FeedPolitics: Obama too close to 60’s left-wing terrorists?
February 25, 2008 in Citizen Journalism, Statehouse & Capitol Tags: Bernardine Dohrn, Obama, William Ayers
There’s no real dirt to sling at Barack Obama — except for tight-wingers constantly reminding us that his middle name is Hussein — so they are bringing up this sort of stuff:
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.
Liberals — they like to be called “progressive” these days — tend to poo poo concerns that any of their fellow liberals might have done behaved badly back in the 60s or 70s. They figure that as long as Henry Kissinger was dropping bombs on Cambodia, all bets were off.
From the post:
Like many of the most extreme figures from the 1960s Ayers and Dohrn are ambiguous figures in American life.
They disappeared in 1970, after a bomb — designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally destroyed a Greenwich Village townhouse, and turned themselves into authorities in 1980. They were never prosecuted for their involvement with the 25 bombings the Weather Underground claimed; charges were dropped because of improper FBI surveillance.
Both have written and spoken at length about their pasts, and today he is an advocate for progressive education and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; she’s an associate professor of law at Northwestern University.
But — unlike some other fringe figures of the era — they’re also flatly unrepentant about the bombings they committed in the name of ending the war, defending them on the grounds that they killed no one, except, accidentally, their own members.
Dohrn, however, was jailed for less than a year for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating other Weather Underground members’ robbery of a Brinks truck, in which a guard and two New York State Troopers were killed.
“I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough,” Ayers told the New York Times in 2001.
So, Dohrn and Ayers are your basic left-wing, America-hating bags of crap. It would have been one thing had these two disavowed terrorism. But they haven’t. Back in 1995, Obama should have steered clear of these two. Having failed to do that, he needs to disassociate from them now. Because having these two on your resume is just too weird for middle America, and it gives the other guys more evidence to portray the Obama as too dangerous to trust in the White House.
The fact remains, though, that while Obama is a liberal’s liberal. He’s no bomb thrower — literally or figuratively.
Hat tip: Marathon Pundit.
February 25th, 2008 at 7:56 am
He is however endorsed by Louis Farrakahn which is like a Republican being endorsed by Tom Metzger.
February 25th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
…says the Fascist.
February 25th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Vonnie’s just pissed because the guy who had a standoff with police in Peoria this weekend was white, and it made his comments at pjstar.com look silly. LOL
February 26th, 2008 at 8:06 am
That weren’t me Beej. Maybe it was one of your former listeners.
Reno: [face palm]
February 26th, 2008 at 8:11 am
But then there’s this:
A British-Iraqi billionaire lent millions of dollars to Barack Obama’s fundraiser just weeks before an imprudent land deal that has returned to haunt the presidential contender, an investigation by The Times discloses.
The money transfer raises the question of whether funds from Nadhmi Auchi, one of Britain’s wealthiest men, helped Mr Obama buy his mock Georgian mansion in Chicago.
A company related to Mr Auchi, who has a conviction for corruption in France, registered the loan to Mr Obama’s bagman Antoin “Tony” Rezko on May 23 2005. Mr Auchi says the loan, through the Panamanian company Fintrade Services SA, was for $3.5 million.
Three weeks later, Mr Obama bought a house on the city’s South Side while Mr Rezko’s wife bought the garden plot next door from the same seller on the same day, June 15.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....433485.ece
Of course, I’m a facist and racist for bringing it up.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:48 am
“…Maybe it was one of your former listeners.”
I wouldn’t doubt that for a second, to be honest with you.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Does this mean you’ll stop lying about me?
February 26th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Nope.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Won’t stop exposing the truth about you, either.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:51 am
And no, you’re not a fascist and racist for bringing up that stuff (just another of the mudslingers…but that in itself is not fascist or racist). It’s just that for the past few years you’ve said plenty of things that lead to the deduction that you do lean towards a fascist and racist bent. It didn’t take the Obama post to tell us that. Read your own words on your own blog and on comments on this and other blogs. You come off as QUITE racist.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Freudian slip there, eh Beej?
February 26th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Don’t forget about the time he wished that the punks who accosted PeoriaIllinoisan’s wife after the Bradley talent show incident had been on his property. As I recall, he then giddily went on to express his desire to end their lives for doing it.
Maybe it wasn’t his intention to come off that way, but coupled with all the other race-related comments he’s made, the pieces seem to fit, do they not?
February 26th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Can you show where I said that? I think I said the cops would have been justified in using deadly force if they’d arrived to see some person about to heave a chunk of pavement at some woman’s head.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
“I know if I’d witnessed such an assault on my wife, in my yard, and I had a gun handy, I’d have likely pulled it if not actually shot.”
Not that I’d blame you under the circumstances, but then there was also this tidbit:
“Other than the Don Jackson reference, no mention of the 800lb gorilla in the story.”
That they were black? You seemed to be rather concerned about making a point about this. It’s as if you’re saying,”see? See? I told you blacks were like this.” Tsk.
“I’d shoot ‘em dead.” That was your answer. Thing is, you didn’t even need to comment and we know what you’d do. I’m pretty sure others were expecting you to chime in and drop that line. I was.
Are you a racist? Maybe, maybe not–I haven’t made up my mind. You certainly aren’t sympathetic to anything “black.” Moreover, I’d say you’re downright hostile to it. If you don’t want to be perceived as a racist, there ought to be some middle ground with you, because we never see it. That’s why people think you’re a bit of a bigot.
February 28th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
And let’s not forget about Vonster’s insistence on using the word “negro” in this and other blogs many times over the past year or two. A word that is considered at least in some cases to be offensive, and at the very least outdated and inappropriate in today’s vernacular.
February 29th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Reno: So I didn’t say what you said I did.
Thanks