Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: Clearing up another empty shot at Obama

[Adelante]

March 3, 2008

And now, by our count, we have Phony Flap Number 6,537,203: Barack Obama Consorts With Known American Terrorist!

Conservative talk radio hosts are in a dither over the non-news that Obama is "friendly" with a fellow named William Ayers, a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Thirty-five years ago, it seems, Ayers ran with the Weather Underground, a guerrilla band of deluded "revolutionaries" who protested the Vietnam War, racial injustice and "The Man" by setting off bombs.

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Is Barack Obama consorting with a radical? Hardly.

Ayers is nothing more than an aging lefty with a foolish past who is doing good. And while, yes, Obama is friendly with Ayers, it appears to be only in the way of two community activists whose circles overlap.

Obama's middle name is Hussein. That doesn't make him an Islamic terrorist. He stopped wearing a flag pin. That doesn't make him unpatriotic. And he's friendly with UIC Professor William Ayers. That doesn't make him a bomb thrower.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/822560,CST-EDT-edit03a.article

[babylonsister]

1. I guess the radio 'hosts' have picked our candidate. Stand by for

as many smears as they can hurl. They're grasping at straws, but it takes effort to combat that.

[leftofcool]

2. I doubt if Obama really has any ties to Ayers

but to say Ayers only has a "foolish" past is putting it mildly. His past was way more than just foolish and he still advocates bomb throwing. Those of us from the 60's who understood the rage over Vietnam absolutely condemned the actions of the Weathermen, then and now. The actions of Ayers and his crowd then are no different that those who bomb abortion clinics today.

Left of Cool

[JimGinPA]

3. I Met Eric Clapton Once...

It didn't make me a rock star.

[zbdent]

4. about that same time ... wasn't Bush consorting with the bin Laden family?

and wasn't Prescott Bush consorting with Adolf Hitler? And Charles Lindbergh got a medal from Adolf, too ...

[boston bean]

5. Obama was mentioned in one of Ayres book as a friend. nt