I’m sure you remember the old version (1.0) of the Obama/Ayers story: “Who? Ayers? Oh, yeah. He lives in my neighborhood, I think. I couldn’t pick him out of a crowd or anything.”
Yeah, I thought that was pretty unconvincing too.
Obviously, camp Obama have found it lacking as well, because meet version 2.0. From Powerline:
Sarah Palin’s calling out of Barack Obama over the Bill Ayers connection has finally caused some mainstream outlets to report the story (albeit generally in misleading fashion) and has compelled the Obama campaign to respond. That response is surprising, to say the least: Obama now claims that he didn’t know about Bill Ayers’ terrorist past through all the years when he worked with Ayers in Chicago!
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But it is inconceivable that Barack Obama knew Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn well enough to kick off his first political campaign in their living room, but didn’t know that Ayers and Dohrn were Communists who led the Weatherman faction of SDS, urged young people to “kill your parents,” carried out approximately 30 bombings, including New York City’s police headquarters, the Capitol and the Pentagon, celebrated the Charles Manson murders, spent years living underground to avoid criminal prosecution, and continued to express their lifelong hatred for the United States in books, magazine articles, and public speeches. This is rather like a person claiming that he had worked closely with Arnold Schwarzenegger for years, but had no idea that he was once a bodybuilder and movie actor. Ayers’ and Dohrn’s radical past is their only claim to fame.
Why do I get the feeling we are going to get yet another “heartfelt” declaration that the avowed terrorist Bill Ayers “isn’t the Bill Ayers I know.”
Of course that’s a funny thing to say when you always claimed you didn’t really know him at all.
Version 3.0 can’t be all that far away.
UPDATE:
Minds (great or otherwise) thinking alike.
Next step: “That’s not the Bill Ayers I knew.”
Forget the major issues. If Obama really is this oblivious to everything that’s going on around him, what’s he going to do in the White House, admire himself in a mirror?