Ayers escalates cold war with Obama ~ By Jack Cashill

Commentary from WorldNetDaily

By Jack Cashill Posted: December 17, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 Earlier this week, in a video interview with Anastasia Churkina of the Russian news service, RT, radical activist Bill Ayers chose to escalate his rhetorical war with President Barack Obama Ayers called Obama's decision to send additional troops to Afghanistan a "catastrophe" for Afghanistan and for the United States and a natural result of our "insane policy in the Middle East." This was not a feint by Ayers to make Obama look more attractive to the center. He has been on Obama's case from the beginning. Although coy with Churkina about the nature of his relationship with Obama, Ayers was likely telling the truth when he told her, "I wish I were a close friend, and I wish he would call me for advice, but of course it is not going to happen." Ayers had begun signaling his displeasure in late February 2009, less than five weeks into the Obama era, when he blasted Obama's decision to send additional troops to Afghanistan as a "colossal mistake." This fall, while Obama dithered on the question of whether to honor the military's request for additional troops, Ayers, I believe, used the leverage he does have with Obama to dissuade him from pursuing the war in Afghanistan. After celebrity biographer Christopher Andersen – in his book, "Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage" – confirmed my theory that Ayers was the principal author of Obama's acclaimed 1995 memoir, "Dreams From My Father," Ayers admitted his authorship on two separate occasions. I suspected then, and still do, that these unprompted admissions, however ironic their delivery, were designed to remind Obama of the power Ayers held over him. The truth about "Dreams"' authorship is Ayers' nuclear option. He watched the media ignore Andersen's bombshell as universally as they had my own literary detective work. Ayers knows that now only he can deliver the truth about "Dreams"' authorship, a revelation that would critically undermine Obama's claims to genius, to honesty and to independence of thought. Obama, I suspect, gambled that Ayers would not go nuclear. Accordingly, after months of indecision, Obama approved the troop surge in Afghanistan. READ FULL STORY >