Why Obama’s Association with Bill Ayers is Important

The argument that Barack Obama was only 8 years old when Bill Ayers was plotting against his country rings intellectually hollow–I guess that is why the press is running with it–no thinking involved.

No one thinks that Barack Obama is a terrorist or that he condones domestic terrorism, but his long term association with Bill Ayers, does show an astonishing lack of judgment on his part and more importantly, it shows that his love of country is not offended by a past terrorist and a current leftist who thinks America is a source of evil in the world.

Barack Obama did not leave the pews when the Reverend Wright damned America and he did not disassociate himself from Bill Ayers (until he decided that his primary chances were in trouble) because he himself shares their dark view of the American Republic (Barack Obama worked with Ayers, spreading his radical education plan on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and the Woods Fund).  You or I would never serve in any organization spearheaded by a former domestic terrorist who still espoused anti-America, neo-Stalinist leftism.  Obama did.

You say, come on, Ayers is a professor, he’s reformed himself.  True, he no longer is a domestic terrorist, but he still hates America and Barack Obama saw nothing wrong with that.  Do you ever once think Obama looked at Ayers’ education agenda and said, “Bill, this is just plain wrong?”

In Ayers’ own words:

In the spirit of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. we have to dare to see the world as it really is, and then to choose justice over tribe or nation or petty self-interest. We need to organize and mobilize against illegal wars of conquest and domination, send a sharp warning right now as the powerful mobilize to bomb Iran under the banner of the same exhausted lies and rationalizations, and press the demand for peace in concrete terms:

1. Withdraw all mercenary forces immediately.

2. Set a date-certain—within three months—for all U.S. troops to leave Iraq and Afghanistan.

3. Dismantle all U.S. military bases in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.

4. Renounce all claims to the natural resources of Iraq.

5. Call for the creation of an independent international commission to assess and monitor the amount of reparations the U.S. owes to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.

This is only a start, and it is still a choice—solidarity with all people, or endless war and death. As King reminded us, those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. Link

Ayers won’t even defend his country in a just war–Afghanistan.  Wondering where Obama got his “air-raiding villages…” line from?

Obama worked with a man who thinks the U.S. and Israel is a terrorist state.  He even thinks that Sherman’s march to the sea was terrorism!

Terrorism—according to both official U.S. policy and the U.N.—is the use or threat of random violence to intimidate, frighten, or coerce a population toward some political end. This means, of course, that terrorism is not the exclusive province of a cult, a religious sect, or a group of fanatics. It can be any of these, but it can also be—and often is—executed by governments and states. A bombing in a café in Israel is terrorism, and an Israeli assault on a neighborhood in Gaza is terrorism; the September 11 attacks were acts of terrorism, and the U.S. bombings in Viet Nam for a decade were acts of terrorism. Terrorism is never justifiable, even in a just cause—the Union fight in the 1860’s was just, for example, but Shernan’s March to the Sea was indefensible terror. I’ve never advocated terrorism, never participated in it, never defended it. The U.S. government, by contrast, does it routinely and defends the use of it in its own cause consistently.

Furthermore, he thinks capitalism is a spent force and should be replaced.  Marx said, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs….” Remember how that turned out for tens of millions of the citizens of the Soviet Union?  Yet Ayers advocates the same system that murdered over 40 million people and caused untold economic deprivation.

Imperialism. I’m against it, and if Sean Hannity and others were honest, this is the ground they would fight me on. Capitalism played its role historically and is exhausted as a force for progress: built on exploitation, theft, conquest, war, and racism, capitalism and imperialism must be defeated and a world revolution—a revolution against war and racism and materialism, a revolution based on human solidarity and love, cooperation and the common good—must win.  Link

Or maybe that sounded more like Lenin in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. Obama once again sought out this man and worked with him to spread his radical agenda to the children of Chicago.  Great, Obama and Ayers probably succeeded in teaching children to fail, just like the Soviet Union…..

Ayers on American sexual morality:

Combine a culture of sexual repression, shame, fear, and self-loathing with a politics of authoritarianism and a practice of totalitarian power, and you get centuries of rape and torture—glossed as the psychological problems of a few aberrant priests— or reactionary politicians burning their imagined witches by day and sneaking an anonymous forbidden look or touch whenever possible.  Link

Mr. Ayers also has high praise for Hugo Chavez and his education reform.  He is praising a dictator and his communist agenda folks!  Any guesses what the education reforms Ayers and Obama pushed in Chicago were like?

President Hugo Chavez, Vice-President Vicente Rangel, Ministers Moncada and Isturiz, invited guests,comrades. I’m honored and humbled to be here with you this morning. I bring greetings and support from your brothers and sisters throughout Northamerica. Welcome to the World Education Forum! Amamos la revolucion Bolivariana!

This is my fourth visit to Venezuela, each time at the invitation of my comrade and friend Luis Bonilla, a brilliant educator and inspiring fighter for justice. Luis has taught me a great deal about the Bolivarian Revolution and about the profound educational reforms underway here in Venezuela under the leadership of President Chavez.  Link

Here is what Ayers thinks the real agenda behind 9/11 is:

Actually Cheney, Rumsfeld,  Ashcroft, and their gang knew exactly what to do, and they did it—
they pulled out their most ambitious plans to create a new American empire, to remake the world to their liking, to suppress dissent, to bail out the airlines by transferring $20 billion without safeguards or benchmarks from public to private hands in a matter of days with a single no-vote in the Senate, to scuttle aspects of the law that checked their power, to deliver the country, in the words of Arthur Miller, “into the hands of the radical right, a ministry of free
floating apprehension toward anything that never happens in the middle of Missouri.” The ideologues filled up all the available space with their fantastic interpretation of events, and they shouted down anyone with the temerity to disagree, donning the mantle of patriotism to
defend their every move.

The mantra of American Empire is laughable.  If this was a crusade to build an empire, Iraq would not have a government, it would have an American general acting as governor.  Oil prices would not be $100 a barrel, they would be $40 a barrel, at least for America.

Just wondering if you think Ayers started thinking like this the day Obama disassociated himself from him?  Or do you think Bill Ayers never said anything like this to Obama?

Lastly, in this post, Ayers justifies his terrorism on the grounds that he was opposing American terrorism.  Moral equivalance fueled by Marxism-Leninism.

Ayers mistakes war for terrorism and he justifies the brutal oppression of the communist regimes in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in terms of anything is better than America imperialism.

I’m almost fairly sure, that millions of Cambodians during the Pol Pot era would have loved to have been occupied by an army from the “American Empire.”

Ayers was simply nothing more than a stupid young kid who bought into the Soviet propaganda of the Cold War–America is evil, American capitalism is oppressive, America is an imperial power, America kills babies, women, and children first….  The problem is that he is now an middle aged man and he still believes that Lenin is right.  And he incredibly ignores the brutality of the totalitarianism of communism and instead condemns our liberal democracy and its enshrinement of individual liberty.

And that brings us to Obama.  Obama has an amazing knack of “palling” around with people who have a dim view of America.  Maybe that is because Obama’s view of America is disturbingly similar.

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