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I need a John McCain die-hard to come in here and explain something to me.

Why isn’t John McCain red-hot angry at the long association between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers? By all rights, he ought to be.


Ayers was one of the founding members of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group who left the SDS because that group wasn’t radical enough. The Weathermen spent years killing people and blowing up buildings with the express purpose of ending “U.S. Imperialism” of which our war in Vietnam was example Number One. During the Vietnam War, both Ayers and his wife Bernadette Dorhn were given rings made from the wreckage of American warplanes. His gift prompted Ayers to say that, “I realized…America was an evil… and that I was… living inside the belly of the beast…”. Before that, Dorhn “met with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong representatives in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss antiwar strategy on US campuses”.

Where was John McCain while Ayers and his wife were doing everything in their power to help the North Vietnamese?

Well, he was in a prison camp called the Hanoi Hilton, enduring horrific beatings and suffering from dysentery. As Ayers and Dorhn were chanting “HO, HO, HO CHI MINH” and “BRING THE WAR HOME”, their North Vietnamese friends were crippling John McCain so badly that he can barely lift his arms above his shoulders. He can’t use a computer today because doing so causes his extreme pain.

So why isn’t McCain furious at Barack Obama for his cavalier attitude about Bill Ayers’ past? Why hasn’t he confronted the Obamessiah during one of the debates and told him that the people who launched Obama’s career at a cocktail party in Chicago were working hand in hand with the people who tortured him for five and half years?

I am honestly baffled that McCain, today, would say that “No one cares about washed up terrorists”. His blase reaction is completely incomprehensible to me and I honestly need some McCain stalwart to show up here and tell me why he could apparently care less that Barack Obama and Bill Ayers were so tight for so long.

It makes no sense to me at all.

(Cross-Posted at The Sundries Shack)

  1. Posted by David L.
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    David L. One suspects that McCain is in fact red-hot angry at the Obama-Ayers association, but knows that others must express and stoke that anger on his behalf.  Let McCain show the slightest flash of anger, even expressed as the smooth, smiling sarcasm of which he is quite capable, and the media and progressive blogosphere will be howling out the tired old themes that "McCain is nuts," "McCain is senile," "McCain has an ungovernable temper," "McCain has lost it," etc. etc.  McCain sees the trap, I believe, and is over-controlling himself in an attempt, so far successful, to avoid it.  At any rate, that's how I account for what sometimes seems like an odd flattening of affect. A strategy of absolute self-control may in fact be best for McCain. In the end it matters less that McCain is red-hot angry at Obama and his associates than that the public become red-hot angry on the basis of information which the McCain campaign is now pushing into the debate.   It's not as though people to whom the Ayers association matters need John McCain's permission to be angry about it.  I certainly don't.
  2. Posted by c3
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    c3 why?Because though energizing for the base, it will not likely gain him many undecided/independant votes.  And he needs those to get elected.
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