Quote Originally Posted by NoahsMommy View Post



I believe you can make excuses (truly valid ones) about a lot of things, but we CHOOSE who we spend our free time with. While open-mindedness is a good thing, associating with people that are dangerous or affiliated with danger/hate/evil will NEVER have a valid reason. We know a whole lot about the people we associate ourselves with...
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The thing that really turns me off is the "I was only 8 years old when Ayers was bombing shiat up" or his "That's not true" when confronted with the fact that he was in Ayers house to launch his 'career'. THe rev Wright problem? "I never heard him say anything about the U.S." Or, his ability to purchase a home with the help of Rezko.

I'd give him a break and would have considered voting for him-until he started to dodge the questions that came out of his associations-Why not man-up and get the doubt out into the open? Notice that all his buddies have gone to ground because they don't want to be held accountable for what they have said or done.

From Wiki-on the pub of his memoirs-
Much of the controversy about Ayers during the decade since 2000 stems from an interview he gave to The New York Times on the occasion of the memoir's publication.The reporter quoted him as saying "I don't regret setting bombs" and "I feel we didn't do enough", and, when asked if he would "do it all again," as saying "I don't want to discount the possibility." Ayers has not denied the quotes, but he protested the interviewer's characterizations in a Letter to the Editor published September 15, 2001: "This is not a question of being misunderstood or 'taken out of context', but of deliberate distortion"[/B]

LOLOL,
If I was BO I would have taken steps to make sure that the Ayers question would have never come up again. Of course, like any radical idiot, they become part of the 'system' that they plotted against for so long. THey found out that blowing themselves up and robbing banks put them in jail, where they were useless to their cause. That's the funniest part about old radical hippies- they sell out, but to keep their ideal, they clean up, take a bath and play it cool while they dream of taking down the same 'man' that they mirror so shamelessly.

All BO had to do was address the idiots that he was connected to. Just come out and say something contrite like "WA was a radical bomber in the 60's, I did have a connection with him and did launch my poli career at his home, I wasn't well versed in his background at the time and regret that there has been this kind of coverage in the media about that association"

No, Instead he acts like a lying school kid that was part of the window breaking spree at the local elementary school. "Well, It wasn't me.""I didn't know they were breaking windows until afterwards' "I didn't hear/see anything''

IT's a patently dishonest little sidestep and people are tagged as haters or racists when they push the issue.