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The Note: McCain Ayers it Out -- But Will He Connect?
October 10, 2008 8:18 AM
ABC News' Rick Klein reports in Friday's Note:
Until or unless evidence emerges that, on the advice of Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger, Tony Rezko paid for Barack Obama to take Bill Ayers' course on how to tank an economy, it's just possible that the current (final?) line of attack by Sen. John McCain doesn't precisely match this moment in the campaign.
Maybe, of course, the McCain campaign is right. Maybe shady Chicago connections involving a candidate who's been on the national stage for 18 months will trump the economy and the stock market and the housing crisis as issues for these final three-plus weeks.
"I don't care about two washed-up old terrorists that are unrepentant about trying to destroy America. But I do care, and Americans should care, about his relationship with him and whether he's being truthful and candid about," McCain, R-Ariz., told ABC's Charlie Gibson Thursday.
"I see matters of judgment and truthfulness and ambition," Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, said on the stump Thursday.
Or maybe the answer is to tie the big storylines together. New from the McCain campaign Friday: An ad that casually drops the L-word and touches on both Ayers to the economic distress, with Democrats portrayed as anti-regulation.
Read the rest of The Note -- and get all the latest on the 2008 election, Congress, the White House and the wide world of politics every day -- from Rick Klein by bookmarking this link.
The ad: "Obama's blind ambition. When convenient, he worked with terrorist Bill Ayers. When discovered, he lied. Obama. Blind ambition. Bad judgment. Congressional liberals fought for risky sub-prime loans. Congressional liberals fought against more regulation. Then, the housing market collapsed, costing you billions. In crisis, we need leadership, not bad judgment."
The RNC is putting Ayers (and others) into play, too -- with a new ad launching in Indiana and Wisconsin featuring Ayers, Rezko, and William Daley. "There's more you need to know," says the ad.
But if Team McCain is wrong (and the stock market seems to be rendering a political verdict daily on what Americans should care about, and Obama will have a block of primetime television a week before the election to weigh in like McCain can't) -- get ready for an ugly stretch.
Not just on the trail, either -- here come the internal campaign splits that are the real signs of a campaign that's losing focus amid the prospect of losing:
"Sen. John McCain has allowed a series of increasingly harsh broadsides in new campaign ads and in speeches by his wife, Cindy, and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin. But the Arizona Republican has rejected pleas from some advisers to launch attacks focusing on Sen. Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright," Monica Langley and Elizabeth Holmes report in The Wall Street Journal.
Is someone setting him or (her) self up to say told-you-so? "Sen. McCain vetoed proposals to attack the Illinois senator for his 20 years as a member of the church led by Rev. Wright, whose harsh comments about racism in America and other issues created problems for Sen. Obama during the Democratic primary contest," Langley and Holmes continue.
Continue reading today's Note by clicking HERE.
ABC News' Hope Ditto contributed to this report.
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Barack Obamalamadingdong supports the rape of white women and their forcible impregnation by black muslims. If you want your precious white daughter to be the concubine of a black muslim rapist and your grandchildren to be America-hating halfbreeds, vote for Obama. If you want to save the White race and preserve Democracy, Christianity, Capitalism and decent, small town American values, vote for John McCain - the only REAL AMERICAN in this race!
Posted by: geevil | Oct 10, 2008 8:57:32 AM
geevil im black. Btw I impregnated your daughter.
Posted by: JoeShmoe | Oct 10, 2008 8:59:46 AM
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VIDEO: Farrakhan on Obama: 'The Messiah is absolutely speaking'...
Posted by: Howard Gallas | Oct 10, 2008 9:00:19 AM
It is sad to see Senator McCain, a man that has prided himself on leading a life of honor and duty so easily throw his dignity out the door.
"I see matters of judgment and truthfulness and ambition,” Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, said on the stump Thursday.
She must have been looking in the mirror.
Posted by: Paige | Oct 10, 2008 9:01:17 AM
Everyone should read geevil's posting above
Geevil,
I know we are supposed to refrain ...
but as you try to defend a ticket whose VP was a hypocriticical supporter and spouse of a domestic terrorist's political party
with racial and disgusting lies about rape...
you are offensive and ge ..."evil"
now I get your name.
you clearly show what a portion of Mccain supporters are all about I guess huh?
Posted by: dl | Oct 10, 2008 9:01:46 AM
Only John McCain is fighting for small town American values. Obama sneers at small towns and mocks them in front of a bunch of San Francisco gay wiccan communist liberals as "clinging to their guns and their religion." Well here's some news for you, Mr. Obamalamadingdong - America is built on her small towns! Small towns are the repositories of all of our cherished values and ideals. Nothing good has ever come from our cities - they are cesspits of corruption and despair, filled with immigrants, jews, blacks and other undesirable mongrel races. If Russia nuked all of America's cities tomorrow they would be doing us a favor. In fact, I pray every day that our cities are wiped out by terrorists! This is a nation of small towns and small town values and only John McCain has the courage to stand up for us!
Posted by: geevil | Oct 10, 2008 9:02:09 AM
While I feel the Ayers connection to Obama is relevant, it is time for a report and post on the ACORN/Obama connection, including how Obama and Ayers funneled money to this group from the Annenberg Challenge.
Obama's ties to this group are deep and long standing, and now he is a candidate for President, and this group is waist high in voter registration fraud cases in several battleground states.
Hmmmmm.
Posted by: Lee | Oct 10, 2008 9:02:35 AM
sorry
Palin went to the convention first in 1994
when they were writing the constitution to secede from the US...
the same convention where Todd Palin ...after attending decided he would join...
and stay an active member for the next decade almost...
as Palin herself gave keynotes and speeches because as RFK Jr. reports today...
she was so "inspired" by this party founded by a guy killed in 2003 trying to buy plastic explosives to kill people in domestic terror attempts...
domestic terror attempts for the beliefs of said party!
Posted by: dl | Oct 10, 2008 9:05:26 AM
Busted.
Barack Obama has offered his latest defense of his political partnership with William Ayers. Let’s call it Ayers v3.0. First, readers will recall, Ayers was just some guy in Mr. Obama’s Neighborhood, whose adult children somehow went to the same school as Obama’s daughters. When that didn’t fly, Obama allowed that they had worked on “a board” together, but never really interacted. Now with the records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge showing that Obama worked CLOSELY with the unrepentant domestic terrorist for at least a DECADE on two boards, Obama has a new explanation — he though Ayers was “rehabilitated.”
The Weather Underground committed many reprehensible acts, including the bombing of the Pentagon, attempting to kill a judge and his entire family, and plotting to kill police officers and their wives in New York. That last attempt failed when the nail bomb the terrorists were assembling blew up in their faces in a measure of poetic justice. And William Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn were part of it all.
Obama says he presumed that Ayers had been “rehabilitated” because he was out in the open in Chicago. However, Ayers wrote a book about his exploits in the Weather Underground and notoriously danced on the American flag to show his contempt in a Chicago Magazine profile to promote his memoirs. He told the New York Times in an interview that ran ON 9/11 that he “didn’t regret” his terrorist bombings, and that he wished he’d done MORE.
Obama wasn’t eight years old in 2001, was he?
That dog won’t hunt. Obama wants us to trust his judgment, and now he’s trying to tell us that he had no idea that Ayers was still a radical intent on overthrowing the capitalist system and producing radical political change. What exactly did Obama think Ayers was doing with his school projects to produce political activists out of children unfortunate enough to get sucked into them — projects that Obama sent money as part of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge? Did he just give away millions of dollars to his political partner without once looking into what he was doing?
That sounds like judgment you can trust, doesn’t it? Boiled down, it says, “Trust me — I’m naive and incurious.”
Posted by: Obama's Ever-changing Lies about Bill Ayers | Oct 10, 2008 9:06:06 AM
sorry he was killed in 1993
Posted by: dl | Oct 10, 2008 9:06:10 AM
Even the New York Times is turning over rocks and finding Fraudulent campaign contributions for Obama:
“An analysis of campaign finance records by The New York Times this week found nearly 3,000 donations to Mr. Obama, the Democratic nominee, from more than a dozen people with apparently fictitious donor information. The contributions represent a tiny fraction of the record $450 million Mr. Obama has raised. But the questionable donations — some donors were listed simply with gibberish for their names — RAISE CONCERNS about whether the Obama campaign is adequately vetting its unprecedented flood of donors.
It is unclear why someone making a political donation would want to enter a false name. Some perhaps did it for privacy reasons. Another, more ominous possibility, of course, is FRAUD, perhaps in order to donate beyond the maximum limits.”
Posted by: Follow Obama's Money | Oct 10, 2008 9:09:27 AM
Lee - let's walk through these alleged illegal voter registration cases shall we?
Ever since 2000, the GOP has been screeching about Dems' so-called "voter fraud" - the Bush DOJ made it one of their top priorities. But guess what? Every time an investigation was mounted or a case was made, it turned out that there was never any wrongdoing. Not a single instance of GOP-alleged voter fraud was EVER proven.
Now, in a campaign-season rehash of these same silly GOP tactics, a Republican organization makes a complaint against ACORN, which has ties to Obama. An indictment is secured (remember, a wise man once said that you can indict a ham sandwich, the hard part is proving your case) during the election so that Republicans can make hay. But I guarantee you that once the election is over, no wrongdoing will be found once again.
Can you say "politically-motivated indictment"? Smart people aren't buying this crap.
Posted by: lothar of the hill people | Oct 10, 2008 9:09:38 AM
Will it connect? Heaven forbid. We'd find ourselves back in McCarthy's America, to our great disgrace.
John McCain has sold his soul to win the election. I think he made a tragic error in doing so.
Look at those recent videos of the angry racist mob at McCain's Palin's rallies. Is this what we want America to be?
Watch the tape of the guy screaming, "He's a terrorist!" McCain seems to shudder at that, he rolls his eyes... He doesn't admonish that supporter.
And now he's selling the Ayres non-story full-time. Apparently it's all he has. True enough: he no longer has his honor. But we are on the edge of some real serious craziness here and it would be nice if McCain did the right thing and told his more bloodthirsty supporters to go home and take a cold shower.
But McCain hasn't done the right thing all year. His campaign is appalling, as the New York Times editorial board said this week - and more, it is a national disgrace.
Posted by: weinberg | Oct 10, 2008 9:11:29 AM
McSame's campaign is pathetic, his team desperate, and his strategy of sliming Obama with lies un-American.
It's the vile underbelly of the Republican Party, exposed for all to see, as - devoid of any positive message or sense of decency - McSame and his nasty pack of fear-mongers and media fops wallows in their fetid pool of ignorance and hate.
Posted by: balthus | Oct 10, 2008 9:12:29 AM
When are you going to wake up, Nobama has ties with very shady people. IE
Rev Wright B Ayres,Rashid Khalidi, B Dohrm,ACORN,it goes on & on
Is this the man you want it the highest office in the land?
Acorn has registered cats dogs football
teams
Wake up
Posted by: Maureen Tubello | Oct 10, 2008 9:12:32 AM
Vogler founds AIP in the 70's
to fight for secession...
in 1993 he is killed trying to buy plastic explosives for domestic terrorism for said party's beliefs
in the wake of his being murdered...
1994 - AIP draws up the constitution to secede from the US
Todd and Sarah Palin attend.
1995 - Todd Palin officially joins AIP to become a 7-9 year active member...
2000 - Palin attends again.
2006 - Palin is still so "inspired" and supportive of this secessionist group, she gives the keynote speech.
2008 - Palin video tapes her support for this party.
this party was founded on the beliefs of secession and the same values that Vogler was willing to kill people over.
unrepentantly.
values and beliefs that in the year they were mourning his death adn drawing up a constitution Todd Palin was inspired to join... and Sarah Palin obviously found their values compelling enough to support and attend their conventions.
ugh
Posted by: dl | Oct 10, 2008 9:15:09 AM
Yes, it is absolutely amazing to me how Obama supporters can be so critical of Sarah Palin, poke fun at her intelligence and that of her family, but yet they are not smart enough to connect the dots between all of these shady connections Obama has.
Posted by: Lee | Oct 10, 2008 9:16:24 AM
McCain is sealing the deal of the GOP legacy. The Legacy of war, death, and now hatred and socialism. How tragic. The old man should be branded and put out to pasture ..........
http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/10/09/the-gop-legacy-wars-death-hatred-socialism/
Posted by: Ohg Rea Tone | Oct 10, 2008 9:16:47 AM
G Gordon Liddy: 4 years in prison for 1972 Watergate burglary. he proposed kidnapping anti-war protesters at the 1972 Republican Convention. He proposed killing an unfreindly journalist.1994 advocated "kill the S O B'S if the ATF comes to disarm you...this after WACO. 1998....held a frundraiser for McCain. Sounds like a terrorist to me.
Posted by: linda n carolina | Oct 10, 2008 9:16:52 AM
Court Finds Brunner in Violation of Federal Law
Secretary of State appeals ruling, fights effort to validate registrations
(Columbus) - A federal court ruled tonight that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner violated federal election laws by not taking adequate steps to validate the identity of newly registered voters.
The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith called the identification breakdown “a serious problem” and ordered Brunner to immediately comply with federal requirements to match voter registration data with the information in the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Social Security Administration databases. The court accused Brunner of failing to provide county election administrators with “an effective way to access and review mismatches.” She immediately appealed the ruling.
“For some reason, Jennifer Brunner does not want these new registrations checked,” said Ohio Republican Party Deputy Chairman Kevin DeWine. “Her refusal to comply with federal law raises serious concerns about her ability to objectively oversee this election. It’s especially troubling in light of her connection to ACORN and that group’s stunning confession this week of fraudulent registration activity happening right here in Ohio.”
Brunner’s effort to fight the court order comes just two days after the Democrat activist group ACORN admitted to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections that the group engages in fraudulent voter registration activity.
Ohio ACORN officials “blamed the elections board for not scrutinizing ACORN’s suspicious cards,” claiming the group “can’t be expected to catch everything.”
ACORN IS FACING SIMILAR INQUIRES IN OTHER OHIO COUNTIES AS WELL AS 10 OTHER STATES. Members of the group’s “voter-mobilization arm,” Project Vote, regularly advise Brunner on election strategy, even recently issuing a news release that claims credit for Brunner’s directive restricting challenges to suspected fraudulent voter registrations. Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama also has strong ties to ACORN, working previously as an attorney and “leadership trainer” for the group.
Posted by: Obama's Web of Voter Fraud | Oct 10, 2008 9:17:21 AM
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