the US deal with people who wanted to destroy our country? Obama met with these folks in his youth, but also as an adult in the 1990’s. It wasn’t just a passing fling. He called them his “friends”. Great friends he has. No wonder he wants to meet with Syria and Iran as fast as he can.

Take this story and couple it with the fact that Louis Farrakhan just loves Obama and can’t get enough of him, and that Mrs. Obama finally is proud of her country for the first time and add to that how the Obama campaign is strong arming super delagates to vote for him and you end up with a far left radical who practices same old dirty politics. That’s why Hillary has a point when she says Obama’s words don’t match his actions. They don’t. Barack is an incredible hypocrite and America will come crashing down when his bubble bursts. Obama will lose to McCain in the fall if he’s the nominee. I just hope America wakes up quick from their Obama dream soon. Let’s start an anyone but Obama campaign!

Tina59 on February 29, 2008 at 07:06 pm
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