Top Clinton campaign officials are holding a conference call with reporters this morning. Pointing to Sen. Barack Obama’s answers on the William Ayers and gun control issues, Howard Wolfson and Phil Singer claimed that Sen. Barack Obama “had a very bad night” at last night’s debate in Pennsylvania. “Voters need good, accurate information,” Wolfson said. “I do not believe that Sen. Obama provided that kind of good, accurate information on either of those issues last night.”
On the topic of Ayers, lefty journalist David Corn, sounding somewhat agitated, told Wolfson and Singer, “I don’t understand why you’re making this an issue” and brought up the cases of two Weather Underground criminals who were pardoned by Bill Clinton. “Did Sen. Clinton think that was the wrong thing to do when he pardoned these two terrorists?” Corn asked.
“I am not aware, perhaps you are, of Linda Evans or Susan Rosenberg — of either of them hosting a political event for Sen. Clinton at their homes,” Wolfson answered.
“That’s not what I asked!” Corn interrupted.
“I appreciate your passionately-held feelings on this race and on this issue,” Wolfson continued. “But when you get to ask a question, I get to answer it.”
“Fair enough,” Corn said.
“The difference here is that Bill Ayers hosted an event for Sen. Obama when he was running for state senate…This is not somebody that Sen. Obama would just run into on the street. This is somebody who hosted an event for him at his home in a political context. We’re not talking about whether Sen. Obama ran into somebody at an ice cream store in Hyde Park…”
“Bill Ayers is unrepentant of what he did. He is unrepentant about what he did in the 60s and early 70s. That is a difference, of course, with Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg…If Sen. Obama is not able to answer the questions last night…I think it is absolutely reasonable to ask him for a fuller accounting of why Bill Ayers hosted him at his home for a political event.”