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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 04:36 PM

    @Walter_Map

    He's right, you should find yourself a girlfriend, or a boyfriend, or a puppy (not a cocker spaniel) or whatever turns you on, because, as my Grandmother would have said, you are behaving like "A MISERABLE PERSON."

    Did you see the towers fall, Walter?

    Did that make you happy?

    You remind me of the "New Yorker" cartoon: two old ladies in black standing over a grave. One says to the other "I told him it wouldn't kill him to be nice for once in his life, and I was wrong."

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