Barack Obama has a history of befriending some rather questionable associates. There is his preacher, mentor and close personal friend for 20 years, Jeremiah Wright, who married the Obamas and baptized their children. Then there is his association with Tony Resko, the convicted felon, who helped pay for Obama's $1,300,000 home. And there is Obama's friend Bill Ayers, a former terrorist, who was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List for setting off more than 10 bombs during the 1970s.
Who can forget Obama's radical preacher and close friend shouting from the pulpit, "No, no, no, not God bless America, God damn America!" Wright claims there is a government conspiracy to imprison black youths. He accuses the government of supplying young blacks with illegal drugs. He refers to our country as the "U.S. of KKK A." There is his demented accusation that the government created the HIV virus "as a means of genocide against people of color."
Then there is Wright's preposterous pronouncement that because (among other wrongs) our government supported state (Israeli) terrorism against the Palestinians, the United States is to blame for the 9/11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon - "the chickens coming home to roost," as he phrased it. He has warmly embraced that rabid racist hate-mongering Louis Farrakhan who calls Jewish, Korean and Vietnamese landlords and business owners "bloodsuckers" and says "Judaism is a gutter religion." Wright also published the terrorist Hamas Manifesto in the "Pastor's Page" section of his church bulletin.
There is reason to believe that William Charles "Bill" Ayers and Barack Obama have been friends since 1986. There is clear evidence that they were close associates for many years. They served together in 1995 on the Annenberg Challenge, overseeing the distribution of about $50 million to area schools. That same year, when Obama was seeking election to the Illinois state senate, Ayers hosted Obama's very first campaign fund raiser in his own home. The two also served together on the nine-member board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, an anti-poverty foundation, from 1999 until Obama left in 2002.
What does the friendship between Ayers and Obama say about Obama's judgement and political views? Ayers was an anti-American, pro-communist, traitorous radical during the Vietnam War and was a leader of the "Weathermen," a notorious underground terrorist group. In 1970, the Weathermen (aka Weather Underground) issued a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government, thereafter bombing over 30 government facilites and police stations.
Bill Ayers once declared: "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." Ayers is unapologetic about his terrorist activities. On Sept. 11, 2001, Ayers is quoted by The New York Times as saying, "I don't regret setting bombs ... I feel we didn't do enough." When asked if he would "do it all again," Ayers replied, "I don't want to discount the possibility." Why would Obama associate himself with this unrepentant former terrorist? And even defend him?
Ayers is an "American Distinguished Professor" in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he specializes in urban school reform. Distinguished indeed. Just because he is a college educator does not make him respectable. Nor does it atone for his terrorist activities. It only goes to show that the educated idots who run our instutions of higher educaton are eager to recruit the most radical left-wingers, like Ayers and former Black Panther member Angela Davis, as faculty members.
Obama flat-out lied by claiming he never heard Jeremiah Wright give any inflammatory sermons during the 20 years he regularly attended services at Wright's church. Only when it became apparent that his preacher's hateful pronouncements were seriously damaging his primary campaign, did Obama condemn Wright's radical statements. Obama has downplayed his association with Resko and Ayers, despite indications to the contrary. With friends like Jeremiah Wright, Tony Resko and Bill Ayers, how can anyone in their right mind vote for Obama to become president of the United States?
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