Aug 28 2008
It Was 40 Years Ago Today
Flashback: 40 Years Ago Today, Bill Ayers Arrested at DNC
For those Democrats who are too young to have a proper appreciation of their party’s history, which likely includes most of Senator Obama’s supporters, we direct your attention to a memorable moment in DNC history that shows how the current nominee really is connected to the party’s past as much as its future.
It was forty years ago today that Barack Obama friend and political ally, and unrepentant terrorists, William Ayers was arrested while protesting the DNC proceedings. William Ayers set no bombs that day, but he was only working his way up from petty criminal to domestic terrorist. And of course this was long before Barack Obama and he struck up the friendship that would lead Ayers to launch Obama’s political career at his house.
Still, the McCain campaign would take this opportunity to remind voters that those responsible for the violence in 1968 have since been incorporated into the party they once protested, and have been revered even by the likes of Barack Obama, and this despite the failure, in the case of Ayers, to ever apologize for the violence he committed against the American people.
