Of the many ludicrous political discussions of the last six months, the most ludicrous may well be the discussion of the alleged association between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers, former member of the Weather Underground.
Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, have lived in the Hyde Park area in Chicago. So has Barack Obama. (So have I.) If you lived in Hyde Park for (say) a decade, there was a good chance that you’d run across Ayers, and maybe even be at a social occasion with him. And if you were a social person, or someone who was running for political office, you would meet a lot of people, and it’s pretty likely that you would run across Ayers, or be at some social occasion with him.
Read More of Silly Season: Ayers, Obama, and Hyde Park off-site...Pat Hickey says:
It is only 'no big deal' the very few - Dare I say Elite? - to whom the Ayers Association is no big deal.
Chicago JD says:
It all seems very normal as long as one lives in Chicago, which the national media views as completely corrupt, and as of lately, having a high murder rate, and a blighted south side, etc., etc. Allegations surrounding the death of Donald Young represent a potentially larger problem for the candidate than any would-be terrorist associations.
Dan Kelley says:
Let's try to minimize this some more, liberals.
The truth is that Obama did not simply run into Ayers while picking up his clothes from the neighborhood dry cleaning store or picking up groceries at the delicatessen. He held organizational meetings for his political campaigns in Ayers' home.
Ayers and Dohrn are unrepentant radicals and criminal terrorists. Obama's association with them is troubling in the extreme.