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I also know Bill Ayers. He worked with me in shaping our now nationally-renowned school reform program. He is a nationally recognized distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois/Chicago and a valued member of the Chicago community.

There you have it, Ayers as Education Czar in a BHO admin. And full unconditional & pre-emptive pardons for every leftwinger/marxist/red army for any subversive actions they may or may not have conducted in their past.

Well, you know, when people get bitter, they turn to things like religion, and guns, and bombings.

Big S on April 18, 2008 at 11:45 AM

Touche’.

Being 8 years old when the Weathermen were active is irrelevent. Karl Marx was dead 64 years before I was born, and Thomas Jefferson was dead 121 years, but that does not mean I cannot be a follower of their ideals now.

Sasnak on April 18, 2008 at 10:46 AM

And –

Obama was only 7 years old when MLK Jr was assassinated. So I guess that is not a big deal anymore, either. I mean, it’s such old news.

MayBee on April 18, 2008 at 1:24 PM

Exactly. History always begins this morning for liberals unless its about bashing America first. But if we’re to follow Obama’s lead then academia has to stop complaining about our ‘racist’, imperialist history; reparations for slavery are off the table; we can get rid of affirmative action; and Bill Clinton can stop apologizing.

Exit question: Will we have a “Days Of Rage 2.0″ if Obama is defeated. After reading from his followers the last couple of days, I say there is a real possibility.

chief on April 18, 2008 at 12:44 PM

Good Lord, these democrats are gonna be in for a world of hurt! I mean, if Barry were to win the White House, it’s not like those of us on the right don’t know what to expect (I mean come on, we’re conservatives, we can weather through it), but these liberals have absolutely noooooo idea who the real Barry is. It’s a damn shame that he snookered them with “Hope” and “Change”. Such an uplifting message that will bring them to their knees, in tears.

if he gets elected, I know what we should do: Let’s circle the wagons around TX, and everyone grab your guns and Bibles!!

REALITY: OBAMA WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN THE WEATHERMEN WERE ACTIVE

How old was he when MLK Jr was shot?

Barack Obama: Still acting like an eight year-old.

Dusty

You nailed Obama’s whole attitude about everything right there. Sweet. It’d make a great bumpersticker.

Obama has decided to argue that he can’t be expected to consider the actions of people that took place in his childhood, and that Ayers only was bad for a few days.

Well, you know, when people get bitter, they turn to things like religion, and guns, and bombings.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0408/Daley_defends_Ayers.html

There are a lot of reasons that Americans are angry about Washington politics. And one more example is the way Senator Obama’s opponents are playing guilt-by-association, tarring him because he happens to know Bill Ayers.

I also know Bill Ayers. He worked with me in shaping our now nationally-renowned school reform program. He is a nationally recognized distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois/Chicago and a valued member of the Chicago community.

I don’t condone what he did 40 years ago but I remember that period well. It was a difficult time, but those days are long over. I believe we have too many challenges in Chicago and our country to keep refighting 40-year-old battles.

Lynn Sweet of the Sun-Times wrote:

PHILADELPHIA, PA.–Mayor Daley vouched for William Ayers on Thursday, praising the educator–and former radical– for his work on Chicago public school reform programs and sending a strong message of reassurance to voters who may be worried about Ayers association with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), which is a non-stop topic lately on Fox News

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Here’s a couple of additional points that ties the entire Chicago Machine in with this:

David Axelrod, Obama’s campaign chief is not just a Chicagoan, he’s well connected with Daley (Both Richie and Bill, Clinton’s Commerce Secretary). He’s Daley’s communication’s director, in fact.

The Chicago Machine is being deconstructed by the US Attorney. Investigations for “Pay for Play,” bribe-taking, kickbacks, and massive corruption on contracts and so on are underway, including the prosecution of Tony Rezko. Rezko is the “gift that keeps on giving,” as the trial keeps bring in more and more local pols into the prosecutor’s web.

Daley absolutely *needs* Obama to be President for the pardons of his staff, if not himself.

Ayers and his wife are unrepentant pieces of dung. They’re too old to play with matches, perhaps, but they still are traitors and terrorists at heart. Both have sinecure positions with universities (whose administrators are part of the Chicago Machine apparatus), which provides them with livelihood. Frankly, if they are not already on the Do-Not-Fly list, they ought to be as proven terrorists and bombers.

So he can later appoint Ayers a cabinet position in his administration?

kooly on April 18, 2008 at 8:45 AM

Head of Homeland Security no doubt.

Another “fact” that is troubling me more is the assertion that Rev. Wright was a Marine. But it is also said that he was a corpsman. The last 20 years I’ve worked in hospitals near Camp Pendleton and have at times worked with corpsmen who were moonlighting. I got the idea from them that no corpsmen are Marines. They are all Navy members. Are there any Marines or corpsmen out there who have some exact knowledge about this?

Rather than chalk it up to political naivete and issue a non-apology apology, Obama has decided to argue that he can’t be expected to consider the actions of people that took place in his childhood, and that Ayers only was bad for a few days.

He has no choice for this and all subsequent, similar revelations. If he issues too many non-apology apologies, it will become his defining characteristic. He will be constantly apologizing (more than other politicians). He is backed into a corner and must defend all future scandals of this type (and I suspect there will be many more as the campaign moves along).