"That story alone..."

"...would make any decent, intelligent person say afterward: 'Wow, I better not be seen anywhere near this guy, let alone sit on a board with him or go to his frickin' house.'"

"'Boy, would THAT ever look bad.'"

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RELATED: Who is William Ayers?

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LAST WORD: Yessiree... it's clobberin' time...

Palin also made clear that she was eager for the McCain-Palin campaign to be more aggressive in helping the American people understand “who the real Barack Obama is.”

Part of who Obama is, she said, has to do with his past associations, such as with the former bomber Bill Ayers. Palin had raised the topic of Ayers Saturday on the campaign trail, and she maintained to me that Obama, who’s minimized his relationship with Ayers, “hasn’t been wholly truthful” about this.

Of course, Ayers isn't Barack Obama's only unsavoury acquaintance...

I pointed out that Obama surely had a closer connection to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright than to Ayers — and so, I asked, if Ayers is a legitimate issue, what about Reverend Wright?

She didn’t hesitate: “To tell you the truth, Bill, I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country, and to have sat in the pews for 20 years and listened to that — with, I don’t know, a sense of condoning it, I guess, because he didn’t get up and leave — to me, that does say something about character."

And let's not forget this guy.

Or, dare I say it, this gal.

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