Posted on 10/18/2008 11:59:32 AM PDT by Portrait of a Lady
CHICAGO (Oct. 17) - These days, Bill Ayers doesn't want to talk about the Weathermen, the Vietnam-era radical group he helped found that carried out bombings at the Pentagon and the Capitol.
That doesn't mean the man who has become a political headache for Barack Obama is hiding his past. In fact, all you need to do is stand outside Ayers' office at the University of Illinois in Chicago to be confronted with it.
Ayers' connection to the Weather Underground is plastered on his door. A postcard for a documentary on the group shows an old mugshot of Ayers. Nearby is cover art from Ayers' 2001 memoir, "Fugitive Days."
But also affixed to the door is the title that reflects how Ayers, now 63, has become known in the past two decades in Chicago: distinguished professor.
"He gives of himself greatly to his students. He gives of his time, his energies, his commitment," said Pamela Quiroz, an associate professor who works in the college of education with Ayers. "He is just a superb individual."
Quiroz is among more than 3,200 people, mostly academics, who have signed an online petition protesting the "demonization" of Ayers during the campaign for the White House.
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pretty sure this was already posted.
No indication when I searched.
Doesn't do any good to just cancel your subscription.....they could think you have passed away, LOL.
Leni
and Stalin and Mao were just agrarian reformers
their friends thought they were lovely people
I am sorry to tell you this, but you are simply mistakened. WSJ has always been an extremely liberal paper on the “story” side, and I have been reading it for over 30 years now. The editorial pages have been very positive, conservative and for a while were the only mainstream voice critical of Bill Clinton’s healthcare and tax plans. I remember one article in the New Republic asking if the editorial board at WSJ had lost its mind, and fuming that the more “mainstream” journalists who wrote feature could not engineer some kind of coup.
The “pro-illegal” stuff on the editorial page was not as you describe it at all, but rather insisted that the illegal immigration problem here was market and economically driven, and thus needed to focus more on markets and economics rather than simply focusing on law enforcement. This is a typical libertarian picture, and addressed a problem from the pov of the business owner and entrepreneur, rather than the lineworker, blue collar worker perspective.
You are right, though about the stuff on IBD. Bill Oneill is a true American hero and icon, and the articles there are top notch. IBD is, indeed, awesome
Incredible. From terrorist to university professor. From setting bombs to shaping the minds of young people. From loathing the United States to launching the career of someone who could be the next President of the US.
And perhaps there is more. Much more. A big juicy story for the media to dig into. But they aren’t biting. How strange!
Questions need to be asked but apparently it’s up to us to ask them, not the media. Ah but wait, i forgot. If you dare to ask a question of The One you might become Public Enemy #1, at least to the Obama-adoring and yet no doubt totally objective press corps. Your life might well be destroyed. No, not because you asked a bad question but because Obama might slip and fall into the trap of giving a truthful answer. Can’t have that. And can’t blame Obama. Blame everyone but Obama. Destroy everyone but The One and his friends. It should be a new law. But really, there’s no need. It’s already being enforced.
Let’s look on the bright side though. This at least is the kind of America that makes Ayers proud, and this is the kind of mainstream media that i’m sure Ayers appreciates. Who knows, perhaps with the way things are going this will turn into a country that will always make Ayers proud. He certainly has been working awfully hard to do just that, hasn’t he? What a lucky break for us that he hasn’t been wasting away in jail all these years.
Still, though, i think i’ll go ahead and risk asking a few questions. But only here. We should be safe here, at least for a few more months. Not that i expect any answers to be forthcoming. Sen. Obama is only running for President, after all. It’s not like he’s trying to start a plumbing business or something. Therefore no need to know anything about his past, well other than what he wrote in his books of course.
So why don’t we start with those books. And out of respect for the media why don’t we ask questions in the style of a journalist berating...er...interviewing a republican. Let’s get started then.
Sen. Obama, it’s looking more and more certain that Ayers ghostwrote your books. Come on, admit it. He did, didn’t he? And how long before that did your relationship with this angry, unrepentant bomber start? Might he not have recognized your potential during your Columbia years, when he just happened to be taking courses at a school right next to yours? Did he start working on you way back then? Or did it only start when you
both—coincidentally enough, i’m sure—happened to be living in the same neighborhood in Chicago? Building your career, honing your image, making connections, writing your books, shaping you for surely wholesome All-American reasons......isn’t that right, Mr. Obama?
And then of course he even launched your first foray into politics right in his own house, didn’t he? How proud he must have been that day. How excited. How expectant!
So what makes you tick, Sen. Obama? Wasn’t it Ayers that set you to ticking a long time ago? Hoping you’d keep on ticking all the way to the White House? If all this is true, then it will have turned out to be quite a worthwhile coup...er...project for the still unrepentant Ayers. Wouldn’t it? He must be swelling with pride all the time now. Mustn’t he? Perhaps feeling somewhat akin to a proud papa. Is he a papa figure to you, Mr. Obama?
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And in a few more weeks his Chosen One, his Trojan One, could be all set to be loaded into the White House. A gift from Ayers to America. We should be grateful, i’m sure. And we shouldn’t question it. No, we mustn’t do that. Ignore the ticking sound, folks. It’s nothing. Move along. Don’t look inside the package. Don’t question The One. Just go back to sleep.
Her goals and work product are referenced here: http://www.uicsociology.org/pamela-anne-quiroz.html
Ah, yes, invoke the magic word scholar and immediately turn a pile of dung into a gold brick. The alchemist's dream has come true at last.
Equally disturbing,
there is a poll midway of the article:
“Do you consider Bill Ayers a “domestic terrorist”?”
No 52%
Yes 48%
He said in 2001 that he didn’t do enough bombings! Sheesh - some people have the moral decency of a flea.
Scholar, my butt.
“He is just a superb individual.”
Yeah, if you like leftist creeps.
Conservatives a the NEW radicals. WE buck the prevailing atmosphere of leftism in schools, courts, congress, and the brainwashing media.
Cursed sticky BlackBerry keys!
Guys like that should be rooted out of academia — not lionized.
Just my opinion of course.
Total Crap! Just read Ayers Blog and you will see he is a communist through and through.
bttt
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