Desperate McCain-Palin Ticket Ramps Up The Smears
Despite John McCain's claim that he wouldn't stoop to gutter politics, he and his running mate are stooping to gutter politics. The McCain-Palin ticket is falling further behind in the polls and key states are turning blue quickly. There is only one month to election day and desperate times call for desperate measures.
To mark their return to smear politics, Sarah Palin launched the first salvo Saturday at a fundraiser in Colorado accusing Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists". This low blow was in reference to Obama's loose ties to 60's radical William Ayers.
"Our opponent, though, 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 said. "Americans need to know this. I think, okay we gotta get the word out. This is in fairness to the electorate we gotta start telling people what the other side represents."
Palin made similar comments later at a rally in Carson, California. 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 New Republic, have debunked the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship.
Expect more misinformation and smears in the coming weeks. It seems McCain will do anything to win and perhaps Republicans love their party more than they love this county.
Learn more:
CNN Fact Check
Barack Obama Barely Knows William Ayers
Fact Check on Obama and Ayers
Story resource: Palin hits Obama for 'terrorist' connection
UPDATE: Obama preempts the latest smear campaign from the McCain-Palin campaign. See the video that will begin airing Monday entitled "This Year".
To mark their return to smear politics, Sarah Palin launched the first salvo Saturday at a fundraiser in Colorado accusing Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists". This low blow was in reference to Obama's loose ties to 60's radical William Ayers.
"Our opponent, though, 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 said. "Americans need to know this. I think, okay we gotta get the word out. This is in fairness to the electorate we gotta start telling people what the other side represents."
Palin made similar comments later at a rally in Carson, California. 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 New Republic, have debunked the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship.
Expect more misinformation and smears in the coming weeks. It seems McCain will do anything to win and perhaps Republicans love their party more than they love this county.
Learn more:
CNN Fact Check
Barack Obama Barely Knows William Ayers
Fact Check on Obama and Ayers
Story resource: Palin hits Obama for 'terrorist' connection
UPDATE: Obama preempts the latest smear campaign from the McCain-Palin campaign. See the video that will begin airing Monday entitled "This Year".
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