Kahuna, you said "(Obama) associated occasionally with a distinguished professor at the University of Illinois, who admits he was a radical anti-war activist when he was a college student"

That is perhaps the worst understatement of fact describing one of the founders of the radical terrorist group, the Weathermen, I have ever heard. His little radical group were violent terrorist bombers who detonated devices at Federal buildings, bombed a judge's house, robbed banks, killed cops and murdered the innocent. The only reason he was not convicted was because wiretap evidence was thrown out of court by a liberal judge. In a famous address Ayers said, "guilty as hell...free as a bird. His autobiography celebrates his criminal conduct. Ayres is a self acclaimed terrorist. He has stated publicly, "I am a radical, Leftist, small 'c' communist ... [Laughs] Maybe I'm the last communist who is willing to admit it."

Perhaps putting a human component into the equation, will put the real Ayers and Weathermen into a more befitting characterization.

William Ayers, your respectable professor and his Weathermen also robbed banks and murdered real people. I'm sure the survivors of their families would take exception with your charitable resume of a founding member of the Weathermen. As I stated in an earlier post, the victims of these felons had names. Maybe if I put names to those who were ruthlessly gunned down and murdered after stopping a van containing Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, both Weather Underground members, co-conspirators of William Ayres, a driving force of the Weather Underground and their BLA accomplices (a whole other issue), maybe you will reassess your dismissal that Ayers was just a "bad boy" in college.

Google this......During the Brinks bank robbery Nyack police officers Sgt. Edward O'Grady and Officer Waverly "Chipper" Brown were shot and killed by Weather Underground and BLA members . Boudin was caught at the scene. Gilbert fled.This same group of cold blooded killers had just killed Brinks guard Peter Paige during the Brinks bank robbery an hour earlier. William Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn frequently are considered driving forces of the Weather Underground and were closely associated with Boudin and Gilbert. Every legitimate source will reference Ayers, Boudin, Dohrn and David Gilbert as Weather Underground principals. Ayers and his wife were the legal guardians of Kathy Boudin's daughter Chesa after she was convicted in the Brinks robbery and murders.

When members of the Ayer's family of radical bombers blew themselves up in Greenwich Village, it was determined they were making anti-personnel nail bombs to be detonated at a non-commissioned officers club dance in Ft. Dix New Jersey. How do you think the loved ones who had family in Ft. Dix at that time would react to dismissing this scum as "youthful radicals" like they were just college students doing fraternity pranks? I can only speak for myself...and you don't have to read between the lines to know how I feel on this topic.

Ayers, his Weathermen, the BLA, the United Freedom Front and other splinter radical groups were very real to me. I do not appreciate those that were not there, cleansing or dismissing them as "bad" boys. They were murdering scum who killed real people. New Jersey State Trooper Phil Lamonaco was gunned down while conducting a MV stop, by radicals who were responsible for 19 bombings and 10 bank robberies. Phil was a great guy, family man, Trooper of the Year, colleague and friend. I watched William Kuntsler, who defended his killers, put his feet up on the desk in court, take his socks off and pick his toes to show disrespect for the court, Trooper Lamonaco and his family. I will never forget that.

I've said this before in another post. It is appropriate in the context of comments in this thread to say it again. I was working the day BLA radicals (who frequently joined the Ayers weathermen in criminal activity and bombings) and Joann Chesimard , gunned down execution style Trooper Werner Foerster just off the Turnpike in New Brunswick, NJ. He was also a family man. William Ayers, the Weathermen, the BLA, the United Freedom Front and their ilk were not just "youthful radicals", "respected" anything or just "anti-war activists" I wonder how the families of their victims, the wives, sons, daughters, mothers and fathers would feel about the benevolent dispensation that is being given ruthless, murdering thugs. The degree of Obama's relationship to Ayres is not the point of this post. Its about conveniently forgotten victims.

Ayers, your distinguished professor, to this day is unrepentant for his trail of terrorism and unapologetic about the lives he and his Weather Underground destroyed. If the intensity of this post fails to meet the civility standard of this forum, I will accept any sanction but remain unrepentant in my hostility and animosity toward those that bombed, robbed, murdered and terrorized in the name of radicalism. The voices of their victims and families need to be remembered and heard.