Obama's Favorite Domestic Terrorist

The wonder of the William Ayers terrorist connection to Obama is not that Palin finally unleashed it, it lies in the fact that the mainstream media was so reluctant to report it when the data become widely available in the spring. I suppose it means less to younger people but if one was alive during those heady days of domestic terrorism the charge sticks like mud. The fact that Ayers is now a professor hardly makes his earlier activities any more respectable. There are probably more anti-American sentiments being expressed in American universities than anywhere else anyway. Both Ayers and his wife are currently college professors.

The Obama camp has tried to downplay the relationship between the terrorists and Obama but that story is sketchy. The University of Illinois at Chicago has released hundreds of documents that solidify the relationship between the two. There are more than 50,000 documents, 128 boxes, and 946 files. The University archives on the pair comes out to 70 linear feet. This is no casual connection.

Ayers was a member of the Weather Underground, a radical group that claimed responsibility for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, preceding the foreign terrorism problem by many years.

Ayers was a fugitive for years with his wife, fellow radical Bernadine Dohrn, Dohrn is now a professor at Northwestern University Law School. But after surrendering in 1980, the charges against Ayers were dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct. He got off on a technicality we might say.

Moreover, Obama and Ayers both live in the same Hyde Park neighborhood. They served together on the board of a Chicago charity, and in the mid-1990s when Obama first ran for office, Ayers hosted a meet-the-candidate session for Obama at his home. They are more than casual acquaintances, Obama and Ayers share a political ideology.

For a candidate who champions his better judgement over his opponent, Ayers is a curious political supporter to have. Ayers has not denied that he set off bombs and he is on the record that U.S. Marines are terrorists. All John Kerry did was toss a few medals over the White House fence, Ayers threw bombs that exploded. This is the support that Obama has elicited.