First it was “he’s just a guy in the neighborhood”.   Then it was “I was on a board with Ayers but didn’t really didn’t interact”.   Now it’s “I thought he had been rehabilitated”.

In an interview with the sympathetic conservative talk radio host this afternoon, Obama offered the clearest explanation yet of how an extremely careful politician allowed himself anywhere near a former ’60s radical who would become a Republican target in this year’s presidential campaign.

Obama “had assumed” from Bill Ayers’ stature in Chicago, he told the Philadelphia-based Michael Smerconish, that Ayers had been “rehabilitated” since his 1960s crimes. …

“The gentleman in question, Bill Ayers, is a college professor, teaches education at the University of Illinois,” he said. “That’s how i met him — working on a school reform project that was funded by an ambassador and very close friend of Ronald Reagan’s” along with “a bunch of conservative businessmen and civic leaders.”

“Ultimately, I ended up learning about the fact that he had engaged in this reprehensible act 40 years ago, but I was eight years old at the time and I assumed that he had been rehabilitated,” Obama said. —Politico

Obama’s either dumb, naive or he’s not telling the truth.   Probably ALL of the above

Update: Katie Couric called she wants to know what newspapers you read as well as television programs.  Probably not ABC (circa 1998)…

At the end Coop looks like he just found out that there isn’t a Santa Claus.

How stupid can one guy be?  “I didnt’ know what Rev Wright was saying in chruch for 25 years!”, “I didn’t know Bill Ayers’ history!”.