Obama's False Ayers
By Aaron Goldstein (10/09/08)
Barack Obama’s Smooth Talk Express hit a road block last weekend when Sarah Palin stood athwart yelling stop and demanding to know why the Democratic standard bearer was “palling around” with an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground.
Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, claims Obama “didn’t know the history” of William Ayers and his activities with the Weather Underground. Just like Obama “didn’t know the history” of his former pastor Jeremiah Wright. Well, we know what they say about those who don’t know their history.
But let us for a moment give The Anointed One the benefit of the doubt. Let us suppose that he did not know Ayers’ past when he walked into his living room nearly 15 years ago. If Obama didn’t know that Ayers had participated in bombing the Pentagon three decades before al Qaeda did when did he know?
Did Obama come to know about Ayers when he served from 1995 to 1999 as the Chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an entity co-founded by Ayers that doled out tens of millions of dollars to Chicago public schools?
Did Obama find about Ayers’ past on the pages of The New York Times dated September 11, 2001? The very morning that al-Qaeda navigated passenger jets into the Pentagon and World Trade Center, The New York Times profiled Ayers who had just come out with a book about his salad days with the Weather Underground titled Fugitive Days. The article begins with Ayers stating, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F021DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63).
Or did Obama only find out when he saw him last in 2007?
Whenever Obama found out about the truth about Bill Ayers he has very little to say for himself. Sure, he condemned Ayers’ actions but in the same breath stated that he was eight years old when Ayers did his deed. Actually, Obama was ten when the Weather Underground bombed the Pentagon. But this is beside the point. No doubt Barack Obama deplores the actions of Charles Manson and the Manson Family. But if Obama were to suddenly decide to visit Manson in prison to seek his advice don’t you think it would warrant calling his judgment into question? Or look at it in another way. If it came to light that John McCain had launched his political career in Arizona with the assistance of someone who bombed black churches in Alabama and was unrepentant about their actions do you think Obama would be so generous?
So what does Obama’s association with Ayers (and for that matter Wright) have to with the price of gas and the diminishing value of stocks? It has plenty to do with it. If Obama is so careless in choosing his friends and allies what makes you think he will exercise prudence and due diligence when it comes to your money?
Or ask yourself these questions. Do you think for one solitary moment Barack Obama would have associated with the Ayers and Wrights of the world if he didn’t share their values? Do you think Obama would have associated with the Ayers and Wrights of the world if he was truly proud of America? What self-respecting American tells people that our soldiers in Afghanistan “are just air-raiding villages and killing civilians”? (http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293187,00.html) Do we really need a President who, in the sage words of the late Jeanne Kirkpatrick, blames America first?
For the record, I do not believe Barack Obama when he feigns ignorance about Bill Ayers’ acts of terrorism anymore than I believe him when he says he never heard Reverend Wright utter an unkind word about America. If Obama is comfortable having associated with the likes of Ayers and Wright who hold this country in such utter contempt it is only fair then to ask about Obama’s regard for America.
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