A Yonkers, N.Y., councilman whose home was bombed nearly four decades ago by the Weather Underground says Barack Obama should know better than to associate with the domestic terror group's co-founder, Bill Ayers.

"Barack Obama constantly says, 'I was only 8 years old when this happened.' That's kind of his throwaway line," John Murtagh told FOX News Thursday morning.

"I'm not questioning what Barack Obama was doing when he was 8 years old. I'm questioning his behavior as an adult to choose his friends, mentor and longtime personal and professional colleague."

Murtagh discussed the 1970 bombing as John McCain's campaign put renewed focus on Obama's ties to Ayers, who lives in Chicago and is an education professor at the University of Illinois.

Murtagh, whose father was a New York Supreme Court justice when his family's home was targeted, put out a statement on behalf of McCain's campaign Wednesday claiming "Barack Obama's friend tried to kill my family."

Obama has said his relationship with Ayers did not extend beyond serving with him on an education board in Chicago. He has condemned Ayers' Vietnam War-era attacks, and his campaign has said Obama did not know of Ayers' radical past when Ayers held a campaign event at his home for Obama in 1995.

But Murtagh cast doubt on the narrative out of the Obama campaign, saying it would make the Democratic presidential candidate "the dumbest man that ever graduated from Columbia and Harvard Law School" if he didn't initially know about Ayers' past.

Murtagh also alleged that Obama's ties to Ayers probably go back earlier, since Ayers' wife, Weather Underground radical Bernadine Dohrn, at one point worked at the same firm where Obama's wife, Michelle, worked.

"The Weather Underground launched an attack on our family home ... looking to kill us," Murtagh told FOX News. "I believe if the senator were to come clean and tell us the full story, we'd find out this relationship well predates the fundraiser held in the Ayers home. It goes back to the '80s."

McCain released a Web video Thursday criticizing Obama for his relationship with Ayers.

Obama told ABC News Wednesday that McCain's campaign is making these assertions simply "to score cheap political points."

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I'm questioning his behavior as an adult to choose his friends, mentor and longtime personal and professional colleague."

Okay, since Ayers was all that to Obama, then there should be some photos of them together.

Where are they?

write_on:

I'm questioning his behavior as an adult to choose his friends, mentor and longtime personal and professional colleague."

Okay, since Ayers was all that to Obama, then there should be some photos of them together.

Where are they?

Has absence now become evidence?

I have many friends with whom I have associated for many years that I have no photographs of, how about you?

I don't even have photos of many of the men I served with in the military, even though several were like brothers to me.

No disrespect intended, but I think this is an unrealistic expectation.

Boss Greer:

Has absence now become evidence?

I have many friends with whom I have associated for many years that I have no photographs of, how about you?

I don't even have photos of many of the men I served with in the military, even though several were like brothers to me.

No disrespect intended, but I think this is an unrealistic expectation.

I would think that if someone was another persons mentor, they would have photos taken, wouldn't you? A "professional colleague". Wouldn't photo(s) be taken at some point?

It seems to me that if a photo was taken of McBush and Keating together in the Bahamas, then don't you think that Obama would have at least have one taken with Ayers somewhere?

write_on:

I would think that if someone was another persons mentor, they would have photos taken, wouldn't you? A "professional colleague". Wouldn't photo(s) be taken at some point?

It seems to me that if a photo of McBush and Keating together in the Bahamas, then don't you think that Obama would have at least have one taken with Ayers somewhere?

I understand your point, but it's still an argument from incredulity. Certainly in your long and eventful life you've seen many things that appeared to defy conventional wisdom, yet there they were?

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Boss Greer:

I understand your point, but it's still an argument from incredulity. Certainly in your long and eventful life you've seen many things that appeared to defy conventional wisdom, yet there they were?

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Sure, I have. But isn't there the claim that Johnah McPalin makes that Obama and Ayers were "palling around"? Don't they claim that Ayers hellped start Obama's political career? And no photos were taken by someone at these gatherings that would show up?

All I'm doing is laying down the same incredulity that the two are linked in any type of meaningful manner.

Barack Obama has been a close associate of Bill Ayers since 1995. According to the McCain campaign ad -

“Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends. They've worked together for years. But Obama tries to hide it. Why?

“Obama launched his political career in Ayers' living room. Ayers and Obama ran a radical education foundation, together. They wrote the foundation's by-laws, together. Obama was the foundation's first chairman.

“Reports say they ‘distributed more than $100 million to ideological allies with no discernible improvement in education.’

“When their relationship became an issue, Obama just responded, ‘This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood.’ "

Ron

RCH1:

Barack Obama has been a close associate of Bill Ayers since 1995. According to the McCain campaign ad -

“Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends. They've worked together for years. But Obama tries to hide it. Why?

“Obama launched his political career in Ayers' living room. Ayers and Obama ran a radical education foundation, together. They wrote the foundation's by-laws, together. Obama was the foundation's first chairman.

“Reports say they ‘distributed more than $100 million to ideological allies with no discernible improvement in education.’

“When their relationship became an issue, Obama just responded, ‘This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood.’ "

Ron

And we're suppose to take what is said in McBush's ad as the truth?

He walks free today why?

Was Ayers running around bombing the U.S. when Obama met him.

Ayers found his way to become a college professor when Obama met him how?

Ayers hosted a reception at his home for Obama who was running for government. That makes them tight how? That makes Obama a radical terrorist how?

The board Obama and he served on was for an organization that did what?

Obama lived where when he was 8?

Murtagh has no personal involvement in this, does he?

Obama got to know Ayers how?

Ayers

Obama and Ayers connections, Tight?

John McCain and his jailer spent how many days together? John McCain's jailer likes John McCain. Does that make John McCain a closet communist?

One thing stand out like a sore thumb! Obama is a highly educated lawyer; a specialist in Constitutional Law. How can he have achieved this degree, then been editor of the Harvard Law Review (something he never contributed to) and claim he didn't know who this "guy from his neighborhood" really was.

He's just like Wright. All Obama has to do is say "I condemn what they say or stand for, it's divicive and not what my campaign stands for" and the Liberals eat that shit up.

He had, in his words, "a bonehead thing to do" business deal involving his primary home that involved a man convicted of fraud. Feds just ask for an indefinite date posponment for his sentencing; leading to the conclusion he is about to implicate Illinois Democrats in a serious scandal as part of a "dea" and these things all have ONE THING IN COMMON:

OBAMA.