Bill Ayers dumps Obama (VIDEO)

[jefferson_dem]

From Clarence Page's Blog -

Bill Ayers dumps Obama

To hear the right-wing crowd, you would think Bill Ayers and President Barack Obama were joined at the hip.

Who could forget Sarah Palin's charge that Obama was "palin' around with terrorists"?

Well, goodbye to all that. The 1960s Weather Underground radical-turned-University-of-Illinois professor sounds as steamed up against Obama as he used to feel about President Richard Nixon.

The reason, once again, is a presidential escalation of a faraway war.

As a contemporary of Ayers who covered the Underground's breakaway from the old Students for a Democratic Society for alternative newspapers in 1969 (The Tribune didn't want to give the radicals any "publicity" in those days unless it came from the Chicago Police "Red Squad."), I feel some of his pain. A lot of us boomers thought our generation had learned by now how to avoid unnecessary wars. Iraq and the Bush administration showed we didn't.

But I'm not as certain as Ayers that Afghanistan is a waste. Obama has kept the goals reasonable, the benchmarks clear and the exit strategy well mapped out. We're giving the Afghans a chance to pull themselves together into a real nation, but it's not open-ended. I only hope it works.

Meanwhile, what are the Glenn Becks, Sean Hannitys and Sarah Palins of the world going to talk about now that Ayers says Obama's a conservative war hawk? Hint: I'm sure they'll find something.

VIDEO at LINK - http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/pagespage/2009/12/bill-ayers-dumps-obama.html

[Enthusiast]

1. Not palling around with terrorists? nt

[Clio the Leo]

2. lol so add Ayers to the list of supporters.....

... who weren't paying attention. ;)

[harun]

3. Weak argument.

Saying you are going to concentrate on Afghanistan in the campaign is not equatable to a green light for perpetual military conflict if Afghanistan. This is the SECOND time he has increased troops in Afghanistan. Did you think what he said in the campaign meant that?

[Clio the Leo]

5. "I will .... finish the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan."

"I will .... finish the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan." - Barack Obama, August 28th, 2008

If you did not understand what that statement meant when HE said it, I doubt I'd be able to exlain it to you any better. Therefore, believe what you want to believe.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/28/barack-obama-democratic-c_n_122224.html

[ShortnFiery]

7. Are you really THAT desperate to support Obama? ... this is really bizarre. eom

[kiva]

9. Yes she is -

as pointed out by Spiritual Gunfighter, the fact that she greeted the murder of 4 police officers as "good news" for Obama pretty much says it all.

[treestar]

11. Are you dense?

The point is why vote for someone who says they will pursue Afghanistan and then feel betrayed when they pursue Afghanistan?

Admit that you were prepared to tolerate this if you voted for him.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

8. I think you are bizarre as well

You seemed almost gleeful that 4 Police officers were dead and that Huckabee had something to do with it, it was good that it helped Obama. Weird indeed.

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[smalll]

6. Good riddance to bad rubbish (Ayers.)

Guess 'ol Bill isn't too comfortable with the idea of - ahem - fighting terrorists. This bus-toss from Ayers is an unreservedly good thing for President Obama.

[treestar]

10. This ought to confound the righties!

:rofl: According to them, you and your "associates" are one and the same! :rofl:

What next? Rev. Wright chastising Obama? :rofl: