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"I say that Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist and Shapiro in this article presents Ayers in the best possible light and did not ask him about their plans for killing soldiers and their dates at a dance with a nail bomb that exploded and killed some of the Ayers’ accomplices."
- Ayers is not sorry for many of the things he did 35 years ago. Nobody is arguing that he is. The specific bombing incident to which you refer had nothing to do with the point of this article, which was to examine the realtionship between Obama and Ayers, the effects of Ayers on the campaign, and the campaign's effects on Ayers. The event to which you refer took place long before those two ever met (when Obama was a child), and is out of the scope of the interview. Do you understand what I mean by "scope?" You want the article to be about something that it is not about. This would be like me being upset that an interview with John McCain regarding his time as a POW didn't focus on McCain's involvement in the Keating 5 - while the Keating 5 issue is a worthy topic, it has nothing to do with McCain's life as a POW. The bomb incident in the Village has been examined at length in numerous books and other articles, all readily available for public consumption. Shapiro didn't wast time on doing, yet again, work that has already been done. If you want to learn more, get off your lazy ass.
"I further say that this interview is an attempt to whitewash both Ayers and Obama."
- Whitewash Obama? Of what? What crime is Obama guilty of? Please be specific. I once had a roomate who got a DUI. Guess what - that didn't mean that I automatically had one too just because I "palled around" with the guy.
"We are heading into an idyllic America under the rule of Obama, The Messiah, where unrepentant terrorists become “distinguished” professors."
- The ONLY people who refer to Obama as some sort of Messiah are ignorant, frightened Right-wingers. I have never heard anybody outside of the Right refer to him as such. Just because you want to think that everybody who voted for Obama is a raving lunatic doesn't make it so. Oh, and Ayers became a distingushed professor long before Obama became a presidential candidate, so what's your point?
