Palin: Obama “Palling Around” With Terrorists
She’s talking about Obama’s relationship with William Ayers, and she’s right.
(AP) Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is accusing Democrat Barack Obama of “palling around with terrorists” for his association with a former 1960s radical.
Palin was referring to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. The group took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol four decades ago.
In remarks to GOP donors in Englewood, Colo., on Saturday, Palin said Obama seems to see the U.S. as being so imperfect that, in her words, “he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.” Obama served on a charity board with Ayers in Chicago and has denounced his past activities.
Obama didn’t just serve on a board with William Ayers (though that’s the whitewash the media likes to perpetuate). He was selected to sit on the board of the Chicago Annenberg School Challenge (dedicated to infusing Chicago’s public schools with radical leftism) by Ayers himself who was a founder of the Annenberg Foundation. As chairman of the ASC, Obama worked directly for William Ayers. And when Obama launched his first campaign to be a state legislator in Illinois he did so from William Ayers’ home.
This wasn’t a passing relationship, as the media and the Obama campaign want to suggest. This was a close working and personal relationship.
And William Ayers is, absolutely, a terrorist. He may not have a body count under his belt, but in the 1960’s he was all for resorting to bomb-setting, violence and intimidation to advance his political agenda. He’s never apologized for it either. In fact on September 11th (yes, that September 11th), he told an interviewer in New York that he wasn’t sorry he set bombs. He said he’d wished he set more bombs.
That’s the William Ayers Obama knows. That’s the William Ayers who picked Obama to served on the board for his foundation. That’s the William Ayers who Obama picked to help him launch his political career.
Liberals can rail all they want about calling Ayers a terrorist, and saying Obama “palled around” with him, but the truth is the truth no matter how inconvenient for Obama’s campaign it is.
