Friday, November 14, 2008

Bill Ayers on Good Morning America

It seems that Bill Ayers was on Good Morning America this morning:

He kept his mouth shut like a good boy throughout the entire campaign, and now it's time to sell a few books! So Ayers has smartly added a new afterword to his 2001 memoir and reissued it, with this stunning addition: he may have been a "family friend" to Obama, rather than just "a guy in the neighborhood." Grab your guns, patriotic Americans!

Ayers told GMA that, yes, he knew Obama from way back, and yes, he was on a board, and all of this is public, and thousands of other Chicagoans knew Obama just as well as he did, and that the entire issue is bullshit, all of which is patently true. Still...

It's now clear that Hussein Obama is little more than a Manchurian Candidate who has squirmed his way into the White House only to take direct orders from radical latte-sipping college professor Ayers! Even more clearly, Ayers is a canny businessman for someone so opposed to the capitalist power structure. Instead of selling 35 copies of his book a year to his own students as required reading, he's now poised to sell thousands to various right wing lunatics who will buy it just to "preserve the evidence" of his Obama ties for use in the coming race war. Good for him.

It still amazes me that this was such a big issue during the campaign. The argument goes because Barack Obama knew a former terrorist somewhat well in Chicago and served on a board with him, Barack Obama is therefore at the very least a commie terrorist sympathizer. Does anyone with any sort of objective brain, actually buy that shit?

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