The Boogie-man revealed

Mr. Ayers’s Neighborhood

After being the talking point of the McCain campaign and pretty much every right-wing detractor of Obama for months now, Bill Ayers finally grants an interview. He details how he was made into a caricature (not unlike Joe the Plumber), and how his words were twisted to imply that he wanted to "bomb more shit".

Hopefully in the aftermath of this election, as we look back, we can decide as a country to reject the kind of politics inherent in the Ayers, Wright, and Khalidi attacks on Obama. These men were run through the mud in order to bring down Obama, with no thoughts as to what these men themselves (I don't know a ton about Khalidi, so I can't speak for him) were doing to make this world a better place. Say what you want about Ayers past and his fierce opposition to the Vietnam war, but today he is working hard to make sure kids in Chicago get a better education. And Wright, who proudly served as a Marine in his younger years, works to uplift the Black community in Chicago and works towards empowerment for a people often left out to dry in America. Say what you want about these men, call them traitors, or whatever you want. But at the same time, realize that they both probably do more than 95% of Americans to help others in need.