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Agosto 27, 2008

The Obama-Ayers connection (3)

Arquivar em: Internacional, Política, Videos — André Azevedo Alves @ 17:19

New Obama ad: Why is McCain trying to distract us with that unrepentant terrorist I’m friends with?

Conventional political wisdom demands a forceful response to a forceful attack, but even so, I can’t quite believe Obama would throw fuel on the Ayers thing by running a reply ad. His argument is so weak that it doesn’t really qualify as an argument: Yes, we’re friendly, but it’s ancient history and I denounced what he did, so what’s the big deal about socializing with, um, an unrepentant terrorist?

2 Comentários »

  1. Um retrato de Ayers e o que foi/é o Weather Underground:
    http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODk2ZTRmZDIwNWEzOWE2MDNhMTQ0ZWYwYmRiNWZmNDM=

    Comentário por Luís Cardoso — Agosto 27, 2008 @ 20:49

  2. A respeito do artigo do Corner, o que eu li é que, inicialmente, o Weather Underground estava a planear matar gente, mas que, após a explisão de Greenwich Village (que penso que era para ser a primeira acção armada do WU) mudaram de ideias (talvez por terem visto os seus amigos morrer?) e decidiram destruir apenas bens.

    Bill Ayers: “We were very careful from the moment of the townhouse on to be sure we weren’t going to hurt anybody, and we never did hurt anybody. Whenever we put a bomb in a public space, we had figured out all kinds of ways to put checks and balances on the thing and also to get people away from it, and we were remarkably successful.”

    Andy McCarthy escreve como se os Weathermen dissessem que nunca quiseram matar ninguém, coisa que penso eles nunca disseram.

    Efectivamente, é possível que ninguém (alem deles próprios) tenha morrido nos atentados (para aí uns 20) do WU por puro acaso, mas parece-me muito pouco provável.

    Comentário por Miguel Madeira — Agosto 27, 2008 @ 23:26


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