Ayers said he knew Obama because they were both active in education and other issues around their Chicago neighborhood, and hosted a coffee during Obama's state senate campaign at the request of another local politician.
"We had him in our home. He was probably in 20 homes that day," Ayers said. "We came together in a civic community around issues of school improvement, around issues of fighting for poor neighborhoods...And that is the extent of our relationship."
"I became an issue unwittingly and unwillingly...I don't buy the idea that guilt by association should be part of our politics."
Chis Cuomo tries very very hard to insinuate that there is more to the relationship than Ayers is saying. Ayers looks and sounds nothing like a radical. Wonder how the wing-nuts are going to react.
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