John McCain: "I don't care about an old washed-up terrorist."
In last night's debate, didn't Obama deny that his first political campaign was kicked off at the home of Bernadine Dorn and Bill Ayers? I could have sworn he did.
But but but ... this article -from a week ago today - states that
.... Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor told FOXNews.com that the Democratic presidential candidate was unaware of Ayers' past when Ayers hosted a political event for Obama in 1995...
Now Obama may have been 9 when the Weathermen bombed New York City police headquarters, 10 when they bombed the Capitol building, and 11 when they bombed the Pentagon, but he was 19 years old when Ayers and Dohrn turned themselves in to authorities.
And he was 40 years old, and a member of the Illinois Senate, when Chicago Magazine published this article - aptly titled, "No Regrets" - with a picture of Ayers stepping on the American flag.
And lest you assume from this photo that Bill Ayers doesn't love his country, au contraire:
In 1980, Ayers and Dohrn turned themselves in.... Dohrn plea-bargained to charges of inciting to mob action and resisting police officers. She was sentenced to three years' probation and a $1,500 fine. Ayers was not charged. Even then he showed a way with words: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country," he said.
Ayers and Obama were working together at the Woods Fund at that time, as was pointed out by Hillary Clinton earlier this year:
A month after that article appeared in Chicago, it was published in the Arts section of the New York Times (
And here's another clue: Obama was 45 years old and a U.S. Senator in 2006 - serving on the Foreign Relations Committee - when Ayers spoke in Venezuela on a platform he shared with Hugo Chavez:
"education is the motor-force of revolution"
"I walked out of jail and into my first teaching position -- and from that day until this I've thought of myself as a teacher, but I've also understood teaching as a project intimately connected with social justice."
"... we must change ourselves as we come together to change the world. Teaching invites transformations, it urges revolutions small and large. La educacion es revolucion!"
"Education is never neutral. It always has a value, a position, a politics."
"Capitalism promotes racism and militarism..."
"... Venezuelans have shown the world ... the failings of capitalist schooling can be resisted and overcome."
"... we, too, must build a project of radical imagination and fundamental change."
"Viva Mission Sucre!
Viva Presidente Chavez!
Viva La Revolucion Bolivariana!
Hasta La Victoria Siempre!"
In case you don't speak Spanish, that last bit means "Until Victory Always!"
Now count the steps: from Obama to Ayers,
Ayers to Chavez,
... and Chavez to Ahmadinejad.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) greets Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez during the 3rd Opec Summit, in Riyadh November 17, 2007. (REUTERS via daylife)
That's only three steps (or clicks on the innernut).
You say that doesn't prove anything, and I respond that Ahmadinejad is a religious revolutionary; Chavez is a socialist revolutionary; and Ayers is a murderous revolutionary.
We need to know who and what Barack Hussein Obama really is, and we need to know right away, before he has a chance to invite Ahmadinejad to dinner in the White House.
I don't mean that as a joke, either. Do you remember the lefties who invited Ahmadinejad to dinner and interfaith dialogue at the Hyatt Hotel in New York-- what was that, two, three weeks ago? Well, one of the groups was the American Friends Service Committee. And wouldn't you know it, they're funded (along with Rashid and Mona Khalidi's Arab American Action Network) by the Woods Fund! Small world, America's radical Left.
It seems the 60s never ended; it just went underground. And for the last two or three or four decades, those who never opted out have been busy as little bees building networks, raising money and funding projects with innocent-sounding names, teaching in colleges, and generally spreading the anti-Americanism we see today.
And Barack Obama has spent his life, if not in the thick of it, then too close for comfort.
Posted by: Mordechai Y. Scher | Thursday, 16 October 2008 at 07:40 PM