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For what it’s worth, the impression I got, at least from Mark Rudd’s account of himself in The Weather Underground, is that he is genuinely repentant and a lot more thoughtful and self-critical about his actions and his role in RYM and Weather than some of the other former Weathermen and Weatherwomen — Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and David Gilbert in particular — have been. I don’t know whether he’s a good or bad candidate for the MDS board — I’m not involved enough with SDS redevivus and don’t know enough about Rudd — but I don’t think it’s fair to rule him out simply on the basis of having once been involved with RYM and Weather, or on the basis of what other people who were once involved with RYM and Weather may be like.

Unfortunately, Bernardine Dohrn is another one of the nominees to the MDS, Inc. board — something that I’m less than thrilled to see.