I just read the NYTimes Op-Ed by William Ayers - what a class act [View All]

[LynneSin]

You know, this guy could have taken advantage of having his name tossed in the headlights the way that McCain/Palin did but instead he knew the best thing for him to do is just shut up and stay out of those headlights.

And now, over a month after the election, Mr. Ayers wrote an amazing op-ed piece which shows what a class act it his. Sarah Palin should hang her head in shame with the way she kept trying to discredit Obama with such a weak association. Even Hillary Clinton knew better than to use that during her campaign.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/opinion/06ayers.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

The Real Bill Ayers
IN the recently concluded presidential race, I was unwillingly thrust upon the stage and asked to play a role in a profoundly dishonest drama. I refused, and here’s why.

Unable to challenge the content of Barack Obama’s campaign, his opponents invented a narrative about a young politician who emerged from nowhere, a man of charm, intelligence and skill, but with an exotic background and a strange name. The refrain was a question: “What do we really know about this man?”

Secondary characters in the narrative included an African-American preacher with a fiery style, a Palestinian scholar and an “unrepentant domestic terrorist.” Linking the candidate with these supposedly shadowy characters, and ferreting out every imagined secret tie and dark affiliation, became big news.

I was cast in the “unrepentant terrorist” role; I felt at times like the enemy projected onto a large screen in the “Two Minutes Hate” scene from George Orwell’s “1984,” when the faithful gathered in a frenzy of fear and loathing.

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President-elect Obama and I sat on a board together; we lived in the same diverse and yet close-knit community; we sometimes passed in the bookstore. We didn’t pal around, and I had nothing to do with his positions. I knew him as well as thousands of others did, and like millions of others, I wish I knew him better.