She decided to pile on to the Bill Ayers smear. The guilt by association, new kitchen sink strategy against Senator Obama, artfully suggesting (to the supers) that he would be hit with these purportedly terrible things in the general. So she wants us to beleive she's doing him a favor - vetting him now.
I suggest we all take a look at what would be waiting for Senator Clinton, related not only to the Weather Underground, but to the FALN, Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, if she should overturn Obama's nomination via the super delegates.
Just to be transparent - I have supported the struggle for Puerto Rican Independence for many years. I, along with thousands of Puerto Ricans and other supporters worked for the pardons of Lolita Lebron, and other Puerto Rican Nationalists; the longest held political prisoners in the US.
They were pardoned by Jimmy Carter in 1979. I applauded it.
But I also remember when Senator Clinton was making her carpetbagger move to NY. She needed the Puerto Rican vote. There was a "miraculous" pardon of FALN members, who had not asked to be pardoned. (BTW - this will not play very well in Puerto Rico, for a host of reasons, too complicated to discuss here)
Wolfson has continued to push this Weather Underground smear in his conference call with reporters.
(push forward to listen to reporter from Mother Jones, and Wolfson refusing to discuss Bill Clinton's pardons in the middle of the call)
Contrary to Clinton's assertion during the debate, Bill Ayer's did not make statements about 9/11.
According to his memoir, Ayers became radicalized at the University of Michigan where he became involved in the New Left and the SDS. Ayers joined the Weatherman group in 1969, but went underground with several associates after the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in 1970, in which three members (Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, and Diana Oughton, who was Ayers's girlfriend at the time) were killed while constructing a bomb. While underground, he and fellow member Bernardine Dohrn married and had two children, Zayd and Malik. They were purged from the group in the mid-1970s, and turned themselves in to the authorities in 1981. All charges against him were dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct during the long search for the fugitives. They later became legal guardians of Chesa Boudin, the son of former Weathermen David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, after his parents were arrested for their part in the Brinks Robbery of 1981.[4]
In 2001, Ayers published Fugitive Days: A Memoir. Ayers's interview with the New York Times about his book was published, by historical coincidence, on September 11, 2001,[5] and opens with his statement, "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."[4] Ayers later explained that by "no regrets" he meant that he didn't regret his efforts to oppose the Vietnam War, and that "we didn't do enough" meant that efforts to stop the war were obviously inadequate as it dragged on for a decade; the two statements were not intended to elide into a wish they had set more bombs.[6]
I have no interest in smearing Senator Clinton. But I also don't beleive that we should all just roll over and play dead as she plays the Rove game, as if she is fully vetted and ready to win.
Obama's tenuous connection to a man who is currently a professor, active in Chicago politics, and friends with Mayor Daley is certainly in no way a reflection on Senator Obama. The Clinton's deliberate and calculated freeing of FALN members to garner votes will be used against her.
The right has far more evidence to throw at her head and it won't be a kitchen sink, it will be an entire outhouse.
So the supers better think long and hard about this one. If the campaign makes it to Puerto Rico, I promise you this will be a major talking point.
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Dylcia Paganwas one of the women pardoned by Bill Clinton. I grew up with Dylcia, worked for her freedom, and was elated when she was freed, because I was aware that she had not participated in the bombings; she was charged with "seditious conspiracy" and held in prison for 20 years.
I am a private citizen. My opinions about the actions of the FALN are not the subject of this diary, and I am not interested in discussing them here. For the record - I did not support those actions. I have supported and will continue to support independence for Puerto Rico, or for the US to allow Puerto Ricans to vote, if independence never materializes.
