We are all very familiar with the questions about Barack Obama’s relationship with William (Bill) Ayers, the Vietnam era radical terrorist who has said he wishes he could have done more during his time of rebellion. As if planting bombs in his own country was not enough. More familiar are the denials by Obama that he was not friends with the man, that he barely knew him, and that he was just a man who lived in his neighborhood and worked on education issues. Well, now that the election is over and Obama has won, Bill Ayers has released a paperback version of his 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, and the afterword of that memoir tells a different story than Obama did, during the campaign. The Chicago Tribune has an excerpt from that afterword.

“We had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser at my house, where I’d made a small donation to his earliest political campaign.”

Of course, the term “family friends” is not defined and Ayers has declined to elaborate on that statement. It does make one wonder just how close the two men really were or are. It brings to light again, Barack Obama’s questionable relationships with different people.

The Chicago Tribune has another quote from Ayers that is even more disturbing, in my honest opinion.

“The more serious point is that Obama was asked once more to defend something that ought to be at the very heart of democracy: the importance of talking to many people in this complicated and wildly diverse society, of listening with the possibility of learning something new, of speaking with the possibility of persuading or influencing others. … In a robust and sophisticated democracy, political leaders, indeed, all of us, would seek out ways to talk with many people who hold dissenting, even radical, ideas.”

Since when is a radical terrorist, who bombed his own country, just a person who holds dissenting ideas? Since when does a person who is willing to kill his own countrymen deserve to be negotiated with? Need I remind you how Ayers was not willing to sit and talk with the people of this country who held different opinions than him, but chose rather to plant bombs and try to kill them? It amazes me that someone like William Ayers is even allowed to walk free in our country, given what he is guilty of. I know he was freed because our law enforcement failed to get their ducks in a row, but that doesn’t make him any less guilty. It boggles my mind that he can get a job teaching our young people and it makes me wonder what he actually teaches them, but that can wait for later.

All of these are legitimate questions and it makes one ponder the thought; just how many lies did Barack Obama weave in winning this election. Yes, I fully understand he has won this election and I am hoping he serves our country well, but it does not keep me from wondering just what kind of song and dance the voters of America have bought in electing their first African American President.

That’s my take!

Larry

Tags: African American, Barack Obama, Chicago Tribune, Fugitive Days, President, Terrorist, William Ayers

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