There's a lot of crazy folks in the world. A lot of people were against the war in Vietnam.
From what some of my vet friends tell me, it's a war that should have never been fault.
I don't get much out of them besides that it's to difficult for them to talk about it.
With all due respect, just because your a POW, doesn't mean your ready to be President. There were many POW's, that didn't get the help they needed after the war. Are they forgotten? YES, many were forgotten. When they came home, there wasn't much for them to come home to.
I don't blame Obama for what went on in the 60's. He was just a child. I don't play that guilt by association.
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The former terrorist Bill Ayers may want to see McCain get elected.
Oct 16, 2008
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Can it be that the washed-up Weatherman Bill Ayers is the last big obstacle remaining between Barack Obama and the White House? And how, I wonder, does Ayers feel about that?
Of course we know there are many reasons that John McCain and Sarah Palin would invoke the name of this terrorist-turned-educator, trying to slime Obama with guilt by association as recently as the debate Wednesday night. The Republican team, even as it attacks the Democrats for talking about the recent past (the continuing, worsening record of the current Republican administration), is itself focused obsessively on the distant past—the Vietnam war of 40 years ago and the counterculture that grew up in opposition to it.
Never mind that Obama was in elementary school back then. The 1960s were the crucible that forged McCain's image of himself and gave him the political credentials he's built his career on. His conduct as a prisoner of the Vietnamese is his badge of honor, and while McCain was being tortured in Hanoi, Ayers was doing his damnedest to give aid and comfort to the enemy. If I were McCain, I'd have a whole lot of trouble with that.
The Weather Underground Organization to which Ayers belonged was a handful of self-appointed, self-described American Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries, all of them white, many of them the sons and daughters of privilege. They grew famous for tossing around incandescent rhetoric and incendiary devices, but much of their time was spent in self-righteous bull sessions, dropping acid or coupling at random in what their doctrinaire language described as "smashing monogamy."
That Ayers had given up the bomb throwing and emerged from the underground into mainstream academia long before Obama met him in the 1990s is little comfort to an emotional McCain, and of little interest to the notably incurious Palin. The Alaskan governor's charge that Obama was "palling around with terrorists" is so deeply fraught with sinister subtexts that she clearly finds it irresistible, and it sure helps work up rage on the right-wing fringe.
But what about Ayers himself? Again, how does he feel about the political problem posed by his ephemeral association with Obama? He's not giving interviews, and his Web site is Delphic. The latest entry, from Sept. 25, reads: "EMERGENCY!!! Suspend the Debates! And if that sounds remotely reasonable, think of it as a dress rehearsal, a practice run, a prelude: EMERGENCY!!! Suspend the Elections!" Probably this is an inside joke. Maybe someone finds it funny. As I say, it's hard to know what Ayers is thinking just now.
Yet it is clear from his own 2001 book, "Fugitive Days" (Beacon), and from other more recent tomes by his erstwhile comrades, as well as the excellent 2004 documentary movie "The Weather Underground," directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel, that Ayers still thinks like a revolutionary, if not a terrorist.
If you have spent much time with radical leftist revolutionaries, real apostles of class war, as I have over the years, you know there is no class of people they hate more than liberals like Obama. The reason is simple. Revolutionaries want confrontation and crisis; they want to exacerbate the contradictions, as they say, so their struggle is well defined and people have to choose sides. They hate The Man, but they don't know what to do without him.
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