Republicans beat Ayers drum

Nonsense. Dangerous banter that creates hatred and fear... Implying that Senator Obama is a terrorist by association in a post 9-11 world is at best horrifying and at worst down right dangerous. I thought this country was better then that. I lived through the political "terrorism" of the 50's and 60's and I truly though this country has grown beyond that madness. Sadly, the Republican party has proved me wrong. Silly me.

Interesting, if they are such good friends why can't the Republicans find a picture of them together?

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Why would America REWARD complete Republican failure ?

We wont.

Every fact check organization calls these claims "pants on fire" lies but the Republicans keep repeating them. Can you say desperation?

There is more on Obama and Ayers, quite a history of him at Obamatracker.com. There are quite a few bios about Obama written from a number of major news sources.

Fact-Checking the Ayers Allegations: So Wrong, It’s “Pants on Fire” Wrong

What about the educational foundation? What "radicals" are associated with it?

Let’s look at a few, starting with the funder. Annenberg was a lifelong Republican and former ambassador to the United Kingdom under President Richard Nixon. His widow, Leonore, has endorsed McCain. Kurtz might just as plausibly have accused Obama and the foundation of “translating Annenberg’s conservatism into practice.”

Among the other board members who served with Obama were: Stanley Ikenberry, former president of the University of Illinois; Arnold Weber, former president of Northwestern University and assistant secretary of labor in the Nixon administration; Scott Smith, then publisher of the Chicago Tribune; venture capitalist Edward Bottum; John McCarter, president of the Field Museum; Patricia Albjerg Graham, former dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Journalism, and a host of other mainstream folks.

“The whole idea of it being radical when it was this tie of blue-chip, white-collar, CEOs and civic leaders is just ridiculous,” said the foundation’s former development director, Marianne Philbin.

(The Chicago Tribune, by the way, is a conservative newspaper. It has never endorsed a Democrat for president in its entire history.)

The conclusion?

This attack is false, but it’s more than that – it’s malicious. It unfairly tars not just Obama, but all the other prominent, well-respected Chicagoans who also volunteered their time to the foundation. They came from all walks of life and all political backgrounds, and there’s ample evidence their mission was nothing more than improving ailing public schools in Chicago. Yet in the heat of a political campaign they have been accused of financing radicalism. That’s Pants on Fire wrong.

This is getting old real quick. But let's try to compare our two candidates in an honest and factual manner:
Barack Obama - OK, Senator Obama is constantly accused by the McCain machinery of being "ASSOCIATED" with William Ayers, who was... during the late 60's and early 70's... a very vocal protester of the Vietnam war (but then, so were millions of other Americans). Ayrers was a member of the Weather Underground and the SDS, and yes... his group did set off a few amateur pipe bombs (read above), but when Ayres did these nasty things, Barack Obama was eight (8) years old and certainly hadn't met or hung around with Ayers.

John McCain - Now, in the case of describing John McCain's involvement with the Keating Five, we can't use "association"... no, we have to use a somewhat stronger descrption... so be honest and call McCain an "Accomplice". This is very accurate in that we have some facts; (A) Charles Keating contributed well over $100,000 to John McCain's first senate run, (B) John & Cindy McCain used Keating's Bahamas getaway estate for seven (7) vacations before the investigation, and (C) John McCain actually met with Federal Bank Regulators in an effort to get them to look the other way when it came to examining Keatings business practices at his bank. And lastly, John McCain was actually investigated by both the FBI and the Senate Eythics Committee in the Keating affair. McCain should've gone to jail with Keating and the other four congressmen implicated with him, but they were scolded and released.

So you decide... what's worse? Being ASSOCIATED with a former war protester who is now an award-winning author and professor of English 40 years after he did some nasty stuff, or being an ACCOMPLICE to a crime in which one of your best friends is sent to Jail for bank fraud that you tried to cover up?

What a sick joke it is to hear all these republicans scream "Country First". They played a major role in the "loss" of millions of living-wage jobs. Through their whorehouse politics they deregulated business interests so the cost of essential services soar. So people lose their jobs while costs soar. At every turn they've proved themselves virulently against ordinary Americans. They've blocked oversight of billions of dollars wasted in Iraq. They have a protection racket going that permits the credit-card companies to continue to outright steal from the American people. The republicans don't merely deserve to lose elections. They deserve extinction.

I DO NOT TRUST ANYONE THAT HAS TIES WITH TERRORIST, THIS MAN WILL BRING THIS COUNTRY TO AN END. HE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED AT ALL

And while we're at it, let's start questioning Palin about her early dealings with former Alaskan Independence Party (AIP) chairman Mark Chryson. From the online version of Salon:

"During the 1990s, when Chryson directed the AIP, he and another radical right-winger, Steve Stoll, played a quiet but pivotal role in electing Palin as mayor of Wasilla and shaping her political agenda afterward. Both Stoll and Chryson not only contributed to Palin’s campaign financially, they played major behind-the-scenes roles in the Palin camp before, during and after her victory."

That glass house Palin lives in, and that glass ceiling she thinks she shattered are about to come crashing down, me thinks.

Your readers may appreciate hearing from someone who knows something firsthand about the Annenberg Challenge, now a campaign headline. This is the six-year project that John McCain and Sarah Palin are calling a radical education organization when it was involved in school reform in Chicago in the ‘90's, one of eighteen such sites in the nation. Barack Obama, then an attorney and lecturer at the University of Chicago law school, was asked to serve on the founding board, and later as its chair -- a board that included the President of the University of Illinois and the President of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club, Chicago’s most prestigious business organization. Later, the board included the President, CEO and Publisher of the Chicago Tribune and the President of the Field Museum. This board determined which proposals were good candidates for funding. Professor Bill Ayers from the University of Illinois at Chicago, as an expert on small learning environments, was helpful in developing the proposal that made Chicago a winning Annenberg city.

As someone who had pioneered the concept of reconnecting a network of urban schools to their local community and to outside resources as part of my job for Continental Bank, I was invited to the very first Annenberg meetings in Chicago, to describe my program. Attending were professional educators from Brown University and a Who’s Who of school reform advocates in the city. Public education in Chicago was trying to reinvent itself, and the entire civic community was helping. We were grateful for outside support from Walter Annenberg, a Republican philanthropist, publisher, and former ambassador to the United Kingdom. The Annenberg Challenge funded winning external partners like DePaul University, Continental Bank’s educational partner for the school network we had created. Applicants were required to show how they planned to address three areas of school improvement: creating smaller learning environments so that children get more personalized teaching; setting aside more planning time for teachers; and collaborating with outside organizations to combat isolation.

Education was a hot topic in Chicago in those days. There were numerous panels on models of school reform that we all attended, and Professor Bill Ayers was a frequent panelist. The most radical thing that I ever heard Professor Ayers say, and the most radical thought that the Annenberg Challenge or any of the other school reform efforts in Chicago ever promoted was this: all children can learn if we adults create the right conditions. Dangerous stuff perhaps to those who do not want to believe it.