Though never a supporter of Obama, I admired him for a time for his ability to engage our imaginations, and especially for his ability to inspire the young once again to embrace the political system.
THEN YOU HAVEN'T LEARNED MUCH MR. LIBERAL.
Yet his myopia in the last few months has cast a new light on his “politics of change.” Nobody should hold the junior senator from Illinois responsible for his friends’ and supporters’ violent terrorist acts. But it is fair to hold him responsible for a startling lack of judgment in his choice of mentors, associates, and friends, and for showing a callous disregard for the lives they damaged and the hatred they have demonstrated for this country. It is fair, too, to ask what those choices say about Obama’s own beliefs, his philosophy, and the direction he would take our nation.
At the conclusion of his 2001 Times interview, Ayers said of his upbringing and subsequent radicalization: “I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.”
Funny thing, Bill: one night, so did I.
I would have expected much harsher words than this, but you can tell this life-long liberal author just wants to get BO to **understand** his plight. Why isn't he all over the place talking this up? Because his liberal cause is the end that justifies the means.
It would seem to me that Murtagh has grounds for a lawsuit: why wouldn’t he do that?
Getting the information out into public view would do a lot to damage the left in this country, as so many liberals admire the deeds and beliefs of William Ayers and the Weather Underground.