Easy. Bring Back Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground. And, better yet, try one more time, to associate Barack Obama, George Soros, Eric Holder, Talking Points Memo, campus progressives, Paul Krugman, Center for American Progress and anyone who protested the War in Iraq, with them, terrorists all.
Cliff Kincaid "reports"
During the 2008 U.S. presidential race, Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and
Bernardine Dohrn came under some limited press scrutiny for their ties to Democratic
Party candidate Barack Obama. His Democratic primary opponent, Hillary Clinton, and
his general election opponent, Republican John McCain, tried to make an issue out of
the controversial connections. The Weather Underground had emerged from the
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which laid siege to college campuses in the
1960s.
Under attack for his ties to Ayers and Dohrn, Obama fired back against Hillary Clinton,
noting that two members of the Weather Underground, Linda Evans and Susan
Rosenberg, had been pardoned or had their sentences commuted by President Clinton
and were released from prison. But in another strange twist, the Clinton Justice
Department official involved in these and other controversial pardons, Eric Holder, was
subsequently nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a
75-21 vote as Attorney General of the United States. Clinton had also pardoned
members of the terrorist Puerto Rican FALN, which had ties to the Weather
Underground, and Holder was involved in the issuance of those pardons.
Holder is now in a position to influence and try to control investigations of
terrorism in the United States, including those relating to members of the
Weather Underground. However, FBI director Robert Mueller is technically
independent, his term expires in 2011, and he can help make sure justice is done.
One of the Weather Underground attacks, on the Park Police Station in San
Francisco on February 16, 1970, killed Sergeant Brian V. McDonnell. No one has
yet been prosecuted for the murder, but investigations have been underway for
years. It is time for all of the evidence, which points to the involvement of the
Weather Underground, especially Bernardine Dohrn, to be used to bring charges
in this case.
In terms of the personal relationships, according to the public record, the basic facts
were that Ayers and Obama had worked together on educational projects in Chicago,
including serving on a foundation board, and Ayers and Dohrn had hosted a small
political gathering for Obama during his first political campaign for the Illinois State
Senate. Some of the commentary about this relationship assumed that Ayers and
Dohrn, both now university professors, had gotten over their anti-war "radicalism" and
were now members of the mainstream.
Meanwhile, in a related development, a "new SDS" of young people has also emerged,
with two hundred chapters around the country, as well as links to "other student radical
organizations," according to Weather Underground terrorist and Obama supporter Mark
Rudd. "Even larger numbers formed the youth base of Barack Obama's presidential
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campaign of hope and change," he writes in his new book. 4 Clearly, Rudd hopes these
young people become part of the new SDS.
The obvious fear is that the "new SDS" will be like the "old" SDS, in which some
youthful "social democrats" and students alienated from society were
transformed by Marxist ideology, drugs, and sexually-promiscuous lifestyles into
a dangerous revolutionary movement capable of violence.
Rudd was and remains a major "progressive" voice in support of then-candidate and
now President Obama. In addition to his work on helping create a new student
movement, he expressed the hope and even predicted that "progressives" from the
George Soros-funded think tank, the Center for American Progress (CAP), will move
into key positions in the new Obama Administration. Former Clinton official John
Podesta, president of CAP, was the co-chair of the Obama-Biden Transition Project.
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