We have discussed William Ayers, domestic terrorist, professor, associate, colleague and friend of Barack Hussein Obama here and here. It’s time to continue the terrorist connection of Obama, one in which he denies, and include Bernadine Dohrn, wife of William Ayers.

Mr. Ayer’s wife was a founder of the terrorist organization of the 60s and 70s known as the Weatherman Underground.

Bernadine Dohrn would appear to be a model citizen as an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the Director of Northwestern’s Children and Family Justice Center.

I attended graduate school at Northwestern and also spent 3 semesters at Law. Ms. Dohrn wasn’t there yet and my greeting to her would not have been a quiet and gracious one.

Dohrn became one of the leaders of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM), a radical wing of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), in the late 1960s. The ninth annual national SDS conference was held in Chicago in the summer of 1969, and the SDS collapsed in an RYM-led upheaval.

In July 1969, Dohrn, Eleanor Raskin, Dianne Donghi, Peter Clapp, David Millstone and Diana Oughton, all representing “Weatherman”, as Dohrn’s faction was now called, traveled to Cuba and met with representatives of the North Vietnamese and Cuban governments.

While Jane Fonda became known as “Hanoi Jane”, Bernadine Dohrn was leading a terrorist organization and wasn’t particularly looking for name recognition; she wanted upheaval within the United States and would use bombs to accomplish her goals.

Dohrn is a principal signatory on the group’s “Declaration of a State of War” (1970) that formally declared war on the U.S. Government, and completed the group’s transformation from political advocacy to violent action. Dohrn also co-wrote and published the subversive manifesto Prairie Fire (1974), and participated in the covertly-filmed Underground (1976).

The Weathermen and Weather Underground were suspected in various bombings — police cars, the National Guard Association building, the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon. Dohrn participated in many of the group’s revolutionary activities.

While on the run from police, Dohrn married another Weatherman leader Bill Ayers, with whom she has two children. During the last years of their underground life, Dohrn and Ayers resided in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago (Northwest side), where they used the aliases Christine Louise Douglas and Anthony J. Lee.

The couple turned themselves in to authorities in 1980. While some charges relating to their activities with the Weathermen were dropped due, Dohrn pled guilty to charges of aggravated battery and bail jumping, receiving probation. She later served less than a year of jail time, after refusing to testify against ex-Weatherman Susan Rosenberg in an armed robbery case.

Shortly after turning themselves in, Dohrn and Ayers became legal guardians of the son of former members of the Weather Underground, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, after they were convicted of murder for their roles in a 1981 armored car robbery.

Barack Hussein Obama served on the Wood’s Fund board in Chicago alongside William C. Ayers, husband of Bernadine Dorhn. Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Fund’s website. According to tax filings, Obama received compensation of $6,000 per year for his service in 1999 and 2001.

Power Line writes:

When Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer decided to retire in 1995, she hand-picked local left-winger Barack Obama as her successor. In order to introduce Obama to influential liberals in the district, she held a function at the home of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. This was, really, the beginning of Obama’s political career, and it linked him forever with Ayers and Dohrn, with whom, as his campaign has acknowledged, he continues to have a friendly relationship.

Barack Obama says he was only eight years old when Ayers and Dohrn were a part of the Weathermen. However, in 2007 at an SDS reunion Dohrn described the United States as “the monster.” That is current history and Mr. Obama would like us to ignore that too.

“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.”

Obama and Palmer “were both there,” he said.

Obama’s connections to Ayers and Dohrn have been noted in some fleeting news coverage in the past. But the visit by Obama to their home — part of a campaign courtship — reflects more extensive interaction than has been previously reported.

Ideology or political expediency, Mr. Obama doesn’t choose his associates well for someone who wishes to be President of the United States. Ayers and Dohrn have been embraced, by and large, in the liberal circles dominating Hyde Park politics, Obama’s neighborhood in Chicago.

“Ayers was a terrorist. Bernardine Dohrn was a terrorist. Ayers has never offered one word of apology — he glories in it, thinks it’s terrific. And that to me is not what I would call acceptable or mainstream behavior,” said Dan Polsby, a former law professor at Northwestern who is now dean of George Mason University Law School.

“If Obama takes a different view on that — well, OK, that’s data about Obama.”

Barack Hussein Obama would like to distance himself from the past that has come back to bite him on his glorious path to the Democrat nomination for President. Most people don’t know about Obama’s “connections” and really don’t care; they want to provide a free pass to someone wishing to occupy the White House as long as he is a Liberal and Democrat.

Attempting to find enough information on the connection of Obama, Ayers and Dohrn we must turn to bloggers, the mainstream press has printed very little and won’t expose enough to properly vet the Democrat wunderkind.

Obama’s campaign dismisses the notion that his relationship with Ayers should be seen through the lens of the latter’s violent past, or his present lack of regret for the bombings.

Many details of the 1995 meeting at Ayers and Dohrn’s home are shrouded by time and by Obama’s and Ayers’ refusals to discuss it.

The exact date is not known, but it was in the second half of 1995, before Palmer’s decision — late in her losing congressional primary against Jesse Jackson Jr. — to jump back into the special election for her state Senate seat. Her decision produced a rift between her and Obama, who was able to get her thrown off the ballot on technical grounds.

“That’s too long ago — that’s ancient history,” Palmer said, when asked of the meeting.

Dr. Young and another guest, Maria Warren, described it similarly: as an introduction to Hyde Park liberals of the handpicked successor to Palmer, a well-regarded figure on the left.

“When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the living room of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn,” Warren wrote on her blog in 2005.

“They were launching him — introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread.”

Young described the gathering as a matter of “due diligence” for Palmer to introduce her chosen successor to constituents.

“Many of us knew him already,” he said.

They, like others in his old Chicago world, now consider him a bit too “conservative” for their liking, as Warren wrote recently.

“Too conservative”, Barack Hussein Obama, with the most Liberal voting record in the Senate “too conservative?”

Regardless of how this bunch from Hyde Park in Chicago view Barack Obama today they will find they need a bigger scorecard to keep up with the Obama “change” in opinion, viewpoints, friends and churches.

“Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country, Ayers says.”

Indeed!