About Ayers from conservative Chicago Tribune

[Windy]

From the editorial page of today's Chicago Tribune, a conservative paper:

"Obama knows Ayers, a former radical and member of the Weather Underground who is now an academic in Chicago. They met years ago. They served together on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which provides money for anti-poverty efforts.

Ah, we know Bill Ayers too. And his wife, Bernardine Dohrn. If you know people in Chicago academic circles, chances are you know Ayers and Dohrn. They have not been repentant about their days in the radical, anti-war movement in the 1960s and their time fleeing federal authorities. They should be. There is still time for them to be.

But they have done good work in Chicago"Ayers at the University of Illinois-Chicago, Dohrn at Northwestern University Law School"s Children and Family Justice Center. So we"re going to side with Mayor Richard M. Daley on this one.

"There are a lot of reasons that Americans are angry about Washington politics. And one more example is the way Senator Obama"s opponents are playing guilt-by-association, tarring him because he happens to know Bill Ayers," Daley said Thursday. "... I don"t condone what he did 40 years ago but I remember that period well. It was a difficult time, but those days are long over. I believe we have too many challenges in Chicago and our country to keep re-fighting 40 year old battles."

Now how about getting back to the real campaign?"



THIS IS A NON ISSUE!!!!

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

1. K & R n/t

[karynnj]

2. The Chicago Tribune wrote this! WOW

I started reading the Trib along with the Chicago Daily News in the early 1960s and they are as conservative as you can get!

You're right non- issue.

Clinton"s pardons on the other hand may need explaining again - especially Marc Rich.

[featherman]

3. Guess what? I'm not about to apologize for MY work as a "radical"

anti-war activist either. We were very, very angry in those days... justifiably so. Bill and Bernadine never killed or "terrorized" anybody. This is all bullshit and cannot believe some of the crap that has spewed across a supposedly progressive Democratic website like DU.