Bill Ayers Says Obama Should Be Tried for War Crimes
Adds, "I liked him personally -- he's a really good guy"
Bill Ayers, former University of Illinois professor and co-founder of the violent anti-war group Weather Underground, said Tuesday that President Barack Obama should be put on trial for war crimes, according to RealClearPolitics.
"Every president in this century should be put on trial," Ayers told Charlie Stone on RealClearPolitics' "Morning Commute." "Every one of them goes into an office dripping with blood and then adds to it. And, yes, I think that these are war crimes. I think that they're acts of terror."
Ayers, whose Weather Underground bombed police stations, the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon during its anti-Vietnam War crusade in the 1960s and 1970s, said he'd give Obama a failing grade based on his presidency's policy and politics. Nevertheless, Ayers said he likes the president.
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"co-founder of the violent anti-war group Weather Underground,"
Much as I agree, this guy's got no standing to speak.
His girlfriend was an even better piece of work. Winner of anyone's Darwin Award.
Judging by photographs, she achieved bombshellhood the only way possible for one of her appearance.
With friends like these...