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McCain Says Ayers Attacks Are Effective
October 26, 2008 1:13 PM
Despite polling showing that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is perceived as the more negative campaigner, the Arizona senator told the Albuquerque Journal that his attack on Sen. Barack 0bama, D-Ill., for his longstanding if vaguely defined relationship with unrepentant domestic terrorist/education professor William Ayers has political traction.
"Of course it does," he told the newspaper. "People need to know relationships. The Obama campaign wouldn't be complaining so much if it wasn't effective."
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., turned down the newspaper's request for an interview.
-- jpt
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In interview after interview McCain's friends in the McCain Stream Media, which he himself refers to as his base, have declined to hold McCain to his own standard in the guilty by acquaintance game. McCain has not been asked about his praise for Watergate conspirator Gordon Liddy, a man who planned murder and bombings. McCain has not been asked about his membership in an anti-semitic fringe rightwing organization prior to becoming a Senator. McCain has not been asked about his 2008 campaign fundraiser Carl Linders, who is a terrorist financier that funded the murder of union organizers. He has not been asked about the associaitons of Sarah Palin, whose husband was a member of a secessionist party that she herself repeatedly praised and supported. He has not been asked about Palin's assoiciation with dominionist and theocratic religious figures or her associaition with numerous religious figures that espouse belief in witchcraft and the need for public figures to be put in place to counter their paranoid satanic conspiracy theories.
If having served on a Republican funded charity board with Ayers is the standard of association that McCain has established for his opponent, why doesn't anyone in the McCain Stream Media ask the Republican candidates about their associations? Surely you folks could find some time between drinking champaign, eating bbq, and swinging on the McCain tire swing to . . . you know . . . be journalists.
Posted by: Jeremy | Oct 27, 2008 3:24:44 PM
Of course, criticizing the Ayers/Obama relationship has no traction with the democratic Kool-Aid addicts. Billy the Professor has always been their kind of guy: playing with bombs and wanting to turn America into Amerika.
BUT there are people who are getting their eyes opened to Obama's habit of pallin' around with terrorists.
And what that might mean for the future of our country and its Constitution.
Palin for President 2012
Posted by: Gloria | Oct 27, 2008 2:01:37 AM
Ayers is so old and has been dead issue long time ago!!! 40+ years ago Ayers was involved with Anti Vietnam War protesters and then involved with a group that branched off to become known as the Weather Underground. Actions turned violent. What he was involved in was horrible. And yet so sad as all they wanted was to help bring troops home. These college students went way too far. Ayers was indicted and tried, but found innocent of terrorism.
Doesn't everyone already know all there is to know about Ayers, also about Obama and Ayers serving on community boards together??? This is not that uncommon since both were extensively into Chicago community work. Ayers since trial, has gone on and worked extremely hard to become a distinguished college professor at University of Illinois in Chicago. Ayers actually was bestowed Citizen of the Year Award for his outstanding community service. He has written multiple books. His specialty is educational reform and is well known and well respected by some of America's finest scholars. Republicans and Democrats of Chicago served on these boards together. Are they all terrorist also??? Are all the universities across the nation that invited him to speak terrorist universities?? Are some of US top scholars, professionals who consider him a business contact and/or friend Terrorists??
Bill Ayers has always wanted to help people, helping people come home from Vietnam War was all he wanted 40+ years ago. He just made horribly wrong decisions as a college student.
I simply can not see how John McCain can stoop so low. Barack Obama did nothing here!!! I have checked and rechecked. Please tell John Mccain to stop the fear mongering!
Posted by: Sharonklim | Oct 26, 2008 10:25:49 PM
Can Obama put a Order of Protection out on Sean Hannity of Fox News. Everytime I turn it on there Hannity has a new "radical" show about him. For Sean Hannity to not like Obama it has become an obession to report lies about him!
Posted by: Kristle | Oct 26, 2008 9:44:21 PM
Is McCain going senile?
He was starting to gain ground on Obama -- incrementally, but noticeably -- UNTIL he kept hammering away at the Ayers nonsense.
Now, as a result, he's falling farther behind with a week to go.
I think the man is, at this point, completely out of touch with reality.
Posted by: R | Oct 26, 2008 6:17:27 PM
There is an aura of falsity emanating from McCain's appearances and statements.
The number of people who take what he has to say seriously seems to be dwindling.
Posted by: Danny | Oct 26, 2008 5:34:39 PM
I want to see more Rev. Wright! Can we get a picture of him with Pelosi?
Posted by: today | Oct 26, 2008 4:48:46 PM
"At the time of the meeting [between McCain and Augosto Pinochet] in the late afternoon of December 30, the U.S. Justice Department was seeking the extradition of two close Pinochet associates for an act of terrorism in Washington DC, the 1976 assassination of former ambassador to the U.S. and former Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier. The car bombing on Sheridan Circle in the U.S. capital was widely described at the time as the most egregious act of international terrorism perpetrated on U.S. soil..."
McCain's Private Visit With Chilean Dictator Pinochet Revealed For First Time | by John Dinges
Posted October 24, 2008
Posted by: bad hominem | Oct 26, 2008 4:42:13 PM
Interesting. Obama actually wanted his people to stay away from talking about how an irresponsible John McCain crashed his plane into the USS Forrestal as a young pilot, and started a fire that killed 133 sailors while he hid below decks hoping they wouldn't take it out on him. Why? Because he was showing off and screwed up, then crashed. That says more about the character of McCain than any vague relationship Obama had with anyone.
Obama wanted his people to drive the issues, not the minutae.
Posted by: kravitz | Oct 26, 2008 4:40:56 PM
Given how bad the economy is right now, the next president is not going to have much fun. Given the way he has been acting lately, do you thing that mcCain my be trying to lose?
Posted by: Fred | Oct 26, 2008 4:26:28 PM
The Ayers attacks are working?? Then why is McCain so far behind in so many polls?
Posted by: Beto | Oct 26, 2008 4:22:20 PM
Jack writes, "Wow, Dems, you really seem to be enjoying yourself here... was the massage parlor booked?"
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Yep. Couldn't get in today. Too many Republicans. (lol)
Posted by: Dems | Oct 26, 2008 3:27:16 PM
it just goes to show how john mccain is out of ideas, he didn't have anything to offer his followers anyway.
it was john mccain who said
"no one cares anything about an old washed-up domestic terrorist'
but what is he giving his people
ads about the washed up terrorist.
Posted by: cheer up,smile,nertz | Oct 26, 2008 3:16:53 PM
Ayers put a bomb in one of the bathrooms, as I understand it. Larry Craig would be about the only person who would really be angry about that. A lot of people were angry during the Vietnam war, ESPECIALLY THE INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN THAT McCain killed when he was flying his plane over Nam.
If you guys want to fight it out, go to some place and duke it out in hand to hand combat. Do it someplace where the innocent women and children won't be killed. ( I don't know why some people are against abortion, when they have been in the service and have killed women and children when they were in combat...
Ayers, went on to be a great teacher, McCain went on to be a wandering husband, engaged to another women while still married to another, then that wasn't enough, the people of Arizonia had to elect him to office and let him be turned loose on the rest of us. Arizonian's, it is time to impeach this guy and let him retire to one of his 8 homes.
Posted by: jdthat | Oct 26, 2008 3:11:17 PM
Wow, Dems, you really seem to be enjoying yourself here... was the massage parlor booked?
Posted by: Jack | Oct 26, 2008 2:49:42 PM
"People need to know relationships. The Obama campaign wouldn't be complaining so much if it wasn't effective."
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Well, then, Senator, how about YOUR relationship with Charles Keating? People need to know a lot more about that one!
Posted by: chuck | Oct 26, 2008 2:27:50 PM
I like how Thinking attributes the attacks on Palin's clothes to the Obama campaign, who wouldn't stoop so low. They don't have to, the media does it for them while ignoring legitimate targets like Biden's son. Who? Oh, the guy who is being sued for fraud and presented himself as a "hedge fund manager," Obama's enemy? Not an issue? Hmmm.
Shouldn't there be a comparison somewhere? Palin and family--$150,000 (also, she said the clothes would be auctioned for charity...where is that in the news?) Obama's clothes? Guess they are all $300 suits...Biden's? Who knows? There might be a difference, but there is no coverage.
Also, there is a video of a dinner that Obama attended with Ayers that is being withheld by a reporter for the LA Times. THere may be nothing to it...but why is it not being released? Strange...
It makes it seem as if it would be damaging...doesn't it?
Posted by: Wade | Oct 26, 2008 2:10:01 PM
With every day John McCain shows why he shouldn't be considered for the office of President.
What happened? Clearly he isn't the best choice when you take a look around the Republican Party.
If he were an academic we could at least say he's smart man and that his intelligence could be an asset. Unfortunately we have a man who has already admitted he doesn't know much about economics. We have a man who said he didn't vote for the Martin L. King holiday because he didn't KNOW enough about the man. (He's 72 years old and somehow missed the civil rights movement, Nobel Peace Prize, March on Washington, etc.) We have a man who says he wants to be President but can't tell you the difference between a Shiite and a Sunni.
Posted by: Dems | Oct 26, 2008 1:57:40 PM
Phoney Plumber, Phoney Victim, Senior Citizen Vietnam Activist - who cares !
I voted early.
Posted by: Joe | Oct 26, 2008 1:46:08 PM
After reading this I begin to understand why McCain still says Palin is an asset, he isn't dealing with reality. Maybe that's also why he keeps saying that his campaign is right where he wants it to be. Well, why not, Bush has been in la la land for 8 years and McCain IS as close to Bush as we're likely to find.
Posted by: JR | Oct 26, 2008 1:29:59 PM
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