Friday, May 30, 2008

What?

You know, you can read a lot of stuff on the web that is ill considered or poorly worded. However, there are other times you read stuff where folks say exactly what they mean, but shouldn't have. Case in point from Michael Kinsley: Don't Link Obama to Former Radicals

Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, best known recently as friends of Barack Obama, disappeared in 1969 after two of their colleagues in the Weather Underground died while building a bomb. Ayers and Dohrn spent 11 years setting off bombs and putting out statements threatening violent revolution. They promised to kill innocent Americans and praised the lunatic murderer Charles Manson.

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Ayers and Dohrn never posed any real threat to U.S. national security. Their asinine chatter about killing people and their anti-American sloganeering were as ineffective as their bombs. But they did real harm. Their victims were liberals:

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But in a bigger way, the joke is on the rest of us. We thought they meant what they said.[emphasis added]

Yeah, I mean how dare they not carry out the murderous plans they talked about.

I mean, liberals expected so much more from them.

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