would share in my assessment of the job environment. As most people say, it's just retail. It's like that everywhere. And to that point, it could have been much worse. To those who haven't heard, I will be starting a manager training program at Scott and White on April 28th. After my training is complete, I will become a medical clinic director. Daunting, yeah a tad bit, but 10X more exciting than daunting. What it means is good benefits and greater benefits. Good as in medical, salary etc. Great as in I can reclaim title of daddy to my son and my soon arriving daughter. Dinner, yard work and weekends are terms I will become shortly reacquainted with. And the cherry on top of the sundae is being able to sing at church on Sundays. There is a huge buzz of excitement around here.
Obama. I can't figure this guy out. I want to like him. He has great ideas around education, social programs and others but a few of his bedfellows make me weary. He has ties to terrorists and anti-christians alike. In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local[Hyde Park] left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.William Ayres from WIKI:
According to his memoir, Ayers became radicalized at the University of Michigan where he became involved in the New Left and the Students for a Democratic Society. Ayers joined the Weatherman group in 1969, but went underground with several associates after the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in 1970, in which three members (Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, and Diana Oughton, who was Ayers's girlfriend at the time) were killed while constructing a nail bomb. While underground, he and fellow member Bernardine Dohrn married and had two children. They were purged from the group in the mid-1970s, and turned themselves in to the authorities in 1981. All charges against him were dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct during the long search for the fugitives. They later became legal guardians to the son of former Weathermen David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, after his parents were arrested for their part in the Brinks Robbery of 1981.[4]
In 2001, Ayers published Fugitive Days: A Memoir. Much of the controversy about him is connected with his interview with the New York Times about his book was published, by historical coincidence, on September 11, 2001,[5] and opens with his statements, "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough." When asked he would "do it all again," Ayers replied, "I don't want to discount the possibility."[4] Ayers wrote a Letter to the Editor of the New York Times on September 15, describing the interview as: "This is not a question of being misunderstood or 'taken out of context', but of deliberate distortion."[6] He has explained multiple times that by "no regrets" he meant that he didn't regret his efforts to oppose the Vietnam War, and that "we didn't do enough" meant that efforts to stop the war were obviously inadequate as it dragged on for a decade; the two statements were not intended to elide into a wish they had set more bombs.[7][8] The interview also mentions what he wrote in his book regarding Emile de Antonio's 1976 documentary film Underground, about the Weathermen: "[Ayres] was 'embarrassed by the arrogance, the solipsism, the absolute certainty that we and we alone knew the way. The rigidity and the narcissism."
So now the question is posed: Does an association and almost friendliness in some views trump all the good ideas for change?
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