Disclosure: I have no terrorist, or ex-terrorists friends or associates.From the editors of the National Review:
Have you ever been a friend or business associate of a terrorist? Not someone who, to your shock and horror, turned out secretly to have bombed government buildings. No, the question is whether you’ve ever befriended an unreconstructed radical whose past was well known to you when you entered his orbit and walked through doors he opened for you. Have you been chummy with an unapologetic terrorist who, years after you'd known and worked closely with him, was still telling the New York Times he regretted only failing to carry out more attacks — and that America still “makes me want to puke”?
Barack Obama has.
An organization called the American Issues Project, backed by Dallas investor Harold Simmons, is running a campaign ad which highlights Obama’s troubling relationship with William Ayers. Ayers is a former member of the Weathermen terrorist organization that bombed the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol, various police headquarters, and other targets in the early 1970s.
The Obama campaign's rejoinder is three-pronged: The first shot was an Obama response ad, which fails to offer any substantive explanation of why Obama maintains ties to Ayers. Obama's second move was to launch a heavy-handed effort to pressure television stations into rejecting the ad by promising financial retaliation against the stations and their advertisers — which effort has apparently succeeded in intimidating Fox and CNN. The capper is a desperate call for the Justice Department to muzzle political speech through the prospect of a criminal investigation — a demand that provides a disturbing sneak peak into what life would be like under an Obama Justice Department.
I wonder how the Obama campaign feels about this blog? This is frightening.
Related post:
KEEPING THE STORY ALIVE: A COLLECTION OF POSTS ON BILL AYERS AND THE "WEATHER UNDERGROUND"
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You guys are so concerned about people that serve on these charitable boards. What about the candidates' closest friends and advisors?
ReplyDeleteSo McCain's long-term friendship with ex-con and domestic terrorism-promoter G. Gordon Liddy isn't cool with you either, eh?
What about his deep, tied-at-the-hip relationships with all those two-faced and two-handed lobbyists (as in, hands out waiting for their cash)... we can never tell if they're doing the bidding of McCain, their mega-corporate clients looking to make a buck off you and I or those foreign governments.
And, say, who cost the American taxpayers millions upon millions back in the 80s when his S&L took a dive? What was his name? Didn't he have 5 friends on Capitol Hill, and didn't your man Mac show "poor judgment" (your words) in trying to help the guy out?
Like Ayers, Charles Keating didn't kill anybody either, but he sure did cost you and I a pretty penny.
Maybe that's ok since they're all Republicans. ;)
Liddy did time in the joint. Carter commuted his sentence.
ReplyDeleteThe Senate Ethics committe said McCain showed poor judgement.
The bomb that killed Weather Underground terrorist Ted Gold (and a couple of other WU members) was meant to kill soldiers and their dates at a Fort Dix dance.
Then there is Bernardine Dohrn, one time manager of Broadway Baby.
Just was that fake ID created?
Three people died in that heist. Dohrn was never charged.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/23/broadway-baby-and-senator-hope-and-change/