A PAST association with a former terrorist has returned to haunt Barack Obama as the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination nears its end game.

Republicans are turning on Obama for his connection with William Ayers, once a member of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group that bombed the Capitol, the Pentagon and the State Department in the 1970s.

Ayers was loosely involved in Obama??s election as an Illinois state senator in the late 1990s, when he was introduced to local activists at a meeting in his house. He also donated $200 to Obama??s reelection campaign in 2001.

Obama served with Ayers on the board of the Woods Fund, a philanthropic foundation, for three years and shared a platform with him at two academic conferences.

Republicans believe they have found new evidence that Obama lacks judgment and patriotism just as the controversy over the Rev Jeremiah Wright, his pastor, who said, ??God damn America?, is dying down.

The Weathermen, a small band of extreme leftists who got their name from lines in a Bob Dylan song - ??You don??t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows? - conducted a bombing campaign against targets such as police headquarters, prisons and courthouses for three years to ??bring the [Viet-nam] war home?.

Two police officers were killed in 1981, when members of the Weathermen and Black Liberation Army stole $1m from an armoured car. It was their last action.

Ayers, 63, turned himself in to police that year, when charges against him were dropped because of mishandled FBI surveillance. He is now a professor of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago and is admired in progressive political and educational circles.

In a lecture to college students in North Dakota last week, Ayers said: ??I was trying to go to sleep, flipping through the channels real quick, and Hannity said, ??Stay tuned. John McCain and I will talk about William Ayers.?? And I said, damn, I will have to stay tuned for an hour.?

Ayers went on to tell the students: ??People ask, ??Do you regret anything you did against the government in those days??? And my answer is: no, I don??t.?

In an interview in The New York Times on the day of the September 11 attacks, when he was promoting Fugitive Days, his book on the Weathermen, Ayers said: ??I don??t regret setting bombs,? and added: ??I feel we didn??t do enough.?
‘Terrorist’ link puts Barack Obama under fire - Times Online

Just so happens this dude works in the University of Illinois, Chicago system.....the same as Obamas' wife.

For being such a young candidate he sure has alot of baggage.:wtf:

Have a good one!:s4:
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