GMA video - Ayers: Obama relationship a 'myth'.

[Billy Burnett]

Ayers: Obama relationship a 'myth'
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6252793

Also, you can select the video segment - Ayers: We never committed terror -
on the same page.

[Hellataz]

1. I have never thought ill of Ayers and never understood all the hubub.

I also cannot take anymore stupidity and fear that thrives in this country within all the people that made or believed Ayers was an issue. Listening to this man, he's intelligent, open minded and a rational thinker. He protested a war, like so many others and acted through the passion of a young man who felt he could do something that would catch the governments attention in a way that wasn't meant to hurt anyone physically. If you look at his actions rationally it could be compared to the likes of elaborate vandalism, not terrorism.

I just don't get how people in this country let fear and ignorance get the best of them.
Nor do I get how anyone can outright assume that talking with people who's beliefs you differ from means you you actually do believe in their ideas. What happened to just talking, debating, getting to know different perspectives and being given the benefit of the doubt that you can make your own mind up about how you feel about an issue without having everyone assume that who you've talked to makes up who you are.