I looked at the official Obama for President web site. They have created a 41 page retort to Jerome Corsi’s book Obama Nation. I was particularly interested in how he handled his friendship with Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadette Dohrn who participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972. Due to prosecutorial errors he and Dohrn were never convicted but he admits he was guilty.

As you know Dohrn & Ayers never apologized and Ayers gave an interview, just before 9/11 that as a coincidence, was published on 9/11. In this interview he said he wished he had planted more bombs. THIS FROM A COLLEGE PROFESSOR TEACHING OUR KIDS!

What I was looking for from Obama was something like the following.

Damn, I never knew who these people were. I was only a ten year old kid when they did these things.
If I had known about them I NEVER would have served on a Board with him and I NEVER would have been friends with them. I would have had NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM.

But no, instead of saying these things Obama defends them and says they are now good mainstream Americans. But look at what he uses as his evidence to support his friends Ayers & Dohrn.

Here is the page I copied from his 41 pages.

(Corsi’s) LIE: “Besides, Obama had to know who Ayers is and what he stands for, especially with Ayers
making this splash on 9/11.” [p 147]

(Obama's) REALITY: AYERS COMMENTS WERE PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 11; THE INTERVIEW
OCCURRED PRIOR TO PUBLICATION
On September 11, 2001, A Story About William Ayers’ Memoir Was Published In The New York Times;
The Interview Occurred Prior To Publication. “‘I don’t regret setting bombs,’ Bill Ayers said. ‘I feel we didn’t do enough.’ Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970’s as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago.” [New York Times, 9/11/01]

This is Ludicrous. Obama’s defense is that Ayers gave the Interview BEFORE 9/11 and it was PUBLISHED on 9/11. That is No Defense. He is just pointing out the time line.

Now look at the second part of Obama’s Defense. He points out that Ayers and Dohrn were also Friends with Chicago’s Mayor and with two other Professors, Stanley Fish who says he ate dinner at Dohrn & Ayers house and Professor Marshall who says Ayers is a good guy. THIS IS NO DEFENSE. For all we know Fish & Marshall could have radical backgrounds just like Ayers & Dohrn, but I am going to assume they don't.

But that is not what rankles me. It is the fact that Obama, a graduate of Columbia and later Harvard law and a Professor of Law at The University of Chicago, and supposedly one of the smartest men in America, running for President of the United States, CANNOT COME UP WITH A BETTER DEFENSE THAN THAT HE POSTED ON HIS WEB SITE AND I HAVE COPIED HERE!

(Corsi’s) LIE: “Sol Stern, a contributing editor of Chicago’s City Journal, has observed that while Ayers today ‘is widely regarded as a member in good standing of the city’s civic establishment, not an unrepentant domestic terrorist,’ the impression of Ayers’s good citizenship is incorrect.” [p 140]

(OBAMA’S) REALITY: AYERS AND DOHRN ARE MEMBERS OF THE ESTABLISHMENT WITH TIES TO THE MAYOR

Mayor Daley: Bill Ayers Worked With Me In Shaping Our Now Nationally-Renowned School Reform Program And Tarring Obama For Knowing Him Is Another Reason Americans Are Angry With Washington. “There are a lot of reasons that Americans are angry about Washington politics. And one more
example is the way Senator Obama’s opponents are playing guilt-by-association, tarring him because he happens to know Bill Ayers. I also know Bill Ayers. He worked with me in shaping our now nationally renowned school reform program. He is a nationally-recognized distinguished professor of education at the
University of Illinois/Chicago and a valued member of the Chicago community. I don’t condone what he did 40 years ago but I remember that period well. It was a difficult time, but those days are long over. I believe we have too many challenges in Chicago and our country to keep re-fighting 40 year old battles.” [Tribune, 4/17/08]

FIU Law Professor Stanley Fish: I Too Have Eaten Dinner At Bill Ayers House (More Than Once), Served On A Committee With Him, And He Was One Of Those Who Recruited My Wife And Me At A Reception When We Were Considering Positions At UIC. Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and a professor of law at Florida International University, in Miami Stanley Fish wrote, “Confession time. I too have eaten dinner at Bill Ayers’s house (more than once), and have served with him on a committee, and he was one of those who recruited my wife and me at a reception when we were considering positions at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Moreover, I have had Bill and his wife Bernadine Dohrn to my apartment, was a guest lecturer in a course he taught and joined in a (successful) effort to persuade him to stay at UIC and say no to an offer from Harvard. Of course, I’m not running for anything, but I do write for The New York Times and, who knows, this association with former fugitive members of the Weathermen might be enough in the eyes of some to get me canned. Did I conspire with Bill Ayers? Did I help him build bombs? Did I aid and abet his evasion (for a time) of justice? Not likely, given that at the time of the events that brought Ayers and Dohrn to public attention, I was a supporter of the Vietnam War. I haven’t asked him to absolve me of that sin (of which I
have since repented), and he hasn’t asked me to forgive him for his (if he has any). Indeed in all the time I spent
with Ayers and Dohrn, politics — present or past — never came up.” [New York Times, 4/27/08]

Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Marshall: Ayers And Dohrn Are “Absolutely Upstanding Establishment Citizens.” The Washington Post reported, “‘It’s kind of laughable for people who have worked with Bernadine and Bill in the most boring and mundane settings and recognize that they’re absolutely upstanding establishment citizens today,’ said Lawrence C. Marshall, a Stanford University law professor. He recalled a juvenile justice project: ‘Judges who were lifelong ardent conservatives had no trouble recognizing that the work that Bernadine and Bill are now doing is completely divorced from anything in their background.’” [Washington Post, 4/8/08]

Obama is saying that since Mayor Daley and Professors Fish and Marshall are friends of Ayers then why can't I be his friend? Obamas defense is just like that of a kid whose mother scolds him for doing something he shoudn't have. The kid then says "Well my friend Johnny did it too". To which his mother replies, "Son, you know that two wrongs don't make a right". Evidently Obamas mother never taught this lesson to little Barack!

There is one other reason that NONE of the above should have been friendly with Dorhn & Ayers. If they had been caught and convicted and served their time in prison and come out and had been repentant ok, you cut them some slack. After all, once a person does the time for the crime we are a forgiving Nation and we look forward to their moving on and becoming members of mainstream society. No one should be punished forever. But Ayers and Dorhn never served any time and they are not repentant. They are still proud of what they did and wished they had planted more bombs. Are these the type of people you expect your President to be friends with? Are these the type of people you want sleeping in the White House?