Bill Ayers finally speaks. He sat quietly and endured. Seems a class act.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)
Bill Ayers finally speaks. He sat quietly and endured. Seems a class act.
Piece of Mindful 
Thanks for finding this. It was interesting.
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>>>>another former Hyde Park neighbor (and fellow Little League coach), the Palestinian-American scholar Rashid Khalidi
The New Yorker is pretty liberal (I have a subscription). This is one of their usual puff pieces.
>>>>Ayers said that he had never been responsible for violence against other people.
Don’t be so sure. And then add this to the mix, and you’ve got a weird guy.
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Re Khalidi, read this. The attitude about him is just a sign of the deep intolerance in this country surrounding Israel. If you want a rational discussion of Israel’s behavior, which is often barbaric, you have to go to Israel. They are much more tolerant.
Ayers is not an issue. He was not connected to Obama. Say what you want about him. And that talk from Donna Ron about sexual mores in the 60’s, about how lefty radicals were really trolling for pussy – not news. Remember, these guys grew up to be the baby boomers.
Ayers, like Joe the plumber, is cashing in. He’s trying to sell a book that bombed a long time ago. He’s passe.
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Hey hey …. I said his book “bombed”. I unknowingly made a funny. You reading, Bob?
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>>>>deep intolerance in this country surrounding Israel.
Nice of you to slip in a new topic, but one can read/hear all sides about Israel in this country. America has picked a side in this, the CORRECT side in my opinion. We’ve got the candy bar fallacy at work here: Israel has a candy bar, the Palestinians come up and grab it. Mark T types come along and say, “you guys should compromise: each get half.”
>>>>about how lefty radicals were really trolling for pussy
Seems a bit more criminal than that, but I guess I’m not the only one on the jury.
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Do you even know who Khalidi is?
The Palestinians, Saudis, most everyone in the area would rest easy if Israel would confine itself to its 1948 borders. That is the problem – Israel’s theft of land and water resources, along with violence and oppression. But you don’t get to see or hear that in this area – even the Dems ostracized Jimmy Carter when he brought it up. That’s how bad it is. In Israel, people openly discuss these things.
Your candy bar analogy is good, but if you go back to 1948 and 1967, you’ll get another view of who was holding it.
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Khalidi is off my radar. My initial quote from the New Yorker was for the little league coach reference, as if in some way that is what now defines Ayers. My point was that the New Yorker was a friendly venue for Ayers to soft pedal his image.
>>>>The Palestinians, Saudis, most everyone in the area would rest easy if Israel would confine itself to its 1948 borders.
I didn’t quite laugh out loud at this, but I did smile big. 1948 Israel was under attack as much as today’s state.
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