All I ever needed to see to loathe Kerry was the look in my brother's eyes when Kerry was running for President. This decorated 101st Airborne Ranger Vietnam Vet was livid at the thought of a Kerry presidency. He never spoke of his war experiences before that--except to our Dad (a 35 mission over Germany WWII Airforce Vet) in private. When Kerry paraded himself out there as a patriot, my brother went balistic.
You're welcome. Not a whole lot of people, even here, know these sorts of 'minor' details about these two. Or, for that matter, that the Black Panthers were a *revolutionary communist* organization. They just think of them as being racists. In fact, Reverend Wright's Black Liberation Theology (President-Elect Obama spent more than 20 years in his 'church') is a revolutionary-communist political ideology which Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground also advocated, along with their close allies, the Black Liberation Army. These two groups, working together, launced many bombing attacks and killed several police officers over a 2 decade period.
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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0
Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003
"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."
Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2