And in so doing, confirms that they are in the tank for Barack Obama.

It’s the story that Barack Obama wishes would just go away. But it’s the story we all need to hear, and repeat, over and over. Obama needs to explain his association with domestic terrorist William Ayers.

Yesterday, Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin sought to explain the difference in Barack Obama’s views of America…and the rest of us:

“This is not a man who sees America as you see it, and how I see America,” Ms. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, said in Colorado, according to a pool report. “We see America as the greatest force for good in this world. If we can be that beacon of light and hope for others who seek freedom and democracy and can live in a country that would allow intolerance in the equal rights that again our military men and women fight for and die for all of us.

“Our opponent though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.”

New York Times

True to form, the Obama camp squealed. And, just on cue, the AP squealed along with them.

Clueless Associated Press Writer Douglass K. Daniel said that “her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.” [Breitbart]

Give. Me. A. Break.

Michelle Malkin nailed it when she said: “Putting the “Ass” in “Associated Press,” one of the wire service’s Obama water-carriers attempts to smear Sarah Palin as a racist for spotlighting Barack Obama’s longtime relationships with Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.”

While Tom Brokaw has tried to assert that Ayers is now just a “school reformer” a mere seven years ago, published amazingly enough of September 11, 2001, Ayers said, ”I don’t regret setting bombs…I feel we didn’t do enough.”

If that’s “school reform” I’d rather stick with the status quo.

In his interview with Bill O’Reilly, Barack Obama said that William Ayers was someone who committed those acts of violence when he (Obama) was 8 years old. So I guess that excuses them?

William Ayers, Barack Obama's "community organization" associate.

Fact is when Ayers gave that interview, Obama and Ayers were serving on the same “community organizing” board in Chicago. That is, if we can believe Hillary Clinton:

“I also believe that Senator Obama served on a board with Mr. Ayers for a period of time, the Woods Foundation, which was a paid directorship position. And, if I’m not mistaken, that relationship with Mr. Ayers on this board continued after 9/11 and after his reported comments, which were deeply hurtful to people in New York and, I would hope, to every American, because they were published on 9/11, and he said that he was just sorry they hadn’t done more.”

Politifact.com, St. Petersburg Times

Politifact also says:

Deborah Harrington, president of the Woods Fund, a philanthropic organization in Chicago, said Obama was a director from 1994 through 2001. That overlaps Ayers’ time as a director by three years. It also means Obama served with Ayers for the final months of 2001, after Ayers made his comments to the New York Times.

Stanley Kurtz tells us:

One unsettled question is how Mr. Obama, a former community organizer fresh out of law school, could vault to the top of a new foundation? In response to my questions, the Obama campaign issued a statement saying that Mr. Ayers had nothing to do with Obama’s “recruitment” to the board. The statement says Deborah Leff and Patricia Albjerg Graham (presidents of other foundations) recruited him. Yet the archives show that, along with Ms. Leff and Ms. Graham, Mr. Ayers was one of a working group of five who assembled the initial board in 1994. Mr. Ayers founded CAC and was its guiding spirit. No one would have been appointed the CAC chairman without his approval.

The Wall Street Journal

In other words, Ayers said he had no regrets and took the picture you see here standing on the American Flag, at the same time he was serving on the Board with Barack Obama. And in 2001, Obama was ever so much more than eight-years-old.

Earlier this year The Politico reported the following:

In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

…“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.”

Obama and Palmer “were both there,” he said.

Translation? Barack Obama’s political career was launched at the home of unrepentant terrorist, William Ayers.

Kurtz says:

The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming “guilt by association.” Yet the issue here isn’t guilt by association; it’s guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago.

But somehow, the “brain trust” at the Associated Press thinks the revelation of this information is “racist.”

John at Powerline Blog puts it best:

When the McCain campaign ran an ad that had a white woman in it, it was denounced as racist. When it ran an ad that had an African-American man (Franklin Raines) in it, it was denounced as racist. Now the McCain campaign links Obama to a white man, the former terrorist, and still anti-American, Bill Ayers. That’s racist too. I think we’ve exhausted just about all the possibilities. The only non-racist thing McCain can do, apparently, is concede the election.

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