Ayers speaks...

I'm really hoping this sort of clearing the air around these right wing claims will continue, I want everything out in the open and all the questions to be addressed so we really can move forward.  I'm sure there will still be fringe groups supporting conspiracy theory, but that has always been the case and I don't expect it to change or go away, but I do think on the whole we can get past this stuff.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27542912/

Ayers, now an education professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, said he thought the accusation by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin that Obama had been "palling around with terrorists" was absurd.

"Pal around together? What does that mean? Share a milkshake with two straws?" Ayers said. "I think my relationship with Obama was probably like thousands of others in Chicago. And, like millions and millions of others, I wish I knew him better."