A Reminder What We Should Not Forget About Barack Hussein Obama

Lest We Forget:

"MOST OBLIVIOUS MAN ON CHICAGO'S SOUTH SIDE ... OBAMA SHOWED DREADFUL
JUDGMENT BY CLOSELY AND REPEATEDLY ASSOCIATING WITH THESE VIOLENT
  TRAITORS.."

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Obama's Weathermen pals should worry voters

(Reposted from 10/09/2008 By DEROY MURDOCK, Scripps Howard News Service)

Barack Obama's supporters have trivialized his connections to former
Weather Underground terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. "This
is a guy who lives in my neighborhood," Obama told ABC's George
Stephanopoulos on April 16. Campaign strategist David Axelrod told CNN
Monday that Obama "certainly didn't know the history" of these two
barbarians when they hosted a reception for him when he launched his
political career.

Obama might not have heard of Ayers and Dohrn's brutality from the '60s
through the '80s had they merely tossed a rock or two in anger. But these
two went much, much farther.

In 1970, Ayers encapsulated the Weathermen's worldview: "Kill all the rich
people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home.
Kill your parents." In his 2001 memoir, "Fugitive Days," Ayers brags that
he helped blast NYPD headquarters in 1970, the U.S. Capitol in 1971, and
the Pentagon in 1972.

Dohrn was an equally stalwart subversive. In July 1969, while John McCain
languished in the Hanoi Hilton, Dohrn and five other Weathermen flew to
Cuba to conspire with the National Liberation Front, America's North
Vietnamese enemies. Dohrn was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover called her "the most dangerous woman in America."

Throughout the 1970s, under Ayers and Dohrn's leadership, the Weathermen
blasted the State Department, Gulf Oil's Pittsburgh headquarters, and New
York's Queens Courthouse, among at least 16 targets.

Thankfully, one particular bomb detonated early. Three Weathermen fatally
blew themselves up in March 1970 while building it in a Greenwich Village
townhouse. The Weathermen wanted the nail-filled device to explode at New
Jersey's Fort Dix Army base during a non-commissioned officers' dance.
Soldiers, their spouses, and dates would have been maimed and likely
killed. As Ayers said, the bomb would have ripped "through windows and
walls and, yes, people too."

No wonder Obama has been so evasive about his ties to Ayers and Dohrn. His
relationship with these extreme Leftists goes far beyond waving at some
folks who live nearby. It defies belief that Obama never learned that
Ayers and Dohrn hated the USA and loved TNT.

Obama chaired the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which Ayers inaugurated.
They jointly attended at least seven of that charity's top-level oversight
meetings between March 1995 and September 1997. They jointly met a dozen
times as board members of Chicago's Woods Fund between December 1999 and
December 2002. They appeared together on two academic panels in 1997 and
2002. Obama concisely reviewed one of Ayers' books in the Chicago Tribune.

Ayers and Dohrn invited Windy City liberals into their living room to meet
Obama when he began his 1995 State Senate run. Ayers donated $200 to
re-elect Obama in 2001.

These considerable ties might be irrelevant if Ayers and Dohrn regretted
their actions. But they are far from remorseful.

"I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough," Ayers said in
an interview published September 11, 2001 -- while Obama knew Ayers. That
August, Ayers posed for a Chicago Magazine photo in which he stomped on an
American flag crumpled in the dirt. Headline: "No regrets."

"We'd do it again," Dohrn told ABC in 1998. "I wish that we had done more.
I wish we had been more militant."

If these facts are news to Obama, he must be the most oblivious man on
Chicago's South Side. But if he knew about Ayers and Dohrn's
background, he is being untruthful about it. At the very least, Obama
showed dreadful judgment by closely and repeatedly associating with
these violent traitors.

Obama today calls Ayers' behavior "detestable acts." But what did Ayers
and Dohrn see in Obama? What inspired these unrepentant, hard-Left bomb
throwers to hand the chairmanship of Ayers' foundation and then share
their home and friends with the charismatic then-35-year-old whose current
95.5 percent Left-wing vote record made him The National Journal's "Most
Liberal Senator In 2007?"

(Deroy Murdock is a columnist with Scripps Howard News Service and a media
fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at
Stanford University)