[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Kevin

And you don't think it's mitigated at all by the fact that she could stand to gain quite a bit by being the 'Republican who is not standing upon partisanship, but telling the truth because it's what's best for our country!'?

When listening to politicians who are saying unlikely things, a good rule of thumb is to assume that whatever the most cynical person could come up with as a motive for the politician to say what she said is probably true.

Maybe, but

• when that politician is saying that pretty much nobody, Republican or Democrat ever expressed a problem with working with Ayers before this year's campaign, and

• when such a statement can be easily proven untrue if it is indeed untrue, and

• when nobody seems to be disputing that claim, and what record I can find, at least, doesn't dispute it, and

• when it is undisputable that it didn't bother the Annenberg people (hardly a hot-bed of liberalism, and this was long before Obama as president looked like a possibility), and

• it's undisputable that Ayers' past didn't keep him from becoming a distinguished professor of education at a major university (their graduate program in education was ranked 42 in the country by USN&WR in 2007),

then an equally good if not better rule of thumb might be to consider the possibility that what she's saying is, in fact, true.