John Murtagh, Survivor Of A Weathermen Attack, Gives First Hand Account, Questions Obama's Judgement

I honestly don't know how the newsreaders at NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN are able to show thier faces in public without feeling any shame at what they are doing in this election. They have done everything they can to bring down Sarah Palin just for the simple fact that she is a woman, yet they still refuse to investigate the true relationship between Barack Obama and the domestic terrorist William Ayers.

Maggie Gallagher of the New York Post has a good write-up which includes a first-hand account of a man who survived an attack by the Weathermen back in 1970. From her story:

When John Murtagh was 9 years old, Bill Ayers' friends tried to kill him. "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," wrote Murtagh recently in City Journal. It wasn't personal. John's dad was a judge presiding over a trial of some Black Panthers. John still remembers the red graffiti on the sidewalk the next morning: "Free the Panther 21; The Viet Cong Have Won; Kill the Pigs." As best he recalls, Bernardine Dohrn, who's now Ayers' wife, first claimed credit for bombing John's home in 1970.

And Obama's association with these terrorists are not just associations, they are alliances.

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In the Chicago establishment, which embraced former terrorists like Ayers and his wife, Obama was encouraged to look beyond the obvious - the lawlessness, the attacks on cops, judges, army outposts - to embrace larger goals. What were these goals? How does Obama come to continue to associate with Ayers - a man who can't bring himself to say to John Murtagh or to John's mother or any other kin of the attacked: I'm sorry. I was wrong. It was a terrible thing to do.

Yes, this is the same William Ayers who served with Barack Obama on the Annenberg Challange and who hosted Barack Obama's first political meeting in Ayers' living room.

And yet, Obama still clings to the overt lie that Ayers' was "just some guy" in the neighborhood?

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Obama's campaign is busy fudging. His top political adviser claims Obama just didn't know Ayers' history when they first met. ... "If that's true, Obama has to be the dumbest man who ever graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School," snorts Murtagh. "I don't buy that at all." Murtagh believes the relationship between the Obamas, Ayers and Dohrn goes back 30 years, to Michelle Obama's time at Sidley Austin, a law firm that also employed Dohrn. Murtagh doesn't blame Obama for what Ayers and his friends did. He blames Obama for picking a man like Ayers as a friend and mentor - and then covering up the friendship.

If Obama is questioning the ethics of his opponent and the ethics of the outgoing administration, then Obama should demonstrate his own ethical standards and admit the truth about his alliances with Ayers.

This whole affair makes John McCain's exoneration by Keating Five investigator Robert S. Bennett look tame by comparison.

You can access the original story on-line here:

Terror Victim's Questions For Obama
Maggie Gallagher
New York Post
October 8, 2008

Governor Palin Attacks Obama-Ayers Connection, Obama Campaign Responds With Misleading Smears

For weeks now, the Conservatives and Republicans have been telling John McCain to take the gloves off. Well, Governor Sarah Palin did just that this past weekend and revived the debate over Barack Obama's association with domestic terrorist William Ayers. The association is real and deserves to be looked into. But the Obama campaign came out with a response that was nothing short of misleading, if not completely irresponsible.

Here is what Rep. Rahm Emanuel, said in response on CNN:

"If we are going to go down this road _ you know, Barack Obama was eight years old, somehow responsible for Bill Ayers," he said. "At 58, John McCain was associating with Charles Keating." "If we really want to talk who is associating with who, we will," Emanuel said. "The American people will lose in that transaction."

No, we will not lose. We will gain a clear understanding of exactly who Barack Obama is and what his true beliefs are.

William Ayers is an unrepentent terrorist who planted bombs at the Pentagon and local Police Stations back in the 70's with a domestic terrorist organization called the Weathermen. That is a fact.

Barack Obama worked with Ayers in the Chicago Annenberg Project and even launched a political campaign from Ayer's living room but still refers to him as "just a guy in my neighborhood." We need to know more about the relationship between the Democrat Presidential Candidate and his domestic terrorist friends. Obama's actions as an adult cannot simply be chalked up to the ignorance of an 8-year-old.

As for John McCain's role in the Keating scandal, he was exonerated of any wrong-doing. Who says so? The New York Times said so back in 1999:

Three other members of the Keating Five were more seriously rebuked by the ethics panel and all of them retired rather than face difficult re-election battles. John Glenn of Ohio, who was exonerated with Mr. McCain, was also re-elected in 1992, but retired in 1998.

Don't you find it rather interesting that Rahm Emanuel neglected to mention the fact that McCain was exonerated by a Democrat lawyer who was investigating the whole scandal?

Yes, I agree. The omission not only misleading, it is irresponsible.

You can access these stories on-line here:

Senate Inquiry In Keating Case Tested McCain
Jill Abramson and Alison Mitchell
The New York Times
November 21, 1999

Obama Ad Links McCain To Keating Scandal
Charles Babington
Associated Press
October 5, 2008