How To Win Friends (And Influence Elections)

"Ayers and Dohrn invited Windy City liberals into their living room to meet Obama when he first ran for Illinois state senate in 1995. 'They were launching him' — as Chicago’s Maria Warren recalled in her Internet diary, 'Musings and Migraines' — 'introducing him to the Hyde Park Community as the best thing since sliced bread.'

...While Obama today calls Ayers’ behavior 'detestable acts,' the question nevertheless occurs: What did Ayers and Dohrn see in Barack Obama? What inspired these unrepentant, hard-Left, former domestic terrorists to hand the chairmanship of Ayers’ foundation and share their home and friends with the charismatic then-35-year-old whose current 95.5 percent Left-wing vote record made him The National Journal’s 'Most Liberal Senator In 2007?'"

— Deroy Murdock, asking the most important question of this election, for the National Review Online