OBAMA'S TRUTH DEFICIT
When John Murtagh was 9 years old, Bill Ayers' friends tried
to kill him.
"I remember my mother's pulling me from the tangle of sheets
and running to the kitchen where my father stood. Through the
large windows overlooking the yard, all we could see was the
bright glow of flames below. We didn't leave our burning house
for fear of who might be waiting outside," wrote Murtagh in the
April 2008 issue of the City Journal.
It wasn't personal. John's dad was a judge presiding over a
trial of the Black Panthers. The next morning, after the bombs
exploded, John still remembers the red graffiti on the sidewalk:
"FREE THE PANTHER 21; THE VIET CONG HAVE WON; KILL THE PIGS."
To the best of John's recollection, Bernardine Dohrn, who is
now Bill Ayers' wife, first claimed credit for bombing John's
home -- along with other targets -- in November of 1970.
Today John Murtagh is a lawyer and Yonkers' city councilman
who is running for the New York state Senate on the GOP ticket
this November. I reached him this week through his state Senate
campaign.
It wasn't hard.
Has Barack Obama ever tried?
Barack Obama was only 8 years old when Murtagh's house was
bombed. Obama has nothing to do with the terror and the trauma
John Murtagh and his family went through.
"It's a sensitive issue for us. My mom is still alive -- she's
83. She literally had to snatch her children out of the house in
the middle of the night because her house was on fire," John told
me.
But Barack Obama was not a child -- he was a grown man -- when
he decided his personal path to power and influence lay through
Bill Ayers' connections.
In the Chicago establishment, which unfortunately embraced
former domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers and his wife, Barack
Obama was encouraged to look beyond the obvious -- John Murtagh,
his family, their terror, the lawlessness, the attacks on
policemen, judges, army outposts -- to embrace larger goals.
What were these goals? How does Barack Obama come to continue
to associate with a man who cannot bring himself to say to John
Murtagh or to John's mother or any other kin of the attacked:
"I'm sorry. I was wrong. It was a terrible thing to do."
Obama's campaign is busy fudging. That's a polite word for
"lying." Barack Obama's top political adviser is claiming Obama
simply didn't know Ayers' history when they first met. Bomber?
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