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somecommonsense1 year, 2 months ago
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"In a comic strip that Ayers recently posted on his blog, Ayers tried to explain the "we didn't do enough" quote from seven years ago, writing, "It's impossible to get to be my age and not have plenty of regrets. The one thing I don't regret is opposing the war in Vietnam with every ounce of my being. During the Vietnam War, the Weather Underground took credit for bombing several government installations as a dramatic form of armed propaganda. Action was taken against symbolic targets in order to declare a state of emergency. But warnings were always called in, and by design, no one was ever hurt.
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"When I say, 'We didn't do enough,' a lot of people rush to think, 'That must mean, "We didn't bomb enough s---."' But that's not the point at all. It's not a tactical statement, it's an obvious political and ethical statement. In this context, 'we' means 'everyone.' The war in Vietnam was not only illegal, it was profoundly immoral, millions of people were needlessly killed. Even though I worked hard to end the war, I feel to this day that I didn't do enough because the war dragged on for years after the majority of the American people came to oppose it. I don't think violent resistance is necessarily the answer, but I do think opposition and refusal is imperative."
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So again...to use the word terrorist is simply to imply that Obama is an Arab terrorist, Anti Vietnam war protesters and Islamic fundamentalist are on very different sides...so we see the word terrorist being thrown around due to loose connections with Ayers, who is also tied to McCain, the weather underground was funded by a prominent McCain supporter...anyway so the word is a Trojan horse in a sense, in that it is meant to create an image in our head...when we hear Terrorist i defy anyone here to say they immediately picture an old white guy...so we see these words and phrases, like palling around with terrorists, and we are being told how to react. Throughout this campaign right wing bloggers aided by the McCain campaign have continued to spread the most vile, divisive garbage in the internet, a whisper campaign that Sen. Obama is a Muslim, or he is a spy, that he hates American, etc, etc., all lies, all charges that diminish the man who is the real John McCain, and we wonder why we see the reactions at McCain's rallies...what do you expect, these people have been told that the man is the Antichrist, now McCain in the same breath is going to say "no, no , he's an honorable man, and I respect him and admire his accomplishments..." Well which is it Senator McCain, time to own up to your campaign and to your party and to your message...you created this monster, now you deal with it, you brought out the worst in your party and fostered racial, cultural and religious insensitivity and hate, now you fix it...Sen. McCain likes to ask who is the real Obama? Well I know who he is, he's our next president and a man who I will be proud to vote for and have been proud to support with all of my time, money and energy...I think the real question is...who is the real John McCain?
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