McCain/Palin Empty Ayers Accusations Lacking Substance

The Barack Obama/Ayers relationship has been hashed over for the last year, with nothing new to add to the argument. Most people would move on to something else, but not Republicans, who can breathe life into lifeless fiction. Below is the McCain campaigns new 2 minute web video on Obama's ties to Bill Ayers, all style and absolutely no substance. I've added Obama's rejection of the accusation in his interview with Charles Gibson. Meanwhile, The Daily News reports:

A day after a local Republican politician made incendiary remarks about Barack Obama's connection to former Weather Underground radical William Ayers, the McCain campaign released a new ad playing up the association.

The spot, entitled "Ayers," alleges that Obama and Ayers have "worked together for years. But Obama tries to hide it."

Ayers, a University of Illinois-Chicago professor, lives in the same neighborhood as Obama. When Obama was mounting his Illinois state Senate bid in the mid 1990s, Ayers invited Obama to his home to introduce the candidate to the community.

Later, Obama and Ayers served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago charity focused on community development to aide the poor.

Is the Woods Fund a terrorist organization? According to the their web site: Woods Fund of Chicago is a grant making foundation whose goal is to increase opportunities for less-advantaged people and communities in the metropolitan area, including the opportunity to shape decisions affecting them.

No wonder Republicans want to vilify Obama and the reformed Ayers, so they can smear the Woods Fund, and hurt the less advantaged.

Here's the McCain Ayers FICTION and Obama's response: