And I walk around proudly sporting my new NOBAMA t-shirt. Am I in trouble?

Expect a knock on your door one quiet night. You will be rushed away to a re-education camp and punished for your insolence.

You have been warned……..

for all we know they could have used each other as a political connection while quietly hating each others guts.

Interesting spin there, alchemist. Unfortunately for you, AIP took pains to carefully document every statement in that ad. The research behind it is in a 167-page document posted here.

But let’s examine your spin on this. If you’re speculation is correct, then why would Obama’s web site, as recently as this June, include a defense that described Ayers and Dohrn as “respectable figures of the mainstream in Chicago”? And why would they suddenly remove it?

And if you’re wrong, and Obama meant what was posted on his campaign web site, then we’re back to questioning his execrable choice of associates – and whether he truly believes that unrepentant terrorists are “respectable” and “mainstream” in Democrat politics, at least in Chicago.

Based on the affinity within the Democrat party – and especially within the Obama acolytes – for anti-American tyrants and mass murderers, I’d say the second option is far more likely.

It’s really sad for your candidate when the best way you can spin this is that he’s simply a liar and an opportunist.

Ayers Unrepentant for Radical Group’s Violence in 1960s, 1970s

Ayers, now a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, served with Barack Obama on the board of the charitable Woods Fund of Chicago for three years and helped launch Obama’s political career in Illinois by hosting in his Hyde Park home an informal campaign event for the future state senator in 1995.

A little more than just an odd meeting here and there, huh?

This Ayers is such a scumbag.

Ayers claimed the Weathermen were driven by “hope and love” not despair, and said he did not think the group’s violent acts, targeting federal officials and local law enforcement officers, were “a big deal.”

Ayers and his ilk are going to “advise” Obama if he gets the presidency.

I haven’t seen any evidence that Ayers and Obama are so close that he would use them as an advisor. They served together on Chicago political committees… for all we know they could have used each other as a political connection while quietly hating each others guts.

Now, I wish Obama had come clean about this whole issue, but I’m not really concerned about it either. I’m much more concerned about the corrosive effects of party politics (today) than about a connection he had to Ayers 10 years ago, and a crime committed 40 years ago.

Final note: I didn’t say scandal=terrorist, I did say that some will use this connection to scandal to attack McCain’s “Maverick” status. I don’t think it’s a fair attack, I also (as represented before) don’t think it will work.

I think it will probably get out anyway, even if they try and cover it. Attacking the non-profit credentials of the group is probably the safest legal way to go about it (whether or not is moral, is certainly a different question…), but it certainly could cause blow back at some point in time.

Still, George Stephanopolous (sp?) handled the issue in the democratic primaries, and the issue was a non-starter. Primary voters tended to be more left-leaning individuals anyway, but I’m unsure what reaction the public will have…. it’s likely to be either disinterest or outrage.

Ayers and his ilk are going to “advise” Obama if he gets the presidency. This is the very last thing that America needs. Someone who committed terrorist acts is now a good friend of the President??? God Help Us All. – Lorica

Same problem with McCain and the Keating scandal… I’m not sure it works as an argument if the general public doesn’t remember what the keating scandal was.

Here’s the exact text of every place in the ad where Obama is named:

Beyond the speeches, how much do you know about Barack Obama? What does he really believe?

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Barack Obama is friends with Ayers, defending him as quote “respectable” and “mainstream”. Obama’s political career was launched in Ayers’ home. And the two served together on a left-wing board.

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Why would Barack Obama be friends with someone who
bombed the Capitol… and is proud of it? Do you know enough to elect Barack Obama?

All it does is remind people of the Dalai Bama’s associations, and ask if they know enough about him. That’s not nearly the same as telling people not to vote for him.

What Obama is saying could be true, if they are directly telling people that they should not vote for BO, then the ad could be illegal, so to speak. But all they have to do is change that section of the ad, and just bring into question his relationship with Ayers and that would make the ad legal.

It is really stupid of Barack to complain now about people using his past against him. Clinton addressed his past head on, and got elected. Why Barack needs to hide behind the law is just damn foolishness. Nothing in my believes that come this November Barry will be on that ticket, and his cry baby antics only prove just how weak this man is as a candidate. – Lorica

I guess Obama’s idea of “change” doesn’t include free speech. Big surprise there, huh?

Maybe, if he was so concerned about things like this, he shouldn’t have allied himself with these kinds of people in the first place.