WHAT? SOME CONTEXT ON THE WHOLE "BILL AYERS" THING? DOES N.P.R. THINK THE TRUTH REALLY MATTERS ANYMORE?

Because Republicans (and their like-minded, Fox-News-watching-robots) keep bringing up the William "Bill" Ayers smear in an attempt to convict Barack Obama of guilt by association, I thought I'd try to find as much information as I could on the subject.

I still find it weird that such a "domestic terrorist" has never been incarcerated for such acts? After all, if he were in prison for bombing the Pentagon and Capitol Building, he couldn't have served on a board with Obama, right? At any rate, I also think it's important that whoever (or whatever) Bill Ayers is... he's a COMPLETELY SEPARATE person from Barack Obama.

Anyway, in a sea of otherwise useless rhetoric about Ayers and Obama, I found this article published on National Public Radio's site. Now before any right-wingers roll there eyes, I should warn everyone that they've actually interviewed people who have worked (gasp) with Ayers, and some of them are actually (double-gasp) Republican! One such quote reads:

"It was never a concern by any of us in the Chicago school reform movement that he had led a fugitive life years earlier," said former Illinois state Republican Rep. Diana Nelson, who worked with both Obama and Ayers over the years. "It's ridiculous. There is no reason at all to smear Barack Obama with this association. It's nonsensical, and it just makes me crazy. It's so silly."

Another quote is from Ayers himself, and adds some context to his "bombing" line that was made famous in the wake of 9/11.

But in a New York Times article on the book, Ayers is quoted as saying, "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough." Coincidently, that article was published on Sept. 11, 2001. Days later, Ayers complained on his Web site that the quote was taken out of context, saying, "My memoir is from start to finish a condemnation of terrorism, of the indiscriminate murder of human beings, whether driven by fanaticism or official policy."

So that's my two cents on a subject that should be trivial in the wake of such catastrophic economic times - and yet these are the same Republicans that tried to impeach a President for a blow job while Osama bin Laden was bombing U.S. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.