Barack and the Weathermen

Following up on yesterday's post I stumbled upon this gem on the Gateway Pundit site. It's a hoot.

Surprise!... Obama's First Public Speech Sponsored By Fringe Group Linked to Marxists & Weatherman Terrorists

Is this why the Ayers Family became so fond of Barack Obama?

Barack Obama's first public speech was at an Occidental College event sponsored by the Students for Economic Democracy a branch of the Campaign for Economic Democracy [CED]. Far Left radical Tom Hayden who met with Marxist officials several times during his antiwar career chaired this fringe group in the late 70's and early '80's. Several of the CED principal activists were also veterans of the Hayden-campaign and of the very radical group, Students for a Democratic Society.

Hayden was an important anti-American figure in the Students for a Democratic-Society a militantly leftist organization. 60's radical Tom Hayden played a pivotal role both as founder and as principal author of this student group's basic manifesto, the "Port Huron Statement." This document condemned the American political system as the cause of international conflict and a variety of social ills -- including racism, materialism, militarism, and poverty.

Barack Obama does not include his time at Occidental College on his resume but old friends and former teachers remember his role in protesting college investments in firms doing business in South Africa during the apartheid era.

Tom Hayden wrote this on Barack Obama at the far left Common Dreams website recently:

I didn’t see him coming. When I heard of the young state senator with a background in community organizing who wanted to be president, I was at least sentient enough to be interested. When I read Dreams of My Father, I was taken aback by its depth. This young man apparently gave his first public speech, against South African apartheid, at an Occidental College rally organized by Students for Economic Democracy, the student branch of the Campaign for Economic Democracy [CED] which I chaired in 1979-82. The buds of curiosity quickened. Soon I was receiving emails from David Peck, an organizer of the Occidental rally, who now is coordinating Americans in Spain for Barack Obama.

In 1969 Hayden's students for democracy group began imploding into factions. One of them, a group calling itself Weatherman, was elected to SDS leadership and proclaimed that the time had come to launch a race war on behalf of the Third World and against the United States. The Weatherman declared "war on AmeriKKKa" at its Flint War Council in 1969.

The new entity dissolved Hayden's Students for a Democratic Society and formed a terrorist cult in its place, which was given the name Weather Underground.

How odd that way back in the beginning of Barack Obama's speaking career the group he was involved with had links to Marxists, the Weatherman and Bill Ayers.

It was not surprising then that after his first public speech at Occidental College Barack Obama found himself working several years with William Ayers, the founder of the terrorist cult Weather Underground, in Chicago.

PS-- Is it any wonder that Barack Obama wants to re-introduce himself to voters?

My first Santa Monica house (c.1980-81) seemed like the official Students for Economic Democracy crash pad. Although I do recall slapping a Steve Biko anti-apartheid poster on the door of the president's office at Cal State Northridge I don't recall much discussion of explosives.

If you liked the story above, you'll no doubt also enjoy "15 Socialist Octogenarians for Barack".

Hayden's comments are taken from a piece called "Bobby and Barack" which appeared on Huffingtonpost.com.

I say this. Best safeguard your car and your identity if McCain is elected. As you know McCain is from Arizona which LEADS THE NATION IN CAR THEFT AND IDENTITY THEFT.

"McCain" IF THAT IS HIS NAME continues to DEFEND his birth in Panama, the home of convicted NARCO-TERRORIST MANUEL NORIEGA. And while critical of Obama's environmental policies, the "McCain"-Palin clique and their policies have turned much of ARIZONA INTO DESERT and ALASKA into UNINHABITABLE wasteland suitable only for oil drilling.

You won't get me Johnny, IF THAT IS YOUR NAME. I don't know who you are or where you "bought" your car "McCain", but I say: SAY NO TO to the policies of CAR AND IDENTITY THEFT, DESERTIFICATION-ALASKAFIKATION and NARCO-TERRORISM.

Join me -- and 15 octogenarian socialists -- in voting for Barack Obama.