Obama invited the Ayers scrutiny

Lynn Sweet:

Barack Obama's association with former terrorist, now urban educator Bill Ayers is looming in the closing days of the presidential race, as Obama's past once again becomes part of his present.

Sarah Palin said Obama ``is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country," as the McCain campaign opens the associational front with less than a month to go in the campaign. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign tried to take down Obama with Ayers and it did not work, but that was with mainly a Democratic primary audience.

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I wrote a column last Apil--during the Democratic primary clash-- explaining why Obama knowing Ayers never became an issue for him in Chicago. You may not agree, but that's the way it's been in the city.

Sun-Times reporters Chris Fusco and Abdon Pallasch wrote this piece on Ayers last April.

Having said all this, Obama probably invited more scrutiny after he downplayed and brushed off his association with Ayers during a Democratic debate, when he said he was just a "guy" in the neighborhood who he served with on some boards.

It is inarguable that Obama was not eight years old when he began his political career in Ayers living room. Obama was 40 years old when Ayers said he had no regrets about being a terrorist and wished he had done more. Sweet is right to say he has invited this scrutiny.

And what is with the AP suggesting that raising the issue is racist? That has to be the most illogical analysis I have seen in this campaign. It is mystifying that any intelligent person could even think such a thing much less publish to the world. It is so absurd it does not pass the giggle test. What it looks like is a desperate attempt by someone in the Obama media tank to play the race card joker in hopes of shutting off any debate about the issue. The main thing the AP accomplished with that piece is to further tarnish what is left of their reputation. Is there no one left at that organization with any professional pride?

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