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Message: <blockquote data-quote="InzeladunMaster" data-source="post: 4500472" data-attributes="member: 9774"><a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jzQtw1kATj1xCqPcAmwgCKDtNpDQD93LT9NG0" target="_blank">The Associated Press: McCain linked to group in Iran-Contra affair</a>And McCain apparently has ties to the Contras....Seriously, I think people are going WAY overboard with tangential connections.  Politicians meet and greet people.  When people get involved in their community, who knows who they may be working with?  They can't vet everybody they come into contact with.Dear lord, if I were introduced to someone: "I'd like you to meet Professor Ayers; he teaches at the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, holding the honor of Distinguished Professor; he also helped shape Chicago's school reform program and he serves on the board of a philanthopic organization.  Also, he has edited and written many books and articles on education theory, policy and practice, and has appeared on many panels and symposia," I would think he was alright. It probably wouldn't even occur to me to check and see if he wasn't a terrorist who protested the Vietnam war when I was eight.  I don't even think I know the names of known terrorists from my childhood.  Come to think of it, I never checked my boss or any of my fellow teachers at IBC to find out if they were terrorists in the past or not.Imagine - you run for public office one day, and it comes out in the news you were friendly with someone at work who was a terrorist at one point in the past - and you had no idea!Politicians cannot vet everybody - nor should they.  Condemning people based on their associations is not right.  Condemn them for their actions if condemn them you must, but don't condemn them for someone else's actions - or their association with someone you don't like.I never heard of Bill Ayers prior to this election.  As I stated before, if I had met him as a professor, I would have had no clue.  If he took an interest in my career, I would have thought well of him.</blockquote>

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