Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin said Saturday, October 4, that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is "someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country."
The terrorist that Barack Obama is pals with is William Ayers, a man Obama barely knows. A member of the radical Weather Underground in the '60s -- when Obama was eight years old -- Ayers represents a guilt by association attack that the right have been trying to get off the ground since Obama became the de facto Democratic nominee. The truth is less than shocking, according to the same CNN piece:
Beginning in 1995, Ayers and Obama worked with the non-profit Chicago Annenberg Challenge on a huge school improvement project. The Annenberg Challenge was for cities to compete for $50 million grants to improve public education. Ayers fought to bring the grant to Chicago, and Obama was recruited onto the board.
Geez, how awful and damning. They worked on the same non-profit to improve public education -- BOO! HISS! The fact-check piece tells us, "CNN's review of project records found nothing to suggest anything inappropriate in the volunteer projects in which the two men were involved." They end the piece with two words about Palin's claim; "Verdict: False."...
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