07
Oct
Obama Chicago Politics Connections to “Former” Domestic Terrorists
Obama started his political career in Chicago … to this native Iowan who was born, raised and lived in the capitol of Iowa - Des Moines - for 40 years … Chicago was known for political corruption and mobster activity. I have been to Chicago just once … as an elementary school child, my grandmother & I flew from Des Moines to Atlanta with a plane change at the Chicago airport. That is the one and only time I have ever been there and to be really honest … I have never had any desire to go visit Chicago .. people I have met over the years who fled Chicago did not give it good marks as a place to visit … lots of warnings of crime, hatred of others and violence as well as tales of mobster type activities still happening.
Some of Chicago is probably lovely and a nice place to visit … but I will never find out … it is still on my list of places to avoid … in my book, Oprah is probably the best thing that ever came out of Chicago.
In reading articles about all the candidates … spin is all over the place … it is hard to know the truth … but this article about the Bill Ayer’s / Obama friendship controversy … this article made me stop and really think: Obama’s Truth Deficit
Obama’s wife and Obama both worked at the lawyers office where Bill Ayers wife [a domestic terrorist back then herself who claimed responsibility for bombing John Murtagh's home in the middle of the night] worked. My guess is that office gossip at the very least would have made it abundantly clear to both Obama and Michelle Obama what Mrs Ayers and her husband had done back in the “olden days” of their youth.
I see no way that neither Obama would know … and to become “friends” with them and have them LAUNCH his political career … I find this to be a really frightening vision of Barack and Michelle Obama’s “family values”.
Barack Obama was 8 years old and John Murtagh was 9 years old when the terrorism happened … John’s life was forever changed because of those terrorist’s activities that night … 40 plus years going by does not change what happened or how it affected the terrorized people. And I quote from the Obama’s Truth Deficit article:
But Barack Obama was not a child — he was a grown man — when he decided his personal path to power and influence lay through Bill Ayers’ connections.
In the Chicago establishment, which unfortunately embraced former domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers and his wife, Barack Obama was encouraged to look beyond the obvious — John Murtagh, his family, their terror, the lawlessness, the attacks on policemen, judges, army outposts — to embrace larger goals.
What were these goals? How does Barack Obama come to continue to associate with a man who cannot bring himself to say to John Murtagh or to John’s mother or any other kin of the attacked: “I’m sorry. I was wrong. It was a terrible thing to do.”
Would I want me, my children or my grandchildren around domestic terrorists such as either the Ayers or KKK members?
Not knowingly in a gazillion years!!!! But then I was brought up with traditional family values of right and wrong … terrorizing ANYONE by ANYONE is WRONG and NOTHING can make it right … EVER!
My question now is … would Barack and Michelle Obama be as forgiving and friendly with cross-burning domestic terrorist Ku Klux Klansmen?
I am NOT willing to vote for someone who finds it okay to “overlook” or “look past” someone’s distant past of being a domestic terrorist. And no, I would not want to become fast friends with the Unabomber [a native of Chicago Illinois by the way] after he served his sentence either.
Does a terrorist EVER become a “former” terrorist? Perhaps that makes Osama Bin Laden a “former” terrorist now since he has not attacked the US on US soil in a few years? … um … I don’t think so! But then, I’m probably one of those clinging to my guns and religion even though I live in Texas huh?
