Obama Loses Bestest Buddy and Big Toe—Bill Ayers
The fallout on the Left from Obama’s war continues:
Bill Ayers, Obama: Parting ways on war
by Mark Silva - Swamppolitics.com
Our friend and colleague Clarence Page notes that President Barack Obama has lost at least one old friend on one issue: Chicago’s Bill Ayers, on the escalation of the war in Afghanistan.
Obama was criticized for “palin’ around with terrorists” during the presidential campaign by Republican Sarah Palin, who attempted to tie the Democrat’s politics to those of Ayers, the University of Illinois at Chicago education professor and erstwhile leader of the radical Weather Underground in the 1960s who supported Obama’s early campaigns for political office.
But now it’s Ayers who is criticizing the president’s new policy of deploying 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan while promising to start drawing down those forces in July of 2011 — suggesting that another act of a long-running play is opening.
“I am here demonstrating against the war because I am appalled and alarmed that once again we are escalating the war,” Ayers said, in the interview above captured on the streets of Chicago this week. “The idea that there are benchmarks for getting out is a myth and a lie.
“The fact is that, you know, you cannot imagine a scenario where six months from now or 18 months from now the administration would say, well we didn’t meet our benchmarks, therefore we’re leaving. This is an absolute tragedy for the Middle East, for Afghanistan and us.”
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