Via NRO:
Obama is speaking this afternoon at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. This mouthful is known more commonly as Fort Dix.
Obama has an unusual connection to this place, which makes his appearance there eerie, to say the least.
Obama began his first Illinois state senate bid with a meet-and-greet in the Chicago home of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Obama could not have picked a harder-Left living room in America in which to stage his first campaign reception. Ayers and Dohrn were co-founders of the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground.
Ayers has described himself as follows:
“I’m a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist.”
In 1970, Ayers summarized the Weathermen’s philosophy: “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents.” […]
Were they better bomb makers, Ayers’s comrades would have set off a nail-filled bomb at a dance for non-commissioned officers and their dates and spouses at Fort Dix. As Ayers has observed, the bomb would have ripped “through windows and walls and, yes, people too.”
That bomb never went off, fortunately enough.
And today, one of Bill Ayers’s protégés is America’s commander-in-chief, addressing GIs at the same military facility that Ayers & Co. tried to blast to bits.