Malarkey.  How could you?  Say it ain’t so, Joe.  Ayers is viewed as a traitor to this nation. Thank you to Palin for beating the drum.  The MSM knows that Palin hammering away at this IS hurting Obama each day.  All they can do is call McCain and Palin racists for questioning the relationship.

John M. Murtagh made the following statement this morning after your “malarkey” reference to Bill Ayers.

“When I was 9 years-old the Weather Underground, the terrorist group founded by Barack Obama’s friend William Ayers, firebombed my house. Barack Obama has dismissed concerns about his relationship with Ayers by noting that he was only a child when Ayers was planting bombs at the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol. But Ayers has never apologized for his crimes, he has reveled in them, expressing regret only for the fact that he didn’t do more.

“While Barack Obama once downplayed his relationship with Ayers, today his campaign took that deceit one step further. Barack Obama now denies he was even aware of his friend’s violent past when, in 1995, Ayers hosted a party launching Obama’s political career. Given Ayers’ celebrity status among the left, it’s difficult to believe. The question remains: what did Obama know, and when did he know it? When did Obama learn the truth about his friend? Barack Obama helped Ayers promote his book in 1997, served on charitable boards with him through 2002, and regularly exchanged emails and phone calls with him through 2005. At what point did Barack Obama discover that his friend was an unrepentant terrorist? And if he is so repulsed by the acts of terror committed by William Ayers, why did the relationship continue? Any honest accounting by Barack Obama will necessarily cast further doubt on his judgment and his fitness to serve as commander in chief.

“Barack Obama may have been a child when William Ayers was plotting attacks against U.S. targets — but I was one of those targets. Barack Obama’s friend tried to kill my family.”

Early on the morning of February 21, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at their home on the northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked neatly under the gas tank of the family car.

Possibly, if Ayers had served time in prison and then publicly denounced what he had done, most people wouldn’t be quite as disgusted with him.  The fact that he stated he wished he could have done more makes him more despicable.

Joe, right here…from Ed on the subject of Ayers mellowing out:

Just in case anyone wonders, like Van Susteren does, whether Ayers and Dohrn have mellowed, revisit this post and the speeches both gave last November. Dohrn still wants an “overthrow” of capitalism, and Ayers still thinks that Red China is on the right track while railing against the “unimaginable authoritarianism” of the US over the last 40 years. And Barack Obama considers this “mainstream”.

Joe Biden told CBS’ “The Early Show” Wednesday that the recent attacks on the Ayers connection are “over the top” and “mildly dangerous.”

I’ll say they are dangerous, but not for the same reasons.  It is NOT John McCain that associated with these two nutjobs.  They both have a vested interest in Obama winning the White House.  Get your head out of the sand Joe.

That says something about both judgment and character, and explains why Team Obama has fought so hard to keep McCain from talking about Ayers.

More on confirmation of Obama’s membership in a socialist group.