Posted by
Stefano on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:27:41 PM
Here is an interesting twist on the Obama mantra/dodge/talking point that we all have memorized because we've heard it so much: "I was only 8 years old when Bill Ayres founded Weather Underground." Powerline reports on a victim of the friend of Obama. The victim was nine years old.
From City Journal-30 April 2008:
..."In February 1970, my father, a New York State Supreme Court justice, was presiding over the trial of the so-called “Panther 21,” members of the Black Panther Party indicted in a plot to bomb New York landmarks and department stores. Early on the morning of February 21, as my family slept, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at our home on the northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked neatly under the gas tank of the family car. (Today, of course, we’d call that a car bomb.) A neighbor heard the first two blasts and, with the remains of a snowman I had built a few days earlier, managed to douse the flames beneath the car. That was an act whose courage I fully appreciated only as an adult, an act that doubtless saved multiple lives that night....
...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. 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..."
When asked by an interviewer about Ayres, Obama said that Ayres was a guy who lived in his neighborhood. He should have said: "Ayres is a terrorist guy who lives in my neighborhood." Now if he had been honest and said that, we wouldn't be talking about this now. The cover up of information always leads to far more problems than just being open and honest. He could have said, "Yes, I knew that he had a shady past but I felt that we could do some good education stuff. I severed our relationship when he made those unfortunate hurtful comments on 9/11, and I haven't been in contact with him since." But that's not what he said, and now we have a problem because Obama has been far less than honest and open. His relationship with Ayres and his wife, two despicable unrepentant monsters disqualifies him due to his poor judgment. When combined with his other poor judgment calls, he gets a no vote.