Posted on 04/20/2008 11:42:26 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
... As an Illinois senator in 2001, Mr. Obama accepted a $200 contribution from William Ayers, a founding member of the group that bombed the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon during the 1970s.
Mr. Ayers wrote a memoir, "Fugitive Days," published in 2001, and on the day of the September 11 terrorist attacks, he was quoted by the New York Times as saying: "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."
He and Mr. Obama served together on the nine-member board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago nonprofit, for three years beginning in 1999, and they have also appeared jointly on two academic panels, one in 1997 and another in 2001.
... a political friendship that began in 1995, and they became professional colleagues in 1999...
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Now, if there was a man who had bombed an abortion clinic 40 years ago, and had gotten off on a technicality or because the FBI screwed up its surveillance of him, would Obama have still served with him as a board member in a nonprofit organization?
Would Obama still be on "friendly terms" with that abortion clinic bomber?
No.
So why is he still on friendly terms with a "domestic terrorist from the '60s Weatherman Underground"?
Do those bombings not bother Obama? If they do, then why is he still on friendly terms with Ayers?
Left admires Domestic terrorists of the 60s (Newt Gingrich). He is right.
For them cause is all that matters. For a “good” cause, ends justify the means.
Abortion Clinic Bomber is doing is comitting and evil act for “evil” cause, thus any association with him is unacceptable. The Liberal bombers were comitting and evil act for “good” cause. What’s wrong with that?
So if Obama would not be on friendly terms with an abortion clinic bomber - even after 40 years - would not serve with him on a nonprofit organization, and wouldn’t like something like that, then does he like other kinds of bombings?
More than his association with the Pastor, this one is the smoking gun I believe that will undo him in the Fall. Combine this with his anti-gun board membership (8 years) on Joyce foundation funding campaigns promoting hand-gun ban, and that should be the death of his campaign.
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Excellent point. Get that to Sean Hannity so he can make sure it is asked in the next debate.
Barack Obomber
Re: “Barack Obomber”
Oooohhh, I like that! It has a ring to it - Barack Obomber.
One thing that bugs me about this is Obama’s use of moral equivalency again. He tried to make a moral equivalence to what his white grandma said to him in private about fearing black men with the good reverend’s public exhortations of his flock.
He is now trying to equate something that Senator Colburn advocates (changing laws to make abortion doctors guilty of murder and thus the death penalty) to a domestic terrorist. While I may not agree with Senator Colburns position on the death penalty, I don’t think he ever took action and killed an abortion doctor. Somehow, I also doubt that Obama is friendly with Senator Colburn.
If he wants to equate this with something, it would be like McCain being friendly with an abortion center bomber. We know how that would go over in the press.
www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0420chapmanapr20,1,2975893.column
chicagotribune.com
About Obama’s terrorist acquaintance
Steve Chapman
April 20, 2008
But his comfortable association with an unrepentant former terrorist should induce queasiness in anyone who shares the humane values that Obama extols.
When the issue came up in Wednesday’s Democratic debate, the Illinois senator tried to duck it. “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from,” he said. He added that to suggest “knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense.”
Obama went on, “I’m also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who during his campaign once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions. Do I need to apologize for Mr. Coburn’s statements?”
This exercise in moral equivalence is unconvincing, if not dishonest. Would Obama be friendly with someone who actually bombed abortion clinics and defends that conduct? Not likely. But he is friendly with William Ayers, a leader of the radical Weather Underground, which in the 1970s carried out numerous bombings, including one inside the U.S. Capitol. (Though the last person who should object is Hillary Clinton, whose husband pardoned two Weather Underground members.)
Obama minimized his relationship by acknowledging only that he knows Ayers. But they have quite a bit more of a connection than that. He’s appeared on panels with Ayers, served on a foundation board with him and held a 1995 campaign event at the home of Ayers and his wife, fellow former terrorist Bernardine Dohrn. Ayers even gave money to one of his campaigns.
It’s not as though Ayers and Dohrn have denied or repudiated their crimes. After emerging from years in hiding, they escaped federal prosecution because of government misconduct in gathering evidence, but they don’t pretend they were innocent. In 2001, Ayers said, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”
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