I'm not defending the guy's actions here, but what you've posted about Bill Ayers needs some clearing up:
Quote Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
On the other hand, how many people in the U.S. have associates like this:

-Leader of the 1960s and 70s domestic terrorist group Weatherman
Bill Ayers adamantly denies he was ever a terrorist, in part because they selected only military targets.
-"Kill all the rich people. ... Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents."
This was actually part of a joke, and Bill Ayers himself doesn't seem to think he said it. Yeah, those 70's radicals had a bizarre sense of humor.
-Participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972
True, but they did make every effort to not kill or injure anyone.
-Currently a professor of education at the University of Illinois
Well, at least he's not bombing stuff anymore.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/i...asp?indid=2169
I think Obama owes the U.S. another pretty speech.
Bill Ayers was never a close friend of Obama's. They served on a board together. Ayers donated to a couple of Obama's campaigns. That was pretty much it.

As far as your source, the information is filtered from this article:
No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen - New York Times
You should probably read it, since it was pretty distorted by the time it got to you. Ok, so the guy is probably a communist with a skewed view of the world, but that's not a crime. And he's admitted all his crimes and accepted the consequences of them. It's clear he hasn't done anything like that in at least 30 years, and Obama didn't associate with him until the 90s. I'm sure we've all associated with some shady people, but that doesn't mean we share their values.

By the way, Ayers has commented on the issue himself, in a much more nuanced way than your bullet-pointed description. He's a more complex person than you make him out to be.
http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/...sorry-i-think/
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