Obama's Weathermen pals should worry voters

Yes, they should.

"No wonder Obama has been so evasive about his ties to Ayers and Dohrn. His relationship with these extreme Leftists goes far beyond waving at some folks who live nearby. It defies belief that Obama never learned that Ayers and Dohrn hated the USA and loved TNT.

Obama chaired the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which Ayers inaugurated. They jointly attended at least seven of that charity's top-level oversight meetings between March 1995 and September 1997. They jointly met a dozen times as board members of Chicago's Woods Fund between December 1999 and December 2002. They appeared together on two academic panels in 1997 and 2002. Obama concisely reviewed one of Ayers' books in the Chicago Tribune.

Ayers and Dohrn invited Windy City liberals into their living room to meet Obama when he began his 1995 State Senate run. Ayers donated $200 to re-elect Obama in 2001.

These considerable ties might be irrelevant if Ayers and Dohrn regretted their actions. But they are far from remorseful.

"I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough," Ayers said in an interview published Sept. 11, 2001 -- while Obama knew Ayers. That August, Ayers posed for a Chicago Magazine photo in which he stomped on an American flag crumpled in the dirt. Headline: "No regrets."