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Via George Garrol

This excerpt from a little over one month ago! from failed Che Guevara Ayers’ blog is truly worth a thousand words. (Actually to be more exact it takes Mr. Ayers much more than a thousand words to ruminate on his need to repent while making it clear he has no intention of doing so.) The reason? That wonderfully convenient alibi - nuance. You see Ayers really wants to apologize but he simply doesn’t know what to apologize for. (Making explosives targeting US law enforcement perhaps?) Ahh but the bombs need to be looked in context, through a more subtle prism you see and, in any case, it was all a “complicated mix of good and bad choices.”) Those interested in perousing the rest of Mr. Ayers’ deep thoughts, would find his site interpersed with the familar, not so thinly veiled moral equivalence gems a la “Reverend” Wright “Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the worst terrorist of them all? Uhmm, the US of course!!!!”

As the Tribune and others pursue their journalistic duty by scrutinizing Ayers and his relationship with Obama more closely, giving the public a taste of Ayers in his own words could not be more helpful in painting a more accurate picture of this man and the aspiring president who made the judgement to accept his political support.

“I feel like I’m in a bit of a trough here, because I hear the demand for a general apology in the context of the media chorus as a howling mob with an impossibly broad demand, and on top of that I’m not sure what exactly I’m expected to apologize for. The ’68 Convention? The Days of Rage? The Pentagon? Every one of these can be unpacked and found to be a complicated mix of good and bad choices, noble and low motives. My attitude? Being born in the suburbs? I feel regret for much—I resonate with Bob Dylan singing of “so many things we never will undo; I know you’re sorry, well I’m sorry too.” But, he goes on, “stick with me baby, stick with me anyhow, things are going to get interesting right about now.” Some read my failure to apologize as arrogance, stupidity, and recalcitrance, or worse, but I think, or I hope, that I’m holding on to a more complex, a truer read and memory of that history.”

http://billayers.wordpress.com/