Dear University of Illinois Alumni Association
Sara Greenstein
Vice President and Associate Chancellor, Alumni Relations
sarag@illinois.edu
Joseph Rank
Vice President, Membership
j-rank@uillinois.edu
Dear University of Illinois Alumni Association:
Until Bill Ayers is removed from the faculty of the University of Illinois, please remove me from your alumni mailing list. He is a disgrace and embarrassment, a threat to our legacy, and the personification of the depths to which the university has fallen.
Norma Bruce
'61, '66
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9 comments:
Excellent.
I always find that people listen when I stop sending checks.
Murray sez:
Kinda has the same tone as the message I sent to Illinois congressman Don Manzullo and senator Durbin. I told them that I tired of the accomplish nothing agenda and with no accountability, so I haven't voted for a incumbent for many years. Therefore please don't expect a vote from me or from anyone I can influence.
It seems to me that many conservatives are still fighting the sixties.
Obama "palling" around with Ayers
Kerry and the whole asinine Swift Boat hatchet job.
It's like conservatives can't move beyond radicals and the Vietnam War.
RL: I'm not saying he can't pal around with Obama, or live in his neighborhood after he serves his sentence, but I don't see why the university has to give him honors when he wanted to destroy the country. How is he different, except in age, from Txeroki who was just apprehended in France for bombings in Spain. Maybe you would award him a faculty seat at your alma mater? I've actually read his first book (Ayers, that is).
Nooo.. I think you miss my point. In the election, one of the reasons why Obama was not suited to be President was because he had associated with Ayers and was a community organizer like Alinsky. Part of the Republican strategy was to, effectively, run against the 60s. Same thing with Kerry. Kerry would never have been attacked the way he had been by the other Swift Boat veterans if he hadn't come back to the United States and opposed the war.
All the hand wringing and angst over Ayers, Alinsky, Vietnam, "radicals", and communists, just leaves the impression that the 60s caused severe emotional trauma for conservatives that they simply can't get over.
Wasn't the Kerry issue his lies both about his service and about what happened to others? And did we really want a man with either a poor memory or vicious hatred for the military in the WH?
So, do I assume RL has morphed into Sweetie, having taken a blogger name? Whom am I addressing here?
R.L. wants us to think about all those other Weathermen and SDS running around teaching kids who don't know Obama and therefore, no one is bothering them. Or cares. It makes sense in a strange liberal way. Probably wouldn't feel the same if it were an abortion clinic bomber who never served time, got a PhD and was teaching at her college.
Well how embarrassing. I was on my girlfriends lap-top and never even thought about her being logged onto her gmail account. Nothing I say should be held against her, she's not to blame.
The question about an abortion clinic bomber is an interesting one. I would suspect that there would be some very vocal opposition to such a professor from some on the left. Just as I would suspect that many social conservatives would greet the issue with a huge yawn.
As for the whole Swift Boat episode, I'll refer you to Snopes. I think it's pretty clear that those who attacked Kerry are still fighting the anti-war movement of 40 years ago.
My only observation is that a large part of the Republican campaign against Obama used the events, and the rhetoric, of the sixties and early seventies. It just sounded as if some conservatives still cannot get past that decade.
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