"If Ayers is a terrorist, then McCain is an adulterer and I am a 6th grader."

[leftchick]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-zorn-14-oct14,0,4194430.column

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"With all forgiven," Royko wrote, the former radicals "have rejoined society. … now working for a good cause, improving public education. He's become a leader in the so-called school reform program."

In July 1993, then, the Tribune reported that Royko made nice with Ayers and his wife at a party. "I thought, 'Wow, she's a good-looking chick,' " Royko said about Ayers' wife, Bernardine Dohrn, also a former radical. "Anyway, she was pleasant."

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Note the implicit present tense in this and other attacks on Obama. Not "former," not "one-time," but now: "Ayers is a terrorist," as one commentator in this newspaper put it the other day, amplifying vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's charge that Obama is "palling around with terrorists."

Neither Ayers nor his wife was espousing or practicing terrorist acts in the 1990s when Obama met them. They haven't committed or advocated violent protest since the early 1970s.

If Ayers is a terrorist, then McCain is an adulterer and I am a 6th grader.

Perhaps history will one day judge harshly all of those who participated in educational reform efforts or other civic projects in which Ayers was involved. This will include former University of Illinois and Northwestern University presidents; top honchos at Ameritech, Continental Bank and the Field Museum; and even the former publisher of the Tribune.

[seemslikeadream]

1. But McCain IS an adulterer

:hi:

[leftchick]

2. why yes he is

:hi:

[CoffeeCat]

3. Thanks for posting that...

...it's so true, and Obama needs to say something like that during the debate.

A girl can dream, can't she?

I have to say...your Jesus picture is just priceless. Man, that gave me a laugh.
I'd put that on my car, but I'm afraid I'd be run into the ditch.

[leftchick]

6. yep

I wish I could have it as a sticker too but my boys go to a Catholic school across the street! :spank:

I do have a Catholic for Obama sticker. :)

[burythehatchet]

4. Where's Vicki Iseman? Raptured away?

[riverdeep]

5. They use the word 'unrepentant' for just that purpose.

Frankly, I don't know if he is, and I don't know if it matters in this context. Obama was not influenced by the man, had a casual acquaintance type relationship, and many other people in Chicago, Dem and Pub, had the same relationship. In a sane world, that's the end of the story.