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by Michael Miner
Barack Obama is on friendly terms with Bill Ayers, even though, back in the day, Ayers was a Weatherman who “bombed the U.S. Capitol, a bathroom in the Pentagon, and even cased out the White House.” The Sun-Times regrets that Ayers “remains sadly unreflective about his Weatherman days, as revealed in his memoir Fugitive Days. . . . But Ayers has since followed in the footsteps of the great Chicago social worker Jane Addams, crusading for education and juvenile justice reform. His 1997 book, A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court, has been praised for exposing how Cook County’s juvenile justice system all but eliminates a child’s chance for redemption.”
Having gone so far as to compare Ayers to Jane Addams, the Sun-Times beat a swift retreat to a shrug. “Ayers,” the editorial summed up, is nothing more than an aging lefty with a foolish past who is doing good.”
I admired Fugitive Days for answering the $64 question, “What were they http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3407?" To me, his refusal to disassociate himself from his old self made the book credible, though others wanted something more ashamed and repentant. At any rate, a few days after the book was published 9-11 happened. That same morning, the New York Times carried an interview with Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn that began with Ayers saying, “I don’t regret setting bombs. . . . we didn’t do enough.” The book was damned and disappeared. Writing about William F. Buckley a few days ago, I quoted conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg scowling at the Obama-Ayers relationship. How come, Goldberg wondered, “being a radical means never having to say you’re sorry”?
Is Ayers, for all his good works, unapologetic and unreflective?
http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/news-bites/2008/03/03/who-bill-ayers/