Obama and his relationship with Bill Ayers

The new 527 ad by a political group (I saw it for the first time today) doesn't go back far enough in detailing the problems Bill Ayers presents for Obama's candidacy, according to John Batchelor. "The Ayers-Obama relationship is warm, long-term, sophisticated, familial, and heavily documented" (according to the Annenberg material at the University of Illinois Library which like so much in Obama's background is not available for scrutiny).

"Speaking this Sunday 24 to a principal investigator in the Ayers-Obama relationship in terms of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Program, Steve Diamond, of Global Labor blog, who started last Spring to unearth and explicate the significance of the Ayers-Obama work at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Grant. The short version is that Ayers is a major-league radical education professor who travels the world (especially Venezuela) to promote a variety of pet progressive schemes such as using education budgets to redistribute wealth and possibly to bring about reparitions to descendants of slaves. Much of it is utopian tomfoolery and harmless inside a classroom of bored students. Nonethless, Mr. Obama could not have mistaken Bill Ayers for a lamb. And Mr. Obama also could not have missed the fact that Bill Ayers published and promoted his memoir of his years in the Weather Underground, "Fugitive Days: A Memoir," in the summer of 2001, so that the book and the author were featured in a New York Times profile published on September 11, 2001, a profile in which Bill Ayers boasted of terror bombing Congress and other 1970s vanities such as flag-stomping (left). It was stunning bad taste on any day, and fate made that newspaper the one forever buried in the remains of the World Trade Center. And yet afterward, Mr. Obama continued to serve on the Wood board with Bill Ayers, and there are reports that the families have remained close to this day." (From Batchelor's blog)

"I don't regret setting bombs," Bill Ayers said. "I feel we didn't do enough." Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago. . . He writes that he participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, the Pentagon in 1972. But Mr. Ayers also seems to want to have it both ways, taking responsibility for daring acts in his youth, then deflecting it. (from Ayers profile in NYT)

Why is this creep on the faculty of my university is my first thought, and second is, why do Obama fans find this so innocuous and not see the danger?