Small waves in a tsunami
Georgie Anne Guyer—“Ayers a meaningless distraction from real campaign issues”
The point here is that, with accusations like these, the McCain-Palin campaign is swamping us with small waves even as an economic tsunami threatens us. Some people actually believe this stuff. Don't! Many of us yearn for one of the candidates, instead of the repeated minutiae of the Ayers accusations and of Tuesday night, to tell us WHY the tsunami is coming, and how we loyal, but profoundly troubled Americans, can avoid being swept away.
Wick Allison, conservative former publisher of the National Review.
Today it is conservatives, not liberals, who talk with alarming bellicosity about making the world “safe for democracy.” It is John McCain who says America’s job is to “defeat evil,” a theological expansion of the nation’s mission that would make George Washington cough out his wooden teeth. This kind of conservatism, which is not conservative at all, has produced financial mismanagement, the waste of human lives, the loss of moral authority, and the wreckage of our economy that McCain now threatens to make worse.
David S. Tanenhaus teaches history and law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and is the author of Juvenile Justice in the Making. He writes for Slate:
The publication in 1997 of Ayers' book A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court attracted much local and national attention. Drawing on his experience as a father and a teacher, he powerfully contrasted and compared the lives of his children, growing up in privilege, with those he had taught in prison. As he observed, "They are kids after all, and nothing they did can possibly change them into adults." That year, Chicago named Ayers its "Citizen of the Year." In November, Michelle Obama, who was then director of the university's community service center, convened a panel at the law school to discuss Ayers' book and the issues it raised.
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