William Ayers bombed the Pentagon. This is a widely known, irrefutable fact. He has admitted it, never repented, and has even bragged that he wished he could have done more. That Barack Obama was only 8 years old when it happened is a specious argument; Democratic spin. That Obama had to have known about Ayers’ violent past, yet still chose to launch his state Senate campaign from Ayers’ living room makes his ties to Ayers even more disturbing.

If McCain had this kind of relationship to, just for example, an abortion clinic bomber, he would be vilified by the media and the Democrats, and rightly so, and would never have gotten his party’s nomination.

Kenneth Ryan

Blue Hill