Posted by
Mike Silverman on Monday, October 06, 2008 8:58:26 AM
Over the weekend Governor Sarah Palin brought up the spectre of one of Barack Obama's deranged associates, Richard Ayers. In 1969 Ayers co-founded a domestic terrorist group called the Weathermen, a radical sect of a left wing organization called Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS). In 1969 Ayers helped the Weathermen plant a bomb at a statue commemorating wounded police officers. He participated in several more bombings of police stations ( 1970), the US Capitol ( 1971) and the Pentagon.( 1972). Barack Obama had a lot of interaction with Ayers later in Ayers life as they worked together on a publicly-funded initiative in Chicago called the Annenberg Project. Ayers sat on the official board of this project , and Obama was the chairman of that board. Interestingly, the Annenberg project, ( called CAC, The Chicago Annenberg Challenge) pumped funds into various "community organziers" including ACORN, a radical left wing organization that Obama conducted seminars with and volunteered in. Now , looking at the timeline here, it's interesting to note that while Obama's friend ,( yes... I'll call him that because everything points in that direction..,) and associate..., Ayers was planting bombs, John McCain was a prisoner of war in Hanoi in the exact same time period, fighting to defend the country and the defend our form of government, fighting those who tried to torture him in to denouncing his country. One man willingly trying to destroy freedom, one man going through unending agony to defend freedom. Obama chose to work with and associate with the homegrown domestic terrorist Ayers, a man who McCain would have shot on sight if he had met him on field of battle. There are many reasons to reject Obama as a viable candidate for President. If you want just one reason which by itself is clearly enough to remove him from your thoughts as a plausible President for our country, this is a good one.
- Mike Silverman