Robert Gibbs seemed to be having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad time explaining when Barack Obama knew Bill Ayers was a terrorist. But we can breathe easier since Bill Ayers won’t be in the Barack Obama admininstration. But why not, if there is nothing wrong with Ayers past and his educational notions, according to Obama? Now if we can just extract promises on Reverend Wright, Rashid Khalidi, Father Pfleger, Larry Walsh, Tony Rezko, James Johnson and Franklin Raines everyone can relax.

From the New York Times, Sarah Palin addresses the Ayers issue and its relevance. I suppose the Times will have to now explain that its one side-story — which CNN’s reporting essentially undercut — didn’t really present the full extent of the Ayers relationship and that the Obama camp has taken two days to come up with a story on what he knew about Ayer and when he knew it. If we didn’t have Palin and Bill Kristol’s column, the Gray Lady’s readers would be totally in the dark.

This is troubling: ” Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has raised about $3.3 million from contributors who did not list a home state or who designated their state with an abbreviation that did not match one of the 50 states or U.S. territories, according to records provided by the Federal Election Commission.” What overseas donors want him elected and why?

In case you needed a reminder of ACORN’s fraud-soaked history here is the latest incident. This was a group that Obama worked for and to which he gave out nearly $200K in Woods Fund grants up through 2002.

Can’t argue with this take on the debate: “The whole thing had an unpleasant Potemkin feel to it, like the questioners were all afraid of what Brokaw might do to them if they strayed even modestly from the script.”

Rich Lowry on Obama’s debate performance: “If the Nobel committee had a prize for appearing plausible, he’d win it every time.”