McCain steps up Ayers attacks
Comments to recent posts indicate that some of you are eager to talk about Barack Obama’s ties to Bill Ayers, even when that isn’t the subject at hand. John McCain’s campaign is trying to make that the hot topic. The campaign today emailed this link to an ad about Obama and Ayers.
A press release on the McCain-Palin campaign website contains the text of the ad, and what the campaign offers as facts supporting it. The press release begins:
Today, McCain-Palin 2008 released its latest web ad, entitled “Ayers.” The ad highlights Barack Obama’s long-standing relationship with unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. From his political introduction at Bill Ayers’ house in 1995 to their service together on two boards, Barack Obama has long known Bill Ayers but has not been straightforward with the American people. This is an issue of judgment and candor and Barack Obama has not told the American people the truth.
ABC reports that Obama, in an interview with ABC World News anchor Charlie Gibson, countered recent McCain-Palin assertions about Ayers with this explanation:
“Why don’t we just clear it up right now I’ll repeat again what I’ve said many times. This is a guy who engaged in some despicable acts 40 years ago when I was eight years old. By the time I met him, 10 or 15 years ago, he was a college professor of education at the University of Illinois . . . And the notion that somehow he has been involved in my campaign, that he is an adviser of mine, that . . . I’ve ‘palled around with a terrorist’, all these statements are made simply to try to score cheap political points.”
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Meanwhile, a delegate for McCain was a CONVICTED shooter of a pioneering doctor who did legal abortions. And the judge admitted she was a terrorist. Nothing like hypocrisy these days.
Stick to the issues, McCain. Oh, wait, you aren’t winning on any of them.
And they wonder why the average American is turned off!!!! All politicians can do is throw blame, double talk and offer no real solutions. PATHETIC!!!!
How could a person of integrity like Senator John McCain stoop so low with such an attack on Senator Obama? It is not worth it, Senator McCain, not even for the presidency of the United States of America!
–And how many McCain advisors are mired in scandal? To say nothing of McCains’ involvement with Jack Keating during the S&L scandal.
–Hello, Mr. Pot? Paging Mr. Black Pot? This is Kettle calling.
Just remember, Hugo Chavez was elected Democratically. Do you think the Venezuelan regret that election? Ayers, and ostensibly Obama, embrace Chavez’s political leanings.
I cry for America, for what we once had will soon be gone.
Subject: Tell Me Who Your Friends Are…
Guilt by association? You betcha, when there are myriad connections. How many football players does it take to make a team? Rezko, Wright, Ayers, Dohrn, Pfleger, Odinga, Auchi, Khalidi, Emil Jones, Jr., ACORN, ACORN Housing and the Democratic Socialist Party: seems Obama’s got a full team and probably a good number of backup players. And with people like Charles Gibson acting as cheerleaders, running Obama infomercials. That sure was a different interview than what you put Governor Palin, through Charlie. Whatever happened to your journalistic integrity? Flushed down the toilet like Obama’s ethics.
All that’s now left of the GOP is angry, paranoid racists. Maybe one day a sensible Republican party will return, but now it’s the party of idiotic hate-mongering.
JR, you’re an idiot. The Chavez government was among the first to provide aid to victims of Hurricane Katrina, and the Bush Administration promptly refused it and chose instead to fill the pockets of its leaders (Cheney) with slow, poorly executed ’relief.’ (Talk to any Katrina survivors about how they felt about government aid)
McCain is losing, he’s scared to death and this is a desperate attempt of an old man trying to stay afloat. Too bad he has to bring down a mother and her 5 kids with him.
My once respectful attitude of McCain has just turned into disrespect since he can’t play fairly. His ads alone make me want to vote for Obama.
Attempting to discredit Obama for events that occurred when he was 8 years old show the desperation of the McCain campaign. McCain has no plans for improvement of our health, economy, safety, or environment. If he does, they are a well kept secret. His campaign reminds me of Slim Pickens riding the atom bomb cowboy style in Dr. Strangelove. If he chooses to end it all in a big mushroom cloud, so be it; but I choose not to ride along with him.