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The Hillary Game:  Who Said It?

And on William Ayers, which was Clinton’s answer and which was the musings of Sean Hannity?

But Ayers’ controversial past calls into question just how close they really are. Sen. Barack Obama served as a director for the non-profit Woods Fund of Chicago from 1999 to 2002 alongside William Ayers. In addition, both Ayers and Obama have served together at various public speaking engagements.  In an article that was published in "The New York Times" on September 11, 2001, the same day we were attacked on American soil by Al-Qaeda, Ayers is quoted as saying in "The Times," quote, "I don’t regret sending bombs. I don’t feel we did enough."  It seems William Ayers just wants his past to go away, but the admitted terrorist still refuses to apologize, and the fact that he’s an associate with Barack Obama demands that he be scrutinized and questioned by the American people.

I also believe that Senator Obama served on a board with Mr. Ayers for a period of time, the Woods Foundation, which was a paid directorship position.  And, if I’m not mistaken, that relationship with Mr. Ayers on this board continued after 9/11 and after his reported comments, which were deeply hurtful to people in New York and, I would hope, to every American, because they were published on 9/11, and he said that he was just sorry they hadn’t done more.  And what they did was set bombs.  And in some instances, people died.  So it is — I think it is, again, an issue that people will be asking about.

Don’t worry about your score because the answers are all the same: What’s the difference?

The country was polarized, traumatized, in a state of near Civil War – Hawks vs Doves. Dr. King’s non-violent Civil Rights Movement died with him and revolutionary groups arose in multiple foci. The people in these groups were educated, articulate, and saw themselves as Saviors [I guess that’s always true]. The SDS was an antiwar group, and the Weathermen were its most radical faction. They felt that the only way to get America to see the carnage of Viet Nam was to bring the war home, so they bombed serveral buildings. It was a logic we know now from al Qaeda – misguided zealots. One of the people in the Weather Underground was William Ayres who was married to one of their leaders, Burnardine Dohrn. They stayed hidden until 1980, when they turned themselves in. They now work in the area of human rights – him as a Professor of Education, she as a Professor of Law.

Some people died as a result of the Weathermen’s activity – several of them in an accidental bomb explosion, several policemen in a bank robbery. On the other side, a lot of people died too – 58,000 American soldiers and untold Vietnamese. Both poles of this dichotome were in the wrong – way in the wrong. History says that in the loudest possible way. And in the discolored minds of the Weathermen, they were fighting for people like John McCain. And in the discolored minds of Johnson and Nixon, they were fighting for … [I don’t exactly know how to end this sentence] something about Democracy? Whatever the case, there were two wrong things back then.

Obama was a child then. Later, as a young adult, he was on a board with William Ayres – an older, wiser William Ayers, now a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Our government is filled with people who were actually part of the Nixon Administration, actively involved in those Hawk days. Our government is filled with people who were actually part of the Reagan Administration, actively involved in those Iran-Contra days.