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The real Ayers issue: it's about revolution, not terrorism.(2008 V)(Ayers, Bill)

Article from: National Review Article date: November 03, 2008 Author: McCarthy, Andrew C.

'LA educacion es revolucion!" Bill Ayers, the former Weatherman terrorist who is Barack Obama's friend and "education reform" collaborator, was opening the World Education Forum in Venezuela. It was just two years ago, November 2006. As a beaming Hugo Chavez looked on, Ayers roused a throng of "invited guests, comrades," touting the world's classrooms as the frontline for the Left's anti-American revolution.

Ayers has never made a secret of the fact that he is not just a man of the Left but a revolutionary. The revolution in the classroom, he repeatedly and defiantly ...

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Bill Ayers Is a Nice Guy

Posted Oct 15, 08 9:37 AM CDT in Opinion,  Politics 

Bill Ayers Is a Nice Guy
Source: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

(Newser) – In a desperate attempt to link Barack Obama to a 1960s culture war he’s too young to remember, John McCain has spent his last shred of political capital attacking Bill Ayers, Obama’s supposed terrorist pal. “I can personally attest to the idiocy of it all,” writes Thomas Frank in the Wall Street Journal, “because I am a friend of Mr. Ayers.”

“Bill’s got a lot of friends,” Frank assures us. “He may once have been wanted by the FBI” but since then he’s “become such a good citizen that he ought to be an honorary Eagle Scout.” Ayers is a widely esteemed professor, a member of countless foundations, and a tireless charity volunteer. Attacking so harmless a man isn’t putting “country first,” it’s old-fashioned demagoguery, wriets Frank.

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