Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen. Because Senator Obama recently served on a board of a charitable organization with Mr. Ayers cannot possibly link the senator to acts perpetrated by Mr. Ayers so many years ago. I do take issue with the statement in your news article that the Weathermen indictment was dismissed because of "prosecutorial misconduct." It was dismissed because of illegal activities, including wiretaps, break-ins and mail interceptions, initiated by John N. Mitchell, attorney general at that time, and W. Mark Felt, an F.B.I. assistant director.

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I guess coming from him this is stronger than my letter:

The whole thing is nonsense.

Obama has no connection to Ayers.

Obama did nothing.

Obama and Ayers were both on the board of some do-goodnik organization, each appointed by other third party folks.

Ayers held a fundraiser for Obama.

Obama never sought his support.

McCain however was in effect holding fundraisers for Keating, and is connected to the Annenberg foundation that funded the same organization that Ayers and Obama worked for.

Unlike Obama, McCain actively sought the support of terrorist and criminal G. Gordon Liddy or served on the board of the neo-Nazi US Council of World Freedom.

Unlike Obama, Palin actively sought support of treasonous and violent (revised per comment: founder killed in a plastic-explosives sale gone bad, while collaborating with Iran) Alaska Independence Party.

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Updated: Since this made the Rec list, I feel obliged to do an update:

Here is the NY Times front page article that looked into the "connection" and was actually pretty good on calling it b.s. (other than the fact that article was even done; at least third time NY Times has done an Ayers piece, compared to none on McCain's and Palin's terrorist ties).

And here is the pathetic "balanced" with false equivalency NY Times editorial that followed.

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Update 2 - fyi: I hope this is not considered unrelated, but over at TPMCafe, MJ Rosenberg has a short essay making the link between the McCain campaign and Republican noise machine's current incitement (and media's promotion of it), to the sort of right wing incitement that included their mainstream right wing candidate Netanyahu, which led to Rabin's assasination in Israel. Also the right wing incitement against JFK, that led to Dallas.