Do you want coffee with that?

[y66]

Good story here by David Remnick in the New Yorker.

 

Ayers said that he had never meant to imply, in an interview with the Times, published coincidentally on 9/11, that he somehow wished he and the Weathermen had committed further acts of violence in the old days. Instead, he said, “I wish I had done more, but it doesn’t mean I wish we’d bombed more *****.” Ayers said that he had never been responsible for violence against other people and was acting to end a war in Vietnam in which “thousands of people were being killed every week.”

 

“While we did claim several extreme acts, they were acts of extreme radicalism against property,” he said. “We killed no one and hurt no one. Three of our people killed themselves.” And yet he was not without regrets. He mocked one of his earlier books, co-written with Dohrn, saying that, while it still is reflective of his radical and activist politics today, he was guilty of “rhetoric that’s juvenile and inflated—it is what it is.”

 

“I wish I had been wiser,” Ayers said. “I wish I had been more effective, I wish I’d been more unifying, I wish I’d been more principled.”

 

...

 

It was late afternoon, and Ayers was talking about his plans for the evening: he was heading to Grant Park with some friends for what they assumed would be a mass victory party. “This is an achingly exciting moment,” he said.

 

As we were getting ready to go, after an hour of front-stoop conversation, a neighbor came by and ironically reminded Ayers of the event that he and his wife held for Obama in 1995 when Obama was making his run for the Illinois state senate. "Everyone, including you, wants to have a coffee here," he joked to the neighbor. “I don’t know what the ***** I’m going to do!”

[kenberg]

Who the hell cares what Bill Ayers thinks about anything? He is, I understand, now a college professor so his students have to listen to him or at least pretend to. The rest of us can happily ignore him unless he is planning on planting another bomb somewhere.

 

He wishes he had done more? Of course not more bombing, that would hardly be a proper wish for a college professor of education. Maybe he wishes he had gotten laid more. Who cares? I wish I had proven more and better theorems. And made 3 No Trump on a hand last night. We all have our regrets.

 

The election is over, Bill Ayers and Joe the Plumber can sink back into anonymity.

[jtfanclub]

The election is over, Bill Ayers and Joe the Plumber can sink back into anonymity.

Amen.

 

And I can concentrate on Bridge again!

 

Well, maybe tomorrow.