DISQUS

Bob · 1 year ago

I hope that Obama folows the Tom Hayden tactic but I doubt that they are as stupid as Hayden.

Bob Hawkins · 1 year ago

"[C]haracter assassination and slander of Bill Ayers" is an oxymoron. He's like Lenny "The Quahog" Paradiso, the Boston serial killer who sued someone for libel. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the Quahog was libel-proof, as it was impossible for anyone to make him look worse than he was.

b · 1 year ago

What's truly amazing is that as evil and loathsome as Ayers is, his wife is even worse.

kevin whited · 1 year ago

** There's your debate moment **

Nah, I fully expect rambling about greed on Wall Street and special interests.

This campaign seems incapable of landing a direct punch, although I share your advocacy of trying it.

riot_nrrd · 1 year ago

I caught parts of John McCain's rally in Albuquerque today. He's certainly on the attack right now and is more animated than he's been in some time... We'll see if he's able to level a direct hit tomorrow night.

" Let me reply in the plainest terms I know: I don't need lessons in telling the truth to the American people. And were I to ever need improvement in that regard, I wouldn't seek advice from a Chicago politician."

"For a guy who's already authored two memoirs, he's not exactly an open book."

pchuck · 1 year ago

It’s true that Professor Ayers participated passionately in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, as did hundreds of thousands of Americans...

Tim McVeigh, passionate participant. Okay.

Steve62 · 1 year ago

By all means. Let's have a national debate over whether it was appropriate for Obama to siphon $100 million intended to improve black kids' education to lefty hate groups teaching them to hate other races instead. So they had no measurable educational improvement.

And let's have a debate over "appropriate" education. It's amazing how many academics are attempting to hold Mugabe's and Hugo Chavez' water, still today.

tommay · 1 year ago

This guy should have been put in the chair and shouldn't be breathing the air that I do. Put him to sleep.

Damian · 1 year ago

"Professor Ayers participated passionately in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, as did hundreds of thousands of Americans"

-- I must have missed the hundreds of thousands of Americans making bombs, blowing policemen to bits, etc. I thought it was just a handful of left-wing terrorists.

Dennis J. Weipert · 1 year ago

Hang him and his wife from a lamp post.

John Shearer · 1 year ago

"All citizens, but particularly teachers and scholars, are called upon to challenge orthodoxy, dogma, and mindless complacency" so long as it doesn't involve the "character assassination and slander of Bill Ayers and other people who have known Obama", in which case the "the inevitable clash of ideas that follows" must be "crushed".

Jim now in Bingo · 1 year ago

I just loved the bit where they say "All citizens, but particularly teachers and scholars, are called upon to challenge orthodoxy, dogma, and mindless complacency, to be skeptical of authoritative claims, to interrogate and trouble the given and the taken-for-granted."

Absolutely hilarious given that there's no place in American where "orthodoxy, dogma, and mindless complacency" etc are more in evidence than in academia. And I suspect it could be worst of all in departments/schools of education.

Mikey NTH · 1 year ago

Jim now in Bingo:

Right you are. It can be said like this -

"Go stick it to the man, man!"

"You are the man, you idiot!"

And Mr. Ayers and Miss Dohrn were nothing more than the spoiled children of the man, indulging in another temper-tantrum against mommy and daddy.

No Obama! · 1 year ago

I can't believe that anyone would ever defend the actions of a "pig" like Ayers and his "pig" wife Dohrn. These people should have been given the death penalty for their actions against The United States of America! Blowing up our buildings and trying to kill innocent lives. It sounds like the 911 terrorists plot and tragedy against our country. How dare any person, teacher or other ever come to the rescue of these terrorists Ayer and Dohrn. Face it Obama lovers that Obama used everybody in his path to get to where he is today. Nothing mattered to him because he throws everybody under the bus after getting where and what he wants. He threw Rev. Wright under the bus along with Ayers, Father Phleger, Tony Rezko. Obama even threw his own white grandmother under the bus calling her a typical white woman afraid of Black men. Obama has used the race card more than everyone! Obama can not ever explain his ways instead he blames the people for questioning his past relationships with these "bad" people. Listen up America and especially you teachers....Obama is bad for this country and he has his own liberal agenda. Look at his record and that speaks for itself. Has Mr. Obama done anything for Illinois while he has been a Senator? Why him? What the hell does change and hope mean if it is loosing our America! I do not trust Obama with my America....no way. No Obama! Ayers and Obama were pals and the last laugh will be Obama's if he gets in you stupid liberals!

Dantes · 1 year ago

People here are Onion satirists, right?

Jeez...What a bunch of Kool aid drinkers. Ayers is a Murdiering SOB, and what I don't understand, is why he is not in prison.

Anyway this site does not reflect well on teachers. Pull children out of public schools, pronto

BadLiberal · 1 year ago

I left 13 endorsements on the site, from fine up standing citizens like Explodey Beheady and "it blowed up REAL good".

Steve J. · 1 year ago

there's no place in American where "orthodoxy, dogma, and mindless complacency" etc are more in evidence than in academia.

YOU have obviously never had the pleasure of attending a college or university.

Jim now in Bingo · 1 year ago

Attend one? Heck I teach at one. I've spent the bleeding last 20 years in universities as an undergrad, grad student, and teacher, so um I've got a bit of experience on that front.

Steve J. · 1 year ago

Ayers is a Murdiering SOB, and what I don't understand, is why he is not in prison.

Ayers didn't murder anyone and if you don't understand why he never spent time in jail or prison,
you shouldn't comment about him.

orrinj · 1 year ago

Diana Oughton, Ted Gold, and Terry Robbins

Perry · 1 year ago

"...and if you don't understand why he never spent time in jail or prison,"

His Daddy was very rich, powerful, and well connected to Chicago machine.

Bryan · 1 year ago

Osama bin Laden didn't personally murder anyone either. Neither did Charles Manson. How does Ayers not personally placing the bombs make him any less complicit in the murders? He knew the bombs were being built and he knew what they were going to be used for.

JEM · 1 year ago

My only solace is in knowing that a special place in hell awaits Ayers and those who would defend him, including our democratic presidential nominee and his caring and compassionate bride. I realize most of them don't believe in the concept, though I doubt that will help them much once they realize their mistake.

Larry Fielding · 1 year ago

Interesting comparison with McCarthy. Turns out, in retrospect, that he was absolutely correct about the communists in the Federal Government. The names on his list later turned up in classified documents that the Soviets released after the fall of communism. I wonder what else history will vindicate?

adlibn · 1 year ago

ah, excuse me educated person, in fact slavery is still practiced to this day. Just not in the U.S., thanks to the Republicans and no thanks to the Democrats. And by the way, why is it slanderous to call Bill Ayers a terrorist? That is a perfectly legitimate description of the miscreant.

No Obama! · 1 year ago

Timothy McVie + Bill Ayers = both american radical terrorists, Bill Ayers + Obama=friends and associates. What is wrong with this picture? a terrorist and a presidential candidate, close ties! Reach across that aisle, table and keep showing your lack of judgement Mr. Obama.