'And you dummies all bought into the "he's just a guy in my neighborhood" bit'!

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“We 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,” he writes.

But right-wing commentators tried to use those connections to smear Obama, he says.

“Obama’s political rivals and enemies apparently saw an opportunity to deepen a dishonest narrative about him, that he is somehow un-American, alien, linked to radical ideas, a closet terrorist, a sympathizer with extremism,” Ayers wrote.

Dishonest narrative from "Obama's political rivals and enemies"?

Not even close.

It's legitimate criticism about factually established evidence of lapses and lies in Obama's character and judgment.

And as Stanley Kurtz and others have documented, the relationship goes WAY past the "neighbors" and "family friends"category.

LGF has more:

"Whatever you think of Ayers, he played this one smart. He stayed out of the news until Obama was safely elected, because he knew if he admitted the personal friendship, and expressed his real opinions about radicalizing students, reparations, abolishing prisons, etc., his relationship with Obama would—rightfully—become a major issue in the campaign. And he counted on the media not to investigate him."

Just another episode in the successful Packaging and Selling of a President, as well we can see.

Official response from Team Obama and his Tank Media PR team?

"There's nothing to see here, folks. Let's move ahead."