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"The Underpants Gnome Theory of Political Activism"

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Hilzoy doesn’t leave much unsaid here.

I’m not sure why the Times chose to give editorial space to Ayers, either; the failure of the “palling-around-with-terrorists” narrative proved sufficiently enough that his work in the late 1960s and early 1970s was irrelevant to the outcome of the campaign. Idiots like Bob Owens and Sarah Palin tried to give Weatherman/Weather Underground an undeserved centrality in the debate about whether Obama was qualified to succeed the worst two-term president in the history of the republic. As for why his tangential ties to Obama shouldn’t matter, though, Ayers’ explanations are nothing less than boring.

Anyone who’s actually interested in the Weather Underground should watch the documentary by Sam Green and Bill Siegel is available on Google Video and is worth 90 minutes of your time.

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