Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground founding member who became a topic of much debate during last year's presidential election after it was reported he knows Barack Obama, is speaking out against the president's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan:

As the Chicago Tribune's Clarence Page reminds us:

To hear the right-wing crowd, you would think Bill Ayers and President Barack Obama were joined at the hip.

Who could forget Sarah Palin's charge that Obama was "palin' around with terrorists"?

Page wonders: "What are the Glenn Becks, Sean Hannitys and Sarah Palins of the world going to talk about now that Ayers says Obama's a conservative war hawk?"