Just a guy from the neighborhood

There's a link-rich column on the Obama-Ayers connection over at the American Spectator that's worth a read. Here's a taste:

EVEN IF WE ACCEPT the argument from ignorance, we know that Barack Obama had heard about Ayers' past by 2001, as a campaign spokesman recently admitted to Mark Halperin of Time magazine. That year, Ayers was photographed stomping on an American flag, He also reminisced about his bomber days in a profile that the New York Times had the misfortune to publish on September 11. People have parted company with each other for lesser reasons, but nothing Ayers did or said caused Obama to resign from the board of the comically progressive foundation on which they both served at the time.

Moreover, as Stanley Kurtz points out, when a New York Times reporter writes that Obama has never expressed sympathy for Ayers' radicalism, "he's flat wrong," In fact, Obama helped bankroll that radicalism via grants to school projects and community organizing groups that teach what Ayers calls his "small-c communist" philosophy.

Like they say, read the whole thing. And maybe pass it on to a friend or two who are sitting on the fence.  Do they really want a president who sees nothing wrong with communism in education policy, even of the "small-c" variety?

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