What Obama Neglected To Mention: Bill Ayers Is Now Teaching Your Children

Apr 24, 2008 at 12:02 AM
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SC&A has some great readers. Thanks to reader Expat for this heads up.

From the latest edition of City Journal:

Obama’s Real Bill Ayers Problem

The ex-Weatherman is now a radical educator with influence.

23 April 2008

Barack Obama complains that he’s been unfairly attacked for a casual political and social relationship with his neighbor, former Weatherman Bill Ayers. Obama has a point. In the ultraliberal Hyde Park community where the presidential candidate first earned his political spurs, Ayers is widely regarded as a member in good standing of the city’s civic establishment, not an unrepentant domestic terrorist. But Obama and his critics are arguing about the wrong moral question. The more pressing issue is not the damage done by the Weather Underground 40 years ago, but the far greater harm inflicted on the nation’s schoolchildren by the political and educational movement in which Ayers plays a leading role today.

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