Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Fool?

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I am.

Sarah Palin has taken her heels off, apparently, to insinuate a relationship between Barack Obama and a man who was once a leader in the Weather Underground movement. She calls this man, William Ayers a terrorist, but the facts don't hold up.

From CNN:
In the 1960s, Ayers was a founding member of the radical Weather Underground group. Federal charges against them were dropped due to FBI misconduct in gathering evidence. Ayers, 63, is now an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt told CNN that after meeting Obama through the Annenberg project, Ayers hosted a campaign event for him that same year. LaBolt also said the two have not spoken by phone or exchanged e-mail messages since Obama came to the U.S. Senate in 2005.

There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are now "palling around," or that they have had an ongoing relationship in the past three years. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Ayers is now involved in terrorist activity or that other Obama associates are.

It's laughable to believe that the University of Illinois has a terrorist holding a tenured teaching position. And it's despicable, the lengths to which the McCain campaign will go; when, without much dredging or insinuating anyone could easily make the argument that as a member of the Keating 5, John McCain is the last person we'd want in the White House, given our current economic crisis.