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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 09:00 PM

I forgot to ask? Will you feed the cat? The male cat has one lost eye. It answers to :`Hear Goat Barn Peoples Cat. You milk goats? Thanks Barn Sweetie. Your sweet. Lobelia.

Some day stop over. Sweep the hovel? Give me a day warning?

I'll go hobble in the woods, you can feed logs to a wood stove.

Yodel Done sweetie! The place is all tidied up, and I'll limp back.

Monday, November 17, 2008 09:04 PM

AN Indonesian recollection of 1960's

I was an Indonesian high school student during the Vietnam war. Although far away, I did remember seeing photo's in the newspapers or maybe in the black-and-white TV then, about the massive demonstrations in the whole USA opposing the Vietnam war with its 1500 soldiers dead every month.

I never heard or see any photo or news about the bombings of Pentagon,until yesterday in the TV I see a clip of a long haired young Ayers,(I think, he DID look like a Che Guevara terrorist, or a drug addict hippie), and clips of burning buildings (not clear whether it was Pentagon, or Vietnam?).

well, he was a good-motivated (anti-war) activist with a wrong tactic, labelled terrorist.

But it was 40 years ago,he was old and changed now,becoming sane now from his insane years,(all his bombings futile, as it seems the demo's which end the war), short minded person, and have NO connection to today's politics or political leaders.

It is Palin now with her agitations pushing her fans to "Kill Obama!" which seems like an Extremist agitator (ending with terrorism, eg shooting Obama)

Monday, November 17, 2008 09:21 PM

We're a little OT, GC...my fault

But yodelayheehoooo, ole man.

Ole hen. Hah.

I gotta boyfriend. Kind of.

But you're sweet Salon poet man,

and we're friends at the least.

Somebody so gentle, I'd sweep your hovel, sure.

Everybody

loves

you.

Millions would've swept

and fed cat

and pulled every weed

we were so worried

Go take a pill but don't take

it personally.

My hair's white.

Brain's half gone but I

don't miss it.

You're proabably a

great grandpa, too.

As you were.

Peace movement.

Tired ole niks.

Monday, November 17, 2008 09:25 PM

Boelee. I agree. It's who we are today and tomorrow....

Those fancy dressed politico's are a non-human sorts of beast

The walrus in cool threads with bucked fang teeth. slurs. hates.

Hope to never have lug a heavy bleeding "liberal" or rt-wingers.

Try picking up a bloody animal who's a object of hates-targets.

Gads, an authoritarian may send you/me to die. We not eatable.

Gads, why 'um are so carnivore 'um kill for potato stew, you/me.

Inside the ghastly beast denies the diabolical shadow-side, gag.

Monday, November 17, 2008 09:31 PM

Juan, thanks for the clarifications

Now everything makes perfect sense.

Monday, November 17, 2008 09:34 PM

Lobelia. (nice. I needed that, and ask the lover you got to smack a love tap peck on your soft lips for me? same-same).

That was fun just fine loving you the way we did in public view.

Who care who sneers. It's a sneer not at you. It's a self-loathe.

Keep the hair white.

No henna shrub dye.

white, pink, viola- u.

Gotta get love, sleep.

Monday, November 17, 2008 09:35 PM

now... after the <i>election</i>

so

am i too understand bill ayers is a republican?

and

he held his mud till after the election

because he is a republican?

Monday, November 17, 2008 09:43 PM

Palin's Labeling Disorder

I appreciated this article and hearing from Bill Ayers after his name was dropped as a terrorist time and again by Palin. I saw the GMA "interview" but I couldn't help understand why everyone is not interviewed as Bill Ayers was. Palin for example, could have been interviewed about her assertions, what she knew, how she knew it and what evidence she had. But Palin had no clue-she just needed to incite fear in an already fearful base.Her lack of good judgement and qualifications were glaringly apparent.

On the "terrorist" note, Letterman did ask McCain about G. Gordon Liddy. In a dimissive lower voice, McCain said, "Oh,now, he did his time."

This blog is a review of our history, Mr. Ayers's history, a revisiting of the Vietnam war, meshed with facts and fallacies. Painful as it may be, we remember, so we don't continue the mistakes of the past. Mr. Ayers is correct, our focus has got to be the future-we can't ever stay silent again. Hopefully, politics have changed forever. To that end, I have some letters to send.

Monday, November 17, 2008 09:53 PM

bill ayers talks back?

in the vernacular of rachel maddow

talk me down

the election is over

the time to have helped diffuse a distorted truth was past by

now?

is bill ayers rearing his head to turn a bone and sell?

what commerce, what capitalism is this?

Monday, November 17, 2008 10:06 PM

Let him sit in his lofty perch spewing leftover garbage

to the impressionable young skulls full of mush. Some will have enough intelligence to see thru it. Joe Pyne said he'd give the libscum a one-way ticket to a socialist country if they'd go there.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 03:17 AM

Ayers - I'm not a terrorist

Bill Ayers admitted in an interview that he bombed buildings but he didn't want to kill anyone. If that isn't a terroist act what is?

He has tried to recast himself as a social activist it just doesn't pass the smell test.

the effort to reinvent him and other radicals from the antiwar movement that were invovled in violent activities likes Ayers defies common sense and good judgment. Ayers may be a darling in the academic world but he is just another left-over from the 60's

In addition people who thought like Ayers tried to murder two of my coworkers

Regards

Bob C.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 03:58 AM

The Obama media is leading us to the pit!

Another non-existing story is created by the Obama media, another terrorist, Ayers, is vindicated by the Obama media. We are heading to the pit!

boelee said:

“It is Palin now with her agitations pushing her fans to "Kill Obama!" which seems like an Extremist agitator (ending with terrorism, eg shooting Obama)”

The secrete Service investigated the incident, in spite that they were present, and it did not happen. Nobody said “Kill Obama”. He would have been arrested.

This is another example of ‘media created stories’. Of course the media that reported the alleged ‘incident’ never reported the findings of the Secret Service.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 04:10 AM

Please tell me what salt is good for if it loses its taste!

Placement Exam said:

“Mr. Ayers is correct, our focus has got to be the future-we can't ever stay silent again. Hopefully, politics have changed forever. To that end, I have some letters to send.”

50 years after, the Nazi war criminals are chased around the world, taken from their ‘respectable’ lives and bought to justice.

But the Obama lovers give the credential of a ‘distinguished professor’ to a terrorist that killed and planned to kill Americans.

Is not Shapiro a Jewish last name?

Please tell me what salt is good for if it loses its taste!

No wonder Obama will sit with Ahmenidajad!

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