[Marxism] Who is Bill Ayers?

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you’ve been listening to rightwing talk radio, you’ve probably heard 
Bill Ayers’s name before. WABC AM, a prime outlet for Limbaugh and 
company, has been burning up the dial recently over this ex-Weatherman 
who is supposedly in bed with Barack Obama. The Ayers quote that they 
keep using over and over again comes from a September 11, 2001 NY Times 
profile that begins:

“I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. “I feel we didn’t do 
enough.”

They keep harping on the September 11 date as if Ayers was in cahoots 
with Mohammad Atta. Any fool would know that the first newspaper reports 
on September 11 appeared the day after. It was just a coincidence that 
Ayers’s profile appeared the same day as the 9/11 attacks. They also 
make a big thing about Ayers stating that “we didn’t do enough”, when in 
fact he was almost certainly referring to their failure to end the war.

Ayers tries to explain what he really meant on his blog:

"Regrets. I’m often quoted saying that I have 'no regrets.' This is not 
true. For anyone paying attention-and I try to stay wide-awake to the 
world around me all/ways-life brings misgivings, doubts, uncertainty, 
loss, regret. I’m sometimes asked if I regret anything I did to oppose 
the war in Viet Nam, and I say 'no, I don’t regret anything I did to try 
to stop the slaughter of millions of human beings by my own government.' 
Sometimes I add, 'I don’t think I did enough.' This is then elided: he 
has no regrets for setting bombs and thinks there should be more bombings."

Obama told the idiot George Stephanopolous that he was only 8 years old 
when the Weathermen were setting off bombs. For the benefit of many of 
my readers, who were not even a gleam in their father’s eye back in the 
early 70s, a word or two of introduction is in order.

full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/who-is-bill-ayers/

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