Cindy McCain and Military Spouses

So very true, CherylsPearls. Neither of them voted AGAINST funding the troops - they voted for their preferred plan for conducting military operations in Iraq.

I really wish people would stop with the Ayers is a terrorist garbage. Yes, his group set off some bombs a long time ago but he is not now a terrorist by any definition of the word and wasn't considered one until it became campaign rhetoric. On the other hand, here's McCain's good pal G. Gordon Liddy, thug for hire during Watergate. He looks a lot scarier than Ayers and actually he is. He was prepared and willing to kill anyone who got in his way the night of the Watergate breakin. He plotted to murder Jack Anderson, a reporter investigating this crime and also plotted to murder Howard Hunt to keep him from testifying. He firebombed the Brookings Institute but somehow those who are so upset about Obama's "terrorist connections" manage to over look Liddy or the fact that McCain was recently on his radio show telling Liddy how proud he was of him. I don't believe it was on the same day that Liddy was advising his listeners that taking head shots was the best way to kill a federal agent so at least he's not directly connected to that disgusting radio broadcast.

But the conservative spinners would tell you that 'he served his debt to society so he's okay'. The real issue with Ayers comes out in some of the more thoughtful debate - he supported 'radical school reform'. The schools in Ayers Small Schools Network focused on social justice, civil engagement and diversity. On reviewer likened the schools described in one of Ayers books to the Freedom Schools of the civil rights movement. A horrible, terrible thing to teach children - that they have a responsibility to educate themselves and to speak out against injustice, that they should be engaged as agents of change to build a world where everyone has access to decent education, a decent work environment and the opportunities open to those who can pay for them. Those are the 'radical ideas' that Obama is accused of sharing with Ayers - a belief in social justice, in real equal rights for all, in access to the best education possible - all of those things that are equated with 'socialism'. He is accused of daring to teach children to examine the policies of the government under which they live, and decide for themselves if they are in the best interests of ALL the people.