Update:  Something for you smear-meisters to consider:  As you sow so shall you reap.  What goes around comes around.  Your resort to character assassination and smears in lieu of a discussion of relevant issues will be remembered when the Dems are in power and the GOP isn't.  Your fanning of the flames of bitter partisanship through Machiavellian tactics will likely come back to haunt you.

Original comment:  Let's see, since they're neighbors and worked on a committee together, I guess you're implying that Obama condones and/or shares Ayers' radical beliefs?  That's a bit of a stretch, isn't it?  None of the anti-Obama reviewers here have mentioned the fact that Obama has condemned in the strongest terms what Ayers did.  Why is that?  Because your partisanship prevents you from being fair?  Because Sarah Palin is doing the McCain campaign's desperate bidding to resort to smear tactics of guilt by (slight) association, since the campaign recognizes it can't beat Obama on the issues, and you feel compelled to jump on that GOP bandwagon?  Because that's the kind of people you really are, who, like McCain and Palin, will say and do anything, no matter how reprehensible, to try to win your perceived holy war against the libs?  Because, like your hero, Karl Rove, you believe that the end justifies any means, regardless of notions of honesty, truth, and morality? You're blinded by hatred.  Do you wonder why we fight so hard to keep you out of office?  Your kind has made this country what it is today--disrespected and distrusted by the rest of the world, hated by many, on the brink of financial disaster, bitterly partisan, filled with greed, selfishness, and hypocrisy.