Didn’t we also hear about their “kid’s went to school together” at some point? Ayers kids are ADULTS, Obama’s are still children.
I didn’t get to ask Obama about his relationship with Bill Ayers today, but did ask his chief strategist (and reigning expert on Chicago’s political tribes), David Axelrod, about the two men.
“Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school,” he said. “They’re certainly friendly, they know each other, as anyone whose kids go to school together.”
He called Ayers current defense of his 1960s bombings “objectionable, and I think Barack would also say that was objectionable. I don’t think he’s ever had an in-depth discussion [with Ayers] about them.”
And he cast the whole subject in the context of Obama’s broader message.
“We can relitiigate again and again these 40-year-old battles,” he said. “He thinks what was done then was wrong and outrageous, and he believes that you can’t defend the indefensible – but he’s looking forward, he’s not looking back.”
UPDATE: There’s been a bit of confusion about Axelrod’s line on the kids, who — as the Guardian’s Daniel Nasaw noted — aren’t the same age. Obama’s kids went go the the University of Chicago Lab Schools, where Ayers kids, who are much older, had gone. However, Bernardine Dohrn is still active at the school, and an Obama aide said that was the connection.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Ax_on_Ayers.html
SO MANY LIES ABOUT AYERS. Axelrod tried say their “kids went to school together”
Also Obama didn’t know about his past.
Also Obama thought he was “reformed”. Reformed from his past that he DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT.
Obama’s LIES about Ayers make just as good a commercial as Ayers himself.