In her 25-minutes speech in Clearwater, just concluded, Sarah Palin hit Barack Obama on the most recent attack theme from the McCain campaign, Obama’s relationship with William Ayers, a former member of the radical Weather Underground in the 1970s.

She also plastered him on taxes, saying she doesn’t believe his contention that he will seek to cut taxes for middle-income families.

Ayers, now a tenured education professor and children’s advocate in Chicago, was one of the founders of the organization in 1969-70. The organization sought to plant bombs at the Pentagon. and other U.S. government offices. He was indicted but never convicted of a crime.

Now living in Obama’s neighborhood in Chicago, he held a campaign coffee for Obama in 1995, and the two have sat on boards of charitable organizations together.

Palin called Ayers “a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.” and said, “This is not a man who sees America the way that you and I see America, as the greatest source for good in this world.”

Obama has rejected Ayers radical past, and notes that he was 8 years old when Ayers was in the Weather Underground.

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