Governor Palin has recently attempted to resurrect the Obama-Ayers connection as part of the campaign's latest desperate attempt to shift voter attention away from the economy. If, like me, curious voters seek to refresh their memory concerning the Weather Underground and Mr. Ayers role in it they can easily find all they need here.
The weakness of this latest attempt to smear Sen. Obama is so obvious that even one of the usually lock-step partisan websites cast doubt on the strategy:
While it is known that Obama and Ayers live in the same Chicago neighborhood, served on a charity board together and had a fleeting political connection, there is no evidence that they ever palled around. And it's simply wrong to suggest that they were associated while Ayers was committing terrorist acts.
However telling this criticism of one of their own may be, at this point in the campaign the ads and speeches will conform more to the polls than to what is written on partisan websites. If this type of attack works, even slightly, then we can expect to see many more like it.
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