WhatUwish4: OK Agman... Here's a short post just to fill you in. You said it was 40 years ago, but that's just the bombing. The Obama Ayres connection is still very much alive and Ayres is still very much an unrepentant terrorist at heart. Anyway, this little excerpt shows an interesting contrast between McCain's background and character vs. Obama's buddy...One year before McCain achieved his POW freedom, Ayers participated in a bombing of the Pentaton. Of that day, Ayers wrote:Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them .
Jump ahead to 2000...In addition to his professoship, Ayers is The Woods Fund board chairman, and a young state senator, who like Ayers is living in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, is a fellow board member--that person of course is Barack Obama. He is not chairman any more, but Ayers is still on The Woods Fund board. And who'd want to serve with him? That year, Ayers and Obama (who should've abstained) voted to invest $1 million in Woods Fund money into a firm run by a former boss of the then-state senator, Allison Davis. In a different business venture, Davis partnered with Tony Rezko.
In 2001, Ayers gave a small donation to Obama's campaign fund, $200.
That same year, ironically in comments published on September 11, 2001, Ayers had this to say about his bombing past, "I don't regret setting bombs, I feel we didn't do enough."
Later on that tragic day, John McCain tells the world on CNN that the attacks the day were "an act of war." That evening, members of Congress sing "God Bless America" on the steps of the US Capitol.
The next day, McCain wrote:We will prevail. We will prevail because the foundations of our greatness cannot be vanquished. Our respect for Man's God-given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness assures us of victory even as it has made us a target for the unjust enemies of freedom who have mistaken hate and depravity for power. The losses we have suffered are grave, and will never be forgotten. But we should take pride and unyielding resolve from the knowledge that we were attacked because we are good.
If Ayers is such a bad terrorist, why is he a professor at the Univ.
of Chicago? Sounds like the Woods Fund did some good
basic charitable deeds for the community.
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