Not the right word for the Weathermen killed in that Greenwich Village townhouse explosion   How about “better off dead” ?  They had just built a nail bomb,  from about 40 sticks of dynamite, covered with hundreds of one-and-a-half-inch roofing nails. The New York police department’s informed guess is that it was aimed at Columbia’s Low Library.  Certainly it was an antipersonnel bomb.

Ayers was a bad guy: you’re supposed to keep your political arguments within the law.  People in left-liberal circles – at least a fair fraction of them – are comfortable associating with people like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.  No one should be.  If they had repented, maybe – but they haven’t.

As far as I can tell, Senator Obama was not particularly close to Ayers – but he was certainly comfortable with him. Is this a negative?  Sure. But then, the typical member of his faction of the Democratic party believes all manner of nonsense.  McCain may be a damned fool, but that hardly makes Obama any less foolish.