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Suggested Ayers response

By allison - Oct 14th, 2008 at 3:18 pm EDT

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Tags: audacity of hope, Ayers, Ayers relationship, HOPE

I'd like to see the Obama campaign turn the Ayers story into one that fits the message of this campaign: The audiacity of hope. They could do so with statement such as this:

William Ayers was a young man in radical times who made a wrong turn into despicable acts of violence. He eventually turned himself into federal authorities and was processed by our legal system. Since then, he has reformed himself into a respected educator and awarded community activist. The Annenbergy Foundation, the founder of which is a Republican, saw fit to award Mr. Ayers $50million for education reform in Chicago. The board of the organization was made up of respected Republicans and Democrats alike. Given Mr. Ayers 40 years of history since his deplorable acts as a young man, Obama supports his good community works and accepts that people can reform and become productive members of society. The alternative is to isolate and ostracize anyone who has ever done anything bad and to, therefore, create a hopeless society discouraging people from reform. We applaud Obama's recognition that Mr. Ayers has tranformed and serves his community. His actions encouraging someone to stay on the path of constructive community participation speak to his audacity of hope.

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