It turns out that Barack Obama’s friend Bill Ayers has a blog site. You are going to have to Google it up if you want to wade into the America hating rhetoric because I am not going to send the site any traffic.

Here is a representative sample from April 6 of this year.

Terrorism—according to both official U.S. policy and the U.N.—is the use or threat of random violence to intimidate, frighten, or coerce a population toward some political end. This means, of course, that terrorism is not the exclusive province of a cult, a religious sect, or a group of fanatics. It can be any of these, but it can also be—and often is—executed by governments and states. A bombing in a café in Israel is terrorism, and an Israeli assault on a neighborhood in Gaza is terrorism; the September 11 attacks were acts of terrorism, and the U.S. bombings in Viet Nam for a decade were acts of terrorism. Terrorism is never justifiable, even in a just cause—the Union fight in the 1860’s was just, for example, but Shernan’s [sic] March to the Sea was indefensible terror. I’ve never advocated terrorism, never participated in it, never defended it. The U.S. government, by contrast, does it routinely and defends the use of it in its own cause consistently.

The bomb maker who states that he doesn’t regret detonating bombs in the Pentagon and a police station denies he is a terrorist. Yet he claims America is. Okay, so be it. If terrorism is broadly defined as acts of violence that cause terror, all governments use terrorism at some point. Then the question must become, “How is the terror employed?” Is it used on the battlefield in conventional acts of warfare? Is it used against national enemies as authorized by the representatives of a free people? Or is it employed in the manner of Ayers and the Weathermen?

Ayers and his fellow radicals conducted terrorist attacks against their fellow Americans under no authority but their own. They manufactured bombs to kill people who were working at the behest of a freely elected government. Ayers had other means to resist the war and the government but chose violence and terror. He wasn’t without recourse. He chose to attempt murder because he wanted to. His desire to kill to reach a political end is his only justification.

Obama has an interesting group of friends. How many anti-American bomb makers do you count among your friends? If it turned out that one of your friends had, in fact, built bombs with his own hands to kill his fellow Americans and stated he didn’t regret it, would you still consider him a friend?

Me neither.

Obama is different.

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