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Monday, November 17, 2008 12:00 AM

Bill Ayers talks back

Sarah Palin called him a terrorist, Barack Obama called him an acquaintance. A Salon editor who knew Ayers back when talks to the ex-Weather Underground member turned Republican talking point.
By Walter Shapiro

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  • Monday, November 17, 2008 11:08 AM

    @ JKP1000

    You wrote about terrorism on your dime. As a taxpayer, I too think about how we're culpable, since we all funded the torture and the mass murder that's wrapped in the American flag and called war. We're all terrorists, at least all of us who fund the terrors of torture and war.

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