I am assuming that I would not maintain a friendship or relationship with a terrorist. There’s a big difference between stealing public funds and placing bombs at public buildings.

I can, however, understand Barack Obama’s situation. In 1995 — 13 years ago — when the Ayers introduced him in their home to political activitists in that part of Chicago, Obama says he did not know of Ayers’ terrorist backgroung. I can believe that.

I consider myself very well informed. As an author and historian, and former editor, I work hard to stay in touch. But, while very familiar with the Weather Underground, I did not hear the name Bill Ayers until someone affixed it (permanently I think) to Sean Hannity’s teleprompter.

I might not agree with him but I can certainly understand how Obama handled the situation he found himself in. Chicago’s Democratic establishment, including Mayor Richard Daley, who is not a radical and whose patriotism shouldn’t be questioned, had apparently forgiven Ayers for his terrorist past and accepted him for what he was in Chicago. At some point Daley even named Ayers as Chicago’s “citizen of the year”. Obama condemned Ayers’ radical past but decided he could work with Ayers, who by then was, I repeat, a generally respected member of the Chicago community. A number of years would pass — it would be September 2001 — before Ayers publicly stated he was unrepentant.

Unless there’s proof Obama continued a “close” relationship with Ayers since being elected to the U. S. Senate and consults him on public policy, I’m not going to let old Chicago relationships influence whether I decide to vote for Obama.

I am more concerned about the local businesses that are shutting their doors, the neighbors who are losing their jobs, the neighbors who may lose their homes, the boy across the street who can’t get a loan for next semester’s tuition, fees, books and board and room, etc. There’s ample evidence that a majority of Americans share those real worries.

Seriously people, doesn’t everyone have a good friend who is an unapologetic domestic terrorist?

Meanwhile, it’s funny how these leftist organizations are suddenly desperately trying to smear McCain through what could only be described as tenuous associations. Could it be because they, like Priya, need to divert attention away from Obama’s association with, endorsement of, and support of unrepentant terrorist Ayers, who to this day says he is willing to attack people again, who insists that killing children is all right and that those children are not “innocent”, and does not regret his repeated bombings and attempts to murder thousands of American citizens?

In related news, John McCain was in “Wedding Crashers” with Christopher Walken, who was in “Joe Dirt” with Fred Ward, who was in “Tremors” with Kevin Bacon.

No that’s a lie, I do not “fully support and endorse” Ayers. On the other hand you fully endorse and support pedophilia, incest and polygamy. When I condemned pedophilia, incest, and polygamy you attacked me screaming that that was discrimination and a violation of perverts constitutional rights in this thread:

http://www.indegayforum.org/blog/show/31277.html?success=1#comments

at June 19, 2007, 4:02pm

In other news Mccain has been linked to a guerilla aiding group with ties to former Nazi collaborators in the Iran-Contra affair:

http://www.365gay.com/news/mccain-linked-to-guerrilla-aiding-group-in-iran-contra-case/

OT: Effete Girly-Man columnist Tony Norman still nursing emotional wounds from middle school whimpers that Sarah Palin is just a big mean bully.

Um, no; if he were a “changed person”, he would regret setting bombs with the express intent of killing people. In addition, in the cited post, he states:

So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? ”I don’t want to discount the possibility,” he said.

Furthermore, he specifically states that the Weathermen “didn’t kill innocent people”. In their eyes, policemen, security guards, even the children whose houses they firebombed were GUILTY.

Finally, as is made clear in this short clip from the BBC, Ayers does not apologize in the least for what he did.

Of course, Priya Lynn fully supports and endorses this unrepentant terrorist who states clearly that all the people he and his cohorts attacked were guilty and that he did nothing at all wrong.

He also writes about the Weathermen’s sexual experimentation as they tried to ‘’smash monogamy.” The Weathermen were ”an army of lovers,” he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend.

That IS a lie and a low down smear, and all too typical for this chronic liar. I don’t support that or any of Ayers actions as a part of the Weathermen. However, by all accounts of respected members of the community he is a changed man for a long time, a respected citizen, citizen of the year and a comunity leader and an agent for good. There is nothing wrong with someone who knows nothing of his past having associated with him on the recommendation of upstanding citizens.

First line:

”I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. ”I feel we didn’t do enough.”

But of course, we know why Priya supports Ayers:

He also writes about the Weathermen’s sexual experimentation as they tried to ”smash monogamy.” The Weathermen were ”an army of lovers,” he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend.

Ok, if the GOP’s facts are wrong, please document how they are so.

John McCain, in his own act of omission, or faulty memory, tried to deflect his family’s ownership of houses.

Politicians stumble, politicians are human and make mistakes.

Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed in 1989, at a cost of $2 billion to the federal government. Some 23,000 Lincoln bondholders were defrauded and many elderly investors lost their life savings. The substantial political contributions that Keating had made to each of the senators, totalling $1.3 million, attracted considerable public and media attention. After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings, with Cranston receiving a formal reprimand. Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised “poor judgment”. wikipedia.

McCain’s Campaign is not going well and the attack ads are coming out.
But it won’t be hard for some private stories of the folk who lost monies in the savings and loan scandal come forward.

Becoming a public figure, choices in friends becomes very relevant. The McCains vacationed and benefitted from the greed of Charles Keating.

-McCain and Keating had become personal friends following their initial contacts in 1981,[11] and McCain was the only one of the five with close social and personal ties to Keating.[35][36] Like DeConcini, McCain considered Keating a constituent as he lived in Arizona.[28] Between 1982 and 1987, McCain had received $112,000 in political contributions from Keating and his associates.[37] In addition, McCain’s wife Cindy McCain and her father Jim Hensley had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators. McCain, his family, and their baby-sitter had made nine trips at Keating’s expense, sometimes aboard Keating’s jet. Three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating’s opulent Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay. McCain did not pay Keating (in the amount of $13,433) for some of the trips until years after they were taken, when he learned that Keating was in trouble over Lincoln.[7][38] In 1989 Phoenix New Times writer Tom Fitzpatrick opined that McCain was the “most reprehensible” of the five senators.[39] wikipedia

Mudslinging is very much at hand by both McCain and Obama. It would more beneficial for the citizens of the US to hear how the next President of the US is going to handle the economic challenges, to provide leadership in rebuilding America as one of the premier leaders in the world without pissing everyone off, and how America will become less reliant on foreign energy.

That’s a lie. He said he wished he had done more to stop the war, he never said anything about killing more pople and settng more bombs.”

Gaypatriot said “I think this documented, fact-based research from the GOP spells it all out for even Priya to understand.”.

LOL, “fact-based” from the GOP, puuuleeezze! The GOP wouldn’t know a fact if it bit them in the rear.

jeb

And Goldman/Sachs will be enriched.

If Kiley and Obama opposed terrorism, they would repudiate Ayers, sever all connections with him, and publicly denounce the schools and groups that support and endorse him. But they don’t. Thus, it should be obvious to anyone that they have no problem whatsoever with terrorist activity, that they in fact support, endorse, and fund unrepentant terrorists like Ayers who publicly boast that their only regret is not killing more people and setting more bombs, and thus are being hypocritical when they in any way try to criticize anyone else’s behavior in this regard.