What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been

In These Times by Bill Ayers | Nov. 7, 2008 (Opinion)

Obama has continually been asked to defend something that ought to be at democracy’s heart: the importance of talking to as many people as possible in this complicated and wildly diverse society, of listening with the possibility of learning something new, and of speaking with the possibility of persuading or influencing others.

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by Clark Davis - Nov. 10, 2008

I'm glad he finally wrote something like this and wish he would have written it sooner. He's obviously a very intelligent man and a very moral one who was doing what he could to protest yet another criminal war America was involved in.

It was outrageous McCain and his stupid campaign tried to paint Ayers the way they did and eventually most thinking people realized what bs they were saying. Not brain dead Republicans of course and they are legion. This was just one of the stupidities pushed by that old fool and none of them stuck and it was great that decent Americans realized the Republican party is about dirt and mud and sleaze and wallowing in it to try and win elections. May their evil party disappear for good.