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Posted at 6:25pm on Apr. 30, 2008 Bomb Throwers and Their Friends

By absentee

On the list of people I'd compare Barack Obama to, you won't find Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts. You might find him on Barack's list of people he'd like to be compared to, but that's not my list. The fact that Obama gave constitutional law classes in his (non-professorial) capacity as "Senior Lecturer" at the University of Chicago doesn't rise to the level of expertise and professionalism necessary for the comparison.

There is, however, some value in comparing how the left and the media dealt with Roberts during his confirmation hearings, and how they deal with Senator Obama now.

When George Stephanopoulos challenged Barack Obama about Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, the wounded outcry from the left was stupefying. ABC had fired the first salvo in the destruction of Western Democracy, and the press as we know it was officially dead. A viral video obituary of Stephanopoulos made the rounds. New York magazine asked "Do Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos Hate America?"

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Posted at 11:07am on Apr. 30, 2008 John M Murtagh: Hi, I'm one of the people that the Weather Underground tried to kill.

How dare one of the animate backdrops to Bill Ayers' fantasy narrative speak.

By Moe Lane

Perhaps if you had done more, William Ayers, you might have kept this person from writing this. Do you regret that?

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.

(Via Hot Air)

Nine years old at the time, Bill. But hey, you guys really showed that military-industrial complex what was what, right? Not to mention all those South Vietnamese that unfortunately had to be sacrificed so that you and your comrades could feel good about yourselves.

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Posted at 2:22pm on Apr. 26, 2008 Obama, Ayers, and Wright

How many friends will it take?

By Soren Dayton

Today, Jim Geraghty over at NRO caught this line from another Jeremiah Wright sermon, "We cannot see that what we are doing is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag." Remember, that this is the guy who has been Obama's friend for over 20 years, married him, baptized his children, and provided spiritual guidance to Obama.

I remember a statement that I noticed earlier from Bill Ayers, who I will now refer to as Barack's bombing blogging buddy, "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." Ayers, of course, gave money to Obama and hosted his first campaign event in 1996.

The Politico's Ben Smith says:

The politics of this depend on whether you think there's room for nuance in a conversation like this -- for seeing Wright as a man of the left, and a sometimes hyperbolic preacher, but not an extremist; or whether any mention of him at all just fuels the impression that Obama comes from too far out a place.

I think it may also depend on how many more of these there are. Like alleged PLO associate Rashid Khalidi who hosted a fundraiser in 2000. Even Talk Lefters are worried about that.

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