The media continues to portray Bill Ayers as nothing more than a radical or an activist. Just take a look at the headlines and the commentary produced by media outlets like ABC News, New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews, etc. Even Chicago media outlets have soft-pedaled the Ayers family business in terrorism.
They go out of their way to minimize what Ayers did, and then compound matters by minimizing how well Ayers knows Sen. Barack Obama.
Ayers was a terrorist. He founded a terrorist group - the Weather Underground in 1969 out of another radial leftist group the SDS. He and his cohorts, including his then girlfriend, built and detonated more than 30 bombs. Bombs were detonated at the Pentagon, Capitol, NYPD headquarters, and several other locations. His girlfriend at the time, Diana Oughton, was killed when the nail bomb the terrorist group was working on exploded. Two other terrorists would also be killed. Kathy Boudin and Cathy Wilkerson were injured in the blast. The premature blast, which was meant for the troops at Fort Dix, New Jersey, sent Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, and other Weather Underground terrorists underground for years.
Boudin would later resurface when she was involved in the Brinks armored car heist in Nanuet, New York - two cops and a security guard were murdered. That crime was carried out to bankroll further terror operations. After Boudin's conviction, Ayers and Dohrn (who had become partners) would become guardians to Boudin's children while she was in prison.
Both are now given the imprimatur of legitimacy because they're college professors and are active in Chicago politics. Still other Weather Underground terrorists have been "rehabilitated" including Susan Rosenberg, who was convicted along with Boudin in the Brinks murders and also played a role in the bombing of the US Capitol.
It's a damning indictment on both academics and Chicago politics that these terrorists are poisoning the minds of another generation of students.
Still, you've got Obama flacks claiming that Obama didn't know of Ayers' terrorist past. That would make him singularly clueless and out of touch. Does he not recall the 1996 Democratic National Convention held in Chicago? Ayers' name was bandied about in Chicago media outlets because Ayers made national headlines during the 1968 riots in Chicago. Those reports also made mention of Ayers lengthy history.
Who exactly are we to believe that Obama didn't know about Ayers' terrorist past? Certainly not Obama. He's done everything imaginable to bury the sordid details about how he came to be the chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the Woods Fund, and rose through Chicago politics aided and abetted by none other than Bill Ayers. After all, you don't get your political career launched by someone you don't know particularly well or who doesn't know you. Obama's political career was launched at Ayers' home in Chicago.
The facts are that Obama's ties to the terrorists Ayers and Dohrn go back 21 years. That's quite a chunk of Obama's adult life, and you cannot make the argument that Obama was eight years old when Ayers carried out his attacks. Obama knew, or should have known of Ayers' and Dohrn's past, but chose to associate with them anyways.
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