'Weatherman' William Ayers Speaks

By way of Politico, controversial former Weather Underground member and inexplicable flashpoint in the 2008 Democratic Presidential primary, wrote on his personal blog, before the debate, to try and clear some things up. Excerpts below:

Regrets. I'm often quoted saying that I have "no regrets." This is not true. For anyone paying attention-and I try to stay wide-awake to the world around me all/ways-life brings misgivings, doubts, uncertainty, loss, regret. I'm sometimes asked if I regret anything I did to oppose the war in Viet Nam, and I say "no, I don't regret anything I did to try to stop the slaughter of millions of human beings by my own government." Sometimes I add, "I don't think I did enough." This is then elided: he has no regrets for setting bombs and thinks there should be more bombings.

Read the whole thing for yourself if you want, but he goes on to give a definition of terrorism, and argues that the actions of governments can be terrorism, but I don't see where he claims not to be a terrorist.

Am I missing something? If you set bombs, and you have no regrets, then you don't regret setting bombs. His students should ask for a refund.

Really, who cares what this guy says? Oh, you do? Because somebody brought him up at the debate? I will get deeper into this in my next story, but let me just say...

...that this Bill Ayers "connection" has been floating around the internet for months, along with every other weak, journalistically unsupported attack you can think of, against both candidates. I've done several stories explaining why real journalists, and even novices like myself, don't report this crap.

That ABC News and George Stephanopoulos have now brought their journalistic standards in line with MOJOJOJO et al should disturb you. That Stephanopoulos stacked the deck against Obama is obvious, but it was more than just loaded questions. More to come in my next story.