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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.
By Walter Shapiro

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  • Monday, November 17, 2008 07:57 AM

    the system worked -- or not -- the anti-war movement of the 1960 has become mythologized and

    coopted into the "ain't America grand, the system worked" narrative that encompasses such things as Nixon's (eventual resignation, no trial), the Iran Contra investigation (damn few prosecutions of a bunch of criminal types who later staffed the GWBush administration) and the 2000 election (because the supreme court ruling apparently prevented rioting in the streets, or something) ...

    The anti-war movement did make a difference ... but the big boys stopped the war only when they realized it was politically expedient to do so ... and only years after taking the "winds out of the sails" of the movement by beginning "negotiations"...

    yeah that thing about "doomed to repeat it" applies here too ... long live Obama who voted no ... what a difference a day makes, or not.

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