<p>Your point being, Hawkette?</p>
<p>I love how we just celebrated yesterday a national holiday commemorating a man who killed tens of thousands of people, yet people get up in arms over a man who engaged in violent property damage forty years ago, a man who has since publicly regretted his violent actions.</p>
<p>Coincidentally, Ayers activities in the Weathermen were most assuredly not related to his later work as a scholar/teacher, the very work for which he was selected to serve on a Republican commissioned non-profit board. </p>
<p>Shall we bring up Sarah Palin’s much more explicit ties to a secessionist party? A party led by a man who has said, “The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government. … And I won’t be buried under their damn flag.”</p>
<p>We could, but we won’t. As none of this has anything to do with academic freedom, which is very much alive and well on American campuses, nor the election facing this country in three short weeks, which should be an election about issues and character, not about trivial and tenuous mudslinging.</p>