The Weathermen issue (and Barack Obama’s links to Bill Ayers) have made it to the front page of the BBC website:

Sarah Palin has accused presidential candidate Barack Obama of "palling around" with terrorists – referring to his acquaintance with a former member of the Weather Underground. So who were the Weather Underground?

The BBC describes how these audacious, idealistic, counter-culture, ‘left-wing extremists’ did some bad stuff.

But the question rather (and almost completely unanswered by the BBC, of course), is "why is Sarah Palin saying that Barack Obama has been ‘palling around’ with these people?"

The best answer we get is this:

During the late 1990s, Mr Obama served on the same charity board as Mr Ayers.

Such was the threat engendered by the group that a tenuous association with a former member can still cause ripples in a presidential race three decades later.

Er, no.

The point rather is that Obama has lent different sorts of support to someone linked to smug, nihilistic, leftist/Marxist indoctrination throughout his life.

A someone whose New York Times article saying "I don’t regret setting bombs, I feel we didn’t do enough" appeared, as fate would have it, on 9 September 2001.

Creepy.

Too creepy for me.

Update: NIcely turned thought from Volokh Conspiracy