"No Regrets for Terrorism" - Obama Political Friend, Fellow Board Member
A fawning bio can be found here, with pictures.
If you can overcome your gag reflex, the article has quite a few facts in it.
In 1980, Ayers and Dohrn turned themselves in. (The first words Ayers's father said to him were, "You need a haircut.") By then they had had two children together, and the bombing conspiracy charge against the couple had been dismissed due to government misconduct.
Dohrn plea-bargained to charges of inciting to mob action and resisting police officers. She was sentenced to three years' probation and a $1,500 fine. Ayers was not charged. Even then he showed a way with words: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country," he said.
The next year, a Weatherman killed a Brink's guard and two state troopers in a bungled armored truck robbery. Kathy Boudin, the daughter of an esteemed New York civil rights lawyer, was sentenced to 20 years to life for her role in the crime; Ayers and Dohrn adopted her infant son.
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Norman Teigen has left a new comment on your post "Oh-Bomber's Political Godfather":
How are you linking Barack Obama to these terrorists? I don't get it.
Norman Teigen
ELS layman
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GJ - I am glad you asked, Norm. Others must wonder too. Here are the known facts:
- Bombers Ayers and Dohrn introduced Barack Hussein Obama to political activists in 1995, at their own home. This was a political coming out party to prove that Obama was OK with the limousine Leftist set.
- Obama, Ayers, and Dohrn attended a party for Rashid Khalidi, an Arafat apologist. Khalidi sponsored a fund-raiser for Obama when he ran for Congress.
- Obama and Ayers served together on the Woods Foundation, which sent money to Jeremiah Wright's church and to Khalidi's organization. Anti-American does not mean anti-money. The aroma of loot is too sweet for them to ignore.
- Obama and Ayers spoke on the same panel discussion together, an event arranged by Ombama's mouthy wife, Michelle.
More details and a few whitewashes can be found by Googling the names of Ayers and Obama together. Here is a summary from Town Hall.
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Norman Teigen has left a new comment on your post "Oh-Bomber's Political Godfather":
Where do you get all of these connections? I am still not sure if I get this. (Warning: I have been advised that I suffer from intellectual anemia.)
Norman Teigen
ELS layman
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GJ - I have only summarized a few things about Obama. He is the apparent nominee, but I am still not counting Hillary out. The Internet has hundreds of informative articles about Obama, Ayers, and Hillary.
Before Clinton was elected, I told a lawyer, "There will be enough books about the corruption of the Clintons to fill a bookstore when he gets out of office." Every so often, the lawyer/professor said, "How did you know?" My reasoning was this - I already knew about Whitewater from various news sources. If something like that was out in the open, when a governor has so much power to destroy evidence, then a lot more would surface later. And it did. I also reckoned that Bill and Hillary would simply enlarge the franchise in the White House. And they did.
