# Shocking list of terrorist sympathizers!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-list-of-terrorist-sympathizers/467691>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 13, 2008, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-list-of-terrorist-sympathizers/467691 "2008-10-13T09:02:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Algorithm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/algorithm/32/12204_2.png) [@Algorithm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algorithm)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-list-of-terrorist-sympathizers/467691/41 "2008-10-13T21:16:27Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> You’re promoting unrestrained violins, then?

Oh, my side! It’s splitting!

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-list-of-terrorist-sympathizers/467691/42 "2008-10-13T21:33:28Z")

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> [@Mr.Moto](#):
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> IAgain, I don’t think Obama is particularly tainted by this - but I don’t think it is above question, not by a long shot.

Why should he be “tainted” at all, particularly or otherwise? If you want taint, look to John McCain’s tongue-firmly-planted-in-asshole partnership with Keating. They were actual buddies. That constitutes actual taint.

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**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-list-of-terrorist-sympathizers/467691/43 "2008-10-13T22:32:30Z")

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> [@Mr.Moto](#):
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> I don’t think you noticed above, but for me this is the overriding issue. I don’t think it is particularly right that Ayers is accepted in either place, and I think it reflects poorly on both the Democratic Party and the academy.

Yes. Damn it, it’s disgraceful and utterly unAmerican to allow former criminals to live their lives as productive members of society! Fuck Ayers for managing to rise above his crimes and lead an exemplary life of manifold achievements. And fuck Obama and the Democrats for not refusing to associate with him even if it meant avoiding some valuable, worthwhile organizations! Why, he’s even hoodwinked [William C. Ibershof, _the federal prosecutor who tried him!_](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/opinion/l10ayers.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin)

> [@Ibsershof's letter to the NY Times](#):
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> As the lead federal prosecutor of the Weathermen in the 1970s (I was then chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District of Michigan and took over the Weathermen prosecution in 1972), I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child.
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> Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.
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> Because Senator Obama recently served on a board of a charitable organization with Mr. Ayers cannot possibly link the senator to acts perpetrated by Mr. Ayers so many years ago.

Scary, isn’t it? How did the lefty commie pinko bastards get to this man?!!

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