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The Ayers Question for Obama

Senator, when you started your political career in Chicago you picked two unrepentant terrorists to host your coming out party, Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn.  Yes, you were just a kid when they declared war on the United States, bombed the Pentagon, the Capital and other buildings — as you pointed out in the last debate by way of trivializing their actions.  But you were an adult when Dohrn served time for refusing to testify in a criminal trial.  You were over forty when Ayers said he didn’t regret his terrorist acts and that his only regret was he didn’t bomb more.  You were over 40 when Ayers wrote a book so he could idealize and glory in his criminal past and profit off of those acts of terrorism.  So the question is, why doesn’t it bother you that Ayers has never renounced his terrorist past?  Doesn’t that say something about his character, his values?  Doesn’t your acceptance of him say something about yours?  After all, why did you go to two unrepentant terrorists to help you launch your political career?