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One of the things that repels me most about Obama is his stubborn refusal to dissociate himself from American terrorists Bill Ayers and Ayers' wife, Bernadine Dohrn.
When confronted with his friendship with the terrorist Ayers, Obama defends this association by saying he was only eight when Ayers was engaged in "detestable acts 40 years ago."
Watch Obama defend his relationship with Ayers in Obama's recent interview with Bill O'Reilly:
Ayers engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was eight years old. Though that retort seems to satisfy the Obama worshiping liberal/progressive elite media, it fails to persuade me.
Obama calls it guilt by association. Maybe. But, I was taught you are known by the company you keep.
Seven years ago, on September 11, 2001, in an article in the New York Times, Ayers made it very clear he is not the least bit repentant about his terrorist activities:
''I don't regret setting bombs,'' Bill Ayers said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.'' Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago.
There are plenty of quotes in the Times article that illustrate why Obama's failure to throw Ayers under the bus, along with Wright and his church, constitutes a magnificent failure of judgment. For example, there is Ayers' Kill all the rich people comment:
Mr. Ayers, who in 1970 was said to have summed up the Weatherman philosophy as: ''Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at,'' is today distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. And he says he doesn't actually remember suggesting that rich people be killed or that people kill their parents, but ''it's been quoted so many times I'm beginning to think I did,'' he said. ''It was a joke about the distribution of wealth.''
There is the fact that Ayers terrorist activities resulted in deaths:
He went underground in 1970, after his girlfriend, Diana Oughton, and two other people were killed when bombs they were making exploded in a Greenwich Village town house. With him in the Weather Underground was Bernardine Dohrn, who was put on the F.B.I.'s 10 Most Wanted List. J. Edgar Hoover called her ''the most dangerous woman in America'' and ''la Pasionara of the Lunatic Left.'' Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn later married.
Ayers admits his involvement in terrorist activities:
''Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,'' he writes. But then comes a disclaimer: ''Even though I didn't actually bomb the Pentagon -- we bombed it, in the sense that Weathermen organized it and claimed it.'' He goes on to provide details about the manufacture of the bomb and how a woman he calls Anna placed the bomb in a restroom. No one was killed or injured, though damage was extensive.
Between 1970 and 1974 the Weathermen took responsibility for 12 bombings, Mr. Ayers writes, and also helped spring Timothy Leary (sentenced on marijuana charges) from jail.
Given a chance to repent, Ayers refused:
So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? ''I don't want to discount the possibility,'' he said.
There is more in the Times piece, but I think you get the idea, even if Obama does not.
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