Posted on 10/11/2008 9:26:36 AM PDT by txroadkill
When John Murtagh was 9 years old, Bill Ayers' friends tried to kill him.
"I remember my mother's pulling me from the tangle of sheets and running to the kitchen where my father stood. Through the large windows overlooking the yard, all we could see was the bright glow of flames below. We didn't leave our burning house for fear of who might be waiting outside," wrote Mr. Murtagh in the April 2008 issue of the City Journal.
It wasn't personal. John's dad was a judge presiding over a trial of the Black Panthers. The next morning, after the bombs exploded, John still remembers the red graffiti on the sidewalk: "FREE THE PANTHER 21; THE VIET CONG HAVE WON; KILL THE PIGS."
To the best of John's recollection, Bernardine Dohrn, who is now Bill Ayers' wife, first claimed credit for bombing John's home - along with other targets - in November 1970.
Today John Murtagh is a lawyer and Yonkers' city councilman who is running for the New York state Senate on the Republican ticket this November. I reached him this week through his state Senate campaign. It wasn't hard. Has Barack Obama ever tried?
Barack Obama was only 8 years old when Mr. Murtagh's house was bombed. Mr. Obama has nothing to do with the terror and the trauma John Murtagh and his family went through.
"It's a sensitive issue for us. My mom is still alive - she's 83. She literally had to snatch her children out of the house in the middle of the night because her house was on fire," John told me.
But Barack Obama was not a child - he was a grown man - when he decided his personal path to power and influence lay through Bill Ayers' connections.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I can’t believe that there is a statute of limitations for bombing the Murtaugh’s house, the Capital, the Pentagon. It’s disgraceful that Mrs. Murtaugh has to watch as instead of seeing Ayers put on trial, she has to see him living in a plush Chicago suburb as his former flunky runs for President and trivializes the assault on her well being.
Oh. I was hoping there was a Sledge-O-Matic involved.
I really admire Rev. Manning. He’s brave and he’s bold and he stands up for truth, justice and the American way.
I wish John McCain would confer with Rev Manning before this next debate-debacle.
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