Getting to Know the Real Bill Ayers

I've written at great length about the terrorist Bill Ayers and his connections to Sen. Barack Obama. The media has been quite obtuse about those connections and has failed to inform the public about the true nature of that relationship, to say nothing of who Bill Ayers actually is.

Don't take my word for it. Consider what Ayers and his fellow terrorists in the Weather Underground had to say. They published a manifesto to espouse their views. Zombie has the full details and is doing the job the media simply wouldn't do.

This material was available for the media to locate.

It shows that Ayers wasn't simply a terrorist agitating for the end of the Vietnam War, but was actively agitating and rooting for the communists to win. Ayers and his fellow terrorist/revolutionaries held Che Guevera in the highest regard, and sought to replicate his tactics.

And it's also important to note that Ayers considered socialism preferable to capitalism:

Socialism is the total opposite of capitalism/imperialism. It is the rejection of empire and white supremacy. Socialism is the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the eradication of the social system based on profit. Socialism means control of the productive forces for the good of the whole community instead of the few who live on hilltops and in mansions. Socialism means priorities based on human need instead of corporate greed. Socialism creates the conditions for a decent and creative quality of life for all.

Ayers continues writing about those very themes to this day.

It is quite simply impossible for anyone coming into contact with Ayers to this day to not know about Ayers political views and how he espouses socialist/Marxist claptrap to everyone and tries to indoctrinate future generations through his position as a college professor. Ayers made no effort to hide his socialist/Marxist views. In other words, it is impossible to believe that Obama did not know of Ayers radical leftist point of view, his dedication to overthrowing the current economic system, and imposition of socialism. Ayers website continues to parrot the socialist/Marxist positions.

He continues to attempt to profit off his terrorist days, and yet Obama has claimed that he was just a guy from down the street, even as he's worked in the same offices, sat on the Board of organizations alongside Ayers, and launched his political career in Ayers home (along with Ayers wife Bernadine Dohrn).

That Obama continued to associate with Ayers and Dohrn for years on end speaks loudly about Obama's lack of judgment. Obama's politics are far outside the mainstream of American polity, no matter how much he attempts to bamboozle the electorate with claims of moderation. He will say anything and do anything to win an election, including lying about his background and affiliation with one of the most extreme radical leftists in our nation's history.

Of course, there will be some who will defend that association claiming that Ayers and Dohrn were accepted by academia and the Chicago political machine, but I counter that that very fact is quite a damning indictment on the judgment and character of those as well. These two figures were the most radical leftists of their generation, and they continue to espouse that same radical leftist hatred of this nation, but have been given the sheen of respectability by academia and the Chicago political scene. That doesn't make it right, and it certainly doesn't make it acceptable for Obama to have been associating with them for as long as he did.

It also gets people wondering about how Obama's own political views were shaped by that association. On that question, things get more murky, particularly because Obama has done quite a bit to obfuscate and hide his connections. There is some evidence that suggests that Ayers was the ghostwriter of Obama's books. If that's indeed the case, then Obama's connections to Ayers is far more deep and troubling than indicated to date.

Again, this goes to the credibility, judgment and character of Sen. Obama to lead this nation and to hold true to the nation's founding principles, including capitalism and the free market.

UPDATE:
To hammer home just how extreme Ayers was, consider what Bob Owens found about Ayers and the Weather Underground intentions to "fix" the nation's woes:

I asked, "well what is going to happen to those people we can't reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?" and the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated.

And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.

And when I say "eliminate," I mean "kill."

Twenty-five million people.

I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.

And they were dead serious.

That's testimony of FBI informant Larry Grathwohl in the 1982 documentary No Place to Hide and he's speaking of Ayers, Dohrn, and the Weather Underground. This was no mere coffee klatch. It was a group that sought revolution and remaking the US in the image of the Killing Fields.

UPDATE:
It's come to my attention that Jack Cashill, who proffers the notion that Ayers was the ghost writer of Obama's book, has a less than reputable history, and has engaged in conspiracy theories in the past. I've struck the reference to his claims on that basis.