L.A. Times Obama VIdeo

The L.A. Times is still refusing to release a 2003 video of Obama at a dinner honoring his long time friend Rashid Khalidi (William Ayers was also in attendance). Khalidi is the former mouthpiece for one of the centuries' most prominent terrorists, Yassar Arafat. The L.A. Times reported that guests said many racist, offensive things about Israel. The L.A. Times refuses even to release a transcript from the video.

This highlights two important aspects of this campaign. One, the despicable bias the media has for Obama. If the L.A. Times had a video of McCain at a Klan rally is there any doubt it would be broadcast non-stop between now and Tuesday? And please don't tell me that hating and promoting violence against Jews is different than doing the same to African-Americans. Two, Khalidi is just the next in a long line of close Obama associates with whom you wouldn't shake hands. Obama can't seem to find anyone on the far left who is too radical to embrace. Instead he gravitates toward those with the most radical and dangerous views. Everything we know about Obama indicates that he is a radical. He may not share all the views of Ayers, Rev. Wright, and Khalidi, but he is far left of even mainstream Democrats. How can anyone feel comfortable voting for this man?

Another interesting story: did William Ayers ghost write Obama's book Dreams Of My Father?

Obama and Ayers

Sorry Senator Obama, but William Ayers is not going away.

Have you ever been a friend or business associate of a terrorist? Not someone who, to your shock and horror, turned out secretly to have bombed government buildings. No, the question is whether you’ve ever befriended an unreconstructed radical whose past was well known to you when you entered his orbit and walked through doors he opened for you. Have you been chummy with an unapologetic terrorist who, years after you’d known and worked closely with him, was still telling the New York Times he regretted only failing to carry out more attacks — and that America still “makes me want to puke”?

Barack Obama has.

William Ayers is a former member of the 60's terrorist organization, the Weathermen. He is responsible for a bomb that killed a police officer in San Francisco and for bombing the Pentagon. He and his wife escaped conviction on a technicality. He is entirely unrepentant to this day ("I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough" 2001 NYT) but has shifted his focus from terrorism to indoctrinating education students in hard left-wing ideology at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Obama has claimed he is "just a guy from my neighborhood." Umhmm. Perhaps he forgot that he sat on the board for the Wood Fund, a leftist charity, with Ayers for several years. There, they voted to give tens of thousands to groups like Rev. Wright's church and a member of Arafat's PLO. When Ayers received a huge grant to improve Chicago's public schools, he asked Obama to chair the board. Between 1995 and 1999, Obama (in his only executive experience to date) gave out $100 million to his leftist buddies and in the end, even by the group's own admission, they failed to produce any measurable improvement in the schools (imagine how much money he could waste as President). Obama went on to launch his political career at the home of Ayers and his terrorist wife.

Obama was 8 years old when Ayers committed his crimes. No one is arguing guilt by association. However, doesn't Obama's choice of friends (Ayers), advisors (Rev. Wright), and associates (Tony Rezko) tell you that the image he projects disguises his true leftist beliefs? And why would Ayers pick Obama for this board? Obama says Ayers is "respectable" and "mainstream." I think most people would disagree. If John McCain was appointed to chair an organization by David Duke or if he let abortion clinic bombers hold fund raisers for him, I bet the media would let you know about it.