The McCain campaign is just starting to link Barack Obama to the unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers. And, Steve Diamond is wondering why Barack Obama hasn’t thrown Ayers under the bus like he did with Jeremiah Wright.
Now at the level of a presidential campaign, why doesn’t Obama distance himself more forcefully from this crowd? Because he wants that Ayers/Dohrn camp to help provide him poltical support and direction on a national level. Already there has been the selection of Linda Darling-Hammond as a key education advisor who endorses repaying the alleged billions in “education debt owed to people of color” by whites (read: reparations).Once in the Oval Office, Obama can either continue to look to this crowd for guidance in key policy areas or he may use them to balance off against the pressures coming from more mainstream elements in the Cambridge/Wall Street/Georgetown power structure.What will be left out of an Obama administration will be a genuine voice for the millions of Americans who thought they were voting for genuinely progressive and democratic Change.
If Diamond is correct that Obama needs and wants Bill Ayers, an unrepentant murderer and terrorist, for advice should he become president, that is indeed an absolutely terrifying situation.
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