Remember Bill Ayers? Obama’s friend from The Weather Underground? Well, it turns out that Obama is a “moderate,” but then again, who isn’t a moderate compared to a terrorist?
Ayers never viewed Obama as a leftist like himself.
“He was a community organizer to his great credit, but all through the 2008 campaign Barack Obama said, whenever asked, he would say, ‘I am a moderate, compromising, pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, politician.”
“The right-wing looked at him and said, ‘No, he is a secret socialist, palling around with terrorists and Palestinians, he has a fiery black nationalist minister, he is probably a black nationalist on top of everything else.’ And the left-wing looked at him and said, ‘He is winking in our direction, I feel it.’”
“Well, he wasn’t winking,” Ayers continued. “If you look at his record in Illinois, if you look at his record in the last six years, if you look at his record in the U.S. Senate, it is the record of a moderate, pragmatic politician.”
Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/26/bill-ayers-right-wing-media-convinced-leftists-that-obama-was-a-secret-leftist/
Moderates don’t get an F-rating from the NRA, Ayers. Those ratings are based on voting records. Harry Reid is an uber-liberal, but because he lives in pro-gun Nevada, he votes pro-gun and gets an A-rating.
He concluded that leftist spent too much time “gazing at the sights of power they have no access to” rather than engaging in grassroots activism. Lyndon Johnson wasn’t part of the civil rights movement, Franklin D. Roosevelt wasn’t part of the labor movement, and Abraham Lincoln wasn’t part of the abolition movement, Ayers said.
And they let this guy teach, LBJ signed civil rights legislation, FDR was a pro-labor populist that killed jobs, an without Abraham Lincoln, slavery would have lasted perhaps another 10-20 years.