April 25, 2008

Bill Ayers and the Subversion of Education

By Ed Lasky
Barack Obama's longstanding ties to Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn have elicited a great deal of controversy and have weakened his campaign. Senator Obama attempted to distance himself from this dynamite duo -- as he has distanced himself from his "sounding board" and "moral compass" Jeremiah Wright (whom he now dismisses as just his former pastor) -- by stating that their actions as leaders in the Weather Underground bombings happened when he was 8 years old. Of course, he elided the fact that they have no remorse for their actions and Ayers publicly wished there had been more of them. Ayers escaped prosecution on procedural grounds. In the words of Ayers, "Guilty as hell, free as a bird -- America is a great country".Possibly relying on connections that Ayers' wealthy father had in Chicago, Ayers and Dohrn were able to land sinecures in academia. Thus, Obama was able to dismiss Ayers as a "Professor of English". On his website,...(Read Full Article)