Barack Obama’s Link to John Murtagh
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- April
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Yonkers City Councilman John Murtagh and Barack Obama have something in common. Both their lives have been touched by the former Weather Underground radical William Ayers—but in very different ways.
As observers of the bitter primary race between Obama and Hillary Clinton know, Obama was asked about his relationship with Ayers in an ABC-TV “debate.”:http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6087683
All this brought back horrific memories to Murtagh, whose father, a state Supreme Court justice back in the day, was targeted by the Weather Underground. They attempted to blow up the Murtaghs’ New York City home in 1970.
“At the end of the day, they were a bunch of amateurs,” Murtagh told me. “They did a lousy job.
“But for crissakes, they put a gasoline bomb under the tank of my mother’s car. They were trying to kill people.”
For the full story, read my column coming Sunday
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Can’t wait for this one.
Interesting.
It’s always telling to see what people consider beyond the pale, and what they don’t. Clearly, Obama would not have served on the same board as, say, a neo-Nazi, yet he was willing to serve on the same board with a domestic terrorist. That tells me that, however much he may say he condemns what Ayers did, he didn’t feel strongly enough about it to totally disassociate himself from the man.
I also find his implicit comparision of Ayers with Sen. Tom Coburn to be highly offensive. He says that he can’t be held responsive for Coburn’s pro-life views, as if that were somehow comparable with blowing up buildings.
I think comments like these give a very telling, and damning look, into the mind of Barack Obama.