You Don't Say: Ayers and Obama Were Close Friends

You don't say:

In a new afterword to his memoir, 1960s radical William Ayers describes himself as a "family friend" of President-elect Barack Obama and writes that the campaign controversy over their relationship was an effort by Obama's political enemies to "deepen a dishonest narrative" about the candidate.

Ayers describes phone threats and hate e-mail he received during the campaign, and he bemoans Obama's guilt by association.

During the campaign, Ayers' friendship with Obama was a favorite subject of conservative bloggers and talk show hosts who insisted the two were closer than the candidate was admitting. Ayers' new description of the relationship seems to contradict Obama's statements.

Obama had dismissed Ayers as "a guy who lives in my neighborhood" and "somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know."

How again was that media coverage of Obama's friends and associates to figure out who's who? They decided that it was more important to find out who was really pregnant in the Palin family (and throw more than a few rumors out there about whose baby Trig really was) than to shine light on the all too cozy relationship between Obama and Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground terrorist who was mainstreamed by the Chicago political machine and academia.

I can't wait for Obama to throw Ayers under the bus again; to say that he wasn't the Ayers he knew; or some other such blathering.

As I've been saying from the outset, Obama's associations go to his character and judgment. He had no problem associating with Ayers, and it should have given pause to people voting for him, especially in light of Ayers wistfully unrepentant view of his active terrorist days. He's no less revolutionary in his views now, but it should have been a red flag to Obama to consider associating with other people.

UPDATE:
Chris Cuomo gave a fawning interview of Ayers on ABC News today. Nice. It would have been nice if Cuomo had asked Ayers of his rousing support for Sirhan Sirhan in the Weather Underground manifesto Prairie Fire. Sirhan murdered Robert F. Kennedy, who was closely related to Cuomo's former sister in law Kerry Kennedy (who was married to Cuomo's brother Andrew (who is currently New York's Attorney General)).

UPDATE:
Ayers claims that he never injured or killed anyone with his terror attacks. I beg to differ. He intended to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, when the bomb he designed blew up killing three of his fellow terrorists, including his girlfriend at the time. His terrorists firebombed the home of a judge, which nearly killed the judge and his family.

Weather Underground terrorists, along with Black Panthers, murdered two state troopers and an armored car guard as part of the Brinks armored car heist in Nanuet, New York. That heist was meant to fund further terror attacks, but the plan was thwarted. Ayers and his partner Bernadine Dohrn became guardians for Kathy Boudin's children.

UPDATE:
Hot Air has more.

UPDATE:
Ayers and his media friends are all too busy trying to whitewash his connections to Obama. There is absolutely no way he can say any of this with a straight face. After all, Ayers was there at the start of Obama's political career, gave him his shot as head of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and it's hard to believe that these are mere coincidences.