Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn did not hate America. They, like other protestors against the Vietnam War hated imperialism and considered it to be the antithesis of what IS American, and they chose a foolish and immature way of fighting against it. That's the kind of thing that young and passionate and foolish patriots do. A similarly young and passionate Serbian patriot named Gabriel Princip assassinated two Austro-Hungarian royals in 1914 and he started a world war which killed millions of people. He didn't do it because he hated any nation, he did it because he LOVED his own nation, as did Ayers and Dohrn...and he was under the impression that he was defending his own nation.

To say that Ayers and Dornn hated American is asinine. They were under the impression that they were defending traditional American values when they took on what they saw as "the Establishment", a ruling elite that they felt was betraying America.

To not realize this is to be as blindly caught up in your own passion and anger as they were in theirs.

The same goes for your remarks about Michelle Obama. She doesn't hate America...she hates what she sees as entrenched racism existing IN America. That does not equate to hating America, it equates to loving America, and feeling that there is something gone way wrong that needs to be corrected in order to restore America to the land of her own dreams.

Nobody hates their own country. They may, however, very well grow to hate something that is going on in their own country...or someone who is running the government of their country.