Foot-in-Mouth Politics

Somebody should tell Bill Ayers to please shut up about his name being put out there during the campaign season, no matter how mild the criticism really was, and about his relationship to the president-elect.

He was a typical rich kid who managed to avoid serious prison time BECAUSE he and his wife Bernardine Dohrn had those rich connections. They got off on technicalities. Others in the Weather Underground did serious prison time.

Which leads to some speculation as to who these two REALLY were.

Those of us old enough to remember the mess that was the 1960s remember anti-war groups especially were infiltrated.

If Obama

becomes the nominee, he may have to pick "The Lullaby of Broadway," with its mention of Broadway babies, as his campaign theme song:

So let's wait until Labor Day, when Broadway Baby may become a catchphrase. Here's why: According to a 1982 New York Times report, Broadway Baby was implicated in an investigation of a series of violent armed robberies in New York—netting more than $2 million over a two-year span—committed by former Black Panthers and Weather Underground members in the early '80s.

And who was involved?

And who was the manager of Broadway Baby during that period of the customer ID theft?

Dohrn, the future wife of Ayers, identified by investigators as taking customer information from one, and possibly both, of the women shoppers. Dohrn was never charged in that case.

Dohrn and Ayers had been running for some 11 years, fleeing federal charges that they instigated riots in Chicago in 1969.

They finally came in out of the cold in 1980, but the New York gang continued its spree, ending in the bloody 1981 robbery in Rockland County that left a Brinks security guard and two police officers dead.

Oh, brother, more fodder for the GOP slime machine.

If Obama Got

the nomination, could he get the John Kerry treatment?

This is classic guilt by association. There is no evidence Obama condones anything Ayers and Dohrn did back when Obama was in elementary and middle school. None. I am not sure how this is going to fly with voters, many if not most of whom have no memory at all of the late 1960s to early 1970s.

The documentary about the Weather Underground is outstanding. Here is the YouTube link to the first installment. No doubt somebody posted the entire thing illegally. Anyway, it's a good recounting of those times. Little did the members realize their wrongheaded actions helped create the backlash we are still living under and helped to discredit the left in the eyes of many.