Posted on 10/08/2008 1:48:17 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Chris Cillizza wonders whether John McCain may have decided to drop the William Ayers topic when it didnt come up in last nights debate. The McCain campaign answered today by releasing a statement from John Murtaugh regarding his close brush with the Weather Underground terrorists that Ayers helped lead. It doesnt look like the McCain campaign has any intention of dropping Ayers at all:
Today, John M. Murtagh made the following statement on Barack Obamas relationship with William Ayers:
When I was 9 years-old the Weather Underground, the terrorist group founded by Barack Obamas friend William Ayers, firebombed my house. Barack Obama has dismissed concerns about his relationship with Ayers by noting that he was only a child when Ayers was planting bombs at the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol. But Ayers has never apologized for his crimes, he has reveled in them, expressing regret only for the fact that he didnt do more.
While Barack Obama once downplayed his relationship with Ayers, today his campaign took that deceit one step further. Barack Obama now denies he was even aware of his friends violent past when, in 1995, Ayers hosted a party launching Obamas political career. Given Ayers celebrity status among the left, its difficult to believe. The question remains: what did Obama know, and when did he know it? When did Obama learn the truth about his friend? Barack Obama helped Ayers promote his book in 1997, served on charitable boards with him through 2002, and regularly exchanged emails and phone calls with him through 2005. At what point did Barack Obama discover that his friend was an unrepentant terrorist? And if he is so repulsed by the acts of terror committed by William Ayers, why did the relationship continue?
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great great great!!!!!!
must keep this narrative flowing
Dukakis, Willy Horton
Obama, William Ayers.
Just that simple.
Needs to do video ad ... a statement doesn’t have same impact.
Hang Ayers around his scrawny neck until his campaign is DEAD, DEAD, DEAD!
It’s great that he’s released this! On the other hand, he had several opportunities last night to hammer this in front of 20-30 million people or whatever it was. Along with BO’s stupid “95% of Americans getting tax cuts” rhetoric etc.
Ayer’s wife, Bernadine Dohrn = Domestic Bin Laden
From;
http://www.sodahead.com/question/155269/
Bernadine Dohrn made numerous contacts with Fidel Castros Cuban Mission at the UN in 1968 and 1969, during which time she arranged for SDS groups to visit Havana.
After returning from Cuba, Dohrn and others met with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong representatives in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss antiwar strategy on US campuses. Speaking a few days later at an assembly of revolutionary student movements at Columbia University, Dohrn reported that the Vietnamese communists she met in Budapest were working with US GIs in Saigon, attempting to obtain military information.
As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he left the room to cry. He said, I realized...America was an evil... and that I was... living inside the belly of the beast....
In January 1969, at the request of the Cubans and the Vietnamese, Dohrn assembled another SDS delegation to travel to Havana to plan what the Chicago Sun-Times called an antiwar campaign during an eight-day seminar with representatives of Hanoi and the Viet Cong.
Dohrn became a key planner in the founding of the Venceremos Brigades. Ostensibly a solidarity program for US leftists to visit and support Castros Cuba, the group was actually organized by Cuban intelligence as a covert attack on US security.
Cuban secret police offered the brigadistas money, advice and logistical support. Some Americans were also given guerrilla warfare training and instructed in the use of weapons and explosives.
While they were in Cuba, Huynh Van Ba, a representative of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam (Viet Cong) advised his American allies to look for the person who fights hardest against the cops. Dohrn stayed in telephone contact with Ba after returning home.
"Meet William Ayers, domestic terrorist, bombed the Pentagon, Capitol building, and families' homes... Meet William Ayers... the man who launched Barack Obama's political career..." (then allow 20 seconds of silence with just this picture)
Bernadine Dohrn served on panels with Obama referenced, thought the rest of the article has info;
Senator helped fund organization that rejects racist Israels existence
http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/sfl-barackbash1,0,4014780.story?page=1
http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/sfl-barackbash1,0,4014780.story?page=2
Ayers is married to another notorious Weathermen terrorist,
Bernadine Dohrn, who has also served on panels with Obama. Dohrn was once on the FBIs Top 10 Most Wanted List and was
described by J. Edgar Hoover as the most dangerous woman in America.
O’Bambi season is officially Open.
He can expect shots from all over re: his associations ‘til the cows come home and the chickens too.
There is still another debate to bring up the Ayers relationship. Don’t think that the non mention last night didn’t have impact. You have to keep the opponent guessing. Still 4 wks till the election so Ayers story needs to be drawn out.
Get obama down in the made up polls and he will get desperate and so will the msm.
You might want the moderator to correct the title with the correct spelling, Murtagh.
Ayers old man was very wealthy. He was on many boards including the board of directors of Searle Corp. Big company. The old man could afford good lawyers to get the son off.
Good idea!
When is Dohrn’s name, the earmarks for family or disappearing grants, the Kenya stuff, etc gonna get thrown out there? I hope Fox plays the interview w/Corsi 24/7 when it comes out. Bambi has a “Swiftboat Deficiency.”
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