The problem is that Avers isn’t really that radical a person on the far left of America today. A lot of people think that Avers just got a little carried away but his heart was in the right place.
After all, John Kerry’s group Veterns Against the Vietnam War held a formal vote on whether to launch a campaign of assassination against U.S senators. Kerry left the group either a week or two before or after the vote but even so one would think that being a member of group that seriously contemplated such action would disqualify a person from ever holding high office. Yet, few leftist see any wrong with anything Kerry did back then.
I think it has to do with fascistic conception of leadership that the left holds. They believe that by virtue of holding leftist ideas, leftist are morally superior people who always intend the best. Therefore, any past errors cannot be held against them. They’re still the best people to lead.
Ayers won’t make of dent in Obama’s support either.
