Dinner With Bill Ayers

The political word today is that the Republicans will return to personal attacks on Obama and Biden to draw attention away from McCain's erratic performance during the days before the passage of the Great Rescue/Bailout/U.S.-as-Sweden bill. We are supposedly to hear again about the Reverend Wright, the unreverend Tony Lezko, and William Ayers, the unrepentent Weatherman.

Of these three Chicagoans, I know only the last. I've been to three or four small dinner parties with Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, once hailed as the Weathermen's Dolores Ibarruri ("La Passionaria"), a fiery, beautiful muse. (Incidentally, I never heard the word "Weatherwoman.") Dohrn is still attractive, while Ayers maintains an adolescent fizzle in his sexagenarian bones. Dohrn is more subdued than Ayers, uninterested in fame. She told me that her husband wanted to pursue movie interest in their story, but that she wasn't interested. "They only care about the sex and violence." Once, Ayers was about to tell the four other people at dinner how they'd gotten Eldridge Cleaver from a California prison to a Moroccan haven, but Dohrn skillfully buttoned his lip.

Read the whole story here.

Comments

[Totto]

McCain ought to look at the Wikipedia entry for Ayers. Oh, forgot, he can't use the Internet.

[iPolitics]

I walked by him on the street once. There goes my hopes of being president.

McCain/Palin, UnAmerican and Honorless

[GingersPawPaws]

Please I see nothing in here that says anything about Obama being his Pal!

[Bitter Clinger]

NPR had this to say about Weather Underground bomber William Ayers:
"In his memoir, Fugitive Days, Ayers doesn't directly say which Weather Underground bombings he may have had a role in planning or executing, coyly writing, "some details cannot be told."

But in a New York Times article on the book, Ayers is quoted as saying, "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough." Coincidentally, that article was published on Sept. 11, 2001."
Obama's Links To Ex-Radical Examined by David Schaper, All Things Considered, October 6,2008

[hatorisblindeye]

Ayers subsequently wrote a letter to the New York times and has repeated for years that what he meant by not doing enough was not that they didn't set enough bombs, but that they failed in their attempts to stop the Vietnam war. And by "we" he meant America not the Weather Underground.

[GiovanniWorld]

William Ayers could very well be one of Obama's first Cabinet appointments if he becomes president.

http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/obama-chooses-his-first-cabinet-member/

[Jezreel]

GiovanniWorld, the fact that you actually wrote" William Ayers could very well be one of Obama's first Cabinet appointments if he becomes president," is proof positive that you don't have any idea what you are talking about.

[Eric8869]

That makes as much sense as John McCain making Keating a cabinet appointment.

Oh wait! The difference is McCain was actuallly Keating's good friend.

[Bitter Clinger]

Maybe Obama is right. We should pull out of Chicago and let the local populace work things out for themselves.