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Friends of Obama

May 7, 2008

From Bill Ayres 

”I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. ”I feel we didn’t do enough.” Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970’s as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago. The long curly locks in his Wanted poster are shorn, though he wears earrings. He still has tattooed on his neck the rainbow-and-lightning Weathermen logo that appeared on letters taking responsibility for bombings. And he still has the ebullient, ingratiating manner, the apparently intense interest in other people, that made him a charismatic figure in the radical student movement.

Now he has written a book, ”Fugitive Days” (Beacon Press, September). Mr. Ayers, who is 56, calls it a memoir, somewhat coyly perhaps, since he also says some of it is fiction. He writes that he participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, the Pentagon in 1972. But Mr. Ayers also seems to want to have it both ways, taking responsibility for daring acts in his youth, then deflecting it.

From Glenn Beck

Andrew McCarthy prosecutor in the 93 Trade Center Bombings: McCARTHY: Yeah, I used to hear that when I was a prosecutor, too, you know. They used to say you can’t — that’s just guilt by association to which, you know, usually before people got convicted, I would say, well, you know, try proving conspiracy without association, you know. I mean, it’s sort of an element that’s of some importance. And obviously we don’t condemn somebody simply because of who he associates with but, you know, people are drawn to each other for a reason, and I think there’s a theme that runs through all of these troublesome connections that Obama has and frankly he’s somewhat lucky, I think, even though you — if that’s a strange way to put it, that so much of this analysis has been infected by the racial element of right because I think the racial component is actually the least important of the things that strings this altogether.
Beck:I was amazed at this guy that he is allowed to be — or that he’s, not allowed, that he’s so accepted by the people in Barack Obama’s company.

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