Herb:
Note to Pajamas Media contributors: Bill Ayers is not going to win this election for you.
Then you ought to be happy he’s being featured prominently.
One of the ongoing problems with trying to establish anything concrete about the Ayers-Obama connection has been the lack of willingness to do things like release Obama’s Columbia transcripts, which may show that he took a class that Ayers’ taught. Claiming that we have anything like a complete information set to draw our conclusions from is probably premature.
Secondly, and almost all Obama apologists get this wrong, either deliberately or because they are too stupid to think, we can deduce that Obama shares Ayers’ views from Ayers himself and the kind of man he’s shown himself to be for the last 30+ years. Ayers is not the type of man to spend time in the presence of anyone who doesn’t share his political views because for Ayers all of life is political (“the personal is the political” for these people, after all). When Obama “launched” his career, Obama was the one in need of Ayers’ “blessing”, not vice versa, as Obama was an unknown (hence the “launch”). Ayers would not launch anyone whose politics didn’t agree with his. Q.E.D., Obama and Ayers DO share at least a significant level of agreement on political matters.
People look at Obama now and think that he could never possibly have “needed” Ayers’ blessing of his political ambitions and therefore would have no great likelihood of sharing Ayers’ beliefs. But it’s exactly the opposite: Obama needed Ayers but he had to know that Ayers only would support someone who shared his views. If Obama didn’t share those views, he would not have been able to, nor wanted to, “launch” his career from Ayers’ home. As Rumsfeld used to say “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”. Using deductive logic where there is no direct evidence is a perfectly legitimate method to arrive at conclusions and the only logical conclusion in this case is that Obama and Ayers are ideological kindred spirits.
I’m sorry that you don’t understand enough about logic to have figured this out yourself, but thems the breaks. Don’t say you weren’t warned, assuming you don’t also share Ayers beliefs. Which, if you do, I’ll just say “Game on”.
