Palling around with terrorists

The New York Times has finally recognized that Barack Obama knew William Ayers, the 60’s era domestic terrorist who participated in bombings of the Pentagon and skated on terrorist and conspiracy charges on a technicality.

At a tumultuous meeting of anti-Vietnam War militants at the Chicago Coliseum in 1969, Bill Ayers helped found the radical Weathermen, launching a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and United States Capitol.

Twenty-six years later, at a lunchtime meeting about school reform in a Chicago skyscraper, Barack Obama met Mr. Ayers, by then an education professor. Their paths have crossed sporadically since then, at a coffee Mr. Ayers hosted for Mr. Obama’s first run for office, on the schools project and a charitable board, and in casual encounters as Hyde Park neighbors.

They spend the next several paragraphs paying down the connection between the radical Ayers and the radical Obama. They don’t bother to mention that Obama left the entire relationship and his years on the board of the Annenberg Project right out of both of his books. But according to the Times;

But the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called “somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.”

But someone who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago and to this day is unrepetent. Someone who described his movement thusly (NRO link);

Characterizing Weatherman as “an American Red Army,” Ayers summed up the organization’s ideology as follows: “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents.”

Someone whose current wife gushed over the Manson murders;

“Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach! Wild!”  And as Jonah recalled yesterday, “In appreciation, her Weather Underground cell made a threefingered ‘fork’ gesture its official salute.”

Two people who’ve never apologized nor even stepped back from their disgusting and juvenile behavior forty years ago. Well, Sarah Palin finds it disgusting, too;

The Left doesn’t get it. I was watching America’s Most Wanted last night and one of their criminals was Leo Burt, another 60’s radical bomber who participated in a bombing in Madison, Wisconsin.  AMW interviewed one of Burt’s fellow conspirators who had already done jail time for his participation in the bombing. This fellow conspirator called Burt a patriot for the killing of a research scientist in the bombing. When asked about the killing, the ex-convict made a weak comparison to the “millions” of Indo-asians that had died in Vietnam. I guess domestic terrorism is justified.

Now, personally, I don’t know anyone who has bombed any US government buildings and that’s probably because I don’t run in the circle of people who would condone that kind of behavior. I don’t even know anyone who has ever served a prison sentence.

Do you? Would you tolerate any kind of association with someone who planned to murder US soldiers at a dance at Fort Dix with a nail bomb? No matter how long ago it was? Wouldn’t you be embarrassed if it became public that were associated with someone like that?

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Politics