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2008-10-07 Home Front: Politix
Ayers-Dohrn-Obama Tie Shouldn’t Be Dismissed
As everyone concentrates on Bill Ayers, a bigger story may be Obama's link to Ayers' wife, Bernardine Dohrn.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has consistently tried to discount the depth of his relationship with Bill Ayers, one of the founding members of the Weather Underground, a radical left-wing terrorist group that formed in 1969 and was most famous for a string of bombings in the 1970s.

Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin hammered Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn over the weekend, stating that the Democratic presidential candidate “palled around with terrorists.”

Obama campaign manager David Axelrod and other campaign surrogates are now furtively trying to claim today that Obama “didn’t know the history” of Ayers and Dohrn as the leaders of America’s most infamous left-wing terrorist group when Obama met at their home for a political “coming out” in 1995, but their attempt to make pretend that Barack Obama didn’t know of their terrorist past is laughable.

By 1995, Barack Obama had known Bill Ayers at least eight years since their shared involvement in the Alliance for Better Chicago Schools, if not longer. Bernardine Dohrn, once labeled “the most dangerous woman in America” by none other than J. Edgar Hoover, was also well known as the inspiration for the 1988 movie Running on Empty. Subtle terrorists they were not.

As noted in the New York Times, Obama has tried to minimize his relationship with Ayers, dismissing him as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood” and “somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know.”

Axelrod also tried to excuse the extent of Obama’s involvement with Ayers, stating, “Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school. … They’re certainly friendly, they know each other, as anyone whose kids go to school together.”

It’s an obvious fiction pitched by Axelrod, since the Obama children are presently in elementary school, while Ayers’ children are all grown adults, but the Ayers-Obama family connection doesn’t stop at the imaginary connections between the children.

Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers’ wife, has largely escaped recent scrutiny, but that lack of attention doesn’t reduce her role as either a leader — and some may argue, the leader — of the Weathermen. Nor can it mask her ties to both Barack and Michelle Obama. It’s now a family affair.

According to a reputable Pajamas Media source that wishes to remain anonymous and knew the Dohrn family, Bernardine Dohrn “always believes the ends justify the means” and is the head of the Ayers-Dohrn household. Dohrn was the violent, arguably pathological Leninist core of the Revolutionary Youth Movement, which led her and allied militants to fight for control of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The SDS split as a result of the Dohrn-led revolt and the Revolutionary Youth Movement split again, with Dohrn’s faction becoming the Weather Underground.
Lots more at link
Posted by ed 2008-10-07 01:58|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 But it will be......
(Signed) MSM
Posted by Uncle Phester 2008-10-07 08:27||   2008-10-07 08:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Bernadine Dohrn was on the extreme radical left. She made the following statement according to Wikipedia entry on her:

Dohrn was criticized for a comment she made about the Charles Manson led Tate-LaBianca murders in a speech during the December 1969 "War Council" meeting organized by the Weathermen and attended by about 400 people in Flint, Michigan: "Dig it! First they killed those pigs and then they put a fork in their bellies. Wild!" Dohrn also charged that her fellow left-wingers showed themselves to be scared "honkies" for not burning down Chicago when Black Panther leader Fred Hampton was killed, and urged her audience to arm themselves and be "a fighting force alongside the blacks."[9] Dohrn's husband, Bill Ayers has written that Dohrn was being ironic when she made the statement:[10]

Many of the people that were in the Weather Underground busted the blockade on Cuba by going to Cuba via Canada to ostensibly cut sugar cane in Castro's Cuba. The primary purpose was to obtain training as revolutionaries. A good book to read would be Carl Ogleby's Ravens in the Storm to get an idea of what was going on in this group during the 60s and 70s.

This is the kind of thing that was going on when John McCain was in the the Hanoi Hilton.

Ayers was just a guy in the neighborhood? I think Obama ought to fill in some of the gaps in his personal history for Americans and then let them decide whether he is the man for the job.
Posted by JohnQC 2008-10-07 12:52||   2008-10-07 12:52|| Front Page Top

#3 But it will be......

Just until Barak Hussein is elected and appoints a new head of the FBI.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-10-07 14:01||   2008-10-07 14:01|| Front Page Top

#4 What do Osama bin Laden ans Barack Hussein Obama have in common.

They both know someone who's bombed the Pentagon.

HT Rush
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-10-07 14:22||   2008-10-07 14:22|| Front Page Top

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