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Very interesting.
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It's much worse than "interesting"...
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In the months before Ayers' memoir was published on September 10, 2001, the author gave numerous interviews with newspaper and magazine writers in which he defended his overall history of radical words and actions.
Ayers was asked by an interviewer for the PBS television program Independent Lens, "How do you feel about what you did? Would you do it again under similar circumstances?" He replied:
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I’ve thought about this a lot. Being almost 60, it’s impossible to not have lots and lots of regrets about lots and lots of things, but the question of did we do something that was horrendous, awful? ... I don’t think so. I think what we did was to respond to a situation that was unconscionable.
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That's a BIG problem Obama supporters push aside when they hear Obama say that he shouldn't be be criticized for hanging with a guy who did stuff 40 years ago...
AYERS IS NOT SORRY FOR HIS ACTIONS...HE STILL BELIEVES HE WAS JUST...
Would you not only be friends with, but work on a charity fund AND a board AND kickstart your political career at the house of a guy who does't feel sorry for raping a young child?...How about a guy who killed his parents and tells people he did the right thing?...
I don't think so...
If Ayers was truly sorry for his actions and was completely rehabilitated and rallied against people who thought and acted like he once did, there'd be a shot at this being a non-issue...Think of a gang-banger who goes around telling kids not to join gangs or a former junkie doing school assemblies speaking about the dangers of addiction...in fact, that would be pretty commendable..
But Ayers is no such person...
He still defends his actions and those of the Weathermen and is totally unrepentant for planting bombs and having his organization kill policemen...
And if Obama says he didn't know this while not only working with him,
but also giving him hundreds of thousands of dollars while he was the president of the Annenberg Challenge charity fund, then he is blatantly ignorant or downright lying...