Who is Bill Ayers? Why Should I Care?

Question

Who is Bill Ayers? Why Should I Care?

Answer 1

check the wikipedia bio as stated already, but as for "Why Should I Care?"  apparently there's some that are concerned that Barack Obama is in some way connected to him... basically guilt by association... the following is from "The Fact Checker" part of the washingtonpost.com

"There has been a sudden spate of blog items and newspaper articles, mainly in the British press, linking Barack Obama to a former member of the radical Weather Underground Organization that claimed responsibility for a dozen bombings between 1970 and 1974. The former Weatherman, William Ayers, now holds the position of distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Although never convicted of any crime, he told the New York Times in September 2001, "I don't regret setting bombs...I feel we didn't do enough."

Both Obama and Ayers were members of the board of an anti-poverty group, the Woods Fund of Chicago, between 1999 and 2002. In addition, Ayers contributed $200 to Obama's re-election fund to the Illinois State Senate in April 2001, as reported here. They lived within a few blocks of each other in the trendy Hyde Park section of Chicago, and moved in the same liberal-progressive circles."

To read the whole article... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-chec...

Answer 2

IDK. You don't care? I don't either.

Answer 3

no one and you shouldent

Answer 4

Bill Ayers is a founder of the Weather Underground, a former radical in other words, and an educator.  I recently heard a local Republican politician in "private" conversation, calling the people who used to run BBSes, on which most of the Internet ran when I first started using it, "communists".  Many of them were army and air force veterans.  

As far as this guy and many "conservatives" are concerned, the Internet is for corporations: not for the people and certainly not for the government.

Those who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.