Posted on 08/28/2008 12:17:43 PM PDT by flyfree
For those Democrats who are too young to have a proper appreciation of their party's history, which likely includes most of Senator Obama's supporters, we direct your attention to a memorable moment in DNC history that shows how the current nominee really is connected to the party's past as much as its future.
It was forty years ago today that Barack Obama friend and political ally, and unrepentant terrorists, William Ayers was arrested while protesting the DNC proceedings. William Ayers set no bombs that day, but he was only working his way up from petty criminal to domestic terrorist. And of course this was long before Barack Obama and he struck up the friendship that would lead Ayers to launch Obama's political career at his house.
Still, the McCain campaign would take this opportunity to remind voters that those responsible for the violence in 1968 have since been incorporated into the party they once protested, and have been revered even by the likes of Barack Obama, and this despite the failure, in the case of Ayers, to ever apologize for the violence he committed against the American people.
(Excerpt) Read more at johnmccain.com ...
RECREATE ‘68!!!!
I can’t wait to hear all the networks’ evening news programs mention this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SLAM!
McCain has been a much more aggressive candidate that Bush was in 2004. I just remember thinking that Bush was letting a lot of opportunities go by.
Will William Ayers be at tonight’s event?
and your next secretary of education ?
.
AYERS =
Partner of OBAMA
AYERS =
Supporter of Communist North Vietnm’s takeover of a then Free South Vietnam during the Vietnam War
AYERS =
A living hell for a once Free South Vietnamese people
AYERS =
“JOURNEY from the FALL”
http://www.JourneyFromTheFall.com
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
.
NEVER ever AGAIN..!!!
.
Oh to have a little Sgt. Peppers blare out of the stadium speakers tonight and a talking head notes the significance on-air!
Give em hell Ronnie!!!
Greenhouse gases released by the decedents cause more global climate change. It's bad for the children, y'know?
Then again, even if he'd been imprisoned, he likely would've been pardoned by Bill Clinton as other members of the Underground were:
In 1985, former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg (who also was implicated in the Nyack robbery) and Linda Evans were apprehended while transporting 740 pounds of explosives which they both acknowledged were slated for use in additional bombings. Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years in prison, Evans 40; President Bill Clinton pardoned both women in January 2001.
I remember the ‘68 convention. I was 7 yo and just terrified of what I saw happening. I also remember my Dad being really upset and sayig that the Dems (his party) had just gave the election to the Republicans. I think this is one of the reasons I grew up to be a Republican?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)
The Weathermen were initially part of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) within the SDS, splitting from the RYM's Maoists by claiming there was no time to build a vanguard party and that revolutionary war against the United States government and the capitalist system should begin immediately. Their founding document called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."
The group's first public demonstration:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Rage
The Days of Rage riots in Chicago took place over a 4-day period beginning October 8, 1969, after members of the Weathermen, a militant offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society, converged on the city to confront police in the streets in response to the trial of the group of anti-Vietnam War activists known as the "Chicago Eight".
Also good to read up on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left
Criticism of the legacyAs many of those who supported the New Left in the 1960s are now in charge of the kinds of institutions they once opposed, conservative opponents argue that their assumptions - which are sometimes described as politically correct multiculturalism - are now the establishment orthodoxy. In what has been described as the culture wars, conservative critics of this orthodoxy such as Allan Bloom and Roger Scruton assert that New Left radical egalitarianism is motivated by anti-Western nihilism.
Thanks for the ping!
Very interesting timing, the very day Obama will take his throne.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.