It's not important to prove how chummy Obama was with Ayers, or even how many times they met. Ayers was the worst kind of 60's radical, anti-American homicidal bomber. According to Obama, he's mainstream now and working in "education". Well, sort of. Back in 1972, a witty and entertaining Saul Alinsky writes Rules for Radicals telling the bomb throwers and other yippie detritus to wise up, cut their hair, stop saying "Pig" and "Motherf****r" because it scares people, and join the establishment to effect revolutionary change from the inside, by any means necessary. It's very influential and many radical groups around the country (and in Chicago) codify and use it's principles, a young Hillary Clinton falls in love with the writing, internalizes it and writes her thesis on it, and years later Barack Obama gets a paid gig to train ACORN leaders in it's application. So Ayers somehow becomes a college professor (?!) and starts getting himself involved with educational policymaking in the Chicago area. Swell. In the mid-90's some grant money becomes available from a very respectable source, the Annenberg Foundation, and Ayers cooks up a scheme, in the name of improving low income education in Chicago, and nabs a $50 million grant to start it. The first board director is Barack Obama. It doesn't matter one bit whether he was personally selected by Ayers, or even how many times they sat in together. This is an Ayers project, with Obama at the wheel. The only problem is the money doesn't go to actually help education, or even directly to schools, but rather to fund slimy groups like ACORN to introduce radicalism into the school system, seeding the next generation not to excel academically or join the system, but to fight it (ie: Change). By it's own measures, at the end of 5 years there was no measurable improvement in what we would consider academic achievement. This is a significant part of Obamas' resume, but one he doesn't talk about much, except in very general terms of Community Organization.