John D. Maguire, President Emeritus of Claremont Graduate University has signed a letter supporting the terrorist, Bill Ayers. For those of you who don't know, Bill Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist who launched attacks on the Pentagon and the Capitol and who currently serves as a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also happens to be connected with the Obama campaign.
Frankly it hasn't come as a surprise to me, as the college since he stepped down has invited genocide deniers and Muslim radicals to speak. Still it is fairly shocking to see a college president using his college's name in support of such a radical position.
Alas, President Maguire is something of a radical himself and he's certainly unable to recognize terrorism when he sees it. In a review for a book The New Pearl Harbor, which criticized 9/11 as a "conspiracy," Maguire wrote,
"I found Griffin's book a profoundly disturbing compendium of all the arguments for why there has been a conspiracy around 9/11. He begins with a table of eight levels of complicity, from little to overwhelming and lets the reader decide where along the scale reality may lie. Two reminders of my Yale training jumped to mind: one was Leslie Weatherhead's distinction between the permissive and ordaining wills of God; some things God allows to happen; other things God directs to happen. (Application. Since it is overwhelmingly clear the the Bushies knew such an attack was coming, did they--so overwhelmed with a passion to get into a war with Iraq--simply allow the events of 9/11 or actually conspire and were involved in various ways in their happening?)....Hear that, dear reader? That's the sound of Rome burning as academics fiddle.
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It's inaccurate to say Ayers is "connected with the Obama campaign." He has no role or connection at all with the campaign.
A New York Times article a few days ago spelled out in great detail all of Obama's known contacts with Ayers since 1995, when the two men met.
It's not inaccurate at all, as one of Obama's campaign afficionados described them as "certainly friendly." Also, Obama served on a board with Ayers in Chicago.
So, serving on a board together and being friendly = connected with the campaign?
Charles, you have a bright future ahead at FoxNews.
Maybe you should diversify your information sources.
"In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement."
Sorry Charles, you've already been debunked. You can actually just go to www.factcheck.org for that one.
Obama was on a board that Ayers was on, nothing more. He even denounced Ayers actions. It's only you Republicans that try and spin this into "guilt by association".
Maybe it's you that needs to diversify your sources a little more than only look for tidbits that serve your purpose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBF5tXdXm2Y
Anyways, we can tie John McCain to similar people, if we really want to take that route. We could talk G. Gordon Liddy or, say the person in this article,
http://politicalinquirer.com/2008/09/23/ayers-lets-look-at-the-marley-hensley-murder-of-don-bolles/
So this is kind of a moot point.
Reguardless of the Obama/Ayers nonsense, Maguire hasn't been associated with CGU for 10 YEARS. I mean, I may disagree with him, but at this point his views don't reflect on the Consortium nor CGU nor "academics" at large, like Mr. Johnson would extrapolate. He's a private citizen reflecting his private views, and nothing is going to revoke his ability to use Claremont as his affiliation.
"Still it is fairly shocking to see a college president using his college's name in support of such a radical position."
There's nothing shocking about this at all, he just disagrees with the media's charecterization of Ayers. People disagree, and sometimes it's worth looking at why.
It's disturbing how he uses the name of CGU and how he argues that 9/11 was a conspiracy. If that doesn't raise serious questions, I don't know what does.
Maguire isn't exactly unassociated, Anonymous. True, he doesn't hold any official position as far as I'm aware, but he's still pretty damn active with the campus.
As the economy goes deeper into the tank maybe it's important to consider associations...to wit:
Keating Five Keating Five Keating Five Keating Five Keating Five Keating Five
Obama was 8 when Ayers did his dirty work...McCain was in his prime when he was embroiled in the S&L scandal.
There's a saying that if the Claremont 5Cs were Hogwarts, CMC would be Slytherin.
As long as we're talking about guilt by association, Charles, what does it mean that your college went on the record last year to defend He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named?
...Is that really a saying?
That has got to be a worse analogy than the Scooby Doo one, and I'm not a fan of that one, either!
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