Cleaning the Ayers

"In the Middle East, bombings are a big deal. Because the countries are so much smaller than the U.S., when terrorists attack, they kill someone we know. Everyone has a cousin, a classmate who was killed as a result of some bomb whether it was in the 1970s, 1980s, or more recently. It doesn’t make the pain of the loss any easier. That’s why I’m surprised at the general apathy towards the William Ayers, Barack Obama friendship.

To the NYT’s Gail Collins, Obama’s critics are hysterical over something that occurred so long ago. Collins talks about the Weather Underground as simply an anti-war group, as though they simply put Che posters on their dorm walls. “The McCain folks have been obsessed with William Ayers, a neighbor of Obama’s who is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Back in the 1960s, Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, were leaders of the Weather Underground, an antiwar group whose penchant for violence was exceeded only by its haplessness.”"
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