McCain Links Obama To Ayers
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, History, McCain, Republicans, TerrorismWell, I guess this will be the theme this Fall. First, McCain’s team ties Hamas to Obama because they said they wouldn’t mind dealing with him (in a fundraising email no less) and now the candidate himself is saying that Ayers remains an “open question” and he wonders if Obama would condemn Ayers actions.
The presumptive Republican nominee raised the issue himself during an interview on ABC’s This Week, in response to a question from host George Stephanopoulos about whether he believes Obama is as patriotic as he is.“I’m sure he’s very patriotic. But his relationship with Mr. Ayers is open to question,” said McCain.
“He became friends with him and spent time with him while the guy was unrepentant over his activities as a member of a terrorist organization, the Weathermen,” said the Arizona senator.
“Does he condemn them? Would he condemn someone who that says they’re unrepentant and wished that they had bombed more?”
Now folks, I don’t know about you, but does anybody really buy that McCain actually wonders if Obama condemns the Weathermen’s acts? Come on…
And do note that part in the story where McCain raised this issue himself. He wasn’t asked by Stephanopoulos.
But again, if this is what they’re going to be throwing at Obama, if they’re going to try to suggest that he’s somehow cool with terrorism, well, that’s a bit of a head scratcher. As if swing voters will think Obama is okay with terrorism? When he has stated from day one that the reason we shouldn’t have gone into Iraq is because we took our eye off al Qaeda?
More as it develops…
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April 20th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
The difference between the two men is clear, Obama compliments him by saying he would be an improvement over Bush, and McSame plays the fear card.
April 20th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
McCockroach is linked to Charles Keating. And Keating WAS found guilty of something.
Can’t wait for Hillary to be out of the picture. This is gonna be fun. ;)
April 20th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
McCain can’t help himself. The only thing he can do is sling ridiculously false garbage that is nothing but a thinly veiled attempt to deceive people.
His latest campaign fund raising email suggests that Senator Obama is somehow linked to Hamas.
I do not believe Americans are that blind anymore. It is time for the average American to stand up and take the country back.
April 20th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
McCain has accepted the endorsement of the most corrupt president who has business connections to the family of the most wanted terrorist, Bin Laden. Shall we call this guilty by association?
April 20th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Actually, contra the Obamabots, it speaks to Obama’s supposed “better” judgment (or so he claims) and character since his record is rather thin. For those of you so enamored and mesmerized by the Messiah’s sweeping vagueness about hopitude, changiness, ponies, rainbows and blessed sunshine, it’s called a PATTERN. Ayers, Wright, Rezko and who knows who else’s ass Obama has been kissing…and he has the audacity to run, among other things, on better and superior friggin’ judgment than the other candidates. What a freakin’ clown!!
“Different” kinda politics and “hope” and “change”, indeed.
April 20th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Obama sealed his records from his time in the Illinois state senate. Dubya sealed his records from his time as governor of Texas. Seems like the same old Washington tactics. Where’s the “change”? What’s Obama hiding?
April 20th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Phin.
1 Wright is RIGHT! What goes around comes around. If the US does evil abroad, it invites it here. Don’t even try to defend the evils this country has perpetrated. By defending it, invites more and perpetuates the problem and abuses. GOD BLESS MR WRIGHT!
2. Ayers. He did his time. Period. If he can be a productive member of society, that is his right. Obama didn’t know him as a criminal, he knew him as faculty. HUGE Difference!
3. Rezko. Wait for the trial to end before pronouncing guilt. Innocent until PROVEN guilty is a pillar in this country. Albeit probably on its way out with habeas corpus, and others. Has Obama been indicted? Or even summoned? Its all hearsay, which is apparently what most fools posting against Obama have in leiu of evidence.
Posters like phin prove exactly how bad a shape the education system is in the US, with their complete lack of critical thinking and analysis abilities. OOORR they’re just liars.
April 20th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Well, given that McCain’s judgment includes being like the current president when it comes to Middle East policy, the Iraq war, economics and support for the Religious Right I have to say that I do think Obama has better judgment, phin. If you don’t like it try defending McCain’s judgment on these issues instead of insulting everyone who supports Obama for whatever reason.
April 20th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
I’m sorry, but didn’t Obama link himself with Ayers? Maybe the Obama camp can send everyone an email with a list of those connections we are allowed to talk about and those we are not allowed to talk about.
Hell, I won’t even ask for a reason WHY we are not supposed to talk about them.
April 20th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
@Rich:
Why should it matter whether if Obama is friends with Ayers, the man hasn’t been relevant for 40 years, Obama was a child when Ayers was active.
Is it because of the bombs he set? If so, are we to shun anyone who is or was active in the military? You know that Military soldiers kill and wound a lot of people during combat when they drop bombs or fire their guns (in Iraq its like 4-5 hundred thousand civilian deaths easy, in vietnam the number was even higher, these are people who aren’t even fighting yet they die by the truckload thanks to our actions).
April 21st, 2008 at 7:18 am
Ayers goes towards Obama’s moral relativism and propensity towards for political expediency. I believe that Obama’s “true” feelings towards Ayers are probably the same type of moral relativism he has towards his racist pastor of 20 years, to wit: “Given the context of the times, what the Weathermen did was understandable, if not completely justified.” And that type of moral relativism is repugnant to most people. The alternative to this is that his relationships are entirely based on political expediency, in which case, he truly is a hallow man and no one should believe a word out of his oh-so eloquant mouth.
By the way:
I believe this probably reflects Obama’s feels, morally equating U.S. soldiers to terrorists. You nailed it Avinash
April 21st, 2008 at 9:18 am
@Rich:
Why should it matter whether if Obama is friends with Ayers, the man hasn’t been relevant for 40 years, Obama was a child when Ayers was active.
Isn’t this the sort of thing people should be allowed to decide for themselves? Put all the information out there and let the voters decide how important it is. The complaint boils down to meaning that the media shouldn’t say anything about Obama that Obama doesn’t want the rest of us to think about.
That is not the way politics in a democratic society works.
April 21st, 2008 at 9:40 am
Not only we are not supposed to talk about anything that could dispell the “beautiful” image Barack et al has so skillfully projected but his supporters are not the least disheartened by the discoveries of the real man.
On the contrary, with any challenge they get energized and fight back. Albeit, not with reasonable, truthful, convincing arguments, but by impuning the character and the motives of anyone who has the “audacity” to examine the facts that have come to light.
These die-hard supporters don’t even linger on the evidence. ‘EVERYBODY is wrong but Obama’… Yeah right!
April 21st, 2008 at 10:25 am
McCain has said repeatedly that he was afforded no special treatment while in the ” Hanoi Hilton “. Yet when he was first interviewed by the North Vietnamese he is shown at a hospital reserved for Vietnamese military and he was seen by Soviet Surgeons . He was drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes while being interviewed.
According to U.S. government documents, within a week of POW McCain being transferred to the Gai Lam military hospital, the Hanoi press began quoting him …He was shot down October 26, 1967, and by November 9, 1967 he was giving interviews to foreign correspondents, providing information on his prior command, casualties and tactics, in direct violation of the Code of Conduct.. Any willful violation of the Code is considered collaborating with the enemy ..
“People need to know the truth about McCain. He sealed his own records, as well the records of all POW’s, so he could continue lying about his POW experience. He was never tortured, never in a dog-cell like the other prisoners and never deprived of food.
The Communist Vietnamese erected a bust of John McCain beside the lake where he was shot down……
McCain voted against campaign-finance reform in 1987/1988.. and didn’t support the concept until 1990, just after the Keating story broke.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:50 am
Obama will get past this. Its just what he does:
http://obamashoulder.ytmnd.com/
April 21st, 2008 at 1:47 pm
According to U.S. government documents, within a week of POW McCain being transferred to the Gai Lam military hospital, the Hanoi press began quoting him …He was shot down October 26, 1967, and by November 9, 1967 he was giving interviews to foreign correspondents, providing information on his prior command, casualties and tactics, in direct violation of the Code of Conduct.. Any willful violation of the Code is considered collaborating with the enemy ..
“People need to know the truth about McCain. He sealed his own records, as well the records of all POW’s, so he could continue lying about his POW experience. He was never tortured, never in a dog-cell like the other prisoners and never deprived of food.
The Communist Vietnamese erected a bust of John McCain beside the lake where he was shot down……
McCain voted against campaign-finance
So now he’s the “Manchurian Candidate”
Nice.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:46 pm
@ Dos:
I guess it only matters to you if the people killed are americans. Sorry but when you kill unarmed civilians you fall into the murderer column. Its not like someone stuck a gun to their heads and ordered them to fire or die, no they knew what they were doing.
A soldier always has the option to refuse an order