18 blog reactions to http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Ax_on_Ayers.html

. Today, William Ayers is a college professor and friends with Barack Obama according to a mutual houseguest, Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician. According to Barack Obama’s own campaign, Ayers and Obama are “certainly friendly.” Rashid Lynn Jr. aka “Common” is a long time member of Obama’s former church and a huge supporter of convicted cop killer Chesimard-Shakur, even naming his daughter after the BLA member. Common is a Grammy award winning rapper and

Ayers, of course, is the Weather Underground terrorist (now a professor who spoke fondly of bombings as recently as September 2001) who has been described as “friendly” with Obama. In February, Obama strategist David Axelrod described Obama and Ayers as friendly acquaintances: “Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school,” [Axelrod] said. “They’re certainly friendly, they know each other, as anyone whose kids go to school together.”

, September 11, 2001 (reprinted April 17, 2008). Ben Smith, Obama once visited '60s radicals, The Politico, February 22, 2008. John Stephenson, Will the Media Report Obama's Terrorist Connection?, NewsBusters, February 23, 2008. Ben Smith, Ax on Ayers, The Politico, February 26, 2008. John Ruberry, Obama's Bill Ayers problem, Marathon Pundit, February 26, 2008. Karl Rove on Obama's Tie to Terrorist, Hannity & Colmes/Fox News, April 10, 2008. Jake Tapper,

“Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school … They’re certainly friendly, they know each other, as anyone whose kids go to school together.” (Ben Smith, “Ax On Ayers,” The Politico’s “Ben Smith” Blog, www.politico.com, 2/26/08) Well, I was going to support Obama, before Matt provided this incontrovertible evidence of the Senator’s chicanery: Obama says that Bill Akers lives in his neighborhood and he knows him, and Obama

But there is something else the mayor will remember. Ayers' father was Thomas G. Ayers, the head of Commonwealth Edison, which was then Chicago's electrical utility. Just as Obama and the younger Ayers are, in the words of Obama aide David Axelrod, "friendly," so were the elder Daley and the senior Ayers. Here is an excerpt from the Chicago Sun-Times obituary of Thomas Ayers, who died last year at the age of 92, courtesy of Kim Allen's blog, one of his granddaughters:

But there is something else the mayor will remember. Ayers' father was Thomas G. Ayers, the head of Commonwealth Edison, which was then Chicago's electrical utility. Just as Obama and the younger Ayers are, in the words of Obama aide David Axelrod, "friendly," so were the elder Daley and the senior Ayers. Here is an excerpt from the Chicago Sun-Times obituary of Thomas Ayers, who died last year at the age of 92, courtesy of Kim Allen's blog, one of his granddaughters:

day Daley came to the defense of Obama and Ayers, news broke that Robert Sorich, they mayor's former patronage chief, will begin his prison sentence on Monday. And Obama does not help his cause by passing on sensitive questions to campaign staffers. Ben Smith in Politico wrote two months ago: I didn't get to ask Obama about his relationship with Bill Ayers today, but did ask his chief strategist (and reigning expert on Chicago's political tribes), David Axelrod, about the two men.

Reporters are plumbing Barack Obama’s ties to 1960-1970’s era radical (or terrorist, according to some) Bill Ayers, now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Obama strategist David Axelrod said this to Ben Smith over at Politico: Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school. They’re certainly friendly, they know eachother, as anyone whose kids go to school together. Ayers’ son Malik is roughly my age (27), his son Zayd is three years older, and

Bill Ayers lives in (Obama's) neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school. They're certainly friendly, they know each other, as anyone whose kids go to school together. Barack Obama's top advisor, David Axelrod, February 26. Axelrod got the part about their kids wrong, Ayers' are adults, but his fellow ex-terrorist wife Bernardine Dohrn is involved at that school in an unidentified capacity. Last week former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, an unrepentant former

because Obama challenged her petitions to do so, in some hardball Chicago-style politics, a whole other interesting story.) "Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school," Obama senior strategist David Axelrod told the Politico. "They're certainly friendly, they know each other, as anyone whose kids go to school together." (Ayres' kids are actually much older than Obama's but Dohrn is still active at the school.) "We can relitiigate again and again these 40-year-old battles,