[Polybius]

Former '60s Radical Is Now Considered Mainstream in Chicago

Besides his participation in waging war on the United States in the late Sixties and early Seventies by setting off bombs at the Capitol and Pentagon (among several dozen bombings,) Ayers was quoted in the New York Times on Sept. 11, 2001 as saying that he did not regret the bombings and wishes he had done more.

[Eurale]

LSM pawing litter over stinking pile in the cat box. We’ll legitimize these domestic terrorists for you Nobama, and the rest of America will never know.

[IronJack]

Ayers and Dohrn ... ['s] ... work on school reform and juvenile justice have won them bipartisan respect.

"Bipartisan?" I doubt it. The only respect these criminals have earned is in the eyes of aging hippies and gangster wannabes who never stopped loving "The Revolution."

[LucyJo]

RE: the title,”Former ‘60s Radical Is Now Considered Mainstream in Chicago”, I’d just add: “not to mention those in Washington D.C.”.

[laconic]

Ayers and Dohrn are unrepentant terrorists who now “do such good works” in the eyes of the Washington Post (I somehow missed the “bipartisan” acclaim cited by this fawning article). By this standard, you’d ignore the Second World War and the Holocaust because Adolf Hitler paved the Autobahn, created the “people’s car” the Volkswagen and provided lots of work for the unemployed.

[jabonz08]

This is just more of an affirmation of my bile spitting hatred of hippies. Mainstream my a** This man is an unrepentant terrorist. IMHO: clubfed is a place far too good for commie, bomb-throwing, hippie trash that hold fund raisers for BHO.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Perhaps the most shocking thing about this to me is not the mainstreaming, but the fact that I doubt Barrack even considered having Dhorn and Ayers as friends would even be an issue. That is totally scary and astounding.

[sweetiepiezer]

Here is some videos on the scum.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=weathermen+underground

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Surprise! leftist revolutionaries are revered and respected by democrats and media types.

[Bommer]

Terrorists now educating children. How sweet. Wonder if Usama can get a professorship! Time to Defund Universities!

[joe.fralick]

They aren't mainstream to me.

I used to work at Sidley & Austin, the Chicago firm where Michele Obama started out (she apparently flunked the Illinois bar on her first try when she was there) and where Barack worked as a summer clerk.

When Ms. Dorn resurfaced after her life as a fugitive, Sidley was really, really excited that she was involved with the son of the CEO of Commonwealth Edison, a huge client of the firm. Despite her sordid past, they moved her into Sidley's Chicago office and tried to get her admitted to the Illinois bar. Unfortunately for Sidley, the bar examiners remembered her bomb-throwing days and refused to approve her candidacy on grounds of character and fitness.

Not to be deterred, Sidley moved her to the New York office and tried the same maneuver with the New York bar. No luck. So, she worked as a legal assistant for a time before moving on to her cushy professorship.

Watching this distinguished old law firm sniffing the crotches of Dorn and Ayers, two unrepentant terrorists, for love of the almighty buck convinced me that our elites will turn traitor at the first scent of green. Is "scum" too strong a word for everyone involved? I think not.

[dighton]

Ayers is an informal adviser to Mayor Richard M. Daley ...

This is no son of Richard J.