[MeekOneGOP]

When Time's Jay Newton-Small inquired about the Obama photo on Drudge, Singer used the occasion to complain about the press's failure to examine Obama's ties to violent radicals who were part of the Weathermen of the 1960s. "As far as I can tell, there was absolutely no follow-up on the part of the Obama traveling press corps," he said.

I didn't recall hearing he was part of the Weathermen! I believe it, though!

----------------

Source

Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was a violent U.S. Radical Left group consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society which formed on the campus on the University of Michigan in the 1960s. They took their name from a line from the Bob Dylan song 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." The group referred to itself as a revolutionary organization of men and women whose purpose was to carry out a series of attacks that would achieve the revolutionary overthrow of the Government of the United States.^{[citation needed]} Their attacks were mostly bombings of government buildings, executed after calling in bomb-threats and making sure their target buildings were evacuated. The Weathermen imploded shortly after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973 and the conquest of South Vietnam by the communist North in 1975, which saw the general decline of the New Left, of which Weatherman had been a part.

Source

[MeekOneGOP]

The links in the copied post are bad. Sorry ‘bout that.

But if you hit the SOURCE link, it takes you to Wikipedia,
and they are GOOD there.

:)

[Fiddlstix]

Thanks for the ping

[ntnychik]

Obama visited the home of some weathermen in 1995. Wasn’t Bernadine Dohrn on the lam at the time? Obama was a seven year old in 1968, so I doubt he was directly involved in their deeds.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/24/barackobama.hillaryclinton

Hillary’s involvement with the Black Panthers during their trial in CT seems to be a nonstarter. Nobody cares.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hillarypanthers.htm

[ntnychik]

Obama visited the home of some weathermen in 1995. Wasn’t Bernadine Dohrn on the lam at the time? Obama was a seven year old in 1968, so I doubt he was directly involved in their deeds.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/24/barackobama.hillaryclinton

Hillary’s involvement with the Black Panthers during their trial in CT seems to be a nonstarter. Nobody cares.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hillarypanthers.htm