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Stanley Kurtz rides his William Ayers hobbyhorse in the WSJ today and…there ain’t much there. So he elaborates over at National Review in a way that will scare the bejeebers out of Ma & Pa Concerned America:

Let’s first review CAC’s initial setup. In the first year, 1995, Obama headed the board, which made fiscal decisions, and Ayers co-chaired the Collaborative, which set education policy. During that first year, Obama’s formal responsibilities mandated close cooperation and coordination with the Collaborative. As board chair and president of the CAC corporation, Obama was authorized to “delegate to the Collaborative the development of collaborative projects and programs . . . to obtain assistance of the Collaborative in the development of requests for proposals . . . and to seek advice from the Collaborative regarding the programmatic aspects of grant proposals.” All this clearly involves significant consultation between the board, headed by Obama, and the Collaborative, co-chaired by Ayers.

During this initial year of 1995, Ayers also sat as an ex officio member of the board. The Obama campaign is trying to minimize his cooperation with Ayers by counting the number of board meetings where both sat together. That will not do. For one thing, as long as we’re counting occasions on which Obama and Ayers were together, the Obama campaign omits Obama’s appearances before the Collaborative, when it was co-chaired by Ayers. In 1995, Obama and Ayers also sat together on the board’s Governance Committee, with at least one independently scheduled meeting, and who knows how many others. Ayers and Obama were also part of a group of four instructed to draft the bylaws that would govern CAC. Surely that endeavor would have involved significant interaction between them. Then there’s the question of unrecorded meetings of both the board and the Collaborative. For example, the archives contain an intriguing note indicating that, although a CAC board meeting took place on July 25, 1995, “No minutes were recorded.” Were Ayers and Obama both present at that meeting? More important, what took place there?

It goes on like that for about an eternity. I for one think that the McCain campaign should take several on the millions that they are blowing trying to teach Sarah Palin to pronounce "nuclear" and instead they should buy a half hour of prime time television and let Stanley, or better yet, Ben Stein read the whole thing to America using charts and dramatic recreations of CAC meetings.

Maybe they could ‘punch up’ the "drafting of the bylaws" scene by having it happen during a car chase through an exploding oil refinery with the cars driven by Victoria’s Secret models wearing cropped wet Che t-shirts.

That would be awesome…