Ayers on the lamb again

Times:

Three decades after abandoning his life as a fugitive, Bill Ayers has gone underground again.

The co-founder of the Weathermen, the anti-Vietnam War group that bombed the Pentagon and US Capitol in the 1970s, has vanished as John McCain seeks to make his links to Barack Obama a central issue in the last weeks of the presidential campaign.

There was no one home when The Times visited Mr Ayers' house in a quiet street three blocks from Mr Obama's mansion in the Hyde Park district of Chicago. The Education Department of the University of Illinois, where Mr Ayers works, said that he had gone on sabbatical. In response to an e-mail he stated: “I'm not available right now. Perhaps in the future. Best, Bill.” What The Times did find in Chicago, however, was widespread bemusement that Mr McCain should be putting so much emphasis on Mr Obama's tenuous links with Mr Ayers to revive his campaign.

Mr Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, another Weathermen leader, emerged from hiding in 1980 and the charges against them were dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct.

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There is more on the background of Obama and his various nefarious relationships as a Chicago pol. It is interesting that only a London paper has attempted to contact Ayers in any meaningful way and they have found him missing in action at a convenient time for Obama's campaign. My speculation is that the Dailey machine suggested that now would be a good time to get out of Chicago. Someone has also gotten to Rev. Wright and put a muzzle on him. That is the Chicago way.