Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, and Bill Ayers

Barack Obama is going to have to get used to hearing Sarah Palin talk about his relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers.

She's not letting up. I don't think she should. Someone has to do the job that the press has failed to do. American voters need to be able to make an informed choice on November 4th.

It's perfectly legitimate for Palin to discuss Obama's ties with Ayers.

On Sunday in Omaha, Palin gave a terrific speech. She briefly touched on Ayers.

Watch video of Palin's speech.

From the Omaha World-Herald:

Sarah Palin's fans could give Obamaphiles a run in the devotion department if the more than 5,000 people who listened Sunday to her Omaha speech are any indication.

Palin's supporters hailed the folksy Alaska governor as a "real person" who could be one of their neighbors.

A "down-to-earth" person who has been maligned by Washington insiders and the mainstream media.

"She talks to us. She's one of us. She doesn't talk down to us like an Ivy League, Harvard person," said Craig Johansen, an Omaha sales representative who was referring to Harvard graduate and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Palin thrilled her Nebraska and western Iowa fans on Sunday with a 24-minute speech at the Civic Auditorium Music Hall. She led a familiar "Drill, Baby, Drill!" chant, took a few shots at Obama and tried to portray her running mate, Republican presidential candidate John McCain, as the real candidate for change.

The crowd roared when Palin - who is the nation's most famous hockey mom - accepted a sweatshirt and a jersey from the University of Nebraska at Omaha's hockey team. "I love that cheer - Go Mavericks," said Palin, who insists that she and McCain are the real mavericks in the presidential race.

Transcript excerpt

PALIN: Now, evidently, there's been a lot of interest lately in what I read. And it's a result of both a less than successful interveiw that I had recently with someone in the mainstream media. And, really, what I was doing there, I was just trying to give Tina Fey more material...job security for Saturday Night Live.

But one of my answers... I started getting annoyed in the interview, because I thought, 'Man, Americans want to know about what I think about how are we going to win the war. What will John McCain do to get our economy back on track? How will we educate our kids? How will we pay college tuitions? All these things that affect every single one of us... So I was getting impatient with some of the questions but one of the questions was: Well, what do I read everyday?

So, there's been some interest in that.

Well, today, I was reading my copy of the New York Times, and it was a day late. Yesterday's copy had a very interesting article in it, and it was interesting to read about Barack Obama's friends from Chicago.

Turns out, the article said, that one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers. And according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol.'

Wow. There's even more to the story.

Barack Obama says that Ayers was just someone in his neighborhood, but that's less than truthful. His own top adviser said that they were, quote, 'certainly friendly.' In fact, Barack Obama held one of his first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers' home. And they've worked together on various projects in Chicago.

And these are the same guys who think that patriotism is paying higher taxes. Remember that's what Joe Biden said.

This is not a man who sees America as you and I do. We see America as the greatest force for good in this world.

I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who targeted his own country. And this, ladies and gentlemen, has nothing to do with the kind of change that anyone can believe in -- not your kids and not my kids.

What we believe in is what Ronald Reagan believed in, and that is that America is a nation of exceptionalism. And that America is good and honorable, and the virtues of freedom are worth fighting for.

The Obama campaign has denounced Palin's comments.

What else would they do?

Say she's right, even though she is?
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UPDATE: Obama and Ayers, appearing together.

William Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon Press, 1997), says "We should call a child a child. A 13-year-old who picks up a gun isn't suddenly an adult. We have to ask other questions: How did he get the gun? Where did it come from?"

Ayers, who spent a year observing the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center in Chicago, is one of four panelists who will speak on juvenile justice at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in the C-Shop. The panel, which marks the 100th anniversary of the juvenile justice system in the United States, is part of the Community Service Center's monthly discussion series on issues affecting the city of Chicago. The event is free and open to the public.

Ayers will be joined by Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the Law School, who is working to combat legislation that would put more juvenile offenders into the adult system...

...Michelle Obama, Associate Dean of Student Services and Director of the University Community Service Center, hopes bringing issues like this to campus will open a dialogue between members of the University community and the broader community.

"Students and faculty explore these issues in the classroom, but it is an internal conversation," Obama said. "We know that issues like juvenile justice impact the city of Chicago, this nation and -- directly or indirectly -- this campus. This panel gives students a chance to hear about the juvenile justice system not only on a theoretical level, but from the people who have experienced it."

Barack and Michelle Obama didn't distance themselves from domestic terrorist Ayers then. They worked with Ayers and supported him.

It's not good for Obama to pretend that he has no significant connection to Ayers. He's deceiving the American people. He should be forthcoming about his past rather than hiding it from the voters.

Some think Obama can walk on water, but he can't rewrite history.

It's ironic that Ayers would be an advocate for juveniles in the justice system, using the term "a kind and just parent." He sounds so non-violent and compassionate. That belies his past actions and his current sentiments.

"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at."

--Bill Ayers

Kill your kind and just parent. Make war on the government. Bomb, baby! bomb!