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April 25, 2008 5:34 PM
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., continued to try and use the Weather Underground to rain on Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., telling conservative bloggers in a conference call today that Obama needs to repudiate William Ayers, apologize to Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., for comparing him to Ayers (as an example of a friend with whom Obama disagrees), and to apologize to the American people for his relationship with Ayers, "an unrepentant terrorist."
The presumptive GOP frontrunner expresses surprise that the media is making more out of Obama's relationship with Rev. Wright than his relationship with Ayers.
Town Hall, the American Spectator, Human Events, Commentary and others are up and running with the comments.
McCain -- unlike the husband of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., who commuted the jail sentences of two members of the Weather Underground -- seems eager to bring this subject up, as he did on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday.
- jpt
UPDATE: Obama spox Bill Burton writes to say, "We want to take Senator McCain at his word that he wants to run a respectful campaign, but that is becoming increasingly difficult when he continually tries to use the politics of association and makes claims he knows not to be true to advance his campaign. This type of politics of division and distraction, not only lead to a campaign not worthy of the American people, but also has failed to help our families for too long."
McCain spox Brian Rogers responds: "Senator Obama was introduced to the local political scene at the home of an unrepentant terrorist, William Ayers, with whom he has had a friendship for many years. Mr. Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group responsible for countless bombings against targets including the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and numerous police stations, courthouses and banks. In recent years, Mr. Ayers has stated, 'I don't regret setting bombs . . . I feel we didn't do enough.' Then last week, Senator Obama went so far as to compare this unrepentant terrorist to Senator Tom Coburn, a physician who goes home to Oklahoma on the weekends and brings babies into life. Surely the American people agree that judgment matters in our next president. Senator Obama's long association with an unrepentant terrorist is an issue of judgment, and it will absolutely be an issue in this election."
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Let me ask the question; do you honestly believe the U.S. Senate’s "Foreign Relations Committee" would have a person on their committee “NOT CLEARED”. I would bet that each Senator has a security clearance which means a complete back ground check before being permitted into the Senate. So stop with the Anti-American sentiment to paint Senator Obama has someone we don’t know or someone with an agenda to change America. If anyone has changed this country look at our current President!
Posted by: Martin | Apr 30, 2008 12:40:39 PM
Thank you Senator for running for president and giving this nation real hope for the future. Elitist? Terrorist? These tired political ploys will not decide my vote. My children and grandchildren are depending on me to make the right choice and not be hooked by politics as usual.
Posted by: Radmanaustin | Apr 29, 2008 3:21:25 PM
There goes McCain and the righteous right again. The Right doesn't make up all the BS but they are good at smelling it out and stirring it up. They forget that plenty of their own politicos have been caught or are in jail for some serious stuff. Hillary has learned well from the opposition playbook. People seem to enjoy getting messed with to distract them from the real issues. Facts like:
the country being in the worst shape that it has ever been in.
85% of people are worse off than in 2000
A trillion dollar surplus then is a trillion dollar deficit now
the public is not only divided but now suspicious of eachother
The country's infrastructure is falling apart from neglect
And the uniter Clinton has managed to divide all the different groups the Dems have. The GOP must be rolling in the aisles.
Posted by: all | Apr 28, 2008 11:52:04 PM
Obama's political career was launched in a 1995 meeting at Ayers' home. His own campaign states that they maintain "friendly" relations. Obama's defense is that he was 8 years old when Ayers and his Weather Underground buddies were planting bombs at the Pentagon, the U.S. capitol and other places. True. But Obama was 40 when Ayers said publicly that he doesn't regret setting bombs. In fact he said, "I feel we didn't do enough". I would not maintain friendly relations with an unrepentant terrorist--wouldn't even shake his hand. I hope he will not get one vote in Indiana or N. C. or the other upcoming states because of these "distractions"-i.e., the things that most reveal character and core beliefs.
Posted by: virginia | Apr 28, 2008 8:18:35 AM
Obama worked for Ayers for 8 years. How can he claim not to know him.
Unbelievable. Michelle Obama worked with Ayers wife for 3 years. Amazing.
He will do anything to lie and hide the devious people in his past.
The one's we know about already include Wright, Rezko, Ayers, Larry Sinclair and Donald Young.
Posted by: Chris | Apr 28, 2008 12:02:36 AM
Obama why are you so eager to take power?
do you have the resume for president?
in 2005, you became a senator, in 2007, you missed over 80% vote in senate.
are you a responsible senator?
Posted by: typical white person | Apr 27, 2008 10:23:26 PM
Funny... BO associates for many years as friend and mentee with Rev. Wright, and his response is,
"Well, Bill Clinton is in a picture with him!"
Then it's discovered that BO has associated for years as friend and political ally with Terrorist William Ayers, and BO's response? "Well, Bill Clinton pardoned two of the Weathermen!"
(Who were actually two women who had already served many years' jail time, and had been accessories, rather than direct perpetrators.)
First of all, BO is running against Hillary, not Bill. If Bill made an error in judgment, it's not Hillary's doing. Second, we don't know why Bill made that decision, but at least he was not the terrorists' friends. If those two women he pardoned had said, "I wish I could have bombed more," as Ayers did recently, I'm sure Bill wouldn't have pardoned them. They'd still be in jail!
All the double talk in the world can't get BO out of this mess. What do Michelle O, Rev. Wright, Hamas, and William Ayers all have in common? A friend who says that he likes everything about them except one thing: the fact that they hate America. Smells fishy, doesn't it?
Posted by: april | Apr 27, 2008 8:18:58 PM
google...global poverty act obama and see what this man is all about.
Posted by: Linda D | Apr 27, 2008 3:31:00 PM
What did mcaine say that was disrespectful,I think he is at least right on target, he just gave a pass on mr wright for now as well as the others !!!! wait till they pull out there big guns, what are you going to say then??? the party leaders have already saID THAT IT WILL GO TO THE ONE WITH THEW POPULAR VOTE,NOT PLEGED DELIGATES, KEEP UP WITH THE PROGRAM!
Posted by: RELD | Apr 27, 2008 2:40:25 PM
i FIND ALL OF YOU ,STILL SUPPORTING BHO TO BE INCREDABLY INSAIN AND SICKINING, IF YOU THINK ITS FINE TO GO TO A RACIST CHURCH, WITH HEAVY ANTI AMERICAN BS AND HANGING WITH HIS GANGSTA HOMMIES MAKES HIM A LEADER, OR CAPABLE OF LEADING THIS COUNTRY,HE IS ACTING LIKE A COUNT RE. HE SHOULDNT TRY TO LEAD,IF HE IS TO WEAK TO DEBATE! HIS CHICKEN SHTT IS COMING HOME TO ROOST!!! I DIDNT KNOW THAT WE WERE HAVING A RACE BASED ON RACE, WHAT WOULD YOU ALL BE SAYING IF HILLERY HAD AS A MINISTER DAVID DUKES AND SHE HUNG OUT WITH THE KKK AND SAT TRU SPEACHES AND SERMONS ABOUT THROWING A ROPE OVER A BIG BRANCH, WHAT IS THE DIFFERANCE WHY THE DOUBLE STANDARD ,WHY WONT HE ANSWER ANY MORE QUESTIONS OR BE MAN ENOUGH TO DEBATE ON SOME ISSUES,CHANGE ALL HE DOSE IS CHANGE THE SUBJECT AND EVERONE LETS HIM GET AWAY WITH IT BE CAUSE They are afraid of being called a racist when thats his spiritual addvissors job he is more rasist then david duke
Posted by: RELD | Apr 27, 2008 2:32:57 PM
i FIND ALL OF YOU ,STILL SUPPORTING BHO TO BE INCREDABLY INSAIN AND SICKINING, IF YOU THINK ITS FINE TO GO TO A RACIST CHURCH, WITH HEAVY ANTI AMERICAN BS AND HANGING WITH HIS GANGSTA HOMMIES MAKES HIM A LEADER, OR CAPABLE OF LEADING THIS COUNTRY,HE IS ACTING LIKE A COUNT RE. HE SHOULDNT TRY TO LEAD,IF HE IS TO WEAK TO DEBATE! HIS CHICKEN SHTT IS COMING HOME TO ROOST!!! I DIDNT KNOW THAT WE WERE HAVING A RACE BASED ON RACE, WHAT WOULD YOU ALL BE SAYING IF HILLERY HAD AS A MINISTER DAVID DUKES AND SHE HUNG OUT WITH THE KKK AND SAT TRU SPEACHES AND SERMONS ABOUT THROWING A ROPE OVER A BIG BRANCH, WHAT IS THE DIFFERANCE WHY THE DOUBLE STANDARD ,WHY WONT HE ANSWER ANY MORE QUESTIONS OR BE MAN ENOUGH TO DEBATE ON SOME ISSUES,CHANGE ALL HE DOSE IS CHANGE THE SUBJECT AND EVERONE LETS HIM GET AWAY WITH IT BE CAUSE They are afraid of being called a racist when thats his spiritual addvissors job he is more rasist then david duke
Posted by: RELD | Apr 27, 2008 2:32:53 PM
Seems like we have a tremendous amount of "SMOKESCREEN" issues comming to the forefront, designed espeecially, to keep American voters COMPLETELY in the dark!!! ~ It seems, also, that NOBODY is bringing up the fact, that Obama was and is promoted and supported by the infamous Chicago Political Machine, which has been in business since the 19th century, and has NEVER been about CHANGE, of any kind!!! ~ Keeping the power and using that power to control all of Chicagoland, by maintaining the status quo, at ALL costs, be their actions legal or otherwise, is what this Machine has always been about!!!! ~ Americans NEED to know about who is promoting the candidates, instead of being "SMOKESCREENED", by the media!!!! ~ Check your facts!!! ~ Can you spell "G_A_N_G_S_T_E_R_S"???
Posted by: Arbuckle Doc | Apr 27, 2008 2:31:11 PM
iT MIGHT SERVE PEOPLE WELL TO LOOK INTO HIS PAST, AND I THINK IT VERY MUCH MATTERS WEATHER YOU SIT IN A RACIST CHURCH FOR THAT LONG ,THEN LIE ABOUT IT ,AND YOUR CLOSE TIES WITH PEOPLE BEING INDITED FOR FRAUD,HE SHOULD BE ONE OF THEM,AND MIGHT BE!!! HE ISNT ELECTIBLE.....CLINTON IS ,SHE HAS BEEN UNDER THE MICROSCOPE FOR DECADES AND SERVIVED, IF HE WONT DEBATE HE IS SCARED TO,BECAUSE OF HOW STUPID HE LOOKED INFRONT OF THE COUNTRY IN PA. I THINK ALL OF THE QUESTIONS WERE FINE BUT HE STILL DIDNT ANSWER THEM TO MY SATISFACTION,ASK WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO ASK HIM ANYTHING THAT IS QUESTIONABLE AND GET A REAL ANSWER THAT IS BELEIVABLE, HE IS A LIAR HOW MANNY TIMES DOSE HE HAVE TO PROVE IT TO YOU!!! I HOPE THE REST OF THE STATES AND TERRITORRIES ARE PAYING BETTER ATTENTION THEN YOU YOUNG UNPATRIOTIC BLIND FAITH FOLLOWING MORONS AND RACE VOTING JACK A33! WE NEED A STRONG LEADER TO GET US OUT OF THIS PILE OF DUNG BUSH LEFT US IN AND IF NOTHING ELSE YOU CANT SAY HILLERY IS WEAK OR UNPREPARED,AS ALL IVE SEEN IS BO ANSWER SECOND AND SAY I AGREE WITH SENNATER CLINTON, I HAVEANT HEARD ANY PLANS THAT ARE HIS OWN AND A GREAT SPEAKER HE MAYBE BUT WE DONT NEED A SNAKE OIL SALESMAN RIGHT NOW WE NEED SOME ONE WITH GUTS KNOW HOW AND AN INSIDE TRACK DOSANT HURT EITHER,WHEN SHE GETS THE POPULAR VOTE ,SHE HAS IT IN THE BAG,AND SHE WILL GET THE POPULAR VOTE!! IF ANYONE CARES ABOUT OUR COUNTRY,AND HAS PRIDE IN BEING AN AMERICAN!
Posted by: RELD | Apr 27, 2008 2:16:41 PM
A drunken Irishman who sleeps around, whose boy thinks catholics act like him.
Posted by: Nelly | Apr 27, 2008 1:43:53 PM
Hillary wants another debate for what the last one got nothing accomplished except for the curators to prove that they could be tough on Obama and soft on Hillary.The media has not been that tough on Hillary to began with, thats because they know that if they start asking Hillary the real truth about past, that her campaign would already be done.To prove that you can look at how much she has lied and the media only reports her lies for a short time,but let Obama speak in the wrong way and apologize it is kept in the news again and again.Example of the the bias of the media when Hillary lied about Bosnia there were reporters on that trip with but not one came forward to say that it did not happen the way she said.But as soon as it was made known that it did not happen that away the media played on it for a short time.The republicans are wanting her too win she easy.Thats why you have Rush pea brain on the radio trying to cause confusion and getting republicans out vote Hillary where they can change their affiliations back and forth.Then you have Mcforgetful who was in cohorts with the Keating Five who swindled thousands of elderly out of their money.So I guess he has forgotten that to.The republicans are afraid of Obama so thats why they can keep up the attacks on him but much of it has no substance.when have Hillary and McCain up on the hill with alredy corrupted. I will take a chance with Obama and an end to the war and who wants to listen to the people and do the right thing for the country than to hav e someone who people on hill favors.
Posted by: damehen | Apr 27, 2008 11:08:26 AM
Karen, you wrote: "Obama had no friendship with Ayers..." It is quite possible that there is nothing there. But Sen. Obama's own remarks keep the questions alive. Here is a quote from Sen. Obama: "(Mr. Ayers is) a guy who lives in my neighborhood...not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis." So they have on occasion exchanged ideas? Were these exchanges only during the board meetings? Or were there other times that they got together?
Posted by: James Danley | Apr 27, 2008 11:00:18 AM
Obama criticizes McCain for engaging in "politics of association".... Obama does the same thing, compares McCain to Bush which is a poor comparison.
Obama is such a faker. Bottom line, he is fundraising with an admitted terrorist, and people want to elect this man.
Posted by: Joe | Apr 27, 2008 5:25:51 AM
Tom Coburn has never bombed any building....he never advocated that kids should kill their parents...
He did not deserve the comparison. Obama's grandma didn't deserve that comparison either. Ferraro should not have been painted a racist with Obama's word brush.
I'm pretty sure that Tom Coburn does not feel like Obama is much of a friend right now.
It is not off topic to take a look at Obama's atrocious judgement...his demeaning comparisons of people...or his affiliations with radical people and churches.
I find myself inclined to believe that Obama is not anti-American. Then I remember in his interview with CNN (Anderson Cooper) he said that patriotism is "hyperbole" and I wonder. Patriotism is something that some of us actually feel..........and it scares me a lot we are perhaps going to elect a man who doesn't feel it at all.
The Republicans constant crying wolf about patriotism may very well cause people to discount the truth when we are hearing it from the candidate himself.
Posted by: Jackie | Apr 27, 2008 4:20:42 AM
Well, as usual McCain is right and Obama is wrong, and a loser. He has been emasculated by a woman and now we shall watch him be torn apart by the Republicans and watch his pastor sell him down the river, faster than he can throw his white grandmama under the bus. You go McCain, You rock!
Posted by: Jackie | Apr 27, 2008 3:35:49 AM
I just have to laugh at anyone suggesting Obama has a relationship with a terorrist...that's just pathetic. Obama knows lots of people. He doesn't do background checks on everyone he knows. He wasn't at those sermons where Wright said bad things about America, and he had nothing to do with this Ayers guy's terrorist activities.
People like Lou Dobbs are just frothing at the mouth trying to find ways to discredit Obama because these old white guys like him are scared to death that someone not from their kind might be president some day.
Posted by: Paul | Apr 26, 2008 11:24:23 PM
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