Not Relevant?

The Ayers association is relevant.  If McCain was friends with Timothy McVeigh, you better believe there would be EXTREME scrutiny and his political career would end.  Ayers was acquitted due to a legal technicality, but said, "Free as a bird, and guilty as hell."  If McVeigh had been acquitted due to illegal wiretaps, or improper evidence handling, would it be OK to be his political friend too?  Serve on a board with him?  Launch your political career in his home?

If Obama wants us to take him at his judgement, then it should be known that his political career was vetted by the likes of Ayers, Wright, etc.  That is a relevant association, not as he would say just one of his "thousands of friends."  These are his close friends.  These associations should not be ignored just because they are not politically advantageous.