So when William Ayers was actively planning to destroy a good part of the United States, Obama was only eight. And though he may have been a precocious lad, he most likely did not have detailed plans for blowing up the Pentagon on his Etch-A-Sketch. Lets’ face it, young Obama didn’t know the difference between Mr. Ayers and Mr. Rogers—both guys "in the neighborhood". Anyway, that’s Obama’s story, and he’s sticking to it.

But in 1995, Obama was 34. It was at that relatively advanced age that he began working closely with Ayers on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. And he worked with him for five years, distributing $160 million in grants to public schools. So that would make Obama around 39 when the funding ran out, primarily because the Annenberg Challenge was found to be competency-challenged. See Sol Stern’s article in City Journal.

Some might argue that maturity and wisdom arrive at 40. Yet one would think a smart fellow like Obama, even at 39, would realize that he’d been spending the past five years palling around with terrorists (as Sarah Palin so eloquently phrased it).