High Ideals and No Principles

"'Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,' Ayers wrote in his memoir, 'Fugitive Days,' released the day before the Pentagon was struck again in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. 'The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.'

"The New York Times reported that Ayers later clarified, saying he didn't actually set the bomb, but was visualizing it to dramatize his participation in organizing the attack.

"In a Times interview published Sept. 11, 2001, Ayers said, 'I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough.' He posed for a photograph accompanying the piece that shows him stepping on an American flag.

The fact that he wanted people dead and said "we didn't do enough" is beside the point. We love him anyway....