There are the blind and then there are the willfully blind. Those are Democrats arguing that there's nothing to see regarding the Barack Obama/Bill Ayers connection (link has been taken down, unfortunately):
Ayers was a radical during the Vietnam War, he never killed anyone and he spent time in jail. In the time since he’s gone on to become a college professor and work against poverty and increasing school funding.
Obama and Ayers both served on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago which
works with non-profit organizations to help reduce local poverty. It’s been
around since 1941. They also both served on the board of the Chicago Annenberg
Challenge which is a non-profit that gives grants to schools.
Now, if you do not believe that working to reduce poverty and increase private
grant money to schools is a good thing, then feel free to condemn Obama for
those efforts.
If you do not believe that a man (Ayers) who has gone through the justice
system can be rehabilitated (the point of the justice system after all) but is
instead forever marred by his illegal actions then feel free to condemn him.
If you believe that one should forgo working for educational funding and
working against poverty simply because someone else who once committed a crime
is also working for the same thing, then feel free to condemn Obama for it.
But if you do all these things, then you will also need to condemn McCain for
supporting his wife’s illegal drug habit and continuing his close association
with a lawbreaker. You’ll also need to condemn Palin for continuing her close
association with a convicted criminal (editor’s note: and Alaskan secessionist),
since Todd Palin has a DUI.
…unless of course you are applying different standards.
Wow, where to begin shoveling the crap in that statement?
First of all, the only reason Bill Ayers didn't kill anyone is that the Weather Underground were extremely incompetent bombers who managed to only blow up themselves. It wasn't for a lack of trying.
Secondly, Ayers didn't go to jail. The charges were dropped due to prosecutorial misconduct. Ayers did hide out for years escaping prosecution. Then he went mainstream. But he never either apologized or repented what he had done.
Next, there's Ayers's connection to Barack Obama. Obama has lied repeatedly about when he met Ayers, so it's difficult to pinpoint exactly when it was. But to say that they simply "sat on a board or two" together is perhaps the understatement of the year. There's little doubt that Ayers was instrumental in Obama becoming chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. You don't allow a third-year associate with no executive experience to control $150 million unless he knows somebody.
Fourth, Ayers was given money by the Obama-led organization to teach Chicago children why America is a terrible place and capitalismis evil. I consider that to be an incredible misuse of funds, but even if you don't think so, it certainly goes nicely with Ayers's radical past.
More to the point, Ayers's activities since resurfacing show that he is not, in fact, "rehabilitated." Persons who are rehabilitated stop advocating the activities that got them into trouble in the first place. They change their behavior. And while Ayers is no longer building bombs, he's said he regrets nothing he did and that he only wished they had done more. His tactics have changed--now he's just going to turn your children against you--but his mission remains the same: the overthrow of the American government and capitalism.
It's incredibly stupid or naive (frankly, I'd guess the former) to equate bombing government buildings and indoctrinating elementary school children with having a 20-year-old DUI. But there are an awful lot of liberals out there willing to make this sort of moronic comparison. Why? Because it is the only argument they can make and still pretend that the Obama/Ayers connection doesn't matter.
Contrary to the nonsense written in the post, this has nothing to do with Christian forgiveness. You can forgive heinous crimes if you want. But for someone to be taken seriously, they have to repent. Ayers has not done so. Here are excerpts from an interview Ayers did just two years ago. Doesn't sound like he's been rehabilitated at all.
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