the obama campaign as seen by conservative bloggers

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Apparently bereft of ideas, the McCain campaign has decided to revive the Bill Ayers non-story that worked so fantastically for Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary debates. Sarah Palin — who it’s safe to assume would be unable to construct a single coherent sentence about the Weather Underground and its broader significance to the Vietnam War era — was handed an index card today and dutifully read it to a Colorado audience, who learned that Barack Obama spends his time “palling around with terrorists.” Displaying her vaunted command of every news source known to humankind, Palin referenced today’s New York Times article, which concluded that the relationship between Obama and Bill Ayers has been fleeting and innocuous at best. Conservative bloggers, like Scott Johnson and Tom Maguire, have twisted their knickers into a mighty knot over the possibility that they’ve wasted dozens of minutes establishing the fact that Obama and Ayers worked on . . . uh . . . education policy together and . . . er . . . somebody got money . . . and Obama said something nice about Ayers’ book . . . and . . .

. . . uh . . . [crickets, awkward silence, nervous coughing] . . . well, g’bye!

Although McCain is sure to bring up the Ayers connection during Tuesday’s debate, refuting it is really not worth more than a few seconds of Obama’s time. As for the conservatives who insist on bothering with the nonexistent controversy, their reasons have a familiar inscrutability about them.