Obama Once Visited '60s Radicals (Weather Underground Terrorists)

Politico ^ | Feb 22, 2008 | Ben Smith

[Travis McGee]

This is the guy who might be President? His mentor in Hawaii was a proud Communist, and he pals it up with unrepentent Weather Underground bombers.

[Travis McGee]

Speechless CW2 Ping.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

This is coming out too soon.

[Travis McGee]

They disappeared in 1970, after a bomb — designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally destroyed a Greenwich Village townhouse, and turned themselves into authorities in 1980. They were never prosecuted for their involvement with the 25 bombings the Weather Underground claimed; charges were dropped because of improper FBI surveillance.

[TWohlford]

Yeah, well, I once attended a Gary Hart for President fundraiser.

It doesn’t make me a liberal Dem today, does it?

[ari-freedom]

Well isn't that special. Could Obama be....SOCIALIST?

[I_Like_Spam]

Mr. Obama’s relationship with these radicals may just be a bit overstated.

Consider the timing of this, this story sounds like it might have be part of the Clinton campaign as they are getting a bit desparate.

[Travis McGee]

Was Gary Hart a Weather Underground terrorist?

[indcons]

Travis - did you see this thread? “Farrakhan praises Obama at Saviours’ Day event in Chicago” [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975754/posts]

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Who was Obama’s mentor in Hawaii? Can you give name and cites as to his CPUSA or other party membership?

Quentin Young, mentioned in this article, was a longtime identified member of the CPUSA in Chicago, and headed a front known as the Medical Committee for Human Rights, and now heads a phone booth operation known roughly as Physicians for Health Care Reform.

He may have claimed to have left the Party, but the Party never LEFT him.

To be with Dohrn and Ayres is very important, and Alice Palmer needs to be reexamined re Obama. There were a lot of leftist groups in Chicago during Mayor Washington’s time and Obama may have been a member of one of them (later on).

[Travis McGee]

He was buds with these guys, who to this day are PROUD of being terrorist bombers.

[Travis McGee]

When Obama was in high school in Hawaii his mentor was Frank Marshal Davis, a Communist who told Obama “not to forget his ‘people’ and not to ‘start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that s**t.”

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/

[Williams]

They were trying to “end” a war, as is Obama today. I don’t attribute their methods to Obama, just the same misguided objective.

[Intolerant in NJ]

“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,”...and if I remember correctly, when Palmer lost her run for congress and wanted her old position back, Obama, who had won his election, refused to step aside and let her run to regain the seat she had held for a number of terms - "Change" only goes so far when you're desperate for power.......

[ncalburt]

Birds of a feather flock together.
Its odd how people are now defending Osama.
That sweet Osama ran the nastiest smear campaign against his Repub rival for the US senate.
He first started a whisper campaign and then got a fellow Daley hack judge to open up SEALED divorce papers.
Osama and his smear expert Axelrod have behind most of these Clinton bashing stories and rumours stories .
He is a evil radical socialist .
He is not someone to be sympathetic towards.
He is a Soros stooge and a full blown Israeli hater .
Just ask his buddy Louis Farrakhan.

[Travis McGee]

Oh brother, are you seriously apologizing for the pure motives of Weather Underground terrorists, and making excuses for Obama palling around with them in a political scene?

[Williams]

A bomb designed to kill servicemen, then they were in hiding ten years. Never charged due to "improper FBI surveillance." Living the high life as leftist icons to this day.

You see the left is never brought to judgment for the evil it perpetrates.

[bannie]

With all of the good Americans in this nation, we're coming up with candidates with this kind of crap behind them.

[geopyg]

“Could Obama be....SOCIALIST?”

HILLARY is the socialist. Obama is the Communist. With McCain being way to the right.... as a liberal.