Here’s a better analogy for Bill Ayers than Tom Coburn: Eric Rudolph (Obama's terrorist connections)

The LA Times is doing its best to help Barack Obama sweep Bill Ayers under the rug. And now Bill Ayers’ brother has entered the fray, accusing Hillary Clinton of McCarthyism. Excellent.

See, this ain’t going away. My memos from Zombie Reagan at the VRWC-HQ tell me that we’re going to be hitting Obama on Ayers and Dohrn every single day until the election, with breaks for crazy preachers on weekends and the occasional Rezko story thrown in on just to keep things interesting.

Speaking of interesting: most accounts of the relationship between Obama and Ayers I’ve seen recently–even that five-minute video about their ties that’s making the rounds–act like the relationship between Obama and the Weather Underground petered out in 2002. In this recent revival of interest in Ayres, no one I saw brought up the occasion in 2005 when Ayers, his terrorist wife Bernadette Dohrn, and Obama all spoke at the farewell dinner for Rashid Khalidi. Were we supposed to be saving that for an October surprise? Will video surface? I didn’t get that memo yet…

So, if Obama is going to try to break this tackle, he’ll have to do a little better than defending Ayers and smearing Tom Coburn by comparing him to that loathsome terrorist. Apples and oranges? More like apples and poisonous, slime-spawning toadstools.

Does Obama really believe that Tom Coburn is the moral equivalent of Ayers, or was he just caught unprepared and crammed his foot into his mouth? I hope it’s the latter, because this man might end up as our President and I’d like to think he knows the difference between a bomb-throwing, America-hating terrorist and a pork-slashing Senator from Tulsa.*

So let me clear things up for the Obamessiah: there are actual evil terrorists on the radical Right. Terry Nichols comes to mind; he, like Ayers, attacked a government building with explosives, although his scale was much broader than the Weather Underground’s bombings. Perhaps a more suitable analogy for Ayers would be Eric Robert Rudolph. Like Ayers, Rudolph is a cold, unrepentant SOB, who set off bombs at the 1996 Olympics, at an abortion clinic, and at a lesbian nightclub. Like Ayers, Rudolph lived as a fugitive for a long time before his capture.

Now, it starts to break down a little bit when you consider that Rudolph is rotting in Supermax, while Ayers and his co-terrorist wife are tenured faculty living comfortable and respected lives in Hyde Park, but ignore that little quirk of the system for a second. And let’s ignore the fact that, instead of holding him up as a radical-chic hero, no one on the Right likes Eric Rudolph and many of us would like to see him get a dose of that capital punishment we bloodthirsty reactionaries are always slavering for. Overlook that, too.

Rudolph and Ayers are unrepentant domestic terrorists. They are evil. Decent people detest them. And if someone were to take money from Eric Rudolph, or get a start in politics from an endorsement in Eric Rudolph’s home, if someone were chummy with Eric Rudolph and kept moving in the same circles with him, that person would rightly be detested as well.

Why doesn’t the same logic apply to Bill Ayers, and to his friend Barack Obama?

Here’s a partial answer: this is bigger than Obama. Much of the radical-left community of Chicago have thrown in their lot with Ayers and Dohrn and given them esteem and comfort. A lot of Chicago society is complicit in insulating Ayers and Dohrn from their execrable pasts. To admit the truth about what Ayers and Dohrn’s status means involves admitting much more about the historical relationship between the Left and radical violence than America is ready to acknowledge.

That second link up top quotes a retired FBI agent in Chicago who’s wondering where the outrage is:

“The general public does want to know what the relationship is,’ said Wagner…Ayers “committed crimes, didn’t suffer any consequences and didn’t admit he really did anything wrong. I’m kind of shocked at that.”

And why is Obama close friends with Tom Coburn?

Because his political strategist, Pete Rouse, wrote the development of such a relationship into his strategic plan for Obama's career.

Coburn is apparently unaware that he's a pawn in a chessgame designed to propel Obama's career forward.

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With help from Gibbs and Axelrod, Rouse wrote a detailed memo for Obama's first year in the Senate. What they came to call "The Strategic Plan" laid out for Obama the approach adopted by Hillary Rodham Clinton when she entered the Senate in 2001: Show respect to other senators even though you're a star, don't let your constituents think you are forgetting them, and find ways to build relationships with colleagues, particularly those in the opposite party.

Under Rouse's guidance, Obama built close relations with one of the most conservative members of the Senate, Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) ....

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SOMEBODY FORGOT SOMETHING

Seems a LOT of people are! Hannity, Rush, O'Reilly, now even Michelle Malkin! Ayers' Weather Underground weren't just "domestic terrorists". They were Revolutionary COMMUNIST domestic terrorists! NONE of the right-wing media is saying it. We know why the left-wing media doesn't say it, but isn't the right?

"During his fugitive years, Mr. Ayers said, he lived in 15 states, taking names of dead babies in cemeteries who were born in the same year as he. He describes the typical safe house: there were usually books by Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh, and Che Guevara's picture in the bedroom; fermented Vietnamese fish sauce in the refrigerator, and live sourdough starter donated by a Native American that was reputed to have passed from hand to hand over a century."

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"Mr. Ayers, who in 1970 was said to have summed up the Weatherman philosophy as:

'Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at,' is today distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

From a Sept 11, 2001, New York Times article/interview with Obama associate and friend, William/Bill Ayers.
Article title: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

"Dohrn became one of the leaders of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) , a radical wing of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), in the late 1960s. The ninth annual national SDS conference was held in Chicago in the summer of 1969, and the SDS collapsed in an RYM-led upheaval.

In July 1969, Dohrn, Eleanor Raskin, Dianne Donghi, Peter Clapp, David Millstone and Diana Oughton, all representing 'Weatherman', as Dohrn's faction was now called, traveled to Cuba and met with representatives of the North Vietnamese and Cuban governments."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn

Bill Ayers, TODAY, April 6, 2008, calls out Hannity to debate communism vs capitalism!
"Imperialism. I’m against it, and if Sean Hannity and others were honest, this is the ground they would fight me on. Capitalism played its role historically and is exhausted as a force for progress: built on exploitation, theft, conquest, war, and racism, capitalism and imperialism must be defeated and a world revolution—a revolution against war and racism and materialism, a revolution based on human solidarity and love, cooperation and the common good —must win.

We begin by releasing our most hopeful dreams and our most radical imaginations: a better world is both possible and necessary.

Source: http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/

Note: Ayers is very likely quoting Bob Avakian, chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, with the phrase 'both possible and necessary' in regards to a communist overthrow of the US government. See these Yahoo search results for "bob avakian" + "possible and necessary"--Eye On The Left

Let's not forget Obamma’s friend John F-ing Kerry and the VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War). A group that plotted to murder 19 pro-war US Sen, members were arrested on their way to see Agnew with BOMBS in their car, and they plotted to take over and bomb several Govt buildings in DC.

Read more on my 'about me' page here at FR from the FBI files on the VVAW.

Thanks! Looks like you have a ton of information on the subject. Funny, word is he WAS there and heard the plot to assassinate US senators who were in favor of winning the war but that he voted against it. But if he was there, how come he never reported it to anyone?? That's a serious crime by itself.

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