What Is This World Coming To?

Barack Obama’s top political adviser said today Obama “didn’t know the history” of unrepentant bomber William Ayers’ activities in the violent Weather Underground movement when the candidate attended a political event at Ayers’ home in 1995.

“When he went he certainly didn’t know the history,” chief Obama strategist David Axelrod told  arguing for the first time since the story surfaced early this year that Obama was unaware of Ayers’ past.

“There’s no evidence that they’re close,” Axelrod added.

Actually, there’s plenty of evidence that suggests they are ‘close’ — unless we’re going to quibble over the definition of ‘close’.   And any argument that Obama didn’t know who Bill Ayers was is preposterous.

“There’s no evidence that Obama in any way subscribed to any of Ayers’ views. And Obama’s been very clear about condemning the despicable acts that Bill Ayers committed 40 years ago when Obama was 8 years old.”

Whether or not Obama was eight years old when Ayers committed his acts of terror are irrelevant.  Obama was forty years old on September 11, 2001 when Bill Ayers bragged to the New York Times that “he didn’t do enough.”

Stanley Kurtz outlined Obama’s connections to ACORN and ACORN’s connection to the mortgage crisis in today’s National Review Online.  It makes for fascinating reading.

According to a report in WorldnetDaily, author Jerome Corsi, author of the unflattering “Obama Nation” was in Kenya doing background research on Obama’s ties to the Kenyan government.   WND reported:

Corsi had promised a news conference today that would “expose details of deep secret ties between U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and a section of Kenya government leaders, their connection to certain sectoral groups in Kenya and subsequent plot to be executed in Kenya should Senator Obama win the American presidency.”

Instead, Corsi was picked up by Kenyan authorities and has been detained. Corsi told WND he has been assured he will be released soon.

Corsi was to report Odinga’s 2007 presidential campaign strategy called for exploiting anti-Kikuyu tribal sentiments, claiming victory and charging voter fraud even if the campaign knew the election had been legitimately lost. Odinga, Corsi said, also was willing to fan the flames of ethnic tribal tensions and use violence as a last resort by calling for mass action that led to the destruction of properties, injuries, loss of life and the displacement of over 500,000 Kenyans. The purpose was to compel the Electoral Commission of Kenya to declare him the winner or enable him to declare himself the winner by force.