clipped from: www.verumserum.com Prior to the election the press was eager to factcheck anyone, from Sarah Palin to “bloggers”, who suggested Barack Obama and Bill Ayers were closer than either man was letting on. CNN said:
There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are now “palling around,” or that they have had an ongoing relationship in the past three years.
Now that the election is over, Ayers has a new edition of his memoir out in which he says this:
[W]e had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser at my house, where I’d made a small donation to his earliest political campaign.