Maybe I follow US politics too much. Those who wisely do not might like at least to be aware of one Professor Bill Ayers.

As a younger man Bill Ayers had the full 60s’ experience to the point of being an original member of the Weathermen, a group of charmless people dedicated to achieve the destruction of U.S. imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world Communism.

On the way to this noble end they perpetrated various terrorist explosions and robberies; happily some of them ineptly blew themselves up.

The point?

In a majestic cynical attack on candidate Obama, candidate Clinton has pointed up Obama’s relationship(s) with Ayers, now (lordy) a professor in Chicago.

This does an elegant job describing Professor Ayers and his views. How did these people manage to be both ultra-cool and diamond hard simultaneously? 

And this does the same in pointing up Hillary Clinton’s own slight Weathermen problem.

Still, the Clinton campaign wanted to hit Obama by insinuating that he was soft on terrorism.

And one way or the other it worked.

Update: more, with pictures!