From Keith Pavlischek at First Things:
Imagine, for a moment, that the violence of a hypothetical “unrepentant terrorist” were directed at African-American churches or ATF agents or perhaps abortion clinics rather than, per the non-hypothetical William Ayers, at the Pentagon or the Capitol. Imagine that a hypothetical Republican presidential candidate had close connections with an unrepentant leader of the KKK as the current Democratic presidential candidate has to an unrepentant leader of the Weatherman. Would this be dismissed “as maybe a small brushstroke,” one “hardly disqualifying to his candidacy”?
I doubt it.
Ah, but unrepentant leftists are de rigueur for the best Democratic cocktail parties. They know where to get the best Che bric-a-brac.
Is there something to be learned from Mr. Obama’s association in the 1990s with William Ayers, the unrepentant domestic terrorist to whom Ms. Palin referred? It’s certainly not that Mr. Obama hates America or shares responsibility for the bombing Mr. Ayers helped carry out. By the time Mr. Obama came on the Chicago scene, Mr. Ayers was a member of the liberal political establishment that Mr. Obama sought to join.
That’s exactly the point, WaPo. The fact that someone like Bill Ayers, with all that he’s done and all that he stands for, could, without repenting for his actions or recanting his radical anti-American beliefs, become a member of the “liberal political establishment”, is the very thing to be learned from Mr. Obama’s association in the 1990s with Ayers — not just about Obama, but about liberals in general.
There is some basic truth to what both Rich and Boy have to say, The simple fact is that most lefty liberals don’t see the Obamessiah’s association with Ayers as a problem because THEY AGREE WITH HIM. He is a memeber of the liberal Chcago political establishment BECAUSE THEY AGREE WITH HIM. They just don’t want the average voter to know that because, in their minds, the average voter is too stupid to understand the ‘nuances’ of Ayers approach to politics.
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