McCain campaign responds to Obama's Bill Ayers' ad

Obviously worried that Barack Obama's ties to unrepentant ex-terrorist Bill Ayers will damage his image, the campaign responded with an ad that stated that the admitted Pentagon bomber committed his crimes when the future senator was eight years old.

Obama's explanation of this relationship to Ayers is at best incomplete. Tomorrow, the National Review's Stanley Kurtz will finally get access to 132 boxes of records from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a 1990s project. Obama was the organization's first chairman, and Ayers, now an education professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, likely worked closely with Obama on this endevor--which achieved little, by the way.

Obama and Ayers both served on the board of The Woods Fund--until 2002. And in 2001, Ayers spoke of his bombing past, "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."

The final words I'll leave to the John McCain campaign:

The fact that Barack Obama chose to launch his political career at the home (pictured above) of an unrepentant terrorist raises more questions about his judgment than any ad ever could. And the fact that he's launching his own convention by defending his long association with a man who says he didn’t bomb enough U.S. targets tells us more about Barack Obama than any of tonight’s speeches will.

The Obama ad is stupid move. First, the ad that got their camp in a tizzy was not produced by the McCain campaign--it came from an independent group. Secondly, it reminds people about the Cult of Change leader's ties to the former Weather Underground leader.

That picture of Ayers desecrating the flag that Obama wants to lead was taken in 2001, years after Obama's eighth birthday.

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