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| 2008-10-04 | |||||
| Palin says Obama 'palling around' with terrorists ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists" because of an old association with a former '60s radical, stepping up an effort to portray Obama as unacceptable to American voters. Palin's reference was to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, during the Vietnam War era. Obama, who was a child when the group was active, served on a charity board with Ayers several years ago and has denounced his radical views and activities. Ah -- the first statement in this "reporting" that sticks up for The One.
Palin told a group of donors at a private airport, "Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country." She also said, "This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America." Go, Sarah, Go The Obama campaign called Palin's remarks offensive but not surprising in light of news stories detailing the campaign's come-from-behind offensive. "What's clear is that John McCain and Sarah Palin would rather spend their time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy," Obama campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan said in a statement.
The second "stand up for The One" Palin, Alaska's governor, said that donors on a greeting line had encouraged her and McCain to get tougher on Obama. She said an aide then advised her, "Sarah, the gloves are off, the heels are on, go get to them." The escalated effort to attack Obama's character dovetails with TV ads by outside groups questioning Obama's ties to Ayers, convicted former Obama fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko and Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Ayers is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He and Obama live in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood and served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based charity that develops community groups to help the poor. Obama left the board in December 2002. Obama was the first chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school-reform group of which Ayers was a founder. Ayers also held a meet-the-candidate event at his home for Obama when Obama first ran for office in the mid-1990s. In an interview with CBS News earlier in the week, Palin didn't name any newspapers or magazines that shaped her view of the world. On Saturday, she cited a New York Times story that detailed Obama's relationship with Ayers. Watch out World!! Sarah is now reading the Times! Summing up its findings, the Times wrote: "A review of records of the schools project and interviews with a dozen people who know both men, suggest that Mr. Obama, 47, has played down his contacts with Mr. Ayers, 63. But the two men do not appear to have been close.
That's the Times summation -- other folks have some different summing up of their findings. Hummm - since Sarah states The One is palling around with terrorists, I'm only guessing here, but I think she might be disagreeing with the Times. Is that safe?
Probably by request of the Blue Star Moms Palin, whose 19-year-old son, Track, deployed last month as a private with an Army combat team, was overheard at one point commiserating with one of the mothers: "Any time I ask my son how he's doing, he says, 'Mom, I'm in the Army now.'" Taking one question Do they ever report when The One will take no questions?
"As I said the other day, I would sure love to get to run to Michigan and make sure that Michigan knows that we haven't given up there," she said. "We care much about Michigan and every other state. I wish there were more hours in the day so that we could travel all over this great country and start speaking to more Americans. So, not worried about it but just desiring more time and, you know, to put more effort into each one of these states." | |||||
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #3 Obama is a native of Hawaii, a Christian and has no connections to Muslim extremists. When I was young forms used to say Christian name and surname. So If Uhbama is a Cristian where is his Christian name? When people convert to Islam they take a Muslim name, Why didn't Uhbama take a Christian name when he converted in Wright's church? |
| Posted by: tipper 2008-10-04 22:00 |
| #2 It's the Seattle PI reporting, for heaven's sake - Baghdad Jim McDermott's hometown rag! |
| Posted by: Don Vito Omeling5062 2008-10-04 19:21 |
| #1 this is a pre-emptive effort by the NYT to protect the O, as well as the opening gun of the Palin Pitbull campaign. We will see a lot more of Wm Ayers and his terrorist wife in the coming days. Expect to see recitation of historical facts referred to as Swift-Boating, just like last time. It's Donk playbook 101, used even more when skewed polls don't support them. Keep the faith |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-10-04 18:44 |