Sounds and Fury

在前晚歐巴馬與希拉蕊的辯論中，歐巴馬被質疑和六零年代激進組織氣象人成員有關係。讀者可能知道我寫過地下氣象人的故事以及他們現在的發展。

對話和背景如下 （出自紐約時報）

Mr. Obama was asked by a moderator about his relationship with Bill Ayers, a former Weather Underground leader who is now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In the early 1970s, the Weathermen, who took their name from a line in a Bob Dylan song, claimed responsibility for bombing the Capitol, the Pentagon, the State Department Building and banks, courthouses and police stations.
Mr. Ayers is married to Bernardine Dohrn, another Weather Underground figure. Both were indicted in 1970 for inciting to riot and conspiracy to bomb government buildings, but charges were dropped in 1974 because of prosecutorial misconduct, including illegal surveillance.
Mr. Ayers is listed as a member of the nine-member board of the Woods Fund of Chicago, an offshoot of the Woods Charitable Fund, founded in 1941 by a prominent lawyer and telephone company executive. According to the fund’s Web site, it has focused in recent years on “issues that affected the area’s least advantaged, including welfare reform, affordable housing” and “tax policy as a tool in reducing poverty.”
For a time, Mr. Obama was on the board with Mr. Ayers, though he no longer has a formal association with the group. At the debate, he described Mr. Ayers as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” but “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” Mr. Obama said he was being unjustly linked to “somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old.”


以這位氣象人現在從事的社會工作來說，我看不出來歐巴馬和他共事有什麼好被質疑的。

當然，更大的爭議是主持人和希拉蕊都引用這位氣象人在九一一後的訪問，說他不後悔當時放炸彈，來說這段傷了紐約人的感情。


問題是，這段訪問是在九一一前，且他是說當年，和九一一毫無關係。