ChicagoTrib's Eric Zorn:"If Ayers is a terrorist, then McCain is an adulterer and I am a 6th grader"

sabra

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Wed Oct-15-08 12:22 PM
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ChicagoTrib's Eric Zorn:"If Ayers is a terrorist, then McCain is an adulterer and I am a 6th grader"

http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2008/10/mccains-ayers-i.html

McCain's Ayers isn't the one known here---If he was a terrorist in '90s, we missed it

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Mike Royko thought Bill Ayers was a jerk.

In November 1990 the late Tribune columnist reflected mockingly on Ayers' days as "flaming radical leader" of a fringe group opposed to the Vietnam War and his transition to "useful citizen."

"With all forgiven," Royko wrote, the former radicals "have rejoined society. � now working for a good cause, improving public education. He's become a leader in the so-called school reform program."

In July 1993, then, the Tribune reported that Royko made nice with Ayers and his wife at a party. "I thought, 'Wow, she's a good-looking chick,' " Royko said about Ayers' wife, Bernardine Dohrn, also a former radical. "Anyway, she was pleasant."

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These are only two of 60 references to Ayers in the 1990s I found in local news archives available on Nexis. Twenty one of them make reference to his unseemly past�it was no secret�but 39 do not.

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And if any of the pillars of society who helped oversee the Chicago Annenberg Challenge education grants ever resigned or otherwise tried to distance themselves from Ayers, who played a key role in securing those grants, the available historical record is silent on the matter.

Revisionist history being promoted by Republican John McCain's presidential campaign is that Democrat Barack Obama "worked with terrorist Bill Ayers" when Obama chaired the Chicago Annenberg board, whose meetings Ayers attended, and served with him on another board.

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If Ayers is a terrorist, then McCain is an adulterer and I am a 6th grader.

Perhaps history will one day judge harshly all of those who participated in educational reform efforts or other civic projects in which Ayers was involved. This will include former University of Illinois and Northwestern University presidents; top honchos at Ameritech, Continental Bank and the Field Museum; and even the former publisher of the Tribune.

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GreenPartyVoter

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Wed Oct-15-08 12:29 PM
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1. Erm.. that is one confusing line there

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mohc

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Wed Oct-15-08 12:32 PM
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2. Once an X, always an X

That is basically what he is saying. John McCain was once an adulterer therefore always will be. The guy was once a 6th grader, therefore always will be. That last one especially shows the absurdity of the "Once an X" rule, which he then uses to say you can not really consider Ayers a terrorist anymore.

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GreenPartyVoter

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Wed Oct-15-08 12:33 PM
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4. Oh, that clears it up. :^)

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Cha

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Wed Oct-15-08 01:08 PM
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9. Brilliant! Thanks for the Xample!

And thank Eric Zorn!:patriot: :patriot:

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endthewar

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Wed Oct-15-08 12:33 PM
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3. People change over time, so let's not live in the past.

That's the message. :hi:

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GreenPartyVoter

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Wed Oct-15-08 12:33 PM
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5. Thanks! :^)

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chiefofclarinet

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Wed Oct-15-08 12:35 PM
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6. Well, he got one of three right...

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peace13

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Wed Oct-15-08 12:35 PM
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7. Too funny.

And I'm 15, working for .75 an hour. To be sure, I was paying Social Security out of that. Go figure.

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Cha

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Wed Oct-15-08 12:44 PM
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8. Rec'd! Get it out there!

mccain is a desperate rabid rat.

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