bbbut............Ayers was just a guy in the neighborhood, ya know.........Oh, and they served on two Boards together and launched oBama’s senate career in Ayer’s living room.........but, hey, hey Ayers was just a guy in neighborhood who had the audacity to take a photo standing on the American Flag.... .............but hey, one friend made it to the White House. What a sweet story.
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.” —1984 [1949] George Orwell