Obama and Ayers

The McCain campaign’s recent line of attack has been to try to tar Obama by associating him with Bill Ayers, who they’ve labeled a ‘domestic terrorist’. Let me tell you about the Obama/Ayers connection, from what I’ve been able to find out. First of all, a little on Bill Ayers. In the 1960s, he was …

Barack, redux

[Photo: Pete Souza/White House] Original post: October 9, 2008, updating an earlier blog; repost: March 5, 2010. Still read best in tandem with my friend Liz’s blog on election season 2008. When I arrived in the US in the summer of 2006, I had never even heard the name of Barack Obama, and I had very …