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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 05:40 AM

    Bill Ayers and related matters

    Thanks, not for the first time, To Walter Shapiro for an enlightening piece of work---and to Bill Ayers for speaking so frankly. I note the discussion about John McCain's (relative) restraint in respect to the Reverend Wright, guess that the Senator was in part moved by Reverend Wright's service as a Navy corpsman with the Marines in Vietnam. I also note the discussion of "honor" and venture to point out that it is not an easy or fixed concept. "In Meine Ehre Ist Meine Treue" was, I think, the slogan of the SS ("My Loyalty Is My Honor")---

    suggesting only that "honor" has a multiplicity of uses.

    —birnbaum Read birnbaum's other letters

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