Thread: Bill Ayers just some guy?

So I came across this tidbit of info. Bill Ayers once said: “I also thought I was black,” Ayers identified with the black movement he read: James Baldwin, Leroi Jones, Richard Wright, The Autobiography of Malcolm X. But this is the kicker Ayers named his first son “Malik” after the newly Islamic Malcolm X and the second son “Zayd” after Zayd Shakur, a Black Panther killed in a shootout that claimed the life of a New Jersey State Trooper.

Ayers kicked off Obama's political career when he hosted a fund raiser in his home. Now Obama wishes to suggest it is just some loose aquaintance nothing more. Does anybody on either side actually believe this? I mean really.

Originally Posted by justoneman

Ayers kicked off Obama's political career when he hosted a fund raiser in his home. Now Obama wishes to suggest it is just some loose aquaintance nothing more. Does anybody on either side actually believe this? I mean really.

Last dregs of a fight for a failing McBush campaign, JOM?


Chirp chirp......

Who gives a shit?

Let the guy name his son Moon-Unit for all I care.

Most Americans just tune McCain out when he starts bringing up non-issues like Ayers.

John M. Murtagh
Fire in the Night
The Weathermen tried to kill my family.
30 April 2008
During the April 16 debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, moderator George Stephanopoulos brought up “a gentleman named William Ayers,” who “was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, and other buildings. He’s never apologized for that.” Stephanopoulos then asked Obama to explain his relationship with Ayers. Obama’s answer: “The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense, George.” Obama was indeed only eight in early 1970. I was only nine then, the year Ayers’s Weathermen tried to murder me.
In February 1970, my father, a New York State Supreme Court justice, was presiding over the trial of the so-called “Panther 21,” members of the Black Panther Party indicted in a plot to bomb New York landmarks and department stores. Early on the morning of February 21, as my family slept, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at our home on the northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked neatly under the gas tank of the family car. (Today, of course, we’d call that a car bomb.) A neighbor heard the first two blasts and, with the remains of a snowman I had built a few days earlier, managed to douse the flames beneath the car. That was an act whose courage I fully appreciated only as an adult, an act that doubtless saved multiple lives that night.....


Fire in the Night by John M. Murtagh, City Journal 30 April 2008

I still recall, as though it were a dream, thinking that someone was lifting and dropping my bed as the explosions jolted me awake, and I remember my mother’s pulling me from the tangle of sheets and running to the kitchen where my father stood. Through the large windows overlooking the yard, all we could see was the bright glow of flames below. We didn’t leave our burning house for fear of who might be waiting outside. The same night, bombs were thrown at a police car in Manhattan and two military recruiting stations in Brooklyn. Sunlight, the next morning, revealed three sentences of blood-red graffiti on our sidewalk: FREE THE PANTHER 21; THE VIET CONG HAVE WON; KILL THE PIGS.

I ask again, did he kill or hurt anyone?

This is the Weather underground. Bill Ayers was not just some dumb kid trying to make it with a chick in a barrett. It is believed his was one of the main organizers. Indeed his girlfriend was probably under his orders to create nail bombs along with a few other in the underground. Nail bombs have one purpose. Kill and maim. The bomb accidentally went off and the bomb makers were killed.

Bill Ayers is not some nice old guy at the college. He is a terrorists that should be in jail.

Originally Posted by justoneman

This is the Weather underground. Bill Ayers was not just some dumb kid trying to make it with a chick in a barrett. It is believed his was one of the main organizers. Indeed his girlfriend was probably under his orders to create nail bombs along with a few other in the underground. Nail bombs have one purpose. Kill and maim. The bomb accidentally went off and the bomb makers were killed.

Bill Ayers is not some nice old guy at the college. He is a terrorists that should be in jail.

Ok, but that still doesn't mean Obama is friends with the guy. It's not like they had tea time together or anything. They served together on some education commission, a subject Ayers is widely known to be an expert in despite his past.

Do you see what they wrote on the judges side walk? FREE THE PANTHER 21. The Weather underground was trying to influence the trial of a Black Panther. Bill Ayers was aligned with the Black Panther movement in a big way.