My friend Bill Ayers

I have this friend Bill Ayers, you see, and he, well, he did some things that were kind of bad.

From wikipedia:

In 1969, Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to riot police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket Riot confrontation between labor supporters and the police.[10] The blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby Kennedy Expressway.[11] (The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on May 4, 1970, and blown up again by other Weathermen on October 6, 1970.

Ayers participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, the United States Capitol building in 1971, and The Pentagon in 1972, as he noted in his 2001 book, Fugitive Days. Because of a water leak caused by the Pentagon bombing, aerial bombardments during the Vietnam War had to be halted for several days. Ayers writes:

Although the bomb that rocked the Pentagon was itsy-bitsy - weighing close to two pounds - it caused 'tens of thousands of dollars' of damage. The operation cost under $500, and no one was killed or even hurt.[14]

Ayers was asked in a January 2004 interview, "How do you feel about what you did? Would you do it again under similar circumstances?" He replied:[27] "I've thought about this a lot. Being almost 60, it's impossible to not have lots and lots of regrets about lots and lots of things, but the question of did we do something that was horrendous, awful? ... I don't think so. I think what we did was to respond to a situation that was unconscionable."


Did my friend Bill Ayers serve a day in jail for those atrocities? Absolutely not.


Ayers is currently a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education. His interests include teaching for social justice, urban educational reform, narrative and interpretive research, children in trouble with the law, and related issues.[2]

He began his career in primary education while an undergraduate, teaching at the Children’s Community School (CCS), a project founded by a group of students and based on the Summerhill method of education. After leaving the underground, he earned an M.Ed from Bank Street College in Early Childhood Education (1984), an M.Ed from Teachers College, Columbia University in Early Childhood Education (1987) and an Ed.D from Teachers College, Columbia University in Curriculum and Instruction (1987). He has edited and written many books and articles on education theory, policy and practice, and has appeared on many panels and symposia.



People make excuses for Obama all the time, saying, "Well we've all had associations we're not proud of." Would they use this same logic if McCain had been an association of Timothy McVeigh's? I think the answer would be very different then.


Here's something to think about: Let's say you have a 16 year old daughter that gets pregnant by the punk that threatened his teachers, had a gun in his backpack and used a pipe bomb at the school? Would you say, "Oh he's just a young kid going through a phase...he'll grow out of it." How would you feel about your daughter having a child by this young man, hence an "association?" Would you be okay with that association? Well, wait a minute. I know what some of you might do. You'd make that girl have an abortion and then you'd run that kid out of your life, never to speak to him again.

Funny how people turn off their radars and red flags for one but not the other. We're electing a President, not a Hollywood celebrity. But America is so caught up with Obamamania, it won't matter. There will be a movie about him at some point. Heck, at all the Halloween stores I've been to, kids go crazy over the Obama masks and the others sit in a pile. It's very sad when we elevate a King to run our country. The "Obama Temple" is but a small part of things to come.