McCaskill: “Ridiculous” to tie Obama to ’60s radical
With Barack Obama’s connection to a 1960s radical, foes of the Democratic nominee for president hoped they had the “Swift Boat” for 2008.
Ayers
What they ended up with was more of a slow schooner that’s managed to stay afloat.
U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill was the latest to reject suggestions that Obama is close to Bill Ayers, a founder of the anti-establishment group the Weathermen, which bombed government buildings to protest the war in Vietnam.
McCaskill was on Fox News Sunday, responding to a comment from GOP veep nominee Sarah Palin, who over the weekend referred to Obama as “someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.”
“I mean, really, how ridiculous. American people deserve so much better,’ McCaskill said Sunday. “Do they really think America is going to think that Barack Obama’s palling around with terrorists? What that man did Barack Obama has condemned. And by the way, he did it when Barack Obama was 8 years old. Come on.”
Ayers, now a college professor, lives in the same Chicago neighborhood, Hyde Park, as Obama. The two sat on the board of the same education foundation. Early in his political career, Ayers hosted a coffee for Obama.
A New York Times story on Saturday found that Obama perhaps has downplayed his association with Ayers, but “the two men do not appear to have been close.”
Ties between Ayers and Obama have been targeted by the American Issues Project, an independent group formed with the help of two prominent Missouri Republicans, Tony Feather and Ed Martin.
Outside the beltway, the group has not gained much traction — some networks refused to run their ad.
Even so, Republicans have signaled they are prepared to pepper the final month of campaigning with sharper attacks against Obama’s character — which means voters should be prepared to hear more about Ayers before they head to the ballot box.
The only reason it is ridiculous to bring this up is because character does not matter to Democrats. It doesn’t matter to Democrats that Obama smoked weed, snorted cocaine, was married and his children baptised by an anti-American racist or that Obama rubbed shoulders with a known terrorist (Ayers)…as long as Obama gets elected and gives them the handouts they so desperately want and feel entitled to, THAT is what matters most.
It’s all about handouts..and Democrats are just licking their chops as to what the government is going to do for them. Free healthcare for all! No more war! Peace in our time! No more homelessness! Homes for everyone (oops..tried that…didn’t we?)! Free college for all!
Socialism…lurking just a month away…
I agree with her. America deserves better. Better than a President who associates with terrorists.
So Claire McCaskill and The New York Times say Obama isn’t close to Ayers. Now all we need is a story on MSNBC, and an editorial by Hendrik Mink, and voters will have all the information they need on this issue.
Claire, you need to check your facts. Everyone else knows that Obama has had recent involvement with Bill Ayers and if you continue to ignore this, you will end up a fool. Didn’t you see the in-depth report, interviews, documents and photos on FOX News? We don’t want a president who associates with terrorists!!
Character doesn’t matter to Dems like it does to Republicans, huh? Well then, how did we end up with a Republican president who had a coke problem and a drinking problem?
And a VP who used of every deferment there was to get out of going to Vietnam?
Or a candidate who has been running one of the most dishonest campaigns in recent memory? Or a VP candidate who used her office for pursuing personal grudges?
Boy Claire, for being a former prosecutor, I’m really disappointed in you. Bill Ayres bombed a police station. The Pentagon. It’s ok to disagree without being disagreeable. Ayres didn’t think it was awful what he did. Claire, would your parents have approved living next door to him while you were growing up? Your house may have been leveled by an accidental explosion of a bomb he was making…
Scott,
Ayers bombed those places. Not Obama. Obama has condemned those actions.
I think it is dangerous for McCain to start playing these “guilt by association” games as it might hurt McCain/Palin more. Do we want to associate McCain with the Keating5 (during another economic crisis it might mean more) and USCWF? How about Palin’s association with the treasonous Alaska Independence group?
The only people who care about something like this, that as McCaskill stated–happened when Obama was 8 years old, are Republicans who are grasping for anything. Anything.
E.D., please do some research. Biden had the same amount of deferments as Cheney (five). It has yet to be proven that Bush did coke, unless you have a legitimate website you can provide? As for his drinking problem, yep..he had one and stopped. I guess I’m more okay with him having a drinking problem than Obama allegedly doing weed and coke (I say allegedly because he mentioned in his book that he did it in his youth..cocaine was very hard to come by in Hawaii prior to 1980)..however if you consider alchohol a drug, then I see your point. Obama is on record in his book that he smoked week and snorted cocaine. The dishonesty of both campaigns has been duly noted on Factcheck.org. I would also have your do your research on the number of dishonest statements your boy Biden made in the debate. If you would like, I can list them in my next post. However, my guess is that you wouldn’t care..since he is a Democrat…and you can get your free healthcare soon.
Palin married a seperatist who hated America as much as Ayers. Now that’s character!
I remember seeing a picture of Ronald Reagan standing with John Wayne Gacy. The picture was taken 4 months before it was discovered that Gacy sexually mutilated and killed 33 young boys…..
Bet you didn’t know Reagan was “palling around” with such psycopaths.
The NYT soft peddled it… and you guys on the left are screaming.
Must be something to it…