Jim Geraghty notes Chicago Mayer, Richard Daley’s effort to suggest Senator Obama’s friendship with William Ayers was no big deal:
Daley comments: "It’s really unfortunate. They’re friends. So what? People do make mistakes in the past. You move on. This is a new century, a new time. He reflects back and he’s been making a strong contribution to our community."
A few mistakes in his past? Andy McCarthy reminds us about who, exactly, Ayers is:
Bombing the Pentagon is one of those “mistakes” that people make? Bombing the U.S. Capitol, too? And a police headquarters? Most of the people I know of who’ve made such “mistakes” now receive their mail at the United States “Supermax” Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.And Ayers hasn’t “moved on.” When he “reflects back,” he brazenly says he’s sorry only that he didn’t do more in the way of terrorism.
But from the perspective of much of the mainstream Left, Ayers is an ally. In this context, we should remember comments that the current Publisher of the New York Times made a couple of years ago, addressing college graduates:
’I will start with an apology,’ Sulzberger told the graduates, who wore black gowns and hats with yellow tassels. ’When I graduated in 1974, my fellow students and I ended the Vietnam War and ousted President Nixon. OK. OK. That’s not quite true. Maybe there were larger forces at play.’"
He went on to lament that his generation "had seen the horror and futility of war and smelled the stench of government corruption. Our children, we vowed, would never know that. So, well, I am sorry." ...
"It wasn’t supposed to be this way. You weren’t supposed to be graduating in an America fighting a misbegotten war in a foreign land. You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a world where we are still fighting for fundamental human rights, be it the rights of immigrants to start a new life, the right of gays to marry or the rights of women to choose."
To the people who run the Times, and to those who share their perspective, Ayers is only slightly out of the mainstream.
Well, I'm on NLT record as saying that Republicans need to talk about McCain, about policy, and about three-branches-Democratic, and thus to give the endless Obama-talk a rest, but man, this guy and his associates are the gift that just keeps giving! How can we stop Obama-talking? Over at NRO, they've been tearing it up on Obama's ridiculous dodges and preposterous accusations of "liar" regarding his opposition to closing the infanticide loophole, and then there's this gathering Bill Ayers/UIC Library scandal! It just won't stop!
Do the Dems YET see how their flagrantly biased MSM, by being ideologically disinclined to do invesitgative reporting of and aggressive interviewing of major Dems results in the de facto non-vetting of their candidates?
Obama went to Berlin to prattle on about "walls coming down." But one "wall" that isn't likely to fall is that one erected around the records of Obama's doings with his close friend, -------------------------------the creepy, morally repugnant terrorist, Bill Ayers.