As another poster mentioned, Ayers maintains plausible deniability in the way he did this.
One possible explanation—he’s sending a warning to Obama.
Possible, but not very plausible in my mind. To me, something that comes this far 'out of the blue' needs more than a photo to be convincing.
From what i have read on this thread, it seems this reporter/blogger has written quite a bit about Ayers and the authorship question. Therefore what are the odds that (1) she just happens to be at the same airport at the same time as him, (2) just happens to spot him amidst all the thousands that were probably there, and then (3) he just happens to spill the beans to her, to tell her exactly what she had been longing to hear from him.
I'm not saying 1 and 2 are false, but it seems to strain belief (and a person's good fortune) that all three would happen. Sort of like a treasure hunter on her day off going to a beach and thrusting a large umbrella into the sand when, lo and behold it hits upon a box buried in the sand, and eureka! the box is full of gold coins! Okay, i can believe she struck something in the sand, struck a box even, but that the box yielded up a bevy of treasure strikes me as a little too much good fortune.
I think it more likely that it happened this way: she saw him at the airport (had she been aware he might be going to that airport that day?), took his photo, and then she said some things to him that made it clear she thought he wrote Obama's book and was looking for a bit of buried treasure from him. So he sarcastically told her "yeah, sure, i wrote the book" and then later more sarcasm "yeah yeah, whatever, you prove i wrote it and we'll split the royalties honey". It is the tone of the conversation that i question and wonder how accurately it was reported.