Bill Ayers: What does it mean that he's Obama's "friend" and was/is employed at a major US institution?

Question

I don't understand why people try to make a big deal of his weak association with Obama, but never evaluate what it means that he was/is employed by a major US educational institution where he has influenced thousands of minds over his academic career. Why is a weak association with one person worse than a strong association with an entire student population at an influential institution? I jsut don't how people reason this out.

Answer 1

They're trying to make people afraid of Obama....there is no other reason.

Answer 2

weak association ?

he facilitated obama's immersion in Chicago Politics

he helped obama network

it wasnt a casual     oh he lives down the street relationship

even though obama would have you believe that

obama is great at dodging questions

thats the first thing you gotta know

and actually that was the last thing i needed to find out

that obama is allergic to coming out and just telling the truth

he dodged the Wright Issue   for weeks and weeks  

hoping it would go away

the main stream media wouldnt go near it

Fox was the only ones following it

finally a few other outlets got in on it

they all want obama to be president     not sure why

he is certainly not honest and/forthright

so obama had a strong realtionship with this former Terorist who is

unrepentant

  

Answer 3

Maybe if you had been one of the people or knew one of the people that Ayers and his organization tried to kill, you might think differently.

The only reason that Ayers is a free man today is due to an illegal wire tap that could not be used in court.

I think it is atrocious that a man wanting to become the president of the United States would have anything at all to do with people like that and will only make excuses for being friends.

Your comment about influencing thousands is the most scary thing about this, thousands of young men and women have been lied to and mislead for years by a man that should be in prison.

Since you want to make the big issue here that he is now a "teacher" why will you not address the FACT that Ayers was and still is an ANTI-AMERICAN terrorist. He is polluting the minds of thousands of young students with his sick and perverted ways of thinking.

By no means am I advocating blind obedience to any government, but there are better ways express your dislike of a government or its policy than trying to MURDER those that do not agree with you.

You seem to have done a little research, but you need to do a lot more to see what this piece of GARBAGE Ayers

(AKA S H I T) is all about.

The only place this trash should be teaching is in prison or h**l!

Answer 4

You make an excellent point; Ayers has undoubtedly done more damage as a teacher than he has in the political arena.

And I doubt he actually influenced Obama too much; Obama already thinks the same way.  

So which is worse, Ayers as a teacher, or Obama as President?

I don't know.....

Answer 5

Just another example of the warped logic of a liberal but yet they want to make Osama Bin Laden and Bush out to be best friends after 9/11.