Why Ayers Matters

An Investor's Business Daily editorial has it right:

Ayers' Miranda biography calls him "leader of the revolutionary and anti-imperialist group The Weather Underground which initiated armed struggle against the government of the USA for more than 10 years from the heart of the empire."

It continues: "Now, he's a professor of education and executive researcher of the University of Illinois in Chicago. He's developed courses around urban reform of schools, problems of capitalist education, and research. He is the author or editor of more than 11 books, including a memoir titled Fugitive Days on the struggle against the government of the United States."

In other words, education isn't the best credential for this supposedly distinguished professor — his terrorist past is.

The point is simple:

We cannot have the War Against Terror led by a man who associates with terrorists. It is a moral blindspot which makes Barack Obama utterly unfit for leadership of our nation.

We need a Churchill, not a Charles Lindbergh.