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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.

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  • Tuesday, November 18, 2008 05:28 PM

    Terrorist gets more Free Publicity Extra Extra!!!

    The state of our nation has been turned inside out---

    Let's see Campean and Ramos are in jail because they shot a fleeing drug dealer illegal alien and Bill Ayers is out peddling books. Obama and Ayers make strange bedfellows.

    A domestic terrorist gets more coverage from Salon than the DEA agents who are actually doing there job. Why don't you do a lengthy article on them.?

    If Americans are too lazy to learn their history then they are doomed to relive the past.

    The least informed population voted for the candidate with the least experience.

    I do not need to be a person who was of age in the 1960s to understand that terrorism is terrorism. Maybe some of your readers need to actually have experienced things first hand, but as Obama has said , " I was only eight at the time," I think even if people had pictures of Ayers and Obama in a hug or slapping each other on the back the public couldn't have cared less. Too long ago, water under the bridge etc. Too

    bad that Ethics is not taught anymore. The American public could use a strong dose of what is right and wrong.

    Many people protested the war in Vietnam peacefully w/o bombing government building.

    Pardon the DEA agents and boycott Ayers. Sometimes things in this world are black and white.

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