He was only a community organizer for three years. I don't think he bought his condo until after he went to Harvard Law, and came back and took a job as Lecturer for the U of Chicago.
Ayers, reflecting on his memoir, Fugitive Days, had said inartfully, "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough." Ayers, who meant that he wished the antiwar movement had ended the Vietnam War sooner, clarified in a letter to the Times, "My memoir is from start to finish a condemnation of terrorism." Taken out of context, the statement sparked outrage,
"inartfully" is the word of the month, isn't it? Tell me, in what "context" should I take the statement "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough." Nice of him to condemn terrorism in the direct aftermath of 9/11, but, sorry, I don't buy it. Ayers has merely reached the age where he leaves bomb-making to others.
Ayers remains every bit the radical leftist. He and Obama worked together on a project for the Chicago schools, that basically took a $50 million grant from the Annenburg Foundation and achieved no measurable results. |
