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.
Is this the same Claire McCaskill that said:
“…they’re going to find out that this is a (Republican) ticket that wants to put women in prison for having an abortion after they have been raped.” ??
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002950734
Claire McCaskill — a disgrace to the citizenry of Missouri.
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It is very sad how racist you people are and how you have to stoop so low out of desperation that the Republicans are not going to win this election.
Not only is it sad, but it is funny. SMH!
Middle class democrats work just like middle class republicans, so this crap about handouts it ridiculous. God doesn’t like ugly and that is why it is our year to win. BARACK THE VOTE!!!!!!
What Claire means to say is that examining ANY of Obama’s many questionable choices in associates is ridiculous.
What she wont tell is is there is no way in Hell he could pass a security clearance background investigation with his known past associates.
Hendrik Mink…
… is he the resident Neo-communist that used to make fun of Dan Quayle?
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How do I know the Ayers association is a big story - the PD has totally ignored it. That is always a dead give away. Claire, you can embarrass yourself and ignore the facts, but here are the facts and this is more than a passing in the night. Ayers has groomed Obama for this position since he left Chicago to go to law school. In fact, it is said they may have met during his Columbia days and that is why he went to Chicago in the first place. But since Obama won’t tell us the truth:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-ayers-partners-in-revolution/2/
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What’s that noise? That’s the desperate Republicans grasping at straws!
I’m supposed to think Obama’s character is flawed because he knows a guy who did some bad stuff 40 years ago? Are you serious? Is there any chance that McCain and Dizzy will talk about some issues in this last month? I’m doubting it. The more they pull this sophmoric crap the more I’m convinced that they are lost in the woods.
“I’m supposed to think Obama’s character is flawed because he knows a guy who did some bad stuff 40 years ago? “ — slamfist
Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school reform group that pumped $50 million into Chicago Public Schools. Obama was board president and Ayers help organize the charity in 1995.
www . chicagotribune . com/news/local/chicago/chi-obama-ayers-universitysep09-archive,0,1053585.story
$50,000,000 … beginning not 40 years ago, but in 1995. Worked together to divvy up $50 million in grants and 0bama says they were just “neighbors” ??
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Whoopsie… will somebody help an angry slamfist get up?
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Slam, “knowing a guy” and starting your political career in his house are just a bit different. I’m game for talking about issues…how about how far left this country will be if Obama gets elected? You’ll get your socialist trifecta: Obama, Pelosi, Reid. You’ll need free healthcare just to pay for your “gimme elbow” which you’ll get when you keep raising your hand for handouts.
Sheshe, bringing up the race issue is racist itself. The only one bringing up race is Obama. Also, being a democrat ALWAYS means that you rely on government for your livelihood and blaming successful people for your problems and wanting their money because you failed on your own.
Garrison, Palin’s husband was not a separatist. Please see this retraction:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/02/uselections2008.republicans20085?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews
I won a bet today when I bet a guy that I could go to the newspaper and find a full page of negative stories on McCain/Palin. Way to go Post, you didn’t disappoint me! Watch the rest of the week…every paper will have a full page of stories that make Obama and Biden look good and McCain an Palin look bad…
Just typical republican hogwash and backwash and whitewash. Here’s an idea: Let’s waterboard Obama and see what he really knows about the Weather Underground. I think he might be hiding something he was involved in as an eight-year old. Gulf of Tonkin incident - didn’t happen. Kent State massacre did happen. Ten days later another “police action” at Jackson State University in Mississippi killed two and injured dozens. Ayers was fighting against the “police state” that American tends to become when politicians take us wrongly into war and do whatever they can to silence the opposition. Those were different times but we can start drawing parallels if you want.
This is just dirty politics and once again the source of it is the right wing fear-mongering bone-headed chumps that “swift-boated” Kerry and manipulated the public with disinformation and lies for the Neo-Cons and Bush.