Obama's Obama Nation rebuttal throws "Ayers ball"

I haven't yet blogged about Jerome Corsi's best selling book, The Obama Nation, partly because I haven't read it--yet. I plan to pick up a copy today.

There are some errors within Corsi's text that I'm aware of, but the Barack Obama campaign today issued a forty page rebuttal of the book, and I find it hard to believe that there are that many incorrect items within The Obama Nation.

Jim Geraghty writes The Campaign Spot blog for the National Review, and he is the first writer, but no doubt the last, to rebut the rebuttal:

A lot of the items in the Obama campaign's response to Corsi are items I was noting in my review - sloppy work, asserting "Obama didn't say X in his book," when in fact he did. (For example, Corsi is right that Obama never comes out and calls his father a polygamist in his book, but somewhere around the reference to the fourth or fifth wife a reader will start doubting whether he actually divorced each one.)

And then there's this one:

LIE: "Besides, Obama had to know who Ayers is and what he stands for, especially with Ayers making this splash on 9/11." [p 147]

REALITY: AYERS COMMENTS WERE PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 11; THE INTERVIEW OCCURRED PRIOR TO PUBLICATION

On September 11, 2001, A Story About William Ayers' Memoir Was Published In The New York Times; The Interview Occurred Prior To Publication. "'I don't regret setting bombs,' Bill Ayers said. 'I feel we didn't do enough.’ Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago." (My note: pictured above.) [New York Times, 9/11/01]

Geraghty goes on to explain that this one "completely misses the point." When I made my first Obama-Ayers post in February, lib trolls tried to reason with me that Obama was just 11 years old when Ayers bombed the Pentagon--how could he know?

At the time Obama didn't know. He was 11 then--so was I. But I knew all about Ayers--and his wife Bernardine Dorhn--by the time I was in high school. It's a safe bet Barry Obama in Hawaii did too. In fact he wrote about those troubled times in The Audacity of Hope:

In my teens, I became fascinated with the Dionysian, up for grabs quality of the era, and through books, films, and music, I soaked in a vision of the sixties very different from the one my mother talked about: images of Huey Newton, the '68 Democratic National Convention, the Saigon airlift, and the Stones at Altamont. If I had no immediate reasons to pursue revolution, I decided nevertheless that in style and attitude, I, too, could be a rebel, unconstrained by the wisdom of the over-thirty crowd.

Judge for yourself. Because if Obama was "fascinated" by the 1968 Democratic Convention, and Huey Newton, my guess is that he knew all about the Weather Underground terror group.

I'd like to add that Obama continued to serve on the board of directors of The Woods Fund with Ayers until 2002. Ayers remains to this day an unrepentant former terrorist.

Related post:

KEEPING THE STORY ALIVE: A COLLECTION OF POSTS ON BILL AYERS AND THE "WEATHER UNDERGROUND"

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