Legal Commentary

CNN: Ayers and Obama jointly planned kick-off of Obama's political career at Ayers' home

By Beldar

This is an amazing piece of video ? not least because of its source. I think I've managed to successfully embed it in an otherwise wordless guest-post at HughHewitt.com, whose website mechanics make such postings kind of iffy, but if you can't see it either here or there, try this link.

Obama has previously maintained that he wasn't directly involved in scheduling the kick-off for his state senate campaign at Ayers' home, but that that was instead something arranged by Alice Palmer, the Chicago politician he was hoping to succeed. This piece refutes that claim and supports the notion that Obama and Ayers made those arrangements jointly themselves. But beyond that small addition to the factual matrix, this report generally does a fair and good job in presenting both sides' arguments and the objective evidence ? including that which explodes the Obama campaign's consistent and dishonest efforts to minimize the length and depth of the relationship between Ayers and Obama.

Full post as published by BeldarBlog on October 07, 2008 (boomark / email).