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You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!
Bill Ayers
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Bill Ayers
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 26
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Glen Ellyn
Illinois
William Charles Bill Ayers
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