Presidential races have their odd twists and turns. Now comes the latest: the prosecutor in the Bill Ayers case.
By Gale Holland
Los Angeles Times
One of the more unusual voices to emerge in the clamor over the character attacks in the presidential race belongs to William C. Ibershof, a former federal prosecutor who now lives near San Francisco.
In 1973, Ibershof tried to put William Ayers, a founding member of the Weather Underground, in prison for an alleged conspiracy to bomb political targets. Ayers, now an education professor in Chicago, has become a fixture in John McCain’s attempt to raise doubts about Barack Obama.
Obama mets Ayers when the former radical hosted an event to introduce Obama at the start of his political career. The two have served together on boards, but are not close.
“It seemed manifestly unfair to tar him with this association,” Ibershof said in a telephone interview this weekend from his home in Mill Valley.”Sen. Obama had known Ayers during a period he was named Citizen of the Year in Chicago, not when he was committing those terrorist acts.”
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