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Palin hits Obama for 'terrorist' connection
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by integrityforamerica | October 4, 2008 at 02:53 pm
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(CNN) -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday slammed Sen. Barack Obama's political relationship with a former anti-war radical, accusing him of associating "with terrorists who targeted their own country."
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lashed out at Sen. Barack Obama's ties to controversial figure William Ayers.
Palin's attack delivered on the McCain campaign's announcement that it would step up attacks on the Democratic presidential candidate with just a month left before the November general election.
"This is not a man who sees America as you and I do: as the greatest force for good in the world," Palin said at a fundraising event in Colorado, according to a statement released by the McCain-Palin campaign. "This is someone who sees American as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country."
Obama's Chicago, Illinois, home is in the same neighborhood as Bill Ayers, a founder of the radical Weather Underground, which was involved in several bombings in the early 1970s, including the Pentagon and the Capitol, and the two have met several times since Obama's 1995 campaign for a state Senate seat.
Palin cited an article in Saturday's New York Times about Obama's relationship with Ayers, now 63. But that article concluded that "the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called 'somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.' "
Several other publications, including the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The National Review, have debunked the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship.
We have real problems in America that deserve real answers. The recent attack on Barack Obama by Republican VP pick Sarah Palin has to be the lowest you can go in any campaign. Ayers is someone who lived in the same area as Obama and they where not friends. Ayers committed attacks against this country when Obama was a child, so to say that Obama is friends with terrorist is wrong.
Its clear that the Mccain camp is desperate. They need a boost in numbers and are willing to do what ever it takes to get there. I can not believe that this is going on in America. We have so many issues that deserve real attention.
Shouldn't the Mccain campaign be laying out a strategy to tell America how they plan on putting us back on top. I don’t want to know about what each candidate did wrong, let me know about what your plans are to do right. No one is perfect but when you get to these swift boat tactics that is so un-American.
We have to make a decision in another month that will change the way we live our lives. We are failing as a country and now is not the time for foolishness. We need to address these issues and hear a clear plan for the next 4 years. This is a sad day in America to watch these tactics in a campaign as we attempt to tell other nations how to live their lives and govern their society.
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at 15:15 on October 4th, 2008
integrityforamerica, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Good opinion piece at the bottom
at 15:24 on October 4th, 2008
integrityforamerica, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 17:17 on October 4th, 2008
Great article. I was wondering when the Republicans were going to start the Swift-boating of Obama. Let's hope the American people don't fall for it this time. Hopefully, they will be too focused on real issues like the financial meltdown to pay attention to this crap.
at 21:20 on October 4th, 2008
integrityforamerica, I like this story and of course the way forward in the dirty trick campaign is for someone to say that McCain was brainwashed as a prisoner of war and now is working for the chinese. lol
Politics is dirty and most politicians have dirty hands. This latest attack on Obama looks very obvious for what it is and I don't think that its going to change the minds of anyone that wants to vote him in.
at 23:12 on October 4th, 2008
integrityforamerica, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I think it's important to re-iterate and even bold this:
that article concluded that "the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called 'somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.
Folks - this is YET another of the typical Republican SCARE TACTICs that they're so known for. This goes on the list of
- Iraq (we must remove Saddam Hussein because he was somehow responsible for 9-11),
- the Patriot Act (we can spy on anyone without a warrant; and you can be tossed in jail under the charge of being a terrorist with NO trial - even without any miranda rights) which we had to pass because anything else would be unpatriotic
-the 700 Billion dollar bailout (wait - it's not a bailout - it's a "rescue plan") for wall street that *might* trickle down to the economy that McCain said was NOT in trouble just a few days before he "suspended" his campaign...
- Healthcare (we can't let the government choose which doctor / hospital you go to - yet we can let people go untreated b/c they don't have health insurance or their insurance doesn't pay for the doctor/hospital that is closest to them)
and that's just a few. I seriously don't understand how people can believe these things - nor how they can vote to continue the scare tactics instead of looking at the positive future.
No, Mrs. Palin, I don't see the world as you do. I'm glad.
You know why? Because I'm NOT SCARED. Not scared to get on with my life, not scared to travel and meet the real people on the planet. Not scared to tell you YOU ARE WRONG, DISTORTING THE TRUTH, AND YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED of YOURSELF.
For all Mrs Palin's wanting to "focus on issues" - that's what her criticism was to Katie Couric's interview - she is now trying to avoid those issues...and fan the flames of Fear for Votes. BOO.
at 23:21 on October 4th, 2008
they are way more than just neighbors:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html
at 02:57 on October 5th, 2008
Barack Hussein Obama's Problem with the Truth
In the midst of the Obama campaign's ranting and raving about how everybody ELSE is lying or untruthful, it is worth pointing out that the junior senator from <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Illinois has a genuine problem with the truth himself.The truth is that Obama based his primary campaign to get the nomination, in part, on rejecting the Clinton legacy. In the process, his campaign staff regularly accused both Clinton's of racism. And, in the process, he kept his big mouth shut when one pundit after another made gross, insulting remarks about Clinton as a woman candidate.
This truth is a problem for Obama because a lot of Clinton supporters happen to REMEMBER all this. Many Clinton supporters do not live in that hazy glow of adoration for Obama which keeps Obama's followers from noticing any unpleasant truths about the guy or his campaign.
No amount of public support from the Clintons can undo all the damage which Obama did to the Democratic Party by denigrating what Bill Clinton, and his supporters, consider his "legacy."
The one thing that might have helped would have been a public apology from Obama to Bill and Hillary and a denunciation of those who suggested they were racist. But, Obama will never do that. That, too, is the truth. And Clinton supporters NOTICED this truth.
Another truth which is a problem for Obama, is that he is the least experienced candidate for president since the 1800’s. This puts him in the ridiculous position where voters are left to have to figure him out, okay, who is LESS experience, the Democratic presidential candidate, or the Republican vice-presidential candidate? The one is a first term Junior Senator from Illinois whose political experience was largely as a state senator. The second is a first term governor from Alaska whose political experience was largely as a small town mayor. There is NOT a huge margin of difference between these two.
Democrats and Republicans may, in their respective camps, overstate the qualifications of their chosen presidential and vice presidential candidate. But the crucial independent voters, who are just trying to judge things objectively, have GOT to notice that the Democratic ticket is weak on experience at the TOP, whereas the Republican ticket is only weak on experience at the BOTTOM. And the only way to make the bottom of one ticket more important than the top of the other is to dwell on the possibility that John McCain could die in office. But even if that were to happen, unless it happened awfully quickly, Governor Palin would have a certain amount of time as VP to get acquainted with the Executive Branch of the White House. Obama, on the other hand, is going to have NO time to get acquainted with it before having all the responsibility on his shoulders... if he is elected.
A third problem which Obama has with the truth is his association with radical types outside what most Americans consider the mainstream, people like William Ayer. The truth, which Obama has tried to lie about... The truth is that William Ayer, a former bomb thrower who says he should have done "more" of that kind of thing... is an important person to Barack Obama. Barack Obama is lying when he tells the American people that Ayer is just someone who "happens" to live in his neighborhood and who "happens" to sit on the same board of some organization as Obama. Because the truth is, according to the news reports I've read that Obama chose to declare his Senate candidacy in the home of William Ayer.
No politician chooses to declare an important candidacy in the home of someone who just "happens" to live in the neighborhood.
These are just a few of the truths which are a problem for Barack Obama. There are others, including the way Obama turned his back on a couple of critical campaign promises he made during the primaries.
And the difficulty is... that when a candidate repeatedly has fundamental problems like these with the truth... his complaints about anybody ELSE not being truthful loses their force.
This is something which Obama's supporters seem incapable of understanding, because they so consistently whitewash their candidate and refuse to admit any of his shortcomings. And this includes a huge measure of supporters in the corporate media.
But independent voters don't have any trouble understanding this problem for Obama, and no amount of attacking his critics, or of pretending the problems doesn't exist, will make it go away.
at 04:20 on October 5th, 2008
integrityforamerica, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 07:04 on October 5th, 2008
Everyone that believes Obama is a terrorist, if you truly believe the foolishness that he is friends with terrorist and all of this stuff is true then you should vote for Mccain.
Its just sad because I know this is foolishness, and your willing to find any reason not to vote for Obama. If you want to look at a real terror link lets look at our own President which most of the same voices against Obama put in office. Way before Sept 11th the bush family has had a strong relationship with the Bin Laden Family. The relationship was so strong that after 9/11 instead of them being interviewed by the feds, they where sent home out of America.
Its sad that in this world as advanced as we are suppose to be as a nation, people would resort to saying that Obama is linked to terrorism. I mean did Mccain actually make propaganda videos against the US. This is all foolishness, and we are digging a huge hole and laying America to rest by indulging in this crazy talk. I guess every great empire has fell and America we are pulling ourselves to an end.
Real problems deserve real solutions.