TigerHawk:
There are those who argue that it is unfair to attack Obama for these friendships; Dohrn and Ayers are dug into the bourgeoisie now, and all sorts of respectable people -- big firm Chicago lawyers, well-known professors, and Hyde Park soccer moms -- are also friends with them. Supposedly reformed radicals from the 1960s, even the violent ones, are chic now among people who think it is cute that their children wear "Che" t-shirts. But most Americans -- those who are not members of the academic left or their hangers-on -- are not so willing to forgive the radicals who tore up our country between 1967 and 1975 or so. It is more than legitimate to ask somebody who wants to lead our nation why he is not only willing to forgive such people, but befriend them and enlist them in his political career.
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Bill Ayers: bomber in the 60s, radical anti-American in 2008
