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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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  • Monday, November 17, 2008 11:01 AM

    @ Juan Enrique

    "As for Ayers, the bomb that killed his comrades was full with antipersonnel artifacts like nails and it was destined to be exploded in a dance for soldiers and their dates. That it did not kill hundreds of them was purely providential, that day God had mercy on the innocent.

    Now the media, including the interviewer from Salon, is silent about that."

    Silent? Everybody knows about this, including you. Why would the interviewer waste time asking questions about an event that was very accurately documented a long time ago? Plenty of information is available about the event. Use the Google. Has it occurred to you that it wasn't the point of the article to discuss that event?

    And if you really believe that innocents were spared due to divine intervention, then isn't it also fair to say that the same omnipotent/omnicient diety prompted those individuals to create the bomb in the first place? There! Nobody to blame but God! Boy, that was easy!

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