Sioux City Journal

A double standard?

Posted: Sunday, October 12, 2008

SIOUX CITY -- Many people seem to have a problem with the Ayers connection to Sen. Obama. As much as I am tired of partisan attacks, take this into account. If Sarah Palin would have met in pro-life meetings with a known domestic terrorist, who 35 years ago was setting pipe bombs at abortion clinics around the U.S., would that be relevant to talk about? I am sure the media would have brought that up within days of her nomination.

The Ayers story is not dirt or mud, but truth. There is a connection and people need to know about it. -- Derek Olsen

Story Comments

VegasRage wrote on Oct 19, 2008 2:07 AM:

" I met and got know Sonny Barger many years ago, we went to the same gym, I even spotted him, does that make me an outlaw biker or a sympathizer to outlaw bikers?

I don't own a motor cycle, I don't own a gun, a switch blade, or even leather jacket.

Stop the silly fear mongering, I wonder what skeletons we might find in your closet. "

bobf wrote on Oct 15, 2008 2:11 PM:

" thanks keith, i didn't think so. liddy is scum. "

Keith wrote on Oct 14, 2008 10:21 PM:

" bobf wrote on Oct 14, 2008 3:56 PM:
" was ayers ever convicted? "

He wasn't even formally charged because of government impropriety and illegal wiretaps (probably wouldn't be illegal today though).

John McCain's good friend, G Gordon Liddy, was convicted for several felonies and admitted that he was willing to kill, and had plotted killings, to achieve a Republican win. The right has enshrined this dysfunctional personality as a "hero" and "patriot".

As the Jed Report notes, McCain voted in 1993 and 1994 against making bombings, arson and blockades at abortion clinics, and shootings and threats of violence against doctors and nurses who perform abortions federal crimes.

I guess the difference lies in the "education" and "voter registration" connections that Obama has with Ayers. Republicans have been consistently anti-education and anti-voting. "

bobf wrote on Oct 14, 2008 3:56 PM:

" was ayers ever convicted? "

Cynthia Gee wrote on Oct 14, 2008 10:14 AM:

" Republicans have been insinuating for MONTHS that Obama isn't a loyal American, and last week Sarah Palin has accused him outright of "palling around with terrorists", but she and her husband did these very things when they were members of the Alaskan Independence Party -- Todd and Sarah Palin wanted to see their state to secede from the Union, and the Alaskan Independence Party's founder, Joe Vogler, collaborated with IRAN to the end that it should do so.

Joe Vogler is also quoted as saying,

"My government is my worst enemy. I'm going to fight them with any means at hand"
AND

"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American
government, and I won't be buried under their damn flag. I'll be buried in
Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home."

Somehow, "God damn America" pales in comparison. "