When Did Obama Learn About Ayers Bombings?

New York Post

"When he went he certainly didn't know the history," chief Obama strategist David Axelrod told CNN - arguing for the first time since the story surfaced early this year that Obama was unaware of Ayers' past.

"There's no evidence that they're close," Axelrod added.

"There's no evidence that Obama in any way subscribed to any of Ayers' views. And Obama's been very clear about condemning the despicable acts that Bill Ayers committed 40 years ago when Obama was 8 years old."

Considering that the condemnation of Bill Ayers didn't come until Obama was well into his presidential campaign. Sarah Palin brings up the obvious next question.

"Wait a minute," Palin said. "He didn't know a few months ago that he had launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist?"

There are some obvious followup questions here. When did Obama find out that Bill Ayers was THAT Bill Ayers. Was it before or after they served together on the Woods Hole board and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. The important thing that grinds many people is not the association, but it is that a domestic terrorist and unrepentant radical can easily become integrated into the mainstream of liberal thought such as that his mere presence causes no undue controversy at all.

Imagine a scenario where Eric Rudolph turns himself in a few years after his last bombing, serves no time in jail and later becomes a prominent figure in local Republican politics, even launching the career of a presidential candidate. Hell, imagine someone like that was in Sarah Palin's past. You think it might be an issue, a dealbreaker?

Eric Rudolph is serving consecutive life sentences in a federal prison, where he belongs. Bill Ayers is free to hobnob with politicians and waste money on hopeless liberal schemes. Obama is not scandalized at all about this. And that is the real scandal.