• William Ayers is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with whom Barack served on the board of an education-reform organization in the mid-1990’s. According to the Associated Press, they are not close: “No evidence shows they were “pals” or even close when they worked on community boards years ago …”
• Their relationship barely goes beyond serving together on an education foundation board in Chicago.
  
• No evidence shows they were “pals” or even close when they worked on community boards years ago

• This—violence, death, and white-hot rhetoric—is his past and Ayers insists he has no regrets. "I acted appropriately in the context of those times," he says.
  
• Around this time, Ayers summed up the Weatherman philosophy as "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents—that's where it's really at."
  
• Even then he showed a way with words: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country," he said. (after his trial)

''I don't regret setting bombs,'' Bill Ayers said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.''  This statement seems simple enough.

“I wish I had done more, but it doesn't’t mean I wish we’d bombed more shit."

  The story goes on: 

So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? ''I don't want to discount the possibility,'' he said.

A couple curious points turn up.  The Obama campaign and Presumptive President-elect Obama had stated repeatedly that he knew nothing of Ayers Weatherman past.  On 7 October 2008, Presumptive President-elect Obama came clean on this issue when David Axelrod told the Chicago Tribune in an interview,

"It was sometime after their first meetings, you know,he became aware of that,'' David Axelrod, Obama's chief campaign strategist, said on board the Obama campaign plane on a flight fromAsheville, N.C., to here for tonight's debate. "I don't know the exact moment." This puts the date of knowledge around 1995.

With that gem of knowledge behind us, we move to the next item.  Bill Ayers wrote a book in 1997, A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon Press, 1997). This is two years after Obama became aware of Ayers past.  But, on 21 December 1997 state Senator Obama had this to say about the book written by the ex-terrorist: 

“A searing and timely account of the juvenile court system, and the courageous individuals who rescue hope from despair.”

This has covered some of the background on Professor Bill Ayers and has added doubt to some of Senator Obamas statements as to their relationship.  His own campaign committee has had to alter their position on this relationship continually throughout this election campaign.

Now the election is over.  Professor Bill Ayers is back in the limelight, free of any restrictions and will be appearing on Good Morning America on the 14th November 2008.  In an interview with the Chicago Sun Times 

he now describes Presumptive President-elect Barack Obama as a “family friend”.

Uh.  Isn't this the key point they have both been denying all during the campaign?  He follows up with just a little bit of liberal moral relativism by saying, 

“I killed no one, and I harmed no one, and I didn't’t regret for a minute resisting the murderous assault on [Vietnam] with every ounce of my being,”. 

The fact that no one, except fellow Weatherman died during their bombing isn't due to their "respect" for life but instead to their own incompetence.  Not through a lack of effort on their part, but they were just not any good at what they were doing.  Incompetence is not a valid defense in a court of law.  The only reason he and his wife got off on any charges was due to government malfeasance regarding the FBI COINTEL program.

The story goes on, 

"He denies a quote attributed to him in 2001: “I don’t regret setting bombs. I wish we’d set more bombs. I don’t think we did enough.” 

Remember, when questioned about this statement  he stated to the New Yorker on 8 October 2008;

“I wish I had done more, but it doesn't’t mean I wish we’d bombed more shit.”