CNN: Clinton campaign gets Weather Underground questions

[Abacus]

Posted: 01:18 PM ET

(CNN) — The morning after Hillary Clinton attacked Barack Obama over his relationship with William Ayers, founder of Weather Underground, her campaign advisers struggled with questions over her view of pardons for members of that group issued by her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

On a conference call with reporters, spokesman Howard Wolfson said he did not know where the New York senator stood on the pardons, but that he would check.

The Obama campaign has responded to Clinton’s questions to the Illinois senator at Wednesday night’s ABC debate with press releases pointing to the former president’s pardons of Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans.

The group, which formed in the 1960s, sought the overthrow of the U.S. government, and carried out violent attacks including bombings.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/17/clinton-campaign-gets-weather-underground-questions/

[tishaLA]

1. Just to be accurate, Clinton didn't pardon

WU members. He commuted their sentences, which is close to, but not synonymous with, pardoning.

[MethuenProgressive]

2. What?? The ABC questions were hard for Hillary TOO?? This is HUGH!!!!11!!

Amzing, since all the questions were fixed and stacked against BO!

[MadBadger]

9. Obama brought that up, not ABC

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Is the implication that the WU was the equivalent of homegrown "terrorists"?

[elehhhhna]

15. well, they sorta kinda were.

[Armstead]

4. Clinton pardoned Linda Evans so she could do a remake of Dynasty

Sorry...

[dchill]

20. "...so she could do a remake of Dynasty"

which is UNpardonable.

[peoli]

5. I cant wait to see how the snake answers it!

[high density]

6. He doesn't know?

Last night he was telling Keith Olbermann that these were appropriate questions for Senator Obama, so how could he not be prepared for his own campaign's response on the issue?

[DS1]

7. Of course they do. This is how the media and McSame are going ot paint Dems as terrorist lovers

Thanks, Clinton fuckers, really managed the shit out of this one, didn't ya?

[DJ13]

8. Clinton campaigns like farting in a broom closet

Sure she gets the pleasure of the initial blast of negativity, but it always stinks up the joint so badly people start questioning why she did it in the first place.

[Adelante]

12. Farts

I read something yesterday about the Clinton campaign being erratic "like farts in a jar."

[ORDem]

10. K!

:kick:

[endarkenment]

11. It is a complete non issue.

Is that what this campaign is going to be about? The Weather Underground?

[Asgaya Dihi]

18. No, but it should be a non-issue

It went from being a non-issue to an issue when Hillary stood up in the debate and said that she thought it was relevant. That was while they were asking Obama about his neighbor and before it was pointed out that the Clintons had associations here too.

Now, I'd imagine she does think it should be a non-issue. To bad she didn't think that when it was the right thing to do rather than just the convenient one. If she takes some heat for it, good. She earned it.

[goletian]

13. did she cackle?

give us a cackle, hillary. you dont, you dont, you dont, you dont... know how many angels dance atop your mounting deceptions? lol

[quantass]

14. K&R

[FrenchieCat]

16. Fact check via AP on this issue......

THE FACTS:
.......
Ayers was part of the Weather Underground, a radical group that claimed credit for explosions at the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and more. Originally known as the Weathermen, the group took its name from a Bob Dylan lyric: "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."

In 1970, a bomb the group was making — to use against an Army base — exploded at a New York town house, killing three members. Ayers fled and spent years as a fugitive. He met and married fellow fugitive Bernadine Dohrn during that period.

The two surfaced in 1980. Ayers had been charged with various offenses stemming from demonstrations in Chicago in 1969, but those charges had been dismissed for prosecutorial misconduct. He never faced any charges related to the town house explosion. Dohrn pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated battery and two counts of bail-jumping in connection with a 1969 anti-war protest.

Ayers now teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Dohrn heads the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University. Ayers has advised Chicago Mayor Richard Daley on education issues.

Ayers and Obama both served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based charity that focuses on developing community groups to assist the poor. A variety of business executives, journalists and academics serve on the board.

When Obama was organizing his first race for the state legislature, the incumbent lawmaker he hoped to replace introduced him to her supporters and urged them to back Obama. One introductory event took place at the home of Ayers and Dohrn.

Ayers contributed $200 to Obama's legislative campaign in 2001, but there is no other sign that he has actively aided Obama's political career.

During Wednesday's debate, Obama argued that if the candidates are to be held responsible for distant connections to the Weather Underground, then Clinton would fail, too. He pointed out that her husband, just before leaving the White House, commuted the sentences of two members of the group who had been convicted of weapons and explosives charges.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080417/ap_on_el_pr/obama_radical_fact_check;_ylt=At8RTp1_7CgDD6pKD4ZRRU9h24cA

[DefenseLawyer]

17. "That's not relevant"

Don't ask me the last time I shot a gun or went to church either, you jerks.

[scheming daemons]

19. Clinton campaign has gotten adept at throwing grenades straight up