New Obama ad: Why is McCain trying to distract us with that unrepentant terrorist I’m friends with?
posted at 5:33 pm on August 25, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Mark Halperin has the clip, which is ironic since he described Ayers with the same polite euphemism yesterday that The One’s ad team uses here (George Will thankfully was there to correct him). Conventional political wisdom demands a forceful response to a forceful attack, but even so, I can’t quite believe Obama would throw fuel on the Ayers thing by running a reply ad. His argument is so weak that it doesn’t really qualify as an argument: Yes, we’re friendly, but it’s ancient history and I denounced what he did, so what’s the big deal about socializing with, um, an unrepentant terrorist? As for the submoronic point about Ayers’s crimes having been committed when Obama was eight — a staple of the left’s feeble defense of him on this subject — imagine what the reaction would be if Bobby Jindal, say, had struck up a chummy pen pal correspondence with Charles Manson while in his late 20s. Think the left might find that relevant to his character? Think the fact that Jindal wasn’t even born when Manson’s crimes were committed would get him off the hook? Of course not, because as even an eight-year-old can understand, the salient point isn’t how old Obama was when the crimes were committed, it’s how old he was when he formed the moral judgment that led him to associate with Ayers in the first place. The response from McCain HQ:
“The fact that Barack Obama chose to launch his political career at the home of an unrepentant terrorist raises more questions about Senator Obama’s judgment than any TV ad ever could. And the fact that he’s launching his own Convention by defending his long association with a man who says he didn’t bomb enough U.S. targets tells us more about Barack Obama than any of tonight’s speeches will.” –McCain spokesman Brian Rogers
By all means, let’s keep talking about this. Click the image to watch.
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Open mouth, insert foot. Feet. Legs. Ah heck, just swallow the whole darn thing.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on August 25, 2008 at 5:36 PM
The left doesn’t see what Rich Boy Ayers did as anything really wrong.
In fact, they applaud it, they like that Barry is friends with him.
benrand on August 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM
You know, for a Messiah, Obama’s sure dumb. Doesn’t the sentence “I’m friends with him” when said “him” totally unacceptable?
Of course, Obama really agrees with Ayers. Doesn’t he? I mean, what in Obama’s background, for you lefty trolls here, what in his background shows he DOESN’T agree with Ayers, etc.?
Vanceone on August 25, 2008 at 5:38 PM
John McCain is talking about the ’60s because that is very obviously where you draw your spiritual inspiration from my thin-resumed goldbricking friend.
Your “um uh um I was about 8″ response is assinine Barry as it implies that if Osama can remain on the run long enough Chicago and by extension you will welcome him into their education system.
You can’t see racist hate when it is in front of your face for 20 years and your mentor has an explosive pyrotechnic display of dissension issue…..
just Like OBL with less imagination.
sven10077 on August 25, 2008 at 5:38 PM
From the people with the “Recreate 68″ base. lol!
Blake on August 25, 2008 at 5:38 PM
This is so NOT the A Team.
texette on August 25, 2008 at 5:39 PM
Sure, Obama is buddy-buddy with an unrepentant terrorist, but McCain has seven houses and everyone knows that is much more disgraceful.
JA on August 25, 2008 at 5:39 PM
The Obama campaign is turning into a delight these days. Did McGovern lose his grip this quick?
TheNolan on August 25, 2008 at 5:40 PM
“The Real OC” has nothing on this election. I have no more tears of joy to wipe from my eyes.
Chuck Schick on August 25, 2008 at 5:40 PM
Haha! What an idiot! The Ayers part of the ad comes off way too defensive and keeping it in the spotlight can only harm him. The other half of the ad we’ve all heard a million times before.
lodge on August 25, 2008 at 5:40 PM
I wonder if he’ll ever decide this ad spoke “inartfully.”
It's Vintage, Duh on August 25, 2008 at 5:41 PM
“Yeah, my good buddy Ayers blew up the Pentagon and tried to kill a bunch of US troops. But McCain married a rich hot blond! You should therefore vote for me, because, well, I guess I didn’t marry a rich hot blond. ”
/Obama
Vanceone on August 25, 2008 at 5:41 PM
It’s the old “Kerry failed to respond forcefully to the Swift-boaters” mentality at work, here. Funny that they never considered the fact that Kerry would have played right into the Swift-boaters’ hands by doing so.
SWLiP on August 25, 2008 at 5:41 PM
Weak. McCain has been pounding Obama for about a week, and this is the best he can do to defend himself? Obama is done.
BuckNutty on August 25, 2008 at 5:43 PM
Why is Obama feigning that the ’60s never happened? To “change”. By erasing the 60’s, Obama gets his “change” with more deceit. Then again, Obama needs to be 10 years younger in order to use his lifelong excuse, “I was only 8 years old”.
maverick muse on August 25, 2008 at 5:43 PM
How is McCain talking about the sixties. Wasn’t the Ayers ad done by an independent group? And the point of that ad is that as of 2001, Ayers still promotes terrorism, and Obama is still friends with him.
El_Terrible on August 25, 2008 at 5:43 PM
McCain wants to talk about it because Obama is running on his superior judgement. How is befriending a terrorist – unrepentant terrorist – exhibiting superior judgement. And his judgement told him to oppose the Iraq war – when he didn’t even have a vote – but he selects a VP who supported the war? More superior judgement from Obama? I don’t get it.
ctmom on August 25, 2008 at 5:45 PM
“Hey, this ‘Karl Marx’ dude you say I like so much, I wasn’t even born when he was around , so what’s your beef?”
Barack slingblade Obama
bbz123 on August 25, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Because everyone knows that if the ad supports McCain, McCain must have had a hand in it somehow.
/iSarc
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on August 25, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Obama needs to use his lack of national security strength to allow the old media to change the tune or else MM will set the drum beat mid week with a title like O’brother where art thou, or maybe Am I my brother’s keeper? Obama looked kosure kissing Biden’s wife the other day, and I’m shocked they can get away with that after Silky’s “What time will my wife be back from Chemo” trist. McCain may actually win this yet, but there are ways he can LOSE…like picking Romney or Lieberman. Which will un-inspire the base. Here in NC, we hear that our state and SC are in play!
Mark Young on August 25, 2008 at 5:47 PM
McCain: You started your career with and are still friends with an unrepentant terrorist.
Obama: My unrepentant terrorist friend is ancient history. Like you, you uh, er, old guy, you. Old.
Obama should have just gone with “Ayers is not the unrepentant terrorist I thought I knew. I have always said that. This does not help Michelle’s kids. Additionally, it is above my pay grade.”
BKennedy on August 25, 2008 at 5:48 PM
El_Terrible,
Bingo!
Reminds me of Jessica on Soap. May we call you El?
texette on August 25, 2008 at 5:48 PM
So Ayers tried to kill US citizens when Obama was 8 years old. How old was Obama when he went to Ayers house to launch his political career?
Was Obama older than 8 years old at the time?
Do you know how old McCain was when he launched his political career in the home of a domestic terrorist. Ha. Trick question.
wise_man on August 25, 2008 at 5:48 PM
LOL this is the comeback?!? C’mon seriously what are they thinking over at bambi land?
By all means bambi continue to bring more attention on the fact that you either had incredibly bad judgment in choosing your associates or incredibly radical politics.
elduende on August 25, 2008 at 5:50 PM
Ayers never demonstrated any remorse except for the remorse that he didn’t commit more terrorist acts.
Ayers was never punished but escaped on a technicality.
Blake on August 25, 2008 at 5:50 PM
This ranks up there with, “But I didn’t inhale.” No wonder Obama’s people are so afraid of debating McCain.
grdred944 on August 25, 2008 at 5:50 PM
Lest we not forget, with the unrepentant ways and wishes to have done even more bombings upon reflection notwithstanding, William Ayers is still stomping the American flag into the mud to this day.
What’s the Obamessiah’s excuse for still associating with that America hating vile filth again?
FlatFoot on August 25, 2008 at 5:50 PM
I probably won’t see this up here.
I am just glad they took the BHO commercials off. All joking aside, they play them in segments. I saw at one time, 4 BHO commercials in a row. I wanted to do bodily harm to myself after that.
upinak on August 25, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Who’s that doing the voiceover? Ayers?
LibTired on August 25, 2008 at 5:51 PM
OMG….They have run out of gas. LOL
My 7 year old could have come up with something better than that.
So could my dog come to think of it.
Old Hippie Vet on August 25, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Oh no, precious messiah, I don’t think you know who you are dealing with…
pseudonominus on August 25, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Yep. That was dumb. Now we all know who Bill Ayers is again. Bush league disguised as hubris.
Fletch54 on August 25, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Hmmm no citation to when Obama “denounced” Willy. I’m sure we can get citations to when he said he was a good upstanding citizen.
Rbastid on August 25, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Brian Rogers is a hoot. I’ve laughed or at least snickered at nearly everything he’s put out within the last month.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on August 25, 2008 at 5:54 PM
Guilty as sin, free as a bird, isn’t America Great!!
And Obama used a political procedure to kick his democrat rivals off the ballot so he could get elected to the illinois state senate unopposed. And Obama didn’t vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’ 130 times, because he voted ‘present.’
Luckily for the both of them.
wise_man on August 25, 2008 at 5:54 PM
Wow, that was stupid.
CP on August 25, 2008 at 5:54 PM
This ad is a huge mistake for Obama. It reiterates the idea that he was only a casual acquaintance of Ayers and that he really didn’t have contact with him after he was 8 years old. The public knows better than that and with all the info coming out about their work on the Annenberg Challenge it will only make Obama look like a liar. He should have let sleeping dogs lie on this one. I think that Axelrod is proving that he can’t handle the big time. It’s one thing to get a mayor or governor elected, but a President is a whole other ball game.
Deanna on August 25, 2008 at 5:55 PM
pseudonominus on August 25, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Hey, Obambi,
WWII ended about 15 years before you were born, but they’re still tracking down Nazis like Albert Heim. Sometimes, people have long memories.
Kafir on August 25, 2008 at 5:55 PM
I put it this way to some libs:
If someone killed or even attempted to kill your Mom, never was tried, never apologized, and in fact said they wished they’d killed your Dad, too…What would you think of me if I befriended the perpetrator even if I didn’t know him at the time he did such a horrible thing?
tdau1997 on August 25, 2008 at 5:56 PM
With every new snippet from Obama, my outlook improves.
Think_b4_speaking on August 25, 2008 at 5:56 PM
So Obama’s no smarter than commenters who reply to alphie posts?
Tony Soprano on August 25, 2008 at 5:56 PM
It probably COULD have been “ancient history” is Ayers had made pretty and begged forgiveness. Almost enough time has gone by to have pulled that off…if he’d ever done it. But, since he STILL chooses to be a happy, bomb making/throwing/planting professor of higher learning, it’s STILL relevant.
On the other hand, the whole, sorry, Democratic mad Japanese soldier meme IS getting a bit wearying. I mean, Tom Hanks on the island is a more relevant analogy, n’est pas? Wilson, anyone?
tree hugging sister on August 25, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Without the cover of his MSM shills and his color, Osama Obama would have been toast before he ran for the Illinois Senate.
Hard to believe this little goon was accepted by any college. He’s simply an idiot. Gotta believe those drugs back in the day left their mark….
MrScribbler on August 25, 2008 at 5:56 PM
I happen to enjoy some of his posts. Gives me practice for the moonbats I meet offline.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on August 25, 2008 at 5:57 PM
“I denounced him! Really! I took him into a room and said, ‘You know Ayres, you really shouldn’t have blown up your friends. That bomb was meant for federal buildings!” Then we went back to the party at his house and he helped me with my campaign. I mean, it’s not like he blew up one of John McCain’s seven houses or anything! Besides, I was only 8. I was young and impressionable. It’s not like I don’t have other friends! Look a Jeremiah Wright! Err… ummmm… I mean, Tony Rezco… uh… err… ummmm… I mean, my Grandmother…aarrrr…eeeee…. Michelle, she’s my best friend and my wife. Now stop talking about her.”
~Barrack Obama
Damiano on August 25, 2008 at 5:58 PM
“Why is McCain trying to distract us etc…?”
Umm, because he’s a RACIST!?
Mike H on August 25, 2008 at 5:58 PM
Obama keeps saying “McCain is trying to link me to Ayers.”
Earth to Obama – YOU linked YOURSELF to Ayers and did so willingly! Duh!
BostonBeatnik on August 25, 2008 at 5:58 PM
Worst political ad ever?
CK MacLeod on August 25, 2008 at 5:58 PM
Somebody needs to say it…
Part of the problem with Obamai is that he was only 8 when this happened.
Diogenes of Sinope on August 25, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Why will Barack not throw Ayers under the bus?
Uncle Jeremiah surely means more to him than Ayers.
Or does he?
Elizabetty on August 25, 2008 at 5:59 PM
I ask, did Obama even know whom Ayers was when they met in the 90’s? Seriously? I bet he didn’t even know who the man was. They had a “collegial discussion” about Marx and “economic justice” and that was all Obama needed to befriend him. That is how green I think he is. He probably didn’t know who Ayers really was and now he can’t disown him, any more than he can Wright or his grandmother! HA!
JAM on August 25, 2008 at 6:00 PM
There’s WTF and then there’s Obama Level WTF.
Google it!
Tony Soprano on August 25, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Where was the 8 year old Obama when this happened? Was he being taught the difference between right and wrong? What were the reactions and comments of the adults around him at that time?
bbz123 on August 25, 2008 at 6:02 PM
I think the picture of Ayers in the response ad is better (i.e., worse) than the one in the original 527 ad. But the best (worst) pic of Ayers is the one of him stomping the American flag…which gives me an idea:
I think the Ayers/flag pic is owned by the NY Times. Thus, if the McCain camp or a 527 uses it in an ad, we get a 2-fer:
1) A picture dramatizing the America-hating scum that Obama hangs out with,
2) Additional publicity centered around the same image when the NY Times objects to the copyright violation.
BCrago66 on August 25, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Obama was not 8 on Sept 11, 2001 when Ayers said he wished he had blown up more American Buildings and killed more innocent people.
Elizabetty on August 25, 2008 at 6:03 PM
Move along- nothing to see here.
alwaysright43 on August 25, 2008 at 6:03 PM
Crimes committed when you are 8 is one thing.
Launching your political career in his living room is another.
Oh how I wish we had a picture of that dinner meeting.
cannonball on August 25, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Yeah, Team Obama is going to lose this thing.
Nothing like shooting yourself with your own attack ad.
Obama doesn’t think it’s a big deal that he’s friends with this unrepentant terrorist and he thinks the rest of the country doesn’t think it’s a big deal either.
It is a big deal. What if McCain was friends with someone who blew up abortion clinics when McCain was a teenager????
CanadianGuy on August 25, 2008 at 6:05 PM
They’d be on that like white on a blizzard.
… Oh, sorry, is that racist?
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on August 25, 2008 at 6:06 PM
“Tax breaks for corporations shipping our jobs overseas” WTF!
We have the 2nd highest Corporate Tax Rate in the WORLD!
Obama wants to RAISE IT EVEN HIGHER! And not just that he was to raise Capital gains taxes as well!
Why would ANYONE want to stay here? Why would ANY other Country want to invest and build a factory here?
Obama’s plan would would ship JOBS overseas FAST!
Chakra Hammer on August 25, 2008 at 6:06 PM
That Obama has to put out an ad means this tactic by McCain is working.
lorien1973 on August 25, 2008 at 6:06 PM
Obama was also NOT 8 when Ayers had his picture taken stomping on the American FLAG.
Elizabetty on August 25, 2008 at 6:06 PM
Yeah that is the disservice the M$M has done ot the Democrats in general this time and Messiah the Lightworker in particular. Ordinarily since 2000 they have at least waited until after the nominations to go into full court press cheerleader mode, but Chrissy’s leg got to tingling and they saw the opportunity to “be a part of making history” and they put a rocket under the arse of a man who is not as bright as he is well-scrubbed and articulate…apologies to Joe Biden. Obama never went through a serious hard cross-x vetting by the party powerbrokers and he looks a lot like a deer in the headlights on a lot of issues that are gonna resonate with the American electorate based on his life choices. The American undecided could probably forgive his drug use, his racist epithets against his own grandmother and middle america, his obtuse insistence on complimenting Russia and China, his refusal to acknowledge until even the NYT browbeat him into it the success of the surge, maybe even his apprenticeship to William Ayers, but asking them to forgive ALL those things is a bit much.
The beauty is Barry runs McCain’s best ads on the democrat dime of late.
sven10077 on August 25, 2008 at 6:06 PM
Why does Obama keep trying to Link McCain to Bush?
McCain ran against Bush while Obama was still running about in the streets of Chicago hanging out with Rezko and Ayres!
Chakra Hammer on August 25, 2008 at 6:08 PM
So BO denounced Ayres’ acts – he’s thrown just about everyone he ever associated under the bus.
“Sure I hung with those guys, but now I want to be President. It’s racist of you to bring them up once I’ve put them down.”
MochaLite on August 25, 2008 at 6:09 PM
THat would make a hell of a non-affiliated viral ad…..
photo-shop Barry’s head on a New Jack City thug with Ayers and Rezko on Vanilla Ice and Kid Rock….
comedy gold….
sven10077 on August 25, 2008 at 6:10 PM
With esteemed members like Byrd, Kennedy and Jefferson in the democrat congress why would anyone be surprised at a democrat rubbing elbows with terrorist? Wouldn’t having a America hating terrorist as your friend actually be a positive for a democrat? It like so very tolerant and excepting and let’s face it, it’s not like the guy bombed abortion clinics so how bad can he really be?
jmarcure on August 25, 2008 at 6:10 PM
I am almost the same age as Barry O and I remember A LOT of what went down in those days. And living in NYC in fear of the Weathermen.
But that ain’t the issue Barry Obfuscator-bama. The issue is the UNREPENTANT TERRORIST who funded your campaign and coming-out party, as well as hired you to run his Marxist “re-education” program, the files of which are now being shredded.
Yeah, that guy. There’s your ad, McCain. Produce it and run it, early and often to coin a phrase.
J.J. Sefton on August 25, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Mentally?
Yes.
wise_man on August 25, 2008 at 6:11 PM
yeah, doesn’t matter to the liberals, they hate America and all it stands for.
kirkill on August 25, 2008 at 6:12 PM
Next Ad:
Q: What does Osama bin Laden have in common with Barack Obama?
A: They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon and wish they’d done more.
El_Terrible on August 25, 2008 at 6:12 PM
If Senator McCain’s track record of who he was married to when is a legitimate subject (and the MSM seems to think it is), I’d say that Senator Obama’s track record of who he was in bed with and when is, as well.
Especially if said someone believes that high explosives are a legitimate tool of political discourse. And regrets not having used enough of same to make people dance to his tune.
After all, no one in Senator McCain’s circles has ever tried to blow up the Pentagon. That dubious distinction belongs solely to al-Qaeda, the Weather Underground- and Senator Obama’s great good friend and political mentor, William Ayers.
If Senator Obama’s judgment in matters of personal behavior is this flawed, what does it say about his judgment otherwise?
Nothing good, IMHO.
And the fact that he (at least publicly) considers this matter “a distraction”- along with the rest of his previous record- speaks volumes about his arrogance, his narcissism, and his complete lack of judgment.
Three things you generally do not want in whoever sits in the Oval Office. (Two words; Richard Nixon. Two more; Jimmy Carter.)
If the Democratic Party is not experiencing “buyer’s remorse” at this point, it can only be due to excessive use of pharmaceuticals.
My guess is, they’ll need even more before this is over.
clear ether
eon
eon on August 25, 2008 at 6:12 PM
Not just Rezko and Ayres, but Rev. Wright, Pfleger, Farrakhan.. sheesh..
Chakra Hammer on August 25, 2008 at 6:13 PM
I’m Obama’s age and I knew who the Weather Underground were in the 90s.
Ann NY on August 25, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Yammering on to adoring hordes in Germany. Body-surfing photo ops during the Georgia crisis. Now taking a highlighter to his relationship with Ayers. I think we’re still in the first 15 minutes of amateur hour.
MajorKong on August 25, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Friends – Hate America Edition
Elizabetty on August 25, 2008 at 6:14 PM
You can’t throw the bus driver under the bus while it’s in motion.
meci on August 25, 2008 at 6:14 PM
Bill Ayers helps find where the white women are at!
ninjapirate on August 25, 2008 at 6:14 PM
my vote for post of the thread….and I think you hit the nail on the head thus far the only two people he has yet to show a willingness to engage in bus tossing with are Ayers and that NFL Linebacker in drag he runs around with who bodyguards his children….I think the guy’s name is Mi’chal or something….
sven10077 on August 25, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Yes indeed…and, thanks Obama!
Karmi on August 25, 2008 at 6:21 PM
I too am Obama’s age. I didn’t know the NAMES of all the terrorists that were around in the Sixties but I remember the anarchy and found it disturbing and replusive.
Obama must agree in some degree with Ayers. You just can’t be on a fence about stuff like that!
This ad just links the two together even more. Especially the lame I was 8. No one said Obama bombed anyone. Just that he has a very close friend and coleague who did. Making excuses doesn’t work at all.
petunia on August 25, 2008 at 6:21 PM
Oh yeah, this was a long time ago…but the past defines us all. Just ask Reverend Jeremiah Wright when he starts ranting and raving about Hiroshima and slavery and God knows what else.
That way back machine only works one way for these guys.
Terrye on August 25, 2008 at 6:27 PM
I wish I’d said that.
petunia on August 25, 2008 at 6:27 PM
Another thing I notice from Obama’s ad. The photo of Obama at the age of 8.
I think that McCain should use that image of Obama whenever he can. Because this little kid in the striped shirt is a good metaphor of Obama’s experience. His resume. His political experience and the way Obama sees the world and makes suggestions as to how to deal with things.
Russia invades Georgia and as their tanks roll through the streets, this little 8 year old (mentality) Barack Obama tells them to just get along.
Little 8 year old Obama wants to rid the world of nuclear weapons. And how is he going to do that? Will we get rid of ours first, and hope that if we are nice to foreign powers, they’ll be nice to us and get rid of their nukes? Or will they use them against us, or other people in the world after ours are scrapped.
More bad people in the world threaten their own people and their neighbors? Little Barack Obama thinks that we should talk to them without any preconditions.
This could go on.
wise_man on August 25, 2008 at 6:29 PM
pretty much….
funky chicken on August 25, 2008 at 6:29 PM
“Oh c’mon, what’s the big deal? It was the ’60’s, everyone was making bombs and doing drugs! He was just expressing his opinions!!! C’mon, he’s not a bad guy NOW! Oh, that flag thing in the alley so no one would see him actually doing it. Um, it’s not illegal to step on the flag!!! Right?”
— Oblahblah’s strategerists
bryan2369 on August 25, 2008 at 6:31 PM
eon on August 25, 2008 at 6:12 PM
good post
funky chicken on August 25, 2008 at 6:32 PM
No word as to who will perform during the acceptance speech halftime show (sponsored by Toyota):
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/25/the-boss-bon-jovi-headed-for-obamas-acceptance/
MajorKong on August 25, 2008 at 6:33 PM
very important point:
funky chicken on August 25, 2008 at 6:34 PM
Me, too!
When little Osama Obama was still playing with his Stalin-Lenin action figures in the backyard, John McCain was defending America from people who wanted to stomp the American flag.
MrScribbler on August 25, 2008 at 6:35 PM
Well, in my expert medical opinion, it’s caused from a severe overdose of tryphorgettin.
wise_man on August 25, 2008 at 6:36 PM
wise_man @ August 25, 2008 at 6:29 PM
Good one!!!
Karmi on August 25, 2008 at 6:37 PM
Why does the media ignore Ayers’ wife, Bernardine Dohrn, and her involvement in the 1981 Rockland Co., NY Brinks robbery?
Certainly, Obama was more than “8 years old” when that occured (and living in NYC) — when a guard and two policemen were mowed down by former WU friends of the Ayers.
Dohrn served 7 months of a one-year sentence for refusal to testify in the string of robberies that culminated in the ‘81 slaughter, which left 9 kids orphaned.
When released, she and Ayers married, then adopted Chesa Boudin, the son of the couple convicted and sentenced for the crime. Cathy Boudin was paroled last year. David Gilbert, Chesa’s father, is still serving a life term in Attica. He’s referred to by Ayers/Dohrn as a “politica prisoner.”
Tell that to the widows and orphans.
Nichevo on August 25, 2008 at 6:42 PM
This ad is yet another unforced error loaded with straw man arguments. Obama’s people should have pretended there were no cockroaches in the kitchen and let the issue fade, but instead they flipped the lights back on to reveal Ayers’ non-photogenic face in a state of surprise. Couldn’t they have found a picture where he didn’t look like he just delivered a nail bomb? Idle thought: where are the “Ayers the little league coach” pictures?
I’m eagerly awaiting the revelations from the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
“The picture that is emerging is that Obama’s anti-American associates would disqualify him for a low-level security clearance—much less election to the office of commander in chief.” R. Trancinski
Peace_Sells... on August 25, 2008 at 6:42 PM
I’d like to see a McCain ad apologizing.
Announcer:
We can’t blame Obama for those bombs. For gosh sakes, he was in an Indonesian madrassa memorizing the Koran.
pedestrian on August 25, 2008 at 6:43 PM
When Barack Hussein Obama wrote “Dreams From My Father”, wasn’t he talking about the 1960’s? He last saw his father when he was 10 years old, in 1971.
When he talked about his parents going to Selma, wasn’t that during the 1960’s? When he talked about his parents meeting to conceive him, wasn’t that during the 1960’s?
People who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. See Carter, James Earl, 1977-1980. Cue the 6 AM lines of cars stretching for miles from every gas station.
Steve Z on August 25, 2008 at 6:43 PM
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