Obama is friends of the terroist? I was having talks with someone today and they mentioned this but I couldnt agree nor argue because I never personally knew if it was drunk talk or if she slipped or if she actually said it and meant it, as well as the McCain camp backing her on her statement. Dont rip me for this I AM ASKING A QUESTION OF THE TRUTH TO HER MENTIONING THIS. And I didnt notice it anywhere in the forum.
Are you tying to discern if he does have terrorist/radical friends.
I think O himself has answered that numrerous times --with- he's not the person I knew--defence?
On Ayers of whom Palin speaks--his only defense in his own words was --I was only 8 when he was committing terrorsist acts against the U.S.--like that means something?
If thereare those that believe that to be legit defence ask him how old he was in Sept 2001 when Ayers said.
"I don't regret setting bombs," Ayers told The New York Times in September 2001. "I feel we didn't do enough."
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From Buddy's hometown paper
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_591517.html
Obama dismissed inquiries about his relationship with Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground, by saying that he was just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood."
In fact, Obama served from 1995 to 1999 as chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), the brainchild of Ayers, an organization that funneled some $100 million into the hands of community organizers and activists, including ACORN, in order to radicalize Chicago's public schools.
Between 1969 and 1974, the Weather Underground claimed responsibility for some 20 bombings in the United States -- at police stations, banks, jails, courthouses, the Capitol and the Pentagon. Ayers became a fugitive in 1970, reports Andy McCarthy at the National Review, after three of his cohorts were "accidentally killed when the explosive they were building to Ayers' specifications -- Ayers was a bomb designer -- went off during construction."
The explosive, a nail bomb, "had been intended for detonation at a dance that was to be attended by army soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey," reports McCarthy. "Ayers attested that the bomb would have done serious damage, 'tearing through windows and walls and, yes, people too.'"
Ayers, describing the Weather Underground as "an American Red Army,"
motivated by "hope," succinctly summed up the organization's mission: "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments."
"I don't regret setting bombs," Ayers told The New York Times in September 2001. "I feel we didn't do enough."
Ayers, in charge of shaping CAC's education philosophy, describes himself as "a radical, Leftist, small 'c' communist." Rather than focusing on anything as mundane as math or reading, the job of teachers, said Ayers, is to "teach against oppression."
Ayers "downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism," writes Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
"Ayers wrote that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression," reports Kurtz. "He believes teacher education programs should serve as 'sites of resistance' to an oppressive system."
