Bill Ayers

Here’s a post about something Rep. Michele Bachmann didn’t say. Last year, Bachmann reveled in connecting dots between Barack Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, and last month she pronounced it “interesting” that swine flu outbreaks only happen during Democratic presidencies (forgetting that Republican Gerald Ford was in office for the last one). So [...]

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s copy of the GOP’s talking points must be getting dog-eared. After telling radio host G. Gordon Liddy today that the Obama administration’s economic policies amount to “a great leap forward toward finalizing a place of socialism in American economic life,” she took the Socialist Scare Tour to William Bennett’s radio show. There, [...]

The Minnesota GOP is sending out a mailer attacking Barack Obama for his alleged “close ties to domestic terrorist” William Ayers. But at first glance it appears that the t-word is being applied to Obama: just above the mailing panel is the Democrat’s name and face, his head turned to the left. Near his mouth is a quote, attributed only to the New York Times. “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”

CQ Politics — which has called the charge “so wrong it’s pants-on-fire wrong” — reports that Republicans in Virginia are sending out the same mailers.

Following Rep. Michele Bachmann’s appearance with Chris Matthews yesterday, America is learning what many in Minnesota already knew, which is that putting Bachmann in front of a live microphone is like handing an excitable 15-year-old a bottle of gin and a loaded gun. The only question is when something unspeakable is going to happen.

Bachmann is no stranger to the hysterical off-the-cuff reaction.

A moment ago I received a phone call from the McCain-Palin campaign. The woman on the line was already speaking when I answered, telling me that the campaign wanted me to know that Barack Obama “worked closely with terrorist Bill Ayers whose organization bombed…” I cut her off at that point, questioning how closely the [...]

A recent press release from the McCain campaign boasted “100 U.S. Ambassadors Endorse McCain-Palin.” Right at the top of that list was none other than Lenore Annenberg. Doesn’t ring familiar? It was Lenore and Walter Annenberg who funded the now famous Chicago Annenberg Challenge–the education initiative brought Barack Obama and Bill Ayers into the same [...]

Dick Durbin is the senior senator from Illinois and was an early supporter of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Today he was in Minnesota stumping for Obama. I spoke to him by phone.