Independent ad links Obama to radical
With Republicans already bashing Barack Obama today over this ties to former fund-raiser Tony Rezko, an independent group with ties to John McCain is launching ads linking Obama to 1960s radical William Ayers.
The Associated Press reports that the American Issues Project is spending $2.8 million to air an ad, expected to begin airing today in Michigan and Friday in Ohio, that focuses on Ayers, whose Weatherman organization took credit for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and US Capitol 40 years ago.
One of the group's board members, Ed Failor Jr., was a paid consultant for McCain's campaign in Iowa last year. The campaign paid his firm $50,000 until July 2007. American Issues Project spokesman Christian Pinkston said Failor has no connection to the McCain campaign now.
Ayers, now a university professor, lives in the same neighborhood in Chicago as Obama and served with him on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a charity group.
"Barack Obama is friends with Ayers, defending him as, quote, 'Respectable' and 'Mainstream,' " the ad states, according to the AP report. "Obama's political career was launched in Ayers' home. And the two served together on a left-wing board. Why would Barack Obama be friends with someone who bombed the Capitol and is proud of it? Do you know enough to elect Barack Obama?"
Obama has distanced himself from Ayers. Today, campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor blasted McCain over the ad, calling it another sign of desperation.
"The fact that John McCain dispatched his paid consultant to launch this despicable ad from a so-called ‘independent’ committee shows how desperate he is to change the subject from his shocking disconnect with the economic struggles of the American people. He knows that Barack Obama has denounced the detestable crimes that Bill Ayers committed forty years ago. Instead of invoking Paris, Britney and obscure sixties radicals, Senator McCain should take the day off at one of his seven homes to consider whether his support for outsourcing, tax breaks for companies who ship jobs overseas and continued spending of ten billion a month in Iraq is really putting ‘country first.’ To us, it sounds like just more of the same,” Vietor said in a statement.
Folks:
How desperate is the Straight-Talk-Express campaign? John McCain, the original maverick has become the original copy-cat of the Karl Rove's dirty political tricks campaign.
John McCain wants us to believe that Obama who is now 47 years old must be blamed for Ayers' terrorist campaign when Obama was just six or seven years old!
I hope the McCain campaign heard Obama when he was asked a question at a campaign stop on how he would respond to such Karl Rovean tactics.
"He said if they play dirty and rough, we would go the Chicago Way. If they bring a knife to the table, we would bring a gun to the table.' Reference the gang wars in Chicago during the days of Al Capone.
McCain-McSame-McBush, get ready for a real political war with SuperMan OBAMA. we CITIZEN JOURNALISTS would join the election fight!
Obama is a radical leftist? Say it aint so. Duh? I'll bet if the propogandists dig up an unsavory relationship with someone's second cousin twice removed from McCain, the left (CNN, NBC,CBS, ABC, etc) will drill it every night. The great unwashed sees through the hoax that is Barrack Obama.
Bitter, clinger from Ohio
Taxpayer, veteran, father, citizen, christian, patriot, voter, father, cop, college grad, pro-life, American.
I guess I am just too unenlightened to see his (the almighty's) greatness.
Bill Ayres is still giving speeches in Venezuela praising dictator Chavez's education "reforms." Those are the sort of reforms Obama and Ayres had in mind for Chicago but even that failed. Let's see the documents about the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and make up our own minds about what happened and who was close to who. The Daley machine is stonewalling on permitting access to those documents. Let the documents go!
Looks like Obama's chickens are coming home to roost
This ad is ridiculous and is an insult to a person's intelligence as it indulges in the right-wing and fascist notion of 'guilt by association'. But, Obama is absolutely faultless in this matter. Barack Obama was 6 or 7 years old when these events took place in our nations history and he has stated he deplores these despicable acts which occurred 40 years ago. This ad is just more right-wing propaganda based on insinuation, the sole purpose of which is to distract the voters from the REAL issues of the today! We won't be fooled again!
Desperate, old, McRove is at it again....spreading exaggerations and smears. If he can sleep at night, I guess his conscience has been put to rest. We Americans deserve and must DEMAND legitimate debate on the War, Health Care, the Economy, Education and the sorry state of America after 8 years of Bush. WE want facts, comparisons, and the real records of both candidates. Anything else is just smoke and mirrors. Please supply us with the facts and stop debasing the intellect of this nation. True, negative campaigns work to distort and throw elections in the gutter where the predators of American politics slither. We must not allow innuendos and falsehoods to take the place of facts. There is plenty of dirt to sling on all sides but let it be seen as the diversion and desperation it truly is.
I don't believe that Obama is a radical, but he certainly is a leftist. Too far left for mainstream America, and that fact is finally becoming clear. Obama did get his start in Chicago from people like Ayers. This seems strange because I was under the impression that Obama was careful with choosing friends. But if you're friends with Tony Rezko, I guess that Bill Ayers is a fine buddy as well. Too bad for the democratic party that Hillary isn't the candidate!
This ad is ridiculous and is an insult to a person's intelligence as it invokes the right-wing and facsist concept of ' guilt by association '. Obama is faultless in this matter. Barack Obama was 6 or 7 years old when these events took place in our nation's history and he has stated he deplores these despicable acts which occurred 40 years ago. This ad is more right-wing propaganda based on insinuation, the sole purpose of which is to distract the voters from the REAL issues of today! But, we won't be fooled again!
Barach Hussein Obama''s latest question addressed to John Mc Cain concerning how many houses he owns was similiar to how many grains of sand are there in the in a dessert?John should respond "Iwill let you know if you tell us how many babies servived their mothers aborted abortion and for how long and what pain and misery did they endure because of Barach Hussein''s self centered and miserable attitude toward partial birth abortions.
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As long as McCain keeps up his Team Rove attacks on Obama he needs to be hammered back with the same intensity. You cannot reason with junkyard dogs and the American electorate is unfortunately readily influenced by Willie Horton and Swift Boat tactics. McCain knows this. That is why he chose the Rove team to handle his campaign. That also tells you all you need to know about McCain''s straight-talk.
If McCain had any competency as a manager why would he cede control of his campaign to the graduates of the Karl Rove School of The Big Lie and Smear ? He is clearly incapable of coordinating his own effort without the help of the Bush/Cheney attack dogs. This reveals a great deal about his weakness as a leader and his desperation in the face of his own completely bungled attempt to win the hearts and minds of the electorate.
Dare I write it? The Big "O" is a Marxist.
The ad raises legitimate questions about Illinois' junior senator. Junior should insist that the Annenberg papers are released immediately, without precondition. Hey - we may actually see he accomplished something. That would be a first, given Obama's lack of any noteworthy accomplishments.
Kick his buttocks, Hillary!! We know you're the better candidate.
Hey the forgot to cover obama's friendship to
Obama, for example, for the first time has acknowledged that the mysterious "Frank" in his 1995 autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," is in fact Communist Party USA member Frank Marshall Davis, who during the height of the Cold War was investigated by both the FBI and Congress as a pawn of Moscow.
the late Davis was Obama's early mentor with whom he shared whiskey and rage while growing up in Hawaii. The militant black poet influenced the young Obama's decision to become a pro-labor community organizer and agitator in his hometown of Chicago
Oh they forgot to mention
his links to his self proclaimed mentor
Pastor Wright
or the other pastor who Obama got a 100K pork barrell for....
Are you people on crack?
Ayers was Obama's mentor! They served on the Annenberg Challenge board together and the University of Illinois won't release the papers from that era to protect Obama.
The woman who "annointed" Obama to replace her in the Illinois Lege was a communist.
Google Frank Davis and read up on his communist party ties. He was Obama's "Frank" from his autobiography. Why did he leave off Frank's last name except to hide his communist roots?
He was married in a Black Liberation Theology Church. Sat in the pews for 20 years and exposed his daughters to the most hateful, racist vitriol you'll ever hear outside of a KKK meeting.
The bottom line is the media covered for this idiot when people weren't paying attention and now that people are watching, this normal level of vetting is finally taking place.
Let's face it, Hillary was screwed. McCain is going to win.
It's Obama's team that's desperate.
The ad is totally true as shown. Whine and cry all you want Obama, you brought it on yourself.
And you ain't seen nothing yet, there's plenty more from where this came from, LOL.
We all tried to tell the swooney Obamites what was going to happen, and we still are, but they just ain't learning.
WOW, November is going to go down as the month of most suicides in American history. The Democrat Lemmings are all going over the cliff with Obama.
Even Fox won't air this ad, because they know it is a lie. Ayers lives in Chicago. So does Obama. Ayers runs in political circles. So does Obama. Ayers served on the board of a Charity. So did Obama. End of story. If McCain wants to run with this, he should get ready to tell the American public about Keating. or Reed. Or any number of his lobbyist friends.
Old man McCain will do anything rather than lose an election.
I hope noone looks at the friends in McCain's closet, lots of chickens in there.
The man is 72 years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This alone proves he is not the one but this ad leaves no doubt!!
Obama Islama-phobia is Just Racism
Give us a break? Republicans continue to offer up the most insane connection of dots to imply Obama is an anti-American crook. They ask their idiot followers to believe Obama is anti-Christian, some suggest he is the anti-Christ. Yet once again, this fear mongering is nothing more than racism draped in a flag & called patriotism.
Republicans accuse Obama's heritage and friendship with a Rezko (a Syrian) as proof he will sell America off to Muslims. If I remember correctly, it wasn't Obama selling the ports to Dubai.
This right wing movement goes on and on about every Arab that Obama has ever known, digging for morsels of conspiracy in his backyard and even at a public school in Indonesia he attended when he was six years old!
It's like because his middle name is Hussein, these Republicans take it to mean that Obama is hiding Saddam in his basement or something.
If two people work together in an office and both have Irish grandpa's and meet up at the water cooler... does it mean that one is responsible for everything the other one does? Of course not, but note I said, "IRISH grandpa's". Whew, don't let two blacks ride through 90210 in a nice car. And you know if two Arabs say hi, something is about to get blowed up. Right? Wrong!
White people don't have to apologize everytime a nutcase like Jeffrey Dahmer eats somebody. Why do blacks have to carry the weight of responsibility for every rapper on the radio? Every time two Arab people meet on an elevator suddenly Osama Bin Laden has been spotted?
If you see Bin Laden, point him out, cuz the Republicans can't find him on their own, even if he was hiding in their underwear. Remember, these are the same folks who told us that WMD would be found in Iraq, and they couldn't find that either. I know Indonesia is far away... and maybe most Republicans can't point to it on a map... but what do these people running the ad think....that those WMD are in a box of crayons Obama was using in kindegarten???
The Right Wingers have done an excellent job of categorizing all the races based on their stereotype.
Just as Hitler started out by portraying all Jews as greedy bankers, these evil KarlRovian strategists painted every black woman as a welfare queen throughout the Reagan administration, they painted black men as murderers roaming the Massachusetts countryside too, and now they blast every Arab-American whether Christian or Muslim as a co-conspirator in 9-11.
So what Obama wasn't born with the name Blake Worthington, Charles Appletree, or Dudley Doo-right, true enough he's got a funny name ------I like him anyway!
How about if we judge people based on their merit and their actions rather than ethnic background?
See, the right wingers always say they oppose affirmative action and support merit... but just not the merit of a man who was first in his class at Harvard Law?
That's right Karl Rove has trained a group of idiots to pay more attention to the school Obama attended when he was six than his election to the Harvard Law Review?
The KarlRovians can paint the word FEAR any color they like, and some dummies will accept it, but YOU don't have to!
Who said we need to do the following?
1. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. Redistribute the wealth to all.
2. Abolition of the right of inheritance through excessive inheritance taxes.
3. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.
4. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state or through excessive state regulation.
5. The right of workers to form labor unions through non-private, non-secret voting and the card check system.
Was it Barack Obama?
Was it Karl Marx and Frederick Engels (The Communist Manifesto, pg 30)?
Was it Both????
To Poor Ignorant Joe Mett (Post #1):
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Then-State Senator Alice Palmer announced to those gathered at the Ayers/Dohrn residence that she was stepping down to make a run for Congress and introduced Obama as her chosen successor.
Ten years before the aforementioned meeting, Alice Palmer was an official of a notorious Communist front group (so identified by the FBI), the U.S. Peace Council, an affiliate of the World Peace Council, an international Soviet front.
In the mid-1990s, Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn hosted meetings at their Chicago home to introduce Barack Obama to their neighbors during his first run for the Illinois Senate.
In 1999 Ayers joined the Woods Fund of Chicago, where he served as a director alongside Barack Obama until the latter left the Woods board in December 2002.
Who is William Ayers?
- Leader of the 1960s and 70s domestic terrorist group Weatherman
- "Kill all the rich people. ... Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents."
- Participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972
- Currently a professor of education at the University of Illinois. Born in 1944, Bill
Ayers, along with his wife Bernardine Dohrn, was a 1960s leader of the homegrown terrorist group Weatherman, a Communist-driven splinter faction of Students for a Democratic Society. Characterizing Weatherman as "an American Red Army," Ayers summed up the organization's ideology as follows: "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents." All told, Ayers and Weatherman were responsible for 30 bombings aimed at destroying the defense and security infrastructures of the U.S. "I don't regret setting bombs, said Ayers in 2001, "I feel we didn't do enough."
Do your research Joe Mett. You might actually learn something.
Yeah, it's time to take off your mittens ObamaBaby. And hang the string that holds them around your little pencil neck so you don't lose 'em. You wanted to play with the big boys, well the REAL playing won't start until after the Convention and you are the real nominee. We don't want to make the Supers go to Hillary, we like you because you are a lightweight.
Bring it on, you ain't gonna hurt McCain any. He's already been through hell, that kindergarten trash you got means nothing. Guarantee it.
What a shame !!! That Obama would at the end , totally dump his chances for being President of the United States of America, by taking Joe Biden as his VP pick, OR some jackass from Texas named Edwards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Got news for you Voters , in November, Hillary Rodham Clinton will be (FACT) on the November Ballots(OBAMAS"CHOICE!!!). What is so great About this country, we ALL DO HAVE A CHOICE!!! And if you are intelligent enough to see who should be President of the United States of America, without a fact , is Hillary Rodam Clinton!! My vote in November, is Hillary Clinton, what is so sick on obama's part , he new without a doubt , that he and Ms. Clinton , would had been a Presidental Election won hands down by a Landslide VICTORY!!! But he is looking towards a known Washington Dirtbag named Biden, and another unknown for none other than voting for cattle crossings in Texas(LOL) . Obama thinks 18 million women voters whom already said they won't vote for him , if he didn't take Hillary, thinks that 18 million votes won't sway an election , is a TOTAL MORON!!!! Well he will not win now, that is for sure. Another Bush loving SOB in the White House, named McCain. God Bless America, she sure is going to need it !!!!!!!!!! Maybe someone in this country, And I am Veteran of this great Nation, how does a POW, deserves to be President !!! McCain is a nightmare!!! No economy Experiance, no World policy experiance , and in Fact , a third class officer at the Naval academy, and always in trouble in the Navy, because of his bad attitude, while there!!! This isn't a lie, it is Fact , open to all whom wants to read, right here on the net!! America do your homework!!! Obama ran and worked with felons , read , America do your homework!!!Hey America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wake the Hell up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hell he doesn't even how many homes he owns , he is always putting his foot in to his mouth , and flip flopping on all issues , never (JUST LIKE BUSWACKER FROM TEXAS) does he say one thing logically, never answer a question openly, never honestly, but talks a ramps for hours , and never says a damn thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mother Liberty deserves better for all Americans, America, home of the Brave , and the free, never let a war monger run this country, we've all learned a great lesson , with the Liar in Washington, a relgious hypicrit, a known Vietnam Coward, the same coward that has without a second thought of sacrificeing our finest men and women, for a unjust , nonsense war, and then but one of his own back into the office that WE ALL (BUSHWACKER)the hell out of Washington, and then put another dirty SOB back into the same seat!!!! America dserves better!!!!! Please America wake up!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anice Ladi, You wrote ,"So what Obama wasn't born with the name Blake Worthington, Charles Appletree, or Dudley Doo-right, true enough he's got a funny name ------I like him anyway!
How about if we judge people based on their merit and their actions rather than ethnic background?"
I do believe Ayres is white so race has nothing to do with this association. It has everything to do with his judgment . He is not "The One" I have been waiting for. I dare say that he is not "The One" many Americans are voting for.
Obama? A crook? Say it ain't so!
I don't care who or why an ad is run I only care if its true.If this ad is true then obama should not be president. PERIOD!
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