...because this is getting way out of hand.
Salon's Walter Shapiro talked to Bill Ayers about the election in which he played a surprisingly big part:
Do you feel diminished by Obama repeatedly referring to you throughout the campaign as just some "guy from the neighborhood"?
[From Ayers: Our Neighborhood "Kind Of Like Wasilla"]
Not in the least; I am a guy from the neighborhood. And I'm proud of it ... And the neighborhood being Hyde Park, which is a very close-knit, very friendly, very politically diverse, very racially diverse. You have all kinds of poles there. You have [conservative] Judge Richard Posner on one pole and Louis Farrakhan on the other. And everything in between. It's an interesting neighborhood, a college town [the University of Chicago]. It's close-knit. It's kind of like Wasilla, Alaska, except that it's different.
Dude, describing Hyde Park as a college town is just bizarre. It's a neighborhood in Chicago. And saying it's like Wasilla but different is like saying Kokomo is like, but different from Paris. (Actually Hyde Park is more like Northampton, but with real money.)
If this goes on much longer I'm going to read more books.
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