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Another of Obama's buddies: William Ayers.

He's a professor at the Univ. of Illinois - Chicago. In 1969 he formed a radical left organization called Weathermen and was one of its top leaders. In 1969, Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket Riot. Ayers participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, the U.S. Capitol Building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972, as he noted in his 2001 book. He gave numerous interviews before his book was published in 2001 and said to a N.Y. Times reporter that "I don't regret setting bombs" and "I feel we didn't do enough", and, when asked if he would "do it all again" he was quoted as saying "I don't want to discount the possibility."

He's also been quoted as saying: "I am a radical, Leftist, small 'c' communist ... [Laughs] Maybe I'm the last communist who is willing to admit it. [Laughs] We have always been small 'c' communists in the sense that we were never in the [Communist] party and never Stalinists. The ethics of Communism still appeal to me."

Why the history lesson? Because Barack has ties with this radical. The two served together on the Woods Fund Board from 1999 until Obama left in 2002. They attended board meetings, retreats, and at least one news conference together.

Ayers had other contact with Obama as a resident of Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, hosting Obama's first fund raising reception in his first Illinois state Senate campaign in 1995, appearing on education panels together, and donating to Obama's campaign in April 2001. Also, Obama visited Ayers’ home for a meeting at the start of his first state Senate bid in the mid-’90s.

How many terrorists' homes have you visited lately?