Just like Gerry Adams, just like Yitzhak Shamir, etc etc. Former terrorists do get accepted into politics and civic society, whether or not they ever served any punishment for their crimes. And other politicians have to deal with that.
And we have every right to note their past crimes and form a negative opinion of those who ally with them.
Furthermore, when the former terrorist is pushing a radical educational agenda and a Presidential candidate has a history of aiding that agenda (as Obama did after Ayers made him the chair of his big education grant), we are warranted to think the candidate shares the radical education agenda.
Does Ayers truly have a radical educational agenda?
Yes, by his own recent statements and actions, he does:
Obama's Real Problem With Ayers
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Election '08: At an education forum in Venezuela, Bill Ayers showed the real issue is not his terrorist past. It's the socialist revolutionary agenda that he and Barack Obama want to impose on the nation's schools.
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An idea of what Ayers has in mind for America's schools was provided in his own words not 40 years ago when Obama was eight years old, but less than two years ago in November 2006 at the World Education Forum in Caracas hosted by dictator Hugo Chavez.
With Chavez at his side, Ayers voiced his support for "the political educational reforms under way here in Venezuela under the leadership of President Chavez. We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution. . . . I look forward to seeing how . . . all of you continue to overcome the failures of capitalist education as you seek to create something truly new and deeply humane."
Ayers told the great humanitarian Chavez: "Teaching invites transformations, it urges revolutions large and small. La educacion es revolucion." It is that form of socialist revolution that Ayers, and Obama, have worked to bring to America.
Ayers, now a tenured Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.
As Stern points out, "Ayers and his education school comrades are explicit about the need to indoctrinate public school children in the belief that America is a racist, militarist country and that the capitalist system is inherently unfair and oppressive."
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