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.
McCain’s advisers said it themselves, they are making a concerted effort to “turn the page” away from the economy (which McCain admits is not his strong suit) to attacks on Obama’s character. This is straight out of the Karl Rove playbook. Distract, distract, distract while Rome burns. Americans have been fooled by this nonsense before. We are too smart this time around for the BS character-assination stuff to work. The Republican emporers have no clothes and America knows it. Why esle are the polls showing an Electoral landlside in Obama. This is just the last gasp of an increasingly desparate conservative revolution that has done nothing for the past twenty years but run our country into the ground.
Trickle down economics has failed this country. It has failed us and it has failed our children. We can’t afford more of the same.
sheshe - You sound exactly like D. Walker. Obscenities and race baiting interlaced with religious verbiage. Now that I think about, D. Walker hasn’t posted here in quite a while. Did you get banned, and come back here under another name?
Using the same “rules” of “guilt by association then all of the following are equally true:
1. All police officers (especially those who wind up arresting repeat offenders, and because they can be found around criminals on a regular basis) are obviously guilty of rape murder, theft etc.
2. Since the September 11th terrorists used box cutters to threaten people on the planes before they crashed them in the Twin Towers, and since warehouse workers routinely use boxe cutters, ergo warehouse workers must be terrorists.
3. Since John McCain, after VietNam went through psychiatric/psychological therapy, he, like Senator Thomas Eagleton before him, must be crazy.
Come on a specious “argument” is still specious no matter how many times you shout it.
I thought Palin was wrong to attack Obama over Ayers, but, after reading this, I am now not so sure:
“For the next four to five years, the two worked together to raise the matching funds and disburse small grants to local organizations pushing the reform program. It could only have been an intimate partnership. When Obama decided to run for the state senate, his first fund-raising event was held in the home of Ayers and Dohrn. In 1997, Ayers published a book about juvenile justice, A Kind and Just Parent, which Obama blurbed as “a searing and timely account.” The two also served together on the board of the leftist Woods Fund from 1998 until 2001.
This is what is now public about the relations between Obama and the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. There may be much more, so far successfully hidden by all concerned; but even these facts suggest that Ayers was among Obama’s closest collaborators.”
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/special-preview-br–obama-s-leftism-12961?page=all
Ah… the cowardly Conscientious Objector who thinks he can solve society’s problems.
How sad his best years spent allied with the anti-war left. But then he and his liberal friends turned their backs on the violence that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam.
Please don’t do to us what you were willing to accept from your glorious NVA and VC commrades in Hue, Saigon…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_at_Hu%E1%BA%BF
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This is a very sad. McCain does not understand the economy so he calls Obama a terrorist lover. I know Bush has messed up the economy but please keep talking about it! We need to get off the oil standard. Please do not skip my comment b/c I voted for Ron Paul. We deserve a better conversation than who likes terrorist vs who is just like Bush. When we embrace these sexy distractions we lose focus on saving our nation. I hope we get a real debate tonight the last two were WEAK!!