If you bothered to read the fact check and the New York times article which Palin quoted, you'd come to the conclusion that they have no real association. The New York Times article came to that conclusion.
In the end, it doesn't matter, because I'm getting the 20 bucks you owe me come November.
That NYT article contradicted itself.
It tried to be a fluff and buff article on Obama but there were things in it that showed they have known each other for many years.
"It was later in 1995 that Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn hosted the gathering, in their town house three blocks from Mr. Obama's home, at which State Senator Alice J. Palmer, who planned to run for Congress, introduced Mr. Obama to a few Democratic friends as her chosen successor. "
"A review of records of the schools project and interviews with a dozen people who know both men, suggest that Mr. Obama, 47, has played down his contacts with Mr. Ayers, 63. "
"He said they have not spoken by phone or exchanged e-mail messages
since Mr. Obama began serving in the United States Senate in
January 2005 and last met more than a year ago when they bumped into each other on the street in Hyde Park. "
Close-up on juvenile justice
This is just one example of Obama and Ayers having an association.
It is completely silly to say they don't have an association when Ayers threw a fundraiser for Obama in his own home that started Obama's political career.
"In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they're better known nationally as two of the most notorious -- and unrepentant -- figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement. ... 'I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers' house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,' said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the info rmal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. '[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.' ... Dr. Young and another guest, Maria Warren, described it similarly: as an introduction to Hyde Park liberals of the handpicked successor to Palmer, a well-regarded figure on the left. 'When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the living room of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn,' Warren wrote on her blog in 2005. 'They were launching him -- introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread.'" (Ben Smith, "Obama Once Visited '60s Radicals," The Politico, 1/22/08)
They have both attended more than half a dozen meeting on the relating to the Annenburg foundation over two years time.
"[Obama And Ayers] Have Also Appeared Jointly On Two Academic Panels, One In 1997 And Another In 2001." (Russell Berman, "Obama's Ties To Left Come Under Scrutiny," The New York Sun, 2/19/08)
From 1999 To 2002, Obama Served With Ayers On The Board Of Directors For Woods Fund Of Chicago. "[Ayers] served with [Obama] from 1999 to 2002 on the board of the Woods Fund, an anti-poverty group." (Timothy J. Burger, "Obama's Chicago Ties Might Fuel 'Republican Attack Machine'," Bloomberg, 2/15/08)
Even Axlerod has said they are pretty friendly, he told this to a polito reporter
It is amazing how you guys are trying to down play Ayers Weather Underground group and their act as if their acts of violence in where they conspired to build and set off bombs, is something that excusable. Don't tell me you guys think terrorists are only muslims and live in the middle east.
He is responsible for deaths. There were members of his group that died while making bombs.
