Opinion: William Ayers Is Still All About The Revolution, Man

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“Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country.” - William Ayers, after learning he would be prosecuted for his bombing spree as a member of the Weather Underground.

From Sol Stern, via Powerline:

THE BOMBER AS SCHOOL REFORMER

Calling Bill Ayers a school reformer is a bit like calling Joseph Stalin an agricultural reformer.

For instance, at a November 2006 education forum in Caracas, Venezuela, with President Hugo Chávez at his side, Ayers proclaimed his support for “the profound educational reforms under way here in Venezuela under the leadership of President Chávez. We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution.

"I look forward to seeing how you continue to overcome the failings of capitalist education as you seek to create something truly new and deeply humane.” Ayers concluded his speech by declaring that “Venezuela is poised to offer the world a new model of education—a humanizing and revolutionary model whose twin missions are enlightenment and liberation,” and then, as in days of old, raised his fist and chanted: “Viva Presidente Chávez! Viva la Revolucion Bolivariana! Hasta la Victoria Siempre!”

By the way, Tom Brokaw, who will be hosting tonight's debate between Obama and McCain, picked up the term 'educational reformer' for Ayers and will most likely refer to him as such.

But Ayers is so much more. He is education with a bullet.

So let's break it all down.

Much has been made of the relationship between Barack Obama, William Ayers and Ayer's wife, former FBI Top Tenner Bernardine Dohrn.

Questioned about the relationship in a primary debate, Obama stated that Ayers committed his crimes 40 years ago, when Obama was just eight years old.

That may have been enough for the Obama-cheerleading MSM, for whom the less of Ayers is heard about the better, and are loath to ask the Messiah tough questions on the subject, preferring to skewer VP candidate Sarah Palin on issues of far less importance than the close relationship of a self-declared American HAMAS member with a presidential candidate.

What else is new?

First, from a purely political POV, one must ask why ANY American politician would retain a relationship with a person he or she found to be a former known domestic terrorist. Second, Ayer's statement that "we didn't do enough," referring to his former organization's goal of revolution and overthrow pretty much tanks Obama's 'eight years old' claim. Ayers made that reprehensible statement on 9/11 of all days, and Obama knew it. How could he have not?

Yet he refrains from throwing Ayers under the political bus. Why?

The man threw bombs forty years ago, claimed on 9/11 he didn't do enough, and from a recent report on statements Ayers made at an 'educational conference' featuring Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, his Che Guevara-like revolutionary zeal has not abated either.

Ayers goes on a bombing spree forty years ago, with the express intent of overthrowing the US government.
He escapes justice on the bombings, and finally expresses an appreciation for America because even though he is guilty as hell, he will be free as a bird. What a country!

He declares in the New York Times seven years ago, when he and Obama were as thick as thieves in Chicago, that he 'hadn't done enough.' Despite the controversy the interview stoked upon its release on America's darkest day, Obama remains a close political and social compatriot with Ayers.

And now we learn that William Ayers is the same revolutionary he was forty years ago, only now seeking to overthrow from the inside, by infiltrating young minds in a Teacher Knows Best version of Communist indoctrination.

Whattaya think? Obama's nominee for Secretary of Education?

How any political candidate could survive in America with the heavy albatross of an Ayers around his or her neck is absolutely stunning. That Obama is getting away with it is miraculous.

I suppose they don't call him the Messiah for nothing.

Then again, who in the mainstream press isn't putting duct tape all over stories like these?