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Posted October 6, 2008

THE MURDERER AND
THE WOULD-BE PRESIDENT
by Halli Casser-Jayne

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Barack Obama knew he wanted to become president a long time ago and has taken very careful steps along the way to get him where he is today, on the verge of becoming the next President of the United States. The steps included covering up his tracks.

To wit, there are no records of his years in the Illinois Senate and in the United States Senate he did very little in the approximately 200 days he participated in the Senate before he went on the campaign trail in his bid for the presidency.

Some will even say that his famed Chicago speech in which he opposed the Iraq War was a deliberate step to ensure his bid to the White House. Rather than an ideological speech, his argument against the war was a step rather than a core belief to frame the Iraq debate against the women he knew would be his number one nemesis on the route to the White House, Hillary Clinton the Senator from the State of New York. It was Hillary’s city where the terrorists struck and New York’s junior Senator would feel compelled to vote for the war against Saddam Hussein when it was framed as a war against the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center.

For all the kudos Obama gets for being ahead of the curve on the anti-war sentiment, it is curious that there is virtually no record of that now famous speech. There is a one-line mention of the rally in the Chicago papers, and now there is a video contrived by the Obama campaign to reenact that Chicago speech, that too many don’t recall.

So by and large the cool, contrived, self-controlled candidate, Barack Obama has done a very good job of setting up his run for the presidency. The two books he published, particularly his most applauded Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance were part of his pr campaign to aid in his ascendance to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

But some things he was sloppy about. Most notable, of course is his twenty year association with the not so Reverend and very wrong, Jeremiah Wright. But Obama, a practical man, stayed in Wright’s church those many years knowing that Wright’s incendiary comments might come back to haunt him because it was politically expedient for him to do so. He needed the well-connected and powerful Chicago player, Wright, to help him navigate the dirty waters of the city on the lake, Chicago.

Another relationship Obama risked his bid for the presidency with is Tony Rezko. Rezko, now a convicted felon, did for the Obama’s what he did for many other Chicago politicos high on power but short on cash: helped them purchase their homes.

The very careful and deliberate Obama surely knew exactly what he was getting into when he made the deal on the property in the tony Hyde Park section of  Chicago. But, again, Mr. Obama gambled with his future when he cut the deal with Rezko. One can just imagine Obama’s wife Michelle pleading with her husband to get her the house she always dreamed of living in - Obama the dream weaver.

The third of Obama’s associations, and the one most troubling and underexplored is the mysterious relationship Obama has with homegrown terrorist and founding member of the 1960’s radical Weather Underground, Bill Ayres and his Weatherman associate and now wife, Bernadine Dohrn.

There has been a mountain of material written about Obama’s relationship with the unrepentant Bill Ayers who admitted responsibility for roughly a dozen bombings that targeted the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol and other buildings. Ayres went underground, hiding for a decade after three people were killed when a bomb the group had set accidentally exploded. Charges were later dropped against Ayres due to a legal technicality.

In subsequent years, Ayres became a tenured professor of education and informal adviser to Mayor Richard M. Daley on the subject of school reform. He has been a neighbor of Obama's in the Hyde Park area of Chicago, hosting an apparent fundraiser for him when Obama first ran for the state Senate in 1995. Ayres and Obama served together on a nonprofit board that distributed educational grants in the city. There remain unanswered questions about that as well.

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