Barack Obama is a generous reviewer, if he offered such kind words about a book written by a guy he hardly knew.

Obama spokesperson Bill Burton says that Barack Obama “did not write a blurb” about the book. When Obama strategist Robert Gibbs was asked if Obama blurbed Ayers’s book, Gibbs said “No.” The Obama campaign is either lying or parsing language in a way that would put Bill Clinton to shame. HT: Southern Appeal