And a frightening one, as you would expect. No doubt he’d claim to be braver than I because, unlike me, he does not publish anonymously. To which I would respond, how brave do you have to be to condemn your country from the perch of a university professorship?

Cuffy featured this excerpt from a post about Ayers’ 2005 stay at “Camp Casey” outside president Bush’s Crawford Ranch (which I couldn’t find, as his blog appears to lack a search function):

Toward the end of the summer of 2005, outside President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, I joined the encampment known as Camp Casey. Crawford is a town divided: the brightly decorated Peace House faces banners reading, “All the way Mr. President” and “Smoke ‘Em Out, 43”; one side of the road has lawn signs with the iconic image of Marines planting the flag on Iwo Jima and the slogan “Support Our Troops,”—somewhat desperate, I thought, to have to reach so far back for a picture of putative pride in war—the other side answers “Bring Them Home.”

Ayers’ reference to the the Iwo Jima flag-raising as “a picture of putative pride in war” is a giveaway that he doesn’t take pride in it. It would be better if he just came out and said that our fighting in World War II was evil, but I think he may prefer to leave that position somewhat veiled.  (Then again, maybe he’s explicit about it somewhere in his writings.)

What would he prefer as a sign of pride in war? A statue of him and his weather underground buddies?

Obama’s claim that he shouldn’t be tarred with this guy is, as is much of what he says, a load of crap. I can guarantee you if one of my neighbors thought like this, I’d know about it and I would shun him.

If my kid were attending the University of Illinois – Chicago, where Ayers is a prof, I would be tempted to yank my kid out of the school upon finding out about Ayers — but just about any public university would be just as bad, loaded with Ayers sympathizers, so what would be the point?

The comments at his “Biography/History” page are astounding. He is praised as a visionary repeatedly.

Hat Tip: Ace, who linked Cuffy Meigs.