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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 08:51 PM

    I hate to have to interject, Mister Map

    I do not like the corrupt Republicans like Stevens. Most of us don't. But you don't like his most effective foe, Sarah Palin, either, because you are a knee jerk, nasty, leftoid partisan, aren't you?

    Remember the Republican pig, Senator Packwood, who used to try to feel up women in the senate elevators? He was drummed out, and so were many other corrupt repugs. Remember how Bill Buckley drummed Pat the Rat Buchanon out? That bigot will never speak at a Republican Convention again.

    But you guys are like the teachers' unions, always protecting and even honoring your worst scumbags like that Jefferson guy. The feds found packs of hundred dollar bills in his freezer, and you rallied around him. Remember all the wonderful laws you passed to protect women from sexual harassment? Clinton broke every one of those laws in spades, and lied before a grand jury. Did you ask him to go away the way we asked Nixon to go away?

    You are a fraud, mister map.

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