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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (283271)	12/7/2008 12:40:59 PM
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The City of Chicago gave Ayers its Citizen of the Year award in 1997 for his work on the Annenberg project. cnn.com Here's Ayers' page at the University of Illinois/Chicago: education.uic.edu [Love that earring, Bill. Where's your stubby little ponytail? Isn't that part of the aging hippie in look?] According to the site: HONORS AND AWARDS 2005-6 - Randolph Distinguished Visitng Professor, Vassar College 2005 - Distinguished Scholar, McKissick Museum of Education, University of South Carolina 2003 - Visiting Scholar, Lesley University 1999 - Distinguished Professor of Education 1997 - Senior University Scholar 1996 - Doctor of Humane Letters (Honorary), Nazareth College 1996 - Champion of the Public Interest, Business and Professional People for the Public Interest 1993 - Book of the Year, Kappa Delta Pi, for "To Teach" (Teachers College Press Ayers' own website is a study in history revision, self-aggrandizement and donning of the misunderstood victim mantle. [You know that the politics of guilt and victimhood have reached a new low when a rich white boy who engaged in terrorism and still evaded the criminal justice is actually whining as though public perception of him is somehow unfair or unwarranted....PUHLEEZE!! If public outrage doesn't trump that victim card, we are really in trouble as a culture.] billayers.org [I find it hard to believe that people are so stupid as to buy what an Ayers is selling. He must chortle up his sleeve at night alone with that horror of a wife at what they've gotten away with and how they ended up as respected figures in education circles.] Finally, here's an article which spells out why Obama's interaction with Ayers is both noteworthy and troubling: globallabor.blogspot.com