Beacon Street Journal

It’s 2001, and there he is, in full 60’s flashback mode, stomping on an American Flag. A great photo of Bill Ayers to go along with the August, 2001 article “No Regrets” that appeared in Chicago magazine. I can just hear Obama’s explanation for the flag desecration now…Context people, context.

Sorry Obama, it’s about judgment, or lack thereof. In terms of clarification, Jeremiah Wright as the “crazy uncle in the attic” ultimately didn’t sell, and Obama’s affinity for Bill Ayers is more substantive than he is letting on. At some point, Obama is going to have to give a more meaningful explanation of his personal relationship with this unrepentant domestic terrorist. Like the twenty-year association he had with Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s initial attempts to dismiss his relationship with Bill Ayers as trivial and unimportant is not going to suffice. As LGF, sarcastically notes, Obama was much older than 8 when the photograph was taken. Ayers and his wife helped launch Obama’s career in the Illinois State Senate, and they both hosted a fundraiser for him at their home when he kicked off his campaign for the U.S. Senate.

I suspect that in the end, Obama’s “I’m friends with anti-abortion Senator Tom Coburn” moral equivalence justification is going to be no more successful than was his equivocal attempts to distance himself from his “spiritual advisor.”