If you want to believe that that is the extent of the Obama-Ayers relationship then I can't really say anything else.

Personally I think that's a load of bs and so do leading authorities on Ayers.

The parties, the massive amounts of board funding provided to Obama via Ayers........lots of things point to a relationship that constituted much more than being neighborly buddies.

You think a past that is checkered with relationships with extreme radicals, domestic terrorists, and black separatists who hate America shouldn't be looked at?

Investigate both of em I say.....but don't act like one is untouchable becasue his camp claims that everything is always overblown.

FYP

Sure there was a relationship beyond being neighbors. They served on boards together and worked with lots of other people in Chicago on education initiatives. Some people think that's enough of a problem, others don't. From what I've seen, it was never raised as a problem in Chicago for any other politician that associated with Ayers. And it didn't seem to be a problem for the Annenbergs and the Annenberg Foundation -- not exactly liberal stalwarts.

Regardless, it hasn't seemed to make much of a dent for McCain so far.

That site's at the top of my "favorites" list these days. :D McCain/Palin may be energizing their base with this fluffernutter (because the base is desperate for something to grasp on to, so this'll do), but slimeballing, rhetoric and fear-mongering aren't likely to work for the GOP this year the way it did in '04, at this point, the winning issue is, IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID. This is a key paragraph from the above link that to me shows Obama's campaign "gets" how to close this campaign strong:

The one thing I am seeing from all of this of the GOP tying to Obama to Ayers and back to Wright (and some even are trtying to put Farrakhan in that 6 degrees of separation) is that this is the same stuff Hillary and Co. tried earlier this year and I think the only reason why Mccain and the GOPs didn't jump all the way into the fray was thay they gambled that Hillary and Co. could finish the job w/o the GOP dirtying their hands...so...here we are and someone is gonna have to give in face first and use lots of soap afterwards if they plan on doing the dirt.

Chicago Politicians?
 

Maybe someone can enlighten me. Why does McCain often say at his rallies "I don't take pointers from a Chicago politician"... what does he mean by that? Has Chicago politicians been known to do horrible things? It reminds me when Dubyah was running against Kerry! He often said things like "...this is coming from a Massachusetts Senator".

Chicago politics is often thought of as the dirtiest politics in the country. The Chicago Democratic Party/Daley Machine is the last real example of "machine politics" in America. Chicago implies corrupt and dirty, buyoffs, bribery, dead people voting, etc.