. . . . . Regardless of why he opposed the war, Obama would tell Warren that protesting the war was his most “gut wrenching decision,” largely because of its “political consequences.”

This claim would be reinforced on Obama’s official website. “As a candidate for the United States Senate in 2002,” the website claims, “Obama put his political career on the line to oppose going to war in Iraq,”

Of course, Obama did no such thing because he was no such candidate. In 2002, Obama was an unknown ward healer from Chicago’s hard left South Side. He would run for the U.S. Senate in 2004, not 2002.

In 2002, Obama suggested to the crowd that he opposed going to war in Iraq because he had access t...

. . . . . Regardless of why he opposed the war, Obama would tell Warren that protesting the war was his most “gut wrenching decision,” largely because of its “political consequences.”

This claim would be reinforced on Obama’s official website. “As a candidate for the United States Senate in 2002,” the website claims, “Obama put his political career on the line to oppose going to war in Iraq,”

Of course, Obama did no such thing because he was no such candidate. In 2002, Obama was an unknown ward healer from Chicago’s hard left South Side. He would run for the U.S. Senate in 2004, not 2002.

In 2002, Obama suggested to the crowd that he opposed going to war in Iraq because he had access to intelligence that the Clintons and Edwards apparently did not.

Nearly six months before the war began, Obama had already sniffed out “a cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz,” the only two officials so named, “to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats.”

This is the kind of intelligence that Obama could have gotten only from his pals in Chicago’s unrepentant radical community.

In fact, the key organizers of the anti-war rally were two proud veterans of the militant Students for a Democratic Society, Carl Anderson and Marilyn Katz.

As Katz tells it, she was one of a group of five individuals who put the rally together, and they did so on just ten days notice.

The most likely connection is Bill Ayers, the former Weatherman bomber and fugitive and the probable speechwriter as well. Katz admittedly had known Ayers since she was seventeen, forty-some years earlier.

One senses the radical contribution to the speech. On his own, Obama would not have made the quietly anti-Semitic reference to Perle and Wolfowitz, two names in common parlance only on the hard left.

“Let’s look forward to the day Wolfowitz will be tried as a war criminal,” Ayers would insist some years later.

. . . . . Ayers, however, was no garden variety anti-Semite. Despite his fondness for Islamic Jew-haters, there were any number of ethnic Jews in the Weather Underground.

Curiously, however, just about all of them—Terry Robbins, Ted Gold, Mark Rudd, Kathy Boudin, Laura Whitehorn, and wife Bernadine Dohrn—were so deracinated that their names had long since been Anglicized.

They would have to been totally severed from their roots, however, not to be appalled by one passage in Ayers’ 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days.

“The streets became sparkling and treacherous with the jagged remains of our rampage,” writes Ayers of his window-breaking spree through the streets of Chicago in the famed “Days of ...

. . . . . Ayers, however, was no garden variety anti-Semite. Despite his fondness for Islamic Jew-haters, there were any number of ethnic Jews in the Weather Underground.

Curiously, however, just about all of them—Terry Robbins, Ted Gold, Mark Rudd, Kathy Boudin, Laura Whitehorn, and wife Bernadine Dohrn—were so deracinated that their names had long since been Anglicized.

They would have to been totally severed from their roots, however, not to be appalled by one passage in Ayers’ 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days.

“The streets became sparkling and treacherous with the jagged remains of our rampage,” writes Ayers of his window-breaking spree through the streets of Chicago in the famed “Days of Rage.”

Then Ayers lovingly describes the scene, in a metaphor that has to chill the blood of any Jew, as “crystal chaos.”

Just thirty years prior, the Nazis had called their sparkling rampage through the streets of Germany as “Kristallnacht” or “Crystal Night” in English. Ayers knew what he was saying.

Does Obama?