Posted on 11/14/2008 5:30:06 AM PST by angkor
Former Radical That McCain Camp Used to Tar Obama Says ...
By MARK MOONEY Nov. 14, 2008
William Ayers, the 1960s radical whose violent history became a focal point in the 2008 presidential election, said today that the Republicans unfairly "demonized" him in an attempt to damage the campaign of President-elect Barack Obama.
Ayers remained militant in his defense of his bomb-throwing past and repeated a statement that has infuriated his critics: "I don't think we did enough."
Ayers became a bogeyman for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin, who demanded to know more about Obama's relationship with his Chicago neighbor. Palin accused Obama of "palling around ... with a terrorist."
Breaking his silence, Ayers told "Good Morning America" today that the GOP attack was a "dishonest narrative...to demonize me."
"What you call the violent past, that was a time [the Vietnam War] when thousands of people were being murdered every month by our own government... We were on the right side," he told Chris Cuomo on "GMA."
The co-founder of the Weather Underground was, as McCain has claimed, unrepentant about the the bombings his group committed during the 1960s.
"The content of the Vietnam protest is that there were despicable acts going on, but the despicable were being done by our goverment... I never hurt anyone," Ayers said.
"Frankly, I dont think we did enough, just as today I dont' think we've done enough to stop these wars," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Example: "Ayers was a co-founder of the Weather Underground, a radical anti-war group said responsible for a militant bombing campaign against government targets."
That description puts Ayers and the Weather Underground just a few steps beyond the Humane Society and the Boy Scouts.
In fact the WU was an explicitly violent Communist/Marxist group that (for the very reason of its credo of violence) broke off from the SDS to advocate mass murder and the complete and forcible destruction of American society and the American government.
IMO the live TV interview was much more direct and honest and critical of Ayers. He looked somewhat uncomfortable.
An online video of the entire interview is currently available the GMA we site:
http://abcnews.go.com/gma
The Chicago Tribune today, 2nd page has a story about Ayers and Obama as FAMILY FRIENDS!!!!! I detest the PRAVDA in our country.
Hey Billy Ayer’s how about the 2 million innocent Cambodians killed by yout heroes the Khmer Rouge.
Well, you have to understand, our terrorist government was murdering 2,000 innocent Vietnamese a week. So said Bill Ayers.
Would it have been so difficult to hold up the recent photo of Ayers stomping on Old Glory? Or ask him if he still calls himself a “small c communist?” Of if he expected no casualties from the twin nail bombs he designed to go off at the Fort Dix O-club dance?
The Weather Underground logo is nothing like the Obama logo right?
Obama's logo clearly matches the logo of the Weather Underground.
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A demon cannot be unfairly demonized.
Drip, drip, drip...
Damn! I would like to see your Boy Scouts in action.
Ayers should have been tried and hung for what he did. He is lucky to still be wasting oxygen.
That Weather Under Ground logo looks like a limp penis..........
>>>>The Chicago Tribune today, 2nd page has a story about Ayers and Obama as FAMILY FRIENDS!!!!!<<<<<<<
Ayers writes exactly that (”family friends”) in his book.
Yeah, that's what the MSM used to say about Timothy McVeigh - they said he was a "bogeyman" for the Clintons...
The only good thing about biased, bigoted, brain-dead, one-sided reporting is it's one more lay-off down the road...
Well, their limp symbol is better (and more representative for a little wimp like Ayers) than the Weather”men’s” three finger sign, which Mrs. William Ayers, then trash-terrorist Bernadine Dohrn, hailed as representing the Manson Gang’s fork that they stuck in their innocent victims’ stomachs. As Mrs. Ayers then said, “Dig it!!”, not mentioning of course, that one of the “pigs” she said Manson murdered was a near-term baby. Wonder if Chris Cuomo asked this scumbag about that? Doubt it.
>>>>>Damn! I would like to see your Boy Scouts in action. <<<<<
My comparison was not meant to critique the Boy Scouts (heck, I was one!) but to point out the puffery in the written summation of the TV interview above.
It’s a gem of flackery and a shameless puff piece IMO.
Here is the web link:
Ayers calls Obama 'a family friend'
Looks like Ayres is taking Obama's advice to "get in their face."
I didn't see that until you pointed it out - but now I'll never NOT be able to see it. Thanks. /s
What's your take on the Obama symbol? Do they look like they "go together"?
>>>>Ayers should have been tried and hung for what he did.<<<<<
He has admitted in public that he “got away with it.”
The case was dropped on a technicality (FBI evidence procedures).
Yes, he should be in prison.
But Ayer’s father was a **very** prominent and influential man in Chicago.....
Obamas Foul Weather Friends
On March 6, 1970, three members of Weatherman were killed when a powerful bomb they were constructing exploded prematurely. The device had been made from dynamite, wrapped with roofing nails to maximize casualties. Its intended target was a dance for noncommissioned officers and their dates scheduled for that evening at Fort Dix. [snip]
Larry Grathwohl, an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated Weatherman, later testified that Ayers had identified Bernadine Dohrn as the person who bombed a San Francisco police station in February 1970, killing one officer and injuring two others. [snip]
... 13 sticks of dynamite that the group placed in a Detroit police officers association building ... [assembled by Ayers] Bill [Ayers] said that we should plan our bombing to coincide with the time when there would be the most people in those buildings.
Bernadine Dohrn made numerous contacts with Fidel Castros Cuban Mission at the UN [snip]
After returning from Cuba, Dohrn and others met with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong representatives in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss antiwar strategy on US campuses. [snip]
[She sent SDS out to coordinate with North Vietnam and Castro.]
Now for the zinger:
As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. [snip]
Sick, sick puppies. Sick SOBs the most hideous couple Ive ever heard of. I never thought Id find a couple more detestable than the Clintons. Now I have Ayers and Dorhn. Freaking creeps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paging Sigmund Freud.....
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