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A distraction?!?!?

Let’s give this Ayers thing another little bit of perspective.

The only reason that Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn did not kill people in the numbers of say, the Oklahoma City bombing, is because they lacked the technical expertise. They clearly had the will and they apparently still do.

So let’s replay the OKC scenario a bit. Let’s assume that Tim McVeigh managed to get off on a technicality the way the Ayers did. Then let’s assume that McVeigh went on to get an education and wound up as a college professor.

Next let’s assume that some politician who was, say, “eight years old” when the OKC bombing occurred, managed to find a mentor in McVeigh and develop an ongoing, mutually beneficial relationship.

Do we really think that ANYONE would take that politician seriously as a candidate for mayor, much less the presidency? [except our enemies (foreign and domestic) and those who are completely duped and blinded by their idealism]

Of course not. And yet, that is almost exactly the same as the current scenario with Obama and Ayers.

These are indeed perilous times.

Still seems like softball. I wouldn’t concede the point that Obama was “unaware” of Ayers past in 1995. Ayers and his past were well known in 1995 and it’s naive to think Obama was not aware. Also no one is pointing out that Obama has sued an independent group that produced a factual TV commercial laying out facts of the Obama/Ayers link, which shows a serious disregard to freedom of speech by the Obama campaign.

This is a winning point. The American people know very little about Obama. The American people are also very jaded when it comes to politicians. They expect the worst and don’t really hope for much. People know McCain. I’m not so sure McCain needs to land a ‘knockout’ in these debates or elsewhere. He just needs to be who he has always been. The guy who spent 5 years in Hanoi and does what he thinks is right. McCain frankly needs to look acceptable. Obama has way too many questions about him. The key for the McCain campaign is to keep the media talking about the latest questions about Obama’s past to emerge. That’s Gov. Palin’s job. McCain’s job is the big picture positive stuff as well as a few placed jabs about Obama’s inexperience and lack of a record.

Don’t doubt the people.