Commentary: Trust Me, Republicans, Going After Obama for His ‘Terrorist Ties’ is a Very Bad Idea

By: Gregory Kane

A word of advice to my fellow Republicans: You don't want to make an issue of Sen. Barack Obama’s friendship with William Ayers. You’d darn well better trust me on this one.

Last week, the airwaves of conservative talk radio -- a.k.a. “angry white guy radio” -- were filled with people on a rant about how the Obama camp was trying to suppress an ad put out by a group called American Issues Project. The ad all but called Obama a terrorist because he’s buddies with Ayers, who, in the 1970s, was a member of the Weather Underground, an offshoot of the radical, predominantly white group Students for a Democratic Society.

Folks at AIP called Ayers “an unrepentant terrorist.” Now, I’m not going to dispute AIP’s characterization of Weather Underground as a terrorist group. It’s probably more accurate than what I called Weather Underground back in the ‘70s, which was something along the lines of “Crazy White Boys.”

But do AIP members -- who, according to their Web site, “champion the conservative values that have made the United States of America a blessed nation” -- really want to start throwing words like “terrorist” around and talking about who associates with whom?

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