No wonder Obama wants to talk about anything but Ayers.

Every dem talking head yesterday for the past few days has been saying something along the lines of “Americans aren’t interested in smear politics. THey want to know what we’re going to do about the economy.” The thinking, I’d say, is that they want to steer the conversation that way because it’s quicker for voters to form a picture of Obama by looking at his work with Ayers than it is to find our way through his connections with ACORN, Raines, and the dems’ management of Fannie and Freddie, courtesy of Barney Frank etc.

I’m only now finding this horrifying quote, included in an IBD editorial.

An idea of what Ayers has in mind for America’s schools was provided in his own words not 40 years ago when Obama was eight years old, but less than two years ago in November 2006 at the World Education Forum in Caracas hosted by dictator Hugo Chavez.

With Chavez at his side, Ayers voiced his support for “the political educational reforms under way here in Venezuela under the leadership of President Chavez. We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution. . . . I look forward to seeing how . . . all of you continue to overcome the failures of capitalist education as you seek to create something truly new and deeply humane.”

Ayers told the great humanitarian Chavez: “Teaching invites transformations, it urges revolutions large and small. La educacion es revolucion.” It is that form of socialist revolution that Ayers, and Obama, have worked to bring to America.

Messiah, my ass.