Why Obama's Association with Bill Ayers should disqualify him from the Presidency

[jordan179]

I've heard several people claim that it is unfair for John McCain and Sarah Palin to attack Barack Obama over his association with Bill Ayers. They say alternately that the association was not a close one, or that Bill Ayers is a perfectly respectable figure in Chicago politics who many people associated with

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[pasquin]

Obama says he was only eight years old when Ayer's was a terrorist. What does that matter? He was about eight when Manson went all Helter Skelter.

Would Barack have coffee in Charles' cell?

[anonymous]

First of all, I want to say that I'm not voting for Obama. I don't vote. Also, I don't share Mr. Ayers' political views, nor do I condone the violent methods of his organization

[tagryn]

A tu quoque argument is not convincing. Ayers was guilty of terrorism against civilians, even if one thinks the Vietnam War was not morally justified, just as the IRA was guilty of terrorism against civilians, even if you think the British presence in Northern Ireland is not justified.

[jordan179]

There is also the rather large difference between the level of moral authorization emnating from the elected government of the United States of America and the level of moral authorization emnating from the lunatics in the Central Committee of the Weathermen.

[anonymous]

Where did I say Ayers wasn't guilty of terrorism? But to complain about Obama's links to Ayers, because of the latter's non-fatal crimes, while acting as if the atrocity of burning children alive was somehow legitimate because of its authorization by a criminal gang that calls itself a government, is wholly irrational. It gives the impression that you are upset about Ayers, not because of the immorality of his actions, but because they violated some arbitrary regulations governing when and under what conditions bombs may be set off.

Please, open your eyes!